Welcome to the New Look Newsletter and Maranatha Media website
Over the past few weeks we have been upgrading the Maranatha Media website. Many of the articles from the old site have been transferred to the new website. We will continue to add studies, charts, books and other resources in the coming weeks. The website was developed by my son Michael Ebens and he has done an excellent job putting it together. We hope you will enjoy the new system and we trust it will be faster and easier to navigate.

The new site will no longer have a registration process for users. Registration was causing a number of security issues for us. New articles will be received on an invitation basis. We simply don't have the resources to examine new content submitted by everyone.

We have examined our newsletter lists and taken out the names of those who have not opened a newsletter in the past 12 months. If you would like subscribe to the newsletter you can do so via the front page of the website.

There may be some things that still have a few technical issues. We appreciate any feedback if things are not working correctly or you are looking for something you can't find.

A special thanks to our many friends who pray for us and support us in this ministry. 
Passover 2016 in Australia
We are planning to have a passover camp meeting near Gympie about 2 hours north of Brisbane. The dates will be April 22-30. There will be facilities for camping with tents and Caravans. Amenities are available on the site. Meetings will be Organised by Craig Jacobson and Edward Perez. Please contact us for your expression of interest to attend. We had a blessed time for Tabernalces this year with everyone eager to attend passover in 2016. This is a new experience for many as we explore the many blessings our Father offers to those who believe that the gospel is everlasting from Eden to Eden. We do not wish be like many of the reformers who who having taken one or two steps towards religious freedom, should stop and build a wall against further investigation. For further study in this question, we invite you check the following links:
Presentations on the Statutes and Judgments
What About the Feasts - Gary Hullquist
Holy History - John Vandenburgh

Current Itinerary for Pr Adrian Ebens in 2016
Whyalla and Adelaide Feb 6,7 2016. We look forward to meeting with John Penman and friends in Whyalla. On Sunday we hope to have a meeting in Adelaide.
Passover in Terra Bella, California. April 22-30: Lorelle, Daniel and Adrian will be traveling to BETV for passover where Adrian will be taking some of the meetings. We look forward to meeting as many brethren as can come.
Bible Training Program in Terra Bella, California May 2-15: After passover we will be taking Bible training programs in the first two weeks of May. Subjects will include Righteousness by Faith, Daniel and Revelation, and the prinicples of Identity Wars and the Divine Pattern.
Camp Meeting in Southern France. June 30 - July 3. The entire Ebens family look forward to meeting with our brethren in France. These meetings are organised by Marc and Elisabeth Fury. See their website for details.
Weekend meetings in Nürnberg, Germany July 9,10
Bible Training Program Perleberg, Germany July 25 until beginning of October. Perleberg is 2 hours north of Berlin. Please contact Jutta for details by visiting maranathamedia.de
We will also visit Zrenjanin in Serbia to hold some meetings. This will be some time in August. Contact Boris Subotin for details. Visit maranathamedia.rs

These plans will adjust as required so please stay tuned for updates. We ask for the prayers of the brethren to help us as we undertake 2016 to share the joy of the gospel of Christ with all we meet.
Framework for Daniel and Revelation
I invite you to read this extended article on the subject of Daniel and Revelation. We are told in several places by Ellen White that history is repeating and will repeat. Many are tempted to take these statements to indicate there will be a repeating of the periods of 1260, 1290, 1335 and 2300 days. While this is tempting it causes several problems for those who wish to build upon the firm platform of the midnight cry. We welcome the desire of those who see history repeating but let us tread carefully and build on the shoulders of our forefathers and not stepping off the platform. Read Article: Framework for Daniel and Revelation 

New Publications
A Priest Forever
“The priesthood of Christ commenced as soon as man had sinned. He was made a priest after the order of Melchizedek....Satan thought the Lord had given up His hold on man, but the Star of Hope lighted up the dark and dismal future in the gospel preached in Eden.” Ms43b-1891 (July 4, 1891)

The Ceremonial Dividing Line in Adventist History: Adventist history is full of struggle and debate over the issue of when and where did the Old Covenant with all of its rites and ceremonies begin and end. Like all other Protestant churches from which they came, the Adventists long accepted the prevailing notion that all things old and Jewish came to an end at the death of Jesus. For all the other Protestants that meant the seventh day Sabbath as well. Not so, said the Adventists, newly convicted by the Fourth Commandment. The Moral Law is permanent; the Law of Moses was nailed to the cross. But what about tithe, intoxicating liquor, and unclean meats? Soon a growing list of Mosaic statutes were moved across the Ceremonial Divide. And then came 1888. The implications were undeniable. Something had to give. The battle lines were drawn, and the rest— well, the rest is History.

Showing Respect for Colossians 2:16,17: A textual review and analysis of the key Pauline passage addressing feasts, new moons, and Sabbath days. One of the most hotly debated texts in the Christian world, it is claimed Exhibit A for prohibiting the gatherings of God’s people as found in the book of the law. But was the apostle who observed the appointed times himself also condemning them as a only legalistic bondage? Was Paul saying the Seventh day Sabbath is no longer relevant to Christians? Modern commentaries have ignored critical aspects of Paul’s internal consistency. Showing Respect, however, does just that.

Die Frage des Lebens - Der Segenskanal: The German edition of Life Matters has now been printed. Please contact Jutta at maranathamedia.de for your copy.

Le modèle divin de la vie: Divine Pattern of Life has now been printed in French. Please contact Marc and Elisabeth Fury at http://etoiledumatin.org/ for a copy. 

Thank you!

Thank you to all those who support us with your prayers and gifts. We wish you all our Father's blessings in the name of the Lord Jesus. I pray that our Father will send with this newsletter a blessing upon your family and loved ones and that Christ will be sweeter to you each day. I pray that we all will stand together on the Sea of Glass and sing the song of Moses and the Lamb.

Maranatha!

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Food for thought

In slaying the Egyptian, Moses had fallen into the same error so often committed by his fathers, of taking into their own hands the work that God had promised to do. It was not God’s will to deliver His people by warfare, as Moses thought, but by His own mighty power, that the glory might be ascribed to Him alone. Yet even this rash act was overruled by God to accomplish His purposes. Moses was not prepared for his great work. He had yet to learn the same lesson of faith that Abraham and Jacob had been taught—not to rely upon human strength or wisdom, but upon the power of God for the fulfillment of His promises. PP 247

We are all to understand that there is a fallen angel who was once next to Christ in honor among the heavenly host. His work of deception was done in so great secrecy that the angels in less-exalted positions supposed that He was the Ruler of heaven. Satan made the representation that all wrong insinuations existing in heaven originated among the angels, . He artfully presented these things to God, as having come from the angels, while they all originated with the evil Satan himself. Lt292-1906 (September 4, 1906)

Obedience to every word that proceeds from the mouth of God is required. Had Christ conceded one jot or tittle of this, the hostility of Satan and his army would not have burst upon Him with irrepressible fury. He was able to perform marvelous works, and had He but given some license to sin, had He permitted evil passions to go unrebuked, men would have rendered Him their homage. But He rebuked all sin and hypocrisy, and men said, He is an impostor. The principalities and powers of darkness assembled round His cross. The arch apostate, still retaining his lofty stature, led the apostate host, who were leagued with human beings in the strife against God. When the Lord created these beings to stand before His throne, they were beautiful and glorious. Their loveliness and holiness were equal to their exalted station. They were enriched by the wisdom of God, and girded with the panoply of heaven. But who could recognize in the fallen angels the glorious seraphs that once ministered in the heavenly courts? ST, April 14, 1898

I was shown that the judgments of God would not come directly out from the Lord upon them, but in this way: They place themselves beyond His protection. He warns, corrects, reproves, and points out the only path of safety; then if those who have been the objects of His special care will follow their own course independent of the Spirit of God, after repeated warnings, if they choose their own way, then He does not commission His angels to prevent Satan's decided attacks upon them . It is Satan's power that is at work at sea and on land, bringing calamity and distress, and sweeping off multitudes to make sure of his prey. And storm and tempest both by sea and land will be, for Satan has come down in great wrath. He is at work. He knows his time is short and, if he is not restrained, we shall see more terrible manifestations of his power than we have ever dreamed of. 14MR 3

The creation of our world was brought into the councils of heaven. There the covering Cherub prepared his request that he should be made prince to govern the world then is prospect. The was not accorded him. Jesus Christ was to rule the earthly kingdom; under God He engaged to take the world with all its probabilities. The law of heaven should be the standard law for this new world, for human intelligences. Lucifer was jealous of Christ and this jealousy worked into rebellion and he carried with him a large number of the holy angels. Jesus, the Son of God, was not deceived
by Lucifer’s sophistry. He stood true to principle and resisted every line of reasoning of Lucifer and all the angels who had taken sides with him, thus evidencing that as He stood, every angel might have stood. {Ms43b-1891 (July 4, 1891) par. 3}
 
 
 
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For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. John 3:16