The Great Controversy Flashcards
Scripture portrays a cosmic battle between good and evil, __
God and Satan.
Using the kings of Tyre and Babylon as figurative descriptions for ___, Scripture illuminates how this cosmic controversy
began
Lucifer
Upon his expulsion from heaven, Satan spread his rebellion to our __.
earth
Tragically, the ___!that had begun in heaven took root in Planet
Earth
seeds of the controversy
The effects of the struggle between ___ and ___soon became apparent as sin distorted the image of God in humanity.
Christ and Satan
God used a ____ to cleanse the world of its unrepentant inhabitants and give the human race a new start
great flood
Sometime later, with the world in near total apostasy, God extended His covenant to ____.
Abraham
Through ___, God planned to bless all nations of the world
Abraham
This severed the relationship
between God and man, and “whatever is not from faith
is sin” (Rom 14:23).
Sin
The breaking
of God’s commandments, or laws, is the immediate result of a ___, the evidence of anruptured relationship.
lack of faith
In turn, by the plan of salvation God intends to restore the trust in the Creator that leads to a loving relationship manifested by ____.
obedience
As Christ noted, ___ leads to
obedience
love
This is just as essential to the existence of His universe as are the physical laws that hold it together and keep it functioning.
God’s moral law
This is “the transgression
of the law” (1 John 3:4, kJv), or “lawlessness” as the
Greek word ___ indicates.
Sin ; anomia
This issues from a rejection of God and His government.
Lawlessness
The ____ Christ faced during His earthly ministry revealed the seriousness of the controversy over obedience and surrender to God’s will.
temptations
Though retaining His total dependence on the Father,
Christ had ___ Satan.
defeated
Satan intensified his efforts to ___ as the time approached for it to close.
abort Jesus’ mission
The cosmic controversy came to its climax at the ___.
cross
The ___ Christ demonstrated there in the face of Satan’s cruelty undermined Prince Satan’s position, assuring his ___.
love and faithful obedience
ultimate downfall.
Today the great controversy raging furiously around Christ’s authority involves not only
His ___ but His ___
law ; word -the Scriptures.
One of Satan’s strategies in the cosmic conflict is to convince people that they can ____. So several centers of truth have been proposed, either individually
or in combination: (4)
understand truth apart from Jesus
(1) man
(2) nature, or the observable universe
(3) Scriptures
(4) the church
Controversy About Truth As It Is in Jesus It suits both the nature and the purpose of the ___ to suggest other centers of truth than Christ.
antichrist
In the original Greek, ___ may mean not only “against” Christ but “in the place of” Christ). Satan achieves his goal of directing attention away from the One who is the only hope of humanity.
antichrist
