Worship: For Heaven’s Sake “The important movements of the present have their parallel in those of the past, and the experience of the church in former ages has lessons of great value for our own time.” {GC 343.1 (Read more below.)
Wellness: For Health’s Sake Pastor Flemons, a doctor of biblical wellness, says if you are eating the flesh of animals, it is not the best diet. The flesh of dead animals, especially in this day and age, is toxic. It was only meant to be a temporary diet anyway. It was a special provision just following the Great Flood, which destroyed all the nuts, grains, fruits, and vegetables. But there is a “food” that is even worse than the flesh of dead animals. (Read more below)
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TOPICS THIS WEEK – October 22 – 28
Worship Sunday – Later English Reformers; Monday – The Bible and the French Reformation; Tuesday – The Pilgrim Fathers; Wednesday – Heralds of the Morning; Thursday – An American Reformer; Friday – Light Through Darkness; Saturday, the Sabbath – A Great Religious Awakening [All topics per The Great Controversy by Ellen G. White.]
Wellness Sunday – Saints and Sickness; Monday – All Drugs Affect Your Mind; Tuesday – “What does your plate look like?” Wednesday – “Laziness will kill you!” Thursday – 9 Ways TV Affects Your Health; Friday – Food Worse Than Flesh of Dead Animals
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2 Timothy 1:12 For the which cause I also suffer these things: nevertheless I am not ashamed: for I know whom I have believed, and am persuaded that he is able to keep that which I have committed unto him against that day.
For Heaven’s Sake…
“Though the finite minds of men are inadequate to enter into the counsels of the Infinite One, or to understand fully the working out of His purposes, yet often it is because of some error or neglect on their own part that they so dimly comprehend the messages of Heaven. Not infrequently the minds of the people, and even of God’s servants, are so blinded by human opinions, the traditions and false teaching of men, that they are able only partially to grasp the great things which He has revealed in His word. Thus it was with the disciples of Christ, even when the Saviour was with them in person. Their minds had become imbued with the popular conception of the Messiah as a temporal prince, who was to exalt Israel to the throne of the universal empire, and they could not understand the meaning of His words foretelling His sufferings and death. {GC 344.4}
“Christ Himself had sent them forth with the message: ‘The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand: repent ye, and believe the gospel.’ Mark 1:15. That message was based on the prophecy of Daniel 9. The sixty-nine weeks were declared by the angel to extend to ‘the Messiah the Prince,’ and with high hopes and joyful anticipations the disciples looked forward to the establishment of Messiah’s kingdom at Jerusalem to rule over the whole earth. {GC 345.1}
“They preached the message which Christ had committed to them, though they themselves misapprehended its meaning. While their announcement was founded on Daniel 9:25, they did not see, in the next verse of the same chapter, that Messiah was to be cut off. From their very birth their hearts had been set upon the anticipated glory of an earthly empire, and this blinded their understanding alike to the specifications of the prophecy and to the words of Christ. {GC 345.2}
“They performed their duty in presenting to the Jewish nation the invitation of mercy, and then, at the very time when they expected to see their Lord ascend the throne of David, they beheld Him seized as a malefactor, scourged, derided, and condemned, and lifted up on the cross of Calvary. What despair and anguish wrung the hearts of those disciples during the days while their Lord was sleeping in the tomb! {GC 345.3}
“Christ had come at the exact time and in the manner foretold by prophecy. The testimony of Scripture had been fulfilled in every detail of His ministry. He had preached the message of salvation, and ‘His word was with power.’ The hearts of His hearers had witnessed that it was of Heaven. The word and the Spirit of God attested the divine commission of His Son. {GC 346.1}
“The disciples still clung with undying affection to their beloved Master. And yet their minds were shrouded in uncertainty and doubt. In their anguish they did not then recall the words of Christ pointing forward to His suffering and death. If Jesus of Nazareth had been the true Messiah, would they have been thus plunged in grief and disappointment? This was the question that tortured their souls while the Saviour lay in His sepulcher during the hopeless hours of that Sabbath which intervened between His death and His resurrection. {GC 346.2}
“Though the night of sorrow gathered dark about these followers of Jesus, yet were they not forsaken. Saith the prophet: ‘When I sit in darkness, the Lord shall be a light unto me…. He will bring me forth to the light, and I shall behold His righteousness.’ ‘Yea, the darkness hideth not from Thee; but the night shineth as the day: the darkness and the light are both alike to Thee.’ God hath spoken: ‘Unto the upright there ariseth light in the darkness.’ ‘I will bring the blind by a way that they knew not; I will lead them in paths that they have not known: I will make darkness light before them, and crooked things straight. These things will I do unto them, and not forsake them.’ Micah 7:8, 9; Psalm 139:12; 112:4; Isaiah 42:16. {GC 346.3}
“The announcement which had been made by the disciples in the name of the Lord was in every particular correct, and the events to which it pointed were even then taking place. ‘The time is fulfilled, the kingdom of God is at hand,’ had been their message. At the expiration of ‘the time’—the sixty-nine weeks of Daniel 9, which were to extend to the Messiah, ‘the Anointed One’—Christ had received the anointing of the Spirit after His baptism by John in Jordan. And the ‘kingdom of God’ which they had declared to be at hand was established by the death of Christ. This kingdom was not, as they had been taught to believe, an earthly empire. Nor was it that future, immortal kingdom which shall be set up when ‘the kingdom and dominion, and the greatness of the kingdom under the whole heaven, shall be given to the people of the saints of the Most High;’ that everlasting kingdom, in which ‘all dominions shall serve and obey Him.’ Daniel 7:27. . . . {GC 346.4}
“. . . As the early disciples declared, ‘The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand,’ based on the prophecy of Daniel 9, while they failed to perceive that the death of the Messiah was foretold in the same scripture, so Miller and his associates preached the message based on Daniel 8:14 and Revelation 14:7, and failed to see that there were still other messages brought to view in Revelation 14, which were also to be given before the advent of the Lord. As the disciples were mistaken in regard to the kingdom to be set up at the end of the seventy weeks, so Adventists were mistaken in regard to the event to take place at the expiration of the 2300 days. In both cases there was an acceptance of, or rather an adherence to, popular errors that blinded the mind to the truth. Both classes fulfilled the will of God in delivering the message which He desired to be given, and both, through their own misapprehension of their message, suffered disappointment. {GC 352.3}
“Yet God accomplished His own beneficent purpose in permitting the warning of the judgment to be given just as it was. The great day was at hand, and in His providence the people were brought to the test of a definite time, in order to reveal to them what was in their hearts. The message was designed for the testing and purification of the church. They were to be led to see whether their affections were set upon this world or upon Christ and heaven. They professed to love the Saviour; now they were to prove their love. Were they ready to renounce their worldly hopes and ambitions, and welcome with joy the advent of their Lord? The message was designed to enable them to discern their true spiritual state; it was sent in mercy to arouse them to seek the Lord with repentance and humiliation.” {GC 353.1}
(This study is based on chapter 19, “Light Through Darkness” in the book The Great Controversy (GC), by Ellen G. White.)
For Health’s Sake…
It is called cheese: a dairy product. Although it is a popular product, it is not a safe food to eat. It causes constipation. It is the most constipating food that we know. It raises cholesterol levels, and it leads to heart attacks. It produces the plaque that causes heart disease.
There are yummy substitutes for cheese, including yeast flakes instead of cheese for your popcorn. For substitute cheese recipes, we recommend the Vegetarian Cookbook. These recipes allow you to have the taste of cheese without its harmful effects. It is located on the website of Times of Refreshing Wellness Ministry.