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.