Category: Lessons

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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The Holy Spirit in the Last Days

• Lesson 13 for the week of June 17 to June 24

Key Texts: Joel 2:28, 29; Acts 2:14-24; Acts 3:19-20; Revelation 18:1-5 The lesson this week concludes our study of the Holy Spirit. It is fitting that this last lesson asks us to think about the...

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The Sin Against the Holy Spirit

• Lesson 12 for the week of June 10 to June 17

The lesson this week raises a subject that is often the one people are most concerned about when dealing with the Holy Spirit. The concern arises from Jesus’ words found in Mark 3:28, 29. In...

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The Restorer

• Lesson 11 for the week of June 3 to June 10

A beautiful picture emerges from the passage above. The restoration God is working on does not just include the planet. It includes the heart as well. Wayward wills, minds, and desires will be transformed, restored...

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Life Through the Holy Spirit

• Lesson 10 for the week of May 27 to June 3

Key Text: John 6:63 The lesson this weeks is built on the biblical idea that human beings, left in their natural state, are far from God and bent toward going away from Him. Left this...

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The Christian’s Guide

• Lesson 9 for the week of May 20 to May 27

Key Texts: John 16:13; John 14:26 The Bible is very clear that one of the significant works of the Holy Spirit is to provide guidance for believers as they find their way along life’s way....

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