The First Angel’s Message part 3,

The 2,300 Days and the Hour of His

Judgment

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William Miller

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The most learned in the world’s lore, who are not

watching to hear what God says in his word, and

opening their hearts to receive that word and give

it to others, are not representatives of his. It is not

the great and learned men of the earth, kings and

nobles, who will receive the truth unto eternal life,

though it will be brought to them. (Special

Testimonies on Education, p. 11)

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“It [investigative judgment] is to my mind, therefore, nothing more than a

human, face-saving idea! .... We personally do not believe that there

is even a suspicion of a verse in Scripture to sustain such a peculiar position, and we further believe that any effort to establish it is stale, flat,

and unprofitable!” (Donald Barnhouse, Eternity, September 1956 -

Emphasis in original.)

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Just another Adventist cult member embarrassing himself attempting to prop up a demonic prophet

and his infallible interpreter. This mutt (sic) believes Jesus is still making an atonement. Notice

how he continually reads from the great controversy (sic). A rag written by a thief and liar. A lunatic craving attention. Jesus will look at this Pharisee and say, “Depart from me. I never knew

you.” Michael Heathman

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VWsa7XkfqEU

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WP6241L6zVg

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Daniel 9:22, 23 – An understanding of the vision about the evening and mornings (Mareh)

The only part of the chazown, (Daniel 8:1) not understood was the mareh.

Daniel was astonished at the mareh (Daniel 8:27)

Gabriel now says understand the mareh (Daniel 9:23)

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“Seventy weeks, have been divided concerning thy people and concerning thy holy

city.” (Rotherham)

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Record of the Passovers Jesus attended after being baptised (John 1:32, 33 ) and beginning his

public ministry:

John 2:13John 5:1John 6:4John 13:1

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11 Q Melchizedek: Cave 11 at Khirbet Qumran. The Melchizedek scroll. Written around 200 BC

The fragments which have been published stress the Jubilee “release” of all debts; making reference to Deuteronomy 15:2, and Lev 25:13 (regarding

the Jubilee). The Essenes viewed Sacred Scripture as referring to their own days (like the early

Christians did); their commentary on Scripture, applying it to their own time, is called pesher

(interpretation). This is their commentary:17

for G[od]. Its interpretation] for the last days refers to the captives, who [. . .] and whose teachers have been hidden and kept secret, and from the inheritance of Melchizedek, fo[r . . .] . . . and they are the inherita[nce of Melchize]dek, who will make them return. And liberty will be proclaimed for them, to free them from [the debt of] all their iniquities.

And this [wil]l [happen] in the first week of the jubilee which follows the ni[ne] jubilees. And the d[ay of

aton]ement is the e[nd of] the tenth [ju]bilee in which atonement shall be made for all the sons of [light]. . .

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This “liberty” spoken of here (release from debts, slavery, captivity, etc.) takes on the form also of forgiveness and

cleansing of sins, in the context of the Day of Atonement (on which the Jubilee is to take place, Lev 25:9). It will be on the tenth Jubilee, that is, after 49 x 10 years, or on the 490th year, as in Dan 9. This is called the “year of grace,” as in Isa 61:2 (quoted by Jesus in Luke 4:17-21). The Qumran text further on also explicitly refers to “the messenger who proclaims peace, who brings good news, who proclaims

salvation,” of Isa 52:7, and interprets this messenger as “the Anointed one of the spirit, concerning whom Dan[iel] said,

[Until an anointed one, a prince (Dan. ix, 25)] . . . .” 19

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As Jesus died on Calvary, He cried, “It is finished,” and the veil of the temple was rent in twain, from the top to the bottom. This was to show that the services of the earthly sanctuary

were forever finished, and that God would no more meet with the priests in their earthly temple, to accept their sacrifices.

The blood of Jesus was then shed, which was to be offered by Himself in the heavenly sanctuary. As the priest entered the most holy once a year to cleanse the earthly sanctuary, so

Jesus entered the most holy of the heavenly, at the end of the 2300 days of Daniel 8, in 1844, to make a final atonement for all who could be benefited by His mediation, and thus to

cleanse the sanctuary. (Early Writings, p. 253)21

In the final atonement the sins of the truly penitent are to be blotted from the records of heaven, no more to be remembered or come

into mind, so in the type they were borne away into the wilderness, forever separated from the congregation. (Patriarchs and Prophets, p. 358)

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When Christ, the Mediator, burst the bands of the tomb, and ascended on high to minister for man, He first entered

the holy place where, by virtue of His own sacrifice, He made an offering for the sins of men. With intercession and pleadings He presented before God the prayers and

repentance and faith of His people, purified by the incense of His own merits. He next entered the Most Holy Place, to make an atonement for the sins of the people, and to cleanse the sanctuary. His work as high priest completes

the divine plan of redemption by making the final atonement for sin. (Manuscript Releases, vol. 10, p. 157)

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