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Advent HOPE Sabbath School

A Call to Revival

Dee Casper

Building a House for My Wife

Why Adventism Matters

When You Lose Your First Love

Sweet Jesus, thank you for this privilege to pray, to come into your presence, and to be at a place that feels like home.

I just pray that you would bless us now with your presence, with your peace, and that you would reason with us this morning on why this movement matters, and that you would speak clearly in a way that all of us can understand and retain.

And I ask this now, Lord, in Jesus' name.

So in the sanctuary service there were 2 main things that took place, 2 main events.

There were the daily occurrences and the yearly occurrences, the daily services and the yearly service.

The daily service in the sanctuary economy involves sin being transferred into the sanctuary, right?

When you sinned, you had to confess your sin, and you had to kill the animal yourself, and the priest transferred that blood on your behalf into the sanctuary, and you could leave that sanctuary gate forgiven.

This is where Jesus's ministry is represented as a lamb.

Jesus is referred to by John, I believe in John chapter 1 in verse 29, "'Behold the Lamb of God "'who takes away the sin of the world.'" And, but he also serves the role of the priest.

So the sanctuary service in the Old Testament was not something that God just thought, how do I keep these people busy so they don't kill themselves or do something stupid?

The whole point of the sanctuary service was to teach them about the upcoming ministry of Jesus.

And Jesus not only fills the role of the Lamb, He also served as our priest, as a mediator, someone on our behalf.

So that priest was the 1 who transferred the sin into the sanctuary on your behalf and ministered for you.

Jesus actually filled both of these roles.

The yearly service on the Day of Atonement was a transference of that sin out of the sanctuary.

All the record that had kind of come in there for the first 359 days of the year, their calendar is 360, they would transfer that sin out of the sanctuary and no record would remain there on the Day of Atonement.

This is the second phase of atonement and where Jesus's priestly ministry is necessary.

And we'll cover more of this here in a moment.

But these are the 2 main ministry services that happen in the sanctuary.

The Day of Atonement and the Investigative Judgment.

We as the Seventh-day Adventist Movement believe in the Investigative Judgment and its background is from the Day of Atonement.

Some may wonder, is this teaching even in the Bible?

Is this just something that your church founders believe or is this actually in the scriptures?

I'm just going to give some brief references on places where the investigative judgment is alluded to in scripture.

In Exodus chapter 25 verses 9 and 40, we're told that the sanctuary on earth was based upon a pattern in heaven.

These are gonna be rapid fire references, maybe you just wanna write down the reference, and I'm gonna leave my slides with Ryan and Christy to ensure that you guys can have access to them because there's more I need to do than I had time to do.

But the first, the point is the sanctuary that was made on earth was based upon a pattern of the heavenly sanctuary.

Leviticus chapter 16 explains the day of atonement, which was the type that explained what's happening in the investigative judgment.

Daniel chapter 7 and verse 10, there's alluded to, you have like the Babylon, Medo-Persia, Greece, Rome, the division of Rome, you have the second coming that are alluded to in the beasts of Revelation in Daniel 7.

But after that situation, we see just before the second coming that the books are open and a court is seated.

There's this allusion to the fact that there's a judgment that takes place just before the second coming of Jesus.

In Daniel chapter 8 and verse 14, we're told that under 2, 300 days, then the sanctuary will be cleansed.

And to a Hebrew mind, when you heard of a cleansing of a sanctuary, the immediate thought that came into their mind was judgment, because that's what happened on the Day of Atonement.

So this is alluded to in Daniel 8 and verse 14.

In Daniel chapter 9, we're told when the 70 weeks and the 2, 300 days begin, 2 time prophecies that merge together to explain what we believe in that movement.

And then in Hebrews chapter 8, verses 1 to 5, we're told that Jesus is a minister of a true tabernacle in heaven, and that the earthly temple is a copy or a shadow of this 1.

So there's actually a sanctuary in heaven.

Jesus is the minister of this, we're told in the book of Hebrews, which makes sense that the sanctuary that was made on earth was made after a pattern.

That's where the original source was, in heaven.

Hebrews chapter 9 tells us that Christ is cleansing the heavenly sanctuary with his own blood.

Hebrews 9 11 and also 23 to 24, it's alluded to here as well.

Then in Revelation chapter 10, there's this experience of John is walking through experientially what the Advent movement is going to deal with.

A tremendous, heartbreaking disappointment.

This is actually a prophesied in Revelation.

So sometimes there's this belief that Seventh-day Adventists believed that Jesus was coming in 1844, which first of all isn't true.

The Seventh Adventist Church didn't even exist yet.

So it was actually Baptists, Methodists, and other Protestant denominations who were believing that Jesus was coming very soon.

But that disappointment, People think that they were all wrong, they were dead wrong, because obviously Jesus didn't come.

But the unique and awesome thing is, this very event was prophesied in the book of Revelation, chapter 10.

This was foretold long before, and had they known that this is what was going to happen, they wouldn't be disappointed, right?

They came to find this out through further study, Revelation chapter 10.

Revelation chapter 11 verses 18 and 19 talk about the dead being judged and the Ark of the Covenant being seen in the heavenly sanctuary.

The Ark of the Covenant was the main piece of furniture that was used on the Day of Atonement that was the the piece of focus on the Day of Atonement.

Talking about a judgment and an Ark being seen.

Revelation chapter 14 verses 6 and 7, we're told that the the first angel saying to fear God and give glory to him, for the hour of his judgment has come.

There's a current judgment taking place soon before the second coming of Jesus Christ.

Revelation chapter 15 talks about a close of probation through whenever the cleansing of the sanctuary has basically finished.

And then lastly, in Revelation chapter 22, verses 11 and 12, there's this point in time in which those who have chosen to walk in righteousness will remain righteous.

Those who've chosen to walk in rebellion will remain in rebellion.

I know this is a really fast overview, forgive me for time's sake, I can't do all of what needs to be done, but this is just kind of some text in Scripture that allude to the events of the investigative judgment that we're seeing it from all throughout the Old Testament and the New Testament.

But here's the point, even though your sins needed to be in the sanctuary on the Day of Atonement to ensure that you could be right with God when that Day of Judgment was happening, it was very important to a Hebrew to afflict their soul and to ensure that their hearts were right before God on the Day of Atonement, that their sin had been found in the sanctuary.

But the beautiful thing is, there was a morning and an evening sacrifice that was offered every day throughout the year, including the Day of Atonement.

And this service was meant to cover the sins of the people that they did not know they had committed.

And so when you committed a sin that you knew needed to be dealt with, you were the 1 that took the walk of shame from your tent all the way through.

I mean just imagine you leave your tent, you have an animal with you, and you're going towards a tabernacle.

What do you think everyone in town is thinking?

But if there were things that you did not know that you had committed, there was actually provision made for this, right?

You did not understand that you had done something in the morning and the evening sacrifice.

And this even takes place on the day of atonement.

So some people are really spooked by the teaching of the investigative judgment, because they feel like, ah, I don't stand a chance, like what are those things I don't know about?

God made provision for this, and that even took place on that day.

This is a quote from 1 of our scholars, The daily services at the tabernacle went on every day of the year without cessation, even on the weekly Sabbath as well as during the pilgrim feasts.

By God's specific command, the Tamid was never to be omitted.

The sacrifices connected with these festive days were presented in addition.

This was also true of the Day of Atonement.

The constant morning and evening services embraced the special ceremonies of the day like 2 loving arms.

So there were these 2 loving arms of mercy at the beginning of the day and the end of the day that embraced the people.

The daily was thus the very foundation of the entire sacrificial system, and nothing was permitted to interfere with it.

It pointed directly to the life and death of the Lord Jesus Christ, and it would be as sensible to omit the daily from the worship of Israel as it would to take the cross from that of Christians.

The liturgy of the morning was repeated in the evening." This still happened all throughout that time.

Now this is where we, this is just kind of a preface to where we're going this morning, But this is where our view of the Atonement and the Sanctuary sets us apart as a movement from many other Protestants.

Our understanding of a two-phased Atonement.

We'll explain why this needs to exist in a moment.

But the investigative judgment, what's basically taking place during that time is the books of life are being investigated to know who's chosen Christ, who has not chosen Christ, and to make those records clear.

Once this has taken place and finished, then of the record of the dead, then there has to be an investigation into the living before Jesus can come.

And when that time of transition takes place, it's kind of a big deal, right?

Our sins need to be in the sanctuary once that takes place.

But the investigative judgment is not just something that's happening in that sense.

It's not just Jesus cleansing the heavenly sanctuary, it's also a time in which the same high priest is sanctifying you to ensure that you can stand during that time while you're living.

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