 Hello and welcome to the 12th lesson in our quarter for the teens lesson. The lesson is entitled The One Abyss. The people that will be taking us through the lesson at Tatiana Chacha, Nelson Yanumba, John Mugai and Chitajunan Magana. The song that will be played will be him no. 319, Lord I Want to be a Christian. Playing on the violins are Marie, Amy and Elsie. This sabat's mission story is mysterious man on a bicycle when it comes from Portugal. Vera gave Bible studies to an elderly couple, Anna and Pedro, who couldn't read or write. The couple's son, Benvedo, helped the Bible studies. He read the Bible verses aloud to them and wrote out the answers. No seventh day adventists lived in the remote town of 100 people in central Portugal. The townspeople were simple and honest and had never travelled beyond the nearest town, which was quite some distance away. Vera was sent to the town to work as a missionary for a year. Anna and Pedro were well over 70 years of age. Something about them caught Vera's attention. When the Bible study examined the sabat, Anna readily accepted the biblical teaching that the sabat is on the seventh day of the week. Yes, yes, I know that's true, she said. Vera was very surprised. People in the village tended to cling to the traditional beliefs, but Vera didn't say anything. A week later, the Bible study turned to a topic of clean and unclean meet in Leviticus 11. Yes, yes, I know that's true, Anna said yet again. Vera surprised grew, she couldn't remain silent. How do you know that's true, she asked. Anna explained that more than 60 years earlier when she was a young girl, a man had arrived in her town on his bicycle when a sabat afternoon. The visitor had made his way to the town's central square and preached to whoever would listen. Among those who would listen was Anna's father. He listened and went up after what to look in his own Bible to see if the man had spoken the truth. Unlike his daughter, he knew how to read. The man on the bicycle came sabat after sabat. Anna's father listened every sabat and compared what he had to what his Bible said. He knew that the man preached only the Bible truth. He told young Anna many times, now the seventh day is the sabat. We know we shouldn't eat and clean meat. Vera was amazed to hear about the Adventist preacher. Because of his preaching many decades earlier, she didn't need to convince and about anything from the Bible. Anna knew that what she was hearing was the truth because she had had this same truth from her father. The Bible teachings with Vera simply confirmed her father's words. Vera was humbled by the experience. She felt like Jesus was telling her. The saying is true. One shows another rips. I sent you to rip that which has not been labored. Others have labored and you have entered into their labors. Vera got to see Anna and Pedro baptized because of the salmon preached by an unknown man many years earlier. The couple's son Benvedo was also surprised. Vera has never forgotten Anna and Pedro. Those Bible studies took place at the beginning of her work as a missionary and the experience strengthened her faith. Wherever she works as a missionary, she is not worried about whether she sees immediate results. Her job is to sow the seed and to trust the results in God. I look forward to meeting the same man on the bicycle in heaven. Vera says, I will tell him, look, the work that you did was not in vain. See these people who are baptized because of you. Education including Bible studies is enriching towns is a major way that the Seventh Day Adventist Church shares good news about Jesus soon coming in Portugal. Part of this quota starting Sabbath offering will help open an elementary school in Setubal, Portugal. Happy Sabbath and welcome to Lesson 12. As we discuss the wannabes, that is the title of our lesson today. But before we begin, I'll ask Tatiana to pray with us. Shall we bow our heads forward of her? Our King and Heavenly Father, Lord, we want to thank you for this beautiful day that you have granted unto us. Lord, please may you get us. Also protect all those who are viewing us because it is in Jesus' name we pray and believe. Amen. Amen, amen. So I'll ask the panel to introduce themselves. Then we can start beside. That's Happy Sabbath. My name is Nalto. I'm Happy Sabbath. My name is John Mungai. Happy Sabbath, everyone. I'm Tatiana. And my name is Johnan. I will be the moderator for this lesson. So our lesson today, Lesson 12. And even if you guys can flip to your lessons on phone and obvious also. There's a very interesting image there and the title is very interesting, the wannabes. And from this image, we see some Pathfinder leaders. You can tell their leaders because the number of owners they have on their sashes. But then you can see one guy on the right side of the image and he's kind of trying to take the flag away from the other leader. So that's a bit of a synopsis for you to speak of what's going to happen in our story today. So our whole quarter has been starting about desert drama and what's been happening in the desert of Sin when the Israelites left Egypt all the way to when they get to Canaan. And in today's lesson, we are studying about another rebellion. Remember about two Sabbaths ago, we talked about Moses, Aaron and Miriam and the rebellion that happened between the three of them. Now this time, there's another group that comes up but they were almost successful in overthrowing Moses as the leader of the Israelites. But if we get to that, as always every Sabbath lesson has a corresponding fundamental belief. And today's fundamental belief is belief number 17. That is spiritual gifts and ministries. So we know that God gives gifts to us in different ways. Right? Some can sing, some can preach, some can teach. So we are all meant to work, use our gifts harmoniously to fulfill the common goal which is spreading the gospel and bringing other people closer to God. But our leaders today, they did not use their gifts for the good. They tried to use them for the bad thing. Right? Now before we get into that, what do you think section where we get some of your thoughts and Alaska Jedeen to lead us through that? Okay. So in the what do you think section is a question that I would like each one of you to answer. Which are the following people and people groups others are most jealous of from least one to greatest 10. So personally I will be most jealous of Kupreti Oz and these jealous of my friends. Can you tell us why? My friends it goes okay. They are my friends so like doesn't make any sense but like Kupreti Oz most of them are like living the lifestyle and meaning so yeah. But we can get another opinion from someone else. Yes Tatiana. Personally I would say I'd be most jealous of preachers and pastors and least jealous of friends. Okay so friends is like the common thing you should not be jealous of our friends in the first place. Why would you be jealous of a preacher and a pastor? Come to think of this. These guys do amazing things. They come and preach and they turn people's lives around. They hear people's testimonies and some even have the chance to even speak to God or even hear his voice which personally I've never had and I'm still working on it. Amen we pray that the Lord speaks to you in actual sense. Opinion this side Nelson. Personally I'll be more jealous of an athlete and least jealous of I would say my friends. Friends yeah. Athletes why? You know athletes it's a given gift. They're given a gift by God and almost not the normal person can't match it. Alright alright. What about you? I think I'd be most jealous of athletes being that I'm an athlete myself and teachers at least jealous of friends. Friends at least we agree on that. I mean I tend to think that when you start becoming jealous of your friends that literally marks the beginning of the end of your friendship. Anyway moving on we can get into our story today but before we even get to that this is a very interesting story I once had but this is a true story in itself. So there's a city that actually tried to dare God to prove himself that he exists. This is a city in Italy it's called Messina. This happened in 1908. So in December 25th this city's newspaper article they are on the front page they just published they dared God to make himself known by sending an earthquake. I was on 25th of December. God replied three days later a massive earthquake in that city and 84,000 people were killed. What does that tell us? Well, we'll answer that question from the story today. John, give us a brief of what our story today talks about. So our story today comes from the book of Numbers chapter 16. So the story begins with Darthan Abiram 250 Israelite men who are actually community leaders and certain Rubinites. So what happened was these men they became insolent and they dared to oppose Moses and Aaron and they asked Moses and Aaron isn't everyone in this community holy what gives you the right to what gives you the right to set yourselves above the Lord's assembly and as soon as Moses heard this he fell face down to the ground and he said to them the Lord tomorrow he will choose who belongs to him he will choose who is holy the one he calls to come near him is the holy one and he tells Korah and his followers this is what you will do you will take your senses you will take incense and coal and burn it before the Lord and the person who the Lord chooses will be the holy one and so Moses says you live as have gone too far and he goes on to tell them you know the Levites were given authority they were given the responsibility to stand before the rest of the Israelite community and to minister to them they had that responsibility that authority that role that they were given by God but they weren't content with what they had they looked at the priesthood that's what they wanted and the gathering of Korah was against God and Moses Moses asked who is Aaron that you might grumble against him and later on Moses tells Korah and his followers that they will meet at the entrance of the tent the followers Korah, Aaron and Moses so each of the men went to take their senses and burn incense and coal so the next morning the next morning they met at the entrance of the tent and when Korah had gathered all his followers so the assembly was Korah all his followers Aaron and Moses when everyone had gathered the glory of the Lord appeared to the entire assembly thank you John our story actually ends there but it leaves us hanging but we're going to connect and see what happened to this rebellion but before we get to that there's something we get to understand from the did you know section where we can just flip to that the did you know section I'll ask Nelson the first paragraph can they read for us so that we understand what some of this was or what really is happening here Korah means boldness whether or not this wanna be had much on top of his head he doesn't seem to have very much inside of it today the name is synonymous synonymous with being swallowed up and buried alive right that's very interesting way to put it Korah's name actually meant someone who's bald like bald-headed hair does not grow on top of his head right and so here we have a proverb Bakilini Nyule I don't know if that speaks much about his behaviour later on but incense what is incense Tatiana read for us that incense a mixture of fragrance substances such as gum, resins and spices used in connection with religious worship the incense prescribed for use is in the tabernacle was made with a special recipe it was forbidden to use a mixture made according to this recipe for other purposes the incense was banned morning and evening upon a special altar that stood in the holy place of the sanctuary in front of the curtain that separated it from the most holy place alright thank you for that so here we from the story that John just narrated to us the 250 princes were asked to come with their incenses right and we seen that the incense was a very special mixture that was not supposed to be banned anyway which means when the Lord told them that they should come with their incense it means they were already ordained God had allowed them to actually carry incense which means these people were priests and when Moses said that you live it have gone far enough he was referring to these people and remember the tribe of Levi was a tribe that was set apart to become priests but these guys wanted to become more than priests jidin a censor a censor a vessel from the banning of incense censors having form of holul hand have been excavated the censor is using the Tabanakoloa bronze but the ones used later in the temple were of gold thank you for that now let me now connect what happened we are from where John left it ok so we see from the end numbers chapter 16 around verse 19 where it ends we see that the glory of the Lord appeared before the assembly when they were asked to the 250 princes were asked to come with their censors and later on when you go to the book of numbers chapter 16 as you read the following verses we are told that the earth opened wide Dathan and Abiram to come and explain to him why they did what they did but Kora who was the leader of this whole rebellion he had gone too far that's why Moses did not even call him to explain so Dathan and Abiram when they were called they refused to come they stayed in their tents these guys are all neighbors all three of them so what happened is the Lord told Moses to tell the people of Israel to move all their belongings away from them so they just were left in a whole circle on all island on their own and what happened is immediately Moses finished speaking the earth cracked open and they were swallowed in their families, their tents, their camels every single thing that they owned was just swallowed in and the earth closed it's very scary though to think about now that's just the three leaders of the rebellion now we see there are 250 people remember who were called to come there were instances in front of the altar what happened to them is that fire came down from the cloud the cloud that was God that was above the tabernacle and burnt them all with the instances that they were carrying and that crushed the rebellion but later on we'll see something else that happens before we get into that John there are some questions you might answer and out of the story section Omya in the out of the story section we can look at maybe the second question which asks what spots of it was most startling so for me the part where the earth opened up and swallowed them is definitely the most startling part of the story for me Omya it's very rare to just see the earth just opening this then just swallow someone and just closes open again that's weird probably one more person what was most startling to you Nelson maybe I would also say the same thing with God basically giving up on them and it's quite sad that they had to go that way yeah true God actually gave up on them I like that another question maybe we can look at the fourth question Omya it asks what did you learn about God from this story so I think from this story we learned that God punishes us and of course when Abiram and Dathan were called they were given the opportunity to explain he always gives us the opportunity to ask for forgiveness for repentance from this story we just learned that God is forgiving God is forgiving but if it gives us a chance to forgive and you don't you will face the consequences true true probably we can get another thought from the ladies what do you learn about God from this story I mean how it dealt to this issue Tatiana I feel what I think that personally God has the upper hand God is the creator is the supernatural being who is above all and we should also obey sure obedience and actually it's good that we've talked about this these guys are given a chance to repent but they run out of grace which is given to us freely and in light of that I think we'll listen to a song from the orchestra song number 108 amazing grace