Study - Chapter 40 - God's People Delivered
Thought Questions and Notes on
The Great Controversy
Chapter 40:
God's People Delivered |
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1. Under what crucial circumstances does sudden deliverance come to the people of God? By what strange phenomena are the wicked arrested? [ page 635:1-3 ] |
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2. What happy experience comes to God’s people at this time? [ 636:1] |
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3. What effect has the presence of God upon the earth? [ 636:2-637:1 ] |
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4. Who are to be raised from the grave to see Christ appear? [ 637:2 ] |
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5. What will be the experience of the wicked who were about to destroy the saints? [ 637:3-638:1] |
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6. What further glorious experience will come to the saints? What will be revealed to the gaze of all? What will all then see regarding the Sabbath? [ 639:1-640:1] |
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7. What is now made known to God’s children? What appears in the heavens? What is the effect upon each class of beholders? [ 640:3-642:3 ]
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8. What memories, coupled with unspeakable remorse, will be awakened as the wicked hear the voice of God? [ 642:3- 644:1 ]
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9. What contrast in size is seen among the risen saints? To what prospect may all look forward? [ 644:3 ] |
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10. What change comes to the living righteous? Of what is the cloudy chariot composed, in which they ascend to heaven? [ 645:1-2 ] |
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10a. What ceremony takes place before they enter the holy city? [ 645: 3 ] |
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11. What is seen as the gates of the city are thrown open? 646:1 [728:1]
“When the tide of iniquity overspread the world, and the wickedness of men determined their destruction by a flood of waters, the hand that had planted Eden withdrew it from the earth. But in the final restitution, when there shall be ‘a new heaven and a new earth,’ it is to be restored more gloriously adorned than at the beginning.”— ”Patriarchs and Prophets,” p. 62.
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12. How will the saints realize the meaning of the invitation, “Enter into the Joy of thy Lord”? [ 646:2-647:1 ] |
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13. How does Adam add to the Joy of the angels and of the redeemed, as he meets the Saviour? [ 647:1-648:2] |
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14. What further scene is enacted upon the crystal sea? Through what experiences have the saints passed that fits them to sing the “new song”? [ 648:3-650:1 ] |
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15. How will the cross of Christ be regarded throughout the ages? What mysteries will be ever unfolding in its light? [ 651:1-652:2 ]
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