fallen angles due process (since angels have no plan of redemption)

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 Admonition and Warnings ● "In heavenly council the angels pleaded with Lucifer. The Son of God presented before him the greatness, the goodness, and the justice of the Creator, and the sacred, unchanging nature of His law. God Himself had established the order of heaven; and in departing from it, Lucifer would dishonor his Maker and bring ruin upon himself." {PP 35.3} https://m.egwwritings.org/search?lang=en&query=PP+35.3

● "The heavenly councils admonished Lucifer to change his course. The Son of God warned and entreated him not to venture thus to dishonor his Maker, and bring ruin upon himself." {4SP 317.2} https://m.egwwritings.org/search?lang=en&query=4SP+317.2
● "Loyal angels warned him, and assured him what must be the consequences if he persisted; that He who could create the angels could by His power overturn all their authority and in some signal manner punish their audacity and terrible rebellion. . . . They warned the rebellious to close their ears to Lucifer's deceptive reasonings, and advised him and all who had been affected by him to go to God and confess their wrong for even admitting a thought of questioning His authority." {SR 16.1} https://m.egwwritings.org/search?lang=en&query=SR+16.1
Long-suffering and Opportunity for Reinstatement ● "In great mercy, according to His divine character, God bore long with Lucifer. . . . Lucifer himself had not at first been acquainted with the real nature of his feelings; for a time he had feared to express the workings and imaginings of his mind; yet he did not dismiss them. He did not see whither he was drifting. But such efforts as infinite love and wisdom only could devise, were made to convince him of his error." {PP 39.1} https://m.egwwritings.org/search?lang=en&query=PP+39.1
● "His disaffection was proved to be without cause, and he was made to see what would be the result of persisting in revolt. Lucifer was convinced that he was in the wrong. . . . Had he done this, he might have saved himself and many angels. He had not at this time fully cast off his allegiance to God. Though he had left his position as covering cherub, yet if he had been willing to return to God, acknowledging the Creator's wisdom, and satisfied to fill the place appointed him in God's great plan, he would have been reinstated in his office." {PP 39.1} https://m.egwwritings.org/search?lang=en&query=PP+39.1
● "Before he was sentenced to banishment from Heaven, his course was with convincing clearness shown to be wrong, and he was granted an opportunity to confess his sin, and submit to God's authority as just and righteous." {4SP 319.1} https://m.egwwritings.org/search?lang=en&query=4SP+319.1
● "God, in His great mercy, bore long with Lucifer. He was not immediately degraded from his exalted station when he first indulged the spirit of discontent, nor even when he began to present his false claims before the loyal angels. Long was he retained in heaven. Again and again he was offered pardon on condition of repentance and submission." {GC 495.3} https://m.egwwritings.org/search?lang=en&query=GC+495.3
The Summons and Judicial Decision ● "They rebelled against the authority of the Son of God, and all the angels were summoned to appear before the Father, to have their cases decided." {1SG 17.2} https://m.egwwritings.org/search?lang=en&query=1SG+17.2
● "At length all the angels are summoned to appear before the Father, to have each case decided." {3SG 37.3} https://m.egwwritings.org/search?lang=en&query=3SG+37.3
● "All the heavenly host were summoned to appear before the Father, to have each case determined." {1SP 22.2} https://m.egwwritings.org/search?lang=en&query=1SP+22.2
● "In this battle every angel would choose his own side, and be manifested to all. It would not have been safe to suffer any who united with Satan in his rebellion to continue to occupy heaven. They had learned the lesson of genuine rebellion against the unchangeable law of God; and this is incurable. If God had exercised his power to punish this chief rebel, disaffected angels would not have been manifested; hence God took another course; for he would manifest distinctly to all the heavenly host his justice and his judgment." {1SP 21.1} https://m.egwwritings.org/search?lang=en&query=1SP+21.1
● "The Father decides the case of Satan, and declares that he must be turned out of Heaven for his daring rebellion, and that all those who united with him in his rebellion, should be turned out with him." {3SG 38.1} https://m.egwwritings.org/search?lang=en&query=3SG+38.1
Universal Vindication of the Sentence ● "Even when he was cast out of heaven, Infinite Wisdom did not destroy Satan. Since only the service of love can be acceptable to God, the allegiance of His creatures must rest upon a conviction of His justice and benevolence. The inhabitants of heaven and of the worlds, being unprepared to comprehend the nature or consequences of sin, could not then have seen the justice of God in the destruction of Satan. . . . For the good of the entire universe through ceaseless ages, he must more fully develop his principles, that his charges against the divine government might be seen in their true light by all created beings, and that the justice and mercy of God and the immutability of His law might be forever placed beyond all question." {PP 42.3} https://m.egwwritings.org/search?lang=en&query=PP+42.3

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