The Sanctuary and Judgment “The next day John saw Jesus coming toward him, and said, ‘Behold! The Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world!”[1] Putting Christ in the center of the sanctuary services of the Old Testament is not a hard thing to do. John the Baptist made it pretty clear that Jesus was the antitypical Lamb to which all o
As we saw in our previous article, John 5:24 teaches that by believing and obeying the words of Christ, and sustaining a faithful relationship with Him,[1] His followers should not fear condemnation. Once that has been settled, we now turn to other important questions related to the subject of salvation and judgment, raised by the study of the text
Seventh-day Adventists have long believed that Christ is now conducting the second and last phase of His atoning ministry in heaven.[1] The cleansing of the sanctuary mentioned in Daniel 8 is believed to refer to an investigative judgment that began in 1844 when Christ left the holy place in the heavenly sanctuary to begin a new work in the holy of
Daniel lived most of his life as an exiled. In 605. B.C. he was forcefully uprooted by Nebuchadnezzar and moved from Judah to Babylon where he lived a long life – long enough to witness his captor, Babylon, capitulate to Medo-Persia. During the first year of Persian rule, Daniel searched the prophecies to understand the immediate future. Almost sev
In the first year of king Belshazzar’s reign, as described in chapter 7, Daniel dreamed about the conquest of Babylon by the Persian Empire. Now, in chapter 8, during the third reign of the same king, he is given a second vision about the same events and actually transported in vision to the capital of the new empire. As readers of the book, we hav
The gospel according to Holy Scripture is not the gospel according to evangelical Christianity. The latter so-called “gospel,” by which key Adventist doctrines are being faulted and condemned, is not found in the Bible. The true gospel of Scripture is fully and completely in harmony with the Biblical doctrine of Christ’s ministry in the heavenly
Following is a summary of the major issues raised by Desmond Ford and his fellow travelers regarding the sanctuary doctrine, both in the Glacier View era and in the years since: The focus of the judgment and sanctuary cleansing in Daniel 7 and 8 is not the people of God, but their enemies.[1] The year-day principle lacks clear Biblical suppo
It was a conflict destined to divide campuses, congregations, conferences, even divisions—and it is with us yet today. Nearly four decades beyond Glacier View and its stormy aftermath, it behooves us to review and to answer—for ourselves, and for the rising generations—the questions raised regarding this doctrine, and why these issues contin
“Ever more people today have the means to live, but no meaning to live for.” — Victor Frankl In the previous article, I introduced a possible reframing of the Pre-Advent Investigative Judgment (PAIJ). This reframe provides relevance by interacting with the universal primary idea of suffering through a simple explanatory mechanic that in turn
In the first article of this series we explored the decaying contemporary milieu of the Pre-Advent Investigative Judgment (PAIJ). In the second installment we dove into Adventism’s collective failure to extrapolate world-changing potential from the doctrine, resulting in its practical, on-the-ground demise. Consequently, the doctrine lacks relevanc
