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Chief of Sinners.
2 Timothy 1:7 – God gives believers "power, love, and a sound mind" over fear.
Core Theme: Preparing for end-time persecution through faithfulness, rooted in historical and prophetic examples.
Core Theme: Preparing for end-time persecution through faithfulness, rooted in historical and prophetic examples.
Key Insights by Day:
- Sunday: Historicist Prophecy (Daniel 2)
- Nebuchadnezzar’s dream (Daniel 2:31-45) accurately predicted successive world empires (Babylon → Rome) and affirms God’s sovereignty. The final kingdom - God’s eternal reign - will replace human governments.
- Why it matters: Validates prophecy’s reliability and points to Christ’s imminent return.
- Monday: Faith Under Fire (Daniel 3)
- Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego refused to worship Nebuchadnezzar’s golden image, facing a fiery furnace. Their declaration: "God can deliver us, but even if not, we won’t serve false gods" (Daniel 3:17-18).
- Lesson: Uncompromising worship honors God, regardless of outcomes.
- Tuesday: End-Time Worship Crisis (Revelation 13)
- Revelation 13:15 predicts a global mandate to worship the "image of the beast" (a counterfeit religious-political system), with death for refusal.
- Key issue: The Sabbath commandment (Exodus 20:8-11) will be central, affirming God as Creator versus counterfeit worship.
- Wednesday: Early Church Persecution (Acts 12)
- Early Christians faced joint persecution from religious (Jewish leaders) and civil (Roman) authorities. Peter’s miraculous jailbreak (Acts 12:1-17) shows God’s deliverance - yet some (like James) died martyrs.
Relevance: God answers prayers according to His will, sustaining believers through suffering.
- Early Christians faced joint persecution from religious (Jewish leaders) and civil (Roman) authorities. Peter’s miraculous jailbreak (Acts 12:1-17) shows God’s deliverance - yet some (like James) died martyrs.
- Thursday: The Mark of the Beast (Revelation 14)
- The "mark" signifies allegiance to the beast through false worship (Revelation 14:9-12). The Sabbath-Sunday conflict epitomizes loyalty to God vs. human authority.
- Historic link: Medieval Rome’s Sabbath change (Daniel 7:25) foreshadows end-time enforcement.
Final Thoughts (Friday):
- Faith Over Fear: Like Daniel’s friends and early Christians, believers face persecution with divine power, love, and discernment (2 Timothy 1:7).
- Sabbath as Seal: Sabbath observance embodies worship of the Creator (Revelation 14:7), contrasting the "mark" of counterfeit authority.
- Victory Assured: God preserves His faithful - whether through miraculous deliverance or resurrection - and evil’s defeat is certain (Revelation 19:20).
rob
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Sunday's Lesson" Nebuchadnezzar’s dream (Daniel 2:31-45) accurately predicted successive world empires (Babylon → Rome) and affirms God’s sovereignty."
What many of us do not see is the last world empire is made of Iron, Aluminum and Silicon, three metals, not as we assume Iron and Clay, for clay is a mixture of two metals. And these metals are used in a computer world. Does not mix with iron, the metal used in a military world.
Nebuchadnezzar is a king who was made to experience genuine faith, he went from spurious faith to genuine faith. Just as the three in the fire who also experienced genuine faith. Most of us do not understand what genuine faith is...
Some examples of genuine faith, as the Lord is leading me to experience...However most SDA think their level of faith experiences is already good enough for the Lord, that may well be? We all are judged by the light of our own experiences with the Lord, but the virgin of the 5 foolish virgins tells me some of us run out of reserves of genuine faith, so there is this warning by Jesus to learn what faith is and how you make reserves of faith in your heart.
See https://spiritualsprings.proboards.com/thread/112/practical-examples-genuine-faith
What many of us do not see is the last world empire is made of Iron, Aluminum and Silicon, three metals, not as we assume Iron and Clay, for clay is a mixture of two metals. And these metals are used in a computer world. Does not mix with iron, the metal used in a military world.
Nebuchadnezzar is a king who was made to experience genuine faith, he went from spurious faith to genuine faith. Just as the three in the fire who also experienced genuine faith. Most of us do not understand what genuine faith is...
Some examples of genuine faith, as the Lord is leading me to experience...However most SDA think their level of faith experiences is already good enough for the Lord, that may well be? We all are judged by the light of our own experiences with the Lord, but the virgin of the 5 foolish virgins tells me some of us run out of reserves of genuine faith, so there is this warning by Jesus to learn what faith is and how you make reserves of faith in your heart.
See https://spiritualsprings.proboards.com/thread/112/practical-examples-genuine-faith