All Creation Affected by the Great Controversy

Christ Triumphant - A Devotional by E.G. White

All Creation Affected by the Great Controversy

Today's Text: It is finished. John 19:30

The Message:      From the manger to the cross Satan followed the Son of God. Temptations beat upon Him like a tempest. But the more fierce the conflict, the more familiar He became with the temptations wherewith human beings are beset, and the better prepared He was to succor the tempted. The severity of the trial through which Christ passed was proportionate to the value of the object to be gained or lost by His success or failure. Not merely the interests of one world were involved. This world was the battlefield, but all the worlds that God had created were affected by the result of the conflict.      In order that he might reign as supreme ruler, Satan sought to overthrow Christ. And he planned and carried out the murder of Christ for no other reason than that to the last he entertained the hope that Christ would not endure a death made as horrible as infernal wisdom could make it. He endeavored to prove the correctness of his assertion that Christ was not self-sacrificing.      Actuated by satanic influences, the crowd clamored for the crucifixion of Christ. All heaven watched the successive steps of Christ's humiliation-His trial, rejection, and death. When on the cross He exclaimed, "It is finished," the warfare was ended. The blood of the Innocent was shed for the guilty. The life that He gave up ransomed the human race from eternal death and sealed the doom of him who had the power of death-the devil.      Satan sought to make it appear that he was working for the liberty of the universe. Even while Christ was on the cross, the enemy was determined to make his arguments so varied, so deceptive, so insidious, that all would be convinced that God's law was tyrannical. He himself laid every scheme, planned every evil, inflamed every mind to bring affliction on Christ. He himself instigated the false accusations against One who had done only good. He himself inspired the cruel deeds that added to the suffering of the Son of God-the pure, the holy, the innocent.      By this course of action Satan has forged a chain by which he himself will be bound. The heavenly universe will bear witness to the justice of God in punishing him. Heaven itself saw what heaven would be if he were in it. The hearts of all in the heavenly universe were united in regarding God's law as changeless. They supported the government of Him who, to redeem the transgressor, spared not His own Son from suffering the penalty of sin.      In His ministry, Christ by word and deed vindicated the honor of God's law. It was for this purpose that He came into the world.-Manuscript 1, 1902.

Commentary: My friend, The death of the Son of God on the cross opened the way of salvation for humanity, and sealed the doom of the arch deceiver and all those who follow after him.  At the time of Christ, Satan had so deceived the chosen people of God that they would not recognize their Savior.  He instilled in their hearts enmity and hatred against the only begotten Son of God.  The hatred that he had against Jesus, he supplanted in the hearts of the people, that they would crucify their Redeemer. The great controversy though won on the cross continues on this earth today.  Satan though a defeated foe, still believes that he has a chance to thwart the plan of salvation.  Though he was not successful in leading the Son of God to sin, he endeavors to so corrupt the people of God, that the image of God may not be reproduced in His people, that they may reject the Son of God as the Jews rejected Jesus when He came the first time. Through the doctrine of the trinity he has led the people of God to worship an altogether different God than the One true God of the Bible.  By his spirit he is leading the remnant church of God into apostacy, bringing in heresy after heresy until the image of God is completely removed from His people.  But God has a remnant within the remnant that are not deceived and will not bow to the false image of God in the trinity.  These faithful few are a beacon of light with in the darkness of error.  The majority of the remnant people of God do not realize the deception that has been played upon them.  They believe that they are worshiping God, but are doing so in vain.  He is calling these out of the false worship of the trinity unto the worship of the One true God. In these last days God is looking for a people that will call the world out of Babylon that they may worship the Creator of heaven and earth, the One true God and His Son Jesus Christ.  But before this message can be brought to the world, the remnant people of God must heed the message of the Faithful and True Witness of God.  They must turn away from the deception of the trinity through zealous repentance, and open their hearts to the true Son of God.  As their robes are washed in the blood of the Lamb, their hearts are purified and made white, and they are ready to proclaim the last message of hope to a dark and dying world. My friend, now is the time to "Examine yourselves, whether ye be in the faith; prove your own selves. Know ye not your own selves, how that Jesus Christ is in you, except ye be reprobates?" (2 Corinthians 13:5). God bless,

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