I had some time. Hope you don't mind me starting the topic this week.

Here is the link to the Sabbath School lesson study and discussion material:

http://ssnet.org/qrtrly/eng/07c/less10.html (NIV)
http://ssnet.org/qrtrly/eng/07c/less10kjv.html (KJV)
http://ssnet.org/qrtrly/eng/07c/less10nkjv.html (NKJV)

Which is the most important part of the lesson?

I am considering in my lesson study on Sabbath to do a major reading of chapter 12 in 2. Samuel. From there reflecting back on the events that took place which led up to the visit of the prophet.

Any thoughts?

I find it interesting the the prophet Nathan chose to use a parable using sheep to reveal the sin of David. David having been a shepherd.

Interesting thought. There are so many sheep around us here. This will be a good point, one that the local people will undersand

What kind of a prophet was Nathan?

An extra-biblical one?

Ellen tells us this about the prophet Nathan. "Nathan the prophet was bidden to bear a message of reproof to David. It was a message terrible in its severity. To few sovereigns could such a reproof be given but at the price of certain death to the reprover. Nathan delivered the divine sentence unflinchingly, yet with such heaven-born wisdom as to engage the
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sympathies of the king, to arouse his conscience, and to call from his lips the sentence of death upon himself. Appealing to David as the divinely appointed guardian of his people's rights, the prophet repeated a story of wrong and oppression that demanded redress. {PP 720.5}"

In I Kings 1, Nathan is back in the picture, where he helps to put Solomon on the throne.

Not quite, is he?

David pronounced judgement on himself. 2 Sam 12: 5, 6.

This was fulfilled in the death of four of his sons.

Bathsheba lost the one child.

Does this lesson deal with the relationship between forgiveness and the consquence of sin?