The morning
Manna will be provided at 6am. Thanks.
Studying Mission in
the SSnet.org series Lesson 1, may the Holy Spirit be the speaker to your
heart.
The Topic today
is: “Mission as God solving the Fall problem for Morning Manna of the Sabbath
School Lesson Mission”.
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 7.
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=2023:4Q:SE:PDFs:EAQ423_01.pdf
---Eve, the
fruit, Satan riding the snake with beautiful wings, sin, nakedness and God
looking for them. This is today the topic.
Source: https://www.academia.edu/39006569/Devotional_Short_Notes_on_Genesis_book_update
---Ellen White
in Patriarchs and Prophets brought
all bits and pieces of the Bible together talking about the Great Controversy
of Satan and Christ and the Creation of Eden and Fall of Man events.
---We cannot
call it a story, a myth, a narrative, but we can call it history, events.
---Ellen White
explored the Biblical theme with great care, as one can see by comparing her ideas to that of dramatists like Grotius, Vondel and
Milton and other traditions like Augustine and Sallianus.
---Archaeology
actually confirms Genesis 3 and the view Ellen White portrays in Patriarchs and Prophets.
---Snake had
wings and was very beautiful.
Wings +beautiful
---Ellen White, Patriarchs and Prophets [1903], 53
The serpent was
then one of the wisest and most beautiful creatures on the earth. It had wings,
and while flying through the air presented an appearance of dazzling brightness,
having the color and brilliancy of burnished
---Only Ellen
White says the snake had wings?
---She is not
the only one who says this.
---Wings and
legs
Genesis
3:14[implied]
When God
punished the snake He said that in future he will only move by sailing. Why?
Flying is out and walking too. Feet dropped off. Wings too.
---Wings +beautiful
Joost van den
Vondel, [1664]: l. 618-619 schoone vlercken andeen geschubde draeck voorzien
van schoone vlercken // Hy is in vliegen en omzwerven uitgeleert
---Beautiful
John Milton, Paradise
Lost ix 496-505 and lovely, never sinne of Serpent kind
lovelier
---Wings and legs
Josephus: lost
it as punishment
---Wings and legs
In the days of
Moses at the Exodus, Tomb art of the Pharaoh of the Exodus shows a snake with
wings and legs. Iconography in Archaeology support Moses’s description of the
snake with wings and legs in Genesis 3:14.
---Iconography from the days of Moses
See Tomb ofThutmosis
III, pharaoh of Exodusin 1450 BCE for talking snakes with wings and four
legs
See also AS
4=AUCT1:492 dating to Amar Sin 7th year ca. 2069 BCE; A. Mazar, page 167
Ain-Samiya goblet, MB I2050-2000 BCE [idem also Dever, BASOR 237: 35-64]; AS 7=AUCT IV Sigrist, OB Text 62,
p. 98 ca. 1900 BCE; ibid. Text 72 in 1st year of Samsuiluna ca. 1749 or1727
BCE Der alte Orient 19: 12 for
Nabu-aplam-iddina, 15 for Nazi-Marutash [my dating 1422-1396 BCE (but Brinkman,
1307-1282 BCE)]; 17 for Nebuchadnezar I; 19 for Meli- Schipat [Brinkman 1186-1172
BCE].
---These are all
examples of walking snakes in different times! Between 2069 past Moses’ time to
1172 BC.
---So Ellen
White and the Bible is not a story of Eve and the Snake.
---It is about
the Great Controversy between Christ and Satan.
---Ellen White
says it took place in less than one day. The Jewish Talmud says that it was 5 and a half hours. In Luther’s Table Talks 364 it says it happened in a
few hours. Laurentius Codomanus Chronographia 3rd ed. [1596]: 90
says it took a few days. See also Thomas Mouton The Threefold State (1629) page 8 for the same view. A short time it happened was the view of William
Perkins,Works [Cambridge1605]: 11; also JohnMilton.
---Those who had
the same view as Ellen White are also these authors before Ellen White: Donne, Sermons, x 48; John Gaude, Practique Theories [1629]: 17; Quarles, Divine Francis [1632]: 181; John
Lightfoot, The Harmony of the Old Testament
[1647]: 4; Petrus de Witte,Catechizíng
[1664]: 50; Montaque, De Jus Divinum
[1652]: 17.
--- Half-reluctant
was Eve to Satan spoke with her
Ellen White, Patriarchs and Prophets [1903], 55-56 “The serpent plucked the fruit of the
forbidden tree and placed it in the hands of the half-reluctant Eve. Then he
reminded her of her own words, that God had forbidden them to touch it, lest
they die. She would receive no more harm from eating the fruit, he declared,
than from touching it, they die. She would receive no more harm from eating the
fruit, he declared, than from touching it.” See also Hippolitus Phaedra Senecca Phaedra lines 594b-595a;
Grotius, Adamus Exul [1601] lines
1247b-1298a; Vondel, Adam in Ballingschap
[1664] line 1197.
--- Unperceived
Ellen White, Patriarchs and Prophets [1903], 53 “In order to accomplish his work unperceived,
Satan chose to employ as his medium the serpent-- a disguise well adapted for
his purpose of deception.” See also Salianus, Annales I p. 147 point 6 “Welk dier? Ant de slang”; Vondel, Adam in Ballingschap [1664] lines
616-618.
--- Disguise
Ellen White, Patriarchs and Prophets [1903], 53. See
also Salianus, Annales I p. 147 point
5 “Moest de verleider hun in eigen gestalte verschynen of in de gedaante van
een ander? He laaste”; Vondel, Adam in
Ballingschap [1664] line 599 “men trecke een grijns aen van het een of
ander dier”.
--- Into the same
misery
Ellen White, Patriarchs and Prophets [1903], 52 “Thus he would not only plunge these innocent
beings into the same misery which he was himself enduring, but would cast
dishonor upon God, and cause grief in heaven.” See also Salianus, Annales I p. 147 point 3 “Tot welke
zonde moet zij worden verleid? Ant Tot die van hoogmoed”; [pride is here reference
to Satan’s Fall in Isaiah 14:12-14 and Ezechiel 28]; Vondel, Adam in Ballingschap [1664] lines
671-673.
--- Curiosity
Ellen White, Patriarchs and Prophets [1903], 55 “He
is constantly seeking to excite a spirit of irreverent curiosity, a restless,
inquisitive desire to penetrate the secrets of divine wisdom and power.” See
also Vondel, Adam in Ballingschap
[1664] line 670
--- Prof. Johan Japp
of Helderberg College listed the sins of Eve as follows: 1. pride 2. unbelief
3. desire for illegal fruit 4. disobedience 5. tempting Adam 6. self-excuse 7.
corruption of mankind. Very similar to her husband.
Prof. Johan Japp
of Helderberg College listed the sins of Adam in 1979 as follows: Adam 1. pride
2. disbelief in God s word 3. inquisitive 4. disobedience 5. love for his wife
6. self-excuse 7. corruption of mankind. Ellen White in Patriarchs and Prophets has the same at pp. 55-57. See also Vondel,
Adam in Ballingschap [1664] line 57 “wantrou
=disbelief twijfel=doubt”.
---Did they have
sex before the Fall?
Zero information
but Hugo Grotius in his Adamus Exul 1601 claimed that they had.
---Did Satan try
to tempt Adam first?
Zero information
in the Bible and Ellen White but Hugo Grotius in 1601 and an earlier work in
the 8th and 9th centuries claims that they had: The Caedmonian Genesis 8-9th centuries
CE op.cit Watson Kirkcornell, The Celestial
Cycle 31-33.
--- Plotting
Ellen White, Patriarchs and Prophets [1903], 52 “Satan's enmity against God found a new field
in plotting the ruin of the human race.” See also Salianus, Annales I point 6 page 147; Vondel, Adam in Ballingschap [1664] Third Play.
---What role did
superstition play?
Ellen White has
zero information and also the Bible. Hugo Grotius and Vondel claimed it played
a part.
---Did Adam fell
due to his Solomonic love for Eve?
Hugo Grotius and
Vondel says yes. Ellen White and the Bible says no. He felt that she was part
of himself as the marriage relationship was ideally to be. It was pain to
separate. See Ellen White, Patriarchs and Prophets [1903], 56 “Love, gratitude, loyalty to the Creator--all
were overborne by love to Eve. She was a part of himself, and he could not
endure the thought of separation.”
---Was Satan
first praising Eve?
Augustinus says
yes. Salianus yes, Vondel yes. Ellen White, Patriarchs
and Prophets [1903], 54 “in a musical
voice, with subtle praise of her surpassing loveliness”.
---Was the snake’s
home in Eden?
The Bible and
Ellen White says yes and so did Augustine, Salianus and Vondel but not Hugo
Grotius in 1601.
---Did the
absence of Adam gave Satan an opportunity?
Ellen White, Patriarchs and Prophets [1903], 53 “The
angels had cautioned Eve to beware of separating herself from her husband while
occupied in their daily labor in the garden; with him she would be in less
danger from temptation than if she were alone”. Also Vondel felt this way.
---Did Adam and
Eve argue before the Fall?
The Caedmonian Genesis 8-9th centuries CE op.cit Watson
Kirkcornell, The Celestial Cycle 31-33
says it was after the Fall. So did Milton in Paradise Lost but Vondel claimed that they argued before the Fall.
Ellen White said it is after the Fall. The Bible also says it is after the
Fall.
---Was there a
paradise fire? No a sword Genesis 3:24. Ellen White, Patriarchs and Prophets [1903], 60 “Around these angels flashed beams of light having the appearance of a
glittering sword.” Hugo Grotius claimed there was a fire. Hugo Grotius, Adamus Exul [1601] lines 2007- 2019
especially 2015-2016.
---Was the end
of the Fall fatalistic and without hope?
Hugo Grotius and
Joost van Vondel said yes but Ellen White and the Bible said no. Ellen White, Patriarchs and Prophets [1903], 63 “it is to be restored more gloriously adorned
than at the beginning”
---Is the Bible
not full of surprises? Can you see that Ellen White does not blindly copy from
scholars of the past and throw it out as inspired to us?
---While
informed theologians like Grotius is on the road and then off the road Ellen
Whtie is continuously on the road of the Revealed Text of the Bible. Correct?
---Is there
pastors or teachers who say they do not believe in Ellen White? They should
have been sent home long time ago. Correct?