The morning
Manna will be provided at 6am. Thanks. Studying In the
Crucible with Christ in the SSnet.org series Lesson 4, may the Holy Spirit be
the speaker to your heart. The Topic today
is: "Seeing the Goldsmith's Face or Image in the Perfection of our
Characters" 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 46 and for the laymen edition or Standard Edition, on page 32. 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. ---In 1810 a
woman with the name of Elizabeth Smith translated the book of Job. It is online
at archive. It is a good translation but also have errors. Why? All
translations of Job have errors, whether English, Dutch, German, Spanish,
French, Korean, you name it. All have problems.Why? ---Well the
ancient version have problems with Job. Whether Greek, Latin, Syriac, Coptic,
Armenian, Ethiopic, Arabic, Gothic. All have problems. Why? ---Because
Moses wrote Job. But what is the problem? ---The problem
is that when scholars started to investigate Job, they only used Hebrew,
Aramaic, Akkadian, Canaanite languages to solve the meaning of rare words. Rare
words in Job? ---Yes, Moses
was a poliglot. He could read Sumerian, Akkadian, Hebrew, and Middle Egyptian.
That is where the problem is. The rare words were not investigated as
Hebrew-Egyptian words. ---So when
scholars come to a hapax legomenon which is a word only used once in the Bible
and in Job, they could not use comparative methods to see what it means, so
they thought the Arabs were nomads and they were the least affected of all
nations so Arabic of Mohammed and later is a good source of finding the
meaning. ---Result of
using Arabic to translate Job? Job is "angry"with God. God
"hate" Job. Rare words creating a counter-biblical theology! ---I once read
an article written on the topic by Gesenius, the Hebrew Grammar writer, who
spoke on Lexicography in the Old Testament Problems and he said that the major
problem is using Arabic to explain rare words in the Hebrew Bible. ---So next time
you use a Hebrew-English Dictionary by BDB = Brown, Driver and Briggs, be
careful when they say after a rare word the meaning in English and allocate the
form to the Arabic meaning. ---Moses, who
wrote Job did not speak Arabic of the 7th century Byzantine times. ---For those
Adventists who seek deeper, I have placed my Devotional commentary on the Book
of Job online at www.academia.edu and search google koot van wyk Devotional
commentary on Job and download the pdf free of use. I used Middle Egpytian for
the rare words because Moses spoke Middle Egyptian. ---Now back to
the lesson talking about Job who is confident in God. ---Yesterday
Sunday part of the lesson, Ellen White was quoted to say that God wants us to
have perfecton of character DA 671. ---LaRondelle
in his book Perfection, and George Knight in his book A Pharisees Guide to
Perfection cited Reformed Theologians like G. Berkhouwer and the two
Ridderbosse (Father and Son) to talk very similar to Ellen White but....where
Ellen White and the Bible, Jesus, Paul, John, James, Peter, Luke spoke about
"overcome of sins" Reformed Theologians says it is impossible to be
sinless. Ellen White says statement after statement that you have to overcome
all the defects in your inherited and aquired state. Not so with LaRondelle and
Knight who says you cannot but only at the Second Coming of Christ. ---Denis Priebe
says there are four kinds of Perfections: Absolute Perfection that only God
has. Character Perfection that all of us must have. Physical Perfection that we
will get at the Second Coming. There is one
more, I cannot remember. ---I want to
add another Perfection, Scar Perfection. A scar is a healed wound. Sin is a
wound but it must be healed by grace and overcoming living. The scar remains.
What Christians experience in their conscience always, is to be sensitive about
the scar in the lives. Thus Satan takes them time and again back to the scars
and say: "See what you did?" ---Ellen White
says that we should not allow Satan in our feelings to take us back to our
scars and try to discourage us to add to these scars. Resist the Devil and he will
flee from you. ---Put on the
clothes of the Lord Jesus Christ Paul says in Romans 13:14 and that will be
your armor to fight Satan. Pray and say Romans 13:14 first part and
instantaneously you will receive power to overcome. ---All preach
overcome sermons, Reformed Theologians, LaRondelle, Knight, Ellen White, Paul.
But where Ellen White and Paul/John in Revelation says it is possible to
overcome all sins, Reformed Theologians refuse because they says Original Sin
remains in us until the Second Coming, and LaRondelle and Knight echo the same
thoughts in their works. ---Did you see
how George Knight is turning Ellen White upside down on page 73ff. of his work?
Ellen White:
Justification is the event of a moment. Sanctification is the work of a
lifetime. George Knight
(73ff) Justification is the work of lifetime. Sanctification is the event of
moment. Why? Reformed Theology and that is the difference between True
Adventism and Reformed Theology. ---John 8 Jesus
said to the forgiven adultery woman: "Go and sin no more". How
complete is "no" in "no more". 60%? 70? 80? 99%? 100%? ---LaRondelle
and George Knight and Reformed Theologians says 99%. Ellen White, Jesus, Paul,
John, Luke, James, Peter says 100%. ---Pastors are
preaching from the pulpits "mixed messages" without knowing that it
is really a sandwich with a "ham" that they are giving the people to
eat. ---Reformed
theologians preach from their pulpits an “Oops! I can’t Theology”. Adventists
who are reading LaRondelle and Knight is doing the same as these Reformed
theologians, so next time one of your pastors preaching an “Oops! Sermon” go
afterwards to him and tell him about John 8 where Jesus explicitly said: “God
and sin no more”. Tell him Paul said the same in Romans and other of his books,
John said the same in Revelation. Peter said the same. Ellen White constantly
is saying this. 100% sinlessness of actions but not of scars of healed wounds
that will remind your conscience until Jesus comes.