SABBATH SCHOOL BIBLE LESSON 5 || Exiles as Missionaries || Qrt 3 - 2015

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This week, the MelVee Sabbath School panel is hosted by Elder Nixon Kadiramwando, and with panellists Evangelist Itumeleng Maboye and Elder King Makupe. A special study overview is provided by Evangelist Zuki Mxoli (from The Word Lives Ministries) and Pastor Pastor Pardon Mwansa (Former Vice Precident of the General Conference of the Seventh-day Adventist Church). This week's lesson is underpinned by Daniel 7:14 which says, “‘And there was given him dominion, and glory, and a kingdom, that all people, nations, and languages, should serve him: his dominion is an everlasting dominion, which shall not pass away, and his kingdom that which shall not be destroyed.” (KJV). There is no doubt that voluntarily and involuntarily displaced people carry their God with them to the lands where ever they are displaced. Like Esther, one can ask who knows whether you are come to the kingdom for such a time as this?’” One must believe that they are in a place for the purposes of glorifying God. Daniel was an Israelite in involuntary banishment from Israel, as were Joseph and Moses in Egypt, Nehemiah in Babylon, and Esther in Persia. Their lives reveal that it is possible to live faithfully to God in spiritually and culturally unsupportive environments. With God’s direction it was even possible to attain prominent administrative positions in these alien settings. Each lived a creative and rich life, skillfully negotiating complex religious, social, political, and economic dynamics far different from those of their home culture. They not only were loyal members of exiled Hebrew communities—they were also in their own ways effective missionaries for the God of Israel. This video was recorded and produced by MelVee Video Productions, "A Divine Voice Out of Africa." (July 2015). FIND US AND FOLLOW US OR SUBSCRIBE AT: Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/MelVee.Video.Productions YouTube: www.youtube.com/user/MelveeProductions. Twitter: @MelVeeVideoPro. Website: www.melveeproductions.com (coming soon) As a people of prophecy, Seventh-day Adventists believe in the soon coming of Jesus Christ. His coming will end this world as we know it and ultimately will usher in God’s everlasting kingdom, depicted in the book of Daniel this way: “The kingdom and dominion, and the greatness of the kingdoms under the whole heaven, shall be given to the people, the saints of the Most High. His kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, and all dominions shall serve and obey Him” (Dan. 7:27, NKJV). This kingdom is the culmination of our faith; it is what the book of Hebrews (Heb. 11:16) called the “better country,” the one that all God’s people through the ages have trusted will come, the one whose “builder and maker is God” (Heb. 11:10). But the book of Daniel is also a kind of handbook for missionary activity. From it we can draw lessons on how the Lord was able to use some of His people to witness to those who were steeped in spiritual and theological ignorance. Through their faithfulness and diligence and unwavering faith, these believers revealed the reality of the living God to those who knew only false ones and gave these pagans a chance at a place in this everlasting kingdom, as well.