Corporate Repentance - Robert J. Wieland

"first resurrection." Theirs has been one phase of
repentance. Without a preparation for His coming,
on the part of His living people, Christ cannot
come. Until then, those sleeping saints of all ages
who personally repented are doomed to remain
prisoners in their dusty graves. Thus the "remnant"
must unlock this logjam of last-day events by a
special repentance. Such an event—unique in
history—is the reason for the Seventh-day
Adventist Church's existence.
What is Different About Laodicea's
Repentance?
Laodicea is not innately worse than the other
six churches. But since she is living in the last days
which is the time of the cleansing of the heavenly
sanctuary, a never-before phase of our great High
Priest's Day-of-Atonement ministry calls for a
never-before kind of response. This becomes
another phase of repentance.
While Christ performs His "final atonement" in
the second apartment of the heavenly sanctuary,
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