The morning Manna will be provided at 6am. Thanks.

Studying Ephesians in the SSnet.org series Lesson 1, may the Holy Spirit be the speaker to your heart.

The Topic today is: “Ephesus known also for Roman Entertainment, Business, Harbor and Artemis religion filled with magic for Morning Manna of the Sabbath School Lesson Ephesians”.

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 5.

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://absg.adventist.org/pdf.php?file=2023:3Q:TE:PDFs:ETQ323_01.pdf

---Paul went to Ephesus with a couple but left them there.

---Later he came to live there three years. (Acts 20:31)

---The city was a harbor city and at one time was one of the World’s Seven Wonders of those days.

---The goddess Artemis or Diana was worshipped. (Acts 19:24).

---The city, like all in the Roman empire, was focused on festivals, sport events, theater performances and entertainment. Why?

---Principle is that if the Roman government can keep the people busy with Sports every day there is no room for rebellion.

---The Roman religion was officially controlled by the state.

---In order to protect the religion from undesirable influences, they authorized the burning of books.

---On page 118 of Clarence Forbes article about “Books for Burning” in 1936, he says that

“Livy hints, in his account of the senatus consultum de Bacchanalibus, that several times before 186 B.C. the Roman magistrates had been requested by the senate to collect and burn books of soothsaying.”

Source: https://www.tertullian.org/articles/forbes_books_for_the_burning.htm page 118.

---Seven Jews were magicians in the city so they mixed the name of two other Jews in their incantations.

---Jesus and Paul were used also as names in their incantations.

---Finally, people burnt their magical books that were very expensive. (Acts 19:19).

---A reformation took place.

---Magic and Miracles of Jesus do not match. Never.

---In Secular Theology magic is seen as “holy” and “awe-inspiring” and “revered”.

---In the Bible, God forbid it. Stay away from any magic shows or of watching them on TV or Youtube.

---Throw away Harry Potter’s books and never go to any of these movies. Why?

---A non-SDA pastor of Michigan said that Harry Potter is soft-core Magic which is Satanic. His church use to burn the books in public.

---When in some states the government ban the burning of Harry Potter books, the pastor cut them in public! They could not invent a law against him for doing that.

----Are you watching magic with “wonder”? Quit. When? Right now.