The morning
Manna will be provided at 6am. Thanks. Studying
Genesis in the SSnet.org series Lesson 12, may the Holy Spirit be the speaker
to your heart. The Topic today
is: "Joseph and Benjamin" 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 153 and for the laymen edition or Standard Edition, on page 99. 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. ---The banquet
that the brothers got from Joseph was kind of a testing situation to see if
their characters are still the same as before. ---They past
the test that they changed in character and Joseph could see that. ---He needed to
test them to the utmost, but letting the drinking cup play a stolen role. ---Would they
leave Benjamin there and never come back? ---They did
their utmost to protect Benjamin and this was painful but beautiful to Joseph's
eyes. ---They changed
in character. ---Before the
end of time at some point when Jesus completed His High Priestly Ministry in
Heaven, also we will be tested in character to see if we can withstand really
the evil. ---It is also a
test of character. Our characters needed to be pure in intention and motivation
and with silent support from heaven, we will be able to shine in darkness,
refuse worldliness and secular thinking. ---Those who
deny Last Generation Theology, will probably suffer during this time. ---Shortly
after Revelation was written and John died, the Didache was written. In the
last chapter verse 7 it says that those who awaits the Second Coming, have to
be perfect. ---Later church
fathers dropped the idea. ---The
Adventist theology of the Sanctuary, Door of Mercy and standing perfect before
the Second Coming is not imagination but biblically based and supported.