In the last book of the Bible, Revelation Chapter 21, Christ affirms most vehemently, unequivocally, categorically, THREE times, ( verses 7,12, and 20 ) that He is coming SOON.
The KJV muddles the translation with the word “quickly” but my French and Dutch Bibles are very clear in translating the word as “SOON”.
My Andrew’s University Bible tells me that Revelation was most likely written in the year AD 95.
Hence my question:
In AD 95, was Christ still unaware that He had some supposedly important function to fulfill in AD 1844? If so, was He not equivocating/lying(?) when He promised to come “SOON”, since in no way could He have returned until after 1844??
Since the INVESTIGATIVE JUDGEMENT doctrine is unique to Adventism, astonishingly not yet embraced by any other theologian, theology school, nor Christian denomination, I find these affirmations by Christ in Revelation, one more evidence that the IJ dogma is a fraud!
In my view, the IJ dogma was a desperate face saving measure, when humiliated by Christ’s failure to return in 1844, our pioneers sought some other explanation for their embarrassment.
EGW tells us in her signature work, the Great Controversy, that Christ cannot return before the “universe” “vindicates” or endorses God.
How humiliating it must be for God, that after six thousand years, the “universe” has not yet completed their arbitration in this epic conflict! They are still “sitting on the fence”. The Angels sit sullen, stony faced, silent, unmoved, uncompassionate, uncaring, in the face of six thousand years of rapes, murders, wars, genocides, famines, pestilences, plagues, epidemics, holocausts, and atrocities of every description!
Like an Agatha Christie crime novel, EGW’s GREAT CONTROVERSY, leaves Adventists in a state of limbo–suspended animation, —desperate for the dénouement/determination,— awaiting their “rescue” by extraterrestrials-- EGW’s “Universe”-- when these otherworldly beings finally decree ( who knows when?) God’s ultimate “vindication”.
Sounds more weird than even doctrines the Scientologists could have dreamed up! Folks, we are dependent on “ET” for our eventual salvation!
