"Chapter 26—“Behold Your God!” In Isaiah's day the spiritual understanding of mankind was dark through misapprehension of God. Long had Satan sought to lead men to look upon their Creator as the author of sin and suffering and death. Those whom he had thus deceived, imagined that God was hard and exacting. They regarded Him as watching to denounce and condemn, unwilling to receive the sinner so long as there was a legal excuse for not helping him. The law of love by which heaven is ruled had been misrepresented by the archdeceiver as a restriction upon men's happiness, a burdensome yoke from which they should be glad to escape. He declared that its precepts could not be obeyed and that the penalties of transgression were bestowed arbitrarily. PK 311"
"Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it."
The EGW passage describes Satan's misrepresentation of God's character, which aligns with John 8:44's description of the devil as a liar and the father of lies. The connection is thematic, focusing on Satan's deceptive nature.
"In whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not, lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine unto them."
Both passages discuss Satan blinding people to the truth about God. The EGW passage describes Satan's misrepresentation of God's character, while 2 Corinthians 4:4 speaks of Satan blinding minds to the gospel. There is a clear thematic parallel.
"In losing sight of the true character of Jehovah, the Israelites were without excuse. Often had God revealed Himself to them as one “full of compassion, and gracious, long-suffering, and plenteous in mercy and truth.” Psalm 86:15 . “When Israel was a child,” He testified, “then I loved him, and called My son out of Egypt.” Hosea 11:1 . PK 311.2"
"But thou, O Lord, art a God full of compassion, and gracious, longsuffering, and plenteous in mercy and truth."
Ellen White directly references Psalms 86:15 in this passage.
"When Israel was a child, then I loved him, and called my son out of Egypt."
Ellen White directly references Hosea 11:1 in this passage.