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7: Foundations for Prophecy — Teaching Plan — 3 Comments

  1. Hello,
    I’m a little frustrated. As a Sabbath School teacher, I was hoping for more depth of understanding Revelation. This is prophecy “lite” not prophecy light, in my opinion. While the OT references are crucial and must be incorporated, it seems like we are scratching the surface of the meat of Revelation. We’re more than half way through and we haven’t talked about the significance of the churches, the seals and trumpets, let alone the mark of the beast. These are questions people have, but we are not addressing them (using the quarterly) in a safe and nurturing environment. Instead we are walking on fluff and topics that could be brought out with just about any other Biblical story.

    Frustrated,
    Theresa Tacconelli

    • Theresa, if you’ll look at the title of the quarterly and the introduction, you’ll see that this quarter’s lessons are not intended to be an in-depth study of Revelation or any other prophecies.

      Instead, the author tries to help us to understand biblical allusions, images and symbols that will prepare us to understand biblical prophecies.

      If you will look at each lesson and figure out how the lesson relates to biblical allusions, prophetic images and symbols, I think you can find it quite rewarding.

  2. I understand your feelings. I’m struggling too, indeed a knew it´ll be allusions, image and symbols I came here cause I have no clue about the specific object of this week class. I love to teach and I know there was a lot of prayer on the part of the writers of this lesson, but suddenly it’s not clear to me what the objective is, and yes, I would have liked to go deeper. Greetings, and thank you for these resources.

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At a camp meeting 40 years later, I happened to see Dr. I. demonstrating some kind of health product, if I remember correctly. (In my mind, I see only the image of him, much older, but still looking much like he did when I was a student, with a friend by my side.) I lingered a little but did not introduce myself. I briefly wondered whether he recognized me. I’m fairly sure that I was as recognizable to him as he was to me.

Had he changed? Or did he still feel superior in his “humility”? Should I talk to him? I didn’t know how to approach him, and was busy with friends. I still don’t know whether I should have said something. (Maybe I’m just a coward.)

If God wants him to see my story, his and my identity are clear enough in this post, that God can direct him to it.