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THE SANCTUARY

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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · June 17, 1880

FromThe Review and Herald, Vol. 55, No. 25

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THE SANCTUARY.

By Joseph Clarke

BY JOSEPH CLARKE.
In Lev. 19:30 and 26:2, the people of God were commanded to reverence his sanctuary. This was the earthly sanctuary built by Moses; and the people to whom the command was addressed were Israelites. But in Heb. 8:1, 2, we find that Christ is a minister of the sanctuary and of the true tabernacle, which the Lord pitched, and not man. From Heb. 9:24, it appears that this sanctuary is in Heaven; and from Dan. 8:14 we learn that an important work is to be performed in the heavenly sanctuary at the end of the 2300 prophetic days.
This fact has been, to a great degree, lost sight of by the church, for many ages past; and the sanctuary has been lost sight of; but in Rev. 11:19, the sanctuary, or temple, is brought to view as connected with the scenes of the last days; and in Rev. 8:3-5, the ark of God’s testament, the golden altar, the censer, and the sacred fire, are mentioned in connection with the same scenes, as though the Lord would, in the last days, call his people to the consideration of the heavenly sanctuary, and the work to be there accomplished. This work is of the deepest interest to all who value the ministrations of Christ, our High Priest, who there pleads for his people, and there decides their cases. See Rev. 11:18.
Beneath the mercy seat, before which our Saviour ministers, is the law of God, the ten commandments. In the bosom of that law is the fourth commandment, unchanged since God spoke it from Sinai, and engraved it with his own finger on the tables of stone. Thus the Sabbath and the sanctuary are closely connected. Now, is it not a fair and honest conclusion, that Sabbath-keepers who will stand in the terrible scenes of the last days, and be acquitted at last in the court of Heaven, must see the Sabbath in connection with the sanctuary, and the truths to be made clear at the same time? The rays of divine truth emanating from the sanctuary are lighting up the pages of inspiration with a clear and beautiful light. It seems to us that all must see this light and walk in it, or be left in darkness.