Key Thought : Daniel and Revelation focus on the ultimate fate of the world/. But they are messages of hope: God will save His faithful followers at the end of time.
June 21, 2025

1. Have a volunteer read Daniel 2:31-45.

1. Ask class members to share a short thought on what the most important point is in this passage.
2. What was Nebuchadnezzar’s dream, and how did Daniel interpret it?
3. Personal Application: How can we be sure that the last kingdom will come and fight against God’s people in the name of God? Share your thoughts.
4. Case Study: One of your relatives states, “How does Daniel 2 prove to us that God knows the future and is in charge of it?” How would you respond to your relative? .

2. Have a volunteer read Daniel 3:1-12, 17,18.

1. Ask class members to share a thought on what the most important point in this text is.
2. What is important about the statue being pure gold and the king demanding that everyone worship it?
3. Personal Application: What do the Hebrew youth’s words teach us about faith and what it may demand of us at times? Share your thoughts.
4. Case Study: One of your friends states, “How can we avoid the easy rationalisations to compromise our faith in the little things? If we continue to compromise on the little, daily things, how can we stand when we face the larger issues of economics, jail, and death?” How would you respond to your friend?

3. Have a volunteer read Revelation 13:11-17; 14:9-12; Rev 16:2; Rev 19:20, 20:4.

1. Ask class members to share a short thought on what the most important point in this text is.
2. What contrast is present here that pits the commandments of God against the commandments of men?
3. Personal Application: How do we shake off the spirit of fear and find God’s message of hope even when facing persecution for our faith? Share your thoughts.
4. Case Study: One of your neighbors states: “How should we relate to Catholic people? How is the Babylon mentality found in our church, in our characters, and in our relationships? How do we shift from a Babylon mentality to a Biblical mindset?” How would you respond to your neighbor?

4. Have a volunteer read Matthew 12:9-14, John 5:1-16.

1. Ask class members to share a thought on what the most important point in this text is.
2. What caused the religious leaders to want to kill Jesus?
3. Personal Application: How could people rationalise not wanting to die because of breaking one of the commandments of God? 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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To learn of the “Allusions, Images and Symbols” in Bible Prophecy we are really in great need of saying to God 
Give Me The Bible – Hymn 272 so we can learn with His abundant help. This will be our theme for this, the second quarter of Bible Study, 2025.

 Sabbath afternoon tells of “remarkable courage and provide(s) keys to finding peace of mind” as do
Hymn 463 – Peace, Perfect Peace and 
Hymn 466 – Wonderful Peace because 
We Have This Hope – Hymn 214. 

The week of study is full of what Daniel was encouraged to put forward for everyone down through the centuries to follow, even if facing death. If you are able, please pull out the pre-1985 SDA Hymnal and sing 
Dare To Be A Daniel – Number 497.

With worship being a large issue in Daniel’s stories, the question can arise about our foundation: 
Hymn 509 – How Firm A Foundation so that we may go forward and be able to 
O Worship The Lord – Hymn 6 and  
O Worship The King – Hymn 83 only. 

One of the latter conclusions for our study this week, is to 
Don’t Forget The Sabbath – Hymn 388. I really want to be found 
Standing On The Promises – Hymn 518.

Please continue to search the scriptures this week to be blessed, and to bless others. 

To learn unknown hymns, you will find the accompaniment music for each one at: https://sdahymnals.com/Hymnal/ 

Another great resource is for when there is a hymn you wish to sing but can’t find it in your hymnal. Go to https://www.sdahymnal.org/Search and in the search bar type a special word in that is in the hymn. I am sure you will be amazed at the help you will be given.

 2 Timothy 2:15 KJV – “Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.”

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Source: https://ssnet.org/blog/12-precursors-singing-with-inspiration/

Daily Lesson for Tuesday 17th of June 2025

Bible students have long seen the connection between Daniel 3:1-30 and what Revelation teaches about last-day events. And with good cause, too, because Daniel 3:1-30—with the command, punishable by death, to “worship the image” (Daniel 3:15)—reflects what Revelation teaches about the command, punishable by death, to worship another image. “He was granted power to give breath to the image of the beast, that the image of the beast should both speak and cause as many as would not worship the image of the beast to be killed” (Revelation 13:15, NKJV).

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God’s people are called to worship “ ‘Him who made heaven and earth, the sea and springs of water.’ ” That is, the Creator, as opposed to the beast and its image. The three Hebrew boys, facing a similar threat, refused to worship anything other than the same Creator God. Hence, however different the circumstances between what happened on the plain of Dura, with the command to worship the image, as opposed to the Creator and what will happen worldwide with the call to worship the image as opposed to the Creator—the principle is the same.

Worship doesn’t necessarily mean bowing and offering incense, though it can. We worship whatever holds our ultimate allegiance. When you consider who God is, our Creator and—after what He has done for us in Jesus—our Redeemer as well, then of course He alone should be worshiped. Anything else is idolatry. Perhaps this helps explain Jesus’ hard words here: “ ‘He who is not with Me is against Me, and he who does not gather with Me scatters abroad’ ” (Matthew 12:30, NKJV). Final events are simply going to be a dramatic manifestation of this truth.

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Source: https://ssnet.org/blog/25b-12-worshiping-the-image-again/