![]() ![]() All are bound by the most sacred obligations to God to heed the sound philosophy and genuine experience which He is now giving them in reference to health reform. The light shines clearly, and none need be ignorant, for the great God Himself is man's instructor. Ignorance is no excuse now for the transgression of law. As Adam fell through appetite, and lost blissful Eden, the children of Adam may, through Christ, overcome appetite, and through temperance in all things regain Eden. Christ came and withstood the fiercest temptation of Satan, and, in behalf of the race, overcame appetite, showing that man may overcome. CD 69.2 Adam's Defeat-Christ's VictoryĪdam and Eve fell through intemperate appetite. To make plain natural law, and urge the obedience of it, is the work that accompanies the third angel's message, to prepare a people for the coming of the Lord. All accountable beings can understand it if they will. He proclaims His law so distinctly, and makes it so prominent, that it is like a city set on a hill. He publishes His law, and the penalty that will follow the transgression of it, that all may learn, and be careful to live in harmony with natural law. And in love and pity to the race, He causes the light to shine upon health reform. Our gracious heavenly Father sees the deplorable condition of men, who, some knowingly but many ignorantly, are living in violation of the laws that He has established. ![]() All our enjoyment or suffering may be traced to obedience or transgression of natural law. Therefore He has permitted the light of health reform to shine upon us, that we may see our sin in violating the laws which He has established in our being. Men and women cannot violate natural law by indulging depraved appetite and lustful passions, and not violate the law of God. Had men ever been obedient to the law of ten commandments, carrying out in their lives the principles of those precepts, the curse of disease now flooding the world would not be.- Testimonies for the Church 3:161, 162, 1873 CD 69.1 To Prepare a People The law of ten commandments has been lightly regarded by man but the Lord would not come to punish the transgressors of that law without first sending them a message of warning. It is as closely connected with the third angel's message as the hand is with the body. December 10, 1871, I was again shown that the health reform is one branch of the great work which is to fit a people for the coming of the Lord. Chapter 3-Health Reform and the Third Angel's Message As the Hand to the Bodyĩ7. ![]()
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