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But it will occupy some years; for it is "in the days,"
years, "of the voice of the seventh angel when he shall begin
to sound" that this mystery is to be finished. Rev.
10:7. This work will occupy the first years of the sounding
of this trumpet. But this trumpet commenced to sound at the
end of the 2300 days in 1844, when the temple of God was
opened in heaven. We are now, therefore, in the period of
the finishing of the mystery of God; and this finishing
work of the gospel we find to coincide with the cleansing
of the sanctuary, which is the ministration in that apartment
of the heavenly temple then opened. Could facts more
completely harmonize than these? p. 234, Para. 2, [LOOK-
ING].
"The mystery of God shall be finished," proclaimed the angel,
"as he hath declared to his servants the prophets."
Where had he declared this? This is but a part of the declaration
of the angel, which includes the preceding verses;
and in these we find him uttering a solemn oath that "time
shall be no longer." Rev. 10:6. This cannot mean literal
time; for the angel immediately speaks of the days of the
seventh angel to succeed. It cannot mean probationary time;
for John, as a representative of the church, is commissioned
to proclaim another message to the people after
that. Rev. 10:11. But one other kind of time remains, and
that is prophetic time; and to this, therefore, the passage
must refer. But the period of 2300 days is the longest prophetic
period given in the Bible, and reaches down to the
latest point. Therefore this oath of the angel has its application
at the point where the 2300 days terminate; and
the expression is equivalent to a declaration that then
prophetic time should end, or the 2300 days would reach
their termination. Then the angel states what shall immediately
follow; namely, "the mystery of God should be finished,
as he had declared to his servants the prophets."
And what had God declared to the prophets should take place
at the end of the 2300 days? -- Why, it had been shown to
Daniel that then the sanctuary should be cleansed. Here,
then, in declaring that the sanctuary should be cleansed,
is where he had "declared to his servants the prophets"
that "the mystery of God should be finished," which is the
same thing. How beautiful the harmony! p. 234, Para. 3,
[LOOKING].
Chapter 28 -- THE ATONEMENT p. 235, Para. 1, [LOOKING].
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