Worship: For Heaven’s Sake This soon will be the state of the earth: “The whole earth appears like a desolate wilderness. The ruins of cities and villages destroyed by the earthquake, uprooted trees, ragged rocks thrown out by the sea or torn out of the earth itself, are scattered over its surface, while vast caverns mark the spot where the mountains have been rent from their foundations.” {GC 657.2} (Read more below.)
Wellness: For Health’s Sake Pastor Flemons, a doctor of biblical wellness, shared a NaturalNews.com article. Sadly, only 10 percent of Americans, according to the article and a CDC study, are reportedly getting enough fruits and vegetables in their diet. Sadly, the vegetable most consumed is the least nutritious: potatoes, especially when fried. That means “less than one out of every ten Americans” are consuming the minimum daily requirements to be healthy. That also means more than 290 million Americans are failing to get the nutrients required to lower their risk of heart disease, cancer, obesity and diabetes–the nation’s top causes of death. “According to CDC guidelines, you should be consuming at least three cups of vegetables and two pieces of fruit every day.” Pastor Flemons agrees. Notice: these are minimum requirements.
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TOPICS THIS WEEK – November 19 – 25
Worship Sunday – The Time of Trouble, Pt 4; Monday – The Time of Trouble, Pt 5; Tuesday – God’s People Delivered, Pt 1; Wednesday – God’s People Delivered, Pt 2; Thursday – It’s Thanksgiving! Testify! Friday – Desolation of the Earth, Pt 1; Saturday, the Sabbath – Desolation of the Earth, Pt 2
These final chapters will be read aloud in full and will take multiple segments to complete: “The Time of Trouble,” “God’s People Delivered,” “Desolation of the Earth,” and “The Controversy Ended.” [All topics per The Great Controversy by Ellen G. White.]
Wellness Sunday – US Government Approves a Trackable Pill; Monday – Why More Black Women Die During Childbirth; Tuesday – Why Obese Women Have Larger Breast Tumors; Wednesday – The Day Before Thanksgiving; Thursday – It’s Thanksgiving! Testify! Friday – A Supertonic for the Holidays; Saturday, the Sabbath – CDC: Not Enough Fruits, Vegetables in Diet
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Words of Encouragement
James 5:7-8 Be patient therefore, brethren, unto the coming of the LORD. Behold, the husbandman waiteth for the precious fruit of the earth, and hath long patience for it, until he receive the early and latter rain. Be ye also patient; stablish your hearts: for the coming of the LORD draweth nigh.
Zephaniah 2:1-3 Gather yourselves together, yea, gather together, O nation not desired; before the decree bring forth, before the day pass as the chaff, before the fierce anger of the LORD come upon you, before the day of the LORD’s anger come upon you. See ye the LORD, all ye meek of the earth, which have wrought his judgment; seek righteousness, seek meekness: it may be ye shall be hid in the day of the LORD’s anger.
For Heaven’s Sake…
“Now the event takes place foreshadowed in the last solemn service of the Day of Atonement. When the ministration in the holy of holies had been completed, and the sins of Israel had been removed from the sanctuary by virtue of the blood of the sin offering, then the scapegoat was presented alive before the Lord; and in the presence of the congregation the high priest confessed over him ‘all the iniquities of the children of Israel, and all their transgressions in all their sins, putting them upon the head of the goat.’ Leviticus 16:21. In like manner, when the work of atonement in the heavenly sanctuary has been completed, then in the presence of God and heavenly angels and the hosts of the redeemed the sins of God’s people will be placed upon Satan; he will be declared guilty of all the evil which he has caused them to commit. And as the scapegoat was sent away into a land not inhabited, so Satan will be banished to the desolate earth, an uninhabited and dreary wilderness. {GC 658.1}
“The revelator foretells the banishment of Satan and the condition of chaos and desolation to which the earth is to be reduced, and he declares that this condition will exist for a thousand years. After presenting the scenes of the Lord’s second coming and the destruction of the wicked, the prophecy continues: ‘I saw an angel come down from heaven, having the key of the bottomless pit and a great chain in his hand. And he laid hold on the dragon, that old serpent, which is the devil, and Satan, and bound him a thousand years, and cast him into the bottomless pit, and shut him up, and set a seal upon him, that he should deceive the nations no more, till the thousand years should be fulfilled: and after that he must be loosed a little season.’ Revelation 20:1-3. {GC 658.2}
“That the expression ‘bottomless pit’ represents the earth in a state of confusion and darkness is evident from other scriptures. Concerning the condition of the earth ‘in the beginning,’ the Bible record says that it ‘was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep.’ [The Hebrew word here translated ‘deep’ is rendered in the Septuagint (Greek) translation of the Hebrew Old Testament by the same word rendered ‘bottomless pit’ In Revelation 20:1-3.] Genesis 1:2. Prophecy teaches that it will be brought back, partially at least, to this condition. Looking forward to the great day of God, the prophet Jeremiah declares: ‘I beheld the earth, and, lo, it was without form, and void; and the heavens, and they had no light. I beheld the mountains, and, lo, they trembled, and all the hills moved lightly. I beheld, and, lo, there was no man, and all the birds of the heavens were fled. I beheld, and, lo, the fruitful place was a wilderness, and all the cities thereof were broken down.’ Jeremiah 4:23-26. {GC 658.3}“Here is to be the home of Satan with his evil angels for a thousand years. Limited to the earth, he will not have access to other worlds to tempt and annoy those who have never fallen. It is in this sense that he is bound: there are none remaining, upon whom he can exercise his power. He is wholly cut off from the work of deception and ruin which for so many centuries has been his sole delight. {GC 659.1}
“For six thousand years, Satan’s work of rebellion has ‘made the earth to tremble.’ He had ‘made the world as a wilderness, and destroyed the cities thereof.’ And he ‘opened not the house of his prisoners.’ For six thousand years his prison house has received God’s people, and he would have held them captive forever; but Christ had broken his bonds and set the prisoners free. {GC 659.3}
“Even the wicked are now placed beyond the power of Satan, and alone with his evil angels he remains to realize the effect of the curse which sin has brought. ‘The kings of the nations, even all of them, lie in glory, everyone in his own house [the grave]. But thou art cast out of thy grave like an abominable branch…. Thou shalt not be joined with them in burial, because thou hast destroyed thy land, and slain thy people.’ Isaiah 14:18-20. {GC 660.1}
“For a thousand years, Satan will wander to and fro in the desolate earth to behold the results of his rebellion against the law of God. During this time his sufferings are intense. Since his fall his life of unceasing activity has banished reflection; but he is now deprived of his power and left to contemplate the part which he has acted since first he rebelled against the government of heaven, and to look forward with trembling and terror to the dreadful future when he must suffer for all the evil that he has done and be punished for the sins that he has caused to be committed.” {GC 660.2}
(This study is based on chapter 41, “Desolation of the Earth” in the book The Great Controversy (GC), by Ellen G. White.)