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I have chatted with some who have attended ministerial meetings and they reported figures in the church to be very dismal regarding such things as daily Bible study and even what per cent of the church even reads the Spirit of Prophecy (SOP) books by Sister Ellen White. Seems it is currently about 2% of the church even read SOP. I would assume this to be the NAD. Other divisions, while maybe not having access to SOP books, are much more into their Bible study. I often hear things like Sister White was a good writer or some of what she wrote is meaningful, but more and more it seems that her writings are dismissed as being of no more value in today's times. I would suggest that those who have no use for her writings ponder the chapter "The Testimonies Slighted" in Volume 5 of the Testimonies for the Church. If you do not have this volume, the link will bring you to a .pdf file of the whole book. http://truthfortheendtime.com/SOPText/Testimonies_for_the_Church/Testimonies for the Church Volume 5.pdf

Happy Blessed 8th Day Did you know there is a Feast of the 8th Day? It follows Tabernacles. Some call it the 8th day of Tabernacles, but it is really a "convocation" of its own. Leviticus 23:36 "For seven days you shall offer an offering made by fire to the LORD. On the eighth day you shall have a holy convocation, and you shall offer an offering made by fire to the LORD. It is a sacred assembly, and you shall do no customary work on it." Numbers 29:35 "On the eighth day you shall have a sacred assembly. You shall do no customary work." Seven days they commemorated wandering in the wilderness, in temporary shelters. On the 8th Day they celebrated home coming. No longer wandering. At the dedication of Solomon's Temple: 2 Chronicles 7:9 "And on the eighth day they held a solemn assembly, for the dedication of the altar they observed seven days, and the feast seven days." v.11 "Thus Solomon finished the house of the LORD and the king's house, and Solomon successfully accomplished all that came into his heart to make in the house of the LORD and in his own house." We know this was at the Feast in the 7th month from 2Chron 5:3. At the rebuilding of the Temple after the return from Babylon: Nehemiah 8:17-18 "And the entire assembly of those who had returned from the captivity made booths and lived in them. The sons of Israel had indeed not done so from the days of Joshua the son of Nun to that day. And there was great rejoicing. And he read from the book of the law of God daily, from the first day to the last day. And they celebrated the feast seven days, and on the eighth day there was a solemn assembly according to the ordinance." Did you notice the whopping long time they had not celebrated the Feast of Tabernacles - all the time from Joshua to Nehemiah. Wow! That's a lot of neglect. But how can that be true if the 8th day "solemn assembly" took place at the dedication of Solomon's Temple? That happened long after Joshua, and hundreds of years before the Babylonian captivity. Just asking. Is this a contradiction?

When Paul says we are "NOT under the law" if "led by the Spirit", I believe he is saying we are "not under the condemnation required by the Law". The condemnation has been abrogated (taken away). Doesn't mean - at all - that we are no longer governed/guided by the Ten Commandments. Of course we are. Under Grace, we are enabled to keep them, AND the penalty for not keeping them is "already paid".

I like that. Some folks make the Word "of no effect" by the way they quote it.

5 Things You Didn't Know About The Guggenheim Museum On October 21, 1959, the Guggenheim Museum, which holds one of the largest collections in the world of contemporary artworks, opened in New York City. Here are 5 things you never knew about this famous art gallery that attracts more than one million visitors every year... Guggenheim Came From an Enormously Wealthy Family The Guggenheim family was among the world’s wealthiest during the 19th and 20th centuries and made a large part of their money in mining and smelting. Meyer Guggenheim and his wife, Barbara, had 10 children. Solomon, their fourth son, was the founder of the Guggenheim Museum. As an interesting side note, their fifth son, Benjamin, died after helping some of the women and children to board the lifeboats when the ship Titanic sunk in the North Atlantic. Frank Lloyd Wright Designed Every Facet of the Museum Frank Lloyd Wright, the acclaimed architect, was commissioned to construct the Guggenheim in 1943. Wright had a dislike of urban settings, so being asked to build the museum may have seemed an interesting but unexpected choice. Wright created over 700 sketches for the design of the Guggenheim Museum. The completed building was considered a work of art itself with its spiral ramp and seashell with rooms that opened into each other. Wright Originally Wanted to Make The Guggenheim Out of Red Marble Discussion surrounding Wright’s innovative design for the Guggenheim Museum in New York has most often focused on its spiral. But, had the architect been able to realize his initial vision, we might have had something more startling to talk about. Wright wrote of his plans for the project in January 1944: “exterior: red-marble and long-slim pottery red bricks.” Hilla Rebay, the art advisor to Solomon R. Guggenheim at the time, quickly quashed this in a 1945 letter by saying: “Red is a color which displeases S. R. G. as much as it does me.” Wright, who was usually uncompromising, designed a new scheme with an exterior made of white concrete and polished marble gravel. Many People Criticized Wright’s Design of the Building Critics of Wright's building design objected to its imaginative construction, saying that it wasn’t suitable for the display of sculptures and paintings. Some of the critics were artists who signed a letter addressed to the second director of the museum, James Sweeney. They included Willem de Kooning, Robert Motherwell, and Adolph Gottlieb. Sweeney might have been sympathetic to their views because it was known that his relationship with Wright was somewhat antagonistic. Guggenheim Died Before the Building Was Even Started The project had already experienced significant delays because of World War II and the shortage of materials, but it was delayed even further by Guggenheim's death in 1949. Guggenheim and his wife had begun collecting works of art in the 1890s, and it was their impressive collection that provided the initial collection for the museum. Guggenheim started collecting modern art around 1927, and his collection included works by Marc Chagall, Amedeo Modigliani, Albert Gleizes, and more than 150 works painted by Vasily Kandinsky.

5 Surprising Facts You Didn't Know About Al Gore On October 12, 2007, Al Gore won the Nobel Prize for his book, “An Inconvenient Truth.” Here are 5 surprising facts you didn’t know about this politician turned environmentalist... Gore Became Interested in the Environment While at Harvard While attending his last year at Harvard, Gore was in a class taught by oceanographer Roger Revelle, which heightened Gore’s interest in the environment, particularly in the area of global warming. While he was a member of the U.S. Senate, Gore released his first book on the environment, entitled “Earth in the Balance,” and has written others, including “An Inconvenient Truth.” In 2007, Gore won the Nobel Peace Prize for his work, which was shared with the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, for their work on climate change. Actor Tommy Lee Jones Was His College Roomie Future actor Tommy Lee Jones was Gore’s college roommate at Harvard in the 1960s at one of the dorms called Dunster House. Appearing at the Democratic National Convention in 2000, Jones said they spent some of their time shooting pool, viewing Star Trek, cooking their Thanksgiving turkey in the fireplace hearth in their room and chasing cows. Gore, of course, went into politics and became involved in environmentalism. Jones created memorable movie characters who, among other things, battled aliens and went into outer space. He Met His Future Wife at a Dance While attending his senior prom with another girl in 1965, Gore met his future wife, Mary Elizabeth “Tipper” Aitcheson. They were married in Washington D.C. at the National Cathedral in 1970. Aitcheson went to a nearby high school, and both attended college in Boston. It’s an Urban Legend That Gore Claimed to Be the Inventor of the Internet Pioneers of the internet, Bob Kahn and Vint Cerf, said that Gore’s efforts as a U.S. Senator had a significant impact on the development of the internet—but he never intended to say it was his invention. Gore saw what had happened with a bill introduced as by his father called the National Interstate and Defense Highways Act. It contributed to the development of suburbs and increased housing because of expanded mobility, and Gore recognized that his efforts in support of the internet would allow it to grow. Gore’s Young Son Almost Died After Being Struck by a Car In 1989, Al, Tipper and their six-year-old son Albert were leaving a baseball game. Albert ran across the street to see his friend and was hit by a car. He was thrown 30 feet and then traveled along the pavement for another 20 feet. Gore later recalled: "I ran to his side and held him and called his name, but he was motionless, limp and still, without breath or pulse.... His eyes were open with the nothingness stare of death, and we prayed, the two of us, there in the gutter, with only my voice. In August 1991, Gore announced that his son's accident was a factor in his decision not to run for president during the 1992 presidential election.