Investigative judgment

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Investigative judgment is a distinctive Seventh-day Adventist doctrine teaching that Christ has been conducting a heavenly review of believers’ lives prior to His Second Coming to determine their salvation.

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Investigative judgment canonical 1

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Christian eschatological teaching
Seventh-day Adventist doctrine
associatedWith Ellen G. White
J. N. Andrews
James White
basedOn interpretation of Daniel 7
interpretation of Daniel 8:14
interpretation of Revelation 14
category Second Advent movement
surface form: Adventist eschatology

Christian judgment doctrine
sanctuary doctrine
centralTo Seventh-day Adventist 28 Fundamental Beliefs
surface form: Seventh-day Adventist theology
codifiedIn Seventh-day Adventist 28 Fundamental Beliefs
concerns heavenly judgment of professed believers
review of human lives
salvation of believers
criticizedBy some evangelical theologians
defendedBy Seventh-day Adventist apologists
denominationTeaching Seventh-day Adventist Church
developedBy early Seventh-day Adventist pioneers
distinctiveFrom mainstream Protestant views of judgment
eschatologicalRole preparation for the Second Coming of Christ
function to determine who among professed believers are truly in Christ
to reveal the basis of God’s final decisions in judgment
to vindicate God’s justice before the universe
historicalOrigin post-Millerite Adventist movement
implies close of human probation
final blotting out of sins
heavenly records of human deeds
interpretiveMethod historicist reading of biblical prophecy
languageUsed investigative phase of judgment
pre-Advent judgment
linkedTo 1844 Great Disappointment
location heavenly sanctuary
performedBy Jesus Christ
relatedDoctrine Second Coming of Christ
atonement
heavenly sanctuary
pre-Advent judgment
religiousTradition Seventh-day Adventist Church
surface form: Seventh-day Adventism
scope professed believers
startDateClaim 1844
taughtIn Seventh-day Adventist evangelistic series
Seventh-day Adventist education system
surface form: Seventh-day Adventist seminaries
timeframe prior to the Second Coming of Christ
viewedAs final phase of atonement in heaven
phase of Christ’s high-priestly ministry

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Seventh-day Adventist Church coreBelief Investigative judgment