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Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Nov 24, 1909

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 36, No. 46.

OUR BIBLE BAND

Schedule for Week Ending December 4, 1909

Day	Date	Morning	Evening
Su.	Nov. 28	Eze. 33, 34	1 Peter 5
Mo.	" 29	" 35, 36	2 Peter 1
Tu.	" 30	" 37, 38, 39	" 2
We.	Dec. 1	" 40, 41	" 3
Th.	" 2	" 42, 43, 44	1 John 1
Fr.	" 3	" 45, 46	" 2
Sa.	" 4	" 47, 48	" 3

Suggestive Notes

Our Old Testament lessons begin with Ezekiel 33 and close with the book. A wonderful chapter is 33. It seems as tho it were almost God's last effort to appeal to His children. He emphatically tells them that He has no pleasure in the death of him that dieth, but pleads that they will return to Him and live.

The latter part of the great book is filled with promises of what God would do for His children then if they would but return to Him.

The sanctuary presented in chapters 40 to 48 was a provisional sanctuary, if they would but be “ashamed” of their iniquities. They were not ashamed; they went on in their apostasy; and the sanctuary, and the wonderful promises therewith, were but feebly met in the sanctuary built by Zerubbabel. That it does not have reference to a future sanctuary is clearly evident from the fact that sacrifices were to be offered in that temple; but in God's plan, to offer sacrifices now would be to annul the offering of Christ.

Our New Testament lessons include the last chapter of 1 Peter, 2 Peter, and the first three chapters of 1 John. 2 Peter is one of the books which has been attacked by the Higher Critics; but it bears its own stamp of truth, and its prophecies, clearly fulfilled in the Christian dispensation, are an abundant proof of its inspiration. These prophecies, that forewarn the children of God of the evil snares of the enemy, that enemy would like to take out of the way. All the more they should be prized by God's children. They do well that they “take heed” to them.

The epistle of John was written by John the beloved disciple. It very closely resembles the fourth Gospel. Whether it was written before or after that, can not be determined. The date is fixed from 90 to 94 or 95, near the close of the first century. The place where it was written is generally thought to be Ephesus. The whole appeal of the epistle is for true fellowship with God—that fellowship which brings light and gladness, and which results in keeping all the commandments of God.