Most Adventists of course do not believe what Ellen White said on this matter. And they should not!
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1. Most Adventist read her published works - not so much your interest in her "unpublished" comments and letters.
2. Most Adventists do not agree that the symbols in Lev 16 "goats" are not there to "represent goats" but rather are types - and they represent an anti-type as is the case with all types and symbols.
3. Most Adventists admit that Christ paid a full and complete atoning sacrifice for all sins of all mankind as we find in 1 John 2:2 and this is what we see symbolized in the case of the sin offering in Lev 16:15 slain before the Sanctuary ministry and the sanctuary service judgment completes before anything at all is done with the Scapegoat.
4. Most Adventists agree that even though Christ paid for all sins - yet even so the wicked pay the suffering debt of their own sins - which relieves/lessens the guilt of no one since the suffering of the wicked are not salvific and save no one.
5. Most Adventists agree that Satan is wicked no matter how much suffering he endures at the end of time.
Details that Ellen White's statements also affirm.
6. Most Adventists do not object to this Bible teaching about the payment/punishment of "double"
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There is
obviously a “doubling” principle when it comes to sin’s just recompense.
Rev 18:
4 I heard another voice from heaven, saying, “Come out of her, my people, so that you will not participate in her sins and receive
any of her plagues; 5 for her sins have piled up as high as heaven, and God has remembered her offenses. 6 Pay her back even as she has paid, and
give back to her double according to her deeds; in the cup which she has mixed, mix twice as much for her.
Is 40:
1 “Comfort, comfort My people,” says your God.
2 “Speak kindly to Jerusalem; And call out to her, that her warfare has ended,
That her guilt has been removed, That she has received of the Lord’s hand
Double for all her sins.”
Jer 16:
17 For My eyes are on all their ways; they are not hidden from My face, nor is their wrongdoing concealed from My eyes. 18 I will first
repay them double for their wrongdoing and their sin,
Regardless of how this is measured to the wicked – we can obviously
see “double payment” of suffering for sin in the case of the wicked.
1. 1 John 2:2 Christ pays as the “
atoning sacrifice for our sins and not for our sins but for the sins of the whole world” – so then "whole world" which means it includes
paying for the wicked.
2. Rev 20:13-15 – shows
the wicked suffer for their own debt of sin
even though Christ already paid for it. Double suffering .
3. Note:
The suffering of the wicked is always without salvific merit and lessens no one’s guilt.
Lev 16 in the cases of the scapegoat we see the same sins already fully atoned for with the sin offering and the High Priest mediation in the sanctuary – yet this is also suffered by the wicked.
Lev 16: (The SCAPEGOAT)
20 “
When he finishes atoning for the Holy Place and the tent of meeting and the altar, he shall
offer the live goat. 21 Then Aaron shall
lay both of his hands on the head of the live goat, and confess over it all the wrongdoings of the sons of Israel and all their unlawful acts regarding all their sins; and he shall
place them on the head of the goat and send it away into the wilderness by the hand of a man who
stands ready. 22 Then
the goat shall carry on itself all their wrongdoings to an isolated territory;
he shall release the goat in the wilderness.
26
The one who released the goat as the scapegoat shall wash his clothes and bathe his body with water; then afterward he shall come into the camp. (Because unlike the sin offering - the scapegoat defiles those that touch it while it is alive)
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Most Adventists believe that the scapegoat is not a "sin offering" which means it is not a symbol of Christ - and agree with the Bible that it contaminates the one that touches it - so again "not a symbol of Christ"
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The scapegoat can only represent a wicked entity since it ceremonially “defiles” those that touch it in Lev 16 once sins are placed on it.
The scapegoat ceremonially defiles “ makes unclean” the person that touches it once sin is place on it.
Lev 16: 26 And
he that let go the goat for the scapegoat shall wash his clothes, and bathe his flesh in water, and afterward come into the camp..
The substitutionary death of Christ for "all the sins" was already fully covered in the previous "sin offering" Lev 16:15 -
Lev 16:15 “Then he shall slaughter the goat of the sin offering, which is for the people, and bring its blood inside the veil and do with its blood as he did with the blood of the bull, and sprinkle it on the atoning cover and in front of the atoning cover. 16 He shall make atonement for the Holy Place, because of the impurities of the sons of Israel and because of their unlawful acts regarding all their sins; and he shall do so for the tent of meeting which remains with them in the midst of their impurities.
And "yet" the Lev 16:26 remains to be done instead of simply "ending the chapter in vs 25." God's word matters so we read and accept it.
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