I agree. The doctrine is not hardly taught any more. But, in the past it was not taught very well. We close our own probations, God does not. Our names do not come up until our probation is closed and we are sealed one way or the other. Since we live in the anti-typical Day of Atonement, some will be judged while living. In that case, we will not know when our name comes up. But, we do not have to be concerned about God being unfair or arbitrary. Whom do we love, whom do we speak of? If we sin today, but have been living a holy life, there is no fear that God has been waiting for us to slip up. That is not His character. No, He allowed His Son to come to this sin darkened world to save us, not to send us to hell. Jesus delays His leaving the heavenly sanctuary that all who can be saved will be saved. We need to speak more of His love and patience with humanity. He died for us while we were yet sinners. He came to save the lost.
As the books of record are opened in the judgment, the lives of all who have believed on Jesus come in review before God. Beginning with those who first lived upon the earth, our Advocate presents the cases of each successive generation, and closes with the living. Every name is mentioned, every case closely investigated. Names are accepted, names rejected. When any have sins remaining upon the books of record, unrepented of and unforgiven, their names will be blotted out of the book of life, and the record of their good deeds will be erased from the book of God's remembrance. The Lord declared to Moses: "Whosoever hath sinned against Me, him will I blot out of My book." Exodus 32:33. And says the prophet Ezekiel: "When the righteous turneth away from his righteousness, and committeth iniquity, . . . all his righteousness that he hath done shall not be mentioned." Ezekiel 18:24.
All who have truly repented of sin, and by faith claimed the blood of Christ as their atoning sacrifice, have had pardon entered against their names in the books of heaven; as they have become partakers of the righteousness of Christ, and their characters are found to be in harmony with the law of God, their sins will be blotted out, and they themselves will be accounted worthy of eternal life. The Lord declares, by the prophet Isaiah: "I, even I, am He that blotteth out thy transgressions for Mine own sake, and will not remember thy sins." Isaiah 43:25. Said Jesus: "He that overcometh, the same shall be clothed in white raiment; and I will not blot out his name out of the book of life, but I will confess his name before My Father, and before His angels." "Whosoever therefore shall confess Me before men, him will I confess also before My Father which is in heaven. But whosoever shall deny Me before men, him will I also deny before My Father which is in heaven." Revelation 3:5; Matthew 10:32, 33. GC 483