There are two kinds of Messianic prophecies in the Old Testament, one that anticipates a kingly Messiah who would rule forever ( Ps. 89:3-4 , Ps. 89:35-37 ; Isa.
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Sabbath: You Will Be My Witnesses
Read for This Week’s Study: Acts 1:6-8 , Luke 24:25 , Luke 24:44-48 , Deut. 19:15 , Acts 1:9-26 , Prov. 16:33 . Memory Text: “You will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you; and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem, in all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth” ( Acts 1:8 , NRSV) . Jesus’ mission on earth was finished.
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Friday: Further Thought – The Return of our Lord Jesus
Further Thought: The second coming of Jesus isn’t the epilogue, the appendix, or the afterword to the sad story of human sin and suffering in this fallen world. Instead, the Second Coming is the grand climax, the great hope of the Christian’s faith. Image © Stan Myers from GoodSalt.com Without it, what? The story of humanity just goes on and on, one miserable scene after another, one tragedy after another, until it all ends only in death. Apart from the hope that Christ’s return offers us, life is, as William Shakespeare wrote, “a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.” And yet, we have this hope because the Word of God confirms it for us, over and over
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Are you Absent From the Body and Present With Christ now?
A song goes: One day Jesus will call my name As days go by, ‘hope I don’t stay the same. I wanna get so close to Him that it’s no big change, On that day that Jesus calls my name! -Phil McHugh, One Day Jesus Will Call my Name Image © Phil McKay Goodsalt.com This takes us head on to the point of a Scriptural passage that many Adventists shy away from. So we are always confident, knowing that while we are at home in the body we are absent from the Lord. For we walk by faith, not by sight. We are confident, yes, well pleased rather to be absent from the body and to be present with the Lord.
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Lesson 13: The Return of our Lord Jesus – Discussion Starters
The Return of Our Lord Jesus.
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