The Covering | |
Covering Cherub - Purposes of rebellion - To hide the Glorious Name he was created to Glorify. | |
-PC- GCDB -PT- General Conference Daily Bulletin -DT- 03-02-97 -AT- Testimony Dated Jan. 11, 1897 -PR- 33 -TEXT- "Sin entered the world by the defection of one who stood at the head of the
holy angels. What was it that wrought so great a change, transforming a royal, honored
subject into an apostate? The answer is given, 'Thy heart was lifted up because of thy
beauty; thou hast corrupted thy wisdom by reason of thy brightness.' Had not the Lord made
the covering cherub so beautiful, so closely resembling his own image; had not God awarded
him special honor; had anything been left undone in the gift of beauty and power and
honor, then Satan might have had some excuse. But God declares: 'Thou sealest up the sum,
full of wisdom, and perfect in beauty. Thou hast been in Eden, the garden of God; every
precious stone was thy covering. . . . Thou art the anointed cherub that covereth; and I
have set thee so; thou wast upon the holy mountain of God; thou hast walked up and down in
the midst of the stones of fire. Thou wast perfect in thy ways from the day that thou wast
created till iniquity was found in thee. By the multitude of thy merchandise they have
filled the midst of thee with violence, and thou hast sinned; therefore I will cast thee
as profane out of the mountain of God; and I will destroy thee, O covering cherub, from
the midst of the stones of fire. Thine heart was lifted up because of thy beauty, thou
hast corrupted thy wisdom by reason of thy brightness: I will cast thee to the ground, I
will lay thee before kings, that they may behold thee. |
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The Covering Results in His Saints, Sealed with His Holy Name. (see ezek. 9) | |
-BC- EW -TI- Early Writings of Ellen G. White -CN- 1 -CT- Experience and Views -PR- 02 -PG- 43 -TEXT- Satan is now using every device in this sealing time to keep the minds of God's
people from the present EW page 33 But the fourth, the Sabbath commandment, shone above them all; for the Sabbath was set apart to be kept in honor of God's holy name.
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He created Lucifer for His Names Glory (The Tetragrammaton) | |
-BC- 7BC -TI- S.D.A. Bible Commentary Vol. 7 -CN- REV14 -CT- Revelation -PR- 03 -PG- 969 -TEXT- Natural Traits Must Be Transformed. --How few bear in mind that the tempter was once a covering cherub, a being whom God created for His own name's glory. Satan fell from his high position through self-exaltation; he misused the high capabilities with which God had so richly endowed him. He fell for the same reason that thousands are falling today, because of an ambition to be first, an unwillingness to be under restraint. The Lord would teach man the lesson that, though united in church capacity, he is not saved until the seal of God is placed upon him. . . .-END-
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Shelter of His Name (The Tetragrammaton, yod, he, vav, he) Psalms 91:1 | |
-BC- EW -TI- Early Writings of Ellen G. White -CN- 1 -CT- Experience and Views -PR- 02 -PG- 71 -TEXT- I saw that many were neglecting the preparation so needful and were looking to
the time of "refreshing" |