Category: Lessons

Rome and Antiochus

• Lesson 10 for the week of August 26 to September 2

Through the centuries, God’s people have faced many enemies, some of them symbolized by a person, some by a nation. The most notable enemy superpowers included Egypt, Assyria, Babylon, Medo-Persia, and Rome. Some of Israel’s...

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Day-Year Principle

• Lesson 9 for the week of August 19 to August 26

The day-year principle as a means of interpreting prophecy is unique to historicism. The challenge for Adventism is to know how to work in a world where they alone defend the historicist method. From the...

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1844 Made Simple

• Lesson 8 for the week of August 12 to August 19

For those living in 1844, calculation of the date was both simple and believable. Now, only those who are sympathetic with the Disappointment experience would interpret Daniel and Revelation in the way Adventists have interpreted...

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70 Weeks

• Lesson 7 for the week of August 5 to August 12

The seventy weeks prophecy of Daniel 9 not only played a key role in the birth of the 1844 movement, it has also been seen as an important prophecy of the first coming of Jesus....

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Daniel 9

• Lesson 6 for the week of July 29 to August 5

Since Lesson 6 focuses on Daniel 9 as a whole and Lesson 7 on the 70 weeks prophecy which is part of Daniel 9, the potential for overlap is considerable. It might be advisable for...

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Daniel 8

• Lesson 5 for the week of July 22 to July 29

Read: Daniel 8 Again, a good procedure for understanding and applying the prophecy of Daniel 8 is to take off the names of the kingdoms and ask “What?” instead of “Who?”. The chapter is central...

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Daniel 7

• Lesson 4 for the week of July 15 to July 22

Read: Daniel 7 As with Daniel 2, it can be productive to approach the chapter as if reading it for the first time, perhaps in another culture and without any knowledge of history. Questions for...

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Daniel 2

• Lesson 3 for the week of July 8 to July 15

Read: Daniel 2 Nebuchadnezzar’s vision of the great image lays the foundation for what has become known at the “historicist” interpretation of apocalyptic prophecy. And the foundation for this view in Daniel 2 is evident...

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Judgment Must Begin

• Lesson 2 for the week of July 1 to July 8

Read: Ps. 96; Eccl 12:13-14; Matt. 25; John 3:17-18; Rev 14:6-7 The Bible is clear that each of us must face judgment at the end of time. Some may feel confident about their prospects in...

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“Principalities and Powers”

• Lesson 1 for the week of June 24 to July 1

Read: Eph 6:12; Job 1-2; Rev 12:7-17 Introduction to the Quarter’s Lessons. The lessons this quarter take us into potentially contentious territory. We could easily fall to arguing, quarreling, or worse. But we could also...

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Appendix A

• Addendum A for the week of June 24 to July 1

Interpreting Apocalyptic Prophecies Note: This appendix is a reprint of the first lesson of the PROBE Study Guide, 2002.2 Key biblical passages: Isa 65-66; Ezek 40-48; Dan 2, 7-12; Zech 14; Matt 24-25; Rev 1-22...

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Appendix B

• Addendum B for the week of June 24 to July 1

“The Great Disappointment[s]” by Alden Thompson Adventist Review, 24 September 1992, 1016-18 Spring is supposed to be such a happy time. But this spring was different. The year was A.D. 31, the place was Jerusalem,...

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Appendix C

• Addendum D for the week of June 24 to July 1

Response to Dale Ratzlaff By Alden Thompson Ministry, February 2004, 30-32, 38 Since shortly after the middle of the twentieth century, Seventh-day Adventists have been in sporadic and sometimes painful dialogue with the Evangelical community....

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Appendix D

• Lesson 19 for the week of June 24 to July 1

Fireworks: Goldstein Responds to Ratzlaff by Alden Thompson for Spectrum, 5 December 2004 [Cf. “Fireworks in the Holy of Holies,” Spectrum 33:1 (Winter 2005), 67-72] A review of Clifford Goldstein, Graffiti in the Holy of...

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