The morning
Manna will be provided at 6am. Thanks. Studying
Genesis in the SSnet.org series Lesson 13, may the Holy Spirit be the speaker
to your heart. The Topic today
is: "Jacob blessing to his sons pointing to the Messiah's Second
Coming" 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 167 and for the laymen edition or Standard Edition, on page 108. 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. ---Dr. Doukhan
saw well that the blessings of Jacob, packed into their suitcases of posterity
and future, the coming of the Messiah King. ---But there is
some homework we need to do. The previous lesson compilor on the Book of
Hebrews, was confused and confused the issues pertaining to Christ's First
Coming and Second Coming and mixed the statements of
the Bible concerning them. ---The BRI
members currently are writing things that were never taught in traditional
Adventism of which Ellen White [traditional Adventist] is also part but not
they. ---Why? Because
that author of the Book of Hebrews lesson series previously studied at a Jesuit
Catholic University in Mexico. He and his friends follow the ideas of C. Dodd
who uses realized eschatology. ---Realized
eschatology wants to park all last day events and kingship applications at the
First Coming of Christ rather than the Second Coming. ---Did dr.
Doukhan do the same? It is not clear. Maybe not. ---But just in
case. ---Let us start
with Ellen White in Patriarchs and Prophets 236. When is the application of
Genesis 49:8-12 and Genesis 49:9 with the Lion symbol? ---Answer:
Ellen White used the word "to whom all powers shall 'finally' bow amd all
nations render homage". Finally. Thus the Second Coming. ---But confused
scholars even in Adventism, wants to park information that Ellen White and
Pioneers Correctly saw at the Second Coming, as at the First Coming just like
Reformed Theologians and Catholics are doing. ---One should
not put the chariot before the horse. It should be behind the horse. These
scholars are misinterpreting the Old Testament statements for the First Coming
rather than the Second Coming. ---"To Him
shall be the obedience of the people" (Genesis 49:10) does not refer to
the First Coming of Christ the Messiah, why? Because Isaiah said that He came
to His own and they rejected Him. The First Coming is rejection and suffering.
The Second Coming is rejection and gathering. ---King of
Grace is the First Coming and King of Glory is the Second Coming. When the Door
of Mercy closes, says the Book of Revelation, when Christ completes His
Investigative Judgment since 1844, then He receives the
King of Glory phase, but not before then. ---The whole
discussion on the throne of David that Christ sat on for the Book of Hebrews,
was confusion. There is no throne of David that was 2424 to heaven! ---Christ and
the Editor Holy Spirit with their foreknowledge of what will happen at the End
Times, packed into David's poems and hymns and writings that which was
applicable to Christ Himself. ---So in the
New Testament, Christ just "unpacked the suitcase of Himself" that
David wrote and scholars apply what is for Christ, to David! Chariot before the
Horse case. ---Ellen White,
says recent scholars [who want to use heretics to compose a 'new Adventist theology',
using Ballenger, Waggoner [who wanted two wives and was disfellowshipped in
1906 but wrote Confessions in 1916 which these scholars are using], Fletcher
1930, Conradi, Ford [disfellowshipped at Glazier in 1980], they want to use
their statements to tell us what "truth" is. ---"Everything
has to be applied at the cross" they say, just like Reformed Theologians
in other denominations and Catholic scholars are doing. ---We need to
have eyes to see the inroads from Reformed Churches in Adventism. Their
theology, their music [see Adventist youth of Korea], their thinking, and their
rejection of Adventist truths from the Bible and Ellen White. ---It is the
Last Days and the Last Generation Theology, so we need to pay attention to the
Biblical Last Day Generation Theology and not reject it like Reformed Theologians
are doing. ---God has a
church and He gave Jacob the means of talking to his sons about prophecies of
the future of Christ's work and their characters. ---We are part
of that future. Our response is vital as we stay committed and not swing
offroad. ---Even though
scholars are talking to these "offroad" scholars in Adventism, they
do not want to change, listen or adjust their messages back. ---They help
create "Apostasy" which was predicted also by Christ. ---Thus, Ellen
White, who's authority these offroads are rejecting, still have the correct
understanding of the words of Jacob. So do we if we cherish these messages and
abide by them.