The Craziest Things We Worship Source: https://pmcdata.s3.amazonaws.com/pmc-audio/2022-12-17.mp3
A Tribute to Bert B. Beach
17 December 2022 | Bert Beverly Beach, PhD, former director of the General Conference Department of Public Affairs and Religious Liberty (PARL), passed to his rest on December 14, 2022. I worked at Bert’s side in PARL for fifteen years and witnessed first-hand his enormous contribution to our church and beyond. He championed religious freedom […] Source: https://atoday.org/a-tribute-to-bert-b-beach/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=a-tribute-to-bert-b-beach
¿Los ángeles tienen alas?
¿Los ángeles tienen alas? ¡Qué pregunta! Claro que tienen alas, todo el mundo lo sabe. Es como preguntar si los pájaros tienen alas, excepto los pingüinos, claro, que también tienen aletas. ¿Y por qué tienen alas? Pues para volar. ¿Por qué todas estas preguntas tan absurdas? Sigan conversando conmigo, que vamos a un punto importante. […] Source: https://atoday.org/los-angeles-tienen-alas/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=los-angeles-tienen-alas
Previous GC Public Affairs & Religious Liberty Director, Bert B. Beach, Passes at 94
16 December 2022 | Bert B. Beach passed to his rest in Silver Spring, Maryland, United States, on December 14. He was 94. He will be remembered as a statesman on behalf of the Seventh-day Adventist Church. For many years he served as the director of the Public Affairs and Religious Liberty Department of the […] Source: https://atoday.org/previous-gc-public-affairs-religious-liberty-director-bert-b-beach-passes-at-94/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=previous-gc-public-affairs-religious-liberty-director-bert-b-beach-passes-at-94
Sabbath: The Judging Process
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Sabbath Afternoon
Read for This Week’s Study: Matthew 25:31-46; Daniel 7:9-14; 1 Corinthians 6:2-3; 2 Peter 2:4-6; Malachi 4:1; Revelation 21:8.
Memory Text: “For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, so that each of us may receive what is due us for the things done while in the body, whether good or bad” (2 Corinthians 5:10, NIV).
If Scripture is clear about one thing, it is the reality of judgment. God will judge the world. The texts, both in the Old Testament and the New, are numerous and without ambiguity. The justice so lacking here and now will one day come.
The Bible says that God has “perfect knowledge” (Job 37:16, NIV) and “knows everything” (1 John 3:20, NIV), including our most secret intentions (Ecclesiastes 12:14, Jeremiah 17:10). We can hide from everyone and everything else, but nothing is hidden from God.
What this reality implies is that He does not need a judgment for Himself to know the life of each individual. God’s judgments are, indeed, a divine accommodation, carried on for the sake of His creatures, both in heaven and on earth. This process is of a cosmic-historical nature because Lucifer began his rebellion in heaven and then spread it to this world (Revelation 12:7-9).
During this week we will consider the end-time judgment process with its three main phases: the pre-advent judgment, the millennial judgment, and the executive judgment. The whole process ends with the vindication of the righteous and the second death of the wicked.
Study this week’s lesson to prepare for Sabbath, December 24.
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