The morning Manna will be provided at 6am. Thanks. Studying In the Crucible with Christ in the SSnet.org series Lesson 3, may the Holy
Spirit be the speaker to your heart. The Topic today is: "Trial by Fire" 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 36 and for the laymen edition or Standard Edition,
on page 27. 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. ---All have to admit that Daniel 3 is the locus classicus
for trial by fire. ---It is old king Neb getting strange to put an image of himself in
the plain of Dura at Babylon and insisting that all have to worship him when
the music plays. ---The three friends of Daniel refused. They were thrown into a
very hot oven built for the occasion as punishment. ---The trial is going to be in the oven with red-hot coals. ---Three were thrown in and Neb that was sitting on a tower
structure set up for him to see inside, saw four inside and the fourth one was
like the Son of Man. ---Son of Man in Daniel 3. Trial is Fire. Christ is there. With
Christ in the Crucible. ---Nothing happened to them. Not even a smell on their clothes or
even one hair lost. ---They were unaffected. ---Arthur Ferch was a doctoral graduate from Andrews University
Seminary and he did his doctoral on the Son of Man. Excellent and thorough
work. ---Liturgical churches later composed hymns for them to sing while
in the oven and so their Bibles include in chapter three long reworked
additions. Very repetitive. ---It is later fabrications and was not in the original
Hebrew/Aramaic text. ---One cannot add to the Word of God given to us in the past. All
these additions by the Latin, Syriac and other liturgical Bibles are not
correct. ---One cannot build your faith on what is not correct. Since faith
is built on the foundation of the Word of God, any doubt casted or any
reconstruction imported in it, cannot be accepted. Period. ---Ukraine faithful are sufferings a fire trial with their modern
Neb in a psychological pothole stuck and with no perspective but imaginations
of his courtmembers to guide him to continue what is wrong: creating fire for
the faithful. ---The wrongness of Russia is evident all over the world. Backing
Russia is in the bare minimum. Many of these are uninformed due to their own
country neo-fascistic styles. Whether fascism or neo-fascism, the face is the
rebirth of old king Neb. The faithful suffers under these styles of regime. ---Behind all is the Great Controversy and God has spelled out that
soon the Time of Trouble will come, in which God will with plaques and
climatological events wipe out large sections of the evil on earth. ---Instead of overcoming and character-building, nations are
preparing to go at war with each other. The Faithful during this time will be
taken care of by God.