I-J refers to the phrase Investigative Judgment, which is referred to in Christ’s prophecy / parable of the wedding feast & wise / foolish virgins, which is finished before the Seven Last Plagues are poured out.  This is because Christ has finished His mediatorial work in Heaven and ceased to intercede, and has assumed the office of King of Kings to lead His armies of angels to chain Satan, burn the surface of earth humanly lifeless, rescue His redeemed human family, and receive them unto Himself and transport them back with Him to Heaven.

This is a limited listing of Old and new Testament Bible verses & passages referring to the I-J and it’s Biblical legal precedents in sacred history spoken of in Scripture.

References built on a time line format.
 ( Lucifer was judged and found to be Satan, through the force of war in Heaven he was put away, expelled from Heaven. He came to Earth to continue the war. )

Revelation 12 :
7  And there was war in heaven: Michael and his angels fought against the dragon; and the dragon fought and his angels,
8  And prevailed not; neither was their place found any more in heaven.
9  And the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called the Devil, and Satan, which deceiveth the whole world: he was cast out into the earth, and his angels were cast out with him.
10  And I heard a loud voice saying in heaven, Now is come salvation, and strength, and the kingdom of our God, and the power of his Christ: for the accuser of our brethren is cast down, which accused them before our God day and night.
11  And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb, and by the word of their testimony; and they loved not their lives unto the death.
12 ¶  Therefore rejoice, ye heavens, and ye that dwell in them. Woe to the inhabiters of the earth and of the sea! for the devil is come down unto you, having great wrath, because he knoweth that he hath but a short time.

Ezekiel 3:18  When I say unto the wicked, Thou shalt surely die; and thou givest him not warning, nor speakest to warn the wicked from his wicked way, to save his life; the same wicked man shall die in his iniquity; but his blood will I require at thine hand.
Ezekiel 3:19  Yet if thou warn the wicked, and he turn not from his wickedness, nor from his wicked way, he shall die in his iniquity; but thou hast delivered thy soul.
Ezekiel 33:8  When I say unto the wicked, O wicked man, thou shalt surely die; if thou dost not speak to warn the wicked from his way, that wicked man shall die in his iniquity; but his blood will I require at thine hand.
Ezekiel 33:9  Nevertheless, if thou warn the wicked of his way to turn from it; if he do not turn from his way, he shall die in his iniquity; but thou hast delivered thy soul.

Before Lucifer was fully committed to treason thus becoming Satan, God warned him every way He could.  Lucifer persisted in treason.

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Genesis 18:25  That be far from thee to do after this manner, to slay the righteous with the wicked: and that the righteous should be as the wicked, that be far from thee: Shall not the Judge of all the earth do right?

Deuteronomy 25:1  If there be a controversy between men, and they come unto judgment, that the judges may judge them; then they shall justify the righteous, and condemn the wicked.

Deuteronomy 25:2  And it shall be, if the wicked man be worthy to be beaten, that the judge shall cause him to lie down, and to be beaten before his face, according to his fault, by a certain number.

1 Kings 8:32  Then hear thou in heaven, and do, and judge thy servants, condemning the wicked, to bring his way upon his head; and justifying the righteous, to give him according to his righteousness.

2 Chronicles 6:23  Then hear thou from heaven, and do, and judge thy servants, by requiting the wicked, by recompensing his way upon his own head; and by justifying the righteous, by giving him according to his righteousness.

Job 9:24  The earth is given into the hand of the wicked: he covereth the faces of the judges thereof; if not, where, and who is he?

Psalms 7:11  God judgeth the righteous, and God is angry with the wicked every day.

Psalms 82:2  How long will ye judge unjustly, and accept the persons of the wicked? Selah.

Ecclesiastes 3:17  I said in mine heart, God shall judge the righteous and the wicked: for there is a time there for every purpose and for every work.

Isaiah 11:4  But with righteousness shall he judge the poor, and reprove with equity for the meek of the earth: and he shall smite the earth with the rod of his mouth, and with the breath of his lips shall he slay the wicked.

Jeremiah 5:28  They are waxen fat, they shine: yea, they overpass the deeds of the wicked: they judge not the cause, the cause of the fatherless, yet they prosper; and the right of the needy do they not judge.

Luke 19:22  And he saith unto him, Out of thine own mouth will I judge thee, thou wicked servant. Thou knewest that I was an austere man, taking up that I laid not down, and reaping that I did not sow:

1 Corinthians 5:13  But them that are without God judgeth. Therefore put away from among yourselves that wicked person.

 ( Lucifer was judged and found to be Satan, through the force of war in Heaven he was put away, expelled from Heaven. He came to Earth to continue the war. )

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Satan and his fellow traitor angels had already been expelled from Heaven, and were condemned by being judged while still alive, the evidences of their unrepentant treason showing they had committed the unpardonable sin, and God’s judgement they blamed for their own evils, and they committed themselves to continuing their war against God.

This has occurred  before Adam and Eve sinned, for it was brought to them in Eden, and the facts skillfully manipulated and used to seduce Adam and Eve away from loyalty to Father God, Jesus Christ, and the Holy Ghost.

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Genesis

Genesis 3: 9-19  - face to face investigation and judgement.
Genesis 3: 22 - 24 - Adam & Eve judged while still alive - put out of the garden where they would come under the power of death.
Genesis 6:5 - 7:5 - Earth & it's human population judged while still alive,  by Christ their probation Officer

Ge 15: 1- 16  In verse 16 .......But in the fourth generation they shall come hither again: for the iniquity of the Amorites is not yet full..........The amorites  had four generations of probation left.  They were being judged and not yet reached the limits of their account.  Egypt also would be judged but not utterly destroyed. {PP 137.3} {PP 267.2}

Genesis  18:1 - 19:38    Abraham, Sarah, Sodom, and the wicked cities and whole area investigated and some were seen as requiring being judged while still alive.

Genesis 19:13  For we will destroy this place, because the cry of them is waxen great before the face of the LORD; and the LORD hath sent us to destroy it.

(Phrase “before my face” ) - someone  knowing thinking deciding guiding remembering making decisions regarding taking actions based on those decisions.

Psalms 5:8  Lead me, O LORD, in thy righteousness because of mine enemies; make thy way straight before my face.
Jeremiah 32:31  For this city hath been to me as a provocation of mine anger and of my fury from the day that they built it even unto this day; that I should remove it from before my face,
Hosea 7:2  And they consider not in their hearts that I remember all their wickedness: now their own doings have beset them about; they are before my face.
Acts 2:25  For David speaketh concerning him, I foresaw the Lord always before my face, for he is on my right hand, that I should not be moved:
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Leviticus 17:10  And whatsoever man there be of the house of Israel, or of the strangers that sojourn among you, that eateth any manner of blood; I will even set my face against that soul that eateth blood, and will cut him off from among his people.

Leviticus 20: 1 ¶  And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
2  Again, thou shalt say to the children of Israel, Whosoever he be of the children of Israel, or of the strangers that sojourn in Israel, that giveth any of his seed unto Molech; he shall surely be put to death: the people of the land shall stone him with stones.
3  And I will set my face against that man, and will cut him off from among his people; because he hath given of his seed unto Molech, to defile my sanctuary, and to profane my holy name.
4  And if the people of the land do any ways hide their eyes from the man, when he giveth of his seed unto Molech, and kill him not:
5  Then I will set my face against that man, and against his family, and will cut him off, and all that go a whoring after him, to commit whoredom with Molech, from among their people.

Leviticus 20:6  And the soul that turneth after such as have familiar spirits, and after wizards, to go a whoring after them, I will even set my face against that soul, and will cut him off from among his people.


Leviticus 26:17  And I will set my face against you, and ye shall be slain before your enemies: they that hate you shall reign over you; and ye shall flee when none pursueth you.

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Deuteronomy 31:17  Then my anger shall be kindled against them in that day, and I will forsake them, and I will hide my face from them, and they shall be devoured, and many evils and troubles shall befall them; so that they will say in that day, Are not these evils come upon us, because our God is not among us?

Deuteronomy 31:18  And I will surely hide my face in that day for all the evils which they shall have wrought, in that they are turned unto other gods.

Deuteronomy 32:20  And he said, I will hide my face from them, I will see what their end shall be: for they are a very froward generation, children in whom is no faith.

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2 Chronicles 7:14  If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.

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1st Samuel 2:2-10  (notice verses 3 & 10)    

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Isaiah 54:8  In a little wrath I hid my face from thee for a moment; but with everlasting kindness will I have mercy on thee, saith the LORD thy Redeemer.
Isaiah 65:3  A people that provoketh me to anger continually to my face; that sacrificeth in gardens, and burneth incense upon altars of brick;




Jeremiah

Jeremiah 16:17  For mine eyes are upon all their ways: they are not hid from my face, neither is their iniquity hid from mine eyes.

Jeremiah 21:10  For I have set my face against this city for evil, and not for good, saith the LORD: it shall be given into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he shall burn it with fire.

Jeremiah 32:31  For this city hath been to me as a provocation of mine anger and of my fury from the day that they built it even unto this day; that I should remove it from before my face,

Jeremiah 33:5  They come to fight with the Chaldeans, but it is to fill them with the dead bodies of men, whom I have slain in mine anger and in my fury, and for all whose wickedness I have hid my face from this city.

Jeremiah 44:11  Therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Behold, I will set my face against you for evil, and to cut off all Judah.


Ch 50

50:20 - reference to sins blotted out - God's character implanted and sealed within.
50:27-28 - toward Babylon - time of visitation - vengance of God's temple
50:31, 40 - day of visitation and punishment - similiar in result as upon sodom - no more inhabitants
50:44-46  - a chosen shepherd - appointed at a set time

Ch 51

51:2, 6, 7-9 - time of fanners - time of the Lord's vengence, gospel was among her but she refused the healing - mercy exhausted time to punish the continued rebellion - ( prophecy of Christ -  fan hand purge floor )
51:17-18 - time of visitation upon Babylon's idol makers and idol worshipers
51:33 - 40, 45, 47  - the end of Babylon's probation time
51:60--64 - judged out of what is written in a book that sunk by a stone into the midst of Euphrates. The same Euphrates symbolically dried up to make way for the Kings of the East by the symbolic Stone cut out without hands.


Ezekiel

Ezekiel 7:22  My face will I turn also from them, and they shall pollute my secret place: for the robbers shall enter into it, and defile it.


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Ezekiel 14:8  And I will set my face against that man, and will make him a sign and a proverb, and I will cut him off from the midst of my people; and ye shall know that I am the LORD.
Ezekiel 15:7  And I will set my face against them; they shall go out from one fire, and another fire shall devour them; and ye shall know that I am the LORD, when I set my face against them.

Ezekiel 21:24  Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Because ye have made your iniquity to be remembered, in that your transgressions are discovered, so that in all your doings your sins do appear; because, I say, that ye are come to remembrance, ye shall be taken with the hand.


Ezekiel Ch 22

22:4  Thou art become guilty in thy blood that thou hast shed; and hast defiled thyself in thine idols which thou hast made; and thou hast caused thy days to draw near, and art come even unto thy years: therefore have I made thee a reproach unto the heathen, and a mocking to all countries.    -

 Unpurged guilt and defilement grown to the extent it must be dealt with by God.  By persistent rebellion and sin Jerusalem & the nation caused the days of judgement to accelerate to the time limits established that should have been reached during the future date in history set by prophecy.

18  Son of man, the house of Israel is to me become dross: all they are brass, and tin, and iron, and lead, in the midst of the furnace; they are even the dross of silver.
19  Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Because ye are all become dross, behold, therefore I will gather you into the midst of Jerusalem.
20  As they gather silver, and brass, and iron, and lead, and tin, into the midst of the furnace, to blow the fire upon it, to melt it; so will I gather you in mine anger and in my fury, and I will leave you there, and melt you.    

Dross is what the silver refiner considers undesirable - useless contaminants of the silver - of such inferior value that it is to be not only removed from the refined silver, but left to be consumed in the heat of the furnace never to be used for anything destroyed as evidence of the refiners disgust .

Ezekiel Ch 23
God tells how Samaria and Judea have followed Babylon, Assyria, Sabea, Egypt and alienated their minds against God, and God's mind is alienated against them.  To be alienated in mind against God and God alienated in His mind against that person, or city or nation or nations - is to become mutual enemies. God is enemy to their sins and they are so wedded to their sins - they are in position that God is enemy toward them.

Eze 23:17  And the Babylonians came to her into the bed of love, and they defiled her with their whoredom, and she was polluted with them, and her mind was alienated from them.
Eze 23:18  So she discovered her whoredoms, and discovered her nakedness: then my mind was alienated from her, like as my mind was alienated from her sister.
Eze 23:22  Therefore, O Aholibah, thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will raise up thy lovers against thee, from whom thy mind is alienated, and I will bring them against thee on every side;
Eze 23:28  For thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will deliver thee into the hand of them whom thou hatest, into the hand of them from whom thy mind is alienated:

Ezekiel 38:18  And it shall come to pass at the same time when Gog shall come against the land of Israel, saith the Lord GOD, that my fury shall come up in my face.


Ezekiel 39:23  And the heathen shall know that the house of Israel went into captivity for their iniquity: because they trespassed against me, therefore hid I my face from them, and gave them into the hand of their enemies: so fell they all by the sword.
Ezekiel 39:24  According to their uncleanness and according to their transgressions have I done unto them, and hid my face from them.
Ezekiel 39:29  Neither will I hide my face any more from them: for I have poured out my spirit upon the house of Israel, saith the Lord GOD.

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 Hosea 5:15  I will go and return to my place, till they acknowledge their offence, and seek my face: in their affliction they will seek me early.

Hosea 7:2  And they consider not in their hearts that I remember all their wickedness: now their own doings have beset them about; they are before my face.

(  1 Corinthians 11:31  For if we would judge ourselves, we should not be judged. )


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Matt 3 :7-12 - John the Baptist referring to the work of Jesus - harvest, threshing (separating grain from stalks), fan (used to blow chaff away from grain while pouring it into container),  burn up chaff - elaborate more later.

Luke 3;2-18   -   John the Baptist referring to the work of Jesus - harvest, threshing (separating grain from stalks), fan (used to blow chaff away from grain while pouring it into container),  burn up chaff - elaborate more later .


Mt 20:16  So the last shall be first, and the first last: for many be called, but few chosen <1588>.

Mt 22:14  For many are called, but few are chosen <1588>.

Mt 24:22  And except those days should be shortened, there should no flesh be saved: but for the elect’s sake <1588> those days shall be shortened.
Mt 24:24  For there shall arise false Christs, and false prophets, and shall shew great signs and wonders; insomuch that, if it were possible, they shall deceive the very elect <1588>.
Mt 24:31  And he shall send his angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they shall gather together his elect <1588> from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other.
Mr 13:20  And except that the Lord had shortened those days, no flesh should be saved: but for the elect’s sake <1588>, whom he hath chosen, he hath shortened the days.
Mr 13:22  For false Christs and false prophets shall rise, and shall shew signs and wonders, to seduce, if it were possible, even the elect <1588>.
Mr 13:27  And then shall he send his angels, and shall gather together his elect <1588> from the four winds, from the uttermost part of the earth to the uttermost part of heaven.
Lu 18:7  And shall not God avenge his own elect <1588>, which cry day and night unto him, though he bear long with them?
Lu 23:35  And the people stood beholding. And the rulers also with them derided him, saying, He saved others; let him save himself, if he be Christ, the chosen <1588> of God.
Ro 8:33  Who shall lay any thing to the charge of God’s elect <1588>? It is God that justifieth.
Ro 16:13  Salute Rufus chosen <1588> in the Lord, and his mother and mine.
Col 3:12  Put on therefore, as the elect <1588> of God, holy and beloved, bowels of mercies, kindness, humbleness of mind, meekness, longsuffering;
1Ti 5:21  I charge thee before God, and the Lord Jesus Christ, and the elect <1588> angels, that thou observe these things without preferring one before another, doing nothing by partiality.
2Ti 2:10  Therefore I endure all things for <1588> the elect’s <1588> sakes, that they may also obtain the salvation which is in Christ Jesus with eternal glory.
Tit 1:1  Paul, a servant of God, and an apostle of Jesus Christ, according to the faith of God’s elect <1588>, and the acknowledging of the truth which is after godliness;
1Pe 1:2  Elect <1588> according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, through sanctification of the Spirit, unto obedience and sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ: Grace unto you, and peace, be multiplied.
1Pe 2:4  To whom coming, as unto a living stone, disallowed indeed of men, but chosen <1588> of God, and precious,
1Pe 2:6  Wherefore also it is contained in the scripture, Behold, I lay in Sion a chief corner stone, elect <1588>, precious: and he that believeth on him shall not be confounded.
1Pe 2:9  But ye are a chosen <1588> generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should shew forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvellous light:
2Jo 1:1  The elder unto the elect <1588> lady and her children, whom I love in the truth; and not I only, but also all they that have known the truth;
2Jo 1:13  The children of thy elect <1588> sister greet thee. Amen.
Re 17:14  These shall make war with the Lamb, and the Lamb shall overcome them: for he is Lord of lords, and King of kings: and they that are with him are called, and chosen <1588>, and faithful.
1588 eklektov eklektos ek-lek-tos’

from 1586; TDNT-4:181,505; adj

AV-elect 16, chosen 7; 23

1) picked out, chosen
1a) chosen by God,
1a1) to obtain salvation through Christ
1a1a) Christians are called "chosen or elect" of God
1a2) the Messiah is called "elect," as appointed by God to the most exalted office conceivable
1a3) choice, select, i.e. the best of its kind or class, excellence preeminent: applied to certain individual Christians

1586 eklegomai eklegomai ek-leg’-om-ahee

middle voice from 1537 and 3004 (in its primary sense); TDNT-4:144,505; v

AV-choose 19, choose out 1, make choice 1; 21

1) to pick out, choose, to pick or choose out for one’s self
1a) choosing one out of many, i.e. Jesus choosing his disciples
1b) choosing one for an office
1c) of God choosing whom he judged fit to receive his favours and separated from the rest of mankind to be peculiarly his own and to be attended continually by his gracious oversight
1c1) i.e. the Israelites
1d) of God the Father choosing Christians, as those whom he set apart from the irreligious multitude as dear unto himself, and whom he has rendered, through faith in Christ, citizens in the Messianic kingdom: (#Jas 2:5) so that the ground of the choice lies in Christ and his merits only

1537 ek ek ek or ex ex ex

a primary preposition denoting origin (the point whence action or motion proceeds), from, out (of place, time, or cause; literal or figurative; ; prep

AV-of 366, from 181, out of 162, by 55, on 34, with 25, misc 98; 921

1) out of, from, by, away from


3004 legw lego leg’-o

a root word; TDNT-4:69,505; v

AV-say 1184, speak 61, call 48, tell 33, misc 17; 1343

1) to say, to speak
1a) affirm over, maintain
1b) to teach
1c) to exhort, advise, to command, direct
1d) to point out with words, intend, mean, mean to say
1e) to call by name, to call, name
1f) to speak out, speak of, mention

Acts Ch 2 and Ch 10 ;24-48  Notice Acts 10: 42  - Peter's sermon in Jerusalem on Pentecost combined the judgement hour message with the gospel.

Col 1:21  And you, that were sometime alienated and enemies in your mind by wicked works, yet now hath he reconciled

Who are these <1538> chosen of God verses those He has rejected, how did He choose them and reject others and why ?  Scripture says God wants all individuals to come to repentance - but Scripture shows some people chosen elected <1538> and the rest rejected, this choosing some and rejecting others is not the results Scripture says that God wants to achieve, but Scripture does show that these are the results from Divine attempts to save all - that only some are <1538> elected chosen saved and it is forced upon even God that others are required to be rejected and lost despite all His efforts that held nothing back, that gave everything He could give - to elect and choose and save all .    God does not get His Personal desires upon the human species - for Scriptures show all called but only some <1538> elected, chosen.   What forces even God to lose any and all whom He cannot <1538> elect cannot chose - as His own to save them ?

Zep 1:12  And it shall come to pass at that time, that I will search <02664> Jerusalem <03389> with candles <05216>, and punish the men that are settled on their lees: that say in their heart, The LORD will not do good, neither will he do evil.
13  Therefore their goods shall become a booty, and their houses a desolation: they shall also build houses, but not inhabit them; and they shall plant vineyards, but not drink the wine thereof.
14 ¶  The great day of the LORD is near, it is near, and hasteth greatly, even the voice of the day of the LORD: the mighty man shall cry there bitterly.
15  That day is a day of wrath, a day of trouble and distress, a day of wasteness and desolation, a day of darkness and gloominess, a day of clouds and thick darkness,
16  A day of the trumpet and alarm against the fenced cities, and against the high towers.
17  And I will bring distress upon men, that they shall walk like blind men, because they have sinned against the LORD: and their blood shall be poured out as dust, and their flesh as the dung.
18  Neither their silver nor their gold shall be able to deliver them in the day of the LORD’S wrath; but the whole land shall be devoured by the fire of his jealousy: for he shall make even a speedy riddance of all them that dwell in the land.


Jerusalem the literal, Jerusalem the symbolic, Babylon who claimed to be Jerusalem the symbolic - tumult scattering - deadly wound - regrouping and symbolic Jerusalem following after symbolic Babylon and becoming her at last - this process continued repeating till all variations of Jerusalem and all variations of those calling themselves Jerusalem - are searched with candles - winnowed - fanned - separated into wheat removed from chaff and chaff destroyed - repeating through history till the concentrated purified ideologies composing spiritual Jerusalem and spiritual Babylon are no longer mingled but separated utterly and each stands revealed and single minded to do their respective works and receive their respective results.

Those who surrendered to the call and kept doing so till completely inwardly winnowed and become spiritually all the good grain sown by Christ are the <1538> chosen the elected - the rest have defiled, deceived, invalidated, disenfranchised themselves from God and His conditions of mercy and become the dross settled upon their lees.

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Luke 6:37  Judge not, and ye shall not be judged: condemn not, and ye shall not be condemned: forgive, and ye shall be forgiven:38  Give, and it shall be given unto you; good measure, pressed down, and shaken together, and running over, shall men give into your bosom. For with the same measure that ye mete withal it shall be measured to you again.


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1 Corinthians 11:
23 ¶  For I have received of the Lord that which also I delivered unto you, That the Lord Jesus the same night in which he was betrayed took bread:
24  And when he had given thanks, he brake it, and said, Take, eat: this is my body, which is broken for you: this do in remembrance of me.
25  After the same manner also he took the cup, when he had supped, saying, This cup is the new testament in my blood: this do ye, as oft as ye drink it, in remembrance of me.
26  For as often as ye eat this bread, and drink this cup, ye do shew the Lord’s death till he come.
27  Wherefore whosoever shall eat this bread, and drink this cup of the Lord, unworthily, shall be guilty of the body and blood of the Lord.
28  But let a man examine himself, and so let him eat of that bread, and drink of that cup.
29  For he that eateth and drinketh unworthily, eateth and drinketh damnation to himself, not discerning the Lord’s body.
30  For this cause many are weak and sickly among you, and many sleep.
31  For if we would judge ourselves, we should not be judged.
32  But when we are judged, we are chastened of the Lord, that we should not be condemned with the world.

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1st Timothy 5:
24  Some men’s sins are open beforehand, going before to judgment; and some men they follow after.
25  Likewise also the good works of some are manifest beforehand; and they that are otherwise cannot be hid.

24, 25 (Revelation 20:12, 13). The Disposal of Sin.--Some men's sins are open beforehand, confessed in penitence, and forsaken, and they go beforehand to judgment. Pardon is written over against the names of these men. But other men's sins follow after, and are not put away by repentance and confession, and these sins will stand registered against them in the books of heaven (MS 1a, 1890).  {7BC 916.3}

  Some men's sins are open beforehand, confessed in penitence, and forsaken, and they go beforehand to judgment. Pardon is written over against the names of these men. But other men's sins follow after, are not put away by repentance and confession, and these sins will stand registered against them in the books of heaven. Likewise also the good works of some are manifest beforehand. Christ is the pattern to be copied in the life. When a man gives evidence that he is sound in principle, when he is of good repute among those where he is best known, when his character is one whose influence will be Christ-like, he should be admitted to fellowship and confidence without hesitancy. But he whose works show him to be unstable, who says one thing and does the very opposite, is careless of his words and influence, bringing out of his heart the evil things lurking there, such a one will profane both men and God. He will say anything that comes into his mind, whether he knows it to be falsehood or truth. There is a mixture of good and bad in his character, and he speaks just as he feels without studying the influence his words must have upon those who believe him to be a true minister of the gospel. They have heard him speak as Christ's ambassador, and therefore they will either regard his sins lightly or their confidence in him as a devoted servant of Christ will be destroyed. The minister of Christ should be circumspect, he should understand human nature.  {PH028 18.1}

     I have written quite fully to you, brethren, in regard to these matters in order that you might understand the case. I am now clear. Whatever course you may pursue cannot reflect on me. I would be pleased, and glorify God, if Elder Daniels would come into a position where we could, with all our hearts, give him the fullest confidence; but until he is a changed man we cannot give him a place of influence in the church. His movements are frantic, and in no way such as to recommend his as an overseer of the flock of God. I have now done my duty in the fear of God, and I leave you to bear the responsibility. In the fear of God I warn you not to place this man, whom you know is not controlled by the Spirit of God, in the preacher's desk to teach the people. You want a man who loves and fears God, one whom God can use as his instrument, who will not be playing himself into the hands of the enemy whenever circumstances are favorable.
                                           E. G. White.   {PH028 19.1}

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Ezekiel

Ch 9 - loaded - elaborate later

Ezekiel Ch 22

22:4  Thou art become guilty in thy blood that thou hast shed; and hast defiled thyself in thine idols which thou hast made; and thou hast caused thy days to draw near, and art come even unto thy years: therefore have I made thee a reproach unto the heathen, and a mocking to all countries.    -   Unpurged guilt and defilement grown to the extent it must be dealt with by God.  By persistant rebellion and sin Jerusalem & the nation caused the days of judgement to accelerate to the time limits established that should have been reached during the future date in history set by prophecy.

Ezekiel 22:
18  Son of man, the house of Israel is to me become dross: all they are brass, and tin, and iron, and lead, in the midst of the furnace; they are even the dross of silver.
19  Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Because ye are all become dross, behold, therefore I will gather you into the midst of Jerusalem.
20  As they gather silver, and brass, and iron, and lead, and tin, into the midst of the furnace, to blow the fire upon it, to melt it; so will I gather you in mine anger and in my fury, and I will leave you there, and melt you.      - Dross is what the silver refiner considers undesirable - useless contaminants of the silver - of such inferior value that it is to be not only removed from the refined silver, but left to be consumed in the heat of the furnace never to be used for anything destroyed as evidence of the refiners disgust .

Ezekiel Ch 23
God tells how Samaria and Judea have followed Babylon, Assyria, Sabea, Egypt and alienated their minds against God, and God's mind is alienated against them.  To be alienated in mind against God and God alienated in His mind against that person, or city or nation or nations - is to become mutual enemies. God is enemy to their sins and they are so wedded to their sins - they are in position that God is enemy toward them.

Eze 23:17  And the Babylonians came to her into the bed of love, and they defiled her with their whoredom, and she was polluted with them, and her mind was alienated from them.
Eze 23:18  So she discovered her whoredoms, and discovered her nakedness: then my mind was alienated from her, like as my mind was alienated from her sister.
Eze 23:22  Therefore, O Aholibah, thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will raise up thy lovers against thee, from whom thy mind is alienated, and I will bring them against thee on every side;
Eze 23:28  For thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will deliver thee into the hand of them whom thou hatest, into the hand of them from whom thy mind is alienated:

Matt 3 :7-12 - John the Baptist referring to the work of Jesus - harvest, threshing (seperating grain from stalks), fan (used to blow chaff away from grain while pouring it into container),  burn up chaff - elaborate more later.

Luke 3;2-18   -   John the Baptist referring to the work of Jesus - harvest, threshing (seperating grain from stalks), fan (used to blow chaff away from grain while pouring it into container),  burn up chaff - elaborate more later .


Mt 20:16  So the last shall be first, and the first last: for many be called, but few chosen <1588>.

Mt 22:14  For many are called, but few are chosen <1588>.

Mt 24:22  And except those days should be shortened, there should no flesh be saved: but for the elect’s sake <1588> those days shall be shortened.
Mt 24:24  For there shall arise false Christs, and false prophets, and shall shew great signs and wonders; insomuch that, if it were possible, they shall deceive the very elect <1588>.
Mt 24:31  And he shall send his angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they shall gather together his elect <1588> from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other.
Mr 13:20  And except that the Lord had shortened those days, no flesh should be saved: but for the elect’s sake <1588>, whom he hath chosen, he hath shortened the days.
Mr 13:22  For false Christs and false prophets shall rise, and shall shew signs and wonders, to seduce, if it were possible, even the elect <1588>.
Mr 13:27  And then shall he send his angels, and shall gather together his elect <1588> from the four winds, from the uttermost part of the earth to the uttermost part of heaven.
Lu 18:7  And shall not God avenge his own elect <1588>, which cry day and night unto him, though he bear long with them?
Lu 23:35  And the people stood beholding. And the rulers also with them derided him, saying, He saved others; let him save himself, if he be Christ, the chosen <1588> of God.
Ro 8:33  Who shall lay any thing to the charge of God’s elect <1588>? It is God that justifieth.
Ro 16:13  Salute Rufus chosen <1588> in the Lord, and his mother and mine.
Col 3:12  Put on therefore, as the elect <1588> of God, holy and beloved, bowels of mercies, kindness, humbleness of mind, meekness, longsuffering;
1Ti 5:21  I charge thee before God, and the Lord Jesus Christ, and the elect <1588> angels, that thou observe these things without preferring one before another, doing nothing by partiality.
2Ti 2:10  Therefore I endure all things for <1588> the elect’s <1588> sakes, that they may also obtain the salvation which is in Christ Jesus with eternal glory.
Tit 1:1  Paul, a servant of God, and an apostle of Jesus Christ, according to the faith of God’s elect <1588>, and the acknowledging of the truth which is after godliness;
1Pe 1:2  Elect <1588> according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, through sanctification of the Spirit, unto obedience and sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ: Grace unto you, and peace, be multiplied.
1Pe 2:4  To whom coming, as unto a living stone, disallowed indeed of men, but chosen <1588> of God, and precious,
1Pe 2:6  Wherefore also it is contained in the scripture, Behold, I lay in Sion a chief corner stone, elect <1588>, precious: and he that believeth on him shall not be confounded.
1Pe 2:9  But ye are a chosen <1588> generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should shew forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvellous light:
2Jo 1:1  The elder unto the elect <1588> lady and her children, whom I love in the truth; and not I only, but also all they that have known the truth;
2Jo 1:13  The children of thy elect <1588> sister greet thee. Amen.
Re 17:14  These shall make war with the Lamb, and the Lamb shall overcome them: for he is Lord of lords, and King of kings: and they that are with him are called, and chosen <1588>, and faithful.
1588 eklektov eklektos ek-lek-tos’

from 1586; TDNT-4:181,505; adj

AV-elect 16, chosen 7; 23

1) picked out, chosen
1a) chosen by God,
1a1) to obtain salvation through Christ
1a1a) Christians are called "chosen or elect" of God
1a2) the Messiah is called "elect," as appointed by God to the most exalted office conceivable
1a3) choice, select, i.e. the best of its kind or class, excellence preeminent: applied to certain individual Christians

1586 eklegomai eklegomai ek-leg’-om-ahee

middle voice from 1537 and 3004 (in its primary sense); TDNT-4:144,505; v

AV-choose 19, choose out 1, make choice 1; 21

1) to pick out, choose, to pick or choose out for one’s self
1a) choosing one out of many, i.e. Jesus choosing his disciples
1b) choosing one for an office
1c) of God choosing whom he judged fit to receive his favours and separated from the rest of mankind to be peculiarly his own and to be attended continually by his gracious oversight
1c1) i.e. the Israelites
1d) of God the Father choosing Christians, as those whom he set apart from the irreligious multitude as dear unto himself, and whom he has rendered, through faith in Christ, citizens in the Messianic kingdom: (#Jas 2:5) so that the ground of the choice lies in Christ and his merits only

1537 ek ek ek or ex ex ex

a primary preposition denoting origin (the point whence action or motion proceeds), from, out (of place, time, or cause; literal or figurative; ; prep

AV-of 366, from 181, out of 162, by 55, on 34, with 25, misc 98; 921

1) out of, from, by, away from


3004 legw lego leg’-o

a root word; TDNT-4:69,505; v

AV-say 1184, speak 61, call 48, tell 33, misc 17; 1343

1) to say, to speak
1a) affirm over, maintain
1b) to teach
1c) to exhort, advise, to command, direct
1d) to point out with words, intend, mean, mean to say
1e) to call by name, to call, name
1f) to speak out, speak of, mention

Acts Ch 2 and Ch 10 ;24-48  Notice Acts 10: 42  - Peter's sermon in Jerusalem on Pentecost combined the judgement hour message with the gospel.

Col 1:21  And you, that were sometime alienated and enemies in your mind by wicked works, yet now hath he reconciled

Who are these <1538> chosen of God verses those He has rejected, how did He choose them and reject others and why ?  Scripture says God wants all individuals to come to repentance - but Scripture shows some people chosen elected <1538> and the rest rejected, this coosing some and rejecting others is not the results Scripture says that God wants to achieve, but Scripture does show that these are the results from Divine attempts to save all - that only some are <1538> elected chosen saved and it is forced upon even God that others are required to be rejected and lost despite all His efforts that held nothing back, that gave everything He could give - to elect and choose and save all .    God does not get His Personal desires upon the human species - for Scriptures show all called but only some <1538> elected, chosen.   What forces even God to lose any and all whom He cannot <1538> elect cannot chose - as His own to save them ?

Zep 1:12  And it shall come to pass at that time, that I will search <02664> Jerusalem <03389> with candles <05216>, and punish the men that are settled on their lees: that say in their heart, The LORD will not do good, neither will he do evil.
13  Therefore their goods shall become a booty, and their houses a desolation: they shall also build houses, but not inhabit them; and they shall plant vineyards, but not drink the wine thereof.
14 ¶  The great day of the LORD is near, it is near, and hasteth greatly, even the voice of the day of the LORD: the mighty man shall cry there bitterly.
15  That day is a day of wrath, a day of trouble and distress, a day of wasteness and desolation, a day of darkness and gloominess, a day of clouds and thick darkness,
16  A day of the trumpet and alarm against the fenced cities, and against the high towers.
17  And I will bring distress upon men, that they shall walk like blind men, because they have sinned against the LORD: and their blood shall be poured out as dust, and their flesh as the dung.
18  Neither their silver nor their gold shall be able to deliver them in the day of the LORD’S wrath; but the whole land shall be devoured by the fire of his jealousy: for he shall make even a speedy riddance of all them that dwell in the land.


Jerusalem the literal, Jerusalem the symbolic, Babylon who claimed to be Jerusalem the symbolic - tumult scattering - deadly wound - regrouping and symbolic Jerusalem following after symbolic Babylon and becoming her at last - this process continued repeating till all variations of Jerusalem and all variations of those calling themselves Jerusalem - are searched with candles - winnowed - fanned - separated into wheat removed from chaff and chaff destroyed - repeating through history till the concentrated purified ideologies composing spiritual Jerusalem and spiritual Babylon are no longer mingled but separated utterly and each stands revealed and single minded to do their respective works and receive their respective results.

Those who surrendered to the call and kept doing so till completely inwardly winnowed and become spiritually all the good grain sown by Christ are the <1538> chosen the elected - the rest have defiled, deceived, invalidated, disenfranchised themselves from God and His conditions of mercy and have become the dross settled upon their lees.
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The Day/Year principles of Biblical understanding gives the tools to discover from the dates of actual human history - when the Investigative Judgment would start during human history - before God punishes the sinners of earth with the Seven last Plagues - which happens before the second Coming of Jesus.
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I will post a separate blog about the Day/Year Principles.  Look for it.

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There is a blog that shows when the Investigative Judgment began and how to understand how the Bible comes to that conclusion.

http://1844madesimple.org/

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How did the Millerites know 10/22/1844 is the Biblically accurate date ?

http://www.4angelspublications.com/pdf/Millerite_Use_of_Luni-Solar_Calendar.pdf

http://www.andrews.edu/library/car/AmadonGraceCollection.pdf

http://thesourcehh.org/pdf/Contributors%20Documents/William%20Shea/Shea-titled-Day%20of%20Atonement.pdf

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Quoted from above website - Naval Astronomical chart is on the website.

"  How Millerites Arriving at October 22, 1844
 August 29th, 2011 | Author: admin
I was shown that many who profess to have knowledge of this truth do not know what they believe. They do not understand the evidence of their faith. They have no appreciation of the work to the present. When the time of trial comes, there are men in preaching to others is by examining the positions they occupy, there are many things they can not give any satisfactory reason. Until they know not tested their ignorance. And there are many in the church who take it for granted that they understand what they believe, but, until controversy arises, they do not know their own weakness. When they are separated from those of faith and as forced to stand separately and alone to explain their belief, they will be surprised at how confused are their ideas of what they had accepted as truth. . . . Maranatha 45 Seventh-day Adventists grow up hearing about “October 22, 1844? They are presented in the scriptures and historical documentation, the prophecy of 2300 days, starting in 457 BC, was completed in 1844 on the Day of Atonement. What most people do not know, however, is how the Millerites arrived at this date. Why October 22? Why not July 10? Leviticus 23 states that the Day of Atonement is observed on the tenth day of the seventh month, then where does come in October 22? It's probably new to most of the Millerites Adventists do not use the Gregorian calendar to determine the Day of Atonement in 1844. But they did not. In April and again in June and December of 1843, and February 1844. . .[William Miller Associates] came to a definitive conclusion. This was the solution of the prophecy of Daniel is dependent on the ancient form of Jewish or of lunisolar time, not on the agenda changed modern Jewish rabbis.(1) Jews in 1844, maintained Yom Kippur(Day of Atonement) on September 23. The Millerites were well aware of this and references to show it in their publications. However, when challenged or mocked for insisting on a date which even the Jews themselves did not keep the Millerites frequently responded, “Each disciple knows that we are correct in the original schedule.” The Millerites were deep students of the Scriptures. The Seventh-day Adventist Church owes much to their diligence, thorough study of the Bible. They found that in Judaism, there were two distinct ways of computing the calendar. The rabbi, who begins his new year, Nisan, the new moon nearest the spring equinox, and the Karaites, who, following the principles calculations of the calendar Mosaic, placed his Nisan 1 of the first new moon after the vernal equinox if barley harvest was ready. Otherwise, they would insert an extra month. The Millerites rejected the rabbinic days first Nisan 21 March 1844, and chose the new moon of April to the beginning of the true type of the first months old. April 19 was the day.(2)

They argued that the modern Jewish calendar is based on decisions that were unknown at the time of Christ.(3)

The Karaites are a sect of Jews who “abandoned the system of rabbinic calendar calculations, and was the intercalation a leap month depend on barley mature, according to Moses. “(4)

They were called Protestants” of Judaism. “(5)”

Karaism clashed seriously with the faith of parents, has shaken off the yoke of traditionalism, proclaimed the right of private judgment, and maintained that the original writing is a comprehensive guide and sufficient. “(6)

Given that the Millerites used the Karaite calendar is important, but there is another point concerning the calculation of the Millerite October 22 date is vital to know. The Millerites reached October 22 as the Day of Atonement by calculation. If the leaders waited until October to visually observe the first appearance of the moon by which to date Tisri 1, there may have been no movement of the seventh month, because there would have been enough time. They had to do their calculations in advance with the standards moon tables were widely available.(7)

The date of October 22 is the date of the end of 2300 the prophecy was announced by Samuel Snow July 21, 1844. He gave a great speech at the Tabernacle in Boston on the text “Behold the Bridegroom comes(the tenth day of the seventh month), get to meet him! ” However, it was not until the camp meeting held in Exeter, New Hampshire(12-17 August) that the message was really. At the meeting of the camp, the snow gave three sermons. The first was the end of 1844 the great prophetic time periods, the second on the types of tile service of the sanctuary, and their implementation antitype in the Christian dispensation, and the third on the date of the crucifixion of Christ in the “middle” of the seventieth week prophecy, which consequently put an end to 70 weeks in the seventh month of the year 34. And consequently, the end of 2300 years would be similarly extended to the seventh month of 1844, which equates broadly with the month of October.(8)

From this revival is the name “movement of the seventh month.” Again, they arrived at the date of October 22 by computing, for they had waited until they could see the crescent moon first, there would be no time for them to give The Midnight Cry. The Millerites already knew that the first day of the first Jewish month(Nisan 1) fell on April 19 in 1844. How they reasoned that it was this: “Since the crucifixion occurred in the middle of the week” in the spring of the year, so the middle of a literal year Jewish and also a prophetic year, so the end of the prophetic year is coming in the fall. In other words, the year Daniel's prophetic end of autumn, not spring. “(9)

Timing was not quite the key to the new chronology that suddenly confronted the people in the summer of 1844, which gives life to the midnight cry. The spring was hidden in Daniel 9 and Matthew 25. Samuel Snow was one many to discover that six lunar months had not yet been added to the date of spring – himself a month later than first calculated – to complete the prophecy. Snow got that much of Daniel 9. His argument was simple, but that drive – that if Christ was crucified in the middle of the “weeks” in the spring and the end of the week, and thus the end not only the 487th year, but also the 2300th year, would come six months later in the lunar fall.(10)

[Oct. 22] was calculated by adding six lunar months or 177 days, April 19, and to thus obtain as the first day of the seventh month, October 13, from which nine days of larger than the tenth day October 22. Millerites the left and an official statement that they “counted” in “the appearance of Moon April 18 “and thus found that” the Jewish seventh month began with the appearance of the moon on October 13, so that the tenth day of the seventh month synchronized with the 22 this month. “(11)

This is an extremely important to know because, although there were new moons found in all the months leading up to the seventh month, there was no new moon be observed on the night of 12/13 October. Why? Technically, it has to do with how long the new moon can be seen after the combination – when the moon, the earth and sun are in alignment and the moon can not be seen (12)

On the U.S. Naval Observatory site,. the combination is called the “new moon“. However, in biblical times a month did not begin until the first crescent was observed(13).

Generally, it takes two days for the new crescent moon appear.In simple terms, no new moon was seen the night of October. 12/13, 1844, because the meridian of the Moon(or the highest point of the ark before it set) was below the horizon in most of New England, the land of the Midnight Cry . Moreover, the moon only set ten minutes after the sun October 12, making the sky too light to be observed in any case. The Millerites knew that, in calendar calculations mosaic, a new moon was declared after 30 days regardless of whether or not it has been observed(14).

Therefore, they all agreed that October 13 was the first day of the seventh month(Tisri 1) and the tenth day was October 22. Sylvester Bliss, the Millerites “official report in January 1845, said:” As of this moon[Nisan], the seventh Jewish month began with the appearance of the moon Oct. 13. “(15)

Thus, the tenth day of the seventh month was October 22. Was October 22, the correct date for the Day of Atonement in 1844? Absolutely. In the Mosaic system, the cleansing of the sanctuary, or the great Day of Atonement, took place on the tenth day of the seventh Jewish month(Leviticus 16:29-34), when the high priest, having made the Atonement for all Israel, and thus removed their sins from the sanctuary, came out and blessed the people. So it was believed that Christ, our great High Priest, seems to purify the earth by the destruction of sin and sinners, and to bless his people waiting for immortality. On the tenth day of the seventh month, the great Day of Atonement… which, in the 1844 years fell on the twenty-second of October,(16)

was considered the time of the coming of the Lord.(17)

The Millerites shown great courage in following the Lamb to get to October 22. Their[sic] is the remarkable Millerites in 1843 and 1844, rejecting the current calendar calculations rabbinical and the revival of the exercise of Jewish origin in the period of the crucifixion… they could correctly determine the end of the 2300-year period, took clear thinking and scholarly, research-intensive, extraordinary moral courage, and truly heroic, decisive action. They risked everything on this crucial position.(18)

Not only Catholicism was directly opposed to their interpretations of prophecy, but almost all of Protestantism rejected. Moreover, and “most serious of all, the Jewish community had many centuries before the abandonment calendar calculations given to Moses, who had been effect in principle and in essentially identical form in both the fifth century BC and first century AD “(19)

 These ages are important because the former embraces the commencement of the prophecy of the time 2300 -years, while the second includes the verification of the date of the Passover / Crucifixion took place in the middle of the 70th week of the prophecy prophetic longer. carefully considered the Karaites to protest against the medieval rabbinic perversion of the calendar, they ended up voluntarily and irrevocably granted, restored, and applied to their time prophecy of the problem, calendar calculations previously defended by Karaites. And what they did in defiance of the whole body of rabbinical scholarship and current general practice of the Jewish community(20).

There were many in 1844 that killed more joyful one lunar reckoning was not based on modern Jewish calendar. The answer was returned: “Every pupil knows that we are correct for the seventh month Karaite.” The Millerites were well aware of the rabbinical September 7 months in 1844, and the fact was often mentioned in their papers. At the same time, they insisted that their challenge dissident modern Jewish calendar because it disagreed with the laws of Moses(21).

To be consistent with the founders of the “Adventist, Seventh-day Adventists today need to calculate when the true Sabbath is produced using the same schedule used to determine the Day of Atonement in 1844. Those who cling to old customs and hoary errors have lost sight of the fact that light is growing on the path of those who follow Christ, the truth is always unfolding of God's people. We must continually improve if we follow our leader. It is when we walk in the light that shines on us, obedience to the truth that is open to our understanding, we receive more light. We can not be excused by accepting the light that our fathers had a hundred years ago. If our fathers feared God saw what we see and hear what we hear, they would have accepted the light, and walked in it. If we desire to imitate their faithfulness, we must receive truths before us, as they were those presented to them, we must do as they would have done had they lived today(22) .

To follow the Lamb withersoever he goes, people Yahuwah of God must be as brave as their ancestors, advancing further in the first path by those who have long gone to their table on the site rest.This States U.S. Naval Observatory shows all lunar months in 1844. The combination of each lunar month is listed under the column “New Moon”. Because it usually takes two days before the first appearance of the crescent new, add two days to each concert date to arrive at the date of the new moon visible. In March, the combination, and therefore visible new moon, arrived too early for the barley crop to be ripe Millerites inserted for a month by the Mosaic law. This picture is consistent with their repeated statements that the new moon visible in April was the 19th -. Two days after the concert on 17 The seventh lunar month of the concert was October 11, which placed the first of the month, a Tisri, October 13. Ten days later is the Day of Atonement, the tenth day of the seventh month, on October 22. ” 88880004> United States Naval Observatory Astronomical Applications Department Phases of the Moon millerite october 22 1844 - 1844 phases of the moon

Naval Observatory chart on the website being quoted from

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LE Froom, Prophetic Faith of Our Fathers “88880003,” Review & Herald Publishing Association, 1982, vol. 4, 796, italics added. (2) Joseph Bates, MARKING Second Coming and lots Haute , New Beford, 1847. (3) Grace Amadon, “Calculation of Millerite October 22 date,” Box 2, folder 4, Grace Amadon Collection . (4) Froom, Prophetic Faith of Our Fathers “88880003,” Review & Herald Publishing Association, 1948, vol. 2, 197. (5) Albiruni, The chronology of ancient nations , as quoted in ibid., 196. (6) Ibid., 197. (7) Amadon, “How Millerites Thing October 22,” box 2, file 4, Grace Amadon Collection, emphasis added. (8) Froom, Prophetic Faith, vol. 4, 803. (9) Bates, MARKING Second Coming and lots Haute , 17, quoted in “Calculation of Millerite Date October 22,” Box 2, folder 4, Grace Amadon Collection . (10) Amadon, “Review summary of news about Millerite Views Chronology”, Box 2, folder 4, Grace Amadon Collection. (11) Shield Advent, Boston, 1844-5, vol. 1, 278, quoted in ibid. (12) The combination is also called the “moon.” (13) “This is the first day of the lunar month begins with the first appearance,” or phase of the moon – is a key time-bound “(” The problem in 1844 – they are controlled by astronomy, “Box 2, Folder 4, Grace Amadon Collection). (14) Among those who observe the Sabbath based on the lunisolar calendar, there is some confusion as to whether to start the month out of the conjunction of the moon or the waxing crescent visible. October 22, 1844, provides the answer. If the month were to start the conjunction, then the tenth day of the seventh month would fall on October 21, not 22. The U.S. Naval Observatory confirms that the conjunction of the moon took place at 23:25 October 11, 1844. The Millerites, however, that the Jews knew it calculated out of the first visible crescent and so they did the same. (15) Shield of Advent, in January, 1845, 278, quoted in “Brief review of the new views on chronology Millerite”, Box 2, folder 4, Grace Amadon Collection. (16) See United States Naval Observatory table at the end of the chapter. (17) Ellen G. White, Great Controversy , 400, italics added. (18) Amadon, “courageous action Millerites” Jewish calendar “Problem”, Box 2, folder 4, Grace Amadon Collection. (19) Ibid. ” 88880004> (20) Ibid. (21) Amadon, “Calculation of Millerite October 22 date,” Box 2, folder 4, Grace Amadon Collection. (22) Ellen G. White, Historical Sketches of Foreign Missions of the Seventh-day Adventists , 197."