John 11 - Destroy our temple

Sabbath School From Home

Language like "Satan's deceptions" often implies that salvation is somehow about expertise or technical knowledge.

The lesson jumps straight into some well-worn Adventist slippers: the State of dead (which we mostly skip over), and the 7th-day Sabbath (which we focus on a little more closely). It is interesting to observe that Adventists in practice often end up loving Catholics while excoriating the Catholic church, which actually suggests some equivocation about our conventional narrative.

John 11 tells of the pharisees recognising that Jesus will rise against Rome, but not wanting this messiah they profess to believe in. It seems deception can be subtle - what other temptations or deceptions might be more destructive to God's kingdom?