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- Because he (God) hath appointed a day in the which he will judge the world in righteousness. The Acts 13:31 - God shall judge the righteous and the wicked: for there is a time there for every purpose and for every work. Ecclesiastes 3:17 - Thus was presented to the prophets's vision the great and solemn day when the characters and the lives of men should pass in review before the judge of all the earth, and to every man should be rendered "according to his works". Great Controversy 479 |
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- And I saw another angel fly in the midst of heaven, having the everlasting gospel to preach unto them that dwell on the earth, and to every nation, and kindred, and tongue, and people. Sayind with a loud voice, fear God, and give glory to him; for the hour of hisdgment is come. Revelation 14:6-7 - And he said unto me, unto two thousand and three hundred days; then shall the sancturary be cleansed. Daniel 8:14 - And when thou hast accommplished them, lie again on thy right sid, and thou shalt bear the iniquity of the house of judah forty days. I have appointed thee each day for a year. Ezekiel 4:6 - In the seventh chapter of Ezra the decree is found (verses 12-26). In its completest form it was issued by Artaxerxes, king of Persia, 457 B.C. But in Ezra 6:14 the house of the lord at jerusalem is said to have been built "according to the commandment ("decree" margin) of Cyrus, and Darius, and Artaxerxes king of Persia". These three kings, in originating, reaffirming, and completing the decree, brought it to the perfection required by the prophecy to mark the begining of the 2.300 years taking 457 B.C, the time when the decree was completed, as the date of the commandment, every specification of the prophecy concerning the seventy weeks was seen to have been fulfilled. Great Controversy 326-327 - Consequently the 2300 days of Daniel 8:14 terminate in 1844. Great Controversy 328 - At the time appointed for the judgment the close of the 2.300 days, in 1844 began the work of investigation and blotting out of sins. Great Controversy 486 |
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- The judgment was set, and the books were opened. Daniel 7:10... and a book of remembrance was written before him for them that feared the lord, and that thought upon his name Malachi 3:16.And whosoever was not found written in the book of life was cast into the lake of fire. Revelation 20:15 The book of life contains the names of all who have ever entered the service of God. Great Controversy 480 - In the typical service only those who had come before god with confession and repentance, and whose sins, through the blood of the sin offering, were transferred to the sanctuary, had a part in the service of the day of atonement. So in the great day of final atonement and investigative judgment the only cases considered are those of the professed people of God. Great Controversy 480 |
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- For the time is come that judgment must begin an the house of God: and if it first begin at us, what shall the end be of them that obey not the gospel of God?. 1 Peter 4:17 -Beginning with those who first lived upon the earth, our advocate presents the cases of each successive generation, and closes with the living. The Great Controversy 483 |
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- For God shall bring every work into judgment, with every secret thing, whether it be good, or whether it be evil. Ecclesiastes 12:14 - There every temptation resisted, every evil overcome, every word of tender pity expressed, is faith fully chronicled. And every act of sacrifice, every suffering and sorrow endured for christ's, is recorded. The Great Controversy 481 - Opposite each name in the books of heaven is entered with terrible exactness every wrong word, every selfish act, every unfulfilled duty, and every secret sin, with every artfull dissembling. Heaven sent warning or reproofs neglected, wasted momentes, unimproved opportunities, the influence exerted for good of for evil with its far reaching results, all are cronicled bry the recording angel. he Great Controversy 482 - When any have sins remaining upon the books of record, unrepented of and unforgiven, their names will be blotted out of the book of life, and the record of their good deeds will be erased from the book of God's remembrance. The Great Controversy 483 - This work of examination of charact of determining who are prepared for the kingdom of God, is that of the investigative judgment, the closing work in the santuary above. The Great Controversy 428 |
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- And he shall do with the bullock as he did with the bullock for a sin offering, so shall he do with this: and the priest shall make an atonement for them, and it shall be forgiven them. Leviticus 4:20 And when he saw their faith, he said unto him, man, thy sins are forgiven thee. Luke 5:20
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