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On the line below, mark an "X" corresponding to how you feel about the Bible. Ke~sto Total Health PRODUCED BY THE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH EDUCATION, SCHOOL OF HEALTH • COPYRIGHT c 1980 BY THE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH EDUCATION, SCHOOL OF HEALTH. LOMA LINDA UNIVERSITY, LOMA LINDA, CALIFORNIA 923~O "The Hour of His TOTAL MYTH HISTORICAL MORAL & SCIENTIFICALL Y TOTAL Judgment Is Come" FALSEHOOD ACCOUNT SPIRITUAL ACCURATE TRUTH PRINCIPLES
The first Angel's message of Revelation 14:6,7, which is to go "to every nation, and kindred, and tongue, and people" calls for men and women to "Fear God, and give glory to "Unto two thousand Him: for the hour of His judgment is come." We have already studied what it means to "Fear God, and give glory and three hundred to Him" so now we turn our attention to "the hour of His judgment is come." days; then shall the While Enoch and Paul preached of "judgment to come" (Jude 14, 15; Acts 24:25), the message of the First Angel is, "judgment is come." Paul tells us, "He hath appointed a day, sanctuary be in the which He willjudge the world in righteousness by that Why have you placed your "X" as far to the right as you have? man whom He hath ordained." (Acts 17:31). The time for cleansed. " this judgment is found in the companion book to Revelation, the Old Testament book of Daniel. In prophetic vision God revealed to Daniel the time of the judgment. "And he said unto me, Unto two thousand and three Gabriel provided this information in his explanation of the What keeps you from placing your "X" all the way to the right? • • hundred days; then shall the sanctuary be cleansed." vision. "Know therefore and understand, that from th€ (Daniel 8:14) In this verse we have God's countdown to going forth of the commandment to restore and to build eternity. But what does it mean? "When I ... Daniel, had Jerusalem unto the Messiah the Prince (the annointing of seen the vision, and sought for the meaning, then behold, the Prince) shall be seven weeks, and threescore and two there stood before me as the appearance of a man ... which weeks: the street shall be built again, and the wall, even 'in called, and said, Gabriel, make this man to understand the troublous times." (Daniel 9:25) Now Daniel could What can you do to enhance your beliefs about the Bible? vision." (verse 15,16) The rest of the chapter deals with "understand," for he knew when the time period began, Gabriel's explanation. But before he could finish, "Daniel with "the commandment to restore and to build fainted, and was sick" so Daniel "was astonished at the Jerusalem." vision, but none understood it." (verse 27) The angel Gabriel had been commanded, "Make this man to understand the vision." (Daniel 8:16) So he had to come back later. The second visit of Gabriel is recorded in Prophetic SYDlbolisDl chapter 9. "Yea, whiles I was speaking in prayer, even the man Gabriel, whom Ihad seen in the vision at the beginning, being caused to flyswiftly, touched me about the time of the evening oblation. And he ... said, 0 Daniel, I am now come 1Day 1 Year forth to give thee skill and understanding. . . Therefore understand the matter, and consider the vision." (Daniel 9:21-23) Certainly Daniel knew about the year-day principle in prophetic vision. In Numbers 14:34God had said, "each day for a year" in prophetic symbolism. Referring to this earlier Name instruction, God had reminded Ezekiel, Daniel's contempo- rary, "I have appointed thee each day for a year." (Ezekiel Address _ 4:5) So Daniel didn't need instruction in this matter. Rather, he needed to know when to begin the prophecy. This is City what Daniel did not understand, when the prophecy was to • • begin. Phone
o mean that the Christ was to be anointed in 27 A.D. Was without blood, which he offered for himself, and for the Jesus anointed in that year? errors of the people." "But Christ being come an high priest Jesus was anointed by the Holy Spirit. Peter preached, The ancient Jews knew of good things to come, by a greater and more perfect "How God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Ghost tabernacle, not made with hands, that is to say, not of this and with power." (Acts 10:38) This took place at the when the Messiah was building; Neither by the blood of goats and calves, but by his baptism of Christ. "And it came to pass in those days, that own blood he entered in once into the holy place, having Jesus came from Nazareth of Galilee, and was baptized of to conte, for there was obtained eternal redemption for us." "For Christ is not John in Jordan. And straightway coming up out of the • • entered into the holy places made with hands, which are the water, he saw the heavens opened, and the Spirit like a dove a general expectation figures of the true; but into heaven itself. .. And as it is descending upon him: And there came a voice from heaven appointed unto men once to die, but after this the saying, Thou art my beloved Son, in whom I am well about the tinte that judgment." (Hebrews 9:6,7,11,12,24-27) pleased." (Mark 1:9-11) After forty days in the wilderness Even as the "cleansing" of the ancient sanctuary was a (verse 12-14), Jesus began preaching, "The time is fulfilled." day of judgment for the Jewish people, the "cleansing" of (verse 15) What "time" was Jesus referring to? The 69 Jesus was born. the heavenly sanctuary is a day of judgment for the whole weeks of Daniel 9:25. Jesus was baptized in A.D. 27. "Now world. Paul reasoned with Felix of "judgment to come" and in the fifteenth year of the reign of Tiberius Caesar. .. Jesus "Felix trembled" (Acts 24:25). The message which is to go also being baptized, and praying, the heaven was opened, and prophecy, and to anoint the most Holy." (Daniel 9:24) "to every nation, and kindred, and tongue, and people" and the Holy Ghost descended in a bodily shape like a dove Sixty-nine weeks (verse 25) would pass until the anointing of today is that "The hour of his judgment is come." The commandment (or decree) of Artaxerxes of Persia upon him." (Luke 3: 1,21-23) The fifteenth year of Tiberius the Prince, but an extra week was allowed to the Jewish (Revelation 14:6,7) And that judgment began in the to rebuild the city was made in his seventh year in 457 B.C. Caesar was 27 A.D. This nails down the dates for the entire nation after Jesus began His public ministry. This is referred heavenly sanctuary in 1844 A.D. The entire decree is found in Ezra 7 :7-27. After "seven prophecy. to as the seventieth week. Much happened during that last Jesus said, "And, behold I come quickly; and my reward weeks" (49 years) the walls and streets were to be rebuilt. The ancient Jews knew when the Messiah was to come, prophetic week. is with me, to give every man according as his work shall This was completed in 408 B.C. (see Nehemiah 6:15). This for there was a general expectation about the time that "And he shall confirm the covenant with many for one be." (Revelation 22:12) But before Jesus comes the even verified the beginning date for the ancient Hebrews. Jesus was born. And after the religious leaders had rejected week: and in the midst of the week he shall cause the proclamation goes forth: "He that is unjust, let him be unjust Seventy Hebrew scholars translated the Hebrew Christ they pronounced this curse: "May the bones of the sacrifice and the oblation to cease." (Daniel 9:27) This last still: and he which is filthy, let him be filthy still: and he that is Scriptures into the common Greek two centuries before fingers and the bones of the hands decay and decompose of week extended from 27 A.D. to 34 A.D. The decree of righteous, let him be righteous still: and he that is holy, let Christ. This has been called the Septuagint. In Daniel 9:24 him who turns the pages of Daniel to find out the time" of Artaxerxes had gone forth in the fall of the year (see Ezra 7) him be holy still." (Revelation 22: 11) we find this interesting translation: "Seventy weeks of the Messiah's advent." (Sanhedrin, 97B, Sec. 2, Line 28) and Jesus was baptized in the fall (see Luke 3: 1 for the list of Judgment began with the dead at the time God years." The ancient Jews understood the "year-day" Error cannot stand investigation, and those who reject the rulers. The reigns overlapped only during the fall of 27 A.D.) "appointed" (Acts 17:31) God "reserved" the wicked "unto principle very well. truth must pronounce curses, ridicule, and persecution "In the midst of the week," or the spring of 31 A.D., "the the judgment of the great day." (Jude 6) When the names of According to Daniel 9:25, the anointing of the Prince upon those who hold high the torch of truth. sacrifice and the oblation" were "to cease" for Jesus would the living come up for judgment, God will begin with those ("Messiah" and "Christ" both mean "anointed" in the "Seventy weeks are determined upon thy people and then fulfill the sacrificial symbolisms. "Jesus, when he had who have heard the preaching of the "everlasting gospel" original languages) was to take place 69 prophetic weeks upon thy holy city, to finish the transgression, and to make cried again with a loud voice, yielded up the ghost. And, (Revelation 14:6). "For the time is come that judgment must ("seven weeks, and threescore and two weeks") or 483 an end of sins, and to make reconciliation for iniquity, and to behold the veil of the temple was rent in twain from the top begin at the house of God: and if it begin first at us, what years after the decree of Artaxerxes in 457 B.C. This would bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal up the vision to the bottom." (Matthew 27:50,51) The death of Jesus in 31 shall the end be of them that obey not the gospel of God? (1 • • A.D. signalled the end of the sacrificial system. Jesus died Peter 4: 17) according to the prophetic countdown in 31 A.D. In our next two lessons we will examine the ancient Three and a half years were still left in the "Seventieth sanctuary service to better understand the investigative 2300 days week." During this time the gospel was to be preached to judgment that began in 1844. We will study just what the the Jews (see Acts 1:8). The majority of the Jews spurned Bible teaches about the great judgment whose hour has God's grace, however, so the proclamation went forth in 34 come. A.D., "Then Paul and Barnabas waxed bold, and said, It was But even more important, we will study the work of Jesus 1810 YEARS necessary that the word of God should first have been Christ, our High Priest and Advocate, by whose ministry we spoken to you: but seeing ye put if from you, and judge are prepared to stand fearlessly in the judgment. We need yourselves unworthy of everlasting life, 10, we turn to the not be afraid if Christ is on our side, and if we have fully Gentiles." (Acts 13:46) This was the year in which Stephen accepted His pardoning grace so freely offered to all. was stoned and Peter was given a vision that he should call no man common or unclean. It was also the year in which Paul was called to be the apostle to the Gentiles. (Acts 7:51- 7 WEEKS 62 WEEKS 60; 9:15; 10:1-48; 11:1; 13:46). 1810 years still remained of the original 2300 years to the Jesus died according "cleansing" of the "heavenly sanctuary." The earthly ONE sanctuary was destroyed in 70 A.D. (see Daniel 9:26, 27; to the prophetic Matthew 24: 1,2) So the sanctuary (or temple) to be cleansed must have been the one John saw in vision. "And countdown in 31 A.D. the temple of God was opened in heaven and there was DECREE JERUSALEM JESUS 31 A.D. GOSPEL TO "HOUR OF seen in his temple the ark of his testament." (Revelation 457 B.C. REBUILT BAPTIZED GENTILES HIS 11:19) 408 B.C. ("ANOINTED") 34 A.D. JUDGMENT The earthly sanctuary was "cleansed" yearly on the day 27 A.D. IS COME" of atonement (Leviticus 16) This was the day of judgment 1844 A.D. for the ancient Israelites. (Leviticus 16:29-31) It was symbolic of God's final judgment. "Now when these things were thus ordained, the priests went always into the first • • tabernacle, accomplishing the service of God. But into the second went the high priest alone once every year, not lITHE HOUR OF HIS JUDGMENT IS COMEII
1. What is the difference between the first angel IS message and what Paul and Enoch preached? (Revelation 14:7 page 174; Acts 24:25 page 102; Acts 17:31 page 96)
2. If God has appointed a day for judgment can we know when it is? (Daniel 8:14 page 549; Daniel 8:15, 16 page 549; Daniel 8:27 page 549)
3. Did Gabriel ever come back to finish explaining the vision? (Daniel 9:21-23 page 550)
4. Certainly Daniel understood the year-day principle? (Numbers 14:34 page 204; Ezekiel 4:6 page 508)
5. What Daniel didn't understand was when the prophecy was to begin. Does Gabriel give Daniel any clues as when to start? (Daniel 9:25 page 550 -457 B.C.; Ezra 7:7-27; 408 B.C. Nehemiah 6:15)
6. "Messiah" means annointing, and the Ilprince" refers to Christ, so when was Christ annointed? 457 + 483 years = 27 A.D. (Acts 10:38 page 90; Mark 1:9-11, 15 page 24; Luke 3:1, 21-23 page 41)
7. What was to happen next? (27-34 A.D. "midst" 31 A.D.) (Daniel 9:24 page 550; Daniel 9:27 page 550; Matthew 27:50, 51 page 23)
8. What happened in 34 A.D.? (Stephen stoned, Peter's vision, call of Paul) (Acts 13:46 page 93)
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*Now move on to the Worksheet in the lesson* mean that the Christ was to be anointed in 27 A.D. Was without blood, which he offered for himself, and for the Jesus anointed in that year? errors of the people." "But Christ being come an high priest Jesus was anointed by the Holy Spirit. Peter preached, The ancient Jews knew of good things to come, by a greater and more perfect "How God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Ghost tabernacle, not made with hands, that is to say, not of this and with power." (Acts 10:38) This took place at the when the Messiah was building; Neither by the blood of goats and calves, but by his baptism of Christ. "And it came to pass in those days, that own blood he entered in once into the holy place, having Jesus came from Nazareth of Galilee, and was baptized of to conte, for there was obtained eternal redemption for us." "For Christ is not John in Jordan. And straightway coming up out of the • • entered into the holy places made with hands, which are the water, he saw the heavens opened, and the Spirit like a dove a general expectation figures of the true; but into heaven itself. .. And as it is descending upon him: And there came a voice from heaven appointed unto men once to die, but after this the saying, Thou art my beloved Son, in whom I am well about the tinte that judgment." (Hebrews 9:6,7,11,12,24-27) pleased." (Mark 1:9-11) After forty days in the wilderness Even as the "cleansing" of the ancient sanctuary was a (verse 12-14), Jesus began preaching, "The time is fulfilled." day of judgment for the Jewish people, the "cleansing" of (verse 15) What "time" was Jesus referring to? The 69 Jesus was born. the heavenly sanctuary is a day of judgment for the whole weeks of Daniel 9:25. Jesus was baptized in A.D. 27. "Now world. Paul reasoned with Felix of "judgment to come" and in the fifteenth year of the reign of Tiberius Caesar. .. Jesus "Felix trembled" (Acts 24:25). The message which is to go also being baptized, and praying, the heaven was opened, and prophecy, and to anoint the most Holy." (Daniel 9:24) "to every nation, and kindred, and tongue, and people" and the Holy Ghost descended in a bodily shape like a dove Sixty-nine weeks (verse 25) would pass until the anointing of today is that "The hour of his judgment is come." The commandment (or decree) of Artaxerxes of Persia upon him." (Luke 3:1,21-23) The fifteenth year of Tiberius the Prince, but an extra week was allowed to the Jewish (Revelation 14:6,7) And that judgment began in the to rebuild the city was made in his seventh year in 457 B.C. Caesar was 27 A.D. This nails down the dates for the entire nation after Jesus began His public ministry. This is referred heavenly sanctuary in 1844 A.D. The entire decree is found in Ezra 7 :7-27. After "seven prophecy. to as the seventieth week. Much happened during that last Jesus said, "And, behold I come quickly; and my reward weeks" (49 years) the walls and streets were to be rebuilt. The ancient Jews knew when the Messiah was to come, prophetic week. is with me, to give every man according as his work shall This was completed in 408 B.C. (see Nehemiah 6:15). This for there was a general expectation about the time that "And he shall confirm the covenant with many for one be." (Revelation 22: 12) But before Jesus comes the even verified the beginning date for the ancient Hebrews. Jesus was born. And after the religious leaders had rejected week: and in the midst of the week he shall cause the proclamation goes forth: "He that is unjust, let him be unjust Seventy Hebrew scholars translated the Hebrew Christ they pronounced this curse: "May the bones of the sacrifice and the oblation to cease." (Daniel 9:27) This last still: and he which is filthy, let him be filthy still: and he that is Scriptures into the common Greek two centuries before fingers and the bones of the hands decay and decompose of week extended from 27 A.D. to 34 A.D. The decree of righteous, let him be righteous still: and he that is holy, let Christ. This has been called the Septuagint. In Daniel 9:24 him who turns the pages of Daniel to find out the time" of Artaxerxes had gone forth in the fall of the year (see Ezra 7) him be holy still." (Revelation 22: 11) we find this interesting translation: "Seventy weeks of the Messiah's advent." (Sanhedrin, 97B, Sec. 2, Line 28) and Jesus was baptized in the fall (see Luke 3: 1 for the list of Judgment began with the dead at the time God years." The ancient Jews understood the "year-day" Error cannot stand investigation, and those who reject the rulers. The reigns overlapped only during the fall of 27 A.D.) "appointed" (Acts 17:31) God "reserved" the wicked "unto principle very well. truth must pronounce curses, ridicule, and persecution "In the midst of the week," or the spring of 31 A.D., "the the judgment of the great day." (Jude 6) When the names of According to Daniel 9:25, the anointing of the Prince upon those who hold high the torch of truth. sacrifice and the oblation" were "to cease" for Jesus would the living come up for judgment, God will begin with those ("Messiah" and "Christ" both mean "anointed" in the "Seventy weeks are determined upon thy people and then fulfill the sacrificial symbolisms. "Jesus, when he had who have heard the preaching of the "everlasting gospel" original languages) was to take place 69 prophetic weeks upon thy holy city, to finish the transgression, and to make cried again with a loud voice, yielded up the ghost. And, (Revelation 14:6). "For the time is come that judgment must ("seven weeks, and threescore and two weeks") or 483 an end of sins, and to make reconciliation for iniquity, and to behold the veil of the temple was rent in twain from the top begin at the house of God: and if it begin first at us, what years after the decree of Artaxerxes in 457 B.C. This would bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal up the vision to the bottom." (Matthew 27:50,51) The death of Jesus in 31 shall the end be of them that obey not the gospel of God? (1 • • A.D. signalled the end of the sacrificial system. Jesus died Peter 4: 17) according to the prophetic countdown in 31 A.D. In our next two lessons we will examine the ancient Three and a half years were still left in the "Seventieth sanctuary service to better understand the investigative 2300 days week." During this time the gospel was to be preached to judgment that began in 1844. We will study just what the the Jews (see Acts 1:8). The majority of the Jews spurned Bible teaches about the great judgment whose hour has God's grace, however, so the proclamation went forth in 34 come. A.D., "Then Paul and Barnabas waxed bold, and said, It was But even more important, we will study the work of Jesus 1810 YEARS necessary that the word of God should first have been Christ, our High Priest and Advocate, by whose ministry we spoken to you: but seeing ye put if from you, and judge are prepared to stand fearlessly in the judgment. We need yourselves unworthy of everlasting life, 10, we turn to the not be afraid if Christ is on our side, and if we have fully Gentiles." (Acts 13:46) This was the year in which Stephen accepted His pardoning grace so freely offered to all. was stoned and Peter was given a vision that he should call no man common or unclean. It was also the year in which Paul was called to be the apostle to the Gentiles. (Acts 7:51- 7 WEEKS 62 WEEKS 60; 9:15; 10:1-48; 11:1; 13:46). 1810 years still remained of the original 2300 years to the Jesus died according "cleansing" of the "heavenly sanctuary." The earthly ONE sanctuary was destroyed in 70 A.D. (see Daniel 9:26, 27; to the prophetic Matthew 24:1,2) So the sanctuary (or temple) to be cleansed must have been the one John saw in vision. "And countdown in 31 A.D. the temple of God was opened in heaven and there was DECREE JERUSALEM JESUS 31 A.D. GOSPEL TO "HOUR OF seen in his temple the ark of his testament." (Revelation 457 B.C. REBUILT BAPTIZED GENTILES HIS 11:19) 408 B.C. ("ANOINTED") 34 A.D. JUDGMENT The earthly sanctuary was "cleansed" yearly on the day 27 A.D. IS COME" of atonement (Leviticus 16) This was the day of judgment 1844 A.D. for the ancient Israelites. (Leviticus 16:29-31) It was symbolic of God's final judgment. "Now when these things were thus ordained, the priests went always into the first • • tabernacle, accomplishing the service of God. But into the second went the high priest alone once every year, not "THE HOUR OF HIS JUDGMENT IS COME"
On the line below, mark an "X" corresponding to how you feel about the Bible. Ke~sto Total Health PRODUCED BY THE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH EDUCATION, SCHOOL OF HEALTH
• COPYRIGHT Cl 1980 BY THE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH EDUCATION, SCHOOL OF HEALTH. LOMA LINDA UNIVERSITY, LOMA LINDA, CALIFORNIA 923~O "The Hour of His TOTAL MYTH HISTORICAL MORAL & SCIENTIFICALL Y TOTAL Judgment Is Come" FALSEHOOD ACCOUNT SPIRITUAL ACCURATE TRUTH PRINCIPLES
The first Angel's message of Revelation 14:6,7, which is to go "to every nation, and kindred, and tongue, and people" calls for men and women to "Fear God, and give glory to "Unto two thousand Him: for the hour of His judgment is come." We have already studied what it means to "Fear God, and give glory and three hundred to Him" so now we turn our attention to "the hour of His judgment is come." days; then shall the While Enoch and Paul preached of '~judgment to come" (Jude 14, 15; Acts 24:25), the message of the First Angel is, "judgment is come." Paul tells us, "He hath appointed a day, sanctuary be in the which He will judge the world in righteousness by that Why have you placed your "X" as far to the right as you have? man whom He hath ordained." (Acts 17:31). The time for cleansed. " this judgment is found in the companion book to Revelation, the Old Testament book of Daniel. In prophetic vision God revealed to Daniel the time of the judgment. "And he said unto me, Unto two thousand and three Gabriel provided this information in his explanation of the What keeps you from placing your "X" all the way to the right? • • hundred days; then shall the sanctuary be cleansed." vision. "Know therefore and understand, that from the (Daniel 8: 14) In this verse we have God's countdown to going forth of the commandment to restore and to build eternity. But what does it mean? "When I ... Daniel, had Jerusalem unto the Messiah the Prince (the annointing of seen the vision, and sought for the meaning, then behold, the Prince) shall be seven weeks, and threescore and two there stood before me as the appearance of a man ... which weeks: the street shall be built again, and the wall, even 'in called, and said, Gabriel, make this man to understand the troublous times." (Daniel 9:25) Now Daniel could What can you do to enhance your beliefs about the Bible? vision." (verse 15,16) The rest of the chapter deals with "understand," for he knew when the time period began, Gabriel's explanation. But before he could finish, "Daniel with "the commandment to restore and to build fainted, and was sick" so Daniel "was astonished at the Jerusalem." vision, but none understood it." (verse 27) The angel Gabriel had been commanded, "Make this man to understand the vision." (Daniel 8:16) So he had to come back later. The second visit of Gabriel is recorded in Prophetic SYDlbolisDl chapter 9. "Yea, whiles I was speaking in prayer, even the man Gabriel, whom I had seen in the vision at the beginning, being caused to fly swiftly, touched me about the time of the evening oblation. And he ... said, 0 Daniel, I am now come 1Day 1 Year forth to give thee skill and understanding. . . Therefore understand the matter, and consider the vision." (Daniel 9:21-23) Certainly Daniel knew about the year-day principle in prophetic vision. In Numbers 14:34 God had said, "each day for a year" in prophetic symbolism. Referring to this earlier Name instruction, God had reminded Ezekiel, Daniel's contempo- rary, "I have appointed thee each day for a year." (Ezekiel Address _ 4:5) So Daniel didn't need instruction in this matter. Rather, he needed to know when to begin the prophecy. This is City what Daniel did not understand, when the prophecy was to • • begin. Phone
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