Closer To Heaven
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by Stephen Ferguson | 4 November 2025 | I had never met a single Jewish person before I went to law school, and then I met, and continue to know, a lot of them. And though it is a stereotype, there is some truth to the reputation that Jewish people are often high achievers. Of […] Source: https://atoday.org/are-adventists-trying-to-be-jewish/
"If you believe, you will receive whatever you ask for in prayer" (Matthew 21:22, NIV).
Tag someone in need of prayer, and kindly share your prayer requests here:
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This is day six of the 2025 North American Division of the Seventh-day Adventist Church Year-end Meeting. Please join us in watching worship and the morning session on this final day of business on Nov. 4, 2025. Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5TwxfPh_ieI
For more than 50 years, NPA rebel insurgents have ravaged the Philippines, leaving tens of thousands dead. Ernesto was part of the feared Marong 43, one of the fiercest groups of the New People’s Army, spending ten years in violence on the island of Mindoro. Ernesto found himself asking: is there a way out? Watch the full transformation story from rebel to witness here: https://youtube.com/watch?v=cGyJA8v9pF0&list=PLGPdsC4UKnguKNW4S3x0_TaJ2xJUWY0hN&index=4 #AWR360 #BroadcastToBaptism MB019OYZCXGUOZS Source: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/-RkcPJXD5TE
In rural Venda, the need for God’s Word is deep and urgent. AWR360° shared solar-powered Bibles with families and vendors. The people have longed for Scripture in their own language. Godpods allow them to listen day and night, even without electricity or mobile data. The hunger for truth is growing. Learn more at https://awr.org. Share this story with a friend who has a heart for mission work. #AWR360 #BroadcastToBaptism Source: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/A0RUzG9BkTQ
This Sabbath, November 8, 2025, from 2:30–4:30 pm PT, join us in the Loma Linda University Church (LLUC) auditorium for a bold, historic panel on the much-discussed new book Reclaiming the Prophet: An Honest Defense of Ellen White’s Gift. This candid, once-in-a-generation conversation—jointly presented by Adventist Today, Spectrum, and the LLUC Sabbath Seminars class—brings together […] Source: https://atoday.org/they-tried-to-ban-it-this-sabbath-at-loma-linda-hear-the-authors-speak-for-themselves/
"Così, vi dico, c'è gioia davanti agli angeli di Dio per un solo peccatore che si ravvede". 📖 Luca 15:10
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💌 Apri la porta del tuo cuore
🗣 Speaker: Alessia Zagara Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y613Kl9yzTY
Maybe we should ask each other these questions: When was the last time you shared the truth with someone else? Why haven't you shared the truth with your neighbor, coworker, spouse, children, in-laws? Let's encourage each other to share with someone today! Source: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/8wa7Zmp85FA
This is day five of the 2025 North American Division of the Seventh-day Adventist Church Year-end Meeting. Please join us in watching the afternoon business session on Nov. 3, 2025. Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c5YDudIIhM4
Daily Lesson for Tuesday 4th of November 2025
Joshua asks Achan to do two things: First, to give glory to God and honor Him. Second, to confess what he had done without concealing it. Achan was supposed to give glory to God by admitting what he had done. The term used here (todah) can refer to thanksgiving (Psalms 26:7, Isaiah 51:3, Jeremiah 17:26) but also to the confession of sin (Ezra 10:11).
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Unfortunately, the biblical text gives no indication that Achan showed any sign of real repentance. He hoped until the end to remain hidden. His defiant attitude qualified him to be regarded as a high-handed offender, for whom there was no atonement according to the law of Moses (compare with Numbers 15:27-31).
The words of Achan in Joshua 7:21 are reminiscent of the fall of Adam and Eve. Eve saw (ra’ah) that the tree was desirable (kḥamad) and finally took (laqakḥ) from its fruit (Genesis 3:6). In his confession, Achan admits that he saw (ra’ah) in the plunder a beautiful mantle of Shinar, 200 shekels of silver, and a bar of gold. He then coveted (kḥamad) and took (laqakḥ) them. Just as in the case of Adam and Eve, the choice of Achan reveals that the sin of covetousness is the sin of unbelief. It suspects God of not wanting the best for His creatures and of hiding some exquisite pleasures from them, which belong to the realm of divinity only.
Besides the allusion to the primordial human fall, the text highlights a stark contrast between the attitudes of Rahab (compare with Joshua 2:1-13) and that of Achan. The one took the spies to the roof and hid them from the soldiers; the other took forbidden things and hid them from Joshua. The one showed kindness to the Israelite spies and helped them secure victory; the other brought trouble on Israel by his greed and secured defeat. The one made a covenant with the Israelites; the other broke the covenant with Yahweh. Rahab saved herself and her family, and they became respected citizens in Israel; Achan doomed himself and his family to death and became an example of ignominy.
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Think about the sin of covetousness. How can we avoid succumbing to it, no matter how much we have or don’t have? (Compare with Luke 12:15.) |
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