In
Christian theology, the pre-advent judgment is a belief that the
Last Judgment will occur before the
Second Coming
The Second Coming (sometimes called the Second Advent or the Parousia) is a Christian (as well as Islamic and Baha'i) belief that Jesus will return again after his ascension to heaven about two thousand years ago. The idea is based on messian ...
(or "Advent") of
Jesus
Jesus, likely from he, יֵשׁוּעַ, translit=Yēšūaʿ, label= Hebrew/ Aramaic ( AD 30 or 33), also referred to as Jesus Christ or Jesus of Nazareth (among other names and titles), was a first-century Jewish preacher and religiou ...
.
[Investigating the Judgement](_blank)
Anderson, J. T. 2003. Retrieved: 04/05/18
This concept stands in contrast to the much more common Christian belief that the Last Judgment will occur at or after the second coming.
Interpretations
The
Seventh-day Adventist Church believes that a pre-advent judgment started in the year 1844,
A Search for Identity: The Development of Seventh-Day Adventist Beliefs
Knight, G, R. 2000. Retrieved: 04/05/18 known as the investigative judgment
The investigative judgment, or pre-Advent Judgment (or, more accurately the pre-Second Advent Judgment), is a unique Seventh-day Adventist doctrine, which asserts that the divine judgment of professed Christians has been in progress since 1844. It ...
. It will conclude at the "close of probation" prior to the return of Jesus.
References
See also
* Christian eschatology
* General judgment
General judgment is the Christian theological concept of a judgment of the dead. When the individual dies, general judgment holds that the person's final dispensation will await the general judgment of the dead at the end of the world, rather than ...
* Particular judgment
Particular judgment, according to Christian eschatology, is the divine judgment that a departed person undergoes immediately after death, in contradistinction to the general judgment (or Last Judgment) of all people at the end of the world.
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Seventh-day Adventist theology
Judgment in Christianity
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