Snow

Nature

Snow

Pt. 1

Snow is a very white clean material made from frozen water particles grouped together creating a small delicate snow flake. Snow comes floating down from the sky in sometimes sheets of white that turn everything into a pure beauty of everything it lands on. Purifying the ground and trees and bushes into a calm White beauty.

Snow is often said in the Bible as a symbol of pure, clean and white. Christ refers to snow as a symbol of cleanliness from sin.

Isa 1:18 Come now, and let us reason together, saith the LORD: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool.

It is peace that you need, Heaven’s forgiveness and peace and love in the soul. Money cannot buy it, intellect cannot procure it, wisdom cannot attain to it; you can never hope, by your own efforts, to secure it. But God offers it to you as a gift, “without money and without price.” Isaiah 55:1. It is yours if you will but reach out your hand and grasp it. The Lord says, “Though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool.” Isaiah 1:18. “A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you.” Ezekiel 36:26. {CSA 29.3}

A Call to stand apart pg. 29.4 EGW

Psa 51:7 Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean: wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow.

Christ refers to wool as white as snow and white raiment is also a symbol of righteousness from sin.

John the Servant of God also wrote of the Image of God, how his hair is white as snow and his garment are also white.

Rev 1:14 His head and [his] hairs [were] white like wool, as white as snow; and his eyes [were] as a flame of fire;

As well as a few of Christs other apostles said referring to Christ...

Mar 9:3 And his raiment became shining, exceeding white as snow; so as no fuller on earth can white them.

Mat 28:3 His countenance was like lightning, and his raiment white as snow:

Richly favored was this beloved disciple. He had seen his Master in Gethsemane, His face marked with the blood drops of agony, His “visage ... marred more than any man, and His form more than the sons of men.” Isaiah 52:14. He had seen Him in the hands of the Roman soldiers, clothed with an old purple robe and crowned with thorns. He had seen Him hanging on the cross of Calvary, the object of cruel mockery and abuse. Now John is once more permitted to behold his Lord. But how changed is His appearance! He is no longer a Man of Sorrows, despised and humiliated by men. He is clothed in a garment of heavenly brightness. “His head and His hairs” are “white like wool, as white as snow; and His eyes ... as a flame of fire; and His feet like unto fine brass, as if they burned in a furnace.” Revelation 1:14, 15, 17. His voice is like the music of many waters. His countenance shines as the sun. In His hand are seven stars, and out of His mouth issues a sharp two-edged sword, an emblem of the power of His word. Patmos is made resplendent with the glory of the risen Lord. {AA 582.1}

The Acts of the Apostles pg. 582.1

You have confessed your sins, and in heart put them away. You have resolved to give yourself to God. Now go to Him, and ask that He will wash away your sins and give you a new heart. Then believe that He does this because He has promised. {CSA 29.4}

A Call to stand apart pg. 30.1 EGW

Every snow flake is different, there is not a one alike.

Likewise every human being is different.

Our Human nature is so stained with sin that many a time we don't hesitate before we sin and sometime we cant even recognize that we are sinning. But through the eye of Faith we can be Like Jesus and if we ask him and truly believe3 he will forgive us and Spiritually will clothe us with the raiment of pureness that is white as snow. That is if we Overcome.

Rev 3:5 He that overcometh, the same shall be clothed in white raiment; and I will not blot out his name out of the book of life, but I will confess his name before my Father, and before his angels.

And to all the faithful ones who were striving against evil, John heard the promises made: “To him that 589overcometh will I give to eat of the tree of life, which is in the midst of the Paradise of God.” “He that overcometh, the same shall be clothed in white raiment; and I will not blot out his name out of the book of life, but I will confess his name before My Father, and before His angels.” “To him that overcometh will I grant to sit with Me in My throne, even as I also overcame, and am set down with My Father in His throne.” Verse 7; 3:5, 21. {AA 588.2}

John saw the mercy, the tenderness, and the love of God blending with His holiness, justice, and power. He saw sinners finding a Father in Him of whom their sins had made them afraid. And looking beyond the culmination of the great conflict, he beheld upon Zion “them that had gotten the victory ... stand on the sea of glass, having the harps of God,” and singing “the song of Moses” and the Lamb. Revelation 15:2, 3. {AA 589.1}

Acts of the Apostles pg.588.2

But every man sins different, and those are the people that we need to reach out to and pray for.

The Lord says, “Because thou sayest, I am rich, and increased with goods, and have need of nothing; and knowest not that thou art wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked:

I recall an email that I got that listed several public accounts of popular people who said they had no need of God and scorned and cursed him. Those men and Women most died of terrible deaths, some of drug over dose and suicide and sudden death,they had no desire for God and so God left them and they died poor lost souls.

We need God in our hearts to get eternal life.

God says

I counsel thee to buy of Me gold tried in the fire, that thou mayest be rich; and white raiment, that thou mayest be clothed, and that the shame of thy nakedness do not appear; and anoint thine eyes with eyesalve, that thou mayest see.” Revelation 3:17, 18.

Mrs. White councels us saying...

The gold tried in the fire is faith that works by love. Only this can bring us into harmony with God. We may be active, we may do much work; but without love, such love as dwelt in the heart of Christ, we can never be numbered with the family of heaven. {COL 158.3}