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Judging the Cases of the Living, August 30
Remember therefore how thou hast received and heard, and hold
fast, and repent. If therefore thou shalt not watch, I will come on thee
as a thief, and thou shalt not know what hour I will come upon thee.
Revelation 3:3
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At the time appointed for the judgment—the close of the 2300 days,
in 1844—began the work of investigation and blotting out of sins. All
who have ever taken upon themselves the name of Christ must pass its
searching scrutiny. Both the living and the dead are to be judged “out of
those things which were written in the books, according to their works.”
Revelation 20:12
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Said the Judge: “All will be justified by their faith and judged by their
works.”
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....
There is earnest warfare before all who would subdue the evil tendencies
that strive for the mastery. 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. Though all nations are to pass in
judgment before God, yet He will examine the case of each individual with
as close and searching scrutiny as if there were not another being upon the
earth. Every one must be tested, and found without spot or wrinkle or any
such thing.
The judgment is now passing in the sanctuary above. For many years
this work has been in progress. Soon—none know how soon—it will pass
to the cases of the living. In the awful presence of God our lives are to
come up in review. At this time above all others it behooves every soul to
heed the Saviour’s admonition, “Watch and pray: for ye know not when
the time is.”
Mark 13:33
. “If therefore thou shalt not watch, I will come on
thee as a thief, and thou shalt not know what hour I will come upon thee.”
Revelation 3:3
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