March 2012
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February 2012
“A resolute purpose, persistent industry, and careful economy of time will enable...”
– Ellen G. White, Christ’s Object Lessons 343, 344 (1900)
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The Great Controversy and History
No matter how apparently chaotic, how seemingly out of control, human history is not unfolding in a vacuum. There’s a story behind it, a drama, a struggle between two radically different principles. We’re talking, of course, about the great controversy. Only with that background can we even begin to get an understanding of human history and what it all means.
How do these texts help us understand...
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soulsauce:
Recordings by NASA, they are the...
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Daniel 2 and the Providence of God in History
In the 1700s, a Frenchman, an atheist, speculated that because all of the universe, including human actions, were predetermined by natural laws—then, ideally, if someone could know all of those laws and all the positions of all the particles in the universe at a given time, then that person could know everything that would happen.
Of course, humans do have free will, free choice. God made us that...
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The Prophets as Historians
All through the Bible, the prophets use the phrase, “The word of the Lord” (or an equivalent “Thus says the Lord, says the Lord, etc.). In short, what they are saying is, I am not speaking these truths to you; it’s God speaking them through me. So, you’d better listen.
How is this idea revealed in the following verses? Jer. 1:14–19.
The reader is allowed to see the painful historical process by...
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The Past and the Future
World history is usually taught as the history of civilizations. The significant facts are generally the ones that have had a bearing on the development of those civilizations. Some people argue that human affairs are, like the rest of nature, essentially cyclical in character, moving endlessly through the cycle of birth, growth, maturity, decay, and death in a series that does not have a...
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The Bible and History
Read for This Week’s Study: Ps. 104:1–9, Rev. 1:1–3, 2 Pet. 1:21, Daniel 2, Rev. 12:7–17, Rom. 16:20, 2 Cor. 5:17–19.
Memory Text:
“ ‘I am the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End,’ says the Lord, ‘who is and who was and who is to come, the Almighty’ “ (Revelation 1:8, NKJV).
Key Thought: Our God works in and through history, and in and through history He has given us...
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