In 1844 the hour of God’s judgment was reached. There is no possible mistake about this great fact. The work of judgment is the final putting away of all sin. “Now once in the end of the world hath He appeared: to put away sin by the sacrifice of Himself.” Heb. 9:26. The sins of God’s people can never be borne from the heavenly sanctuary and placed back upon the antitypical scapegoat so long as sins are going into the sanctuary, in other words, so long as sinning and repenting is continued. Therefore, until this great threefold: message becomes an experience in the life of every believer, of the everlasting power of God to save from sin, and from sinning, this work can never be closed up. The cleansing of the soul temple must be an accomplished fact before the sanctuary in heaven can he cleansed. Before our High Priest gathers up the sins of the redeemed, and bears them out from the sanctuary, your sins and mine will have ceased to go in there; and if our sins cease to go in there before the last one has been repented of, confessed, and forsaken, then we shall be left to perish in our own sins.
