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En una entrevista con Danny Shelton y su esposa, el pastor Wintley Phipps presentó su nuevo modelo de inteligencia artificial, GospelTruth.ai, en el programa de Three Angels Broadcasting Network, 3ABN Today. Phipps creó el modelo preocupado por los sistemas de inteligencia artificial existentes, que tienden a hojear tanto materiales sagrados como seculares, proporcionando a menudo […] Source: https://atoday.org/wintley-phipps-presenta-un-modelo-de-ia-para-elaborar-sermones-y-apoyo-teologico/
Daily Lesson for Wednesday 2nd of April 2025
Seventh-day Adventists owe much to William Miller for their understanding of Bible prophecy. While his understanding of key passages (such as Daniel 8:14) was not perfect, Miller’s methodology was, nonetheless, important, because it paved the way for the birth of our last-day remnant movement.
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In some ways, studying the Bible is not unlike assembling a large jigsaw puzzle. If you gather just two or three pieces together, it is nearly impossible to discern the entire picture. Perhaps in those two or three pieces, you can see a horse, and so you conclude that you are assembling a picture of horses. But a few more pieces reveal a chicken and a cow, and then once you have assembled hundreds of pieces, you can finally see that you have been working on a picture of a landscape, which includes a city, a farm, and a range of mountains in the distance.
One of the central ways in which some Christians err in their study of the Bible is that they treat the Scriptures as a loose collection of sayings or proverbs that they can use to address a specific situation. Some will turn to the simple study guide at the front of a Gideons Bible, where they can find helpful verses on a number of topics, and assume that it represents the sum total of the Bible’s teachings on a given subject.
Unfortunately, they take the same approach to prophecy, lifting an individual text out of its context and comparing it to current events instead of the rest of the Bible. This, in part, has led to the constant stream of modern books on prophecy that have to be updated every few years because they were wrong on what they said was going to happen—and when.
That’s why it’s so important not merely to select some specific texts on any given topic but instead to study carefully everything the Bible says about that topic and to take into consideration the context in which it says it, as well. It is very easy to pull a passage out of context and make it say whatever we want.
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What has been your experience with those who use only certain selected texts to try to make their point about, say, the state of the dead? Or even the Sabbath? What is the best way to respond? |
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The Pathfinder Club Game is a roll-and-write game involving friendly competition and coordination. On the game sheet, participants will try to accomplish many of the things involved in the first year of Pathfinders such as pitching a tent, hiking, swimming, learning the Pathfinder Pledge, and tending a fire – as well as occasionally giving neighbor […] Source: https://atoday.org/adventinnovate-the-pathfinder-club-game-2/
“Quando il Signore gradisce le vie di un uomo, riconcilia con lui anche i suoi nemici”. 📖 Proverbi 16:7
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💌 Apri la porta del tuo cuore
🗣 Speaker: Liuanna Serra Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W3FOEDE5FuQ
«La última sesión de la AG fue revolucionaria en el ámbito de los medios digitales», dijo Sam Neves, director asociado de comunicación de la Asociación General (AG) de la Iglesia Adventista del Séptimo Día. «La sesión de este año será revolucionaria». Según la publicación de la Asociación General en Adventist News Network (ANN), el departamento […] Source: https://atoday.org/nueva-aplicacion-permitira-traducir-a-siete-idiomas-las-sesiones-de-la-asociacion-general-2025/
El ciclón tropical Alfred causó cortes de electricidad, inundaciones y evacuaciones cuando impactó en la costa cerca de Surfer’s Paradise pocos días antes de la Conferencia de Discipulado Digital de la División del Pacífico Sur (SPD) de 2025, que tuvo lugar en Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia. La devastación generalizada provocó cortes de electricidad en la […] Source: https://atoday.org/la-cumbre-australiana-sobre-discipulado-digital-se-pudo-realizar-pese-al-ciclon-tropical/
El número de víctimas mortales del potente terremoto de 7,7 grados de magnitud que sacudió Myanmar sigue ascendiendo a más de 2.000 muertos, y los limitados recursos ralentizan los esfuerzos humanitarios, mientras aún se calcula el alcance de la devastación. La Agencia Adventista de Desastres y Recursos Asistenciales (ADRA) se movilizó inmediatamente después de que […] Source: https://atoday.org/adra-sigue-ayudando-en-medio-del-creciente-numero-de-muertos-en-myanmar/
Please pray for Kim whose doctor has told her that she has a brain tumor. She will have an MRI next week. Pray for healing and for her husband and young child. Rose
Please pray also for our grand-nephew Ryan who has been diagnosed with Hodgkins Lymphoma. Please pray for healing for him. Rose
Source: https://rosesdevotional.org/prayer-request-for-our-grand-niece-and-for-a-grand-nephew.html
Lesson 1 – Some Principles of Prophecy
Introduction – When Truth Remains SealedSome truths need time.
Some books remain closed for a long time — until the right moment comes to understand them.
Such is the case with the book of Daniel.
While many Christians reference technical advancements or modern discoveries when speaking of Daniel 12:4, the text actually points to something deeper: a spiritual understanding that will increase in the time of the end.
Bible Study – What Does Daniel 12:4 Say Compared to Revelation 22:10?Daniel 12:4:
“But you, Daniel, shut up the words and seal the book until the time of the end…”
Revelation 22:10:
“Do not seal the words of the prophecy of this book, for the time is at hand.”
Observation:
While Daniel is told to seal, John is explicitly told not to.
Why?
Because Daniel’s message was intended for the end times, whereas Revelation was meant to be understood from the beginning.
The “increase in knowledge” in Daniel 12:4 therefore refers specifically to the understanding of prophetic messages — especially Daniel’s — during the final chapter of earth’s history.
Spiritual Principles – What We Learn from Daniel 12:4God’s revelation is progressive.
Not everything was meant to be fully understood at every point in time — and this is by divine design.
The end times are a period of spiritual awakening.
After 1798, when the 1260-year prophecy ended, understanding of prophecy rapidly increased.
Knowledge is grace — not achievement.
It leads to obedience, not spiritual pride.
True prophecy always leads to Jesus and His redemptive work.
Not to wild speculation — but to a decision for Christ.
Life Application – What Does This Mean for Us Today?We live in prophetic times.
The book of Daniel is open — the real question is:
Do you read it with an open heart?
Knowledge alone doesn’t save — lived truth does.
➤ Do you understand what you read — and do you live it?
Others still live in darkness.
➤ Don’t treat your knowledge as superiority — treat it as a call to share light.
Gratitude over apathy.
➤ If you know what God has revealed — don’t stay silent.
Conclusion – Knowledge at the Right TimeGod didn’t seal the book of Daniel to hide it — but to reveal it at the right time.
We are now living in that time.
The prophetic insights into Jesus, the judgment, the Sabbath, and the Second Coming are clearer than ever.
The question is no longer whether God is speaking —
but whether we are listening and responding.
Thought of the DayGod has opened the book — now it’s up to us not just to read it, but to live it.
Illustration – The Opened BookSoft jazz music, the clinking of cups, warm light.
A quiet corner in a reading café in the heart of Cologne.
Julian sat there — 29, IT specialist, amateur historian, internally torn.
He had taken a vacation — not to travel, but to search.
Not on Google.
Not on Wikipedia.
But in a book that had long felt foreign to him: the Bible.
More precisely: the book of Daniel.
He had stumbled across a YouTube lecture about the “time of the end” and Daniel 12:4.
“Seal the words and shut up the book…”
What did that mean?
Why would something be sealed — and when would it be opened?
His thoughts spun in circles, but one idea wouldn’t leave him:
What if now is the time when the sealed knowledge is being released?
He read about William Miller, the Great Awakening, 1844, the Sabbath, and a judgment that didn’t terrify — but gave hope.
He felt it:
This wasn’t just history.
This was divine timing.
Julian closed his eyes.
Maybe this wasn’t about a new theory.
Maybe this was the moment when God’s timeline intersected with his own life.
Later, as he walked across the Cathedral Square, an inner voice whispered:
“You’ve seen more than many will ever know. What will you do with it?”
He didn’t know — not yet.
But he knew this much:
The book was open.
And he wanted to read it — with his heart.
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