Posted By: Charity
Can Christ's Spotless Righteousness And The Latter Rain Be Ours - Today? - 07/23/19 10:39 AM
In a word, Yes - if we have a faith that enters within the veil. The message of the third angel declares that the patience of the saints is to be demonstrated in those who keep the commandments of God and have the faith of Jesus. If we have faith that lays hold of the merits of Christ's life as the complete solution for our great need of righteousness, we have both the faith of Jesus and the latter rain of the third angel.
And what is more, our sins are blotted out. Christ's robe of righteousness does not cover our sins, it purges them making us new creatures. In Him all things are become new.
In the type sins were confessed during the daily service and then they were removed, blotted out, during the Day of Atonement, the day we have been living in since 1844. Some Adventists have put off the blotting out of sin to the time of the latter rain based on Acts 3:19 where Peter said "Repent that your sins may be blotted out when the times of refreshing shall come." But Peter did not in any way mean to discourage new believers from trusting in the power of Christ to blot out our sins today and cleanse us from all unrighteousness now. Our faith can reach forward to that event today and grasp the latter rain which is, Christ Our Righteousness, just as the faith of the patriarchs reached forward to both the cross and to the ministry of Christ within the veil. Our full and complete pardon and restoration promised during the latter rain, the blotting out of sin, is available to everyone who claims the blotting out of sin by faith today and meets the conditions - full surrender of the heart and life to Christ.
Do I have an historical and/or scriptural leg to stand on for claiming this? In 1888, a central feature of the message of Jones and Waggoner was that the Lord imputed righteousness to the true believer and viewed him as though he had never sinned. While it is true that our sins are not blotted out in human time until the sanctuary is cleansed at the latter rain, the little sanctuary of our minds and souls can be, indeed must be cleansed fully today. And they are in fact cleansed by the blood of Christ for all who truly believe.
Sins that have been confessed and blotted out from the books of record are still recorded in our memories but their power is broken and we are fully liberated from them. When our hearts condemn us for past wrongs that have been confessed and forsaken we are to remember that God is greater than our hearts.
"Whatsoever we ask, we receive of Him" including and especially the blotting out of our sins. Like David we can and must plead with God to create in us a clean heart and blot out our sin. Do any of us need that cleansing less than David? If we were to have the same sense of need that he felt, we would obtain the proportionate blessing.
Psa_51:1 Have mercy upon me, O God, according to thy lovingkindness: according unto the multitude of thy tender mercies blot out my transgressions.
Psa_51:9 Hide thy face from my sins, and blot out all mine iniquities.
But one of the best pieces of scriptural evidence that heaven is longing to impute and impart to us the full robe of Christ's righteousness is Zechariah 3 which ties the Day of Atonement, the blotting out of sin and the latter rain all neatly together. I recommend a close, prayerful study of this powerful chapter because those who receive this scripture along with the message of Revelation 18 on faith regardless of the personal cost will be transformed in character and empowered to give the loud cry of the fourth angel.
And what is more, our sins are blotted out. Christ's robe of righteousness does not cover our sins, it purges them making us new creatures. In Him all things are become new.
In the type sins were confessed during the daily service and then they were removed, blotted out, during the Day of Atonement, the day we have been living in since 1844. Some Adventists have put off the blotting out of sin to the time of the latter rain based on Acts 3:19 where Peter said "Repent that your sins may be blotted out when the times of refreshing shall come." But Peter did not in any way mean to discourage new believers from trusting in the power of Christ to blot out our sins today and cleanse us from all unrighteousness now. Our faith can reach forward to that event today and grasp the latter rain which is, Christ Our Righteousness, just as the faith of the patriarchs reached forward to both the cross and to the ministry of Christ within the veil. Our full and complete pardon and restoration promised during the latter rain, the blotting out of sin, is available to everyone who claims the blotting out of sin by faith today and meets the conditions - full surrender of the heart and life to Christ.
Do I have an historical and/or scriptural leg to stand on for claiming this? In 1888, a central feature of the message of Jones and Waggoner was that the Lord imputed righteousness to the true believer and viewed him as though he had never sinned. While it is true that our sins are not blotted out in human time until the sanctuary is cleansed at the latter rain, the little sanctuary of our minds and souls can be, indeed must be cleansed fully today. And they are in fact cleansed by the blood of Christ for all who truly believe.
Sins that have been confessed and blotted out from the books of record are still recorded in our memories but their power is broken and we are fully liberated from them. When our hearts condemn us for past wrongs that have been confessed and forsaken we are to remember that God is greater than our hearts.
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1Jn 3:20 For if our heart condemn us, God is greater than our heart, and knoweth all things.
1Jn 3:21 Beloved, if our heart condemn us not, then have we confidence toward God.
1Jn 3:22 And whatsoever we ask, we receive of him, because we keep his commandments, and do those things that are pleasing in his sight.
1Jn 3:21 Beloved, if our heart condemn us not, then have we confidence toward God.
1Jn 3:22 And whatsoever we ask, we receive of him, because we keep his commandments, and do those things that are pleasing in his sight.
"Whatsoever we ask, we receive of Him" including and especially the blotting out of our sins. Like David we can and must plead with God to create in us a clean heart and blot out our sin. Do any of us need that cleansing less than David? If we were to have the same sense of need that he felt, we would obtain the proportionate blessing.
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Psa_51:1 Have mercy upon me, O God, according to thy lovingkindness: according unto the multitude of thy tender mercies blot out my transgressions.
Psa_51:9 Hide thy face from my sins, and blot out all mine iniquities.
But one of the best pieces of scriptural evidence that heaven is longing to impute and impart to us the full robe of Christ's righteousness is Zechariah 3 which ties the Day of Atonement, the blotting out of sin and the latter rain all neatly together. I recommend a close, prayerful study of this powerful chapter because those who receive this scripture along with the message of Revelation 18 on faith regardless of the personal cost will be transformed in character and empowered to give the loud cry of the fourth angel.
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Zec 3:3 Now Joshua was clothed with filthy garments, and stood before the angel.
Zec 3:4 And he answered and spake unto those that stood before him, saying, Take away the filthy garments from him. And unto him he said, Behold, I have caused thine iniquity to pass from thee, and I will clothe thee with change of raiment.
Zec 3:5 And I said, Let them set a fair mitre upon his head. So they set a fair mitre upon his head, and clothed him with garments. And the angel of the LORD stood by.
Zec 3:6 And the angel of the LORD protested unto Joshua, saying,
Zec 3:7 Thus saith the LORD of hosts; If thou wilt walk in my ways, and if thou wilt keep my charge, then thou shalt also judge my house, and shalt also keep my courts, and I will give thee places to walk among these that stand by.
Zec 3:8 Hear now, O Joshua the high priest, thou, and thy fellows that sit before thee: for they are men wondered at: for, behold, I will bring forth my servant the BRANCH.
Zec 3:9 For behold the stone that I have laid before Joshua; upon one stone shall be seven eyes: behold, I will engrave the graving thereof, saith the LORD of hosts, and I will remove the iniquity of that land in one day.
Zec 3:10 In that day, saith the LORD of hosts, shall ye call every man his neighbour under the vine and under the fig tree.
Zec 3:4 And he answered and spake unto those that stood before him, saying, Take away the filthy garments from him. And unto him he said, Behold, I have caused thine iniquity to pass from thee, and I will clothe thee with change of raiment.
Zec 3:5 And I said, Let them set a fair mitre upon his head. So they set a fair mitre upon his head, and clothed him with garments. And the angel of the LORD stood by.
Zec 3:6 And the angel of the LORD protested unto Joshua, saying,
Zec 3:7 Thus saith the LORD of hosts; If thou wilt walk in my ways, and if thou wilt keep my charge, then thou shalt also judge my house, and shalt also keep my courts, and I will give thee places to walk among these that stand by.
Zec 3:8 Hear now, O Joshua the high priest, thou, and thy fellows that sit before thee: for they are men wondered at: for, behold, I will bring forth my servant the BRANCH.
Zec 3:9 For behold the stone that I have laid before Joshua; upon one stone shall be seven eyes: behold, I will engrave the graving thereof, saith the LORD of hosts, and I will remove the iniquity of that land in one day.
Zec 3:10 In that day, saith the LORD of hosts, shall ye call every man his neighbour under the vine and under the fig tree.