River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1914-03-05

them that the eating of that forbidden
fruit would bring death to them.
Satan's Plot Thickens.
When Satan beheld Adam and Eve
outcasts from Eden, and perceived
that gradually the penalty, Dying,
thou shalt die would come upon man
kind. weakening them in mind, in body
and in morals. he should have been
convinced of the folly of his course.
But no, an evil course of pride, once
entered upon, leads further and fur
Their astray. Instead of surrendering
to the God of all grace. Satan became
more defiant. Instead of repenting of
the lie by which he had injured a race.
he added to it, still seeking to lower
God in the eyes of humanity.
Apparently, Satan sought so to alien
ate and demoniZe mankind that a per-
petual barrier would be raised in their
hearts against the Almighty, and that
thus humanity might be hindered from
ever again coming into fellowship with
God, no matter what provision Gods
mercy or grace might make for their
return. For six thousand years Satan
has been carrying on his wicked work
of SANDER and misrepresentation of the
Divine character and purposes.
Satan's Next Device.
According to the Scriptures, Satan
was disappointed that his subjects
were dying. and was resolved to rem
edy this matter Hence his next step
was to inoculate the race with a fresh
strain of e-vitality-vigor from the
angels, who had never shown any
symptoms of death. These. possessed
of the power to materialiZe-to assume
human bodies-were encouraged by Sa-
tan to violate the law of their being
and the law of their nature-to misuse
their Undertaking. powers. Satan's
word to our first parents, Eye shall
not surely die must be upheld. By
hook or by crook he would strive to
fulfil his word, and to make the AL
mighty the falsifier.
The allurement was successful.
Many Of the angels needed Gods adj
versary and INDUCED themselves in
the pleasures of sin. Of this matter
we read in Genesis 6:2. Those angelic
sons of God, saw the daughters of
men, that they were fair, beautiful,
and took of them for wives such as
they chose, and started human fami-
lies-all contrary to the Divine ar
rangement of their being, wholly mis-
using their power of naturalization.
Satan'S course seemed to prosper.
Gods time to interfere had not yet
come He would allow disobedience
and a certain amount of liberty that it
might eventually illustrate to all GER
tain great principles and lessons re-
speeding the Divine character, Plan
and arrangements, designed for the
good of all Gods creatures.
The children of this combination of
angelic vitality grated upon the hui
man stock was a race of giantS-phyS-
ically and intellectually superior to the
condemned and dying race of Adam.
Being begotten and born under pure
ly lustful conditions, and in violent
opposition to the Divine will, this new
race of giants retained nothing of the
image or likeness of God. They were
british, sensual tyrants. Under them
the human family would soon have
been .exterminated; for we read re-
specting conditions that God perceived
that the earth was full of violence and
that the thoughts of mems minds were
only evil continually. Gods Wisdom
saw that it would be best to blot out
entirely that order of things, and to
start a new arrangement. The Deluge
accomplished this.
Thenceforth those angels who for
centuries had lived in sin were re-
strained from naturalization and sep
arated from the holy angels, being con-
fined to Tartarus-or earth's atmOs-
pierre Meantime, instead of starting
a new race of men, God carried over
Noah and his family of seven. These
constituted a new start for the Adamic
family And the statement that they
were perfectly generated and that
they had no angelic adulteration, as
sures us of the solidarity of our race,
and that the Redemption-price paid
for Adam includes every one of US;
under the Lords arrangement that
Christ shall be made alive"
Satan's Great Defeat.
This was the first defeat that Satan
had met with-the first great NANTES
tation of Divine Power in opposition
to him. But still it only partially
stopped his program. The liberties of
himself and his associate fallen angels
were thenceforth restricted, limited, to
earth. No longer had they privilege to
roam the universe. Furthermore no
longer were they permitted to assume
human form by naturalization.
They still, however, had their original
perfection of organism and their gen
eral liberty. Satan thus had opportu
nifty for assuming that God had done
all that He was able to do in the way
Of restraining and opposing him.
Adapting himself to the new condi-
lions, Satan and his fallen host at