When Does the Judgment of the Living Begin?
Has inspiration given a certain sign or is Inspiration ambiguous and indifferent so that it is left up to every single individual to have his version of uncertainty?
Many are having a hard time affirming what the prophet wrote because of unproven untested cherished theories. They have failed to see the matter from the "writer's point of view." Others have taken up popular private ideas they wish only to assert and have no intentions of ever seeking an occasion to have their idea closely scrutinized. However, Inspiration counsels against this attitude.
"…You should examine the truths you have been led to believe, until you know that they are without a flaw.…"—CSW:33.1
…We should all know what is being taught among us; for if it is truth, we need it. We are all under obligation to God to know what He sends us.… {CW 43.3}
Examination of New Views.—Truth is eternal, and conflict with error will only make manifest its strength. We should never refuse to examine the Scriptures with those who, we have reason to believe, desire to know what is truth as much as we do. Suppose a brother held a view that differed from yours, and he should come to you, proposing that you sit down with him and make an investigation of that point in the Scriptures; should you rise up, filled with prejudice, and condemn his ideas, while refusing to give him a candid hearing? {CW 44.1}
The only right way would be to sit down as Christians and investigate the position presented, in the light of God's word, which will reveal truth and unmask error. To ridicule his ideas would not weaken his position in the least if it were false, or strengthen your position if it were true. If the pillars of our faith will not stand the test of investigation, it is time that we knew it. There must be no spirit of pharisaism cherished among us. When Christ came to His own, His own received Him not; and it is a matter of solemn interest to us that we should not pursue a similar course in refusing light from heaven.—CW:43.3-44.2
After being well advised to hear a matter before accepting or rejecting let us begin by seeking out positive research that answers the question. Let us begin.
Part 1
[When?]
Is it possible for one to lose out when the message of the Judgment for the Living begins to sound, though he did not lose out when the message of the Judgment for the Dead sounded?—The Spirit of Prophecy answers thus: "We have nothing to fear for the future, except as we shall forget the way the Lord has led us, and His teaching in our past history."—''Life Sketches," p. 196. Yes, this is to be our only fear. Let us, therefore remember, and make positively sure that God is now to lead us in the same way as He did in 1844 and throughout the ages. Make doubly sure that you follow no other kind of leadership, that you let no man divert your attention from this straight path—that you let no one lead you to believe that God is now leading through every Tom, Dick, and Harry. This we must not forget if we are to emulate and succeed the saints that have gone before us, and if we expect to be saved. If we forget this, then as sure as we stand, men will lead us away from God's message and turn us against His messengers even as the Jewish priests made their followers turn against Christ. God forbid that we should sin against the Holy Ghost by rejecting His message WHEN It comes to us. Only by strictly following this Divine command can we be led right and survive the Judgment for the Living WHEN it starts to "sever the wicked from among the just." Matt. 13:49.—2JL:3.1
What is the Judgment for the Living? and what happens with the righteous, and what happens with the wicked, after they are judged?—In His parables Christ illustrates that the righteous, as good fish, are put into vessels; as wheat, they are put into the barn; and as sheep, they go into life eternal—they are placed in absolute security sealed for eternity. But the wicked, as bad fish, are cast out, as tares, they are burned up; and as goats, they are sent into everlasting punishment. "So shall it be
AT the end of the world: the angels shall come forth, and
sever the wicked from among the just, and shall cast them into the furnace of fire: there shall be wailing and gnashing of teeth." Matt. 13:49, 50.—2JL:3.1, 2
[~1953]Jezreel Letter No. 2 page 3 should be sufficient to inform the penitent Laodicean what the judgment of the living is and WHEN it begins.
Where else in the SRod can we find the same inspired thought? Let's start from the beginning. Thus saith the Lord God…
1932
When the judgment opened in 1844, as previously explained, the investigation began with the dead, and when that part of the work is finished, THEN commences the judgment of the living. While the investigation for the congregation of the dead is in progress, there can be no separation among the congregation of the living. But WHEN our High Priest shall begin the atonement for the living, there must be a message of present truth—sounding of the trumpet—urging every one to lay hold on the Lamb of God (Christ) by which only, can he in figure, come to the sanctuary, confess his sin and secure his life. Unless the close of the judgment for the dead and the commencement for the living be made known to us, we would have no present truth while the judgment for the living is in session. Neither would such judgment be legal or just. He who fails to respond to the heavenly summons, will be left without the seal or covering of God, and therefore must be cut off from among His people, as prefigured by the services in the typical day of atonement.—2SR:164.1
Is there any way whereby we can determine the time of the opening of the seal, and the COMMENCEMENT of the judgment for the living? If God so faithfully revealed to the living the commencement of the judgment for the dead, it cannot be possible that He would keep secret the time of the judgment for the living. If He did, we would have no present truth in the time of the last seal; neither could there be justice in such secrecy, nor could such judgment be legal. Therefore, a revelation of the judgment for the living, is of as great importance as the revelation of the gospel itself. For the judgment (blotting out the sins) is the crowning act in the gospel of Christ. Thus we conclude that WHEN the seal is opened, AND the judgment for the living begins, we must know it. The day of atonement in its type proves the same, for the Israelites were well informed of the event, their duty, and the consequence.—2SR:220.3 [1932]
1942
This extension [[ no longer among the dead but now "the Judgment Among the Living" ]], so far as we are able to know now, MUST take place AT the opening of the seventh seal (Rev. 8:1), for at that time the celestial voices, which opened the judgment of the dead, cease in the heavenly sanctuary and begin, AFTER the half hour's silence, to sound on earth. In other words, just as in heaven at the opening of the judgment of the dead, there were "lightnings and thunderings and voices" (Rev. 4:5), likewise on earth at the opening of the "judgment of the living," there are "voices, and thunderings, and lightnings, and an earthquake." Rev. 8:5. {3Tr:47.1}
With the judgment of the dead, however, the work of separation takes place in the books in the heavenly sanctuary; whereas with the judgment of the living, the separation takes place among the people in the church AS WELL AS among their names in the books in the heavenly sanctuary, thus showing that both sanctuaries will finally be cleansed. {3Tr:47.2}
Inescapably, therefore, the Lord's coming to His temple (Mal. 3:1-3), His coming with ALL His angels (Matt. 25), and His coming enthroned above the living creatures (Ezek. 1),—ALL three representing the same event as has been shown,—take place AT the beginning of the judgment of the living: the time in which the judicial activities of the heavenly sanctuary extend to the earthly sanctuary—the church.—3Tr:47.1-3
As the cleansings called for in the parables and in Malachi's prophecy have never taken place, the investigative [[ book work (2SR:162.3) ]] judgment of the living is obviously, then, YET future. This investigative work is therefore OCCASIONED by the work of separation in the earthly sanctuary (church), as brought to view also in Ezekiel 9:—3Tr:43.3 [1942]
(See also: 12SC3:18.1-22.1. [1939])
1944
However, as the Bible plainly teaches that this special work takes place only once during probationary time (Heb. 9:26), it follows that the records of those who have died throughout the centuries will be the first to pass in review before God, the Great Judge (Dan. 7:9, 10). AFTER these have been examined, THEN the examination of the records of the living will begin. And as we are told that there are two classes of people in the church ("wheat" and "tares"—Matt. 13:30), it is evident that the Investigative Judgment ("harvest") of the dead affects only the heavenly sanctuary. This is doubly evident when it is remembered that "the dead know not anything" (Eccles. 9:5) but are lying unconscious while waiting in their graves for the resurrection day. But WHEN the Judgment ("harvest") of the living SHALL begin, then of necessity the sanctuary on EARTH will be cleansed from the hypocrites, and the sanctuary in heaven from their names in its records. Both sanctuaries are therefore affected. The cleansing of the earthly is further borne out by Malachi's prophecy:—3An:6.1 [1944]
1946
For over a century we as Seventh-day Adventists have been preaching the work of the Judgment for the Dead, and should now with ease see that WHEN the Judgment for the Living begins IT IS to separate the saints from the sinners—the wheat from the tares (Matt. 13:30), the good fish from the bad fish (Matt. 13:47, 48), the sheep from the goats (Matt. 25:32-46), the wise virgins from the foolish ones (Matt. 25:1-13).—1TG5:8.3 [1946]
1947
Now it is up to all of us individually to decide whether we should hear the voice of man or the Voice of God's Rod. This is now everyone's test, and it must be everyone's concern, for one of these two voices—the voice of men or the Voice of God's Rod—will determine everyone's destiny either for eternal death or for eternal life. {1TG27:8.1}
Since this MESSAGE announces that the great and dreadful day of the Lord is AT hand—that the Judgment for the Living is ABOUT to begin, and since Isaiah the prophet was given a vision of the Lord's moving into His temple for this judicial work, the prophet's experiences while he was yet in vision must, therefore, represent the experience of God's servants who are to announce the day of the Lord. His experience and commission must be our experience and commission:—1TG27:8.1, 2 [1947]
I need us to understand this one thing clearly that is written in the SRod. The revealing of the message, which is the prediction of a future EVENT by Bro. Houteff, God's last prophet to the church, is NOT in itself "the great and dreadful day of the Lord." Can we agree on that FACT, on that truth?
Since her people have never to this day been all righteous, it is plain to see that the fulfillment of the prophecy IS YET future. And in view of the fact that our message IS announcing the imminent purification of the church, THE time in which the angels are to sift out the hypocrites from among the faithful, the time in which the net is drawn to shore and the bad fish cast out, the cleansing of the sanctuary—the Judgment for the Living IN "the house of God" (1 Pet. 4:17) is about to begin, Inspiration, therefore, in this chapter is addressing God's church at this particular time. Since we now see that this chapter contains important timely Truth, we shall study it verse by verse.—1TG40:16.1 [1947]
We are to study the sixty-sixth chapter of Isaiah. In this chapter the Lord speaks to TWO groups of servants: the servants up to the cleansing of the sanctuary (Dan. 8:14)—to the Judgment for the Living, the purification of the church ("Testimonies," Vol. 5, pg. 80), the TIME in which they are found "smiting" their fellow servants, eating and drinking with the drunken. The other servants are the servants thereafter. To hear what the Lord has to say to His former servants as the time of the cleansing approaches, we shall begin the study with the first two verses of the chapter.—1TG45:12.1 [1947]
That there should be a climax of some kind in the Judicial work at this particular point of the Scriptures (Rev. 6:14-17), is not a mystery. Its being stamped with the events which end the reign of sin, and this being realized by even the sinners themselves, is a very good indication that DURING the sixth seal the Judgment of the dead closes, and the preparations for the Judgment of the living begin. IT IS the "dreadful day" for the wicked.—15Tr:58.1 [1947]
1950
So, before you speak your mind, Brethren, please consider carefully what timely Truth will you have for yourselves and for the world AFTER the Judgment for the Dead is over if you reject the revelation herein? And what will you have for anyone, including yourselves, WHEN the "Judgment for the Living" begins—what but an empty lamp unless you NOW get the extra oil in your vessels? Unless in other figures, the scroll unrolls and another Divinely-revealed truth, "meat in due season" (Matt. 24:45), be given you? And what would happen if you should copy the mistakes of the Jews, the Romans, and Protestants who have rejected the messages of God? God forbid it be the fearful fate of any to whom this appeal is addressed.—GCS:44.1 [1950]
~1953
Is it possible for one to lose out when the MESSAGE of the Judgment FOR the Living begins to sound, though he did not lose out when the message of the Judgment for the Dead sounded?—2JL:3.1 [~1953]
Why is the call of action so urgent? Because Inspiration definitely reveals that the time of the Judgment for the Dead
IS ABOUT to pass away and
the TIME for
the Judgment for the Living ABOUT to begin. And since there was a special message for the Judgment concerning the Dead,
it is even more important that there should be a special MESSAGE concerning the Judgment for the Living,
the announcement of which is already here. The Spirit of Prophecy speaks of the message in the following words: "I saw angels hurrying to and fro in heaven, descending to the earth and again ascending to heaven, preparing for the fulfillment of some important event. Then I saw ANOTHER mighty angel
[[ 1.
]] commissioned to descend to the earth, to unite HIS voice
WITH the third angel,
and
[[ 2.
]] give POWER and FORCE to his message.…This message seemed to be an addition to the third message, joining it as the midnight cry joined the second angel's message in 1844...."—Early Writings, p. 277.—4JL:3.2
[~1953]
"And I will come near to you to judgment and I will be a swift witness against the SORCERERS and against the adulterers, and against false swearers, and against those that oppress the hireling in his wages, the widow, and the fatherless, and that turn aside the stranger from his right, and fear not Me, saith the Lord of hosts. For I am the Lord, I change not; therefore ye sons of Jacob are not consumed."—Mal. 4:5, 6. {9JL:3.1}
Here Inspiration explains how the Judgment for the Living begins, how the cleansing of the sanctuary ON EARTH takes place (Dan. 8:14). And having unveiled His people's shocking irresponsibility towards the unfortunate ones among them, and their taking advantage of others whenever possible, He then reassures that He changes not; that He is the same unerring and just God; that His ancient statutes and ordinances are ever lasting; that He has not changed them; that He will restore all things. He, as you will see, finally comes to the real trouble, then pleads His people accepts His remedy.—9JL:3.1, 2 [~1953]
Plainly therefore the message of the angel of Rev. 18:1 7 touches down first and begins to be known during the tarrying time while the investigative of the Judgment of the Dead is in Session in heaven. There are "lightnings and thunderings and voices" proceeding "out of the throne." (Rev. 4:5.)
Now you may logically ask "What means do the angels have by which to tell who is tare and who is wheat?" Ezekiel has the answer: "And the Lord said unto him, Go through the midst of the city, through the midst of Jerusalem and set a mark upon the foreheads of the men that sigh and that cry for all the abominations that be done in the midst thereof. And to the others He said in mine hearing, Go ye after him through the city, and smite: let not your eye spare, neither have ye pity: slay utterly old and young, both maids, and little children, and women: but come not near any man upon whom is the mark; and begin at My sanctuary. Then they began at the ancient men which were before the house." Ezek. 9:4-6. (See "Testimonies," Vol. 5, p. 211, Id., Vol. 3 pp. 266, 267). The tares are identified by the FACT that they did not sigh and cry for the abominations done in the church, and were, therefore, left without the mark. How solemn a time have we come to! More solemn than the Passover in Egypt—the type of the MESSAGE of the Judgment for the Living, the "addition to the third message" ("Early Writings," p. 277).—6JL:4.2 [~1953]
Should we sustain any doubts any longer as to when the SRod message (the event it is predicting) teaches the judgment of the living begins?
It [the Voice of God] teaches and announces its truth during and while the judgment of the dead Session is taking place in heaven in 2023 since 1844. It teaches us to store the "extra oil" in vessels in preparation for the EVENT that is about to awaken and come upon both the wise and the foolish virgins in the SDA Church. May we cease to resist the Spirit of truth that is working on behalf of our salvation. Laboring to ensure that we are found wearing the spotless robe of the Lamb of God, "the righteousness of Christ, which is pure, unadulterated truth" (TM:64.3) When "the angels, the reapers, whom Christ sends forth, include both him who does the sealing, or binding, and those who follow on to do the destroying (Ezek. 9:2, 5, 6), first in the church, then in the world." (3Tr:66.3.)
Thus
Rev. 18:4—"And I heard another voice from heaven, saying, Come out of her, My people, that ye be not partakers of her sins, and that ye receive not of her plagues." {1TG21:20.5}
This voice from heaven, you see, comes to God's people AFTER the earth is lightened with the Loud Cry of the angel. The burden of the Voice is that God's people should come out of Babylon so that they be not partakers of her sins, and receive not of her plagues. If on this account they must come out of Babylon, then it must be that the place into which they are called to come is free from sin and thus free from danger of
Vol. 1 Timely Greetings No. 21 20
the plagues. And where could that be but in the purified land and church of God, where there is no more sin and no more sinners to endanger the peace of God's people? Vain, indeed, it would be if the people were called from one place of sin and brought into another place of sin. As clear as crystal it is that the purification of the church ("cleansing"—Dan. 8:14; Judgment of the Living—1 Pet. 4:17) takes place before the Loud Cry of the Third Angel's message BEGINS in the world, before God's people are called out of Babylon. {1TG21:20.6}
"The third angel's message is to lighten the earth with its glory; but only those who have withstood temptation in the strength of the Mighty One will be permitted to act a part in proclaiming it when it shall have swelled into the loud cry." -- "The Review and Herald," Nov. 19, 1908. {1TG21:21.1}
Most Christians know that there are two classes in the church—wheat and tares—but few, if any, seem to care. We, as reformers though, especially since we have been given this great light on the subject, cannot afford to be indifferent. We may now intelligently choose to be "wheat" or choose to be "tares." If after knowing this Truth, some choose to be "tares," they, of course, will have gained nothing and need not be surprised when they land in hell.—1TG21:20.5-21.2 [1946]
"I then saw the third angel. Said my accompanying angel, 'Fearful is his work. Awful is his mission. He is the angel that is to select the wheat from the tares, and seal, or bind, the wheat for the heavenly garner. These things should engross the whole mind, the whole attention.' "—"Early Writings," p. 118. {5JL:2.2}
This quotation, too, Brother, Sister, needs no interpretation. It, too, plainly tells that the harvest precedes the close of probation, that the Third Angel's Message is both to seal and "select the wheat from the tares." Every Seventh-day Adventist knows that this work of the angel is probationary (during the time of salvation). Here you see that the cleansing of the sanctuary (Dan. 8:14) IS the Judgment for the Living, "the purification of the church" (5 T 80), which is accomplished BY destroying the "tares" and sparing the "wheat." THEN the Loud Cry [[ notice without quotes ]] begins with a pure ministry imbued with the Spirit of God. This is plainly seen from the following excerpts:—5JL:2.2, 3 [~1953]
(See also: 1An:82.1-85.1, "HAS THE LOUD CRY BEGUN?")
Part 2
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Is the judgment of the living and THE harvest equivalents? Let's see what Bro. Houteff wrote for the wise…
Now the subject of the 144,000 stands out brighter than ever before. Now you can clearly see that those who escape the slaughter foreseen in Ezekiel nine, are the 144,000 the future servants of God, the first fruits of the harvest, resulting from the cleansing of the sanctuary (church), the work of the investigative judgment of the living.…—1TG52:20.5 [1947]
The purification of the Church (the judgment of the living) is, through the prophet Daniel in chapter 7, verse 10, called the judgment, and in chapter 8, verse 14, is called the cleansing of the Sanctuary. Christ, though, in one of His parables likens the cleansing to a harvest in which the tares (sinners) are burned, and the wheat (the saints) are put into the barn (into the purified Church-Kingdom). Next He likens it to a net from which, after being drawn to shore, the bad fish (sinners) are cast out, and the good fish (saints) are put into vessels.—2TG43:21.2 [1949]
Since this separation of the "tares" from among the "wheat"—"the harvest"—is one and the same work WITH the Judgment of the living, then the only difference between the Judgment of the dead and the judgment of the living is that in the former the names of the wicked are removed from the books above, whereas in the latter the wicked are bodily swept away from among the living members of the Church. Not only the prophecies and parables here considered, but also the type (the atonement—Lev. 23:27, 29), including Early Writings, pg. 118 and Testimonies to Ministers, pg. 234, teach the same truth.—2TG45:10.1 [1950]
Thus adding evidence to evidence, the Scriptures overwhelmingly show the harvest to be the judgment of the living, the Lord's gathering the "wheat," His own, from among all nations, and His destroying the tares and the chaff. The harvest therefore, is truly "the end of the world." It is the time in which the Lord sits "upon the throne of His glory" (the church purified—Matt. 25:31; Isa. 62:1-3; 66:18, 19). It is His separating the sheep from the goats—the work that brings this sinful world to an end.—WHR:31.2 [1951]
and for good measure once again it is written in the White-House Recruiter
These challenging facts are, of course, a mighty rebuke to those who may have long neglected their God-given duty to educate both ministry and laity to expect, watch for, and upon sight gladly welcome the "additional message," that of the eleventh hour. Had they been faithful to their trust, they would now recognize the message that is knocking at their door, as that long-awaited one, and would know it is the one variously designated: (1) the judgment of the living, (2) the harvest, (3) the great and dreadful day of the Lord, (4) the loud cry (as the message lightens the earth with the glory of Christ's righteousness beaming from the 144,000 guileless servants of God). And, accordingly, they would know that it is thus that the Lord will sift the nations (Isa. 30:28), "finish the work, and cut it short in righteousness." Rom. 9:28.—WHR:40.1 [1951]
If the foregoing references are true then the "around" theory is man-made. When God gives a specific moment when a prediction starts we have no authority to stretch it in order to accommodate and make room for our private interpretations which amount to false doctrine. We must not handle the word of God deceitfully.
Now that you can see that when Bro. Houteff makes the equivalence of the Judgment of the living IS the harvest and that the harvest is equivalent to the purificatio of the church then the following reference should be honored.
As there was an important event with each succeeding section (at the close of the one, and beginning of the other), there must be something of no lesser consequence that would make the change of this section with which we have identified ourselves. That important event is none other than the purification of God's church, and the separation of the tares from the wheat. Said Jesus, "Let both grow together until the harvest." The separation will MARK the harvest. Note the verb "until," meaning "up to." This most solemn time for the one class (the tares), and glorious for the other (the 144,000), thrusts out the section represented by Jacob, and forwards the other.—1SR:227.3 [1930]
The purification of God's church marks the harvest or the "Loud cry" of the Third Angel's Message, for the Lord of the harvest declares, "Let both grow together until the harvest." The wheat gathered at the commencement of the harvest and AT the separation from the tares in the church, is called the first-fruits of the harvest.…—2SR:102.1 [1932]
All these positive identifications clearly point out that the horses represent the First-day Adventists who arose between the years 1833 and 1844 and who then fulfilled this symbolical prophecy by proclaiming the second advent of Christ to every Christian mission, world over, but having confused the cleansing of the sanctuary (Dan. 8:14)—the purification of the church, the work of the Judgment, harvest, by separating the wheat from the tares (Matt. 13:30), the good fish from the bad (Matt. 13:47, 48), the wise virgins from the foolish (Matt. 25:1-12), the sheep from the goats (Matt. 25:32), the wedding garment dressed guests from those who had not the garment (Matt. 22:2-13). This Judicial work commences first among the dead (book work only, of course—Dan. 7:10), THEN among the living (actual bodily separation—cleansing—Ezek. 9).—1TG11:6.2 [1946]
Yes, there is to be a clean riddance of every sort of tare just as anciently there was a clean riddance of all the first-born in the households that failed to paint the doorpost with the sacrificial blood on the evening of the Passover in the land of Egypt. So shall it be at the commencement of the harvest, in the purification of the church: The angels shall smite everyone who fosters the abominations "in the midst thereof."—1TG21:16.1 [1946]
According to Christ's parables, the time His "adversaries," His enemies of progressive Truth, are cut off is at the commencement of the purification of the church, at the harvest time. Then, according to Ezekiel's prophecy, the Lord commissions the men with slaughtering weapons in their hands,…—1TG26:17.3 [1947]
At the time this awakening call goes forth throughout the land, Inspiration announces that the harvest time has arrived for the angels to put out and to keep out of Zion and Jerusalem the uncircumcised and the unclean, a work which Inspiration variously entitles: (1) cleansing of the sanctuary (Dan. 8:14), (2) purify the sons of Levi (Mal. 3:1-3), (3) purification of the church ("Testimonies," Vol. 5, pg. 80), (4) Judgment in the house of God (1 Pet. 4:17), (5) harvest (Matt. 13:30), casting out the bad fish from among the good fish (Matt. 13:47, 48), separating the sheep from the goats,—the Judgment for the Living. {1TG38:22.3}
The sinners, we know, have always been and are still among God's people. That the fulfillment of this Scripture, therefore, is in the very near future, is shown from the fact that the truth of this chapter is now unsealed and carried to the church, endeavoring to awaken the people of God and to impress them with the fact that soon the harvest will commence—first separating the firstfruits, the 144,000 from "the house of God," then to be followed by the second fruits from all nations (Rev. 7:9); the scripture also shows that the sinners will no longer walk with the saints and that the harvest ends the world (Matt. 13:39). Stop, think, and read over again Isaiah fifty-one and fifty-two. Do not pass hastily over this life and death subject.—1TG38:22.3, 4 [1947]
Jesus cannot help those who read this and resist the conviction of the Holy Spirit, who will refuse to forsake their pride of opinion against the weight of evidence listed here. And His advice is
"Men, women, and youth, God REQUIRES you to possess moral courage, steadiness of purpose, fortitude and perseverance, minds that cannot take the assertions of another, but which will investigate for themselves before receiving or rejecting, that will study and weigh evidence, and take it to the Lord in prayer." -- Testimonies, Vol. 2, p. 130.—WHR:69.1 [1951]
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Revelation 8:1, speaking of
[[ 1. ]] the silence in Heaven for the space of half an hour, PROVES to be THE EVENT of
[[ 2. ]] the fulfillment of Ezekiel 9. At which TIME
[[ 3. ]] “shall Michael stand up.”
[[ 4. ]] It is at this juncture that Christ puts on His garments of vengeance
and surprises the hypocrites in Zion. See “Testimonies for the Church,” Vol. 5, p. 690.—2SC5,6:10.2 [1936]
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