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11: End-time Deceptions – Teaching Plan

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Key Thought: Mysticism, near-death experiences, reincarnation, necromancy, and ancestor worship are dangerous, end-time deceptions that we need to be aware of without exposing ourselves to their influence. December 10, 2022 1. Have a volunteer read 2 Corinthians 11:14,15. Ask class members to share a short thought on what the most important point is in this … Continue reading –>

Monday: Near-Death Experiences

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Some of the most popular modern arguments to “prove” the theory of the natural immortality of the soul are “near-death experiences.” In his book, Life After Life: The Investigation of a Phenomenon — Survival of Bodily Death (Atlanta, GA: Mockingbird, 1975), Raymond A. Moody, Jr., presented the results of his five-year study of more than one hundred … Continue reading –>

Sunday: Mysticism

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Our world has been flooded by the strong waves of mysticism. The word “mysticism” is a complex term that encapsulates a huge variety of ideas. From a religious perspective, the word implies the union of the individual with the Divine or Absolute in some kind of spiritual experience or trance. This characterizes the worship experience … Continue reading –>

Sabbath: End-Time Deceptions

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Read for This Week’s Study: Matthew 7:21-27, John 11:40-44, 1 Peter 3:18, 1 Samuel 28:3-25, Ephesians 6:10-18. Memory Text: “And no wonder! Even Satan disguises himself as an angel of light. So it is not strange if his ministers also disguise themselves as ministers of righteousness. Their end will match their deeds” (2 Corinthians 11:14-15, , NRSV). Our contemporary world has become a … Continue reading –>

Inside Story: Modesty! Modesty! Modesty!

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By Ocrhain Matengu People came in a seemingly constant procession to look pityingly on 2-year-old Akurious in the hospital in Katima Mulilo, Namibia. The boy had been ill for months, and the people wept as they saw his terrible pain. “The hospital is failing us,” one told Akurious’ parents. “You should consult with the witchdoctor.” … Continue reading –>

Friday: Further Thought ~ The Fires of Hell

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Further Thought: Read Ellen G. White, “The First Great Deception,” Pages 531-550; “Can Our Dead Speak to Us?” Pages 551-562, in The Great Controversy.   “Upon the fundamental error of natural immortality rests the doctrine of consciousness in death — a doctrine, like eternal torment, opposed to the teachings of the Scriptures, to the dictates of reason, and to … Continue reading –>

Thursday: The Biblical View

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Read 1 John 5:3-12. Why does the apostle John limit “eternal life” only to those who are in Christ? The biblical doctrine of conditional immortality of the human being — in contrast to the nonbiblical theory of the natural immortality of the soul — is made explicit in 1 John 5:11-12. To grasp the meaning of this … Continue reading –>

Wednesday: A Paradise with Disembodied Souls

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Though Protestants don’t accept purgatory, many nevertheless believe that the souls of the righteous dead are already enjoying Paradise in the very presence of God. Some argue that those “souls” are just disembodied spirits; others believe they are disembodied spirits but covered by a spiritual body of glory. Whatever the supposed metaphysical state of the … Continue reading –>

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