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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.