stands up and says it is finished and takes off his high priestly garments and then come the seven last flakes so yes there is a blotting out that takes place just before Michael stands up up and it's it's a blotting out of the times of refreshing that is only understood correctly if you're going to understand it as a progressive experience when the times of refreshing begin somewhere around the Sunday law in the United States and the judgment of the living is beginning during this time period but a little bit before somewhere in that time period as each case is dealt with and their sins are blotted out we're talking about the faithful here this this judgment of the living proceeds until the last person is judged so in a sense the blotting out does take place just before the close of human probation but to understand it correctly we must understand it on a continuum the judgment correctly understood is on a continuum it begins with the dead moves to the living begins with the house of God moves out into the world to the 11th hour workers it begins in the United States as far as the test that brings it all to a conclusion then and it spreads geographically around the world to the rest of the countries of the world and the different processes that take place in the judgment and one of them is the blotting out of sin it also must be understood on this continuum it doesn't take place all at one time if you believe that and many do in Adventism many do this is the concept that's in this book we've just been looking at you're disregarding the several places where we're told and we've read some of these in our first presentation that each case is looked at individually one at a time now