Judging the Cases of the Living

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Ellen G. White Estate, Devotional for August 30
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Judging the Cases of the Living

Remember therefore how thou hast received and heard, and hold fast, and
repent. If therefore thou shalt not watch, I will come on thee as a
thief, and thou shalt not know what hour I will come upon thee. Rev.
3:3. 


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." Rev. 20:12. 

Said the Judge: "All will be justified by their faith and judged by
their works." 

Sins that have not been repented of and forsaken will not be pardoned,
and blotted out of the books of record, but will stand to witness
against the sinner in the day of God. . . . 

There is earnest warfare before all who would subdue the evil tendencies
that strive for the mastery. The work of preparation is an individual
work. We are not saved in groups. The purity and devotion of one will
not offset the want of these qualities in another. Though all nations
are to pass in judgment before God, yet He will examine the case of each
individual with as close and searching scrutiny as if there were not
another being upon the earth. Every one must be tested, and found
without spot or wrinkle or any such thing. 

The judgment is now passing in the sanctuary above. For many years this
work has been in progress. Soon--none know how soon--it will pass to the
cases of the living. In the awful presence of God our lives are to come
up in review. At this time above all others it behooves every soul to
heed the Savior's admonition, "Watch and pray: for ye know not when the
time is." Mark 13:33. "If therefore thou shalt not watch, I will come on
thee as a thief, and thou shalt not know what hour I will come upon
thee." Rev. 3:3.

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