On this episode of ANN Profiles, Alyssa Truman interviews Jim Howard, assistant to the president and director of Sabbath School and Personal Ministries. Listen to James’ story of finding his way back to Adventism after being raised as a Christian who knew nothing of the Bible or the God it described. How did Howard go from opening his Bible for the first time as an adult man to leading out in the global Seventh-day Adventist Church? Listen to this episode to learn the story of Jim Howard, a bi-vocational pastor turned World Church leader. ANN is the official news source of the Seventh-day Adventist Church. It was established in 1994 to curate and communicate news to unify and identify the Seventh-day Adventist Church across 13 divisions and more than 200 countries. ANN is a global Christian family with over 21 million members who hold the Bible as the ultimate authority. We are believers who promise to help people understand the Bible to find freedom, healing, and hope in Jesus. Want to learn more about the Seventh-day Adventist Church? Visit our website at: https://www.adventist.org/ Click the notification bell so you never miss a new video! Find ANN on social media to follow Adventist News from around the world:
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Missioni dal mondo – 27 maggio 2023
Fabbricanti di tende moderne – La missione nella Divisione InterEuropea. Missioni dal mondo 9° episodio – II trimestre 2023 Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BdJt2TVtjhY
Paraná Adventist College Receives top Grade in Ministry of Education (MEC) Evaluation
Paraná Adventist College (IAP) received a grade 5 in the accreditation from the Ministry of Education (MEC). It is the first time the institution reached the maximum score. The unprecedented achieveme…… Source: https://adventist.news/en/news/parana-adventist-college-receives-top-grade-in-ministry-of-education-mec-evaluation
Thursday: Babylon ~The Center of Idolatry
Here is another clue in clearly identifying the “mystery of Babylon the great.” Idolatry was at the heart of Babylonian worship.
Read Jeremiah 50:33-38 and Jeremiah 51:17, Jeremiah 51:47. What do you discover in these verses about ancient Babylon’s worship of images and God’s response to it?
Jeremiah 50:1-46 and 51 predict Babylon’s destruction by the Medes and Persians.
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One of the reasons for Babylon’s demise was their idolatry. The Babylonians believed that these images were representations of their deities. In Babylonian religion, the ritual care and worship of the statues of deities was considered sacred; the gods lived simultaneously in their statues in temples and in the natural forces they embodied. The pillaging or destruction of idols was considered to be loss of divine patronage. For example, the Chaldean prince Marduk-apla-iddina II fled into the southern marshes of Mesopotamia with the statues of Babylon’s gods to save them from the armies of Sennacherib of Assyria. (Jane R. McIntosh, Ancient Mesopotamia: New Perspectives, ABC-CLIO, Inc., [Santa Barbara, CA, 2005], p. 203).
The Bible prophets contrasted the worship of these lifeless images with the Creator God, who was both alive and lifegiving (Jeremiah 51:15-16, Jeremiah 51:19).
Read Exodus 20:4-6 and Psalms 115:4-8. What do they teach about idolatry?
Though the issues of the idolatry of spiritual Babylon go deeper than just bowing before images of wood and stone, spiritual Babylon does parallel ancient Babylon with the images introduced into its worship service. The use of images as objects of worship, or so-called “veneration,” is a violation of the second commandment because it limits the ability of the Holy Spirit to impress upon our minds the things of eternity and reduces the majesty of God to a lifeless statue. These images were introduced into Christianity in the fourth century to make Christianity more acceptable to the pagan populace. Unfortunately, these images are often given the sacredness and homage that belongs to God alone, which makes the whole thing spiritually degrading.
Amen!
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Multiple Sclerosis Research Clinic Launches at Sydney Adventist Hospital
People living with multiple sclerosis have a new opportunity to help shape the way it is treated and monitored in the future, with a new partnership between Sydney Adventist Hospital (the San) and the…… Source: https://adventist.news/en/news/multiple-sclerosis-research-clinic-launches-at-sydney-adventist-hospital
