7. Just as the children of Israel gathered around the sanctuary for the holy convocation of the Day of Atonement, what are we encouraged to do at this time? Hebrews 10:25.
NOTE: ‘You need to take a decided interest in religious meetings. You have no strength to keep yourself, under the sharp assaults of the enemy. You are kept by the power of God through faith. Make earnest and determined efforts to be at every meeting possible. The divine direction is, ‘Forsake not the assembling of yourselves together as the manner of some is, but so much the more as you see the day approaching’. Hebrews 10:25. You are to be found among the little few who meet to worship God. The help of every soul who loves the truth is needed, to bear testimony of the truth and act as missionaries of God, home missionaries to strengthen the things that remain, that are ready to die. Every jot of influence from Christ’s soldiers is now called for on the Lord’s side. “Where two or three are gathered together in My name, there am I in the midst” and that to bless. Matthew 18:20.’ Manuscript Releases, volume 12, page 105.
8. If we know of sins in our lives, what are we exhorted to do during this solemn time of the Investigative Judgement? Revelation 3:19-21 [Laodicea means ‘a people judged’]; 1 Timothy 5:24.
NOTE: ‘Those who have delayed a preparation for the day of God, cannot obtain it in the time of trouble [after the close of Probation] or at any future period. The righteous will not cease their earnest, agonising cries for deliverance. They cannot bring to mind any particular sins; but in their whole life they can see but little good. Their sins had gone beforehand to judgement, and pardon had been written. Their sins had been borne away into the land of forgetfulness, and they could not bring them to remembrance.’ Spirit of Prophecy, volume 1, page 123.