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: "Idolatry still cherished or prevailing among Jacob".

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 128 and for the laymen edition or Standard Edition, on page 84.

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.

---It is the little foxes that destroys the vineyard. Little sins like collecting idols, which Rachel did and the sons of Jacob.

---Doukhan shows us the problems of Jacob and his family regarding these idols. Some even may have worshipped them.

---But the God of the covenant want a renewal of that covenant and wanted all to go to Bethel again for that renewal.

---God succeeds in His plan to give everyone a chance for renewal and repentance and salvation.

---God promised generations to come for Jacob. He promised the Messiah as one of those generations. He promised also a promise land or Eden recreation in the Eschaton (Genesis 35:11).

---Hebrews 11 by Paul also understood that none saw the Promise Land sinc they kept looking for it.

---Zion in the Prophets is heavenly Zion as dwelling of God.

---Heavenly Jerusalem is the city built by God.

---The Mountain of God where His throne is, is not the Temple platform that Herod built for the temple on Mount Moriah.

---None of the geomorphological physical mountains of physical Israel qualify for this Mpontain of God where His throne is.

---At Bethel the emphasis was on God not on the place.

---Worldliness is innocent idols that one can make almost out of everything, says dr. Doukhan. Come out of her that you do not get her plaques, the Lord says.

---Countryside living is what God has in mind for the eschaton. But people is like Lot clinging to the city. Angels will also have to airlift them before destruction.

---Just like Lot.