Where the name 'SDA' comes from

[GeeMail]

• Tweet

http://www.ssnet.org/lessons/14c/less13.html

This is the first part of seven lessons on the Second Coming of Jesus, also called "the Advent". The Seventh-day Adventist church derives its name from the fulfillment this promise given by Jesus Himself to the disciples and to His church in general. Notice that Christ's first Advent (birth, earthly ministry, death and resurrection), a fulfillment of Gen 3:15, was a prerequisite to His Second Coming. In this regard, all Christians waiting for the Second Coming are "Adventist".

The Second Coming of Jesus

[GeeMail]

http://www.ssnet.org/lessons/14c/less13.html

The Promise

[GeeMail]

   
Posted on September 21, 2014
http://www.ssnet.org/lessons/14c/less13.htmlinvestigative judgment in the parable of the wedding feast

[bittertruth]

daily bREAD,
so you mean Christians are on probation with God??

[Nuff Sed]

Now that we know where the lessons are let me take over where daily bread left.

How Will Jesus Come?

http://www.ssnet.org/lessons/14c/less13.html

[Nuff Sed]

When Will Jesus Come?

http://www.ssnet.org/lessons/14c/less13.html

[Nuff Sed]

Bittertruth

The end of human probation is the time when repentance is no longer possible. A person's probation can close in any of three ways: (1) at death; (2) when the unpardonable sin has been committed (Matt. 12:31, 32; Luke 12:10); (3) when probation is closed for all just before the Second Advent. As long as Christ functions as high priest and mediator between God and man, mercy is available. "No judgments therefore can be inflicted without mercy till Christ's work as priest has ended. But the seven last plagues are poured out without mixture of mercy [Rev. 14:10; 15:1], hence they are poured out after Christ has ceased His pleading, and probation has ended" (U. Smith, in SDA Encyclopedia, rev. ed., p. 1152).

For more information, read:
http://www.sdanet.org/atissue/books/27/27-23.htm#53

[bittertruth]

Bittertruth

The end of human probation is the time when repentance is no longer possible. A person's probation can close in any of three ways: (1) at death; (2) when the unpardonable sin has been committed (Matt. 12:31, 32; Luke 12:10); (3) when probation is closed for all just before the Second Advent. As long as Christ functions as high priest and mediator between God and man, mercy is available. "No judgments therefore can be inflicted without mercy till Christ's work as priest has ended. But the seven last plagues are poured out without mixture of mercy [Rev. 14:10; 15:1], hence they are poured out after Christ has ceased His pleading, and probation has ended" (U. Smith, in SDA Encyclopedia, rev. ed., p. 1152).

For more information, read:
http://www.sdanet.org/atissue/books/27/27-23.htm#53

[vooke]

Welcome to Ellen G White lunacy
You don't even dream of contradicting her

Bittertruth

The end of human probation is the time when repentance is no longer possible. A person's probation can close in any of three ways: (1) at death; (2) when the unpardonable sin has been committed (Matt. 12:31, 32; Luke 12:10); (3) when probation is closed for all just before the Second Advent. As long as Christ functions as high priest and mediator between God and man, mercy is available. "No judgments therefore can be inflicted without mercy till Christ's work as priest has ended. But the seven last plagues are poured out without mixture of mercy [Rev. 14:10; 15:1], hence they are poured out after Christ has ceased His pleading, and probation has ended" (U. Smith, in SDA Encyclopedia, rev. ed., p. 1152).

For more information, read:
http://www.sdanet.org/atissue/books/27/27-23.htm#53

[Nuff Sed]

BT,

The three scenarios on salvation are biblical. There is no guarantee of salvation without Christ's birth, death, resurrection and ministry in the heavenly sanctuary.
1. At death - There is no more opportunity for a sinner's salvation after death. You can only repent in this life. (Eccl 9:10)
2. Once the unpardonable sin is committed, the person can no longer repent, for it is the Spirit of God that leads to repentance. (Matt 12:32).
3. At the Second Advent, when Christ comes to give every man his reward, all cases will have been decided (Rev 22:12).

However, the statement you have highlighted is the core of it: As long as Christ is ministering as High Priest, there is a chance for repentance, for He ministers reconciliation and mediates between man and God (Heb 8:1-2). Therefore, do not judge anybody harshly (without mercy) - as long as Christ is ministering, sins are being forgiven. I understand this to mean that even the sin against the Holy Spirit, if repented of, can be forgiven. The only question is, how can one repent after rejecting the Holy Spirit? (Notice that after this is complete He wears kingly garments and comes to execute judgment [Matt 25:31-34], not to minister as Priest).

Vooke stop making snide remarks.

[Nuff Sed]

Thursday: Watch and Be Ready

Posted on September 24, 2014 by Sabbath School Lesson
http://ssnet.org/blog/thursday-watch-ready/comment-page-1/#comment-63118The Great Controversy, p. 640, 641.

[GeeMail]

[bittertruth]

The three scenarios on salvation are biblical. There is no guarantee of salvation without Christ's birth, death, resurrection and ministry in the heavenly sanctuary.
1. At death - There is no more opportunity for a sinner's salvation after death. You can only repent in this life. (Eccl 9:10)
2. Once the unpardonable sin is committed, the person can no longer repent, for it is the Spirit of God that leads to repentance. (Matt 12:32).
3. At the Second Advent, when Christ comes to give every man his reward, all cases will have been decided (Rev 22:12).

[Nuff Sed]

Indeed BT the blood of Jesus cleanses from all sin. In my understanding even the unpardonable sin in Matt 12:32 is not really unpardonable until we reject the Holy Spirit who leads sinners to Christ.

John 14:26 But the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in my name, he shall teach you all things, and bring all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto you.

Phil 2:13 For it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure.
 
Rom 10:9 "If you confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus and believe in your heart that God has raised Him from the dead, you will be saved."

Christ's priestly ministry of mediation continues in heaven after His resurrection. (Heb 8:1-6)

Hebrews 8
1 Now of the things which we have spoken this is the sum: We have such an high priest, who is set on the right hand of the throne of the Majesty in the heavens;
2 A minister of the sanctuary, and of the true tabernacle, which the Lord pitched, and not man.
3 For every high priest is ordained to offer gifts and sacrifices: wherefore it is of necessity that this man have somewhat also to offer.
4 For if he were on earth, he should not be a priest, seeing that there are priests that offer gifts according to the law:
5 Who serve unto the example and shadow of heavenly things, as Moses was admonished of God when he was about to make the tabernacle: for, See, saith he, that thou make all things according to the pattern shewed to thee in the mount.6 But now hath he obtained a more excellent ministry, by how much also he is the mediator of a better covenant, which was established upon better promises.

Heb 9:
14 How much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without spot to God, purge your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?
15 And for this cause he is the mediator of the new testament, that by means of death, for the redemption of the transgressions that were under the first testament, they which are called might receive the promise of eternal inheritance.

Heb 9
22 And almost all things are by the law purged with blood; and without shedding of blood is no remission.
23 It was therefore necessary that the patterns of things in the heavens should be purified with these; but the heavenly things themselves with better sacrifices than these.
24 For Christ is not entered into the holy places made with hands, which are the figures of the true; but into heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God for us:
25 Nor yet that he should offer himself often, as the high priest entereth into the holy place every year with blood of others;
26 For then must he often have suffered since the foundation of the world: but now once in the end of the world hath he appeared to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself.
27 And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment:
28 So Christ was once offered to bear the sins of many; and unto them that look for him shall he appear the second time without sin unto salvation.