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

Studying In the Crucible with Christ in the SSnet.org series Lesson 9, may the Holy Spirit be the speaker to your heart.

The Topic today is: "Praise, pray and sing in a chaos world which is like a jail to the Christian” in Morning Manna of the Sabbath School Lesson In the Crucible with Christ”.

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 115 and for the laymen edition or Standard Edition, on page 76.

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.

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---Paul and Silas in jail in Acts 16:16-34.

---They were persecuted by a highly developed Roman system of law that was the empire of their days.

---Who is the empire of our days? Not the same as in early empire days because the feet of clay (freedom seekers) and iron (total suppression insisters) continents divide the world into softcore governments and hardcore governments. The USA is softcore and Russia is hardcore. That is what one would expect.

---Except recently an organic farm by Adam Miller in Pennsylvania, was run over by US marshals (police) who insists that he cannot sell his organic products to his 4000 customers who applied to be his customers out of their own free will. Why? He does not sell it to a middle-man first who sells it more expensive to the public and grab some money for himself. He sells directly to the public. Healthy food grown with biblical principles blocked by a pesticide using local government who must feel “left behind” due to inflation? Miller is Amish and do not use gasoline or electricity. In Time of Trouble he is not affected by these problems. No gasoline, no electricity (like in China this week due to drought) no pesticide (Russia refuse to supply).

---Point is. Even the softcore “clay” of the image of Nebuchadnezzar in Daniel 2 will before the Second Coming of Christ (coming of the Rock Jesus) have elements of hardcore in it. That is what Revelation 13, the second beast as USA predicted, will do. Hardcore activities. Signals of Endtime scenarios. Biblically predicted and all Adventist know these things since 1860 already.

---So Paul and Silas were thrown in jail for preaching God’s word. For living and standing for biblical principles. A well-developed law system empire, hesitating to interfere with people’s religion, but at times did and even forcefully persecuted the Christians. From Paul’s day in 64 AD with Nero’s persecution of Christians there were ten Caesars of Rome who persecuted the Christians severely before Constantine in 311 AD was so-called converted and turned the tables, also the Law of God to enforce Sunday-keeping on Christianity against the biblical ten commandments Saturday worship principle.

---Many were persecuted keeping Sabbath. The Jews were, even in Constantine’s day. Cooking on Sabbath was one of the issues always mentioned.

---The last Caesar who was still a Roman soldier was Justinian and he got religious with his worldly loving wife Theodora and the two of them built churches left right and center to silence their conscience of the evil they did. I read it in Procopius’s online biography of Justinian and Theodora. Justinian then suddenly decided to coin a new coin in 538 AD not showing him to be a soldier but a theologian with a cross in his hand and the world. A world Christian. He had to kill and fight for it and so the best lawyer in Rome became a persecutor of true biblical faiths and supported only confessional faith. The Catholics.

---The Catholics took over from this converted “emperor” and the pope became actually the power-base of the Holy Roman Empire for 1260 years until 1798 when Berthier arrested the Pope for France. The rest is history.

---What are Jesuits? They are shadows in the Catholic church that works militantly to “fight” for the support of the Catholic church in private clothes and use the same principle as the hardcore continents: the end justifies the means. If one dies it is not so bad because many will be benefited. If minorities are suppressed it is not that bad because the majority will benefit.

---After the “deadly wound” as Revelation 13 first animal describes the Catholic church 1260 years, the wound healed and became strong under USA second beast power, also in Revelation 13.

---What did Catholics do? They took on the clothes of seemingly “softness” at Vatican II in the 1960's by asking 72 Protestants to come and tell them how they can fit into the modern world best. Thus, pope Francis also play with Amazon paganism at the Vatican as the 2017 Youtube shows. All religions are considered equal and the same. Even no-religion.

---And the world is in chaos right now. Time of Trouble is upon us. What value is a great strong empire army when their commander does not know whether it is Friday or Saturday? What value is another strong empire army when he ordered a war then hide and is wrongly informed how many of his soldiers are dying? Thousands of people die at his so-called command and no end is in sight. Chaos whether West or East. Plus climate disasters of Flood for every country and Drought as well. Predicted for the End Time scenario in Matthew 24/Luke 21/Mark 13 by Jesus.

---Praise and Songs and Prayer is the only way out of this one. Like Paul in Philippians and in Acts 16 this morning. And organic farm systems.