Chapter 13—Mrs. White Focuses on Satan as Evil Power
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 13—Mrs. White Focuses on Satan as Evil Power
One cannot read far in Mrs. White’s writings before becoming aware that she views the whole drama of our world from its earliest days onward as a great struggle between God and the devil. Mrs. White pictures Satan as stalking over the earth, bent on disorder and devastation, even as the Bible pictures him. It is true that she did not specifically refer to Satan in the amalgamation statements in Spiritual Gifts. However, another reference to amalgamation discloses her views as to the cause of certain of the changes that took place in our world after Adam and Eve fell. The statement reads:Amal 9.3
Not one noxious plant was placed in the Lord’s great garden, but after Adam and Eve sinned, poisonous herbs sprang up. In the parable of the sower the question was asked the Master, “Didst not thou sow good seed in thy field? how then hath it tares?” The Master answered, “An enemy hath done this.” All tares are sown by the evil one. Every noxious herb is of his sowing, and by his ingenious methods of amalgamation he has corrupted the earth with tares.—Selected Messages 2:288.
This statement, viewed in the setting of the whole tenor of Mrs. White’s writings which attribute to Satan the active responsibility for all evil in our world, fully warrants us in concluding that she attributed to Satan the “confused species” of animals. Hence she would most certainly describe these “species” as a manifestation of sin, even as she could properly speak of the appearance of insensate but “noxious, poisonous herbs” as an exhibit of the activity of the “evil one.” Thus her amalgamation statement regarding “sin” is consistent with all that Scripture has revealed of earth’s early days, in terms of the interpretation we have given to the key phrase, “amalgamation of man and beast.”Amal 10.1