Discovering the New Covenant by Greg Taylor - exAdventist Outreach

THE INVESTIGATIVE JUDGMENT
Testament says that Christ entered God’s
presence and sat down on the throne in the
heavenly sanctuary (as Hebrews 9:12 says), this
only means the first apartment in heaven.
18. It must be shown further why Christ must
function as a priest after the order of Aaron, when
Hebrews teaches that He has transcended that
priesthood and functions as a priest after the order
of Melchizedek.
19. It must be proved that the judgment that began in
1844 was an investigative judgment only for the
professed people of God—not a judgment of the
wicked horn or of Babylon.
20. It must be shown this [judgment] is what
Revelation 14:7 is describing, though it gives no
such details on this trial of the saints. Does
Revelation 14:7 refer to this investigative
judgment? Or does it refer to the great judgment
hour of God that commenced at the Cross? 5
One final note: the book of Hebrews does not indicate
anything like an investigative judgment. In that book, the
new ministry of Christ in heaven is contrasted with the old
ministry of the Aaronic priesthood. Notice what is written in
Hebrews:
Therefore it was necessary that the copies of the things
in the heavens should be purified with these, but the
heavenly things themselves with better sacrifices than
these. For Christ has not entered the holy places made
with hands, which are copies of the true, but into heaven
itself, now to appear in the presence of God for us; not
that He should offer Himself often, as the high priest
5 Sydney Cleveland, White Washed, (Glendale Arizona, Life Assurance
Ministries, 2000) p. 154-156.
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