Tuesday, September 26, 2006

Sabbath School Insights No. 14, Qtr 3-06

Special Insights No. 14

Third Quarter 2006 Adult Sabbath School Lessons

“The Gospel, 1844, and Judgment”

(Produced by the Editorial Board of the 1888 Message Study Committee)

“The Meaning of the Judgment Today”

 

Don’t throw away this Lesson book; it’s not out of date. Ask the Lord to imprint deeper in your heart truths you have begun to appreciate during these 14 lessons.

 

We began in July realizing they are hotly contested within the church. Several salient points need a final emphasis:

 

(1) Truth is more important than mere church consensus. “Buy the truth, and don’t ever sell it!” (says Proverbs 23:23). The Lord Jesus promises, “You will know the truth” (John 8:32; better than inheriting billions). And more, “The truth will make you free”—keep you and save you from stumbling, and from selling your precious “birthright” when the inevitable test of the “mark of the beast” comes.

 

(2) To put the issue in plain, awkward language: shall this church be the Seventh-day Adventist Church, or must it be changed (imperceptibly) into a Seventh Day Baptist Church (as Elder Luis R. Conradi wanted).

 

(3) What is a “Seventh Day Baptist”? A former Seventh-day Adventist from whom the 1844 cleansing of the sanctuary idea has been subtracted (the one truth that has made us the unique people that we are). Seventh Day Baptists are fine people, that’s not the issue; but generally speaking, confused, having lost the reason why we exist.

 

The basic problem: “What Is the Meaning of the Judgment Today?”

 

It’s not a fear-inducing divine order, “Get perfect or be lost!” This idea of divine imperiousness has discouraged youth and fueled this widespread confusion. God is not trying to filter people out of His kingdom; He’s making them ready to get in and live happily there forever after.

 

It’s simply letting the Holy Spirit do what He wants—forgive us all our sins and reconcile our alienated hearts to the One who is our Savior. It is not our job to make ourselves “perfect,” and it never has been. It’s the Savior’s! But it’s our job to stop hindering Him and let Him do it through the ongoing work of the Holy Spirit who is continually dredging up buried sins we never dreamed were still inside. You can say “Yes! Thank You!” or you can say, “Go Away! Let me alone! I don’t want to overcome.” Thus the “Judgment” is ongoing, 24/7.

 

The ancient little “day of atonement” once a year taught precious good news: “On that day the priest shall make atonement for you, to cleanse you, that you may be clean from all your sins before the Lord” (including previously unknown ones, Lev 16:30). Who did the actual work? The priest—a symbol of our Lord and Savior, Jesus. The people cooperated with the priest. They kept the little day of atonement sacred. Thus we are to observe the great original Day of Atonement, which has been “now” ever since 1844, the end of the 2300 year prophecy.

 

Serious distortion of this good news has caused some to think this is “perfectionism,” which is a heresy. But add to that twisting of the truth the universal conviction of how imperfect we all are, and like cooking a terrible stew you come up with the idea of doleful SDA hermits only a step short of self-flagellation. Who wants such a sad life, is youths’ idea.

 

To correct this distortion and create the happiest Christ-like people ever on earth was God’s purpose in sending “us” the “most precious message” of 1888—the grand antitype of the kindergarten type that came every “tenth day of the seventh month.” That day ended with an entire nation walking on air! They were so happy once again to be at-one-with God and with one another. Day of Atonement “most precious” truth is powerful!

 

On that ancient one day quarrels were gone, alienations healed; husbands/wives recovered the love that once brought them together; the most alluring idolatry (it constantly ensnared them!) was abhorred because something better had been tasted on this great day—the gospel. It’s “Elijah’s” “turned hearts”! It was God’s plan that our “Day of Atonement” should end with the reception (not rejection!) of the “most precious” message of 1888, which should blossom and “lighten the earth with glory” in “rapid” “final movements,” now long overdue. A people wholly reconciled to God and to one another—that is “The Meaning of the Judgment Today.”

 

But it’s time for a paradigm shift in thinking: the issue is not egocentric fear for our own salvation (which largely pervaded this Quarter’s Lesson Book), but a new concern that Christ receive His reward—not that “we shall wear a crown in our Father’s house,” but that at last He receive His Bride.

Robert J. Wieland

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Wednesday, September 20, 2006

Sabbath School Insights No. 13, Qtr 3-06

Special Insights No. 13

Third Quarter 2006 Adult Sabbath School Lessons

“The Gospel, 1844, and Judgment”

(Produced by the Editorial Board of the 1888 Message Study Committee)

“The Gospel and Judgment”

 

Ellen White was overjoyed when she heard the message of justification by faith from the lips of A. T. Jones and E. J. Waggoner. To her this clear teaching was consonant with the message of the three angels: “The hour of His judgment is come” and our Priest is cleansing the heavenly sanctuary. What connection was there between justification by faith and the cleansing of the heavenly sanctuary by Jesus our High Priest?

 

The answer is that since 1844 Jesus has been performing the Day of Atonement ministry—the final blotting out of sins. But before the sanctuary could be cleansed in heaven the temple of His people on earth must be cleansed. The source of sin pollution must be ended in His people. The honor of God and the integrity of His covenant were at stake. God has the solution to the problem of sin. The gospel of Jesus Christ can forgive sins and His righteousness has the power by virtue of the Holy Spirit to cleanse the soul temple. This God has promised in His everlasting covenant (see Jer. 31:33).

 

So when she heard this message she recognized in it the power and force of the gospel which would prepare God’s people to stand with a pure character in the day of Christ’s second coming. They would be a living testimony for God through the crisis hour. They would be part of the 144,000 who would be translated without seeing death at His return. They would be a living testament to the power of God unto salvation from sin. Living in sinful flesh, tempted, tried and afflicted, the mystery of godliness would be revealed in them—“Christ in you the hope of glory.” Like a drumbeat over the course of several weeks Ellen White wrote in the columns of the Review during 1890 of her enthusiasm.*

 

The Sunday-keeping churches had not followed Jesus by faith into His most holy place work in 1844. Hence they were worshiping a god of their own creation—Satan if you please. [1] To this day, for the most part, they view the sanctuary message of Seventh-day Adventists as a colossal error. It has been termed the greatest face-saving device to explain away a mistaken interpretation of Scripture—Daniel 8:14.

 

But God’s people have been given a unique understanding of justification by faith in connection with the cleansing of the sanctuary that is to prepare a people for the coming of the Lord. This is why the Lord gave it to His people to be proclaimed to the nominal Christian churches of the world. They had initially rejected it in 1844.

 

Martin Luther didn’t understand justification by faith in the light of the sanctuary message. Protestants and evangelicals did not understand it rightly. Of all people who should understand it Seventh-day Adventists should because they know about 1844 and the change of Jesus’ ministry from the holy place to the most holy place. They are not to proclaim justification by faith by compromising with the other churches and incorporating their message in order to be ecumenical in spirit. This would be a rejection of Jesus leading His people into truth of His most holy place ministry. They would be following Satan as did the nominal churches in 1844.

 

But in the historical context of 1890 Sr. White made an astounding statement: “There has been a departure from God, and there has not as yet been zealous work in repenting and coming back to the first love. Infidelity has had a large place among us. It is the fashion to depart from Christ, to forsake the Lord and accept skepticism. ‘We will not have this man to reign over us.’ Luke 19:14. Baal will be the purpose, the faith, the religion of a sorrowful number among us, because they choose their own way instead of God’s way. The true religion, the only religion of the Bible—believing in the forgiveness of sins, the righteousness of Christ, and the blood of the Lamb—has been not only slighted and spoken against, ridiculed, and criticized, but suspicions and jealousies have been created, leading into fanaticism and atheism.” [2] When once the truth of justification by faith in connection with the sanctuary is lost, Satan has won a great victory. He can lead his followers into fanaticism and right out of the body of Christ into atheism. Because self becomes one’s idol—Baal worship. He follows his own self-pleasing interpretations of Scripture and it results in another god than the true God. Imperceptibly self becomes one’s god. The knowledge of the true God is rejected. Hence the result is atheism.

 

The conclusion of thirteen articles written by Ellen White in the Review was entitled “Repentance the Gift of God.” She said: “Some of our brethren have expressed fears that we shall dwell too much upon the subject of justification by faith, but I hope and pray that none will be needlessly alarmed; for there is no danger in presenting this doctrine as it is set forth in the Scriptures. If there had not been a remissness in the past to properly instruct the people of God, there would not now be a necessity of calling especial attention to it. Some of our brethren are not receiving the message of God upon this subject. They appear to be anxious that none of our ministers shall depart from their former manner of teaching the good old doctrines. We inquire, Is it not time that fresh light should come to the people of God, to awaken them to greater earnestness and zeal?” [3] She portrayed the church as being in a lukewarm state. Jesus bid His people repent—to buy of Him gold tried in the fire—faith and love; to receive His white raiment which is the righteousness of Christ; and the eye-salve of spiritual discernment, the baptism of the Holy Spirit.

 

And then she made the defining statement: “Several have written to me, inquiring if the message of justification by faith is the third angel’s message, and I have answered, ‘It is the third angel’s message in verity.’” [4]

 

Justification by faith in connection with the sanctuary cleansing is the third angel’s message in verity. This string of thirteen articles clearly identifies what she meant by “in verity.” It is the judgment hour message, which prepares the way for the great and dreadful day of the Lord. It prepares a people to stand in the hour of crisis and to be translated without seeing death at the second coming of Jesus. It was and still is the shaking message to the Laodicean church. It bears with it all the prospect of the loud cry and latter rain of the Holy Spirit.
--Paul Penno

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* Please see the “Supplementary Material” posted on the “Insights” Web site (www.1888msc.org) for selected quotations, or request a copy via e-mail from: sabbathschool@1888message.org

 

Endnotes:

[1] Early Writings (1882), p. 261.

[2] “To the General Conference” (1889) and “The Vision at Salamanca” (Nov. 3, 1890), The Ellen G. White 1888 Materials, pp. 444, 948.

[3] “Repentance the Gift of God,” The Advent Review and Sabbath Herald (April 1, 1890), p. 193.

[4] Ibid.

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Wednesday, September 13, 2006

Sabbath School Insights No. 12, Qtr 3-06

Special Insights No. 12

Third Quarter 2006 Adult Sabbath School Lessons

“The Gospel, 1844, and Judgment”

(Produced by the Editorial Board of the 1888 Message Study Committee)

“The Pre-Advent Judgment”

 

Many think that the idea of a pre-Advent or “Investigative Judgment” is fear-inducing. Youth especially shy away from the teaching; this fear has shadowed the church for many decades.

 

But there’s something lacking if fear shadows our hearts as Seventh-day Adventists. Someone has been starving us of our God-given spiritual nutrition if fear dominates our thinking about a pre-Advent judgment, because John says that “perfect love casts out fear, because fear involves torment” (1 John 4:18). If the fear is still there, then a true understanding of the gospel is absent! It would be impossible for such fear to grip our youth in this 21st century if “we” had accepted “the most precious message” in the 1888 era and since. A special idea, agape (love), is the basic idea of the message, and it’s that agape that “casts out fear.”

 

The solution to the problem of fear in the pre-Advent judgment is revealing the true Christ who came “in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh” (Rom. 8:3). What is the liberating truth? It’s this: “We do not have a High Priest who cannot sympathize with our weaknesses, but was in all points tempted as we are, yet without sin. Let us therefore come boldly to the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy and find grace to help in time of need” (Heb. 4:15, 16).

 

What does it mean? All during the time of judgment when normally we think we must be frightened, He is giving us “mercy and ... grace to help”! If we understand this idea of the nearness of the Savior that came to us in the 1888 message, the result is that by faith we walk right through all the holy angels into the very presence of the Father without trembling! They stand back for us, for they are servants; we are family! We’ve been adopted (Eph. 1:6)!

 

The Good News of this nearness gets better all the time: “Inasmuch then as the children have partaken of flesh and blood, He Himself likewise shared in the same, that through death He might destroy him who had the power of death, that is, the devil, and release those who through fear of death were all their lifetime subject to bondage” (Heb. 2:14, 15). It’s tragic if “all their lifetime” means ever since they were baptized into the Seventh-day Adventist Church! (Incidentally, that word “destroyed” in the Greek is better rendered “paralyzed.”) Honestly, we can’t claim that Satan was “destroyed” when Jesus died on His cross; but for sure, he was paralyzed (the Greek verb means “annul”) for everyone who believes and appreciates what Christ accomplished—not just what He wanted to do. He IS the “Savior of the world,” not just wants to be (John 4:42)! But of course He can be rejected. We have freedom of choice. And if anybody is lost at last, that will be the reason.

 

Therefore, all during this time of the pre-Advent judgment (which began in 1844), our Great High Priest has been wanting and wanting to “seal” His people, trying to give them the special message through “Elijah” which “turns hearts” into at-one-ness both with God and with us as one another.

 

Our Lesson speaks of the “cleansing of the (heavenly) sanctuary.”

It’s very simple: the “books of record” will automatically be “cleansed” of all the sins of God’s people when their hearts are cleansed!

 

And their hearts will be cleansed when they see and appreciate what it cost the Son of God to die our second death on His cross. A distinct contribution of Seventh-day Adventists is the message of Christ dying the equivalent of our second death, the death in which He surrendered all hope of resurrection (cf. The Desire of Ages, p. 753); that is the true “wages of sin” (Rom. 6:23). No other Christian church grasps this! The people are good, and many are more faithful to the light they have than we are to the light we have—they just don’t see it. The power is in the reality of love which is agape—which can’t be grasped as long as natural immortality fills the mind and heart.

 

“The unparalleled love of Christ, through the agency of the Holy Spirit, will bring conviction and conversion to the hardened heart” (Christ Our Righteousness, p. 61). Those “hardened hearts” are everywhere around the world, in all cultures, yes, in all churches. Secular people living in this century need the same message that the Lord sent to the pagans in the first century—“Christ and Him crucified” (1 Cor. 2:1, 2). That proclamation will challenge the thinking of modern man and penetrate the defenses in which he has encased his worldly heart.

 

It will be a long-awaited union of hearts—Christ and His people—His church. The union will be as close as that of a bride with her husband (Rev. 19:7, 8). We can never equal or duplicate the sacrifice of Christ, but we can appreciate it. The pre-Advent judgment that so terrifies many becomes like the joy of a wedding! “Let us be glad and rejoice” is the heart cry of those who open their hearts to the “most precious” message of much more abounding grace. It’s what the Holy Spirit has been seeking to impress on our hearts all these many, many decades!

 

But please remember, this is not “cheap grace.” Such more abounding grace motivates the believer to unending devotion, total obedience to God’s law (not from fear, but from joy), total heart-reconciliation with Him.

 

Let’s stop resisting His grace!

Robert J. Wieland

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Wednesday, September 06, 2006

Sabbath School Insights No. 11 Supplementary Material

Special Insights No. 11

Third Quarter 2006 Adult Sabbath School Lessons

“The Gospel, 1844, and Judgment”

(Produced by the Editorial Board of the 1888 Message Study Committee)

“The Sanctuary and the Little Horn”

Supplementary Material

“THE DAILY” and the General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists

(On October 16, 1942 seven prominent members of the General Conference Committee signed “A Statement” concerning their appointed work in reviewing Uriah Smith’s book Thoughts on Daniel and the Revelation for revision and republication. From their two original typewritten volumes (421, 413 pages respectively) entitled Daniel and the Revelation Collection we quote the following statements about “the daily” of Daniel 8:11-13, 11:31, and 12:11 from Volume One):

Though an understanding of the daily is not essential to salvation, yet it has occupied an honored place in our code of doctrine from the beginning of the movement. While it should not be made a matter of controversy, its historic place in prophetic interpretation in our one surviving and chief book of doctrine, “Daniel and the Revelation,” should not be disturbed without due cause.

No teaching depicts so well the centuries of imperious rule by a power that passes through two phases of desolation in its relation to Christianity—one pagan and one papal. The one type of desolation is called continual, the other abominable—abominable because of the more distinctly moral element involved that is called transgression. The first phase of desolation wrought havoc upon Christianity through a system that fostered outright worship of false gods, the second through the base and blasphemous assumption of the place of the true God. Paganism was not destroyed but its preeminence was “taken away” by being blended or baptized into a new system called the papacy, professing to worship the true God but in fact arrogating to itself the prerogatives of God. In its new and far more subtle and deceptive form it remains a continual desolator of true Christianity until it is consumed and destroyed unto the end.

Should this doctrine be retained in the new book [revised by Smith]? We believe it should ... because it is a rational interpretation of the prophecy and can be as staunchly defended as it has been from the beginning (pages 29, 30).

The angel used language entirely familiar to Daniel in describing the pagan service which was to be supplanted by “the abomination of desolation.” The terms “daily” and “continual” were currently used in describing pagan worship, hence Daniel was not in doubt as to their meaning [quotes follow from “the Cylinder of Cyrus which was written in Daniel’s day”] (pages 63, 64).

The suggestion that in a footnote or in the appendix it be stated that some apply the “daily” of Daniel 8:13 to the papal priesthood, would bring confusion to the reader. ... This would weaken the appeal of the entire book, and confuse many readers. ... We must take into account the statements made by Mrs. E. G. White. ... Again and again she has classed this book with leading books which have come from her pen, emphasizing their value and the circulation they should be given. Two references are particularly striking:

“The interest in ‘Daniel and Revelation’ is to continue as long as probationary time shall last. God used the author of this book as a channel through which to communicate light to direct minds to the truth.”—MS. 174, 1899.

“Everything that can be done should be done to circulate ‘Thoughts on Daniel and the Revelation.’ I know of no other book that can take the place of this one. It is God’s helping hand.”—MS. 76, 1901 (pages 104, 105).

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Sabbath School Insights No. 11, Qtr 3-06

Special Insights No. 11

Third Quarter 2006 Adult Sabbath School Lessons

“The Gospel, 1844, and Judgment”

(Produced by the Editorial Board of the 1888 Message Study Committee)

“The Sanctuary and the Little Horn”

The sanctuary doctrine is the “key which unlocked the mystery of the disappointment of 1844” and “opened to view a complete system of truth” (The Great Controversy, p. 423). Connected to the time prophecy of Daniel 8:14 was “the daily” (hattamid) in 8:11-13. Following the great disappointment, our pioneers, including Joseph Bates, James White, J. N. Andrews, Uriah Smith, J. N. Loughborough, and S. N. Haskell, embraced William Miller’s identification of “the daily” as pagan Rome whose “sanctuary” (miqdash) location (the city of Rome) was inherited by the papacy. This view of “the daily” in Daniel 8:11-13; 11:31; 12:11 with 2 Thessalonians 2:7 was theologically part of Adventist heritage until around 1900.

Then L. R. Conradi (who had rejected the 1888 message) reinterpreted “the daily” to be the sanctuary service of Christ’s high priestly ministry in heaven. He taught that the papacy took away Christ’s priestly ministry. This so-called “new view” came from leading early Protestant reformers. Our prominent church leaders, A. G. Daniells, W. W. Prescott, E. J. Waggoner, and A. T. Jones, accepted Conradi’s view. Desmond Ford was Adventism’s most notable scholar who followed Conradi’s view resulting in his ultimate rejection of the sanctuary doctrine as the unique pillar of the Adventist church. His supposedly “scholarly” arguments swept away numerous Adventist ministers and bright lights. The General Conference initiated a counter-attack in the multi-volume Daniel & Revelation Committee Series in order to stem the rejection of the sanctuary doctrine (but in effect to justify Conradi’s view of “the daily”). The Series has resulted in beneficial achievements but also left questions on “the daily.” It’s either Christ’s sanctuary ministry as espoused by Conradi and taught in our Sabbath School Quarterly; or it’s similar to what Miller and the pioneers and Ellen White (Early Writings, p. 74) supported.

The question in Daniel 8:13 concerns “the daily and the transgression of desolation,” giving “both and the host and the sanctuary to be trampled under foot.” If in fact “the daily” is Christ’s sanctuary ministry taken away by the papacy (A. D. 200 at the earliest) and Christ’s sanctuary was cast down and trampled by the papacy (see Dan. 8:11), 2300 years must still elapse extending the termination of the 2300 days to 2500-2600 A. D. But the 2300 years must terminate in 1844 based on the 70 weeks of Daniel 9.

Daniel 8 is permeated with sanctuary (cultic) language as the Quarterly correctly points out. The ram, goat, horn, “daily,” are all terms used with the typical sanctuary service. However, in Daniel 8 they are all used in a negative, counterfeit sense. The ram is a pagan, ungodly power; the goat and the horn each represent pagan, ungodly powers, set forth in counterfeit sanctuary language. Thus “the daily” would also be in a counterfeit “sanctuary” sense, precluding the view that it is Christ’s sanctuary ministry.

In Daniel 8 is the only instance the phrase, “the daily,” is used as a stand alone substantive (noun). The Hebrew, hattamid, means the continual, the perpetual. The only principle that is “continual” in Daniel 8 is that which inspires the pagan nations. The ram exalts (gadal) or becomes great; the goat becomes very exalting (gadal), the horn in 8:9 exceedingly exalting (gadal) or great; the horn again in 8:10 exalts (gadal) to the host of heaven, finally exalting (gadal) himself as high as the Prince of the host. The Hebrew word, gadal, is the self-exalting characteristic of all pagan nations including the religious system that evolves from pagan Rome, namely papal Rome.

Based on the Hebrew, the following view of the pronouns in 8:11 seems reasonable:

“Even unto the Prince of the host he (pagan Roman or emperor) exalted himself; and from him (pagan Rome or emperor) the daily (the principle of self-exaltation) was taken away (lit. lifted up by the papacy) and the place (city of Rome) of his (pagan Rome or emperor) sanctuary was cast down.

In other words pagan Rome inherited the principle of self-exaltation from its predecessors, Greece and Medo-Persia. When the Roman emperor moved the “place” of his capitol to Constantinople (“the place of his sanctuary was cast down”), the papacy assumed his seat in Rome, simultaneously assuming pagan Rome’s primary characteristic of continual self-exaltation.

This exegetical interpretation of Daniel 8:9-14 results in an identification of “the daily” as something negative, detrimental, inherent in fallen man and all pagan nations, internally consistent with the 2300 days commencing in 457 B.C., since “the daily” or the principle of self-exultation was manifested by the ram (Medo-Persia) in that same time-frame.

The word for “sanctuary” in 8:11 is miqdash, whereas in 8:13, 14 it is kodesh. Miqdash can be earthly sanctuaries such as pagan sanctuaries as well as God’s earthly sanctuary. In 8:11 the word is miqdash where it refers to the sanctuary of pagan Rome. Kodesh always refers to God’s holy sanctuary, either earthly or heavenly. In 8:13 kodesh refers to both God’s earthly sanctuary trampled by pagan powers from 457 B.C. until Christ’s ascension and also to His heavenly sanctuary, the truth of which was trampled by the papacy in later years. In 8:14 kodesh is God’s heavenly sanctuary.

That which needs to be “cleansed” is the spirit of self-exaltation from the hearts of the professed people of God and thus from the sanctuary itself as the heavenly Day of Atonement comes to a rapid closure.

Daniel 8 is dealing with the great controversy between Christ and Satan, a conflict involving the mystery of iniquity (the spirit of self-exaltation; gadal) versus the mystery of godliness (spirit of self-sacrificing love; agape). It is only the latter in the hearts of God’s people that will ultimately allow Christ to complete the cleansing of the sanctuary and consummate His wedding, because the bride has now made herself ready.

John W. Peters

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