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The European Union in Prophecy
Now the guilt of Satan stood forth without excuse. He had revealed his true
character as a liar and a murderer. It was seen that the very same spirit with which
he ruled the children of men, who were under his power, he would have manifested
had he been permitted to control the inhabitants of heaven. He had claimed that the
transgression of God's law would bring liberty and exaltation; but it was seen to result
in bondage and degradation.
Satan's lying charges against the divine character and government appeared in
their true light. He had accused God of seeking merely the exaltation of Himself in
requiring submission and obedience from His creatures, and had declared that, while
the Creator exacted self-denial from all others, He Himself practiced no self-denial
and made no sacrifice. Now it was seen that for the salvation of a fallen and sinful
race, the Ruler of the universe had made the greatest sacrifice which love could make;
for "God was in Christ, reconciling the world unto Himself." 2 Corinthians 5:19. It was
seen, also, that while Lucifer had opened the door for the entrance of sin by his desire
for honour and supremacy, Christ had, in order to destroy sin, humbled Himself and
become obedient unto death.
God had manifested His abhorrence of the principles of rebellion. All heaven saw
His justice revealed, both in the condemnation of Satan and in the redemption of man.
Lucifer had declared that if the law of God was changeless, and its penalty could not
be remitted, every transgressor must be forever debarred from the Creator's favor. He
had claimed that the sinful race were placed beyond redemption and were therefore
his rightful prey. But the death of Christ was an argument in man's behalf that could
not be overthrown. The penalty of the law fell upon Him who was equal with God, and
man was free to accept the righteousness of Christ and by a life of penitence and
humiliation to triumph, as the Son of God had triumphed, over the power of Satan.
Thus God is just and yet the justifier of all who believe in Jesus.
But it was not merely to accomplish the redemption of man that Christ came to
the earth to suffer and to die. He came to "magnify the law" and to "make it
honourable." Not alone that the inhabitants of this world might regard the law as it
should be regarded; but it was to demonstrate to all the worlds of the universe that
God's law is unchangeable. Could its claims have been set aside, then the Son of God
need not have yielded up His life to atone for its transgression. The death of Christ
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