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The European Union in Prophecy
28. Facing Life's Record
"I beheld," says the prophet Daniel, "till thrones were placed, and One that was
Ancient of Days did sit: His raiment was white as snow, and the hair of His head like
pure wool; His throne was fiery flames, and the wheels thereof burning fire. A fiery
stream issued and came forth from before Him: thousand thousands ministered unto
Him, and ten thousand times ten thousand stood before Him: the judgment was set,
and the books were opened." Daniel 7:9, 10, R.V.
Thus was presented to the prophet's vision the great and solemn day when the
characters and the lives of men should pass in review before the Judge of all the earth,
and to every man should be rendered "according to his works." The Ancient of Days is
God the Father. Says the psalmist: "Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever
Thou hadst formed the earth and the world, even from everlasting to everlasting,
Thou art God." Psalm 90:2. It is He, the source of all being, and the fountain of all law,
that is to preside in the judgment. And holy angels as ministers and witnesses, in
number "ten thousand times ten thousand, and thousands of thousands," attend this
great tribunal.
"And, behold, one like the Son of man came with the clouds of heaven, and came
to the Ancient of Days, and they brought Him near before Him. And there was given
Him dominion, and glory, and a kingdom, that all people, nations, and languages,
should serve Him: His dominion is an everlasting dominion, which shall not pass
away." Daniel 7:13, 14. The coming of Christ here described is not His second coming
to the earth. He comes to the Ancient of Days in heaven to receive dominion and glory
and a kingdom, which will be given Him at the close of His work as a mediator. It is
this coming, and not His second advent to the earth, that was foretold in prophecy to
take place at the termination of the 2300 days in 1844. Attended by heavenly angels,
our great High Priest enters the holy of holies and there appears in the presence of
God to engage in the last acts of His ministration in behalf of man--to perform the
work of investigative judgment and to make an atonement for all who are shown to
be entitled to its benefits.
In the typical service only those who had come before God with confession and
repentance, and whose sins, through the blood of the sin offering, were transferred to
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