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2023-Q2-L06: The Hour of His Judgment

Read for This Week’s Study: Daniel 8, Daniel 9, Ezra 7, Matt. 3:13-17, Rom. 5:6-9, Mark 15:38, Lev. 16:16.

Memory Text: “And do this, knowing the time, that now it is high time to awake out of sleep; for now our salvation is nearer than when we first believed. The night is far spent, the day is at hand” (Romans 13:11, 12, NKJV).

Scripture

  • Revelation 14:7: And he said with a loud voice, “Fear God and give him glory, because the hour of his judgment has [aorist] come, and worship him who made heaven and earth, the sea and the springs of water.”

Jewish Feasts - Seasonality

Seasons Type Anti-Type
Spring Feasts - Exodus Passover - Nisan 14 Crucifixion
Unleavened Bread - Nisan 15 Christ in the grave
First Fruits - Nisan 16 Christ's Resurrection
Late-Spring - 10 cmds Feast of Weeks - Sivan 6 (50th day) Pentecost - Harvest of Souls
Fall Feasts - Canaan Feast of Trumpets - Tishri 1 Second Advent Movement
Day of Atonement - Tishri 10 Pre-advent Judgment
Feast of Tabernacles - Tishri 15 Homegoing Second Advent

Sanctuary Service - Atonement

  • Sanctuary Service. The sanctuary service was a sacrificial system which included sacrifices and feast days (or holy days).
  • Day of Atonement (Yom Kippur). The Day of Atonement was the most important. It involved the cleansing of the sanctuary. Occurs on Tishri 10. Full fasting, intensive prayer and sin confessions just prior.
  • Rosh Hashanah (Yom Teruah). First day of Tishri.
  • Yamim Noraim (Days of Awe). From 1st to 10th of Tishri. The ten days from Rosh Hashanah to Yom Kippur correspond to the last ten days of the 40-day period Moses was on Mount Sinai receiving the second set of tablets.
  • According to Jewish tradition, God inscribes each person's fate for the coming year into a book, the Book of Life, on Rosh Hashanah, and waits until Yom Kippur to "seal" the verdict.

Notes

  • Daniel 8:13 (WEB): Then I heard a holy one speaking; and another holy one said to that certain one who spoke, “How long will the vision about the continual burnt offering, and the disobedience that makes desolate, to give both the sanctuary and the army to be trodden under foot be?”
  • "continual burnt offering." The term "burnt offering" is added. The Hebrew word is tamid which means "continual'. Tamid has to do with everything that goes on in the sanctuary: lights, incense, priesthood duties, etc., everything that continually happens in the sanctuary.
  • Daniel 8:14 (WEB): He said to me, “To two thousand and three hundred evenings and mornings. Then the sanctuary will be cleansed.”
  • Daniel 8:27 (WEB): I, Daniel, fainted, and was sick for some days. Then I rose up, and did the king’s business. I wondered at the vision, but no one understood it.
  • Why did Daniel faint? Because he did not understand the vision and suggested to him that it was bad news.
  • GC 582.2: In seeking to cast contempt upon the divine statutes, Satan has perverted the doctrines of the Bible, and errors have thus become incorporated into the faith of thousands who profess to believe the Scriptures. The last great conflict between truth and error is but the final struggle of the long-standing controversy concerning the law of God. Upon this battle we are now entering—a battle between the laws of men and the precepts of Jehovah, between the religion of the Bible and the religion of fable and tradition.
  • PK 625.2: Between the laws of men and the precepts of Jehovah will come the last great conflict of the controversy between truth and error. Upon this battle we are now entering—a battle not between rival churches contending for the supremacy, but between the religion of the Bible and the religions of fable and tradition. . . .
  • Leviticus 23:29: For whoever it is who shall not deny himself in that same day shall be cut off from his people.
  • "Cut off." Reminds one of a "harvest" by a sickle that cuts off.
  • Sin brings "shame" which Christ took upon himself. Yet God was not responsible for bringing sin into the world. The reconcilation is complete, or the judgment is complete, when the accuser and the accused meet for a final decision.
  • Antimatter. In modern physics, antimatter is defined as matter composed of the antiparticles of the corresponding particles in "ordinary" matter, and can be thought of as matter with reversed charge, parity, and time, known as CPT reversal.
  • Matter and antimatter. Then the decision is made, matter and anti-matter meet and the substance is obliterated (destroyed) with a huge energy release. Depending on the colliding particles, not only is there a great energy release, but new, different particles may also be produced (such as neutrinos and various flavors of quark.
  • In me, I so no reason I can be saved. In Christ, I see no reason I can be lost.

Hinsdale notes

  • Pre-advent Investigative Judgment of the Righteous.
  • Walter Martin. Objection #5: The investigative judgment doctrin is theologically redundant and should be discarded. "The only purpose of this unique theory is to discipline Christians by the threat of impending judgment and condemnation upon those whose cases are decided upon unfavorably by our Lord."
  • "The doctrine cannot be substantianed by exegesis but rests largely upon inference and deduction drawn from theological applications of their own design. Adventists needlessly subscribe to a doctrine that neither solves their difficulties nor engenders peace of mind."
  • Grace-centered Synergism. God Alone (grace alone).
    • initiates salvation
    • restores human free will
    • enables sanctification
    • crowns with salvation those who chose to follow Christ.
  • The church has already been at the judgment seat of Christ because they are ready for the groom when he comes at the Second Coming.
  • Daniel: "God is my judge." See Daniel 7:1, "The judgment was set. The books were opened."
  • RH, 4/1/1890: Several have written to me, inquiring if the message of justification by faith is the third angel's message, and I have answered, "It is the third angels's message in verity.
  • "Only he who believes is obedient and only he who is obedient believes"
  • Babylon. 605-539 BC
  • Medo-Persia. 539-331 BC
  • Greece. 331-168 BC
  • Roman Empire. 168 BC - 476 AD
  • Papal Rome. 538-1798 AD
  • Judgment. 1844 AD
  • In the 3rd year of the reign of King Belshazzar a vision (chazon) appeared to me, Daniel, after that which appeared to me at the first. Daniel 8:1. That is, the Ram and the He-goat.
  • The vision (mareh) of the evenings and the mornings that has been told is true, but seal up the vision, for it refers to many days from now. Daniel 8:26. Daniel does not understand the vision (mareh) of the 2300 days.
  • Daniel 8:27: I, Daniel, fainted, and was sick for some days. Then I rose up, and did the king’s business. I wondered at the vision (mareh), but no one understood it.
  • Daniel 9:23: At the beginning of your petitions the commandment went out, and I have come to tell you; for you are greatly beloved. Therefore consider the matter, and understand the vision (mareh).
  • Daniel 9:24: Seventy weeks are decreed (chathak: "to cut") on your people and on your holy city, to finish disobedience, and to make an end of sins, and to make reconciliation for iniquity, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal up vision and prophecy, and to anoint the most holy.
  • Typological. The Jewish feasts.
  • 2 deaths and 2 resurrections. The righteous die twice, one spiritual and the other physical, then resurrect once at the 2nd coming. The wicked die twice, one physical and the other eternal, and resurrect at the Judgment.

SABBATH.

From the lesson: The fires of God’s judgment burned themselves out on Him, at Calvary, and all who are in Christ are safe forever beneath His wings. At the cross, Christ was judged as a condemned sinner so that we could be judged as righteous citizens of the heavenly kingdom. He was judged as a criminal so that we could be set free from the destructive fires of eternal loss, both figuratively and, yes, literally, as well.

Notes

  • Matthew 26:36-38: Gethesemane
  • Luke 22:39-44: Gethesemane
  • DA 690.2: Turning away, Jesus sought again His retreat, and fell prostrate, overcome by the horror of a great darkness. The humanity of the Son of God trembled in that trying hour. He prayed not now for His disciples that their faith might not fail, but for His own tempted, agonized soul. The awful moment had come—that moment which was to decide the destiny of the world. The fate of humanity trembled in the balance. Christ might even now refuse to drink the cup apportioned to guilty man. It was not yet too late. He might wipe the bloody sweat from His brow, and leave man to perish in his iniquity. He might say, Let the transgressor receive the penalty of his sin, and I will go back to My Father. Will the Son of God drink the bitter cup of humiliation and agony? Will the innocent suffer the consequences of the curse of sin, to save the guilty? The words fall tremblingly from the pale lips of Jesus, “O My Father, if this cup may not pass away from Me, except I drink it, Thy will be done.”
  • DA 694.1: Christ's agony did not cease, but His depression and discouragement left Him. The storm had in nowise abated, but He who was its object was strengthened to meet its fury. He came forth calm and serene. A heavenly peace rested upon His bloodstained face. He had borne that which no human being could ever bear; for He had tasted the sufferings of death for every man.

SUNDAY. The Cleansing of the Sanctuary

From the lesson: As we have already seen, there must be a judgment before Christ comes. The angel announces in a loud voice that “the hour of His judgment has come” (Rev. 14:7, NKJV). The book of Daniel gives us the time when this judgment begins.

MONDAY. The 2,300 Days and the End Time

TUESDAY. The Angel's Instruction to Daniel

WEDNESDAY. The Messiah "Cut Off"

THURSDAY. The Year 1844

FRIDAY. Further Thought: .