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--- en:operating_principles:dtm:publishing_church_growth_model:gods_mission:vindication [2026/05/08 19:45] – jpauldietrich
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-Definition of Vindication: To defend; to justify; to support or maintain as true or correct, against denial, censure or objections.
+**Websters 1828 Dictionary definition of "vindication":** To defend; to justify; to support or maintain as true or correct, against denial, censure or objections.((https://webstersdictionary1828.com/Dictionary/vindicate))
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+Vindication of God's character is extremely important. Satan has hurled deceptions and falsehoods about God's character for millennia. Many people reject God because they believe lies about His character. God is setting all of this straight, and one day soon, everyone in the universe will be fully and clearly convinced that God's character is good and that Satan's is evil. Once God's character is fully vindicated, God's eternal kingdom will be fully established.
+> ...when the great controversy shall be ended. Then, the plan of redemption having been completed, the character of God is revealed to all created intelligences. The precepts of His law are seen to be perfect and immutable. Then sin has made manifest its nature, Satan his character. Then the extermination of sin will vindicate God's love and establish His honor before a universe of beings who delight to do His will, and in whose heart is His law. (DA 764.3).
+> And this is eternal life, that they may know You, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom You have sent. John 17:3
 ===== God's Character =====
+> The last rays of merciful light, the last message of mercy to be given to the world, is a revelation of His character of love. COL 415.5
+> But not so when the great controversy shall be ended. Then, the plan of redemption having been completed, the character of God is revealed to all created intelligences. The precepts of His law are seen to be perfect and immutable. Then sin has made manifest its nature, Satan his character. Then the extermination of sin will vindicate God’s love and establish His honor before a universe of beings who delight to do His will, and in whose heart is His law. DA 764.3
 ===== God's Law =====
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 > But it is ever the purpose of Satan to make void the law of God and to pervert the true meaning of the plan of salvation. ... The atonement of Calvary **vindicated the law** of God as holy, just, and true, not only before the fallen world but before heaven and before the worlds unfallen. Christ came to magnify the law and to make it honorable. (FW 118.2).
+> Christ died to save sinners, not in their sins, but from their sins. The warning given in Revelation shows us the terrible consequence of transgression. By lips that will not lie, God's law is declared to be holy, just, and good. Our duty to obey this law is to be the burden of the last message of mercy to the world. God's law is not a new thing. It is not holiness created, but holiness made known. It is a code of principles expressing mercy, goodness, and love. It presents to fallen humanity the character of God, and states plainly the whole duty of man. (RH April 27,  1911, par. 2).
 ===== God's Government =====
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 ===== God's Truth =====
+> whom God set forth as a propitiation by His blood, through faith, to demonstrate His righteousness, because in His forbearance God had passed over the sins that were previously committed, Romans 3:25
 > vindicate the righteousness of His Father’s word CEv 64.2