The Pebble Blog

  III. Took Sinless Human Nature Christ came to the earth, taking humanity, and standing as man’s representative , to show in the controversy with Satan that man, as God created him , connected with the Father and the Son, could obey every divine requirement.— The Signs of the Times, June 9, 1898 .   Christ is called the second Adam. In purity and holiness, connected with God and beloved by God, He began where the first Adam began . Willingly He passed over the ground where Adam fell , and redeemed Adam’s failure.— The Youth’s Instructor, June 2, 1898 .   In the fullness of time He was to be revealed in human form. He was to take His position at the head of humanity by taking the nature but not the sinfulness of man . In heaven was heard the voice, “The Redeemer shall come to Zion, and unto them that turn from transgression in Jacob, saith the Lord.”— The Signs of the Times, May 29, 1901 .   When Christ bowed His head and died, He bore the pillars of Satan’s kingdom ...

According to KJV, & EGW confirms that there is a distinction between being sealed by the Holy Spirit as an "earnest" or pledge of inheritance upon believing, and the final "seal of the living God" placed upon the foreheads of the faithful just before the close of probation, which renders their character pure and spotless for eternity: ### **Bible Foundation** ● "[Ephesians 1:13] In whom ye also trusted, after that ye heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation: in whom also after that ye believed, ye were sealed with that holy Spirit of promise, [Ephesians 1:14] Which is the earnest of our inheritance until the redemption of the purchased possession, unto the praise of his glory." [1] ● "[Ephesians 4:30] And grieve not the holy Spirit of God, whereby ye are sealed unto the day of redemption." [2] ● "[Revelation 7:2] And I saw another angel ascending from the east, having the seal of the living God: and he cried with a loud voic...