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This links also with Daniel 7:10 and Daniel 7:26-27 which says...
[10], A fiery stream issued and came forth from before him: thousand thousands ministered to him, and ten thousand times ten thousand stood before him: the judgment was set, and the books were opened.
You just summarized the entire type of the Day of Atonement, and there were not books in them.
The books [plural] of God's judgment are shown through the scriptures to refer
1. The book of life and
2 the book of remembrance (deeds and acts)
Rev. 20.
and books were opened. And another book was opened, which is the Book of Life.
The plural does not tell us one way or the other, because the books opened first are plural by themselves. Then another books is opened, the book of life.
Daniel 7 makes no mention of a book of life. But then it doesn't need to because it doesn't mention anything about a judgment on individuals to start with. The judgment is on the fourth beast, the little horn, and the three other beasts are allowed to live.
Here is what a judgment on individuals looks like:
12 And I saw the dead, small and great, standing before ]God, and books were opened. And another book was opened, which is the Book of Life. And the dead were judged according to their works, by the things which were written in the books.
You see how it mentions not only the book of life, but that the dead will be judged? None of that is said in Daniel 7.
But there is a larger issue yet. You keep pointing to Daniel 7 and saying "see, Day of Atonement". And I keep asking where? And you keep saying "there are books!" But you just went through the Day of Atonement type, and what the high priest did in the sanctuary. The type did not have the high priest going into the sanctuary and doing anything with books, or investigation. He went into God's presence with the sacrificial blood for cleansing.
The Adventists invented the notion of the examining of every case while the priest is in the sanctuary during the DOA, because they had to explain the delay. The type of the DOA does not include a protracted stay by the high priest, or an investigation by the high priest. It portrays blood application in God's presence.
There is a reason that the investigative judgment is unique to Seventh-day Adventists. They are the only ones who need to justify the delay since 1844, because they were the only ones convinced that Millers false message of Jesus coming in 1843 was of God.
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