Confrontation - Ellen G. White

This gave him courage to think that he might
succeed in his warfare against Christ in person
when He should be manifested.
A few in every generation from Adam resisted
his every artifice and stood forth as noble
representatives of what it was in the power of man
to do and to be, while Christ should co-operate
with human efforts, to help man in overcoming the
power of Satan. Enoch and Elijah are the correct
representatives of what the race might be through
faith in our Lord Jesus Christ. Satan was greatly
disturbed because these noble, holy men were
untainted amid the moral pollution surrounding
them, perfecting righteous characters, and
accounted worthy for translation to heaven. As
they had stood forth in moral power, in noble
uprightness, overcoming Satan’s temptations, he
could not bring them under the dominion of death.
He triumphed that he had power to overcome
Moses with his temptations, and that he could mar
his illustrious character and lead him to the sin of
taking to himself glory before the people which
belonged to God.
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