The Seventh-day Adventists – Adventists Second Coming and Tis Azazel

The lecture addresses criticism of the views of the Adventist group (the second-coming sect) regarding prophecy and setting dates for the Second Coming, particularly their reliance on books associated with the visions of Mrs. White and their dating of the year 1844 as the end of the world.
The speaker explains the danger of interpreting prophetic texts according to personal whims—such as interpreting the words of the Book of Revelation and the phrase “time, times, and half a time” or the word “day” literally—which leads to mistakes in fixing dates for the Coming.
The lecture presents examples of other groups that erred in fixing dates (like Jehovah’s Witnesses who expected 1914) and how they justify their failed expectations with new interpretations.
His Holiness explains the meaning of the story of Azazel in Leviticus and affirms that it is symbolic indicating God’s removal of sins from His people, not that the devil carries these sins on behalf of Christ.
He emphasizes that Christ bore our sins and died as a ransom for us, and that the atonement was completed on the cross, and the biblical verses affirm that God “does not remember” our sins after their forgiveness.
The speaker discusses the claim that Christ entered the eternal reign or sat on the heavenly throne in the year 1844, and affirms that Christ’s entry into glory and His sitting at the right hand of the Father occurred immediately after the Ascension, not at a later date.
A spiritual warning taught by the lecture: to avoid attempts to set dates for the Coming or to tie God’s salvation to a particular year, and to adhere to an Orthodox traditional understanding of Scripture rather than to individual interpretations and personal visions.
In conclusion the speaker affirms that our salvation and its completion are linked to the work of Christ completed on the cross and His Ascension and sitting at the right hand of the Father, and that the interpretation of prophecies must be done with caution and the spirit of discernment.

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