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Jesus Is Coming SoonLesson One

I. What wonderful promise did Jesus give His disciples in John 14:1-3?

Answer: ______________________________________________________

2. What comforting message did Jesus send by two angels as He went back to heaven? Acts 1:9-11

Answer: ______________________________________________________

3. How will Jesus come, according to Matt. 24:27, 30?

Answer: ______________________________________________________

4. How many will see Jesus when He comes back to earth again? Rev. 1:7

Answer: ______________________________________________________

5. Matt. 25:31 tells who are coming with Jesus. Who are they?

Answer: ______________________________________________________

6. What are they coming for? Where will we be taken? Matt. 24:31; I Thess. 4:16-18

Answer: ______________________________________________________

7. In Matt. 23:39 Jesus told His disciples they wouldn’t see Him again after He left until the second coming. What did the disciples want to know in Matt. 24:1-3?

Answer: ______________________________________________________

(NOTE: Read Matt. 24 this week and see how many signs you can find.)

8. In view of the second coming of Christ, what question does Peter ask concerning our daily lives in 2 Peter 3:11?

9. What will be the condition of God’s people when Jesus comes? 2 Peter 3:14

Answer: ______________________________________________________

10. What does John 14:27 say Jesus will leave with us? Can we have that peace now?

Answer: ______________________________________________________

11. A PerSonAl DeCISIon: In view of Jesus’ soon coming, I will ask for His peace in the midst of my problems and for the power to live a better life.

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He Is Coming In our DayLesson Two

I. What is the answer to all of the world’s problems? John 14:1-3

Answer: ______________________________________________________

2. Name some of the signs found in Luke 21:25-27 that show that the coming of Jesus is near?

Answer: ______________________________________________________

3. What expressions do we see in 2 Tim. 3:1-5 that show us that the breakdown of homes is one of the signs of the end?

Answer: ______________________________________________________

4. What are the heavenly signs spoken of in Matt. 24:29-30 that show that Jesus is soon to come again?

Answer: ______________________________________________________

5. Read the description of the dark day in The Great Controversy pages 306-308. What was the date of this heavenly sign?

Answer: ______________________________________________________

6. When did the stars fall? GC 333.334

Answer: ______________________________________________________

7. How near is Jesus’ coming according to Matt. 24:33.34?

Answer: ______________________________________________________

8. What is Jesus waiting for? Rev. 3:20

Answer: ______________________________________________________

9. A PerSonAl QueSTIon: Will you open your heart to Jesus and let Him come in and take complete charge of your life?

10. A PerSonAl DeCISIon: I will Jet Jesus come in and not keep Him waiting at my heart’s door any longer.

ASSIGnMenT: Read Rev. 21 and 22.

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What Heaven Will Be likeLesson Three

I. What is heaven called in Heb. 11:16?

Answer: ______________________________________________________

2. Of what are the walls of the city made? The foundations? The gates? The streets? Rev. 21:10-12,18-19,21

Answer: Walls _________________________________________________

Foundations ___________________________________________

Gates ________________________________________________

Streets ________________________________________________

3. What appeals to you most as you read the description in Rev. 22:14?

Answer: ______________________________________________________

4. What does it tell us in Rev. 14:1 will be written in the foreheads of God’s people?

Answer: ______________________________________________________

5. What does verse 5 tell about their spiritual experience?

Answer: ______________________________________________________

6. According to verses 2-4, what are some of the things we will have the privilege of doing?

Answer: ______________________________________________________

7. What are we told in Rev. 1:1,2 will happen to the city? And who is going to live with us? Verse 3

Answer: ______________________________________________________

9. What will we forget? lsa. 65:16,17

Answer: ______________________________________________________

10. What other joy does Jesus want us to have? Isa. 65:21,22

Answer : _____________________________________________________

11. Who can we look forward to having with us according verse 23?

Answer: ______________________________________________________

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12. What does verse 25 tell us will be the condition of the animals?

Answer: ______________________________________________________

13. What is the highway in the new Earth called? Isa. 35:8.

Answer: ______________________________________________________

14. A PerSonAl DeCISIon: By God’s grace, I will walk in the way of holiness now so I can continue to walk that way in the earth made new.

ASSIGnMenT: Read Dan. 2. The Great Controversy, Chap. 42.

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Is The Bible True?Lesson Four

I. Why has God told us things before they come to pass? John 14:29

Answer: ______________________________________________________

2. Whose secrets were revealed in the king’s dream? Dan. 2:28

Answer: ______________________________________________________

3. To what time was this dream to extend? Vs. 28,29

Answer: ______________________________________________________

4. According to Daniel 2:31, what did the king see in his dream?

Answer: ______________________________________________________

5. Can you name the metals that the different parts were made of? Vs. 32,33

Answer: Head ____________________________________________

Breast and arms ___________________________________________

Thighs ___________________________________________________

Legs _____________________________________________________

Feet _____________________________________________________

6. What hit the image and what did it become? Vs. 34,35

Answer: ______________________________________________________

7. What was represented by the head of gold? Vs. 38

Answer: ______________________________________________________

8. Can you name the world kingdoms that came after Babylon?

Answer: Head of gold - Babylon

Breast and arms of silver _________________________________

Thighs of brass _________________________________________

Legs of iron ___________________________________________

9. What does verse 41 say would happen to the fourth world empire?

Answer: ______________________________________________________

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10. Would these nations ever reunite to form a world empire again? Vs. 43

Answer: ______________________________________________________

11. What is the next great event to happen? Vs. 44

Answer: ______________________________________________________ 12. What does Isa. 11:9 tell us of the nature of God’s kingdom?

Answer: ______________________________________________________

13. In 1 John 4:8 we read that God is love. Wouldn’t you like to become better acquainted with this wonderful Friend and ask Him to give you more of His love so you will be ready to have a part in His kingdom of love?

Answer: ______________________________________________________

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The Message For TodayLesson Five

I. What event do we read about in Rev. 14:14?

Answer: ______________________________________________________

2. How many messages are-given just before Jesus’ second coming? Rev. 14:6,8,9

Answer: ______________________________________________________ 3. What docs the first angel’s message say about the judgment? Rev. 14:7

Answer: ______________________________________________________

4. Another picture of the judgment in Rev. 22:11 tells us that when Jesus is finished with the judging, the righteous will remain ___________________ and the unjust will remain ___________________

5. What does Jesus do right after this announcement and what does He bring with Him? Rev. 22:12

Answer: ______________________________________________________

6. What is brought into judgment? Eccl. 12:14

Answer: ______________________________________________________

7. What are we told to do in verse 13?

Answer: ______________________________________________________

8. What does 1 John 3:4 tell us that sin is?

Answer: ______________________________________________________

9. What is the standard in the judgment according to James 2:12?

Answer: ______________________________________________________

10. How many will be judged? 2 Cor. 5:10

Answer: ______________________________________________________

11. How can we have our sins forgiven and be ready to stand in the judgment? 1 John 1:9

Answer: ______________________________________________________

12. A PerSonAl QueSTIon: Do you want to confess all of your sins to Jesus knowing that He will forgive and take you safely through the judgment?

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The Place of the JudgmentLesson Six

1. Where is God’s last warning message found?

Answer: ______________________________________________________

2. In verse 7 of Rev. 14, what does it tell us will take place before Jesus comes?

Answer: ______________________________________________________

3. Who is the judge? Where is He and what is He doing? Ps. 50:6, 11:4

Answer: ______________________________________________________

4. What other names are given for the temple? Heb. 8:2,5

Answer: ______________________________________________________

5. Of what did God give Moses a copy so we could understand the judgment better? Heb. 8:1-5

Answer: ______________________________________________________

6. Turn to Heb. 9:1-5 and answer the following questions:

A. How many rooms were there in the earthly sanctuary?

Answer: ______________________________________________________

B. What were some of the articles of furniture in the first apartment?

Answer: ______________________________________________________

C. What was in the second room?

Answer: ______________________________________________________ 7. What was put inside the ark that was found in the second apartment? Deut. 10:1-2

Answer: ______________________________________________________

8. Who wrote the law, and what was it written on? Deut. 10:1-4

Answer: ______________________________________________________

9. Besides the candlestick of Rev. 4:5 in the heavenly sanctuary, what other article of furniture is mentioned in Rev. 8:3?

Answer: ______________________________________________________

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10. Is that most important article of furniture, the ark with the law, also in the heavenly sanctuary? Rev. 11:19

Answer: ______________________________________________________

11. What does James 2:12 tell us we are judged by? Answer: ______________________________________________________

12. Where is the judgment going on now? (Remember that the Judge and the law are both in the Most Holy Place in the sanctuary in heaven.)

Answer: ______________________________________________________

13. What does God call breaking the law? 1 John 3:4 Answer: ______________________________________________________

14. What cleanses from sin? 1 John 1:7 Answer: ______________________________________________________

15. Was blood used in the sanctuary service to cleanse? Heb. 9:6,7 Answer: ______________________________________________________

16. A PerSonAl QueSTIon: Do you want the blood of Jesus to cleanse you from all sin?

ASSIGnMenT: Read Lev. 4, CG 411-417

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How Sins are CoveredLesson Seven

1. What does Rev. 14:7 say about the judgment?

Answer: ______________________________________________________

2. Where is the judgment going on and what is being considered in the judgment?

Answer: ______________________________________________________

3. God had Moses make an earthly sanctuary so that in studying it and its services we might understand what is going on in the heavenly sanctuary. How many rooms and phases of service were in the earthly sanctuary? Heb. 9:6,7

Answer: ______________________________________________________

4. The priest went daily into the first room. How often did he go into the second room? Heb. 9:7

Answer: ______________________________________________________

5. According to 1 John 1:9, what two things does Jesus do about our sins? Answer: ______________________________________________________

6. What does David call forgiveness in Ps 32:1?

Answer: ______________________________________________________

7. Leviticus 4 gives the story of the covering of sins. What had the man done? Vs. 1

Answer: ______________________________________________________

8. What is sin? 1 John 3:4

Answer: ______________________________________________________

9. What are the wages of sin? Rom. 6:23

Answer: ______________________________________________________

10. God doesn’t want us to die, so He shows us His way out of His problem and ours. Where is God’s way found? Ps 77:13

Answer: ______________________________________________________

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11. What did the sinner, even though he was a priest, have to bring to take his place? What did he do to the substitute after confessing his sins over its head? Lev. 4:3,4

Answer: ______________________________________________________

12. After the sinner had killed the animal, where did the priest take the blood to cover the sins? Lev. 4:5-7

Answer: ______________________________________________________

13. Some of the animals used for the sin offering were lambs (see Lev. 4:32). What is Jesus called? John 1:29

Answer: ______________________________________________________

14. Jesus is likened to a lamb also in Isa. 53:6,7. What was laid upon Him?

Answer: ______________________________________________________

16. In Moses’ sanctuary the priest covered the sins. Who is our priest in the heavenly sanctuary? Heb. 4:14

Answer: ______________________________________________________

17. A PerSonAl DeCISIon: I will give all of my sins to Jesus to be covered by His precious blood.

ASSIGnMenT: Read “Repentance” in Steps to Christ, and Lev. 16.

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The Blotting out of SinsLesson Eight

1. What does Jesus say He will do with our sins when He forgives us? Rom. 4:7

Answer: ______________________________________________________

2. What else does He want to do with our sins? Acts 3:19

Answer: ______________________________________________________

3. How often did the priest go into the most holy place? Heb. 9:6,7

Answer: ______________________________________________________

4. What did he do there? Lev. 16:33,34

Answer: ______________________________________________________

5. What did the atonement accomplish for the people? Lev. 16:30

Answer: ______________________________________________________

6. What animals were used in this service? Lev. 16:7

Answer: ______________________________________________________

7. What did the two animals represent? Lev. 16:8

Answer: ______________________________________________________

8. What happened to the Lord’s goat? Lev. 16:9,15

Answer: ______________________________________________________

9. What else was reconciled to cleansed besides the people? Lev. 16:20

Answer: ______________________________________________________

10. After the Lord’s goat had died for the sins of the people, what happened to the scapegoat which represented Satan? Lev. 16:21,22

Answer: ______________________________________________________

11. Who is our high priest in the heavenly sanctuary? Heb. 4:14; 8:1

Answer: ______________________________________________________

12. Does the heavenly sanctuary need cleansing? Heb. 9:23

Answer: ______________________________________________________

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13. Whose blood does He use? Heb. 9:24-26

Answer: ______________________________________________________

14. What does Acts 3:19 say will be done to our sins?

Answer: ______________________________________________________

15. What happens, according to Acts 3:20, after the blotting out of sins takes place? See also Rev. 14:14

Answer: ______________________________________________________

16. What event is mentioned as coming before Jesus comes? Rev. 14:7

Answer: ______________________________________________________

17. What expression in Heb. 9:27,28 shows that when Jesus comes, after the judgment, the sins have been blotted out?

Answer: ______________________________________________________

18. A PerSonAl DeCISIon: I want Jesus to cleanse my heart of all sin so He can blot out my sins in heaven.

ASSIGnMenT: Read Lev. 23:27-32, GC 417-422

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The Day of AtonementLesson Nine

1. In the ancient Day of Atonement what three places did the priest cleanse with the blood of the goat that represented Christ? Lev. 16:20 Answer: ______________________________________________________

2. As the people gathered around the sanctuary on that day, what were they to do? Lev. 23:27

Answer: ______________________________________________________

3. According to verse 28, what were they to do about their regular work business?

Answer: ______________________________________________________

4. What would happen to the people who refused to afflict their souls or who worked on that day? Vs. 23:29,30

Answer: ______________________________________________________

5. What does Heb. 9:25,26 say that Jesus is going to do in the end of the world?

Answer: ______________________________________________________

6. In Heb. 10:19-22 there is a call to come to the heavenly sanctuary in full assurance on __________________________________________Verse 22

7. What should our prayer be? Psalm 139:23,24

Answer: ______________________________________________________

8. How can we fulfill the requirement of doing no work, since our Day of Atonement last more than a literal day? Matt. 6:33

Answer: ______________________________________________________

9. Will some be cut off in this antitypical Day of Atonement? Rev. 22:11,12

Answer: ______________________________________________________

10. What kind of sins did David pray to be freed from? Psalm 19:12

Answer: ______________________________________________________

11. What are we told in Eccl. 12:13,14 will be brought into judgment?

Answer: ______________________________________________________

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12. Might there be times when we would need to confess to other as well as to Jesus? James 5:16

Answer: ______________________________________________________

13. In Psalms 119:9, David ask s about how we can be cleansed. What is the answer?

Answer: ______________________________________________________

14. A PerSonAl DeCISIon: I will spend time this week searching my heart to find any secret sins, and the Bible to find new duties.

ASSIGnMenT: Read GC 419-422, Daniel 8:14, Daniel 9:24-27

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The Time of JudgmentLesson Ten

1. In Psalm 77:13 we are told that God’s way is in the __________________

2. At the end of what period of time was the sanctuary to be cleansed according to Daniel 8:14?

Answer: ______________________________________________________

3. What time of the world’s history was that to be? Verse 17

Answer: ______________________________________________________

4. In prophetic time what does a day stand for? Ezek. 4:6

Answer: ______________________________________________________

5. Who came back to Daniel to tell him more about the 2300 days? Daniel 9:21-23 Answer: ______________________________________________________

6. As we read verse 25 we see that starting date of this prophecy. This commandment that was to restore and build Jerusalem went forth in 457 B.C. How many weeks would it be from then until the Messiah?

Answer: ______________________________________________________

7. Sixty-nine weeks equals 483 days which would be 483 literal years. This brings us to 27 A.D. This was the year that Jesus began His work as the ____________________________________________ Verse 25

Answer: ______________________________________________________

8. What are we told in verse 26 would happen to the Messiah?

Answer: ______________________________________________________

9. What period is mentioned in verse 27?

Answer: ______________________________________________________

10. What would happen in the midst of the week or 7 years? Verse 27

Answer: ______________________________________________________

(noTe: This happened when Jesus died as our Lamb in A.D. 31. No more animal sacrifices were needed.)

11. Add this 1 week or 7 years to A.D. 27; what date do you get?

Answer: ______________________________________________________

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12. How long did God give the Jew to get ready for the Messiah? Verse 24

Answer: ______________________________________________________

(noTe: Seventy weeks equal 490 days or years and reaches from 457 B.C. to 34 A.D. At this time the Jews were rejected and the gospel went to the Gentiles)

13. Subtract 490 years from the 2300 years and you get 1810 years. Add 1810 to 34 A.D. and you get the date 1844. According to Daniel 8:14, what was to happen then?

Answer: ______________________________________________________

14. What is this time also called? Rev 14:7

Answer: ______________________________________________________

15. Here is a chart of this time prophecy. Can you put in the five dates?

16. A PerSonAl QueSTIon: Aren’t you glad that the sanctuary is still open so you can send your sins in before He finishes the cleansing?

Answer: ______________________________________________________

ASSIGnMenT: Read GC 409, 410 and 423-432

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The Work of the JudgmentLesson Eleven

1. What began in the year 1844? Rev. 14:7

Answer: ______________________________________________________

2. Daniel 7:9,10 is a picture of the judgment. What were opened as soon as the judgment began? Verse 10

Answer: ______________________________________________________

3. What is one of the books of the judgment as mentioned in Rev 3:5?

Answer: ______________________________________________________

4. What two kinds of deed are recorded in the books? Eccl 12:13,14

Answer: ______________________________________________________

5. What is recorded in the Book of Remembrance? Mal. 3:16,17

Answer: ______________________________________________________

6. What is recorded besides our evil deeds? Rom. 2:16

Answer: ______________________________________________________

7. Who has promised to be our lawyer or advocate according to 1 John 2:1? Answer: ______________________________________________________

8. There are two experiences of blotting out in the judgment. What will sinners have blotted out? Exod. 32:33

Answer: ______________________________________________________

9. What does Jesus really want to blot out? Acts. 3:19 Answer: ______________________________________________________

10. What must we do with sin before Jesus can blot it out? Rev. 3:5 Answer: ______________________________________________________

11. What does Hebrews 6:6 tell us we do to Jesus when we fall? Answer: ______________________________________________________

12. A PerSonAl QueSTIon: How do you feel about sin after you have read of Jesus’ death in John 19 (or Matthew 26, Mark 15, Luke 13. Isaiah 53, or Psalm 22)?

Answer: ______________________________________________________

13. A PerSonAl DeCISIon: I want to think each day of what my sins have done to Jesus so I won’t hurt Him again.

ASSIGnMenT: Read GC 479-483

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You & Your SinsLesson Twelve

1. Where does sin come from according to 1 John 3:8?

Answer: ______________________________________________________

2. What does James tells us in James 1:14,15 that helps us see that sin has become a part of us all? Answer: ______________________________________________________

3. What is the first step in overcoming sin? Prov. 28:13

Answer: ______________________________________________________

4. How must we feel about sin and what must we do? Acts 3:19

Answer: ______________________________________________________

5. What experience will help us really feel sorry for our sins? Zech. 12:10

Answer: ______________________________________________________

6. As we look upon Jesus whom our sins have pierced, as we read Isa. 53, it will not only make us sorry for our sins after we have committed them, but it will help us feel sorry __________________________________ we commit them.

7. How can we know what sin is? Rom. 3:20

Answer: ______________________________________________________

8. Though God winked at the ignorance of those who hadn’t yet heard about the judgment hour message, what does God want us to do now that light is shining upon us? Acts 17:30,31

Answer: ______________________________________________________

9. Where does God want to write His law? What happy experience will come when this is done? Heb. 10:16-18

Answer: ______________________________________________________

10. A PerSonAl DeCISIon: By God’s grace I will spend some time every day reading Isa. 53 or some other portion of His word that will help me to be sorry for sin before I sin. I will study His law and look for new duties He may have for new duties He may have for me to perform. ASSIGnMenT: Read again “Repentance” in Steps to Christ and also “The Test of Discipleship.” Read Isaiah 53.

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The law & The JudgmentLesson Thirteen

1. What does Revelation 14:7 tell us about the judgment?

Answer: ______________________________________________________

2. In Revelation 11:19, we see another picture of the judgment. What was seen when the temple of God was opened in heaven? (NOTE: “Testament” is another word for “law”)

Answer: ______________________________________________________

3. According to James 2:12, what are we judged by?

Answer: ______________________________________________________ 4. We find the law recorded in Exodus 20. In verse 1, how did God communicate the law to Israel?

Answer: ______________________________________________________

5. After speaking the law, what next did God do? Exod. 31:13

Answer: ______________________________________________________

6. What did Moses do with the tables of stones on which the law was written by the finger of God? Deut. 10:5

Answer: ______________________________________________________

7. When Moses was telling about the giving of the law in Deut. 5:22, how much does he say God added to the law?

Answer: ______________________________________________________

8. Did Jesus ever take anything away from the law? Matt. 5:17,18

Answer: ______________________________________________________

9. What is man’s whole duty? Eccl. 12:13

Answer: ______________________________________________________

(noTe: This is why God never added to or subtracted from His law.)

10. What is the purpose of the law? James 2:12, Rom. 3:20

Answer: ______________________________________________________

11. Where does God promise to write His law? Heb 8:10

Answer: ______________________________________________________

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12. A PerSonAl QueSTIon: Do you want God to write His law in your heart and mind?

Answer: ______________________________________________________

13. A PerSonAl DeCISIon: I will study God’s law this week so He can write it in my heart and so I can understand more of His will for me.

ASSIGnMenT: Read GC 483-491; study the Ten Commandments in Exodus 20.

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The Great Discovery of 1844Lesson Fourteen

1. According to Revelation 14:7, what is going on right now? Answer: ______________________________________________________

2. This judgment which began in 1844 is pictured in Revelation 11:19. When the judgment room was opened, what was seen?

Answer: ______________________________________________________

3. Where in the Bible do we find a copy of this law that is in the ark?

Answer: ______________________________________________________

4. When our duty to God conflicts with what relatives or friends want us to do, what should we do according to the first commandment? Exod. 20:3

Answer: ______________________________________________________

5. In verses 4-6 we are told not to worship idols. It is possible to make idol of money or a job? Answer: ______________________________________________________

6. Do you think the third commandment includes more than common swearing? Verse 7

Answer: ______________________________________________________

7. How does Mark 7:7 describe vain worship?

Answer: ______________________________________________________

8. Which day does Exod. 20:8-11 say is the Sabbath? (This is the discovery made by God’s people in 1844.)

Answer: ______________________________________________________

9. Why was this such an important discovery? Exod. 20:11

Answer: ______________________________________________________

10. When was that blessing in the Sabbath? Gen. 2:2,3

Answer: ______________________________________________________

11. What did God do on that day? Gen. 2:2,3

Answer: ______________________________________________________

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12. How does God want us to regard the Sabbath? Isa. 56:2

Answer: ______________________________________________________

13. Let’s compare the days of the week to glasses- six full of water and the seventh full of grape juice. Which one would you take to get the grape juice? Which day must we keep in order to get the Sabbath blessing?

Answer: ______________________________________________________

14. What we are told in Revelation 22:14 will happen to the happy commandment keepers?

Answer: ______________________________________________________

15. What will we do on the Sabbath in the earth made new? Isa 66:22,23

Answer: ______________________________________________________

16. A PerSonAl DeCISIon: I will begin this coming Saturday to find the happy experience of Sabbath-keeping.

ASSIGnMenT: GC 433-436; PP 46-48

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The Seal of GodLesson Fifteen

1. Whom are we called to worship in Revelation 14:7?

Answer: ______________________________________________________

2. Why is God worthy to receive our worship? Rev 4:11

Answer: ______________________________________________________

3. What has God given us as a reminder of creation? Exod. 20:8-11

Answer: ______________________________________________________

4. What is the Sabbath called in Exodus 31:16,17?

Answer: ______________________________________________________

5. What is the Sabbath a SIGN of according to Ezekiel 20:20?

Answer: ______________________________________________________

6. Again, in Ezekiel 20:12, the Sabbath is called a SIGN. Of what is it a sign in the verse?

Answer: ______________________________________________________

7. How much becomes new when we become Christians? 2 Cor 5:17

Answer: ______________________________________________________

8. What was Jesus’ custom on the Sabbath? Luke 4:16

Answer: ______________________________________________________

9. In Luke 23:52-56 we read about how Jesus was laid in the tomb after His crucifixion. He rested in the tomb over the Sabbath. What did His followers do on the Sabbath?

Answer: ______________________________________________________

10. On what day was Jesus resurrected? Luke 24:1-3

Answer: ______________________________________________________

11. What did the disciples do about Sabbath-keeping after the resurrection? Read Acts 13:14,42-44; 16:13;17:2; 18:4. (It is clear from these verses that Sabbath-keeping was still the custom after the resurrection.)

Answer: ______________________________________________________

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12. In Revelation 7:1-3 we have a picture of the angels holding the winds of strife from blowing complete destruction on earth until something is done. What is it?

Answer: ______________________________________________________

13. In Ezekiel 9:4-6 the seal, or sign, is called a MARK. Where is this MARK placed?

Answer: ______________________________________________________

14. How will we be spared in the great slaughter? Ezek. 9:4-6

Answer: ______________________________________________________

15. A PerSonAl QueSTIon: Don’t you want your whole family under God’s Seal of protection, the seventh-day Sabbath?

Answer: ______________________________________________________

ASSIGnMenT: Read GC 436-438, 451-455; also Daniel 7

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How Sunday-Keeping Came InLesson Sixteen

1. What does Daniel 7:25 say a power will arise to do about “times and laws” (or “sacred seasons and the law”- Smith Goodspeed)?

Answer: ______________________________________________________

2. A thought question: What part of the law has to do with “times” or “sacred seasons”?

Answer: ______________________________________________________

3. In symbolic prophecy what does a beast represent? Daniel 7:23 (NOTE: This fourth beast was Rome, the same as the fourth part of the image in Daniel 2.)

Answer: ______________________________________________________

4. What followed the fourth beast or Rome? Verse 24

Answer: ______________________________________________________

5. According to Daniel 7:8, what came up after the ten kingdoms?

Answer: ______________________________________________________

6. Where did the “little horn” arise? Verse 23,24

Answer: ______________________________________________________

(noTe: Since the fourth beast was Rome, this little horn must be a Roman power)

7. What does it do to the saints? Verse 25

Answer: ______________________________________________________

8. How long was this kingdom to reign? Verse 25

Answer: ______________________________________________________

(noTe: A time equals a year. See Daniel 11:13, margin. Times would be two years, and half a time would be half a year, making a total of 1260 days, 360 days being in a Jewish year.)

9. We find in symbolic prophecy that a day stands for a year (Ezekiel 4:6). So how many years would this 1260 days represent?

Answer: ______________________________________________________

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10. God’s law is in the ark in the most holy place in the heavenly sanctuary. Can any man change this law? Can this little horn power really change this law? Verse 25. (Notice he just thinks he can.) Matt. 5:17,18

Answer: ______________________________________________________

11. What power fits the description given here in Daniel 7- a Roman power that blasphemes God, persecutes the saints, continues for 1260 years, and tries to change God’s law?

Answer: ______________________________________________________

12. Has the little horn power tried to change God’s law? The Great Controversy, p. 448

Answer: ______________________________________________________

13. How does Mark 7:7 describe vain worship?

Answer: ______________________________________________________

14. What does Eccl. 12:13 tell us we should do?

Answer: ______________________________________________________

15. A PerSonAl QueSTIon: The closing controversy will be over which commandments you will keep God’s or man’s. Which will you choose?

Answer: ______________________________________________________

ASSIGnMenT: Read Rev. 14:9-14, GC 446-450

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Who is the Beast?Lesson Seventeen

1. What are we warned not to worship in Revelation 14:9-14?

Answer: ______________________________________________________

2. What does a beast represent? Daniel 7:23

Answer: ______________________________________________________

3. Revelation 13 describes this beast or kingdom in detail. Where does it get its seat? Rev. 13:1,2

Answer: ______________________________________________________

4. According to Revelation 12:3-5, who was this dragon beast?

Answer: ______________________________________________________

(noTe: While the dragon primarily represents Satan, it is interesting to note that the dragon has seven heads. Satan uses various world powers to try to destroy God’s work. In this case it was Herod, a Roman governor, who tried to kill Jesus when He was born. It was Pilate, another Roman ruler who finally put Him to death. So the dragon represents Satan working through pagan Rome in this prophecy.)

5. What are three other things that Revelation 13:5-7 tells us about this power?

Answer: ______________________________________________________ (noTe: If we multiply 42 by 30 we get 1260 days or literal years)

6. What happens to the beast? Verse 3

Answer: ______________________________________________________

7. What happens to the wound? Verse 3

Answer: ______________________________________________________

8. Then what does everyone do? Verse 3 & 4

Answer: ______________________________________________________

9. The power which followed pagan Rome and took its seat and authority was the papacy, or the Roman Catholic Church. What else besides God’s name does it blaspheme? Verse 6

Answer: ______________________________________________________

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10. The Catholic Church was given its power in AD 538; 1260 years later, in 1798, what happened to it that gave it a deadly wound? GC 439:2

Answer: ______________________________________________________

11. The deadly wound of Revelation 13:3 has been healed. The pope’s power has been restored and the world is wondering. What more will the world do besides wonder, according to verse 8?

Answer: ______________________________________________________

12. In Revelation 14:9,10 we are warned not to worship the beast. Who does Revelation 14:7 call us to worship?

Answer: ______________________________________________________

13. Those who worship Him, God calls saints. What will they keep? Rev 14:12

Answer: ______________________________________________________

14. A PerSonAl DeCISIon: I choose today to follow God and keep His commandments.

ASSIGnMenT: Read Revelation 13; begin chapter in Great Controversy, p. 563-- “Aims of the Papacy.”

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Who is the Two-Horned Beast?Lesson Eighteen

1. What does the third angel’s message warn against? Rev. 14:9,10

Answer: ______________________________________________________

2. Who is the beast?

Answer: ______________________________________________________

(noTe: A full description of the beast is given in Rev. 13:1-9.)

3. What does Daniel 7:25 say the little horn power (papacy) would attempt to do to the law?

Answer: ______________________________________________________

4. What did the leopard beast (papacy) do to God’s people for 1260 years? Rev. 13:7.

Answer: ______________________________________________________

5. What would happen to this persecuting power? Rev. 13:10

Answer: ______________________________________________________

(noTe: At the end of this 1260 years, in 1798 the pope was taken captive by the French general.)

6. Right at this time, what did the prophet see coming up? Rev. 13:11

Answer: ______________________________________________________

7. What did this new beast or nation come out of? Rev 13:11

Answer: ______________________________________________________

8. What do “waters” represent according to Rev. 17:15?

Answer: ______________________________________________________

(noTe: If waters represent multitudes of peoples, the earth would represent the opposite-- or a sparsely populated land.)

9. How many horns does this beast have and what are they like? Rev. 13:11

Answer: ______________________________________________________

(noTe: Notice, these horns are not crowned. This nation will have neither a pope nor a king, and it will have the principles of Jesus, the Lamb. John 1:29)

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10. How did Jesus feel on church and state matters? Matt. 22:21

Answer: ______________________________________________________

11. Did Jesus force any to accept His religion? John 12:47

Answer: ______________________________________________________

12. What nation does this beast of Rev. 13:11 represent? What nation was coming up around in 1798 in a sparsely settle area, giving freedom in church and state?

Answer: ______________________________________________________

13. In Daniel 3 we read a story of how a king tried to force his religion on everyone, but three Hebrew boys were true to God even in the face of death. Do you think it was right for the king to try to force everyone to believe as he did? Answer: ______________________________________________________

14. A PerSonAl DeCISIon: By God’s grace I want to be true to Him and His principles, no matter what may come.

ASSIGnMenT: Read GC 439-442 and Daniel 3

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What is the Image to the Beast?Lesson Nineteen

1. Where is God’s last message to be found?

Answer: ______________________________________________________

2. What are we warned not to worship in Rev. 14:9,10?

Answer: ______________________________________________________

(noTe: Since the beast is the papacy, we will expect the image to the beast to be like the Catholic Church.)

3. Who makes the image according to Rev. 13:11,14?

Answer: ______________________________________________________

4. Who is this two-horned beast? What nation as emerging around 1798 in a sparsely settled land, believing in a free state and a free church?

Answer: ______________________________________________________

5. What does the last line of verse 11 say this lamb-like beast power will do?

Answer: ______________________________________________________

6. Whose power will he use, according to verse 12?

Answer: ______________________________________________________

7. What will he make people do? Verse 12.

Answer: ______________________________________________________

8. What will he use to convince the people that he is right? Verse 13.

Answer: ______________________________________________________

9. What does he ask the people to do? Verse 14.

Answer: ______________________________________________________

10. What will they say should be done to those who do not worship the image to the beast? Verse 15.

Answer: ______________________________________________________

11. An image is a likeness. The image to the beast is a likeness of the Catholic Church which will be made in the United States. Underline some of the things the Catholic Church has done: made religious laws, persecuted, killed, united church and state.

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12. A THouGHT QueSTIon: Do you think the U.S. will follow the papacy in all these things?

Answer: ______________________________________________________

13. Are there religious laws in the U.S.?

Answer: Yes, nearly every state has Sunday blue laws. On May 29, 1962, the Supreme Court rules the Sunday laws in three states constitutional.

14. Has this brought persecution in the past?

Answer: Yes, here is one instance of many that could be given. In Tennessee several years ago 120 Adventist were arrested and twelve of these were put in the chain gang with criminals for such offences as digging potatoes for dinner, mending a screen door, and splitting wood in a shed on Sunday.

15. AnoTHer THouGHT QueSTIon: Could this be the beginning of the making of an image to the beast?

Answer: ______________________________________________________

16. What does the Lord plead with us to turn from in Ezek. 33:11?

Answer: ______________________________________________________

17. A PerSonAl DeCISIon: When the U.S. unites religion with the state and makes a law for all to worship the image, it is my desire and purpose to listen to the pleading voice of Jesus rather than yield to the forces of the image.

ASSIGnMenT: Read GC 442-445.

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The Mark of the BeastLesson Twenty

1. The beast has an image and a mark. What are we warned not to do about this? Rev. 14:9,10

Answer: ______________________________________________________

(noTe: The union of church and state in Rome is called the beast in Revelation. The union of church and state in the U.S. is called the image of the beast. The beast also has a mark.)

2. Read the text where the mark is mentioned in Revelation: Rev. 14:9; 15:2; 19:20; 20:4.

3. What is God’s mark or sign according to Ezek. 20:12?

Answer: ______________________________________________________

4. What does it tell us in Rev. 13:16,17 will happen to those who do not receive the mark of the beast?

Answer: ______________________________________________________

5. Who make people receive the mark? Rev. 13:11,16,17

Answer: ______________________________________________________

(noTe: You will recall in a past study we learned that the two-horned beast represents the U.S.)

6. Our country will enforce the mark; therefore it is something that Protestant Americans believe in. It must be a day, as God’s mark is a day. What day is it that Catholics have made Protestants keep?

Answer: ______________________________________________________

7. Do Catholics recognize Sunday as their mark?

Answer: Yes. Listen to the Chancellor to Cardinal Gibbons, C.F.Thomas, in a letter dated October 28, 1894: “Of course the Catholic church claims the change was her act... and the act is a MARK of her ecclesiastical power and authority in religious matter.”

8. Think it through: Many states already have Sunday laws. A brief sent to the legislature of California in 1961 questioned:

“If a state can force a store to close on Sunday, conversely can a state force a store to open on Sunday or Saturday? If a state can tell when to sell, can it also tell what to sell, where to sell, and who to sell to? (Dateline Sunday- u.S.A., pg 180.)

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Soon Sunday will be enforced in our national government. When that happens, what will you do? Will you receive God’s seal or the mark of the beast?

9. A PerSonAl DeCISIon: Read 1 Kings 18:21. I chose today to receive the seal of God and to follow God all of the way.

ASSIGnMenT: Read GC 574-581

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Do Angels Appear in our Day?Lesson Twenty-one

1. Rev. 5:11 describes a scene in the throne room, the Most Holy Place. What fills the room?

Answer: ______________________________________________________

2. In Daniel 7:9,10 we read about the books of record. Who is there in the judgment room helping with the books?

Answer: ______________________________________________________

3. What else do the angels do? Heb. 1:14

Answer: ______________________________________________________

4. Who does Jesus send to bring His messages to men? Rev. 22:16

Answer: ______________________________________________________

5. What is the name of this special angel? Where does he stand? Luke 1:19

Answer: ______________________________________________________

6. What was over the ark in the Most Holy Place? Heb. 9:5

Answer: ______________________________________________________

(noTe: Gabriel is one of these cherubim, which is another word for angels.)

7. To whom does Gabriel bring the message? Rev. 1:1

Answer: ______________________________________________________

(noTe: John was a prophet.)

8. To whom did John give the message? Verse 4

Answer: ______________________________________________________

9. According to Rev. 1:1,4 what is the channel of light? Complete the diagram:

God Jesus

Church

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10. What is the message called? Rev. 1:2

Answer: ______________________________________________________

11. What is another name for this message? Rev. 19:10

Answer: ______________________________________________________

12. Who inspired the prophets to write? 2 Peter 1:21

Answer: ______________________________________________________

13. In Acts 2:17,18 we read what will happen when the Holy Spirit is poured out in the last days. What gift will be given, and who will prophesy?

Answer: ______________________________________________________

(noTe: Women have been prophets in the past: Huldah, Miriam, Deborah, Anna, and Phillip’s four daughters.)

14. What was opened in heaven in 1844, and what was seen in His temple? Rev. 11:19

Answer: ______________________________________________________

(noTe: Gabriel, who is one of the angels over the ark, came in that very year and brought a message to a young women named Ellen Harmon, later Ellen G. White. You have been reading some of her books. She wrote out the messages the angel continued to bring.)

15. What is one of the test of a prophet according to John 16:13?

Answer: ______________________________________________________

16. What is truth? John 17:17

Answer: ______________________________________________________

17. A PerSonAl QueSTIon: Have you found the books Great Controversy, Patriarchs and Prophets, and Steps to Christ, written by Ellen G. White, to agree with the Bible?

ASSIGnMenT: Read GC, Introduction.

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Test of a True ProphetLesson Twenty-two

1. What three things does 1 Thess. 5:19-21 tell us to do about prophesyings?

Answer: ______________________________________________________

2. What happened to Daniel the prophet when he had a vision? Dan. 10:7,8

Answer: ______________________________________________________

(noTe: Ellen G. White had similar experiences in losing her natural strength and then being supernaturally strengthened. Also, when in vision, she had no breath, and was proved by various examinations. God gave her the ability to talk without breath which proved that a supernatural power was speaking through her.)

3. What is the most convincing evidence of a true prophet? Isaiah 8:20

Answer: ______________________________________________________

4. Which is a more sure test of a true prophet: a supernatural experience, or the agreement of the writings with the law and the word of God? Deut. 13:1-3

Answer: ______________________________________________________

5. What is another test of a prophet? Jer. 28:9

Answer: ______________________________________________________

(noTe: You can read about some of her predications in the book, ellen G. White and the Seventh-day Adventist Church, by D. A. Delafield.)

6. When the Spirit is at work, what will He lead us to? John 16:13

Answer: ______________________________________________________

7. What are some of the things the gift of prophecy does according to Eph. 4:11-13?

Answer: ______________________________________________________

(noTe: Because God instructed Mrs. White, we have a chain of sanitariums, hospitals, clinics, and dispensaries around the world. We also have school where our children can receive a Christian education free from evolution. In her books can also be found the material which greatly helps in perfecting character.)

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8. A PerSonAl DeCISIon: Since an important test of a true prophet is tasting and seeing for oneself, I choose to do this by reading more of Ellen White’s books.

9. I would like to read one of her books on the subject of: _______________ _____________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________

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How Satan Speaks to ManLesson Twenty- three

1. Where did the war between Christ and Satan take place, according to Rev 12:7-9?

Answer: ______________________________________________________

2. What position did Satan occupy in heaven? Ezek. 28:14-16

Answer: ______________________________________________________

3. What will be his final end? Eze. 28:18,19

Answer: ______________________________________________________

4. Where does verse 13 tell us he once was?

Answer: ______________________________________________________

5. What lies did Satan tell Eve in the garden of Eden? Gen. 3:4,5

Answer: ______________________________________________________

6. What had God said in Gen. 3:3?

Answer: ______________________________________________________

7. In 1 Sam. 28 is the story of Saul going to a witch or a “medium” and of her pretending to bring up Samuel from the grave. What did she call the spirits that came up in verse 13? Doesn’t that sound like the voice of Satan in the garden? Gen. 3:5

Answer: ______________________________________________________

8. How does God feel about those who pretend to communicate with the dead? What does He call those who do this? Deut. 18:9-12

Answer: ______________________________________________________

9. With whom should we not have fellowship? 1 Cor. 10:19,20

Answer: ______________________________________________________

10. Read Job 7:9,10. Can the dead come back?

Answer: ______________________________________________________

11. Instead of seeking wizards and witches, or, as we would say today, fortunetellers and mediums, whom should we seek? Isa. 8:19

Answer: ______________________________________________________

(noTe: The R.S.V. translation gives the last clause, “Should they consult the dead on behalf of the living?”)

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12. By what are we to test all messages that claim to be from a supernatural source? Isa. 8:20

Answer: ______________________________________________________

13. What is God’s counsel to us in Deut. 18:15,18? To whom are we to listen?

Answer: ______________________________________________________

14. A PerSonAl DeCISIon: I want to listen to God speaking through His prophets, and keep away from all of the devil’s agencies.

ASSIGnMenT: Read GC 551-562; I Samuel 28.

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Where are The Dead?Lesson Twenty-four

1. When a man is put in the grave, can he return to his home? Job 7:9,10

Answer: ______________________________________________________

2. What two beings have life in themselves? John 5:26

Answer: ______________________________________________________

3. Does anyone else have immortality? 1 Tim. 6:15,16

Answer: ______________________________________________________

4. How can we have eternal life or immortality? 1 John 5:11,12

Answer: ______________________________________________________

5. What causes Death? Rom 6:23

Answer: ______________________________________________________

6. What happens to the soul that sins, according to Ezek. 18:4?

Answer: ______________________________________________________

7. What is God’s earnest appeal to us in Ezek, 18:30-32?

Answer: ______________________________________________________

8. What formula do we find in Gen. 2:7 for a living soul?

Answer: ______________________________________________________

9. What happens when we die? Ps. 104:29

Answer: ______________________________________________________

10. What perishes when a man dies? Ps. 146.4

Answer: ______________________________________________________

11. How much do the dead know, according to Eccl. 9:5,6?

Answer: ______________________________________________________

12. What is death compared to in Job 14:10-12?

Answer: ______________________________________________________

13. How long will man remain asleep in the grave? Job 14:13-15

Answer: ______________________________________________________

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14. When will Jesus call? 1 Thess. 4:16-18

Answer: ______________________________________________________

15. Read 1 John 5:11,12 and Ezek. 18:30 again.

A PerSonAl DeCISIon: I want my life hid in Jesus. I want to accept His loving appeal and let loose of any sin that would shut me away from Him.

ASSIGnMenT: Read GC 544-550

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Which is the True Church?Lesson Twenty-five

1. For what did Jesus pray in John 17:20,21?

Answer: ______________________________________________________

2. To what does Jesus compare Himself in John 10:11?

Answer: ______________________________________________________

3. How many folds does He have? Are all His sheep in His one fold? What will they hear that will call them in? John 10:16

Answer: ______________________________________________________

4. What is the another illustration used that helps us see how many churches He has? Eph 1:22,23; 4:4,5

Answer: ______________________________________________________

5. What is the comparison in Eph. 2:23-25 that shows us again that Jesus has only one church?

Answer: ______________________________________________________

6. What is the church compared to in 2 Cor. 11:2 and Jer. 6:2?

Answer: ______________________________________________________

7. In Rev. 12 we see three pictures of the church which is likened to a woman. Read verses 1-5. Who is the Man Child that the dragon tried to kill but was caught up to God’s throne?

Answer: ______________________________________________________

(noTe: These verses give a picture of the first church Jesus established. It was a beautiful church, clothes with the full sunlight of the gospel.)

8. What is the church seen doing in verse 6, and why? Verses 13,14

Answer: ______________________________________________________

9. How long was she in the wilderness? Verse 6

Answer: ______________________________________________________

(noTe: Here is that same time period - 1260 days or years - that we have studied before. The Catholic church persecuted God’s people during this time. Could they be the true church?)

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10. What helped the woman (church)? Verses 15,16

Answer: ______________________________________________________

(noTe: In Lesson 18 we studied about the U.S. coming up out of the earth, a sparsely settle area. It was America that provided a place of refuge for some of the persecuted Christians from Europe.)

11. In verse 17 we have the last picture of the church. A remnant of goods is small but like the original. How does the devil feel about this remnant? What two points will help you in identifying the true church?

Answer: ______________________________________________________

12. What is another term for the Testimony of Jesus? Rev. 19:10

Answer: ______________________________________________________

13 A Thought Question: What church fits this description, one that keeps all of God’s commandments and has the Spirit of Prophecy?

Answer: ______________________________________________________

14. What two things did Jesus commission His church to do? Matt. 28:18-20

Answer: ______________________________________________________

15. A PerSonAl QueSTIon: Read John 10:16. Are you one of Jesus’ sheep? Do you hear His voice calling you to the one fold? Would you like to prepare to enter that fold by baptism?

ASSIGnMenT: GC 375-380.

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What is Babylon?Lesson Twenty-six

1. What is the second angel’s message of Rev. 14? Rev 14:8

Answer: ______________________________________________________

2. In our last lesson we read in Eph. 5 that the church is compared to a woman, the bird of Christ. If a pure woman represents the true church, what would a fallen, impure woman represent?

Answer: ______________________________________________________

3. In Rev. 17:7 we have Babylon pictured as a fallen woman. Read verses 1-5. Does anyone follow her example? What is she the mother of?

Answer: ______________________________________________________

4. How universal is her territory? Rev. 14:8

Answer: ______________________________________________________

5. Why is Babylon fallen? Rev. 18:2,3

Answer: ______________________________________________________

(noTe: When Israel forgot the Lord and His help and went to the heathen kings for help, the Lord called this spiritual adultery or fornication. So we see Babylon, the fallen church of the last days, uniting with the kings of the earth to obtain power.

6. How does Babylon invite the interest of the world? Rev. 17:4

Answer: ______________________________________________________

7. Who lives in Babylon according to Rev. 18:2?

Answer: ______________________________________________________

(noTe: In Lesson 23 we studied about how Satan speaks to man. God told Adam and Eve they would die if they sinned. Satan said they would not die but be as gods. In order to make people believe that the dead don’t really die, Satan came back and impersonated the dead.)

8. How much do the dead know? Do they have part in anything done in this world? Eccl. 9:5,6

Answer: ______________________________________________________

(noTe: This fallen church of Babylon believes the dead can come back and so the devil has free access to bring his message into the church.)

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9. What is there about Babylon that has reached to heaven? Rev. 18:5

Answer: ______________________________________________________

10. What is sin? 1 John 3:4

Answer: ______________________________________________________

(noTe: Babylon, then, is a law-breaker)

11. Who is Babylon? What church has united with the state to get power? What church has great worldly display in its churches and leaders? What church teaches that the soul is immortal? What church says that it changed God’s law but really is breaking the unchangeable law every week?

Answer: The Catholic church fits each item of this description.

12. Are there any other churches following the example of the Catholic church in the areas mentioned above? Rev. 17:5

Answer: ______________________________________________________

(noTe: Any church which seeks power from the state to enforce her dogmas, who attracts by outward display, and teaches soul immortality and disregard of the fourth commandment is a part of the universal church of Babylon, one of her daughters.)

13. A PerSonAl DeCISIon: By God’s grace I will heed the warning of the second angel against Babylon and come close to Jesus for power in my life.

ASSIGnMenT: Read Rev. 18; Jer. 51:6-10; GC 381-383

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Come out of BabylonLesson Twenty-seven

1. What do Catholics and Protestants unite in enforcing? GC 573:1

Answer: ______________________________________________________

2. Is worldly display restricted only to the Catholic church? GC 566:2; GC 386:1

Answer: ______________________________________________________

3. What are two other identifying points of Babylon?

Answer: IMMORTALITY OF THE SOUL WHICH LEADS TO THE BELIEF THAT WE CAN HOLD COMMUNICATION WITH OUR DEPARED LOVED ONES. BABYLON IS A LAW-BREAKER, CHANGING OR ACCEPTING THE CHANGE OF THE DAY OF WORSHIP FROM SATURDAY TO SUNDAY.

(noTe: It seems very clear as we look at these four points that the Catholics and Protestants have fulfilled the requirements of all of these. Therefore they are all included in Babylon.)

4. What are we to do concerning this condition in the church? Rev. 18:4; Jer. 51:6

Answer: ______________________________________________________

5. When we flee from Babylon, what are we to go into? 1 Peter 2:9

Answer: ______________________________________________________

6. What is His light? Prov. 6:23

Answer: ______________________________________________________

7. What else is light? 2 Peter 1:19

Answer: ______________________________________________________

8. Does Christ have sheep in other churches? Into what is He calling His sheep? John 10:16

Answer: ______________________________________________________

9. Will Jesus’ people leave those churches that break the law of God? Rev. 18:4

Answer: ______________________________________________________

10. A PerSonAl DeCISIon: I have heard Jesus’ voice calling me out of Babylon into His fold, the Seventh-day Adventist Church. It is my decision today to heed that call.

ASSIGnMenT: Read Rev. 16; GC 384-390

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The Seven last PlaguesLesson Twenty-eight

1. Why does God call His people from Babylon? Rev. 18:4

Answer: ______________________________________________________

2. How many plagues will fall on Babylon and what will the first two be? Rev 16:1-3

Answer: ______________________________________________________

3. For what reason will the third plague fall? Rev. 16:4-6

Answer: ______________________________________________________

(noTe: This refers to the fact that at this time a decree has gone forth to put the commandment keepers to death. See GC 615:2)

4. What is the fourth plague and how do the people react to these plagues? Rev. 16:8

Answer: ______________________________________________________

5. Do the people repent when the fifth plague of darkness comes? Rev. 16:10,11

Answer: ______________________________________________________

6. Who gathers the people for the battle of Armageddon? Rev. 16:12-16

Answer: ______________________________________________________

7. From what three powers do these unclean spirits come? Rev. 16:13

Answer: ______________________________________________________

8. What does the false prophet do? Rev. 19:19,20

Answer: ______________________________________________________

(noTe: That is the union of church and state in the U.S. which we read about in Rev. 13:11-18.)

9. What percentage of the world gathers for battle? Rev. 16:14

Answer: ______________________________________________________

10. When the world unites to destroy God’s people, what are His words? Rev. 16:17

Answer: ______________________________________________________

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11. What weapons will God use? Rev. 16:18-21

Answer: ______________________________________________________

12. Does God assure us that we will not receive these plagues? Psalm 91:3-8

Answer: ______________________________________________________

13 What will we receive during this time? Isa. 33:16

Answer: ______________________________________________________

14. Are we promised protection from the heat in the fourth plague? Isa. 4:6

Answer: ______________________________________________________

15. What will we have during the plague of darkness? Isa. 4:5

Answer: ______________________________________________________

16. Psalms 91 and 46 are especially written for this time of trouble. What does God promise will happen to all wars? Psalm 46:8-11

Answer: ______________________________________________________

(noTe: We will especially want to remember verses 1-3 during the great earthquake.)

17. What words of comfort does God have for us during these fearful scenes? Isa. 32:81,19; Ps 91:9-11

Answer: ______________________________________________________

18. How were the Israelites saved from the slaughter during Egypt’s last plague? Exod. 12:21-23

Answer: ______________________________________________________

19. A PerSonAl QueSTIon: Is all your family under the blood today? Is there one you would like for us to especially pray for? ________________ _____________________________________________________________

ASSIGnMenT: Rev. 20; GC 627-640

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The MilleniumLesson Twenty-nine

1. What takes place at the beginning of the millenium, the 1,000 years of Revelation 20? Verses 5 and 6

Answer: ______________________________________________________

2. Who will be heard calling the dead from their graves? 1 Thess. 4:16

Answer: ______________________________________________________

3. Who will join those whom Christ raises from the dead? Where will they meet Jesus? 1 Thess. 4:17

Answer: ______________________________________________________

4. Where will Jesus take all the righteous? John 14:1-3

Answer: ______________________________________________________

5. What will happen to the wicked at Christ’s return? 2 Thess. 1:7-10

Answer: ______________________________________________________

6. How long will they remain in the grave? Rev. 20:5

Answer: ______________________________________________________

7. What happens to Satan and what will be his environment for a thousand years? Rev. 20:1-3; Jer. 4:23-26

Answer: ______________________________________________________

8. What will the saints be doing during this thousand-year period? Rev. 20:4,6; GC 660-661

Answer: ______________________________________________________

9. When is the time to be saved according to 2 Cor. 6:2?

Answer: ______________________________________________________

10. A PerSonAl DeCISIon: I want to lay hold on salvation now so that I may be among the righteous who are ready to meet Him when He comes at the beginning of the 1,000-year period.

ASSIGnMenT: Read Rev. 20:7-15; GC 640-641

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The Final Destruction of the WickedLesson Thirty

1. When Jesus returns at the end of the millenium, who and what will be with Him? Jude 14,15; Rev. 21:2

Answer: ______________________________________________________

2. When Jesus descends at this time, what will happen to wicked people? To Satan? Rev. 20:5,7

Answer: ______________________________________________________

3. What does Satan do immediately? Where does he gather the wicked? Rev. 20:8,9

Answer: ______________________________________________________

4. As they gather around the city, what is seen? Rev. 20: 11,12; GC 665:1; 666:2, 668:2,3; 670:2

Answer: ______________________________________________________

5. What is destruction in the lake of fire called? Rev. 20:9,14,15

Answer: ______________________________________________________

6. How complete is the destruction? Mal. 4:1,3; GC 673:1

Answer: ______________________________________________________

7. Describe the fate of the lost? Matt. 8:11,12

Answer: ______________________________________________________

(noTe: The suffering of the lost will be a mental suffering that will be as intense as the actual fire of hell.)

8. For whom did Jesus taste death? Heb. 2:9

Answer: ______________________________________________________

(noTe: The thought here is not just swallowing a bitter medicine, but tasting it, getting all the awful, bitter taste, to the last drop.)

9. As Jesus suffered the second death, what surrounded the cross? How did He feel about His Father’s attitude? Matt. 27:45-46

Answer: ______________________________________________________

10. A PerSonAl DeCISIon: By God’s grace I will give up all for Him as I see what He did for me.

ASSIGnMenT: Read GC 662-673

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The World of TomorrowLesson Thirty-one

1. After the utter destruction of sin, sinners, and the results of sin, what will happen? 2 Peter 3;12,13

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2. How is our eternal security spoken of in Ps. 37:29?

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3. How will we feel in our eternal abode? Isa. 35:10

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4. Will there be misunderstandings among the inhabitants? 1 Cor. 13:12

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5. Will those abiding there be sick? Why not? Isa. 33:24

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6. Who will be excluded from the highway of holiness? Isa. 35:8

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7. Once a week God’s people will gather to worship Him. All will participate in this church service on the same day. On what day will the saints enjoy this event? Isa. 66:22,23

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8. Who will enjoy all these wonderful things with us in this new earth? Rev. 21:3

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9. Thinking of this new world will help us to be content in this present world. Through whom can we attain this contentment? Phil. 4:11-13

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10. Even before we come to our new earth home, what does God give us? Ps. 30:11

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11. What blessed relationship can God’s people have among themselves now? 1 John 1:7

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12. The path to perfect health we can begin now by doing what two things? Exod. 15:26

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13. We may not feel we can fit in with holy people who are like Jesus. Does Jesus promise to make us this way? What is our part? 1 John 3:2,3

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14. In preparation for enjoying the assembly of the righteous on the Sabbath in the new earth, what are we urged to do now? Heb. 10:25

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15. A PerSonAl DeCISIon: As I read Revelation 3:20 and see that Jesus wants to live with me now while I’m preparing to live with Him, I will let Him come into my heart anew.

ASSIGnMenT: Read GC 675-678

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How to Make Sabbath-Keeping a DelightSupplement

1. What does God want us to call the Sabbath? Is. 58: 13,14

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2. What are some things that will hinder us from making the Sabbath a delight? Vs. 13

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3. What are we to lay aside before the Sabbath comes? Exod. 20:9,10

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4. What had the Israelites done that made Nehemiah testify against them? Neh. 13:15

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5. What has God asked us to do on the Sabbath as we trust in Him even in earing time and harvest? Exod. 34:21

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6. When God fed Israel in the wilderness with manna, what were they to do with the extra amount that fell on Friday in preparation for the Sabbath? What miracle did God perform each week? Exod. 16:22-24 (Read the rest of the story in Exod. 16:25-30.)

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7. What were the Israelites to do before they came into God’s presence? Exod. 19:10 (Today this is to be done before the Sabbath.)

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8. What else besides our work does God want us to omit from the Sabbath? Isa. 58:1

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9. How did the people spoken of in Amos feel about the Sabbath? Amos 8:5 Answer: ______________________________________________________

10. What did Jesus do on the Sabbath? Luke 4:16

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11. What does the Lord encourage us to do as we approach the time of His coming? Heb. 10:25

Answer: ______________________________________________________12. If we want the full sanctification of the Sabbath we will read much in His word on this day. What does John 17:17 say that God’s word will do?

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13. There are many pleasures we can have on the Sabbath. Psalm 92 was written for the Sabbath day. What do we see in verse 1-3 that is a part of happy Sabbath-keeping?

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14. What is another kind of activity suggested in verse 4 and 5?

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15. What kind of words will our words be on the Sabbath? Vs. 1 and 2

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16. When does the Sabbath begin? Lev. 23:32

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17. When does Mark 1:32 tell us evening is?

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18. How can we be sure of finding this delight? Ps. 40:8

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19. A PerSonAl DeCISIon: By God’s grace I will find the delight that He offers in Sabbath-keeping. I want the law settled in my heart.

ASSIGnMenT: Read PP 295-297; 307-308