You can view an in-depth discussion of “End-Time Deceptions” in the Hope Sabbath School class led by Pastor Derek Morris. (Adobe Flash Player version.) A Youtube version of this week’s lesson at Hope Sabbath School is below. You can download the video, the MP3 audio, and the lesson outline from the HopeTV Sabbath School Site. … Continue reading –>
The concept of the triune nature of God is found all through the Bible. However, in the context of end-time deceptions and persecution, the book of Revelation reveals a “counterfeit trinity” composed of the dragon, the sea beast, and the land beast of Revelation Chapter 13. Read Revelation 12:17; Rev. 13:1-2. What is described here? The dragon … Continue reading –>
Lesson 9, June 2, 2018 Key Thought : Satan’s deceptions about himself, God, and humans are lies to be unveiled and denounced in order to permit God’s efficient protection.. 1. Have a volunteer read Revelation 12:7-9. A. Ask class members to share what the most important point of this text is. B. What does this … Continue reading –>
As much success as Satan has had deceiving the world in regard to the immortality of the soul, he’s been just as successful, if not more so, in usurping the biblical Sabbath for Sunday (see weeks 6 and 8) and has done so for most of Christian history. In recent years, the devil has come … Continue reading –>
Is Satan more ready than ever? Wouldn’t you think that with more than six thousand years to fuss over and ponder about his great loss of power, Satan would just give up and stop pestering God’s followers? Why doesn’t he? What does he do instead? Long ago, while he was still in heaven but storming inside about … Continue reading –>
Welcome to another week of Singing with Inspiration. The Sabbath afternoon introduction to our studies instructs us to “cling to Jesus and to His Word”: Hymn 272, “Give Me the Bible”, and then immediately tells us how to in Deut 4:4: Hymn 600, “Hold Fast Till I Come”: Monday once again brings us Hymn 272, “Give … Continue reading –>
What do the following texts teach us about the “state of the dead”? What great protection can these texts give us against one of “the two great errors”? Eccles. 9:5-6; Eccles. 9:10; Ps. 115:17; Ps. 146:4; 1 Cor. 15:16-18; Dan. 12:2. In recent decades much attention has been given to stories about people who have “died” — in that their hearts have … Continue reading –>
Read the following texts. What do they tell us about Satan’s power to deceive? 2 Cor. 11:13-15 2 Thess. 2:9-10 Rev. 12:9 Rev. 20:10 As we noted in an earlier lesson, Jesus had warned His followers about end-time deceptions. Among those He specifically warned about were the rise of false christs and false prophets who would … Continue reading –>
The first lesson of this quarter talked about the “cosmic controversy”, which, unfortunately, has reached beyond the cosmos to our earth itself. The problem, though, is that many people, Christians included, don’t believe in this great controversy because they don’t believe in Satan. For them, Bible texts talking about Satan or the devil are merely … Continue reading –>
Read for This Week’s Study: Rev. 2:13; Rev. 2:24; 2 Cor. 11:13-15; Ps. 146:4; Gen. 1:2-3; Rev. 13:1-17. Memory Text: “So the great dragon was cast out, that serpent of old, called the Devil and Satan, who deceives the whole world; he was cast to the earth, and his angels were cast out with him” (Revelation 12:9, NKJV). Even in heaven, before … Continue reading –>
