The morning
Manna will be provided at 6am. Thanks. Studying
Genesis in the SSnet.org series Lesson 10, may the Holy Spirit be the speaker
to your heart. The Topic today
is: "The Death of Rachel and other evil things". 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 129 and for the laymen edition or Standard Edition, on page 85. 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. ---Dirty
Laundry. That is what the Bible is all about. ---God cleaning
dirty laundry and how He did it. ---Jacob has a
prostitute Bilhah and his son Reuben slept with her. ---Rachel died
at the birth of her second son Ben-oni "son of suffering" but Jacob
change his name to Ben-jamin "son of the right hand". ---Dr. Doukhan
keep saying that God continues His plan despite people's evil. ---God has a
work of salvation to do and thus God is among sinners doing it. ---Nebuchadnezzar
was vile but he got the prophecy of empires in Daniel 2! To get the prophecy
does not save him but he is instrumental in God's plan. ---A pastor
recently preached that people should not be Pharisees by using Morning Manna
and Tithes to show how "good a Christian" they are. The Holy Spirit
took the message and turned it around and a friend of ours said after the
sermon: I want to come to Morning Manna but I live too far. Maybe I must watch
online. I do not pay Tithe. Maybe I should. Balaam cursed but the Holy Spirit
made people hear blessings! ---The people
participating in evil will understood the Promised Land as a physical
geomorphological piece of territory here on earth. Despite that it is a
heavenly concept in reality. ---Heavenly
Zion, Heavenly Jerusalem, Heavenly Mountain. The Egyptians had a heavenly Nile
and Heavenly journey for the dead on a bark in the night after Ra the sun is
killed in the West with red blood on the horizon. He travels with the dead to
the Investigative Judgment before Midnight and the Executive Judgment
afterwards.True Hebrew theology turned Pagan! ---So also with
the life of Jacob, Reuben and other evil people in the Old Testament. ---Dr.
LaRondelle had an expression: "God can hit straight with a bended stick".
For His plan to continue, yes. But God also change people's lives so that the
dirty laundry become clean with hissop, perfect in His sight effectively. ---Nebuchadnezzar
was converted before he died.