TWO SANCTUARIES BECOME ONE
THE ETERNAL CITY AND THE EARTH
THE ORIGINAL & THE EDEN COPY
WHEN WILL THE HEAVENLY SANCTUARY AND THE EARTH COME TOGETHER AS ONE?
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REVELATION 20:7 - 12
7 When the thousand years are over, Satan will be released from his prison(all the wicked who ever lived are brought back to life) 8 and will go out to deceive the nations in the four corners of the earth—Gog and Magog—and to gather them for battle. In number they are like the sand on the seashore.
9 They marched across the breadth of the earth and surrounded the camp of God’s people(who are inside of the Heavenly Sanctuary, New Jerusalem), the city he loves. But fire came down from heaven and devoured them. 10 And the devil, who deceived them, was thrown into the lake of burning sulfur, where the beast and the false prophet had been thrown. They will be tormented day and night for ever and ever.
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From the Heavenly Sanctuary, New Jerusalem Which is Now On Earth, Comes the Final
Judgment of Satan, His angels and All the Wicked Dead Who Lived on the Earth
REVELATION 20:11, 12
11 Then I saw a great white throne(located in the center of the Heavenly Sanctuary, New Jerusalem) and him who was seated on it. The earth and the heavens fled from his presence, and there was no place for them. 12 And I saw the dead, great and small, standing before the throne(located in the center of the Heavenly Sanctuary, New Jerusalem), and books were opened. Another book was opened, which is the book of life. The dead were judged according to what they had done as recorded in the books.
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WHERE DOES THE HEAVENLY SANCTUARY LAND
WHEN IT COMES DOWN ONTO THE EARTH?
AFTER THE 1000 YEARS IN HEAVEN THE HEAVENLY SANCTUARY RETURNS TO EARTH
“The saints will rest in the holy city, and reign as kings and priests for one thousand years; then Jesus will descend with the saints upon the Mount of Olives, and the mount will part asunder, and become a mighty plain for the Paradise of God to rest upon.
The rest of the earth will not be cleansed until the end of the one thousand years, when the wicked dead are raised, and gather up around the city. The feet of the wicked will never desecrate the earth made new. Fire will come down from God out of heaven and devour them, burn them up root and branch. Satan is the root, and his children are the branches. The same fire that will devour the wicked, will purify the earth.”
Christian Experience and Teachings of Ellen G. White page 108
Christ descends upon the Mount of Olives, whence, after His resurrection, He ascended, and where angels repeated the promise of His return. Says the prophet: “The Lord my God shall come, and all the saints with Thee.” “And His feet shall stand in that day upon the Mount of Olives, which is before Jerusalem on the east, and the Mount of Olives shall cleave in the midst thereof, ... and there shall be a very great valley.” “And the Lord shall be king over all the earth: in that day shall there be one Lord, and His name one.” Zechariah 14:5, 4, 9. As the New Jerusalem, in its dazzling splendor, comes down out of heaven, it rests upon the place purified and made ready to receive it, and Christ, with His people and the angels, enters the Holy City. GREAT CONTROVERSY 662.
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Zechariah 14:3-5
3 Then the Lord will go out and fight against those nations as he does when he fights a battle. 4 On that day his feet will stand on the Mount of Olives, just east of Jerusalem. The Mount of Olives will be split in two, forming a very large valley from east to west. Half of the mountain will move toward the north, and the other half will move toward the south.
He(Nicodemus) greatly desired an interview with Jesus, but shrank from seeking Him openly. It would be too humiliating for a ruler of the Jews to acknowledge himself in sympathy with a teacher as yet so little known. And should his visit come to the knowledge of the Sanhedrin, it would draw upon him their scorn and denunciation. He resolved upon a secret interview, excusing this on the ground that if he were to go openly, others might follow his example. Learning by special inquiry the Saviour's place of retirement in the Mount of Olives, he waited until the city was hushed in slumber, and then sought Him. DA 168.2
After the saints are changed to immortality and caught up together with Jesus, after they receive their harps, their robes, and their crowns, and enter the city, Jesus and the saints sit in judgment. The books are opened—the book of life and the book of death. The book of life contains the good deeds of the saints; and the book of death contains the evil deeds of the wicked.
These books are compared with the statute book, the Bible, and according to that men are judged. The saints, in unison with Jesus, pass their judgment upon the wicked dead. “Behold ye,” said the angel, “the saints, in unison with Jesus, sit in judgment, and mete out to the wicked according to the deeds done in the body, and that which they must receive at the execution of the judgment is set off against their names.” (Do you not know that we will judge angels? How much more the things of this life! 1 Corinthians 6:​3) This, I saw, was the work of the saints with Jesus through the one thousand years in the Holy City before it descends to the earth.
Then at the close of the one thousand years, Jesus, with the angels and all the saints, leaves the Holy City, and while He is descending to the earth with them, the wicked dead are raised, and then the very men that “pierced Him,” being raised, will see Him afar off in all His glory, the angels and saints with Him, and will wail because of Him. They will see the prints of the nails in His hands and in His feet, and where they thrust the spear into His side. The prints of the nails and the spear will then be His glory.
It is at the close of the one thousand years that Jesus stands upon the Mount of Olives, and the mount parts asunder and becomes a mighty plain. Those who flee at that time are the wicked, who have just been raised. Then the Holy City comes down and settles on the plain. Satan then imbues the wicked with his spirit. He flatters them that the army in the city is small, and that his army is large, and that they can overcome the saints and take the city. EARLY WRITING PAGE 52
