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Studying In the Crucible with Christ in the SSnet.org series Lesson 11, may the Holy Spirit be the speaker to your heart. 

The Topic today is: "Wait for the Lord to put more pieces of the prophetic puzzle open for us" in Morning Manna of the Sabbath School Lesson In the Crucible with Christ.

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 139 and for the laymen edition or Standard Edition, on page 90.

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.

---Click on the following link: https://absg.adventist.org/pdf.php?file=2022:3Q:SE:PDFs:EAQ322_11.pdf

---Romans 5:6 and Galatians 4:4 both show a proper reading of Daniel 9:24-27. By Paul! Using the year-day principle!

---Daniel predicted more than 500 years before the exact year Christ was supposed to die!

---Did you know that the Catholic Theologian Thomas Aquinas in 1200 also supported the year-day principle to calculate the 490 days prophecy of Daniel 9:24-27 to arrive at the exact date of Jesus’crucifixion?

---And the Calvinist theologian Johannes Oecolampadius in his Daniel Commentary. And the Reformer George Joye with his Daniel commentary in 1540.

---And the papist, ecumenist, lawyer theologian Hugo Grotius with his comments on Daniel in 1650’s.

---The Messianic expectation in the days of Jesus was very high and every now and then someone mentioned it like the woman at the well in John 3.

---The Qumran understanding included this calculation as well. See the discussions on the Jubilees at Qumran. They also used the year-day principle as R. Beck showed in his studies in Review Qumran. What date is the Qumran texts in those caves at the Dead Sea? 250 BC and later. Carbon tests proved this.

---So Jesus came on time. The year-day principle, namely a prophetic day equals a prophetic year should be applied to long-time prophecies in Daniel.

---Therefore, prophecy 1.1 is Catholic Thomas Aquinas.

---Prophecy 2.1 is predecessors of Adventism applying the year-day to other the 1260 and 2300 days prophecies as well.

---Prophecy 3.1 are the Millerites and their Second Coming expectation.

---Prophecy 4.1 are Adventists with their application of the year-day principle to every long-time prophecy in Daniel: 1290, 1260. 1335 and 2300 and 490 years. Why only one, namely, 490 when you can have all? That is what Adventists asks.

---So the last date for Adventists are on the Josiah Litch chart that is 1844.

---In Journals from 1944 to 1850 people kept guessing that next year it will be and it went on for a number of years. But, Ellen White and the Pioneers after a proper view of the Sanctuary Message and Most Holy entering of Christ phase, said no, the last date is 1844 which was correct. No more speculation please.

---That is prophecy 4.1. And it is Adventist. There are Adventists personally who still guess 1290 and 1335. But Ellen White supported Josiah Litches’ chart ending in 1844 from 508 AD.

---So what is the rule from 1844 until the Second Coming?

---Wait.

---Then the lesson says that we have to wait.

---“There are many important spiritual reasons why we will experience waiting times.

---First, waiting can refocus our attention away from “things” and back to God Himself.

---Second, waiting allows us to develop a clearer picture of our own motives and desires.

---Third, waiting builds perseverance—spiritual stamina.

---Fourth, waiting opens the door to developing many spiritual strengths, such as faith and trust.

---Fifth, waiting allows God to put down other pieces in the puzzle of the bigger picture.

---Sixth, we may never know the reason we have to wait; hence, we learn to live by faith.”

---God is putting other pieces of the puzzle down. Like the floods, hurricanes, Typhoons, earthquakes on a worldwide scale.

---Wait in faith and prepare the character with prayer and study and self-surrender to God. That is the key.