Key Thought : The inhabitants of th earth will drink the wine of Babylon. These are false teachings and doctrines that lead to death. The three angels’ messages keep us from these deceptions.
June 3, 2023

1. Have a volunteer read Revelation 16:13,14. Revelation 18:2,23.

1. Ask class members to share a short thought on what the most important point is in this passage.
2. Who is deceived by Satan? How do we understand these words?
3. Personal Application: What can we learn from people doing evil things thinking they were doing right for God? Share your thoughts.
4. Case Study: One of your relatives states, “What difference does it make whether we believe the dead are sleeping in the grave or in heaven in the spirit? Either way, God is coming to get us and we will be saved. There is too much evidence that the spirit leaves the body at death.” How would you respond to your relative?

2. Have a volunteer read Ezekiel 8:16, 2 Kings 23:5,11.

1. Ask class members to share a thought on what the most important point in this text is.
2. What clear instructions did God give us about life and death in the Scriptures?
3. Personal Application: What examples of modern spiritualism exist in your culture today? How can we keep from being led astray by this influence? Share your thoughts
4. Case Study: One of your friends states, “Everybody goes to church on Sunday. Christianity is under attack from everyone. Do you think God would reject Christians just because they go to church on the day of Christ’s resurrection? We are saved by grace not by obedience. God died on the cross for us. We are saved.” How would you respond to your friend?

3. Have a volunteer read Ezekiel 20:1-20.

1. Ask class members to share a short thought on what the most important point in this text is.
2. What is the message here and how does the Sabbath fit in with this call to righteousness?
3. Personal Application: Is it possible that we could be on the slippery slope of compromise in our lives? What might these compromises be? Share your thoughts.
4. Case Study: One of your neighbors states: “Do you think your church is pure and following all the counsel of God, or have they compromised or are compromising their faith?” How would you respond to your relative?

4. Have a volunteer read Revelation 18:4,5..

1. Ask class members to share a thought on what the most important point in this text is.
2. What is God’s appeal to multitudes still in fallen organizations?
3. Personal Application: What if our emotions point one way and the Scriptures point another way? What role does emotion play in our religious experience? Share your thoughts.
4. Case Study: Think of one person who needs to hear a message from this week’s lesson. Tell the class what you plan to do this week to share with them.

(Truth that is not lived, that is not imparted, loses its life-giving power, its healing virtue. Its blessings can be retained only as it is shared.”Ministry of Healing, p. 148).

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The woman in scarlet and purple, riding on the scarlet covered beast, has passed around her wine cup, and the world is drunk with Babylon’s false doctrines. Speaking of the “wine of Babylon,” Ellen G. White makes this clear comment: “What is that wine? Her false doctrines. She has given to the world a false Sabbath instead of the Sabbath of the fourth commandment, and has repeated the falsehood that Satan first told to Eve in Eden, — the natural immortality of the soul.” — Ellen G. White, Review and Herald, Dec. 6, 1892. These erroneous teachings have deceived millions. As a result, God is giving His people, still entrenched in error, a final last-day appeal.

Read Revelation 18:4-5. What is God’s appeal to multitudes still in fallen religious organizations?

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As we already have seen (but worth repeating), many of God’s people are in religious organizations that have compromised biblical teachings. They do not understand the truths of Scripture. God’s loving appeal is straightforward: “Come out of her, my people, lest you share in her sins, and lest you receive of her plagues” (Revelation 18:4, NKJV).

Read 1 John 3:4 and compare it to Romans 14:23. How does the Bible define sin? How do these Bible passages harmonize?

Sin is the transgression or the breaking of God’s law. The only way anybody can obey the law is through faith in the power of the living Christ. We are weak, frail, faltering, sinful human beings. By faith when we accept Christ, His grace atones for our past and empowers our present. He gives us “grace and apostleship for obedience” (Romans 1:5, NKJV). Heaven’s appeal to His people in churches that do not respect and obey the law of God is to step out by faith. His appeal to Adventists in Sabbath keeping congregations is to forsake all self-centered, human attempts at obedience and live godly lives by faith in the grace of Christ, which delivers us from sin’s condemnation and sin’s domination. And just as Israel’s faithfulness to the law (Deuteronomy 4:6) would have been a powerful witness to the world, our faithfulness, too, can be a powerful witness and help guide people out of Babylon.

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