Patriarchs and Prophets: Chapter 7 – The Flood

Patriarchs and Prophets—Chapter 7 This chapter is based on Genesis 6 and 7. In the days of Noah a double curse was resting upon the earth in consequence of Adam’s transgression and of the murder committed by Cain. Yet this had not greatly changed the face of nature. There were evident tokens of decay, but…

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Patriarchs and Prophets: Chapter 6 – Seth and Enoch

Patriarchs and Prophets—Chapter 6 This chapter is based on Genesis 4:25 to 6:2. To Adam was given another son, to be the inheritor of the divine promise, the heir of the spiritual birthright. The name Seth, given to this son, signified “appointed,” or “compensation;” “for,” said the mother, “God hath appointed me another seed instead…

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Patriarchs and Prophets: Chapter 5 – Cain and Abel Tested

Patriarchs and Prophets—Chapter 5 This chapter is based on Genesis 4:1-15. Cain and Abel, the sons of Adam, differed widely in character. Abel had a spirit of loyalty to God; he saw justice and mercy in the Creator’s dealings with the fallen race, and gratefully accepted the hope of redemption. But Cain cherished feelings of…

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Patriarchs and Prophets: Chapter 3 – The Temptation and Fall

Patriarchs and Prophets—Chapter 3 This chapter is based on Genesis 3. No longer free to stir up rebellion in heaven, Satan’s enmity against God found a new field in plotting the ruin of the human race. In the happiness and peace of the holy pair in Eden he beheld a vision of the bliss that…

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Patriarchs and Prophets: Chapter 4 – The Plan of Redemption

Patriarchs and Prophets—Chapter 4 The fall of man filled all heaven with sorrow. The world that God had made was blighted with the curse of sin and inhabited by beings doomed to misery and death. There appeared no escape for those who had transgressed the law. Angels ceased their songs of praise. Throughout the heavenly…

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Patriarchs and Prophets: Chapter 2 – The Creation

Patriarchs and Prophets—Chapter 2 This chapter is based on Genesis 1 and 2. “By the word of the Lord were the heavens made; and all the host of them by the breath of His mouth.” “For He spake, and it was;” “He commanded, and it stood fast.” Psalm 33:6, 9. He “laid the foundations of…

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Patriarchs and Prophets: Chapter 1 – Why was Sin Permitted?

Patriarchs and Prophets—Chapter 1 “God is love.” 1 John 4:16. His nature, His law, is love. It ever has been; it ever will be. “The high and lofty One that inhabiteth eternity,” whose “ways are everlasting,” changeth not. With Him “is no variableness, neither shadow of turning.” Isaiah 57:15; Habakkuk 3:6; James 1:17. Every manifestation…

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“Prepare to Meet Thy God”

Review and Herald, July 20, 1897 “Let your loins be girded about, and your lights burning; and ye yourselves like unto men that wait for their Lord, when he will return from the wedding; that when he cometh and knocketh, they may open unto him immediately. Blessed are those servants, whom the Lord when he…

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Prophecy Expedition – Day 009

 Pure, simple, and fervent was the piety of these followers of Christ. The principles of truth they valued above houses and lands, friends, kindred, even life itself. These principles they earnestly sought to impress upon the hearts of the young. From earliest childhood the youth were instructed in the Scriptures and taught to regard sacredly…

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Prophecy Expedition – Day 008

Chapter 4—The Waldenses  Amid the gloom that settled upon the earth during the long period of papal supremacy, the light of truth could not be wholly extinguished. In every age there were witnesses for God—men who cherished faith in Christ as the only mediator between God and man, who held the Bible as the only…

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