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

Studying Ephesians in the SSnet.org series Lesson 9, may the Holy Spirit be the speaker to your heart.

The Topic today is: “Ephesians 5 and Isaiah 60:1-3 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 114.

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_09.pdf

---Or try in alternative this one:  https://ssnet.org/lessons/23c/less09.html

---Paul is today citing from Isaiah 60:1-3.

---Resurrection morning is in mind.

---How do you know?

---https://www.academia.edu/38566625/Devotional_commentary_on_Isaiah pages 628ff.

---“Ellen White said about the same chapter “This message will close with power and strength far exceeding the midnight cry” Ellen White, Early Writings page 278 as cited by M. L. Andreasen in 1929 in his Sabbath School Quarterly on Isaiah page 20. Andreasen said: “This chapter deals with the glorious finishing of the work, and with the new earth state”. What is to come is bigger than what was in 1844, says Ellen White.”

---When God says: “Arise and shine for your light has come” (v. 1a), it means that resurrection morning has arrived. The dead arise and they perceive light.” (629).

---“Just before the Second Coming, the final time of death or darkness upon the earth will approach ‘darkness will cover the earth’ (v. 2a). It does not mean all in the remnant will die. “Deep darkness the peoples” (v. 2b) but in the world’s darkest hour, since it is the Time of Trouble, “the Lord will rise upon you” (v. 2c)” (page 629).

---“Delitzsch in Vol. II 1890 pages 382-383 wanted to make the darkness sin and wretchedness and the light of the Lord coming. He is mixing historicistic coming of the Lord [Second coming] with hard-core preterism [end of exile restoration] with soft-core preterism of the idealistic model [darkness as sinful condition].He is not certain what to say” (page 630).

---Is your pastor or teacher in the Sabbath School trying to make what is resurrection just a spiritual revival?

---It is typical of liberals that they wish to look past the literal simple clear text and they want to make it allegorical or metaphorical or symbolical so that they do not have to really do it. They do not really want to change themselves.

---Change? Yes. Holy Behaviorism is the essence of the Old Testament and the essence of the New Testament with the good news of the Trinity’s involvement with our Salvation through Christ and His role included.

---Jesus said in John 8 to the woman caught in adultery and set free by Him: “Go and sin no more”. Holy Behaviorism. Packaged by Christ Himself.

---So when you read the federal Justification quotes from Ellen White, here and there in Christ Object Lessons, Selected Messages and Steps to Christ, also Great Controversy 473, do not think that she did not wrap this message in a paper called holy Behaviorism.

---Even Paul who says that you are saved by faith without works [which is the Heidelberg Catechism with a Federal Justification view only, faith only insistence] says in Galatians 5:7 that “faith works in love.”

---Faith works says Paul just like James 2:24 says that salvation is not only by faith but also by works.

---Is your pastor preaching around the messages of the Bible on topics that just touch and go here and there? Get out. When? Immediately.