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SECURITY UPDATE SILVER SPRING, Maryland — Security experts at Adventist Risk Management have warned Adventists using 1844 as their PIN number that they are exposing themselves to huge risks. “If you as an Adventist are using 1844 as your bank PIN number you are basically asking to be robbed,” said ARM security spokesperson Locken Kee. […] Source: https://atoday.org/security-experts-warn-adventists-to-stop-using-1844-for-their-pin-numbers/
Daily Lesson for Wednesday 28th of May 2025
There is some thought that this psalm would have been sung upon the miraculous destruction of Sennacherib’s army (2 Chronicles 32:1-33, 2 Kings 19:1-37)—a story that appears to point forward to the final destruction of the wicked in Revelation 20:1-15. The people of God are inside the Holy City with their righteous king when the armies of evil come up and surround them, and then they are destroyed by God Himself.
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One of the things that God corrects in the judgment is the misappropriation of power that has taken place in our fallen world. Fallen humans no longer live for others or for the glory of God but for self. Today, in many ways, we are living with the consequences of choosing to believe that there is no meaning or objective moral standard in the universe. If there is to be a meaning, the philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche insisted that we must invent it for ourselves and pretend as if the universe exists for our benefit. Each individual, in effect, behaves as if he or she is a god.
(One might justifiably ask: How well did this philosophy work out for Nietzsche himself? Not too well, actually. He went insane, collapsing on a street in Italy after trying to stop a man from beating a horse. He then spent the next 11 years of his life in a semi-catatonic state before his death in 1900.)
However bad the problems are, as believers we are reminded to live with hope and not to judge the future by current events. It is easy to despair as we see the pillars of civilization being steadily eroded by the hearts and minds of the godless or by those whose views of God are not found in the Bible. We are currently living in a period in which moral values, even things as basic as human gender, male and female, have come under assault, at least in some parts of the world. Certain types of immorality, things that many people would have been ashamed to talk about, even privately, are now lauded and applauded publicly. That’s how bad things are getting.
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Though we must do our part now to try to make life better for others, why is it always important to remember that it’s going to take the total destruction of this present world and the supernatural re-creation of it before all things are, ultimately, made right? |
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En una reciente visita a Helsinki, nos enteramos de que cualquiera puede ver trabajar al Parlamento finlandés, ya sea en persona o por Internet. Llegamos a la entrada correcta a la hora indicada y pasamos el control de seguridad. Desde el balcón de visitantes observamos el turno de preguntas, y vimos cómo los diputados se […] Source: https://atoday.org/nuevo-reglamento-para-el-control-de-las-reuniones-administrativas-adventistas-son-utiles/
Join It Is Written Sabbath School host Eric Flickinger and this quarter’s author, Shawn Boonstra, as they provide additional insights into this week’s Sabbath School lesson.”
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View an in-depth discussion of In the Psalms: Part 2 in the Hope Sabbath School class led by Pastor Derek Morris.
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With thanks to Hope Channel – Television that will change your life.
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