The morning
Manna will be provided at 6am. Thanks.
Studying Psalms
SSnet.org series Lesson 13, may the Holy Spirit be the speaker to your heart.
The opening song
is Hymn 229 “Spirit of the Living God”.
The Topic today
is: “Waiting, delay, versus times fixed, and how long cries for Morning Manna
of the Sabbath School Lesson Psalms.”
The Sabbath
School Quarterly, downloadable from SSnet.org in the Teacher's Edition is on
page 163-164.
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=2024:1Q:TE:PDFs:ETQ124_13.pdf
---Ps. 27:14,
Rom. 8:18–25, Psalm 131, Matt. 18:3, Psalm 126, Psalm 92, Mark 16:1–8,
2 Pet. 1:19. Memory Text: “Wait on the Lord; be of good courage, and He
shall strengthen your heart; wait, I say, on the Lord!” (Psalm 27:14).
---Wait upon the
Lord. Why? Because of Delay Theology.
---Delay? Not
really but for human experience it is delay.
---Albert
Scweitzer was a missionary and he wrote that Christ thought He would have the
Second Coming in His time but was disappointed that it was not in His time.
---So Adventist Today creator, Raymond
Cottrell in 1974 wrote an article in Spectrum
journal saying the same. Paul, John, Peter, Jude, James and Luke were all
people who thought that Jesus would come in their times, he said.
---Why did he do
that? To follow the Preterists of the Reformed Churches, why? He is the first
Adventist to become a member of the Evangelical Society.
---Let us get
back to Psalms.
---God has a set
program with definite dates. Some are revealed to us like the 2300 day-years,
the 1260 day-years, the 490 day-years. All in Daniel and some in Revelation.
---The Second
Coming God does not reveal. Why? He said that knowledge needs to improve. High
tech digimodernism should first come.
---What? In the
Bible? Yes in Daniel 12:3-4 he says that knowledge will increase before the End
will come.
---Did it? Yes
technological advances were made but people’s concentration ability slowed down
more than in past millennia. Too many distractions.
---So what is
the result? A goldfish focuses for 12 seconds on something but a human only 8.3
seconds. Hello!
---God wanted to
show heaven, that even if technology advanced human nature stays the same. Sin
is sin whether with Adam or with us.
---Smartphones
are not going to reduce the amount of sin committed.
---So God
delayed His Second Coming Event of Christ to be when our age reveals itself
fully.
---Did it? With
all the Wars going on, all the strive, all the
Hacking and
stealing and misinformation one can only say: Yes.
---How long is
this delay going to be, or how long in digimodernism are we going to go in
before the End come?
---Until the
gospel has gone to all the world. Period. Really? Correct.
---When is that?
Well not all the world has internet and some countries are closing their
borders for any possibility of that to be achieved. Like in the Middle Ages
when Satan used the Catholic Church to keep the Word of God away from the
ordinary citizens. Correct?
---God had
everything planned perfectly. We just do not have information about
long-distance prophecies as we were given. 1844 was about the last
long-distance counting we had. In historicism prophetic interpretation that is.
---But were they
correct? Absolutely.
---I have a old
grammaphone from 1913 that I bought in Japan. It is 114 years old. You use a
sling to wind it up and put the record on and it makes music. Compare that with
the 2024 Smartphone music.
---One hundred
years of technological improvement.
---So is the Day
of God near? Absolutely. All prophecies should soon fall into place as
predicted.
---Connected to
waiting is delay and connected to delay is How long exclamations in the Bible.
How long are we to wait?
---There are a
number of How long texts in the Bible. Each were eager to know if there is
going to be a delay. Are we going to have to wait.
---Psalms also
express happiness in the Lord and contempt to wait for fulfillment.
---But, Ellen
White predicted in line with the apostle Peter that there are going to be
scorners who doubt the Second Coming of the Lord because it is taking longer
than they have expected.
---So what is
the solution? We need to put our whole faith in the Lord. Dedicate ourselves
completely
---Only those
who have reached perfection of character will be transported. When the doors
close, no one can improve afterwards. Time over.
---Of couse God
would have pleaded 100 or 1000 or 10000 times with such a person and the person
shook the head against God. What a pity.
---Are you one
of those…shaking your head against God?
---Get ready to
go to the nearest Adventist Church in your local area. When? Right now check
the navigation and Saturday morning 9h30 make sure you sit in your car in the parking area for the door to open for
the Sabbath School Lesson. Is your phone in your hand?