Ellen White indicates Miller's message of Jesus coming in 1843 was "heavenly".

[ViaCrucis]

I will not answer every one of your posts. I will give one answer that pretty much should satisfy your overall theme.

In the middle of His discourse to His disciples on end time events Jesus stops and tells two parables, The parable of the 10 virgins and the parable of the talents. Why?



To what purpose did Jesus tell this? And what does it mean that 5 of the virgins took enough oil to last and 5 didn't? This obviously takes place before the second coming as when Jesus comes the second time He comes with everu man's reward. Why does He tell the 5 foolish virgins He doesn't know them? God's church is a;ways referred to as a virgin in prophecy so these 10 virgins were obviously His followers. Oil is represented as the HS.



So 5 virgins had enough of the HS to be represented as wise and the rest did not. The 5 foolish virgins were locked out of heaven as Jesus told them He didn't know them.



So not knowing God, personally, is fatal to our chances of heaven. This is where righteousness by faith comes in.

This parable is the explanation of the investigative judgement now going on in heaven. No other explanation fits.

As to the missed time every denomination at that time believed the sanctuary was the earth. And how many prophet understood everything about their visions and dreams? None that I know of besides Jesus.

Nope.

Read all of Jesus' teachings here in the Olivet Discourse. The repeated refrain in the parables Jesus gives is being a faithful servant.

The foolish virgins, like the unfaithful servant, squandered what they had been given. To keep watch, to be vigilant, is to be doing the work which the Master entrusted to the Church.

This is why, when the King comes and separates those on His right and His left, He says, "I was hungry ... I was thirsty ... I was naked" There are those who fed the hungry and gave drink to the thirsty, and those who did not. And the King will say to those on His right "and you gave Me food" and those on His left, "You did not feed Me" for whatever we did or did not do to "the least of these" is how we treated Jesus Christ Himself.

No investigative judgment--there's siimply no justification for that interpretation. What Jesus is talking about is very clear,

"Who then is the faithful and wise servant, whom his master has set over his household, to give them their food at the proper time? Blessed is that servant whom his master will find so doing when he comes. Truly, I say to you, he will set him over all his possessions. But if that wicked servant says to himself, 'My master is delayed,' and begins to beat his fellow servants and eats and drinks with drunkards, the master of that servant will come on a day when he does not expect him and at an hour he does not know and will cut him to pieces and put him with the hypocrites, in that place there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.

Then the kingdom of heaven will be like ten virgins who took their lamps and went to meet the bridegroom. Five of them were foolish, and five were wise. For when the foolish took their lamps they took no oil with them, but the wise took flasks of oil with their lamps. As the bridegroom was delayed, they all became drowsy and slept. But at midnight there was a cry, 'Here is the bridegroom! Come out to meet him.' Then all those virgins rose and trimmed their lamps. And the foolish said to the wise, 'Give us some of your oil, for our lamps are going out.' But the wise answered, saying, 'Since there will not be enough oil for us and for you, go rather to the dealers and buy for yourselves.' And while they were going to buy, the bridegroom came, and those who were ready went in with him to the marriage feast, and the door was shut. Afterward the other virgins came also, saying, 'Lord, lord, open to us.' But he answered, 'Truly, I say to you, I do not know you.' Watch therefore, for you do not know neither the day nor the hour." - Matthew 24:45-51 - Matthew 25:1-13

- CryptoLutheran

 

[tall73]

She also said the Palm Sunday proclamation by Christ's followers that He was about take His throne as king of the Jews -- was of God ... when in fact He was coming to be crucified.

Jesus was about to take His throne as King of the Jews. The disciples gave a correct message:

Mark 11:9-10 9 Then those who went before and those who followed cried out, saying:
“Hosanna!
Blessed is He who comes in the name of the LORD!’
10 Blessed is the kingdom of our father David
That comes in the name of the Lord!
Hosanna in the highest!” (NKJV)

John indicates that the disciples did not realize at the time what they had done, but that the message was a fulfillment, and was true:

John 12:12-16 12 The next day a great multitude that had come to the feast, when they heard that Jesus was coming to Jerusalem, 13 took branches of palm trees and went out to meet Him, and cried out:
“Hosanna!
Blessed is He who comes in the name of the LORD!’
The King of Israel!”
14 Then Jesus, when He had found a young donkey, sat on it; as it is written:
15 “Fear not, daughter of Zion;
Behold, your King is coming,
Sitting on a donkey’s colt.”
16 His disciples did not understand these things at first; but when Jesus was glorified, then they remembered that these things were written about Him and that they had done these things to Him. (NKJV)


The disciples did indeed recognize that Jesus, the Christ, is Lord of all ,and reigns from His throne, ascending to the right hand of God following His resurrection:

Acts 10:34 Then Peter opened his mouth and said: “In truth I perceive that God shows no partiality. 35 But in every nation whoever fears Him and works righteousness is accepted by Him. 36 The word which God sent to the [l]children of Israel, preaching peace through Jesus Christ—He is Lord of all— 37 that word you know, which was proclaimed throughout all Judea, and began from Galilee after the baptism which John preached: 38 how God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Spirit and with power, who went about doing good and healing all who were oppressed by the devil, for God was with Him.

Jesus is the Christ, and is Lord of all.

Acts 2:30 Therefore, being a prophet, and knowing that God had sworn with an oath to him that of the fruit of his body, according to the flesh, He would raise up the Christ to sit on his throne, 31 he, foreseeing this, spoke concerning the resurrection of the Christ, that His soul was not left in Hades, nor did His flesh see corruption. 32 This Jesus God has raised up, of which we are all witnesses. 33 Therefore being exalted [j]to the right hand of God, and having received from the Father the promise of the Holy Spirit, He poured out this which you now see and hear.

34 “For David did not ascend into the heavens, but he says himself:

‘The Lord said to my Lord,
“Sit at My right hand,
35 Till I make Your enemies Your footstool.” ’

36 “Therefore let all the house of Israel know assuredly that God has made this Jesus, whom you crucified, both Lord and Christ.”

The message the disciples gave was true. It was predicted in the OT, and fulfilled.

The message of William Miller, on the other hand, that Jesus was coming in 1843, was a false message. And it contradicted the words of Jesus, and the Scriptures:

Matthew 24:4 Therefore be ye also ready: for in such an hour as ye think not the Son of man cometh.
Matthew 24:36 But of that day and hour knoweth no man, no, not the angels of heaven, but my Father only.
I Thessalonians 5:1 But of the times and the seasons, brethren, ye have no need that I write unto you. 2 For yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord so cometh as a thief in the night.