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Tuesday, January 14, 2025
Temptation Sometimes Disguised as Pleasure, January 15
Yea, hath God said, Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden? Genesis 3:1.
In order to accomplish his work unperceived, Satan chose to employ as his medium the serpent—a disguise well adapted for his purpose of deception. The serpent was then one of the wisest and most beautiful creatures on the earth. It had wings, and while flying through the air presented an appearance of dazzling brightness, having the color and brilliancy of burnished gold. Resting in the rich-laden branches of the forbidden tree and regaling itself with the delicious fruit, it was an object to arrest the attention and delight the eye of the beholder. Thus in the garden of peace lurked the destroyer, watching for his prey.
The angels had cautioned Eve to beware of separating herself from her husband while occupied in their daily labor in the garden; with him she would be in less danger from temptation than if she were alone. But absorbed in her pleasing task, she unconsciously wandered from his side. On perceiving that she was alone, she felt an apprehension of danger, but dismissed her fears, deciding that she had sufficient wisdom and strength to discern evil and to withstand it. Unmindful of the angels’ caution, she soon found herself gazing with mingled curiosity and admiration upon the forbidden tree. The fruit was very beautiful, and she questioned with herself why God had withheld it from them.
Now was the tempter's opportunity. As if he were able to discern the workings of her mind, he addressed her: “Yea, hath God said, Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden?” Eve was surprised and startled as she thus seemed to hear the echo of her thoughts.... To the tempter's ensnaring question she replied: “We may eat of the fruit of the trees of the garden: but of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden, God hath said, Ye shall not eat of it, neither shall ye touch it, lest ye die. And the serpent said unto the woman, Ye shall not surely die: For God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil.” ...
Such has been Satan's work from the days of Adam to the present, and he has pursued it with great success. He tempts people to distrust God's love and to doubt His wisdom. He is constantly seeking to excite a spirit of irreverent curiosity, a restless, inquisitive desire to penetrate the secrets of divine wisdom and power. In their efforts to search out what God has been pleased to withhold, multitudes overlook the truths that He has revealed, and that are essential to salvation.—Patriarchs and Prophets, 53-55.
Monday, January 13, 2025
Labor Necessary Even in Eden, January 14
But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it. Genesis 2:17.
In creating Adam and Eve, God designed that they should be active and useful. The holy pair was placed in Paradise and surrounded with everything that was pleasant to the eye or good for food. A beautiful garden was planted for them in Eden. In it were stately trees of every description, all that could serve for use or ornament. Flowers of rare loveliness, and of every tint and hue, perfumed the air. Merry songsters of varied plumage caroled joyous songs of praise of the Creator.
Paradise delighted the senses of the holy pair, but this was not enough; they must have something to call into play the wonderful human organism. He who formed them knew what would be for their good; and had happiness consisted in doing nothing, they, in their state of holy innocence, would have been left unemployed. But no sooner were our first parents created than God appointed them their work. They were to find employment and happiness in tending the things which God had created, and their wants were to be abundantly supplied from the fruits of the garden.
Work of brain and muscle is beneficial. Each faculty of the mind and each muscle of the body has its distinctive office, and all require exercise to develop them and give them healthful vigor. Each wheel in the living mechanism must be brought into use. The whole organism needs to be constantly exercised in order to be efficient and meet the object of its creation.—Manuscript 58, 1890.
Christ is called the second Adam. In purity and holiness, connected with God and beloved by God, He began where the first Adam began. But the first Adam was in every way more favorably situated than was Christ. The wonderful provision made in Eden for the holy pair was made by a God who loved them. Everything in nature was pure and undefiled. Fruits, flowers, and beautiful, lofty trees flourished in the Garden of Eden. With everything that Adam and Eve required, they were abundantly supplied.
But Satan came and insinuated doubts of God's wisdom.... Eve fell under the temptation, and Adam accepted the forbidden fruit from his wife's hand. He fell under the smallest test that the Lord could devise to prove his obedience, and the floodgates of woe were opened upon our world.... By one man's disobedience many were made sinners.—Manuscript 20, 1898 (Manuscript Releases 8:39, 40).
Sunday, January 12, 2025
First Transgression Inexcusable, January 13
I made the earth, and created humankind upon it; it was my
hands that stretched out the heavens, and I commanded all
their host. Isaiah 45:12, NRSV.
Adam and Eve received knowledge through direct communion
with God, and they learned of Him through His works. All created
things, in their original perfection, were an expression of the thought
of God. To Adam and Eve nature was teeming with divine wisdom.
But by transgression the human family was cut off from learning
of God through direct communion and, to a great degree, through
His works.... Upon every page of the great volume of His created
works may still be traced His handwriting. Nature still speaks of
her Creator. Yet these revelations are partial and imperfect. And
in our fallen state, with weakened powers and restricted vision, we
are incapable of interpreting aright. We need the fuller revelation of
Himself that God has given in His written word.—Education, 16,
17.
All heaven took a deep and joyful interest in the creation of the
world and of Adam and Eve. Human beings were a distinct order.
They were made “in the image of God,” and it was the Creator’s
design that they should populate the earth. They were to live in close
communion with heaven, receiving and assimilating power from the
great Source of power. Upheld by God, they were to live sinless
lives.
Satan determined to defeat God’s plan. We need not try to
understand the motives that prompted the being next to Christ in
the heavenly courts to bring envy and jealousy into the ranks of
the angels. To many he communicated his disaffection, and there
was war in heaven, which ended in the expulsion of Satan and his
sympathizers. We need not puzzle our minds for a reason that Satan
acted as he did. Could a reason be found, there would be excuse for
sin. But there is no excuse. There is no reason human beings should
travel over the same ground that Satan traveled....
After Satan was thrust from heaven, he determined to set up his
kingdom on this earth. Through him sin entered the world, and death
by sin. By listening to his misrepresentation of God, Adam fell from
his high estate, and the floodgates of woe were opened upon our
world.
There is no excuse for Adam’s transgression. All his wants
were generously supplied. He had need of nothing more. Only one
prohibition was laid upon him.... This prohibition Satan used as a
means of insinuating suggestions of evil.—Manuscript 97, 1901.
Saturday, January 11, 2025
Significance Of The Sabbath, January 12
Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host
of them. And on the seventh day God ended his work which he
had made; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work
which he had made. Genesis 2:1, 2.
Human philosophy declares that an indefinite period of time was
taken in the creation of the world. Does God state the matter thus?
No; He says, “It is a sign between me and the children of Israel for
ever; for in six days [not six indefinite periods of time, for then there
would be no possible way for us to observe the day specified in the
fourth commandment] the Lord made heaven and earth, and on the
seventh day he rested, and was refreshed.” Please read carefully the
fifth chapter of Deuteronomy. God says again, “Remember [do not
forget] the sabbath day, to keep it holy.... For in six days the Lord
made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested
the seventh day: wherefore the Lord blessed the sabbath day, and
hallowed it.”
Yet with the living oracles before them, those who claim to
preach the Word present the suppositions of human minds, the max-
ims and commandments of humans. They make void the law of
God by their traditions. The sophistry in regard to the world’s being
created in an indefinite period of time is one of Satan’s falsehoods.
God speaks to the human family in language they can comprehend.
He does not leave the matter so indefinite that human beings can
handle it according to their theories. When the Lord declares that
He made the world in six days and rested on the seventh day, He
means the day of twenty-four hours, which He has marked off by
the rising and setting of the sun.
God would not pronounce the death sentence for a disregard
of the Sabbath unless He had presented before His people a clear
understanding of the Sabbath.... When the foundation of the earth
was laid, the foundation of the Sabbath was laid also. When the
morning stars sang together and all the sons of God shouted for joy,
God saw that a Sabbath was essential for Adam and Eve, even in
Paradise. In giving them the Sabbath, God considered their spiritual
and physical health.
God made the world in six literal days, and on the seventh literal
day He rested from all His work which He had done, and was re-
freshed. So He has given human beings six days in which to labor....
By thus setting apart the Sabbath, God gave the world a memorial.
He did not set apart one day and any day in seven, but one particular
day, the seventh day. And by observing the Sabbath, we show that
we recognize God as the living God, the Creator of heaven and
earth.—Letter 31, 1898.
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