Most holy judgment of the little horn, Azazel

"Until I went into the sanctuary of God; then understood I their end." (Psa. 73:17).

"I was envious at the foolish, when I saw the prosperity of the wicked.

For there are no bands in their death: but their strength is firm.

They are not in trouble as other men; neither are they plagued like other men.

Therefore pride compasseth them about as a chain; violence covereth them as a garment.

Their eyes stand out with fatness: they have more than heart could wish.

They are corrupt, and speak wickedly concerning oppression: they speak loftily.

They set their mouth against the heavens, and their tongue walketh through the earth.

Therefore his people return hither: and waters of a full cup are wrung out to them.

And they say, How doth God know? and is there knowledge in the most High?

Behold, these are the ungodly, who prosper in the world; they increase in riches.

Verily I have cleansed my heart in vain, and washed my hands in innocency.

For all the day long have I been plagued, and chastened every morning.

If I say, I will speak thus; behold, I should offend against the generation of thy children.

When I thought to know this, it was too painful for me;

Until I went into the sanctuary of God; then understood I their end.

Surely Thou didst set them in slippery places: Thou castedst them down into destruction.

How are they brought into desolation, as in a moment! They are utterly consumed with terrors.

As a dream when one awaketh; so, O Lord, when Thou awakest, Thou shalt despise their image.

Thus my heart was grieved, and I was pricked in my reins.

So foolish was I, and ignorant: I was as a beast before thee.

Nevertheless I am continually with Thee: Thou hast holden me by my right hand.

Thou shalt guide me with Thy counsel, and afterward receive me to glory.

Whom have I in heaven but Thee? And there is none upon earth that I desire beside Thee.

My flesh and my heart faileth: but God is the strength of my heart, and my portion for ever.

For, lo, they that are far from Thee shall perish: t

Thou hast destroyed all them that go a whoring from Thee.

But it is good for me to draw near to God: I have put my trust in the Lord God, that I may declare all Thy works." (Psa. 73:3-28).

Many times have I read this psalm. But I never understood the sanctuary connection to what I perceived to be simply the typical treading down of the poor. But, the scenario being played out is not just a man taking refuge in a future holding of accountability by God on everyday oppressors subjugating impoverished urchins. It is showing that that situation has a much, much larger application.

This psalm must be laid over Deuteronomy 32, the second song of Moses, which I will abbreviate.

"For the Lord's portion is his people; Jacob is the lot of his inheritance.

He found him in a desert land, and in the waste howling wilderness; he led him about, he instructed him, he kept him as the apple of his eye....

But Jeshurun waxed fat, and kicked: thou art waxen fat, thou art grown thick, thou art covered with fatness; then he forsook God which made him, and lightly esteemed the Rock of his salvation.

They provokeded him to jealousy with strange gods, with abominations provoked they him to anger....

And when the Lord saw it, he abhorred them, because of the provoking of his sons, and of his daughters.

And he said, I will hide my face from them, I will see what their end shall be: for they are a very froward generation, children in whom is no faith....

O that they were wise, that they understood this, that they would consider their latter end!...

For their vine is of the vine of Sodom, and of the fields of Gomorrah: their grapes are grapes of gall, their clusters are bitter:

Their wine is the poison of dragons, and the cruel venom of asps.

Is not this laid up in store with me, and sealed up among my treasures?...

For I lift up my hand to heaven, and say, I live for ever.

If I whet my glittering sword, and mine hand take hold on judgment; I will render vengeance to mine enemies, and will reward them that hate me.

I will make mine arrows drunk with blood, and my sword shall devour flesh; and that with the blood of the slain and of the captives, from the beginning of revenges upon the enemy.

Rejoice, O ye nations, with his people: for he will avenge the blood of his servants, and will render vengeance to his adversaries, and will be merciful unto his land, and to his people." (Deut. 32:9,10,15,16,19,20,29,32-34,40-43).

This song lists the progression of apostasy. Satan plants his banner in some influential, worldly wise hearts. They accept a pagan practice because it pleases their carnal appetites. Pagan practices soon multiply among them and then begins leaving their little secret cabal, spreading around the congregation. A vast majority then sides with the gods of darkness and heed their insisting that the small minority who couldn't join the war against God's laws must be exterminated. Oppression and persecution ensue.

But, the persecution purifies the remnant until they have been cleansed of the roots of self-indulgence. Simultaneously, the pagan and worldly wise become increasingly destitute of a conscience, and very wicked. At last the Judge of all the earth can deliver His consecrated remnant people and destroy the confirmed lost.

This is what played out during the Dark Ages until the Reformation could be born. It is also how the entire great controversy will end in the close of probation. Jeremiah 25:8-38 and Jeremiah 31:28-34.

So, there is a connection between the typical Day of atonement, the third angel's message, and Daniel 8:14 judgment on the little horn power. During the fifth and sixth trumpets that sound after 1844, the seal of God and the mark of the beast are being placed on minds as decisions are made for or against God's truth and Jesus' example of patient endurance.

Over time, as we have seen since 1844, a divide continually separates the righteous from the unjust, the holy from the filthy. When persecution purifies the remnant of every deficiency and love of sin, and confirms the souls of the impenitent, then the characters of the God of love and the malignancy of Satan are plainly evident. 

At that point the judgment of the Father has decided in His favor, He concludes the cleansing of His heavenly sanctuary, closes probation, and sends His Son and the angelic hosts to end the persecution. 

Without an Intercessor between Him and sinners, He unleashes every kind of plague upon the world. The purified saints are worthy of protection during this horrific time, but the spiritual wrath upon every habitation of the sin nature that tortures minds and hearts has its effect on the saints also since they still have the sinful human nature. 

But they have been fortified for this horror of great darkness by their participation in the latter rain preaching and the laying down of their lives for the sake of reaching the world's multitudes with the truth of God's true character and the true identity of the Father and Son. Satan is excluded from their personal knowledge of God and from their doctrine of the Godhead. 

The 144,000 and great multitude that no man can number alike can stand when Jesus appears. His wife has made herself ready.