Sunday, November 23, 2008

 

Ellen G. White, Review and Herald, February 24, 1874

Wrath of God: Christ was to take the wrath of God which in justice should fall upon man. He became a refuge for man, and although man indeed a criminal, deserving the wrath of God, yet he could by faith in Christ run into the refuge provided and be safe. In the midst of there was life if man chose to accept it.

 

Ellen G. White, Selected Messages, book 1, p.396

Reconciliation: Reconciliation means that every barrier between the soul and God is removed, and that the sinner realizes what the pardoning love of God means. By reason of sacrifice made by Christ for fallen men, God can justly pardon the transgressor who accepts the merits of Christ. Christ was the channel through which the mercy, love and righteousness might flow from the heart of God to the heart of the sinner.

Wednesday, November 19, 2008

 

Ellen G. White, Signs of the Times, July 28, 1890

Pryer at Baptism: He received baptism at the hands of John, and in comming up out of the water he bowed upon Jordan's banks, and offered up a prayer to Heaven.... Jesus was accepeted of Heaven as a representative of human race. With all our sin and weakness, we are not cast aside as worthless; we are acceptedin the Beloved; for heaven has been opened to our petitions through the Son of God. The gates are ajar, and the light of heaven will shine upon all those whom Jesus came to save, if they will but come wihin the circle of the beams of the Son of Righteouness; for ample provision has been made for the salvation of every soul.

 

Ellen G. White, The Southern Work, p.85

Purpose of the Incarnation: Christ in counsel with His Father laid out the plan for His life on earth... He clothed His divinity with the garb of humanity, thatHe might stand at the head ofthe human family, His humanity mingled with the humanity of the race fallen because of Adam's disobedience.

Monday, November 10, 2008

 

Mark F. Rooker, The New American Commentary: Leviticus, vol.3A (Nashville, Tenn.: Broadman&Holman, 2000), p.236

Blood and life are associated as lexical pairs and thus understood as parallel in meaning in... Hebrew. Because of this close association blood is considered the source of life, and because blood represents life (Gen 9:4, Deut 12:23),it may expiate for life. Because the life of a creature is in the blood, blood makes atonement for one's life. One life is sacrificed for another. The shedding of the innocent victim was given for the life of the one who has sinned.

 

Ellen G. White, Patriarchs and Prophets, pp. 358

Since Satan is the originator of the sin, the direct instigator of all sins that caused the death of the Son of God, justice demands that Satan shall suffer the final punishment. Christ's work for the redemption of men and the purification of the universe from sin will be closed by the removal of sin from the heavenly santuary and the placing of these sins upon Satan, who will bear the final penalty. So in the typical service, the yearly round of ministration closed with the purification of the sancutuary and the confessing of the sins on the head of the scapegoat.

Monday, November 03, 2008

 

Ellen G. White, The Desire of Ages, p. 115

Since the announcement to the serpent in Eden, 'I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed' (Gen.3:15), Satan had known that he did not hold absolute sway over the wold... With intense interest he watched the sacrifices offered by Adam and his sons. In the ceremonies he discerned a symbol of communion.between earth and heaven. He set himself to intercept this Communion. He misrepresented God, and misinterpreted the rites that pointed to the Saviour. Men led to fear God as one who delighted in their destruction. The sacrifices that should have revealed His love were offered only to appease His wrath.

 

Ellen G. White, The SDA Bible Commentary, vol. 7, p. 932

To many it has been a mystery why so many sacrificial offering were required in the old dispensatio, why so many bleeding victims were led to the altar. But the great truth that was to be kept before men, and imprinted upon mind and heart, was this, 'Without shedding of blood is no remission.' In every bleeding sacrifice was typified 'the Lamb of God, which takethaway the sin of the world.

 

Ellen G.White, Sons and Daughter of God, p.225

The very system of sacrifices was devised by Christ, and given to Adam as typifying a Saviour to come, who would bear the sins of the world, and die for its redemption. Through Moses, Christ gave definite directions to the children of Israel in regard to the sacrificial offerings...Only clean and precious animals, those which would best symbolize Christ, were accepted as offering to God...

 

Ellen G. White Comments, The SDA Bible Commentary, vol. 4, p. 1147

This chapter should be studied. It presents Christ as Lamb of God. Those who are lifted up with pride, whose souls are filled with vanity, should look upon this picture of Redeemer, and humble themselves in the dust. The entire chapter should be commited to memory. Its influence will subdue and humble the soul defiled by sin and uplifted by self-exaltation.

 

Ellen G. White, Patriarchs and Prophets, pp. 154, 155

The sacrifice required of Abraham was notalone for his own good, nor solely for the benefit of succeeding generations; but it was also for the instruction of the sinless intelligences of heaven and of other worlds. The field on which the plan of redemption is wrought out-is the lesson book of the universe. Becayuse Abrahamhad shown a lack of faith in God's promises, Satan had accused him before the angels and before God of havingfailed to comply with the conditions of the covenant, and as unworthy of its blessing. God desired to prove loyalty of His servant before all heaven, to demonstrate that nothing less than perfect obedience can be accepted and to open more fully before them the plan of salvation.

 

Ellen G. White, The SDA Bible Commentary, vol. 1, p. 1085

The instant man accepted the temptatioa of Satan, and did the very things God had said he should not do, Christ, the Son of God, stood between the living and the dead saying, 'Let the punishement fall on Me. I will stand in man's place. He shall have another chance