Introductory Explanation

We are pleased to be able to present to you on the internet Dr Desmond Ford’s manuscript which was typed, duplicated and distributed to the delegates to the Sanctuary Review Committee which met at Glacier View Ranch, Colorado, August 10-15, 1980. After the Conference Dr Ford felt that it needed wider distribution. So it was published as a book. Details are in this document which was variously known as the Glacier View manuscript or Glacier View Document. In published form of about 695 pages it was titled “Daniel 8:14, the Day of Atonement and the Investigative Judgment.”

This work not only explains the problems with the SDA doctrine relating to the work of Christ as mediator and judge, known as the “Sanctuary Doctrine”, but also includes relevant historical documents, making it an extremely valuable resource. If it continues to fulfill its original purpose as a document for study and discussion the author will be well-pleased. It was Ellen White who wrote “Open the Heart to Light” in “Review and Herald” March 25, 1890: “No one has said that we shall find perfection in any man’s investigations, but this I do know, that our churches are dying for the want of teaching on the subject of righteousness by faith in Christ, and for kindred truths.” If this work leads you to that, it will suffice.

It is not our intention to alter the work but readers who detect typographical errors are invited to advise Good News Unlimited by e-mail so that these can be corrected online.

Readers will notice reference to JPEG images throughout the document. In the printed work these are either charts or photocopies. These are available by link and can be downloaded for examination. They are numbered according to the page and position in the document. Page numbers in the printed work are located at the bottom of the page. However in this version they are located at the beginning of each page to facilitate searches.

Finally, scattered throughout the document are numbers which are not part of the text itself. These refer to the endnotes and references listed in the FOOTNOTES which appear at the end of each chapter.

1. Endnote 59 on page 165 is probably incorrect because the text cannot be found to which it is supposed to be connected.