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Kelly Thompson, IT Informatics Pharmacist at Adventist Health, joins host Japhet De Oliveira for an insightful conversation about finding peace in nature, overcoming challenges, and her career in pharmacy and IT.

Kirsti shares her powerful journey from viewing God as distant to discovering His intimate love and presence within her. Her transformation reveals how understanding our identity in Christ brings freedom from both our own sins and the sins committed against us.

• Growing up with divorced parents in an unconventional household filled with exotic animals
• Feeling different from peers as the only Adventist in town
• Experiencing distant father figures that shaped her perception of God
• Losing her father suddenly during her freshman year of college
• Tragically losing her sister to suicide while in college
• Struggling in personal relationships due to seeking approval and worth
• Finding healing through intentional forgiveness toward her stepfather
• Discovering that Christ actually lives within believers
• Learning that God's love isn't earned through performance
• Experiencing transformation in parenting, relationships, and spiritual life
• Reading Scripture with new eyes and understanding
• Moving from religious obligation to genuine desire for God

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Allusions Images Symbols: How to Study Prophecy — Ruth and Esther — Haman and Satan

Join us as we study the Bible Study Guide for the second quarter of 2025 called Allusions Images Symbols: How to Study Prophecy. We are studying the lesson for week 11 called Ruth and Esther.    

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When we desire our lives to be set on fire for God, the devil will do everything to quench it. Only through the 3-fold cord of prayer, fasting and giving can we defeat the deadly trio of pride, lust and greed. 

In the story of Esther, we meet Haman, who is hungry for position and power. He is given a great degree of prominence in the empire, above all the other princes (Esther 3:1).

If we read Ezekiel 28:11–15 and Isaiah 14:12–15 about Lucifer, we can find some parallels with Haman, an evil antagonist to God’s chosen people, who refuses to bow to God’s supremacy. Satan’s overarching intentions are revealed in the story of the temptation of Christ, where he takes Jesus to a high place to show Him the kingdoms of the world (Matt 4:8–11). Christ, as we have seen, came to redeem the world and claim it as His own—and He did it as one of us. Jesus is the kinsman redeemer, and the price He paid to redeem the world was exceedingly high.

In the book of Revelation, we see that Satan’s lust for power and worship brings this world to its final crisis. His deceptions convince the world to “marvel” and follow the beast (Rev. 13:3, 4, NKJV), except for notable exceptions who refuse to worship him. With these people, he resorts to force.

Haman notices that Mordecai—one of God’s chosen people—would not defer to him or acknowledge what he believed to be his right to “worship.” He is “filled with wrath” (Esther 3:5, 6, NKJV), and he becomes determined to eliminate all of Mordecai’s people from the face of the earth.

Read Esther 3:1–14, Revelation 12:14–17, and Revelation 13:15. What parallels do you find between these passages? How is John’s description of God’s remnant church like Haman’s description of God’s people?

The devil has laid claim to this world, but the presence of people who stay loyal to God—who keep His commandments—disproves his claim of complete supremacy. “When the Sabbath shall become the special point of controversy throughout Christendom, the persistent refusal of a small minority to yield to the popular demand will make them objects of universal execration.”—Ellen G. White, Signs of the Times, February 22, 1910.

Think about the “small” things that test your faith now. If you compromise on them, the “small” things, how will you do when the big test comes?