Ellen : Writing

3. The Temptation and Fall

3. The Temptation and Fall

A Chapter by Ellen


This chapter is based on Genesis 3. No longer free to stir up rebellion in heaven, Satan’s enmity against God found a new field in plotting t..
4. The Plan of Redemption

4. The Plan of Redemption

A Chapter by Ellen


The fall of man filled all heaven with sorrow. The world that God had made was blighted with the curse of sin and inhabited by beings doomed to mise..
5. Cain and Abel Tested

5. Cain and Abel Tested

A Chapter by Ellen


This chapter is based on Genesis 4:1-15. Cain and Abel, the sons of Adam, differed widely in character. Abel had a spirit of loyalty to God; he saw j..
6. Seth and Enoch

6. Seth and Enoch

A Chapter by Ellen


This chapter is based on Genesis 4:25 to 6:2. To Adam was given another son, to be the inheritor of the divine promise, the heir of the spiritual bir..
8. After the Flood

8. After the Flood

A Chapter by Ellen


The waters rose fifteen cubits above the highest mountains. It often seemed to the family within the ark that they must perish, as for five long month..
9. The Literal Week

9. The Literal Week

A Chapter by Ellen


Like the Sabbath, the week originated at creation, and it has been preserved and brought down to us through Bible history. God Himself measured off ..
10. The Tower of Babel

10. The Tower of Babel

A Chapter by Ellen


To repeople the desolate earth, which the Flood had so lately swept from its moral corruption, God had preserved but one family, the household of No..
11. The Call of Abraham

11. The Call of Abraham

A Chapter by Ellen


After the dispersion from Babel idolatry again became well-nigh universal, and the Lord finally left the hardened transgressors to follow their evil..
12. Abraham in Canaan

12. Abraham in Canaan

A Chapter by Ellen


This chapter is based on Genesis 13; to 15;; 17: 1-16; 18. Abraham returned to Canaan “very rich in cattle, in silver, and in gold.” Lo..
13. The Test of Faith

13. The Test of Faith

A Chapter by Ellen


This chapter is based on Genesis 16; 17:18-20; 21:1-14; 22:1-19. Abraham had accepted without question the promise of a son, but he did not wait fo..