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"Those who would share the benefits of the Savior's mediation should permit nothing to interfere with
their duty to perfect holiness in the fear of God … The subject of the sanctuary and the Investigative
Judgment should be clearly understood by the people of God. All need a knowledge for themselves of
the position [in the Holy of Holies] and work [Investigative Judgment] of their great High Priest.
Otherwise it will be impossible for them to exercise the faith which is essential at this time or to occupy
the position which God designs for them to fill. Every individual has a soul to save or to lose. Each has a
case pending at the bar of God … All who have received the light on these subjects are to bear testimony
of the great truths which God has committed to them. The sanctuary in heaven is the very center of
Christ's work in behalf of men … It is of the utmost importance that all should thoroughly investigate
these subjects … The intercession of Christ in man's behalf in the sanctuary above is as essential to the
plan of salvation as was His death upon a cross. By His death He began that work which after his
resurrection He ascended to complete in Heaven" (TGC, pp. 488–89; emphasis added).

There are two parts to redemption in Adventist thought. 1.) Phase one was the cross. 2) Ellen explains
the second phase of Jesus redemptive work “is a work of investigative judgment which is part of the
ultimate disposition of all sin, typified by the cleansing of the ancient Hebrew sanctuary on the Day of
Atonement.” (Fundamental Belief #23 from Seventh-day Adventists Believe, p. 312). They believe that
Israel modeled their sanctuary after a literal heavenly sanctuary with both a Holy Place and the Holy of
Holy Place (the heavenly sanctuary). The SDA church decided that Jesus as our High Priest entered the
Holy of Holies on October 22, 1844 to fulfill this heavenly atonement as part of man’s salvation. This
belief places the cross and beginning of Christ’s atonement 18 centuries apart!

The sins of believers are portrayed as still sitting and polluting the heavenly sanctuary until 1844. The
cross did not wipe them out – the blood of the Lamb of God had to be put on hold for a couple millennia
before it could do its cleansing work.

So, this doctrine seats Christ in the first compartment – the Holy Place – from His death on the cross
until 1844.

Rose Publishing, in 10 Q&A on Seventh-day Adventism explains what the SDS Church teaches regarding
the sanctuary message:

1. The blood of Jesus shed on the cross transferred the sins of professing Christians up into
heaven, where they are "stored" and defile the heavenly sanctuary.

2. Jesus' atonement wasn't completed on the cross; it continues until he finishes investigating the
heavenly "books of record," maintained by a "recording angel," that shows the thoughts and
deeds of all professing Christians.

3. One day Jesus will place unconfessed sins back onto the people who committed them, and they
will be punished.

4. But Jesus will place Christians' confessed sins onto the head of Satan, the scapegoat, and he will
be punished for them in the lake of fire.

5. Thus, Jesus will pardon every confessed sin of professing Christians, and the heavenly sanctuary
will be "cleansed."

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