Returning to the topic of the Investigative Judgment, let's look at some of the earliest investigative judgments in the scriptures and try to move on from there.

Gen 1:4 says "God looked at the light and saw that it was good."

Doesn't God know everything? Why did he have to look at the light to see whether or not it was good?

We find throughout Gen 1 that everytime God did something and was geting ready to do something else he looks at what he did and always declears it good. Then then just before Sabbath God looks again at everything that he did and said it was very good.

The Adventist critic tends to see the Investigative Judgment as us producing our works and God looking for an excuse to say that it is bad, and therefore we can not have it. But right at the very beginning we find God doing something, God looking at (investigating what he did) and pronuncing it as good.

In our investagative judgment, it is indeed God's work at redeeming and recreating us that is looked at. Just as earth was created to try to help Lucifer and the other angels and beings on the other plannets to understand the issues of the great controversy. So for the loyal angels and unfallen worlds, while they closed their probatation at the cross, the study of how God saves fallen mankind (and tried to save the fallen angels, but they won't let him) helps to see how they themselves are related to God and how God saves them. The investigative judgment in heaven is to look at what God has done and to see that it was good.

On the otherhand, for us living on earth today, as we are living in a time of Biblical knowlege such as never before, by beholding Jesus in the pages of sacred scripture. Seeing how he works with people in our condition, awakens love and by beholding we become changed.

We are all in stages of growth as God recreats us. The angels and unfallen worlds closed their probation and settled their salvation at the cross, but a looking at what God does, helps them to grow in their already saved relationship. Already in Genesis 1, prior to the creation of humans, God is performing acts of redemption then looking at them and making a pronuncement over what HE has done.

Great post, Kevin.

Bumping this topic.