Tag: Alden Thompson

The Wrath of Elihu

• Lesson 10 for the week of November 26 to December 3

Related Verses: Job 27-32 Leading Question: In the end, God tells Job’s three friends that they need to repent. But he doesn’t say a thing about Elihu. Does that mean that Elihu had it right...

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Intimations of Hope

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

Related Verses: Job 13 Leading Question: To what extent does Job establish a firm link between the believer’s hope and the resurrection and future life? In the lesson for December 17, the study guide takes...

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Innocent Blood

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

Related Verses: Job 10, 15 Leading Question: How is it possible for a man who shares the common guilt of all humankind to also claim to be innocent as Job did? The book of Job...

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Retributive Punishment

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

Related Verses: Job 8:1-22; 11:1-20 Leading Question: Is it possible that the book of Job eliminates all possibilities of speaking of retributive punishment? This week’s lesson focuses on Job’s second and third “friends,” Bildad and...

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The Curse Causeless

• Lesson 6 for the week of October 29 to November 5

Related Verses: Job 2:11-13; 4 and 5 Leading Question: Can the words of Scripture be useful, even when they are taken out of context? This week’s lesson focuses on the “encouraging” words spoken by Job’s...

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Curse the Day

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

Related Verses: 1 Kings 19; Job 3, 6, 7; Psalm 88; Jer. 20:14-18 Leading Question: Is God willing to listen to Christians who are so discouraged that they curse the day of their birth? Among...

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God and Human Suffering

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

Related Verses: Job Leading Question: If all we had was the book of Job, what would it tell us about God and human suffering? Without the rest of Scripture, Job tells us little about God...

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“Doth Job Fear God for Nought?”

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

Related Verses: Genesis 3, Job 1-2, Matthew 4, Luke 4 Leading Question: Is Satan’s attack on Job typical of his methods in dealing with humans? The title for this week’s lesson is simply a sneer...

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The Great Controversy

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

Related Verses: Job 1:1-5, 6-12 Leading Question: Why would God Almighty allow created beings to challenge his authority? In my years of teaching, I have found that Job, probably more than any other book in...

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The End

• Lesson 1 for the week of September 24 to October 1

Related Verses: Job 14:14, 15; 42:10-17 Leading Question: If one loses 10 children through disaster, does the blessing of an additional 10 children in the end make for a happy ending to the book of...

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Redemption

• Lesson 13 for the week of March 19 to March 26

Relevant Passages: Revelation 20-22 Leading Question: As the book of Revelation brings us to the end of the Great Controversy, what allows the believer to stand in eager expectation of the return rather than in...

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The Church Militant

• Lesson 12 for the week of March 12 to March 19

Relevant Passages: Revelation 2-3 Leading Question: How does one know which of the seven churches of Revelation offers the closest match to our own experience? For this week’s lesson on the seven churches in Revelation,...

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Peter on the Great Controversy

• Lesson 11 for the week of March 5 to March 12

Relevant Passages: 1 Peter 2:9-10; 4:1-9; 5:8; 2 Peter 1:16-21; 3:3-7, 8-14 Leading Question: If a person chooses to treat others graciously and unselfishly, what does that tell us about that person’s understanding of the...

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Paul and the Rebellion

• Lesson 10 for the week of February 27 to March 5

Relevant Passages: Romans 5:12-21, 1 Corinthians 3:12-17, 12:14-26, 15:12-56, Ephesians 6:11-17 Leading Question: Where in the writings of Paul does one find the best description of the conflict between good and evil? The official study...

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