Then Shall the Sanctuary Be Cleansed - Donald K. Short

the Lord's return on the tenth day of the seventh
month. But when their hopes were shattered, the
matter was then "bitter" indeed. That they should
go "before many peoples, and nations, and
tongues" to proclaim a further message was more
than they had ever considered, but they accepted
the call as from God.
According to what the angel said, "there should
be time no longer" (Revelation 10:6). Thus at any
time since 1844, the end could have come because
the time span of the 2300 years was finished. In the
context of eternity, "time" is the result of sin. It is
but a little interruption in eternity and would never
have come into being except because of sin. It had
a "beginning" and it has an "end." It is the sin era
between infinite past and infinite future. Mortal
man is painfully aware that the grave awaits all.
"Time" colors and predominates every move made
by a human being. This accounts for the obsession
to travel at ever greater speeds. This seems to
forestall death in the framework of time. But this is
foreign to the heavenly government. It cannot exist
in the presence of the Eternal God, the Great "I
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