LOOKING UNTO JESUS OR CHRIST IN TYPE AND ANTITYPE. BY ...

thine heart, I will ascend into heaven [or, I will be exalted
in heaven], I will exalt my throne above the stars of
God: I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation, in
the sides of the north; I will ascend above the heights of
the clouds; I will be like the Most High." Isa. 14:13,14.
That this heaven-daring aspiration was the channel through
which evil came into the universe, and caused Satan to
fall, Paul, in 1 Tim. 3:6, affirms where he calls pride the
"condemnation" of the Devil. p. 31, Para. 3, [LOOKING].
Thus before all the universe did Satan prefer the charge
against God and Christ, that they ruled for themselves
alone; that they cared nothing for their creatures, and
would never do aught for their good; that they would keep
in subjection all other orders of beings, that they might
profit by their degradation; that they were partial, giving
better conditions to some than to others. Harboring such
feelings as these, Satan could have had no conception of
the divine love which dwelt in the bosom of the Father and
of the Son. It was there all the while only waiting the occasion
which should call it forth. It appeared in all its
boundless intensity when the plan of salvation for fallen
man was devised. But enough surely was always apparent to
show to any unperverted heart the divine nature. p. 32,
Para. 1, [LOOKING].
The way man's rebellion was met must therefore have been
to the arch deceiver a complete surprise. That Heaven
should pour out its best and greatest gift -- should, in
the forcible language of another, "bankrupt its treasury"
to provide a ransom for man; that God should give up his
only and well-beloved Son; that the Son should consent to
such a sacrifice, and that not slowly and reluctantly, with
protest and ill-will, but with a resistless and burning impetuosity
of love, and desire to rescue the perishing, was
something of which he never could have dreamed. With what
amazement must he then have seen this effort to ruin the
world, and which at first must have seemed to him so completely
successful, suddenly baffled in this unexpected way
-- baffled by this revelation of the character of God's
dear Son, whom he had so grievously misrepresented and maligned!
Now every unfallen world, every loyal intelligence
in all the universe, knew what the government of Heaven
was; knew what was in the hearts of the holy beings from
whom are all things; knew what spirit inspired Lucifer in
his warfare against them. p. 32, Para. 2, [LOOKING].