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GC410: To deny that the [2300] days ended at that time [1844] was to involve the whole question in confusion, and to renounce positions which had been established by unmistakable fulfillments of prophecy.

ERROR 82: Actually, denying this would have ended all “confusion.”

ERROR 83: See GC333-335. The “unmistakable prophecies included the 1755 “fulfillment” of Revelation 6:12, the 1833 “fulfillment” of Revelation 6:13 and the 1840 “remarkable fulfillment” of Revelation 9:15.

 

GC411: ... they found in the Bible a full explanation of the subject of the sanctuary, its nature, location, and services; the testimony of the sacred writers being so clear and ample as to place the matter beyond all question.

ERROR 84: The truth about the sanctuary is “clear” to everybody except SDAs. The N. T. teaches that Christ fulfilled the one “day” Day of Atonement in one “day” on the cross (Heb 9:24-28).

 

GC414-415: The holy places of the sanctuary in heaven are represented by the two apartments of the sanctuary on earth. As in vision, the apostle John was granted a view of the temple of God in heaven, he behold there ‘seven lamps of fire burning before the throne.’ Revelation 4:5. He saw an angel ‘having a golden censer, and there was given unto him much incense, that he should offer it with the prayers of all saints upon the golden altar which was before the throne.’ Revelation 8:3. Here the prophet was permitted to behold the FIRST APARTMENT of the sanctuary in heaven; and he saw there the ‘seven lamps of fire’ and ‘the golden altar’ represented by the golden candlestick and the altar of incense in the sanctuary on earth.

ERROR 85: EGW says that John only saw the Holy Place of the heavenly sanctuary. Yet the veil represented Christ who was in both rooms at the same time (Heb. 10:20). When Christ died on the cross, shadow met reality and the physical veil was no longer applicable (Mt 27:51).  If all believers can, as priests since the cross, “come boldly to the throne of grace,” then, of course, Christ can also (Heb 4:16). Since Christ was/is the veil, then there is only one undivided “room” in the heavenly sanctuary. Also, John is clearly inside the Most Holy Place in Revelation chapters four and five.

 

GC415: In the most holy place is His law, the great rule of right by which all mankind are tested.

ERROR 86: This is a fundamental error in SDA theology. New Covenant man is tested according to his/her response to the Gospel of Jesus Christ (John 3:16; 16:9).

ERROR 87: The Most Holy Place contained ALL of the Law and not merely the Ten Commandments. SDAs act as if the word, “Law,” is strictly the Ten Commandments. They themselves do not treat most of the ceremonial and judicial law as “the great rule of right by which all mankind are tested.” And they ignore the death penalty for violating most of Ten Commandments.

 

GC417: And as the prophecy of Daniel 8:14 is fulfilled in this dispensation, the sanctuary to which it refers must be the sanctuary of the new covenant.

ERROR 88: This is a fundamental error which completely ignores the context of Daniel 8:1-13 and, especially, the question it answers from Daniel 8:13. The sanctuary of the New covenant was inaugurated when Christ ascended to the right hand of the Father and began ministering there as a high priest. The one “day” Day of Atonement lasted one “day.” When SDAs admit that Christ has been ministering in the heavenly sanctuary since his ascension, they inadvertently admit that he inaugurated the entire sanctuary at that time.

 

GC417: At the termination of the 2300 days, in 1844, there had been no sanctuary on earth for many centuries. Thus the prophecy, “Unto two thousand and three hundred days; then shall the sanctuary be cleansed,” unquestionably points to the sanctuary in heaven.

ERROR 89: This is only “unquestionable” in SDA ranks because one is not allowed to question Ellen G. White. She never explains how Daniel 8:14 answers the question posed in 8:13 and its context. No other church or system of theology has even suggested this conclusion.

 

GC417: But the most important question remains to be answered: What is the cleansing of the sanctuary? That there was such a service in connection with the earthly sanctuary is seated in the Old Testament scriptures.

ERROR 90: Actually there were three different times that the sanctuary/Temple was “cleansed”: (1) inauguration, (2) re-dedication/restoration and (3) Day of Atonement. EGW and SDAs confuse the actual “restoration” cleansing of Daniel 8:14 with the Day of Atonement cleansing of Leviticus 16. The Hebrew word for “cleansed” in Daniel 8:14 is never associated with the Day of Atonement cleansing in Leviticus 16.

 

GC417: In Hebrews 9 the cleansing of both the earthly and heavenly sanctuaries is plainly taught. “Almost all things are by the law purged with blood; and without shedding of blood is no remission. It was therefore necessary that the patterns of things in the heavens should be purified with these; but the heavenly things themselves with better sacrifices than these (Hebrews 9:22,23), even the precious blood of Christ.”

ERROR 91: The “cleansing” described in Hebrews 9 is NOT that of the Day of Atonement. Rather, it is that of the INAUGURATION of the Old and New Covenants to begin ministration. Compare Hebrews 9:13,14 with Exodus 24:3-8.

 

GC418: But how could there be sin connected with the sanctuary, either in heaven or upon earth?

ERROR 92: Fundamental error. Atoned sin never entered either sanctuary. Every aspect of both sanctuaries reflected the sinless holiness of God. The two sanctuaries are vastly different because the earthly sanctuary was located in the middle of millions of sinners, whereas the heavenly sanctuary is not B and could not possible contain sin in the Presence of God. See chapter 11 of my book, Exposing Seventh-day Adventism.

 

GC418: This may be learned by reference to the symbolic service; for the priests who offered on earth, served ‘unto the example and shadow of heavenly things.’ Hebrews 8:5.

ERROR 93: SDAs greatly exaggerate the words, “pattern,” “example” and “shadows.” The vast majority of items associated with and services performed in the earthly sanctuary have no counterpart in the heavenly sanctuary B such as daily sacrifices, the utensils, ordinary priestly ministry with blood sacrifices, replacing the bread, refilling the candlestick oil, etc, etc, etc.  In fact, most of the book of Hebrews shows that Christ’s ministry CONTRASTS with that of Old Testament priests rather than following their pattern of worship.

GC418: Day by day the repentant sinner brought his offerings to the door of the tabernacle, placing his hand upon the victim's head, confessed his sin, thus in figure transferring them from himself to the innocent sacrifice.

ERROR 94: EGW and SDAs give the impression that all manner of sin was confessed and atoned at the sanctuary. However, normally only general sins and sins of ignorance were allowed to be atoned (Lev 4:2, 3, 12, 14; 5 1-5). There was no sacrifice prescribed for willful (deliberate, high-handed) sins which were handled by the judges who prescribed punishment (Ex 21: 17, 23-25; 31 14; Lev 20 2; 24:16).

 

GC418: The broken law of God demanded the life of the transgressor.

ERROR 95: This is why the judges (not the priests) put to death those who were guilty of deliberate (willful, high-handed) sin such as worshiping idols, cursing parents and Sabbath-breaking. Again, sacrifices were mostly for sins of ignorance.

 

GC418: The blood, representing the forfeited life of the sinner, whose guilt the victim bore, was carried by the priest into the holy place, and sprinkled before the veil, behind which was the ark containing the law that the sinner had transgressed. By this ceremony the sin was, through the blood, transferred in figure to the sanctuary.

ERROR 96: No! No! No! This is the greatest error of the SDA view of the sanctuary. No SIN entered the sanctuary through the atonement ritual!!! Sacrificial sin “cleans” or “washes away” sin! Sacrificial blood never “defiles” anything! Everything about the priest, his physical body, his clothing, his anointing, and his deportment within the sanctuary, must be holy and without blemish! Everything about the sacrificial animal must also be “most holy” or it would be rejected! The SDA doctrine insults the holiness of God and turns the Most Holy Place of the entire universe into the most DEFILED place with the accumulated atoned sins of every believer since Adam! (See Ex 33:22, 23; Lev 16:13; Isa 6: 3-5; Lev 6: 25-27; Numb 18: 9; Lev 4:20;  5:6;  6:7; 7:6; Heb 9:13, 14).

 

GC418: In some cases the blood was not taken into the holy place, but the flesh was to be eaten by the priest, as Moses directed the sons of Aaron saying “God has given it unto you to bear the iniquity of the congregation.” Leviticus 10:17. Both ceremonies alike symbolized the transfer of the sin from the penitent to the sanctuary.

ERROR 97: Fundamental error! Priests did not carry sins into the sanctuary. Anybody who defiled the sanctuary, especially priests, were to be put to death (Numb. 18:1, 7, 22). Just as a government attorney has the responsibility of prosecuting crimes and law-breakers, even so the priests “bore” the responsibility of ministering forgiveness through atonement.

 

GC418: Such was the work that went on day by day throughout the year. The sins of Israel were thus transferred to the sanctuary, and a special work became necessary for their removal.

ERROR 98: This is EGW and SDA cultic doctrine at its worst. The Bible does not teach that the purpose of the Day of Atonement was to remove forgiven sins which had been placed there via sacrificial atonement blood!

GC418-419: God commanded that an atonement be made for each of the sacred apartments. ‘He made an atonement for the holy place [Most Holy Place] because of the uncleanness of the children of Israel and because of their transgressions in all their sins: and so shall he do for the tabernacle of the congregation [Holy Place] that remaineth among them in the midst of their uncleanness.’ An atonement was also to be made for the altar to ‘cleanse it and hallow it from the uncleanness of the children of Israel.’ Leviticus 16:16,19.

ERROR 99: Fundamental error!  EGW quotes Leviticus 16:16, 19 here but does not explain her inconsistency. The texts require that ALL of the sanctuary be cleansed on the Day of Atonement B not merely the Most Holy Place, but also the Holy Place and the Altar of Burnt Offerings. Yet SDAs teach (by ignoring the obvious) that the Holy Place did not require cleaning in 1844 because Christ had already been ministering there since His ascension. Yet, in reality, if any part of the sanctuary were defiled, then ALL of it was defiled and ALL of it must be cleansed at the same time.

 

GC420: Important truths concerning the atonement are taught by the typical service. A substitute was accepted in the sinner's behalf, but the sin was not canceled by the blood of the victim. A means was thus provided by which it was transferred to the sanctuary.

ERROR 100: No Bible texts are provided! Yet the phraseology “and the priest shall make an atonement for them, and it shall be forgiven” occurs in Leviticus 4:20, 26, 31, 35; 5:10, 13, 16, 18; 6:7; 19:22). Indeed, the sin was canceled because the debt had been fully paid.

 

GC420: By the offering of blood the sinner acknowledged the authority of the law, confessed his guilt in transgression, and expressed his desire for pardon through faith in a Redeemer to come; but he was not yet entirely released from the condemnation of the law.

ERROR 101: This is another example of SDA theology at its worst. The perfect sacrifice had been brought and accepted; its life-blood had been shed; the atonement-redemption price had been fully paid; and the priest had announced “it shall be forgiven” (Lev 4:26, 31, 35; 5:10, 13, 16, 18; 6:7; 19:22). Yet EGW erroneously says that the sinner was “not yet entirely released from the condemnation of the law.”

 

GC420: On the Day of Atonement the high priest, having taken an offering from the congregation, went into the most holy place with the blood of this offering, and sprinkled it upon the mercy seat, directly over the law to make satisfaction for its claims.

ERROR 102: This was a general cleansing of the “un-atoned” sinfulness of Israel. It was not a cleansing of previously-atoned sins. Atoned sins are the only ones which do not defile! (See Lev 15:31; 18:28; Numb 5:2, 3; 19:13; 35:34; compare Lev 16:16-20, 30).

 

GC420: Then, in his character of mediator, he took the sins upon himself and bore them from the sanctuary.

ERROR 103: See Leviticus 16:7, 16-22. (1) The live goat never went beyond the door of the tabernacle. (2) The Bible does not say that the High Priest carried any sins “out of the Most Holy Place” B the “sins” were washed away by the blood of the sacrificial goat when it died at the doorway! (3) The sacrificial animal and its blood became “most holy” at the moment it was presented before the LORD (Lev. 6: 25-27: Numb 18:9). (4) The sin placed on the goat “for Azazel” were symbolic of removal. The person who handled the second goat was not considered defiled. (5) Since the New Covenant sanctuary in heaven is not located “in the midst of a sinful people,” then it does not require a later corresponding Day of Atonement ritual. The cleansing described in Hebrews 9 is comparable, not to the Day of Atonement, but to the inauguration to begin the new ministry. Compare Exodus 24:3-8.

 

GC420: Placing his hands upon the head of the scapegoat, he confessed over him all these sins, thus in figure transferring them from himself to the goat. The goat then bore them away, and they were regarded as forever separated from the people.

ERROR 104: The Bible does not say “thus in figure transferring them from himself to the goat.” EGW said that! Atoned sins never made it past the doorway! And the high priest certainly did not carry “sins” inside the sanctuary because he would have been defiled and unclean! He presented a visual demonstration to Israel that their sins were forever removed. “All these sins” refers, not to previously confessed and atoned sin, but to the general sinfulness of Israel. See Lev 16:16-20, 30.

 

GC420: And what was done in type in the ministration of the earthly sanctuary is done in reality in the ministration of the heavenly sanctuary.

ERROR 105: See GC419, error 80. Fundamental error. The vast majority of items, persons, and activities associated with the physical sanctuary have no relevance to the heavenly sanctuary because Hebrews stresses CONTRASTS, not similarities.

 

GC420: The ministration of the priest throughout the year in the first apartment of the sanctuary, “within the veil” which formed the door and separated the holy place from the outer court, represents the work of ministration upon which Christ entered at His ascension.

GC421: Thither the faith of Christ's disciples followed Him as He ascended from their sight. Here their hopes centered, “which hope we have,” said Paul, “as an anchor to the soul, both sure and steadfast, and which enters into that within the veil; whither the forerunner is for us entered, even Jesus, made a high priest forever.” “Neither by the blood of goats and calves, but by his own blood he entered in once into the holy place, having obtained eternal redemption for us.” Hebrews 6:19, 20; 9:12.

ERROR 106: See GC414-415. Fundamental error. SDAs are the only group who teach that Christ only ministered in the Holy Place (instead of the Most Holy Place) from his ascension until 1844. EGW takes the reference to “within the veil” from Hebrews 6:19 and makes it the outer veil instead of the inner veil. However, with one exception (Heb. 9:3), five of six references to “veil” in the New Testament refer to the veil between the Holy Place and the Most Holy Place B not to the curtain separating the Holy Place from the courtyard (Mt 27:51; Mk 15:38; Lk 23:45). Also, the phrase, “within the veil (vail)” occurs six (6) times in the Old Testament and always refers to the Most Holy Place, particularly on the Day of Atonement in Leviticus 16. See Ex. 26:33; Lev. 16:2, 12, 15; Numb. 18:7. And the phrase, “without the veil (vail)” occurs four (4) times in the Old Testament and always refers to the Most Holy Place. See Ex. 26:35; 27:21; 40:22; Lev. 24:3.

ERROR 107: The “holy place” from Hebrews 9:12 (except for SDAs) is universally understood by Greek scholars and Bible translators as referring to the Most Holy Place (NKJV and NIV) of “heaven itself” (9:24). Again, the context of Hebrews 9:12 is that of INAUGURATION of the New Covenant and not that of the Day of Atonement. Compare 9:18-21 with Moses’ inauguration in Exodus 24:3-8.

 

GC421: For eighteen centuries this work of ministration continued [only] in the first apartment of the sanctuary [the holy place]. The blood of Christ, pleaded in behalf of penitent believers, secured their pardon and acceptance with the Father, yet their SINS still remained upon the books of record.

ERROR 108: This is an SDA oddity. While the Father and the Law are located inside the Most Holy Place, Christ was not there until 1844.

ERROR 109: If Christ’s blood “secured their pardon and acceptance” before their cases were reviewed in the Investigative Judgment, then why are they in jeopardy again when their cases are reviewed?

 

GC421: As in the typical service there was a work of atonement at the close of the year, so before Christ’s work for the redemption of men is completed there is a work of atonement for the removal of SIN from the sanctuary. This is the service which began when the 2300 days ended. At that time, as foretold by Daniel the prophet [GC479; Dan. 7:9, 10], our High Priest entered the most holy, to perform the last division of His solemn work B to cleanse the sanctuary.

ERROR 110: The First and Second Angels’ Messages (“from God” EGW earlier wrote) preached by Miller have now been completely rejected by SDAs and replaced by a much worse false doctrine. Daniel 8:14 is now the cornerstone of Seventh-day Adventism. Yet previously-atoned sins were not removed from the sanctuary; the sanctuary had not been defiled as that of Antiochus Epiphanes; and Christ actually entered the Most Holy Place as his ascension.

 

***GC421: As anciently the SINS of the people were placed by faith upon the sin offering and through its blood transferred, in figure, to the earthly sanctuary, so in the New Covenant the SINS of the repentant are by faith placed upon Christ and transferred, in fact, to the heavenly sanctuary.

ERROR 111: Absolutely incredible! Carefully read this again. SDAs make Jesus Christ the greatest carrier of sins which defile the Most Holy Place in heaven! “Yes,” they say, the atoning and purifying blood of Jesus Christ is also defiling blood which carries SIN into the holiest place in the Universe and pollutes it!

 

GC421-422: And as the typical cleansing of the earthly was accomplished by the removal of the SINS by which it had been polluted, so the actual cleansing of the heavenly is to be accomplished by the removal, or blotting out, of the SINS which are there recorded.

ERROR 112: At this point EGW does say “sins which are there recorded.” However, all of her other quotations plainly say “sins” which have “defiled” heaven. Mere “records” of sins would not defile, yet heaven is, according to EGW, defiled by sins of believers which were carried there by the blood of Jesus. The worst part is the SDA teaching that the Most Holy Place in the universe is defiled.

 

GC422: But before this can be accomplished, there must be an examination of the books of record to determine who, through repentance and faith in Christ, are entitled to the benefits of his atonement.

ERROR 113: Notice “to determine.” This cancels the previous statement that “pardon and acceptance” is already secured.  Otherwise, there would be no reason to examine the lives of the faithful.

 

GC422: The cleansing of the sanctuary therefore involves a work of investigation B a work of judgment. This work must be performed prior to the coming of Christ to redeem His people; for when He comes, His reward is with Him to give to every man according to his works. Revelation 22:12.

ERROR 114: Fundamental error. This means that nobody has ever been absolutely saved before they died.

ERROR 115: This error forced the doctrine of soul-annihilation into existence.

 

GC422: Thus those who followed in the light of prophetic word saw that, instead of coming to the earth at the termination of the 2300 days in 1844, Christ then entered the MOST HOLY PLACE of the heavenly sanctuary to perform the closing work of atonement preparatory to his coming.

ERROR 116: Only SDAs call this “the light of prophetic word” instead of their own pathetic interpretation.

 

GC422: ...the scapegoat typified Satan, the author of sin, upon whom the SINS of the truly penitent will finally be placed. When the high priest, by virtue of the blood of the sin offering, removed the SINS from the sanctuary, he placed THEM upon the scapegoat.

ERROR 117: EGW does not say (as SDA leaders want to say) that only “Satan’s part” of the sins were placed on Satan.  She clearly says “the sins” and “them.” Again, atonement blood is most holy and does not defile.

 

GC422: When Christ, by virtue of His own blood, removes the SINS of His people from the heavenly sanctuary at the close of His ministration, He will place THEM upon Satan, who, in the execution of the judgment, must bear the final penalty.

ERROR 118: Among Christians, only SDAs teach that the scapegoat was Satan. Also, EGW has ERROR 119. Christ’s blood both “defiling” and “cleaning” at the same time!

 

Chapter 24, In the Holy of Holies (Investigative Judgment), 423-432

GC423: The subject of the sanctuary was the key which unlocked the mystery of the disappointment of 1844.

GC423: It opened to view a complete system of truth ...

ERROR 120: This false doctrine actually spawned many other SDA false doctrines, especially those of soul annihilation, Sabbath, unclean foods, exclusiveness, and salvation being determined after death.

 

GC423: God’s hand had directed the great advent movement.

ERROR 121: SDAs reinterpreted one set of fanatical false prophecy into a worse set of fanatical false prophecy.

 

GC423: Light from the sanctuary illumined the past, the present, and the future.

ERROR 122: This one false doctrine forced the Adventists to reject many orthodox doctrines and become a true cult which condemned everybody else as false churches in false Babylon.

 

GC423: They knew that God had led them by His unerring providence.

ERROR 123: Earlier in GC373-374 she said that God deliberately caused them to err by covering up the real meaning of the prophecy and that God “designed” for them to be wrong. Now she says the “knew.”

 

GC423: Though, like the first disciples, they themselves had failed to understand the message which they bore, yet it had been in every respect correct.

ERROR 124: This makes no sense. Miller taught for 25 years that Christ would return to earth in 1843 before changing it to 1844 after 1843 passed.

GC424: Christ had come, not to the earth, as they expected, but, as foreshadowed in the type, to the most holy place of the temple of God in heaven.

ERROR 125: The explanatory error was greater than the original error and much less believable. Although many have falsely set a time for the second coming, nobody but SDAs have exchanged the second coming for the Investigative Judgment.

ERROR 126: Like a little god, EGW’s statement removed Christ from the Most Holy Place at his ascension and denied him full access to the Presence of the Father until 1844.

 

GC424: Daniel 7:13

ERROR 127: Only SDAs interpret Daniel 7:13 as the Investigative Judgment. It is clearly a judgment of the little horn and not the sins of believers. 

 

GC424: Malachi 3:1: This coming is foretold also by the prophet Malachi.

ERROR 128: This use of Malachi 3:1 to prove the Investigative Judgment stretches the imagination. Many see it as a prophecy of Christ’s first coming to cleanse the Temple in Jerusalem. Others see it as a reference to Nehemiah cleansing the temple in Nehemiah 13. Some say it is a dual prophecy.

 

GC424: Both the prophecy of Daniel 8:14, “Unto two thousand and three hundred days; then shall the sanctuary be cleansed,” and the first angel’s message, “Fear God, and give glory to Him; for the hour of His judgment is come,” pointed to Christ’s ministration in the most holy place, to the investigative judgment, and not to the coming of Christ for the redemption of His people and the destruction of the wicked.

ERROR 129: In its context, Revelation 14:6-12 does not cause anybody to accept Christ. It follows the seal and trumpet judgments. It immediately precedes the vial judgments and the second coming of Christ. There is no Investigative Judgment here.

 

GC424: The mistake had not been in the reckoning of the prophetic periods, but in the event to take place at the end of the 2300 days.

ERROR 130: Along with many others, the mistake had been made when the context of Daniel 8:14, verses 1-13, was totally ignored. 

 

GC425-426: Those who are living upon the earth when the intercession of Christ shall cease in the sanctuary above are to stand in the sight of a holy God without a mediator. Their robes must be spotless, their characters must be purified from sin by the blood of sprinkling.

ERROR 131: EGW forgets that Christ is a priest-king and not just a king. He can forgive up until the very last moment of life.

ERROR 132: EGW forgets that texts like First John 1:9 promise forgiveness of “all unrighteousness” when known sins are confessed.

ERROR 133: Even with her Methodist background, EGW makes it much too easy to fall from grace. Here she begins to teach that sinless perfectionism is essential for those who are still alive when Jesus comes.

 

GC425: Through the grace of God and their own diligent effort they must be conquerors in the battle with evil.

ERROR 134: This statement reeks with legalism: “grace plus works.”

 

GC426: In the summer and autumn of 1844 the proclamation, ‘Behold the bridegroom cometh’ was given.

ERROR 135: Once again we are reminded that the original decree that “Babylon is fallen” was made by Miller against those who denied the second coming of Christ in 1844. Therefore Miller included future SDAs among those “fallen” from God’s truth. Matthew 25 was used by Miller to explain why Christ had not come already. His explanation was definitely not that of the Investigative Judgment.

 

GC427: (see GC429-430 below) At the appointed time the Bridegroom came, not to the earth, as the people expected, but to the Ancient of Days [Dan. 7:13] in heaven, to the marriage, the reception of His kingdom. ‘They that were ready went in with him to the marriage: and the door was shut.’ [Matthew 25:10]

ERROR 136: Only SDAs interpret Matt. 25:10 as the Investigative Judgment instead of the second coming. If, as SDAs argue, Matthew 25 refers to the Investigative Judgment and the “door was shut” when the Investigative Judgment  supposedly began in 1844, then it was logical for their detractors to accuse them of limiting salvation to SDAs who accepted that message.

 

GC427-428: And all who through the testimony of the Scriptures accept the same truths, following Christ by faith as He enters in before God to perform the last work of mediation, and at its close to receive His kingdom B all these are represented as going in to the marriage.

ERROR 137: This is cultic exclusivity. Salvation is now limited to those who accept the Investigative Judgment doctrine (and, later, other doctrines). This excluded Miller, most of the Millerites and all non-SDAs!

 

GC428: In the parable of Matthew 22 the same figure of the marriage is introduced, and the investigative judgment is clearly represented as taking place before the marriage. ... [Matt. 22:1-13]

ERROR: 138: Only SDAs interpret Matthew 22 as the Investigative Judgment instead of the second coming.

 

GC428: WHEN the work of investigation shall be ended, WHEN the cases o all those who in all ages have professed to be followers of Christ have been examined and decided, THEN, and not till then, probation will close and the door of mercy will be shut.

ERROR 139: EGW teaches that the chief reason that Jesus has not come back yet is explained by his prolonged work of investigative judgment which only began in 1844.  The Omniscient Creator God does not require many decades to make his final decisions.

 

GC429-430: But while it was true that the door of hope and mercy by which men had for eighteen hundred years found access to God, was closed, another door was opened, and forgiveness of sins was offered to men through the intercession of Christ in the most holy. One part of his ministration was closed, only to give place to another. There was still an ‘open door’ to the heavenly sanctuary, where Christ was ministering in the sinner’s behalf.

ERROR 140: When Christ did not return on October 22, 1844, many Adventists (not Sabbath-keepers or SDAs yet) thought that the door of probation had been shut for all except their small group. They believed that Christ would only linger for a short time before returning to earth. This “shut door” theory is best seen in Ellen White’s book, Early Writings. Many think that she also at first believed and taught the idea.

ERROR 141: As the Investigative Judgment doctrine replaced William Miller’s theories, the “shut door” was changed from the “door of probation” to the “door between the holy place and the outer court.” This illustration is illogical. Since the sanctuary had only one entrance, if that were shut, then nobody else could enter. Regardless of whether the INNER is open; if the OUTER door is shut, then entrance to the inner door is still limited to those already inside! The attempt to reconcile the initial “shut door” error resulted in this poor logic and compounded the error.

ERROR 142: At the real marriage feast of the Lamb, the saints are all present (Rev. 19). However, saints are not actually present in the SDA version of the Investigative Judgment.

 

GC430: It is those who by faith follow Jesus in the great work of the atonement who receive the benefits of His mediation in their behalf, while those who reject the light which brings to view this work of ministration are not benefited thereby. The Jews who rejected the light given at Christ's first advent, and refused to believe on Him as the Savior of the world, could not receive pardon through Him. When Jesus at His ascension entered by His own blood into the heavenly sanctuary to shed upon His disciples the blessings of His mediation, the Jews were left in total darkness to continue their useless sacrifices and offerings. The ministration of types and shadows had ceased. That door by which men had formerly found access to God was no longer open. The Jews had refused to seek Him in the only way whereby He could then be found, through the ministration in the sanctuary in heaven. Therefore they found no communion with God. To them the door was shut. They had no knowledge of Christ as the true sacrifice and the only mediator before God; hence they could not receive the benefits of His mediation.

ERROR 143: Only those Millerites who later became Seventh-day Adventists by accepting the Investigative Judgment doctrine could be saved B “benefit thereby.” This limits salvation to SDAs and eliminates William Miller himself. It is cultic doctrine.

ERROR 144: Like the Jews who rejected Christ, Christians who reject the Investigative Judgment doctrine are “left in total darkness” and “the door to them was shut.”  Read EGW carefully again!

 

GC430: The condition of the unbelieving Jews illustrates the condition of the careless and unbelieving among professed Christians, who are willingly ignorant of the work of our merciful High Priest.

ERROR 145: Again, Christians (especially Millerites after the autumn of 1844) who willingly rejected the Investigative Judgment doctrine cannot be saved.

 

Chapter 26, A Work of Reform (Sabbath Reform), 433-450

GC434: The law of God in the sanctuary in heaven is the great original, of which the precepts inscribed upon the tables of stone and recorded by Moses in the Pentateuch were an unerring transcript.

ERROR 146: God does not require from eternity past the minutia in the Ten Commandments and Pentateuch which have no relevance to a sinless creation.

 

GC435-436: Those who had accepted the light concerning the mediation of Christ and the perpetuity of the law of God found that these were the truths presented in Revelation 14.

ERROR 147: This is an admission the Miller did not preach the true First and Second Angels' messages at all. Now SDAs reinterpret Miller’s messages to include the Sabbath.

 

GC438: [The explanation of the 3rd angel’s message and the mark of the beast begins.]

ERROR 148: This is a total change from what Miller taught.

 

GC439: [Revelation 13:1-10 describes the Roman Catholic Church.]

ERROR 149: This is the old historical school of interpretation and

leftover speculation from the Reformers; it could refer to pagan Rome.