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

Studying Ephesians in the SSnet.org series Lesson 5, may the Holy Spirit be the speaker to your heart.

The Topic today is: “Peace with Christ and peace to come for Morning Manna of the Sabbath School Lesson Ephesians”.

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 42.

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=2023:3Q:SE:PDFs:EAQ323_05.pdf

---Or try in alternative this one:  https://ssnet.org/lessons/23c/less02.html

---When He came (elthoon = aorist participle) He preached peace to those far and near (2:17).

---Through the Spirit there is access to the one Spirit together (amphoteroi) with Christ having access to the Father. (2:18). Nice right?

---The Adventist theology is very similar to that of Bullinger. There is no difference in the way of salvation of the Old and New Testaments.

---In Bullinger’s thinking, there was only one eternal covenant. The one of salvation.

---So the way of salvation for Ellen White and the Bible and Bullinger is the same in the Old Testament and the New Testament.

---That means that Christ did not come in 27-31 AD to change what was before but fulfill what was predicted. Can you see the difference?

---It is not like old Calvinists use to say, the Old Testament was salvation by works and now Christ came and it is salvation by grace.

---Bullinger, Ellen White and the Bible says that salvation was always by faith in the coming Messiah (Old Testament times) and faith in Christ (New Testament times).

---There never was another system to be truly saved! Right?

---But was it not only Jews who were saved before Christ and now Everyone?

---No. God intended the Jews to be a vehicle or instrument explaining the Tabernacle or Sanctuary system to the world.

---Sometimes they did and sometimes they did not. (Psalm 18 is probably an example of this, Ruth the Moabite).

---Many Hebrews had Ammonite names. Why? How?

---The Hebrews of the Old Testament was not a pure blood at all. Mixed like they are today. No difference.

---So salvation was the same. No difference.

---You can find the gospel in all Moses’ books and in the synoptic gospels. It is all about Jesus and His preaching.

---He taught and preached the peace of God.  

---Cheap peace is only concerned with horizontal peace. Other nations, neighbors, friends, family, relationships.

---Real peace is interested in vertical relationships especially and only through God.

---That is Maslow’s sixth need. It was left out from his five needs model.

---So societies all over the world is working with a handicap model to create “heaven on earth”. It never works. Correct?

---The gospel writer Matthew recorded that Christ was Immanuel and the angels sang to the shepherds in the fields in 4 BC when He was born in Bethlehem that He is bringing “peace on earth”.

---Now get a reality fact. As long as Satan and evil is roaming on this earth, there will be no peace. How did Christ bring peace?

---Physical reconciliation between us and God and between human and human where possible. Beautiful when possible. Tears when not.

---But a future hope of peace is in the heart waiting for a future specific date when He will return to kick in peace properly forever. Nice.