The morning Manna will be provided at 6am. Thanks.

Studying Ephesians in the SSnet.org series Lesson 12, may the Holy Spirit be the speaker to your heart.

The Topic today is: “Ephesians 6:12 and the cosmic and heavenly Sanctuary stigma removal wrestling for Morning Manna of the Sabbath School Lesson Ephesians”.

The Opening Hymn will be 229 "Spirit of the Living God."

The Sabbath School Quarterly, downloadable from SSnet.org in the Teacher's Edition is on page 155.

The SSnet.org site allows anyone, anywhere to read the lesson in their own language. Choose your own language to see God speaking also to your heart.

Why do you not click on this now?

 https://www.adultbiblestudyguide.org/pdf.php?file=2023:3Q:SE:PDFs:EAQ323_12.pdf

---Or try in alternative this one:  https://ssnet.org/lessons/23c/less12.html

---Wrestling matches were very common in Rome in 64 AD.

---Gladiator matches also. For gladiators the winner is the one who remains standing “stantes” Carcopino 1938 page 241. https://archive.org/stream/dailylifeinancie035465mbp/dailylifeinancie035465mbp_djvu.txt

---The Gladiator match is so gruesome that reading it in Carcopino, one cannot believe that humans can get so cruel in a mass frenzy. They screamed “Slay him”, “Burn him”, “Strike”. The scenes are bloody. The same as computer games in 2023! Hello. It is the same human mind. The mind is a baby that needs special careful treatment, remember.

---There is no difference between a Gameroom in our day behind computers with students and adults playing their hours away with Gladiator killing mental feeding and Nero’s Gladiators and killing of Paul and Peter in the Arena. Correct?

---They delighted in the pain inflicted and screamed: “That’s got him!” Ever heard this in a modern Gameroom? We use to go there for internet emails. Hello.

---Nero had joy in making African fighting African (Carcopino 1938 page 240).

---If the looser is not dead but raise his hand to ask for grace the victor can save his life or kill him. One Gladiator saved someone and many months later when they fought again, the one he spared earlier, killed him (Carcopino 1938, page 241).

---The way it worked is that the victor asked the crowd what he should do. The crowed waved handkerchiefs and say “Let him go”. Then the emperor Nero must decide and often he follows the crowds’ decision.

---“The butcher of the arena became the breaker of hearts” said Carcopino. Terrible correct?

---But then such a victor had to do it one more time and if he then won, he had freedom forever, though he was a slave before.

---These cruel matches were for the love of honor and glory and desire to conquer. Satan’s deep affections. Correct? Read Ellen White Patriarchs and Prophets for his affections.

---The thousands of spectators to these cruel combats learn to accept it as ordinary events. Welcome to the “Museum of Tragedies” or modern Newsroom on Television screens. As one Italian Philosopher Paul Virilio said who died in 2018 called it.

---Here in Ephesians 6:12 it is not Gnosticism to speak of light/darkness or power of darkness.

---Satan is a power of darkness and the light/darkness was already mentioned by Jesus (S. Davidson 1894: 224 is not correct with his Gnostic influence idea).

---We must remember that the long sentences and flow of ideas is complicated in order to confuse Roman spies who sensor books.

---In Romans Paul would put stops in the middle of a discourse (see S. Davidson 1894: 218). 

---In Ephesians Paul is very redundant with words “wordy” (see S. Davidson 1894: 209).

---Colossians was written simpler. But, Paul did not use the same scribes.

---The form of the letter is such as to give him a save pass at Roman checkpoints on the way to Ephesus.

---Paul said: For we wrestle (pale) not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high [places = sanctuary in heaven where Christ is battling Satan’s evil influences on people in the Most Holy from book records of their lives]

---Christ’s role in the Most Holy of the heavenly sanctuary is to combat the evil records balancing it with acceptance and confession of Himself. Stigma removal as the “cleansing” of the heavenly sanctuary (see Daniel 8:14 with specialized meanings in the essence of nitzdak = declared righteous, vindicated but loaded with Leviticus language of the yearly Day of Atonement cleansing).

---Calvinists and Evangelicals know nothing about this. Adventism is more advanced Evangelicals. It is the difference between 1.1, 2.1, 3.1 varieties of Evangelicals as opposed to a 4.1 Adventist. Correct?

---Is your pastor into Gamerooms and computer games rather than the Bible? You need to talk to him. When? Immediately.