Chapter 11—Satan and the Animal Kingdom
Amalgamation
- Contents- Introduction
- Chapter 1—What Does the Word “Amalgamation” Mean?
- Chapter 2—What Does the Key Phrase Mean?
- Chapter 3—The Results of Amalgamation
- Chapter 4—The Divine Image Defaced
- Chapter 5—Parallel Passages Summarized
- Chapter 6—Second Passage Examined
- Chapter 7—Three Important Conclusions
- Chapter 8—Darwinism and Creationism
- Chapter 9—Was It Sin?
- Chapter 10—The Plan of God for Eden
- Chapter 11—Satan and the Animal Kingdom
- Chapter 12—A Belief Consistent With Scripture
- Chapter 13—Mrs. White Focuses on Satan as Evil Power
- Chapter 14—Statement Not Found in “Patriarchs and Prophets”
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Chapter 11—Satan and the Animal Kingdom
The Bible presents a picture of a controversy between God and the devil that starts with the beginnings of our world and covers everything that has to do with our world. That Satan, as a free moral agent, has been allowed of God to roam the earth and use his diabolical skill in creating disorder and destruction, the Bible amply testifies.Amal 8.5
The first instance of Satan’s attempt to bring disorder in our world was his speaking through an animal, a serpent. And though Satan was the instigator of the serpent’s wily words, the Lord included the serpent in the judgments meted out at the fall.Amal 8.6
Where the Scripture record is so brief we must be slow to dogmatize. But we may find in the fact of Satan, his evil purposes, and this specifically mentioned instance of his control of a member of the animal kingdom, a strong suggestion that the animal kingdom has suffered from his diabolical cunning. We cannot believe that in Eden there were blood-thirsty beasts, ill-tempered, snarling, and vicious. All believers in the Bible grant that these evil changes in the beasts were the result of sin. But how could a beast, which does not have a moral nature, and therefore has no knowledge of sin, be changed in nature by the entrance of sin into the life of Adam and Eve? The Christian mind will not permit the idea that God so changed the animals. In the fact of Satan, whose domination of the serpent is recorded for our learning, is surely found the only real explanation of the sorry change that came over the animal kingdom. Part of that change, we believe, was the confusing of the species, the blurring of a wondrous picture of divine harmony in diversity.Amal 8.7