Lesson 6: The Hour of His Judgment

Memory Text: "And do this, knowing the time, that now it is high time to awake out of sleep; for now our salvation is nearer than when we first believed. The night is far spent, the day is at hand" (Romans 13:11, 12, NKJV).

Several years ago, National Geographic magazine described a forest fire in Yellowstone National Park in the United States. After it ended, forest rangers trekked up a mountain to assess the National Geographic magazine described damage. One ranger found a bird literally burned to ashes at the base of a tree. Somewhat sickened by the eerie sight, he knocked over the bird with a stick.

Three tiny baby birds scurried from under their dead mother's wings when he struck it. The loving mother, keenly aware of impending disaster, had carried her offspring to the base of the tree and had gathered them under her wings. She could have flown to safety but had refused to abandon her babies. What a picture of the believer who is safe in Christ!

The fires of God's judgment burned themselves out on Him at Calvary, and all who are in Christ are safe forever beneath His wings. At the cross, Christ was judged as a condemned sinner so that we could be judged as righteous citizens of the heavenly kingdom. He was judged as a criminal so that we could be set free from the destructive fires of eternal loss, both figuratively and literally.

Christ was treated as we deserve, that we might be treated as He deserves [Reflecting Christ, p. 45]. Unfortunately, in individual families, the church, and the world all over, people are in a steep and deep spiritual stupor, and lurgy, moral, and social decline is becoming unprecedented, surpassing the Antediluvians and People in penta-cities in the plain. Our post-modern-day influencers primarily aligned with the Age of Reason or Rationalism, which Reneily Dicart of France started, and false religious practices [of Satan worship].

My Take and SOP
For in him dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead bodily [Colossians 2:9]. In stooping to take upon Himself humanity, Christ revealed a character the opposite of the character of Satan....Christ revealed a character the opposite of the character of Satan.... Christ was treated as we deserve, that we might be treated as He deserves. He was condemned for our sins, in which He had no share, that we might be justified by His righteousness, in which we had no share. He suffered the death which was ours, that we might receive the life which was His. "With his stripes we are healed.". —The Desire of Ages, pp. 24-26 [From Reflecting Christ, p. 45]

Satan has led many to believe that the prophetic portions of the writings of Daniel and of John the Revelator cannot be understood. But the promise is plain that a special blessing will accompany the study of these prophecies. "The wise shall understand" (Daniel 12:10) was spoken of the visions of Daniel that were to be unsealed in the latter days; and of the Revelation that Christ gave to His servant John for the guidance of God's people all through the centuries, the promise is, "Blessed is he that readeth, and they that hear the words of this prophecy, and keep those things which are written therein." Revelation 1:3.—Prophets and Kings, p. 547.

As the sins of the people were anciently transferred, in the figure, to the earthly sanctuary by the blood of the sin offering, so our sins are, in fact, transferred to the heavenly sanctuary by the blood of Christ. And as the typical cleansing of the earthly was accomplished by the removal of the sins by which it had been polluted, so the actual cleansing of the heavenly is to be accomplished by the removal, or blotting out, of the sins which are there recorded. This necessitates an examination of the books of record to determine who, through repentance of sin and faith in Christ, are entitled to the benefits of His atonement. The cleansing of the sanctuary, therefore, involves a work of investigative judgment. This work must be performed prior to the coming of Christ to redeem His people, for when He comes, His reward is with Him to give to every man according to His works. (Revelation 22:12.)...in 1844, Christ then entered the most holy place of the heavenly sanctuary, into the presence of God, to perform the closing work of atonement, preparatory to His coming.—The Story of Redemption, p. 378.

For seven years after the Saviour entered on His ministry, the gospel was to be preached especially to the Jews; for three and a half years by Christ Himself, and afterward by the apostles. Mark 1:15; Dan 9:27. The time had come for the earthly sacrifice and oblation to cease...The one week—seven years—ended in A.D. 34. Then by the stoning of Stephen the Jews finally sealed their rejection of the ­gospel.—Prophets and Kings, p. 699.

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