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Each Life Passes in Review, July 24
Rejoice, O young man, in thy youth; and let thy heart cheer thee
in the days of thy youth, and walk in the ways of thine heart, and
in the sight of thine eyes: but know thou, that for all these things
God will bring thee into judgment.
Ecclesiastes 11:9
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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 par-
doned, 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 tenden-
cies 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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