The morning Manna
will be provided at 6am. Thanks.
Studying The
Great Controversy in the SSnet.org series Lesson 1, may the Holy Spirit be
the speaker to your heart.
The Topic today
is: “The War in heaven and parallels for Sabbath School Lesson on the The Great
Controversy by Ellen White described by Mark Finley”.
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 pages until
pages 5-8.
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=2024:2Q:TE:PDFs:ETQ224_01.pdf
---“And war broke out in heaven: Michael
[Jesus] and his [loyal] angels fought with the dragon [Lucifer]; and the
dragon and his [rebellious] angels fought, but they [the rebellious angels] did
not prevail, nor was a place found for them in heaven any longer [they exit
heaven or near the abode of God]” (Revelation 12:7, 8,
NKJV). ---Rebellion in heaven. ---There was a tablet found at Niniveh in
the times of the Assyrian King Ashurbanipal in 650 BC, when third generation
Jews who could speak Assyrian fluently, were residing there since the Exile in
723 BC. They were scribes in the Library and probably compiled this text combining Hebrew and Assyrian theologies? ---The tablet is called the Legend of the
Worm. It was a tooth-incantation text that a dentist use when he pulls out the
tooth of a person. He was supposed to say some words of this text and kill the
worm. ---The whole text is really telling the
story of the origin of sin and rebellion. ---It says that heaven made the earth and
the earth made the mud and the mud made the worm. ---The main god in heaven said that fruit
shall be the food of the worm. ---So everything had their place. ---Until...well until the worm complained,
that he is not satisfied with his apples and would rather sit on the gums of
humans and suck their blood. ---So the origin of cavities is explained. ---So Anu, the main god was so angry that he
said that he will kill the worm for rebelling against him. ---There is a saying during the action of
killing the worm that the dentist have to repeat after telling the patient the
narrative of this rebellion against the Creator. ---This is a narrative that came from a
Jewish scribes’ hand. ---It is a bit of Isaiah 14:12-14 laced over
Assyrian theology. ---There is no correlate of this story ever
in Assyrian earlier history during the Old Assyrian and Middle Assyrian
periods. Nothing. So it is a new invention in Neo-Assyrian times. ---So why do humans suffer pain on their
teeth? The worm. The rebellious worm. ---So why are there so much pain on earth?
Lucifer who desired to climb up and put his throne above the stars on the
Mountain of God in heaven. ---So he and his throne were thrown down on
earth. Of course he is awaiting the final scene of his extermination. ---The biblical narrative from Genesis 3 and
Isaiah 14:12-14 and Ezechiel 28 and Revelation 12:7 and other passages of
Scripture dealing with Satan are all fragments of the whole story or narrative
of the historical event that took place before. ---A number of poets around 1660 wrote about
the theme of the Rebellion in Heaven. ---Joost van Vondel wrote his Lucifer epic
drama in Holland. It is almost a mirror of what Ellen White wrote in chapter 1
of Patriarchs and Prophets. ---But, it is not. Van Vondel differ at many
places with Ellen White. ---In the same time as Vondel, Hugo Grotius
also wrote an epic drama on the same topic. Again there are correspondences
with Ellen White but again it is different. Ellen White is more biblical. ---John Milton touched on the same theme in
his dramas. Again there is no comparison with Ellen White. ---Ellen White is almost a Targum on this
event unfolding the biblical passages dealing with it in a fantastic narrative
exposing the selfishness of the handsome of all angels, Lucifer, who then
became Satan. ---Sources to go deeper than just this
overview: a.
http://www.egw.org/zboard/1058422011.01.10 01:26:22 (*.23.52.54)7250 b. So in 1976 professor Johann Japp taught
this theme and it is online at www.egw.org at “Fall of Lucifer Gleanings”. http://www.egw.org/zboard/137302 c. Dennis Priebe “God on Trial” video https://youtu.be/rCuOeUq7X_w d.
http://www.egw.org/zboard/3554452023.07.11 09:16:46 (*.111.51.252)1803 ---Karl Barth refused to pay attention to
this aspect of theology from the Bible. He denied the existence of Satan.
Reason? He had a second wife and that prevented him from seeing the biblical
text properly or prevent him from be honest with the text. ---Carl Jung, the psychologist, broke his
intimate relationship with Siegmund Freud in 1913 and instead of going back to
his roots where his father and mother brought him up, his father as a pastor,
Jung ran to Occult studies and Buddhism. ---Can the psychology of Jung and Freud
provide souls with problems renovation for their problems? Maybe. But not
renovation from the guilt. You have to give your guilt away. To whom? No. To
Whom. Christ. “Give Me all your troubles...and I will take care of them” Christ
said. ---Is that what you do? When? This Sabbath
at the nearest Adventist Church. Is your cellphone out to navigate you there
before 9h30? When? Now.