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: "Character ready by the Wise before the Time of Trouble"

The Opening Hymn will be 229 "Wise as character developed during the Time of Trouble"

The Sabbath School Quarterly, downloadable from SSnet.org in the Teacher's Edition is on page 48 and for the laymen edition or Standard Edition, on page 34.

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.

---Our lesson today focuses completely on Daniel 12:1-10.

---If you are long enough an Adventist, you know what it means. The Word of God given to Daniel a window of the future Time of Trouble. Do we have global trouble today? Isaiah 24 calls it a time of the drain of the abilities of leadership globally.

---The Bible also have the doctrine that before the Time of Trouble kicks in, our characters need to be refined already. Why? Because the Door of Mercy closed. Why? Because Jesus completed His highpriestly role in the Most Holy and the Investigative Judgment of Stigma removal of the all saints, dead and living, is completed.

---At this late point in history, characters should be refined already. It appears from biblical literature, that the length of time of the Time of Trouble proper, is only going to be 9 months. The prophets used the expression of the time of woman in labor. Very quickly, very short and very intense in world events climatology, and other.

---It is a time of reckoning against the wicked not the righteous.

---Uncontrolled floods, rain, storms, tsunamis, earthquakes, volcano eruptions, heat waves (dealt with many times in the prophets as an end-time signal), rumors of wars (Jesus words), and a list of the signals of the Time of the End. Basically, Last Generation Theology.

---Do you know that there are "Reformed Theology addicted Adventists" who now want to cancel LGT Last Generation Theology as just a fairy tale?

---They are part of the foolish virgins. Oil lamps not prepared.

---The spiritual young people are divided into two ways: those who love the popculture to be brought into their worship "bring the secular World to the pulpit" and others who are the opposite and want to know the Will of God, though the heavens fall.

---So there are two kings of pulpit sermons in Adventism: focused only on feeling, passion, positively on modern secular Theology of the World, speaking only of love, equity, kindness, peace, but never on biblical interpretation of the prophets. Prophecies are not popular in their pulpits. It is called "outdated", narrow-minded.

---Then there are the wise young spiritual seekers who prepare their oil lamps for the Time of Trouble, who want to know what the LGT entails. They want to know all the detail. They are your character development pulpits.

---We now have a scenario it seems, that secular focused pulpits want to persecute the character building pulpits and call them heretics! Some are even professors in theology! God forbid.

---Where do your spiritual young people go? Character building pulpits. Young spiritual leaders in the Theology Department slipped out to go on Sabbaths to a character building pulpit! I have met them returning! Where do you secular pop-culture worshippers go? Congregate in clusters which instead of calling it fellowship, they want to call their meetings “festivals”. God said in Hosea and Isaiah "I hate your festivals".

---So we can prepare by not been part of the secular World culture that surrounds us on all sides. Thus our characters can develop properly and all inherited and acquired habits can be made completely quiet and passive and almost non-existent if not non-existent. So help us God.

---The closer we come to Christ, the more miserable we feel. Why? Not becomes we are sinners but that we were sinners. Our memories are the scars of sin of the past. The sins are forgiven and cast in the sea, Christ Righteousness made them non-existent in heaven but the scars remains in our conscience. And Satan keeps putting his dirty fingers on these scars to tempt us to add to them. Ellen White says we should not allow Satan to bring us to despair for the past committed sins forgiven by Christ. Zaccheus was asked to make right what he did wrong to others, and he did. Because he was forgiven. But he did not focus on his scars after that and Satan was not able to confuse him. We should not either.

---Because of the scars, some Adventists think they should focus with secular focused young worshippers on feelings, kinetics in worship, “hallelujah, Amen!” waving hands and swaying bodies as part of worship until the person “feels good” and this is for them a way to quiet their scars of conscience. But Ellen White and the Bible warns against this kind of worship. It belongs to the Golden Calf dancers in the time of Sinai in 1448 BC, but not Moses; and the Baal dancers on mount Carmel with Elijah, but not Elijah.

---We know it Whom we believe…That is wise.