The morning
Manna will be provided at 6am. Thanks. Studying Death,
Dying and Future Hope in the SSnet.org series Lesson 1, may the Holy Spirit be
the speaker to your heart. The Topic today
is: "Lucifer becoming Satan in Ezechiel 28 wrapped around the king of Tyre
in Morning Manna of the Sabbath School Lesson Death, Dying and Future Hope”. 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 9 and for the laymen edition or Standard Edition, on page 9. 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://absg.adventist.org/pdf.php?file=2022:4Q:SE:PDFs:EAQ422_01.pdf ---“Sin is a
mysterious, unexplainable thing. There was no reason for its existence; to seek
to explain it is to seek to give a reason for it, and that would be to justify
it. Sin appeared in a perfect universe, a thing that was shown to be
inexcusable.”—Ellen G. White, The Truth About Angels, p. 30. ---Ezechiel 28
is about Tyre but in the genre of the Fall of Cities. It was very common to
connect the Fall of any major Urban center to the impact and relationship that
city had with the gods, good or bad. ---It was with
Ur and its fall in 2004 BC as well. The gods were upset. The Elamites and
desert people invaded Ur and a paradigm shift came in that year. The end of a
Sumerian empire. The end of the Ur III period. ---But
intertwined with Tyre as it is later also with Babylon is a “whore” as far as
relations with God is concerned. Just as a certain church will be deceptive and
misleading many faithful people and persecute the faithful for 1260 years I Revelation,
so in Ezechiel the R&D of this whole process is described and wrapped
around the king of Tyre. ---Lucifer and the
reality of his Rebellion in Heaven is outlined for us here. ---It is a
mystery how it could have happened with a perfect being. ---But it did. Karl
Barth was a great theologian who studied at Catholic Theological seminaries but
adopted Calvinistic readings and became a game-changer in the 1930-1980’s in
Protestantism. ---He
emphasized Christ. But…he denied the Rebellion in Heaven reality. ---He wrote his
theology without Satan involved! A red card. ---Even though
Ellen White said it is a mystery, her first chapters in Patriarch and
Prophets explain very clearly how this great evil started in heaven. ---Self-deception
is when one thinks that one is not sinning, but later by Bible reading
discovers that it is not true. The fundamentals in one’s thinking are laced
with sin! That should change. Start immediately. ---The Holy
Spirit will guide one from text to text and day to day to “discover” the
imperfections in one’s thinking and overcoming becomes a reality and joy. ---Satan was
not willing to make that change in his life. ---He will have
to die and be exterminated for it. ---But we can
live in Christ Who died and was killed by Satan for us.