Holy Substitute
“He Himself took our infirmities and bore our sicknesses.”—Matthew 8:17 With what intense interest was this controversy watched by the heavenly angels and the unfallen worlds, as the honor of the law was being vindicated. Not merely for this world, but for the universe of heaven, was the controversy to be forever settled. The confederacy […]
Arbiter of All Destinies
The LORD will perfect that which concerns me; Your mercy, O LORD, endures forever; do not forsake the works of Your hands.—Psalm 138:8 The cross of Christ will be the science and the song of the redeemed through all eternity. In Christ glorified they will behold Christ crucified. Never will it be forgotten that He […]
Pattern of Goodness
So He said to him, “Why do you call Me good?”—Matthew 19:17 The great controversy between the Prince of light and the prince of darkness has not abated one jot or tittle of its fierceness as time has gone on. The stern conflict between light and darkness, between error and truth, is deepening in its […]
Patient Sufferer
Surely He has borne our griefs and carried our sorrows.—Isaiah 53:4 Above the throne is revealed the cross; and like a panoramic view appear the scenes of Adam’s temptation and fall, and the successive steps in the great plan of redemption. The Saviour’s lowly birth; His early life of simplicity and obedience; His baptism in […]
Dearly Beloved
He has delivered us from the power of darkness and conveyed us into the kingdom of the Son of His love.—Colossians 1:13 I have been shown the great love and condescension of God in giving His Son to die that humanity might find pardon and live. I was shown Adam and Eve, who were privileged […]
Antitype of the Wave Sheaf
But each one in his own order: Christ the firstfruits, afterward those who are Christ’s at His coming.—1 Corinthians 15:23 In the summer of 1844, midway between the time when it had been first thought that the 2300 days would end, and the autumn of the same year, to which it was afterward found that […]
