Responses to “Sanctuary Sleight of Hand”, May 18–24, Q2L8
Go Read EGWs Writings For Yourself
How do you view the 2,300 day prophecy? How do you understand the book of Revelation when the saints are resurrected and the books are open and judgement was given unto them (those who have been resurrected) to see why all those who are not written in the Lamb’s book of life didn’t make it to heaven?
That’s the investigative judgement. “Unto 2,300 days then shall the sanctuary be cleansed.”
William Miller thought the earth was the sanctuary. Go do some hard work searching for the truth in what the Bible says, and then go read her writings for yourself and compare what you read in the Bible with what E. G. White is talking about.
Anyway, lady with the forked tongue, what is your stand on the 2,300 day prophecy?
—VIA YOUTUBE
Moderator’s Response: What you wrote about as the Investigative Judgment is not what E.G.W. believed or wrote about in her fictional book The Great Controversy. I believe that the verse you are misunderstanding is Rev. 20:
“4 And I saw thrones, and they sat upon them, and judgment was given unto them: and I saw the souls of them that were beheaded for the witness of Jesus, and for the word of God, and which had not worshipped the beast, neither his image, neither had received his mark upon their foreheads, or in their hands; and they lived and reigned with Christ a thousand years.” —KJV
Nowhere does it even imply that God is showing the redeemed the books so they would understand why their loved ones are not with them. The context is God welcoming the faithful into His kingdom. It is God declaring, “Well done, enter now into the kingdom”.
Seventh-day Adventists teach the following regarding the Investigative Judgment:
- Christ moved from the Holy Place to the Most Holy Place in the heavenly sanctuary on October 22, 1844, and began a new phase of ministry. This ministry was foreshadowed by the Levitical Day of Atonement (Lev. 16:16-33).
- The first phase of the “Day of Atonement” is called the “cleansing of the Sanctuary”. It involves a pre-Advent investigation and judging of God’s people to determine whose sins will be removed from the Sanctuary. Christ started this judgment in 1844, beginning with Adam and Eve and progressing chronologically down through the ages, judging all of the dead believers. At some point, near the end of time, Christ will begin judging living believers. During this Investigative Judgment God either blots out the sins of the believer, or he removes the name of the believer from the Book of Life.
As during the typical Day of Atonement the cleansing of the earthly sanctuary removed the sins accumulated there, so the heavenly sanctuary is cleansed by the final removal of the record of sins in the heavenly books. But before the records are finally cleared, they will be examined to determine who through repentance and faith in Christ is entitled to enter His eternal kingdom. The cleansing of the heavenly sanctuary, therefore involves a work of investigation or judgment that reflects the nature of the Day of Atonement as a day of judgment. This judgment, which ratifies the decision as to who will be saved and who will be lost… Seventh-day Adventists Believe, p. 320, Review and Herald (1989 - Whenever one of God’s followers commits a sin and asks forgiveness from God, that sin is transferred into the Most Holy Place of the heavenly Sanctuary. It remains there, in the Sanctuary, until the Investigative Judgment is completed. At the end of time, all the sins of the righteous are transferred from the Sanctuary onto the Scapegoat, who is Satan. Satan then suffers the final punishment for his sins and all the sins of the righteous.—(https://nonsda.org/study4.shtml)
A major red flag about the investigative judgment is that it only applies to believers to see if they have remained eligible for salvation. Why don’t the lost get an investigative judgment to see if there is anything they can do to change their position?
Here are a couple of links that explain why Adventists are trying to redefine the I.J. and also a link to the Former Adventist Revelation podcast.
Hit Me Hard
I don’t think it had hit me as hard before as when you said, “The investigative judgment has eclipsed the Cross.”
Thank you , Colleen and all at FAF.
—VIA YOUTUBE
I’m In Shock
Leviticus 4:27-35 shows a very clear atonement for individual believers in the daily sacrifice at the altar of burnt sacrifice aka The Cross. No blood is being carried into the sanctuary. I am in shock that I ever fell for their “sanctuary doctrine/investigative judgment”. I am in even more shock that, after reading Daniel 8 which shows the Grecian Wicked King defiling the sanctuary and speaking dark sentences, that Adventists still want to believe that little horn to be Jesus defiling Heaven with His blood and Rome on earth.
—VIA YOUTUBE
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