Lesson 2. Restoring Dominion, Sabbath 2
Lesson 2 *July 2–8 Restoring Dominion Sabbath Afternoon Read for This Week’s Study : Gen. 1:26–28 , Ps. 8:3–8 , Gen. 2:15 , Rom. 8:20–22 , Exod. 20:1–17 , Rom. 1:25 , 2 Thess. 3:10 . Memory Text : “Then God said, ‘Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness; let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the air, and over the cattle, over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth’ ” ( Genesis 1:26, NKJV ). At the Fall, our first parents lost more than just their original image of God. “Not only man but the earth also had by sin come under the control of the wicked one, and was to be restored by the plan of Redemption. At his creation, Adam was placed in dominion over the earth. But by yielding to temptation, he was brought under the power of Satan, and the dominion which he held passed to his conqueror. Thus Satan became ‘the god of this world.’ He had usurped that dom...