5:27 . Their names stand enrolled in the book of life , and concerning them it is written : " They shall walk with Me in white : for they are worthy ." Revelation 3:4 .
Thus will be realized the complete fulfillment of the new-covenant promise : " I will forgive their iniquity , and I will remember their sin no more ." " In those days , and in that time , saith the Lord , the iniquity of Israel shall be sought for , and there shall be none ; and the sins of Judah , and they shall not be found ." Jeremiah 31:34 ; 50:20 . " In that day shall the branch of the Lord be beautiful and glorious , and the fruit of the earth shall be excellent and comely for them that are escaped of Israel . And it shall come to pass , that he that is left in Zion , and he that remaineth in Jerusalem , shall be called holy , even everyone that is written among the living in Jerusalem ." Isaiah 4:2 , 3 .
The work of the investigative judgment and the blotting out of sins is to be accomplished before the second advent of the Lord . Since the dead are to be judged out of the things written in the books , it is impossible that the sins of men should be blotted out until after the judgment at which their cases are to be investigated . But the apostle Peter distinctly states that the sins of believers will be blotted out " when the times of refreshing shall come from the presence of the Lord ; and He shall send Jesus Christ ." Acts 3:19 , 20 . When the investigative judgment closes , Christ will come , and His reward will be with Him to give to every man as his work shall be .
In the typical service the high priest , having made the atonement for Israel , came forth and blessed the congregation . So Christ , at the close of His work as mediator , will appear , " without sin unto salvation " ( Hebrews 9:28 ), to bless His waiting people with eternal life . As the priest , in removing the sins from the sanctuary , confessed them upon the head of the scapegoat , so Christ will place all these sins upon Satan , the originator and instigator of sin . The scapegoat , bearing the sins of Israel , was sent away " unto a land not inhabited " ( Leviticus 16:22 ); so Satan , bearing the guilt of all the sins which he has caused God ' s people to commit , will be for a thousand years confined to the earth , which will then be desolate , without inhabitant , and he will at last suffer the full penalty of sin in the fires that shall destroy all the wicked . Thus the great plan of redemption will reach its accomplishment in the final eradication of sin and the deliverance of all who have been willing to renounce evil .
At the time appointed for the judgment--the close of the 2300 days , in 1844--began the work of investigation and blotting out of sins . All who have ever taken upon themselves the name of Christ must pass its searching scrutiny . Both the living and the dead are to be judged " out of those things which were written in the books , according to their works ." Sins that have
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