Want to learn more about The Gospel, the Investigation and Judgment? Use these Bible Studies for personal devotion, group Bible studies, or teaching a church class. Below are links to the lessons in this 14-part series.
Introduction: What is most important to you right now? What do you need to fix or do this week? Sometimes we get so caught up in our own little world we forget about the fact that we live in a larger context. There is a controversy between good and evil sweeping all aroun...
Introduction: "Judgment." Here is a word on which opinions differ. If we are talking about someone else who has done something to harm us, well, judgment is a very good thing. On the other hand, if we are talking about our own judgment, we shrink from that. Many people wh...
Introduction: Last week we discussed the final judgment and how we need to take it seriously. One reason we don't take it seriously is that "judgment" gets lost in reality. What is happening all around us every day is real. We have no doubt about it. The "pleasures of si...
Introduction: Last week we studied a fabulous dream given to King Nebuchadnezzar. In our study of Daniel this week, we have another dream, but one that was given directly to Daniel. Just like Nebuchadnezzer last week, Daniel is extremely troubled by his dream - particular...
Introduction: Daniel dreams he is strolling by the water when suddenly he is face to face with a powerful sheep with two big horns - and no one is there to rescue him. It turns out his dream is not so much about danger, or adventure, but rather about the future. Let's ju...
Introduction: Daniel is now an old man. He has been a captive and a foreigner for most of his life. His fondest hope has been to have his country and God's sanctuary rebuilt so that the Jewish people could go home and properly worship God again. With that background, let's...
Introduction: Last week, after studying Daniel's prayer that his people to be returned to their home and their sanctuary rebuilt, we learned that Gabriel came immediately to give Daniel an answer. An answer straight from the throne of God! We could not help it - we "peek...
Introduction: Last week we studied one of the most important prophecies of the Bible. We learned, from Daniel 9:22-27, that the specific dates of the coming of Jesus the Messiah were revealed hundreds of years in advance through Gabriel's message to Daniel. As far as I...
Introduction: Do you hate to wait? My wife is a teacher, and I decided to go with her to a national teachers' convention last week. We arrived at the airport very early in the morning, and I was shocked to see the airport jammed with travelers - and on Sunday even. As...
Introduction: How important are opinion polls? If you agree with the majority, it gives you some comfort that you are right and the rest of the world is basically "right thinking." On the other hand, if you are in the minority you think, "What is wrong with those people?"...
Introduction: If you are reading this, it means that you are still with me in this study, even though it has been hard work to trudge through some of the details of Daniel's prophecies. Last week I promised you that we would discover this week why it makes any difference...
Introduction: In our last lesson we learned that salvation by grace alone was the important issue in whether the "Little Horn" was Antiochus Epiphanes or Rome. It turned out that "1844" is an issue of righteousness by faith: we have a Mediator in the Heavenly sanctuary wh...
Introduction: For the last two weeks we have been pounding away on the theme that "Antiochus v. 1844" is question of works versus righteousness by faith when it comes to our salvation. If the sanctuary in question is the one in heaven instead of the one on earth, if the D...
Introduction: We come to our last lesson in the "1844 series." What have we learned? We learned that God revealed to Daniel (and all believers) how world events would play out through the end of human history. God shared the timing of the coming of Jesus. God shared how t...
