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

Studying Genesis in the SSnet.org series Lesson 5, let the Holy Spirit be your Speaker through His Bible.

The Topic today is: "The Redemption of the Exile".

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 62 and for the laymen edition or Standard Edition, on page 43.

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.

---Post-Flood people wanted to have one culture, one language and be unitedly "stick together".

---They wished to design all kinds of anti-God devices in their lives.

---God saw that it will replay the pre-Flood situation.

---Therefore He confused them and disperse them all over the World.

---Even though the word balal means "confuse" the word Babel is not derived from that word.

---It is derived from an Akkadian word compound with Akkadian signs saying "City of the gate of the gods".

---Babel is not about confusion. It is about pantheism.

---It is about unified ecumenical pluralism.

---It is about real spiritual challenging.

---It is about "seeking to be like the Canaanites around us."

---A spiritual "Babel".

---Actually, in cuneiform studies it was demonstrated by Stephanie Dalley from Oxford (retired) that Babel was the name of every major city in the Levant who was the leading empire of a certain time.

---Niniveh, Larsa, etc. were also called "Babylon" in cuneiform studies.

---It is not located only static in one place.

---It is a symbolic concept that "moves" with the empire.

---New York can be the USA "Babylon"? Is it not right?

--The Vatican was "Babylon".

---Peter called Rome "Babylon" in his letters.

---Shushan will be "Babylon" in the Medo-Persia period. Athens in the Greek period would have been "Babylon".

---Shifting "Babylons" following great empires.

---What is the problem of "Babylon"? Due to religious "politics" the people of God started to persecute "the true worshippers of God". 

---In the Byzantine times it was "Heretic hunting" by the churches and they cut off the tongue so that the people do not speak any "heresies" any more!

---That spirit is still lingering around us. It is built on selfish gains.

---God is looking for "obedience" from all His worshippers and this word "obey" is found almost on every page of the whole Bible. Cannot get away from "holy living calls and preaching".

---God does not save people "in their sin [cheap grace sermons] but from their sin [holiness preaching calls]"

Dr. Doukhan in these lessons brings out the "now" of God in small nuances packed into the bibical "suitcase" specially for all, including us. For every generation.

Enjoy God now with both the Bible and Spirit of Prophecy as your daily guide on your knees with the Guide, the Spirit of the Living God.

God is looking now at your response to His interest in you.