I do believe that Brother Jeff is making the right connections in linking the first angel's message of 1840, "the hour of His judgment is come", to it's modern application - the judgment of the living. What he should be doing, in my opinion, is showing from the types that the judgment of the living begins shortly after the Day of Atonement begins, not in 2001, but shortly after 1844 probably some months before Ellen White was shown the delay caused by God's wayward people. At that time, when Christ was ready to come the cases of the living saints were under review then, but they weren't ready for the trouble about to burst on the earth and so the angels held back the winds. And since as a corporate body the church has never been prepared to be a true reflection of the character of God (we know this is fact from Inspiration) we're still here.

But that the judgment of the living began not long after 1844, is shown in the types in that on the Day of Atonement the High Priest atoned for himself and his house before atoning for Isreal. Judgment begins with the house of God. True, the cases of the dead are judged first, but in the same order - the dead of the house of God, then the living of the house of God, the dead of Isreal, then the living of Isreal, the heathen dead, the heathen living. So Adventism is first judged. [And as Christ said, God is not the God of the dead, but of the living". He's not waiting to judge the living because He has a back-log of dead cases. He's judging and waiting for us, the living.]

When the towers of New York fall in the future, then [accorrding to Ellen White] the Loud cry will go out that God has weighed the rest of Christendom in the balance and finds it wanting, therefore every honest soul in the fallen churches must leave Babylon. Adventism first, then Christendom, then the heathen.

I expect there are other details in the types that have a bearing as well that show we've been in the judgment of the living/sealing time since the mid 1800's. While Ellen White is clear the sealing has been going on since that time, she's less clear on the judgment of the living, but she has made statments here and there that suggest the judgment of the living was in progress in her day.

But that the judgment of the living began not long after 1844

The grand judgment is taking place, and has been going on for some time. Now the Lord says, Measure the temple and the worshipers thereof. Remember when you are walking the streets about your business, God is measuring you; when you are attending your household duties, when you engage in conversation, God is measuring you. Remember that your words and actions are being daguerreotyped [photographed] in the books of heaven, as the face is reproduced by the artist on the polished plate. . . . {7BC 972.1}[MS 4, 1888]

The time has come when everything is to be shaken that can be shaken, that those things which cannot be shaken may remain. Every case is coming in review before God; He is measuring the temple and the worshipers therein. {7T 219.2}

His church is to be a temple built after the divine similitude, and the angelic architect has brought his golden measuring rod from heaven, that every stone may be hewed and squared by the divine measurement and polished to shine as an emblem of heaven, radiating in all directions the bright, clear beams of the Sun of Righteousness. The church is to be fed with manna from heaven and to be kept under the sole guardianship of His grace. Clad in complete armor of light and righteousness, she enters upon her final conflict. The dross, the worthless material, will be consumed, and the influence of the truth testifies to the world of its sanctifying, ennobling character. . . . {TM 17.1}

Isn't it true that probation is open for the individual until God is finished with the 'measuring' process? When His finishes His measuring, then your case is forever fixed.

Though all the record of all our sin, even though written with the finger of God, were erased, the sin would remain, because the sin is in us. Though the record of our sin were graven in the rock, and the rock should be ground to powder—even this would not blot out our sin...

"The worshippers once purged"[Hebrews 10:2, 3]—actually purged by the blood of Christ—have "no more conscience of sins," because the way of sin is gone from them. Their iniquity may be sought for, but it will not be found. It is forever gone from them—it is foreign to their new natures, and even though they may be able to recall the fact that they have committed certain sins, they have forgotten the sin itself—they do not think of doing it any more. This is the work of Christ in the true sanctuary (The Review and Herald, September 30, 1902).