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

Studying Genesis in the SSnet.org series Lesson 9, may the Holy Spirit be the speaker to your heart.

The Topic today is: "The blessing of a family [of Jacob with 10 sons by Leah and the other [2] with Rachel".

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 115 and for the laymen edition or Standard Edition, on page 76.

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

---The lesson keeps saying that God's will prevail despite human error.

---Ellen White warns in Patriarchs and Prophets chapter 49 that Satan deceives people by saying to them, it doesn't matter how sinful they are living,

God will still love them because He does not mean literally what He said.

---Ellen White says that is "cheap grace". She means what is dripping from the cross is not honey but blood. Obedience and enabling grace is what she has in mind. Not only Justification by Faith.

---Human error by the lesson here is the overall Plan of God will not be stopped by humans in error. There will be a faithful remnant carrying on His work. That is what is meant.

---Dr. Doukhan sometimes is known to side with the liberal views in the church but the oversight committee of the Sabbath School would not allowed those views in the Sabbath School lesson easily.

Not that it can happen.

---Clifford Goldstein was known to be very strict a gate-keeper of truth of Adventism.

---Past lesson writers like Jon Paulien and R. Stefanovich was struggling to get their liberal thoughts pushed through the Sabbath School lesson since it was blocked and adapted and changed.

Goldstein who is the Main Editor of the lessons changed it to the right.

---The sons' names had meanings.

---Reuben had ra'ah meaning "to see". God saw.

---Simeon had shama' meaning "heard". God heard.

---Leah was closed in the womb by God.

---Rachel was opened in the womb by God

---Is Abortion right? When God open and close wombs?

---Joseph had 'asaf meaning "taken away" and "shall add" Rachel's womb. The block was taken away and it was opened to add.