Basic HTML Version
Our Eyes Fixed on Christ, July 22
O our God, wilt thou not judge them? for we have no might
against this great company that cometh against us; neither know
we what to do: but our eyes are upon thee.
2 Chronicles 20:12
.
“I beheld,” says the prophet Daniel, “till thrones were placed, and
one that was ancient of days did sit.... Thousand thousands ministered
unto him, and ten thousand times ten thousand stood before him: the
judgment was set, and the books were opened.”
Daniel 7:9, 10
, R.V.
Thus was presented to the prophet’s vision the great and solemn
day when the characters and the lives of men should pass in review
before the Judge of all the earth, and to every man should be rendered
“according to his works.” The Ancient of days is God the Father.... It
is He, the source of all being, and the fountain of all law, that is to
preside in the judgment. And holy angels, as ministers and witnesses, in
number “ten thousand times ten thousand, and thousands of thousands”
(
Revelation 5:11
), attend this great tribunal.
“And, behold, one like the Son of man came with the clouds of
heaven, and came to the Ancient of days, and they brought him near
before him.”
Daniel 7:13
.... The coming of Christ here described is not
His second coming to the earth. He comes to the Ancient of days in
heaven to receive dominion, and glory, and a kingdom, which will be
given Him at the close of His work as a mediator. It is this coming, and
not His second advent to the earth, that was foretold in prophecy to take
place at the termination of the 2300 days in 1844. Attended by heavenly
angels, our great High Priest enters the holy of holies, and there appears
in the presence of God ... to perform the work of investigative judgment,
and to make an atonement for all who are shown to be entitled to its
benefits.
God’s people are now to have their eyes fixed on the heavenly
sanctuary, where ... our great High Priest ... is interceding for His
people.
Soon we shall be weighed in the balances of the sanctuary, and over
against our names will be recorded the judgment rendered.
[210]
217