Page 53 - 14 The Three Messages

DANIEL AND THE REVELATION-Uriah Smith

~The Response of History to the Revelation~

Chapter 14 – The Three Messages
investigative Judgment of the sanctuary.

This closing work in the sanctuary, therefore,

which is the cleansing of the sanctuary, and

the atonement, is nothing else than the

examination of the guests to see who have on

the wedding garment; and, consequently, until

this work is finished, it is not determined who

are “ready” to go in to the marriage. “They that

were ready went in with him to the marriage.”

By this short expression we are carried from

the time when the Bridegroom comes to the

marriage, entirely through the period of the

cleansing of the sanctuary, or the examination

of the guests; and when this is concluded,

probation will end, and the door will be shut.

The connection of the parable with the

message under examination is now apparent.

It brings to view a period of making ready the