The document discusses God's litmus tests for humanity throughout history to test their faith and obedience. It draws parallels between Adam and Eve's test regarding the forbidden fruit tree and God's end-time remnant being tested on obeying the Sabbath. Both tests involved choosing obedience to God over listening to the devil's deception. Failure to pass these tests resulted in sin and death. The document urges readers to accept God's authority as shown by keeping His Sabbath commandment.

1. THE THREE ANGELS’ MESSAGES 13. GOD’S LITMUS TEST

4. TREE: TEST ADAM & EVE’S FAITH? ELLEN G. WHITE, CONFRONTATION, p. 12 The forbidden tree was as attractive and lovely as any of the trees in the garden . It was called the tree of knowledge because in partaking of that tree of which God had said, " Thou shalt not eat of it," they would have a knowledge of sin, an experience in disobedience . PSALMS 24:1 The earth [is] the LORD'S, and the fulness thereof; the world, and they that dwell therein.

6. THE PENALTY OF DISOBEDIENCE: DEATH SENTENCE GENESIS 2:17 But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die .