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Dan. vii, 22

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The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jun 4, 1867

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 29, No. 25.

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Dan. vii, 22.

By Roswell F. Cottrell

“Until the ancient of days came, and judgment was given to the saints of the Most High; and the time came that the saints possessed the kingdom.”
The papal persecution against the saints of God is so restrained that the death penalty ceases to be executed, before the signs of Christ’s second coming appear; but the spiritual power of the great apostasy “prevails against them,” until Christ is brought near before the Ancient of days, in the inner sanctuary, where the judicial decision is passed upon the saints. Then the time comes that the saints are raised from the dead to possess the kingdom. After judgment is given to the saints and they commence their reign with Christ, they “judge the world,” who are still slumbering for a thousand years after the first resurrection, at which time the saints are rewarded with immortality. Therefore the saints are judged first. And in their “hour of judgment,” while the sanctuary is being cleansed, which is the blotting out of their sins, the corrupting power of the papacy ceases to prevail against them, they see God’s law—the rule of the judgment—as it exists in the “temple of God in Heaven,” and are released from their spiritual thralldom.
R. F. COTTRELL.