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1 May 2023 | Dear Aunt Sevvy, Can you resolve a discussion a friend and I had this past Easter? She believes Jesus left his body and preached to the dead the Sabbath after His death, before His resurrection on Sunday morning. I have never heard this before. Can you shed some light, please? Signed, […] Source: https://atoday.org/aunty-did-jesus-go-to-hell-to-preach-on-easter-sabbath/
The angel plainly instructed Daniel to “consider the matter, and understand the vision” (Daniel 9:23, NKJV). What matter, and what vision? Because there is no vision recorded in Daniel 9:1-27, the angel Gabriel must be speaking of the portion of the vision in Daniel 8:1-27 that the prophet did not understand — the vision of the 2,300 days (Daniel 8:27).
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The first portion of this prophecy relates to God’s people, the Jews. “Seventy weeks are determined for your people” — the Jewish nation (Daniel 9:24, NKJV). In Bible prophecy, one prophetic day equals one literal prophetic year (Ezekiel 4:6, Numbers 14:34). In Daniel and Revelation when you have symbolic imagery, you usually have a symbolic time prophecy, as well. One of the ways we can be certain that the day-year principle of prophecy applies here is that when we use it in Daniel’s prophecy, each event on the time line comes out perfectly (see tomorrow’s lesson). If we apply this principle, 70 weeks are composed of 490 days. Since one prophetic day equals one literal year, 490 days are 490 literal years.
Gabriel tells Daniel that 490 years are “cut off” (the literal meaning of the Hebrew word chathak, sometimes translated “determined”). Cut off from what? It could be the only other time prophecy alluded to here: the 2,300 days of Daniel 8:14. These 490 years, a time prophecy, is directly linked back to the time prophecy of Daniel 8:14, the only part of the vision left unexplained in Daniel 8:1-27 and the only time prophecy in Daniel 8:1-27, as well. Thus, we can see that Gabriel with this prophecy is coming to help Daniel understand what he didn’t understand in the previous chapter: the 2,300 days.
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SEATTLE, Wash. — Starbucks Coffee Company is suing the General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists for what it calls “systematic slander of caffeine.” The company claims that Adventist rhetoric against caffeine has robbed the coffee chain of profits in markets around the world. Starbucks spokesperson Max Gittery said that due to the rapid growth of Adventism, […] Source: https://atoday.org/satire-starbucks-sues-adventist-church-for-slandering-caffeine/
Teológicamente, los Adventistas del Séptimo Día somos claramente protestantes. La primera parte de El Conflicto de los Siglos, posiblemente nuestro libro más característico, exalta la Reforma. Seríamos capaces de decir todo el Credo de los Apóstoles excepto una línea sin pestañear, y todo ello si entendiéramos la diferencia entre católico y catolicismo. Así que no […] Source: https://atoday.org/cuando-las-personas-encuentran-a-jesus-en-otra-iglesia-parte-2-identidad-sectaria/
by Loren Seibold | 30 April 2023 | A version of this essay was published in October of 2019. When I grew up on the farm in North Dakota, my family had green John Deere farm tractors, not red International Harvester tractors. As a child, this seemed an important loyalty, and I remember arguing with […] Source: https://atoday.org/the-dangers-of-demonization-and-polarized-thinking/
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