Annotated

Chapter 1: Is the Investigative Judgment Doctrine Taught In the Bible? Does the Bible Say
That God Investigates Believers?
Critics have claimed that there is no clear scriptural support for an investigative
judgment long before the Second Coming. Chapter 1 gives new powerful evidence that there is such a judgment.

Chapter 2: Why Would there Be an Investigation of the Saints? It is because of the
Everlasting Gospel.
When you understand the whole truth of how we are saved you will begin see the place of the investigative
judgment in God's plans.

Chapter 3: Why Would there Be an Investigation of the Saints? It is because of Satan
This chapter discusses the constraining forces that have created a need for believer investigation. Satan is the ultimate
reason for the existence of the investigative judgment. This is a positive presentation of believer judgment that pictures
God on the side of the saints in the judgment.

Chapter 4: The True Ground of Christian Assurance
Many people reject the Investigative Judgment doctrine because they think it destroys assurance. This chapter looks at
the setting of 1John 5:13 to show what John really meant when he said that we may know we have eternal life. His
doctrine is not in conflict with the investigative judgment.

Chapter 5: On the Path With Jesus There is Peace: A Parable of True Assurance
Using an imaginary situation of being lost in the mountains, this chapter seeks to show how a person has assurance by
staying in relationship with Christ.

Chapter 6: The Bigger Picture
This chapter is a resource for those seeking to understand systematically the evidence of believer testing and judgment.
It greatly expands on the foundation laid in Chapter One's "For Further Study" section and shows that the idea of believer
investigation is one piece in a puzzle of related doctrines.

Chapter 7:The Challenge of a Questionable Relationship
There is a spiritual relationship between Leviticus 16 and Daniel 8:14 that links them together and justifies Adventism's
claim that the day of atonement explains the meaning of the 2,300 year prophecy.

Chapter 8: From the Little Horn to the Investigation of the Saints: Two Unsupportable Leaps of
Logic?
This answers, Biblically, the question posed by some critics about how Adventists can see, in the setting of a discussion
of the sins of the little horn, an investigative judgment of the saints.

Chapter 9: Illustrations of the Investigative Judgment Gospel
Two short stories illustrate some key aspects of how and why there is an investigative judgment. Concluding comments
make the connections with the judgment.

Chapter 10: The Judgment of Believers: Enacted, Envisioned, and Demonstrated
In this chapter we look at three places where the judgment is revealed. The believer's judgment is enacted in the
ceremonial law, it is envisioned in the apocalyptic book of Daniel, and it is demonstrated in a beautiful positive way in
the New Testament Gospel of John.

Chapter 11: Daniel 8:14, The Investigative Judgment Prophecy
There is obviously a need to show how what we have covered in the previous chapters affects our presentation of the
2,300 year prophecy of Daniel 8:14.This chapter brings together into one presentation the various points established in
earlier chapters in order to meet this need. This presentation gives an interpretation of Daniel 8:14 in the setting of
salvation history's judgment hour time prophecies. This will probably be a new viewpoint to most readers, however this
additional insight is more powerful evidence that Adventism is a movement of divine origin and that its judgment hour
message is "present truth."

Appendix A: The Competition In and Around 1844
In the hour of God's judgment smoke screens, diversionary tactics, and false religions are employed by Satan to
diminish, marginalize, and compete with the preaching of the truth. So, is there evidence of competition at the hour of
judgment that began in 1844? At least twelve religious and philosophical movements were born alongside Millerism and
Seventh-day Adventism in the 1830's and 1840's. In the following list we have a spectrum of little-known events to those
developments that are legendary for their enormous world-altering effects.

Appendix B: Ellen White And Our Second Probation
It is not my wish to present in this book a defense of the investigative judgment doctrine that is in any way dependent
on the writings of Ellen G. White. In fact I think this book proves that Mrs. White is not the first inspired writer to
speak of the investigation of believers, nor of the reason for its existence. I add this collection of references exclusively
for the benefit of anyone who appreciates the moving of God's Spirit in the writings of Mrs. White.