The morning Manna will be provided at
6am. Thanks. Studying On Death Dying and the Future Hope in the SSnet.org series Lesson 1,
may the Holy Spirit be the speaker to your heart. The Topic today is: "God giving
hope in a hopeless situation created by Lucifer" for Morning Manna of the
Sabbath School Lesson On Death Dying and
the Future Hope. 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 14-15 and for
the laymen edition or Standard Edition, on page 14-15. 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 don’t you click on this link right
now: https://absg.adventist.org/pdf.php?file=2022:4Q:SE:PDFs:EAQ422_02.pdf
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“Therefore, just as through one man sin
entered the world, and death through sin, and thus death spread to all men,
because all sinned” (Romans 5:12, ---The
topic is death. Augustine came to this verse and said, see, Adam sinned and all
have sinned through Adam, thus original sin clings to your genes and therefore
all died. What about the genes of fauna and flora who did not sin? ---But,
no one said anything about this. Luther, Calvin and all the Reformers. ---What
was pronounced as death to Adam and Eve, was a decree by God that it should
happen because it was part of His warning that it will happen to them, in the
day that you eat of that fruit you will surely die. ---Satan
spun his immortality of the soul story ever since Rebellion in Heaven since he
was not extinguished by death yet. But his time and event is set and is bound
to come. ---What
the text is reading is that through Adam the pronouncement of universal death
on this planet and surroundings became attached to humans fauna and flora.
Decay even in the elements. ---Humans
born afterwards become sinners through their own actions but can die because of
this decree irrespective even before they become a sinner. ---Anyway,
in the Greek of Romans 5:12 the words “therefore” and also “because” is
technical Greek with a combination of particles and prepositions in an unusual
way, and the Old Latin and Vulgate translated it completely wrong and many
translations afterwards followed the Latin slavishly. But some scholars were
sharp on this and picked the error up. ---So
Lucifer heard that Christ was chosen to Create, which is natural because Christ
is co-eternal with the Father and part of the Trinity, thus God, Yahweh,
anyway, Lucifer as created being had not right to this. ---
John
Milton was of the opinion on the origin of evil that “when God suffers sin to
be done, hee also wils it to be done” (John Milton, De Doctrina Christiana, Works XV.67 published in 1825 as one can
see in Paradise Lost lines 212 and
366. ---Milton
got this wrong idea from Augustine, Aquinas and Ambrose. ---God
did not will death, not will evil, not will anything negative and never will.
That is the Adventist position and also the biblical position. ---Satan
took the form of a serpent in Eden. The snake had wings and feet in those days.
---In
the Tomb of Thutmosis III there are walking talking snakes with four feet and
two wings. They are saying to the dead person “Life, Health, and prosperity” in
Egyptian: ankh. Thutmosis III was the
pharaoh of the Exodus whom Moses faced that March in 1450 BC. ---So
Moses’ Genesis book written in 1460 BC had someone drawing the same as what
Moses wrote in Midian before on the wall of Thutmosis III in 1450 BC. Amazing
is it not? ---But
our God came with hope in a hopeless situation and that is what this is all
about.