The morning Manna
will be provided at 6am. Thanks.
Studying The
Great Controversy in the SSnet.org series Lesson 2, may the Holy Spirit be
the speaker to your heart.
The Topic today
is: “Love or Selfishness and the predictions of Jesus on the Mount for Sabbath
School Lesson on the The Great
Controversy by Ellen White described by Mark Finley”.
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 pages until
pages 18.
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=2024:2Q:TE:PDFs:ETQ224_02.pdf
---Love or Selfishness? ---When bad comes upon the good, is God
selfish to not help? ---No. Why? Because His blessings of
goodness come upon anyone, good or bad. ---Does God favor some and destroy hopes for
others? ---No. Why? Because when the rain is given
by Him, it falls also on the wicked’s lands and increase their harvest. ---Satan is the designer of persecution or
destruction. So when persecution or destruction come, it can come over the
good and bad. ---Two unseen powers. One good and one bad. ---Two results to good or bad people: good
or bad. ---God promises good things for His faithful
ones. Are they obstructed by God from receiving good things? Why? Maybe
educational for their character building? Maybe educational for the evil
observers in the near surroundings? ---Does God see that we are suffering? Yes.
Why does He not do something about it? ---First of all, this earth is not heaven.
It is stolen territory by Satan for whom it was not created. ---Secondly, Satan is in constant war with
God as Revelation 12:7-9 clearly spelled out. ---So this week, we are going to see that
Jesus spoke to His disciples on the Mount of Olives looking at the Temple in
all its bright beauty. ---There are three chapters who deal with
the End-Time scenario predictions by Jesus. ---Matthrew 24, Luke 21 and Mark 13. ---When one reads the three in comparison
there is one point that sounds the same in Matthew and Mark, in fact identical.
There is one which is not and that is in Luke. ---There are two options to explain this:
Jesus mixed events in future to take two separate events and makes them one;
or; Jesus spoke two times the events but the witnesses to all three heard only
50% of the total expression. ---What does this mean? ---Christ says in reality that day: “There
will be 1. There will be 2. ---But the witness A to Christ saying heard:
“There will be 1 [slip of the ear for the second statement]. ---Witness B to Christ saying heard: “[slip
of the ear for the first statement] there will be 2”. ---A spoke to Luke. ---B spoke to Matthew and Mark. ---The event of Luke is in 70-73 AD. ---The event in Matthew and Mark is to 538
AD. ---Is this clear?