Tag: Dave Thomas

The Bible is Reliable

• Lesson 4 for the week of April 21 to April 28

Today”s lesson continues to focus on the issues surrounding the authority of Scripture in the life of the church and the believer. This week”s lesson does not ask a question, but makes an important statement,...

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Bible Prophecy Fulfilled

• Lesson 3 for the week of April 14 to April 21

The fulfillment of prophecy has often been an important argument in helping establish belief in the Bible. If it is an Adventist evangelistic series, you can be sure that at some point in time the...

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The Final Word

• Lesson 2 for the week of April 7 to April 14

It was a day in April that would define the history of the church forever: April 18, 1521. An august tribunal of church officials, and even the emperor himself, had gathered together in Worms, Germany...

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The Voice From Heaven

• Lesson 1 for the week of March 31 to April 7

The title of this week”s study, “The Voice from Heaven,” might at first lead one to think about the heavenly voice that was heard at the baptism of Jesus (Matthew 3:17; Mark 1:11; Luke 3:22)....

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The Meaning of the Judgment Today

• Lesson 14 for the week of September 23 to September 30

One of the interesting results of the 1844 experience has been a persistent and developing interest in questions of “theodicy” in Adventism. Classically, “theodicy” has focused on the question of the vindication or justification of...

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The Gospel and Judgment

• Lesson 13 for the week of September 16 to September 23

Potentially, this lesson week’s lesson is the most crucial one for God’s people today, for it highlights the two great questions confronting deeply religious people: How can we be good? And how can we be...

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Pre-Advent Judgment

• Lesson 12 for the week of September 9 to September 16

Since many aspects of this lesson have already been considered in Lesson #2 (Judgment Must Begin) and Lesson #4 (Daniel 7), it might be helpful here to explore some of the reasons why the question...

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The Sanctuary and the Little Horn

• Lesson 11 for the week of September 2 to September 9

In the two chapters where the little horn appears, Daniel 8 and 9, it is helpful to see how Daniel himself relates to the evil beasts and to the evil little horn power. If we...

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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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