Hebrews 9:12 and 26,
“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. ... For then must he often have suffered since the foundation
of the world: but now once in the end of the world hath he appeared to put away
sin by the sacrifice of himself.”
Seventh-day Adventism is a satanic religious cult. If you ever share beliefs
with an SDA member, they'll try to convince you that they believe the simple
Gospel. They'll claim to believe that salvation is a free gift paid for by
Christ's blood. They'll claim to believe that salvation is by grace, through
faith, in Christ alone. This intentional close alignment with the true Gospel
has deceived many Christians into concluding that SDA's are also Christians,
but they are not. Yet, they'll never mention one of their strange, bizarre,
and exclusive doctrines; namely, “Investigative Judgment.”
Here's some
information...
The Judgment Process
According
to Adventist teaching, the works of all men and women are written down in
“books of record,” kept in heaven. During the Investigative Judgment, these
books are opened (as described in Daniel 7:10 and Revelation 20:12), and the
lives of all people both living and dead are examined to establish who has
responded to Christ's offer of salvation. “The books of record in heaven, in
which the names and the deeds of men are registered, are to determine the
decisions of the judgment.” “As the books of record are opened in the
judgment, the lives of all who have believed on Jesus come in review before
God. Beginning with those who first lived upon the earth, our Advocate
presents the cases of each successive generation, and closes with the living.
Every name is mentioned, every case
closely investigated.”
The
Judgment will show those who are authentic believers in God from those who are
not. “All who have truly repented of sin, and by faith claimed the blood of
Christ as their atoning sacrifice, have had pardon entered against their names
in the books of heaven; as they have become partakers of the righteousness of
Christ, and their characters are found
to be in harmony with the law of God, their sins will be blotted out, and they
themselves will be accounted worthy of eternal life.” On the other hand, “When
any have sins remaining upon the books of record, unrepented of and
unforgiven, their names will be blotted out of the book of life, and the
record of their good deeds will be erased from the book of God's remembrance.”
“Sins that have not been repented of and forsaken will not be pardoned and
blotted out of the books of record, but will stand to witness against the
sinner in the day of God.”
SOURCE:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Investigative_judgment
According to the
satanic Seventh-day (SDA) Heresy heresy that you just read, a person cannot
get to Heaven unless they have forsaken sinful intentional behavior. Faith in
Christ is not enough in the SDA religion; but also, they say you must turn
away from your sins. This is the heresy of Lordship Salvation! Turning away
from sinful behavior is a self-righteous work, human effort, which is religion
and cannot produce the new birth in Christ Jesus. The SDA doctrine of
Investigate Judgment, or Doctrine Of The Sanctuary, is a doctrine of devils.
Our text passage
of Scripture from the King James Bible in Hebrews 9:12 and 26 plainly teach
that Jesus entered into the heavenly Holy Place once, when He resurrected from
the dead and ascended into Heaven. By the time the Lord returned to earth in
John 14 to meet with His disciples, His literal blood had already been
sprinkled upon the Mercy Seat, in the heavenly Holy Place, in the Father's
presence (Hebrews 9:24; 12:24).
It is satanic
teaching for SDA to say that Jesus didn't enter into the heavenly Holy Place
until the year 1844 (the year in which a heretical Baptist Pastor named
William Miller prophesied that Christ would return, but it didn't happen). The
teaching of the Investigative Judgment is strange doctrine. It is totally
unbiblical. There are an estimated 18,000,000 Seventh-day Adventists in the
world, who've all been woefully deceived by the Devil. The Devil's greatest
weapon is to con people into living the Christian life without ever being
born-again. END
The major tenets of the
Adventist doctrine of Investigative Judgment are as follows:
1. In October 1844, Jesus Christ entered the heavenly holy of holies to
begin investigative judgment of the records (deeds, thoughts, attitudes, etc.)
of those who have professed salvation.
Attended by heavenly angels,
our great High Priest enters the holy of holies and there appears in the
presence of God to engage in the last acts of His ministration in behalf of
man—to perform the work of investigative judgment and to make an atonement
for all who are shown to be entitled to its benefits ... in the great day of
final atonement and investigative judgment the only cases considered are
those of the professed people of God. The judgment of the wicked is a
distinct and separate work. . The books of record in heaven, in which the
names and the deeds of men are registered, are to determine the decisions of
the judgment. . The subject of the sanctuary and the investigative judgment
should be clearly understood by the people of God ... every individual has a
soul to save or to lose. Each has a case pending at the bar of God . The
intercession of Christ in man's behalf in the sanctuary above is as
essential to the plan of salvation as was His death upon the cross (Ellen
White, The Great Controversy, pp. 422-423).
2. The investigative
judgment is based on the law of God (the Ten Commandments); the character of
each person will be tested by the standard of this law.
Every man's work passes in
review before God and is registered for faithfulness or unfaithfulness.
Opposite each name in the books of heaven is entered with terrible exactness
every wrong word, every selfish act, every unfulfilled duty, and every
secret sin, with every artful dissembling. Heaven-sent warnings or reproofs
neglected, wasted moments, unimproved opportunities, the influence exerted
for good or for evil, with its far-reaching results, are all chronicled by
the recording angel. The law of God is the standard by which the characters
and the lives of men will be tested in the judgment. ... Those who in the
judgment are `accounted worthy' will have a part in the resurrection of the
just. ... Every name is mentioned, every case closely investigated. Names
are accepted, names rejected. When any have sins remaining upon the books of
record, unrepented of and unforgiven, their names will be blotted out of the
book of life, and the record of their good deeds will be erased from the
book of God's remembrance. ... All who have truly repented of sin, and by
faith claimed the blood of Christ as their atoning sacrifice, have had
pardon entered against their names in the books of heaven; as they have
become partakers of the righteousness of Christ, and their characters are
found to be in harmony with the law of God, their sins will be blotted out,
and they themselves will be accounted worthy of eternal life. ... Sins that
have not been repented of and forsaken will not be pardoned and blotted out
of the books of record, but will stand to witness against the sinner in the
day of God (The Great Controversy, pp. 424-425, 428).
3. This judgment
determines the eternal destiny of every professing believer. No one can be
sure of eternal life until this judgment is complete.
The righteous dead will not be
raised until after the judgment at which they are accounted worthy of 'the
resurrection of life.' Hence they will not be present in person at the
tribunal when their records are examined and their cases decided. ... Every
name is mentioned, every case closely investigated. Names are accepted,
names rejected ... all who would have their names retained in the book of
life should now, in the few remaining days of their probation, afflict their
souls before God by sorrow for sin and true repentance. The work of
preparation is an individual work. We are not saved in groups. The purity
and devotion of one will not offset the want of these qualities in another.
... Everyone must be tested and found without spot or wrinkle or any such
thing. ... When the work of the investigative judgment closes, the destiny
of all will have been decided for life or death (The Great Controversy, pp.
425, 431-432).
4. During this
heavenly judgment, God has raised up the Seventh-day Adventist Church to
proclaim the eternal gospel' to all the world. This work began in 1844 and
will continue until Christ's return to earth.
The picture of the whole
prophecy is clear. In the last days, as the closing judgment work began in
heaven above, a special movement was to arise on earth, through which the
great threefold message of Revelation 14 was to be borne to every nation,
and tongue, and people. ... It was following the great Advent awakening of
the early decades of the nineteenth century, reaching a climax in the years
preceding 1844, that the Adventist Church arose. It has spread to all lands
with the definite message of the judgment hour, calling men to the standard
of the commandments of God (The Gift of Prophecy, pp. 9, 12).
5. When the judgment
is finished, Christ will return to the earth, destroy the wicked, resurrect
the saved believers (who have been sleeping in the grave), and place all sins
upon Satan—the O.T. scapegoat antitype.
When the investigative
judgment closes, Christ will come, and His reward will be with Him to give
every man as his work shall be. ... Christ will place all these sins upon
Satan, the originator and instigator of sin. The scapegoat, bearing the sins
of Israel, was sent away 'unto a land not inhabited' (Leviticus 16:22); so
Satan, bearing the guilt of all the sins which he has caused God's people to
commit, will be for a thousand years confined to the earth, which will then
be desolate, without inhabitant, and he will at last suffer the full penalty
of sin in the fires that shall destroy all the wicked (The Great
Controversy, p. 427).
THE
BIBLE TEACHES . . .
What
does the Bible say about this Investigative Judgment doctrine?
1. The vision of
Daniel 8:14 has nothing to do with a heavenly investigative judgment.
2. The believer will not be judged by the Ten Commandments, and will not
lose his salvation if his service is unacceptable.
The believer
has passed from death unto life. He is safe in Christ and stands and
rejoices in hope of the glory of God. He has no fear of future wrath, for he
is complete in Christ. All punishment for his sin fell on Christ, and he is
forever free. The believer's judgment is an examination of his service to
Christ. He is rewarded or suffers loss of reward.
“For other foundation can no may lay than that is laid, which is Jesus
Christ. Now if any man build upon this foundation gold, silver, precious
stones, wood, hay, stubble; every man's work shall be made manifest: for the
day shall declare it, because it shall be revealed by fire; and the fire
shall try every man's work of what sort it is. If any man's work abide which
he hath built thereupon, he shall receive a reward. If any man's work shall
be burned, he shall suffer loss: but he himself shall be saved: yet so as by
fire” (1 Corinthians 3:11-15). See also 2 Corinthians 5:5,9-10.
Note some important
differences between the judgment described in these passages and the
Investigative Judgment of Adventism:
(1)
Christ's judgment of believers will not determine their salvation. Those
who stand at the judgment of the false teaching of Investigative Judgment
will be there because they have already been saved, not in order to
determine whether or not they will be saved. The ones judged in 1
Corinthians 3 are those who have established their lives upon the solid
foundation of Jesus Christ (vv. 11-12).
(2) The believer's judgment will not result in damnation, torment, or
separation from God. Believers whose works fail the test will suffer shame
and loss of reward, but not loss of salvation. “If any man's work shall
be burned, he shall suffer loss: but he himself shall be saved; yet so as
by fire” (1 Corinthians 3:15). Words could not be plainer.
(3) Notice, too, that the believer shall appear personally before his
Lord. “For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ” (2
Corinthians 5:10). According to Adventist theology, the believer's
judgment occurs in the heavenly holy of holies between 1844 and the Second
Coming, and the believer himself is supposedly on earth or sleeping in the
grave. This is not what the Apostle Paul foresaw.
3. The Adventist
distinction between forgiveness and blotting out of sin is not taught in the
New Testament.
"...the
thought that Christ did not blot out sins previous to 1844" is without
one shred of Scriptural support. ... In fact, the entire distinction between
the forgiveness of sins, and the blotting out of sins—which is basic to
Seventh-day Adventist theology—is foreign to the Scriptures.
4. It is
unscriptural to identify Satan with the scapegoat of Leviticus 16.
Both goats
of the Day of Atonement—the one slain and the one released into the
wilderness—represent the Lord Jesus Christ. The slain goat pictures the act
of Christ's atonement—a bloody sacrifice. The released goat pictures the
sufficiency of Christ's atonement—once for all and forever complete. To
interpret the scapegoat as a reference to Satan is blasphemy. Adventism
finds confirmation of this doctrine, not in Scripture rightly divided, but
in the visions of Ellen White. This is another account of how they have
added to Bible revelation concerning the doctrine of last things.
SOURCE:
http://www.scatteredchristians.org/SeventhDayInvestigative.html | END
