im 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,"(867)
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;"(868) 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 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. He may have committed his evil deeds in the
light of day or in the darkness of night; but they were open and manifest
before Him with whom we have to do. Angels of God witnessed each sin, and
registered it in the unerring records. Sin may be concealed, denied,
covered up from father, mother, wife, children, and associates; no one but
the guilty actors may cherish the least suspicion of the wrong; but it is
laid bare before the intelligences of heaven. The darkness of the darkest
night, the secrecy of all deceptive arts, is not sufficient to veil one
thought from the knowledge of the Eternal. God has an exact record of
every unjust account and every unfair dealing. He is not deceived by
appearances of piety. He makes no mistakes in His estimation of character.
Men may be deceived by those who are corrupt in heart, but God pierces all
disguises, and reads the inner life.

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