According to the Bible, God already knows who are His sheep. He does not need 155 years to determine who is saved and who is lost.
Ellen White: Every individual MUST, who believes in God, pass the Investigative Judgment.
"How important, then, that every mind contemplate often the solemn scene when the Judgment shall sit and the books shall be opened, when, with Daniel, EVERY INDIVIDUAL MUST STAND IN HIS LOT, at the end of the days." The Great Controversy [1888 edition], p. 483
BIBLE: Believers in Christ do not enter into judgment
"Truly, truly, I say to you, he who hears my word and believes him who sent me, has eternal life; he does not come into judgment, but has passed from death to life." John 5:24
Ellen White: Our sins are NOT BLOTTED OUT until AFTER the investigative judgment
BUT HIS SINS ARE NOT BLOTTED OUT UNTIL AFTER THE INVESTIGATIVE JUDGMENT." The Signs of the Times, May 16, 1895
BIBLE: Our sins are blotted out when we repent
"I have blotted out, as a thick cloud, thy transgressions, and, as a cloud, thy sins: return unto me; for I have redeemed thee." Isaiah 44:22
"Repent ye therefore, and be converted, that your sins may be blotted out, when the times of refreshing shall come from the presence of the Lord." Acts 3:19
"…and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin." 1 John 1:7
Ellen White: By 1850, Jesus' work was "almost finished"
"I then saw Brother Edson that he must gird on the whole armor and stand in readiness to go, for a journey was before him, and that souls needed help and that JESUS' WORK WAS ALMOST FINISHED IN THE SANCTUARY..." (1850) Manuscript Releases Vol. 6, p. 250 |
