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April 23  Redefining The First Angel's Message-3

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The court shall sit in judgment, and his [the little horn's] dominion shall be taken away. . . And the kingdom and the dominion . . . shall be given to the people of the saints of the Most High. Dan. 7:26, RSV.

We saw yesterday that beginning in the late 1830s Josiah Litch began to interpret "the houw of his judgment is come" of Revelation 14:7 as some thing prior to the final day of judgment. Litch himself believed that the trial or pre-Advent judgment had begun in 1798 at the end of hte 1260-day prophetic time period of Daniel 7:25, and that it would finish before the Second Advent at the end of the 2300 days.

The idea of a pre-Advent judgment didn't die with the October 1844 disappointment. Non-Sabbatarian Enoch Jacobs, for example, after discussing the breastplate of judgment worn on the Day of Atonement, stated in November 1844 that "unless something as decisive as the setting of the judment took place on the tenth day [October 22, 1844], the antitype is not yet given," prophecy is not fulfilled, and we are still in darkness. To Jacobs "the judgment sits before the personal appearing of Christ and resurrection of the saints."

Again, in January 1845 Apollos Hale and Joseph Turner called for a deeper understanding of the wedding parables. In particular, they pointed out that the wedding parable of Luke 12 says that people needed to wait until Christ returned from the wedding. They went on to note that the wedding parable of Matthew 22 has a judgment scene in which the king examines his guests to determine whether they are wearing a wedding garment.

Turner and Hale linked those wedding parables to Christ's reception of His kingdom in the judgement scene of Daniel 7. THey concluded that beginning on October 22 Christ had a new work to perform "in the invisible world." Accordingly, they proclaimed, "The judgment is here!"

By March 20, 1845, Miller had equated the judgment of Revelation 14 with the judgment scene of Daniel 7. He pointed out that since 1844 God was in his "judicial character deciding the cases of all the righteous," so that "the angels may know whom to gather" at the Second Coming. "If this is true," Miller added, "who can say God is not already justifying his Sanctuary."

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Thank You, Lord, for the logic of Your Word. Thank You that You will eventually remove the selfish forces that have controlled this world and will set up an everlasting kingdom in which righteousness rules.
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