In this last article, we will establish the need for and the nature of the investigative preadvent judgment. What needs to stay clear is that the judgment is a confirmation of the saving effects of God’s grace on the believer’s life from the moment of his conversion. The investigative judgment “reveals our relationship to Christ, disclosed in the t
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
