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PROPHECY OF DANIEL.
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4 DANIEL, OHAP. TWO.
We wish here to inquire, Where did the stone kings shall the God of ben.ven
set up a kingdom which shall
strike the image? Answer, "upon his feet." W o never be destroyed.''
shall have occasion to refer to this fact again .
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6 DANIEL, CHAP. TWO.
Verses 87, 38. "Thou, 0 king, art a king of breaketh all thes~, shall it break in pieces and
kings: for the God of heaven hath given thee a bruise."
ingdom, power, and strength, and glory. And What kingdom is this ? It is generally admit-
wheresoever the children of men dwell, the beasts ted to be the Roman kingdom. It is a universal
of the field and the fowls of the heaven hath he kingdom, that is to break in pieces all tha~ w:ent
given into thine hand, and hath made thee ruler before it. Rome alone answers the desc:nptwn.
over them all. Thou art [or, thy kingdom isJ That did have universal empire. See Luke ii, 1.
this head of gold." "And it came to pass in those days, that there went
Babylon was the first kingdom of universal em- out a decree from Cresar Augustus, that all the
pire. It was founded by Nimrod, the great grand-" world should be taxed.'' Who was Cresar Augus-
son of Noah. See Gen. x, 8-10. It lasted nearly tus ? A Roman emperor. Here we have. the
seventeen hundred years, though under different fourth kingdom, represented by the legs of uon.
names; sometimes called Babylon, sometimes As- Verse 41. [First part.] "And whereas thou
syria, and sometimes Chaldea. It extended from sawest the feet and toes, part of potter's clay and
Nimrod to Belshazzar, who was its last king. part of iron, the kingdom shall be divided."
Verse 39. [First part.] "And after thee shall What kin<rdom shall be divided ? Answer, The
arise another kingdom, inferior to thee." fourth kingd~m. The Western empire of Rome,
What kingdom succeeded Babylon? See chap. betwe~n the years A. D. 356 and 483, was divided
v, 28. "Thy kingdom [Babylon] is divided, and into ten divisions, or kingdoms.
given to the Medes and Persians." Then the Me- 1. The Huns, in Hungary, A. D. 356.
do-Persian kingdom wa~ the second universal king- 2. The Ostrogoths, in Mysia, 377.
dom, represented by the breast and arms of silver. 3. The Visgoths, in Pannonia, 378.
Verse 39. [Last part.] "And another third 4. The Franks, in France, 407.
ki~gdom of brass, which shall bear rule over all 5. The Vandals in Africa, 407.
the earth." 6. The Sueves and Alans, in Gascoigne and
What kingdom was this? See chap. viii, 5-7, Spain, 407.
21. Here we learn that Grecia conquered the 7. The Burgundians, in Burgundy, 407.
Medo-Persian kingdom and became a kingdom of 8. The Heruli and Rugii, in Italy, 476.
universal empire. This took .place under Alexan- 9. The Saxons and Angles, in Britain, 476.
der. Here, then, we have the third kingdom, 10. The Lombards, in Germany, 483.
which is represented by the brass of the image. Thus the kingdom was divided as designated by
Verse 40. "And the fourth kingdom shall be the ten toes. .
strong as iron : forasmuch as iron breaketh in pie- Verse 41. [Last part.] "But there shall be in
- ces and subdueth all things; and as iron that it of the strength of the iron, forasmuch ""as thou
sawest the iron mixed with miry clay."
The Roman or iron power, through the infiu- from one set of rulers to another, as has been the
en~ and authority, of Papacy, or Papal Rome, case with the four previous kingdoms.
st~etc~ed itself among the clay so as to be!lnixed
With 1t, and thereby kept up the strength of iron. In regard to the fifth kingdom, set up by the
God of heaven, there are at least two genera~ views.
Verses 42, 43. "And as the toes of the feet One is that it is the kingdom of grace, which was
were part of iron and part of clay so the king- to increase till it filled the whole earth; "for'' say
dom [Roman kingdomJshall be partly strong and they who hold this view, " the stone ~as to roll
partly broken. And whereas thou sawest iron and grow till it became a great mountam, and fill-
mixed with miry clay, they [RomanistsJ shall min- ed the whole earth." Unfortunately for this view,
gle themselves [Rome Papal] with the seed of however, there is not a word of Bible testimony to
men ; but they shall not cleave one to another, sustain it.
even as iron is not mixed with clay.'' The other is the Bible view as follows : " Thou
How exactly has all this been fulfilled. Roman- sawest till that a stone was cut out without hands,
is?I, or the !toman Church! while it has mingled which smote the image upon his feet _that were of
w1th all natiOns, has not mued with them, but ha.s iron and clay, and brake them to p1ec~s. Then
kept.up its authority over its subjects, under what- wa-s the iron the clay, the brass, the silver, and
ever government they may have been located so the gold, b;oken to pieces togethe;, and became
tha~ the authority of R?me has been felt by an'the like the chaff of the summer threshing-floors j and
natwns where her subJects have been "minO'led the wind carried them away, that no place wa.s
with the seed of men." The fourth, or Ro~an found for them : and the stone that smote the im-
kingdom is thus perpetuated, though divided. age became a great mountain, and filled the whole
Verse 44. "And in the days of these kings earth." Chap. ii, 34, 35. Mark well the eventB
shall the God of heaven set up a kingdom which here stated. The stone breaks the image, an~ it
shall never be destroyed : and the kingdom shall becomes like t~e chaff of the summer threshmg-
not be left to other people, but it shall break in fioors and the wind carries it away so that no place
pieces and consume all these kingdoms, and it shall is fo~nd for it-all earthly kingdoms are broken
stand forever." and cease to exist-then the stone becomes a great
We shall do well to notice with care, 1st. what mountain and fills the whole earth. This view of
kings, or kingdoms are here referred to. Most the subject is in perfect harmony with the testi.
certainly_ they are the ten kings of the divided mony of the- Old and New Testaments.
fourth kmgdom, for they are the subject of dis- And we would inquire of those who teach that
course. And 2d. the kingdom set up. It is the the kincrdom of grace was set up by our Lord J e-
fifth universal kingdom, and is never to be destroy- sus Chrlst 1800 years since, Had God no "king-
ed and left to other people. It is, therefore the dom of gr~ce" before the first. advent of Christ?
immortal kingdom. The subjects will not 'pass
If not, then Enoch, Noah, Lot, Abraham, Isaac, time restore again the kingdom to Israel ?" Not
J aoob, Moses and ~he prophets have perished with- done yet. Now see 1 Cor. xv, 50. "Now this I
out hope, for certainly no man can be saved with- say, brethren, that flesh and blood cannot inherit
out grace. the kingdom of God." This settles the question
But le~ us look at this subject a little further. that the kingdom of God is not set up till the saints
Where. did the stone strike the image when it . put on immortality, or not till they enter the im-
smote 1t? Not on the head-Babylon nor on morta.l state, which Paul tells us [verse 52] is "at
the breast and arms-Media and Persia ~ nor on the last trump," and the Apostle tells us [2 Tim.
the belly and thighs-Grecia ; nor yet o~ the legs iv, 11 that "the Lord Jesus Christ shall judge the
-:-Rome Pagan, as it should have done, if the quick and t~e dead at his appearing and his king-
kmgdo~ was set up at Chris~s first advent. Where, dom." Again he tells us [Acts xiv, ~2] that "we
then, d1d the stone smite the image ? Answer must through much tribulation enter into the king-
u eet." Now 1t
upon h'fi
UTT.. . could not stnite the feet. dom of God ;" and this address was made to those
~efore they were in being; and they did not exist who were already christians, and shows that the
t~l several hundred years ~r Christ's crucifixion, kingdom of God was still future, in the Apostle's
till.the fourth, or Roman kingdom was divided; estimation.
whwh we have stated did not take place till be- The kingdom is a matter of promise. "Heark
tween the years A. D. 356 and 483. en, my beloved brethren, hath not God chosen the
But that the kingdom was not set up at certain roor of this world, rich in faith, and heirs of the
periods spoken of in the New Testament will ap- kingdom which he hath promised to them that
pear from the examination of a few pas;ages. It love him?" James ii, 5. It is yet to come. "Fear
was not set up when our Lord taug!lt his followers not, little :ftock; for it is your Father's good pleas-
to pray, "Thy kingdom come:" itmust have been ure to give you the kingdom."
future then. Again, the ~other of Zebedee's chil- The miniature exhibition of the kingdom of God
dren understood it to be future when she desired at the transfiguration [Matt. xvi, 27, 28 ; xvii, 1-
our Lord to ~rant that her two sons might sit, "the 5] is designed to show the nature of the kingdom,
~e on the l'Ight hand, and the other on the left and when it will be set up. " For the Son of man
m thy kingdom." It was still future when ou; shall come in the glory of his Father, with his an-
Lord ate the last passover. See Luke xxii 18. "I gels; and then he shall reward every man accord-
s~y unto ;rou, I will not drink of the fruit of the ing to his works. Verily I say unto you, There _
~me, until the kingdom of God shall come." So be some standing here, which shall not taste of
. 1t had not then come. ' death, till they see the Son of man coming in his
But did he not sat it up before his ascension to kingdom." ["Till they see the kingdom of God."
heaven ? See Acts i, 6. " Lord, wilt thou at this Luke ix, 27.]
dom of heaven is as a man traveling in a far cou~ the night ?" In what period of prophecy are we
try ." This refers to Christ, as will be seen by now? Are we in the kingdom of Babylon, under
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DANIEL, CHAP. SEVEN. 29
''Justinian, piousj fortunate, renowned, tiiumph- therefore decree that the most holy Pope of the el-
ant, ei?peror, consul! &c., to John, the Most Holy der Rome is the first of all the priesth~d, and
Archbishop of our mty of Rome, and Patriarch. that the m~st blessed archbishop of Constantinople,
"Rendering honor to the apostolic see and to the new Rome, shall hold the second rank, after
your holiness, (as always was and is our 'desire) the holy apostolic chair of the elder Rome.' " -
and, as it becomes us, honoring your blessedne~s C1oley, pp. 114, 115. .
as ~ father, we haye laid wi~hout delay before the Imperial Rome fell about A. D. 47~, and 'Ya.s m
notice of your holiness all thmgs pertainin to the
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the hands of the barbarians. Thus 1t contmued
state of the church. Since it has always b~en our ti.ll the conquest of Rome by Belisarius, Justinian's
earnest study to preserve the unity of your holy general, 536 to 538, when the Ostrogoths left it
see, and the state of the holy churches of God in po session of the Greek emperor, March, 538.
which has hitherto obtained, and will remain, with~ Thus the way was open for the dragon to give ~he .
out any interfering opposition; therefore we hasten beast his power and his seat, and great authonty.
to subject~ and to unite to your holiness all the Rev. xiii, 2. . .
priests of the whole East. .As to the matte;s which 5. The length of time thi~ power was to ?o.n~m- .
are' presently agitated, although clear and undoubt- ue. Daniel says, "a time, t1mes, and the d1v1dmg
ed, and, according to the doctrine of your apostolic . of time." John says, [Rev. xiii, 5,] "Power was
see, held asswedly, resolved and decided by all given unto him to continue forty .and two months."
priests, we have yet deemed it necessary to lay He was to make war upon the samts-the church;
them before your holiness. Nor do we suffer any- and in Rev. xii, 6, we are told the woman, the
thing which belongs to the state of the church church, fled into the wilderness 1260 days ; and
however manifest and undoubted, that is aoitated t~ at the 14t.h verse, that it was for " a time, and
pass without the knowledge of your holi~e s, ~ho times, and half a time." Here, the.n, we have t~e
are the head of all the churches. For in all thin as period of the continuance of th1s power, giv-
(as had been said or resolved) we are prompt to en us in three forms of expression, which settles
increase the honor and authority of your see." the point that the time, times, and dfviding of
" The authenticity of the title," says l\fr. Oro- time, is 42 months, or 1260 prophetic days or
ley, "receives unanswerable proof from the edicts years. . ..
of the ' N ovellre' of the Jus tin ian code. The pre- 6. Did the contmuance of the Papal Dommwn,
amble of the 9th, states, 'that as the elder Rome as a horn of the beast, cease at the end of that
was the founder of the laws ; so was it not to be period? From 5~~, 1260. .years would ext~nd. to
ques~ioned, that in her was the supremacy of the 1798. Did anythmg transpue that year to JW:tify
pontificate.' The 13lst, on the Ecclesiastical the belief that the dominion of Papacy was taken
Titles and privileges, chapter ii, states : 'We away that year? It is a historical fact, that, on
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which is called VERY GREAT. Verse 8. Then remember that nationA are not brought into proph-
comes the power in question which is called EX- ecy till connected with the people of God. Rome
CEEDING GREAT. Verse 9. Was Antiochus had been in existence many years before it was no-
exceeding great when compared with Alexander, ticed in prophecy; and Rome had made l\Iacedon,
the conqueror of the world ? Let an item from one of the four horns of the Grecian goat, a part
the Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge answer: of itself B. o. 168, about seven years before its first
" Finding his resources exhausted, he resolved connection with the people of God. See 1 Mac.
to go into Persia, to levy tributes and collect large viii. So that Rome could as truly be said to be
sums which he had ag1eed to pay to the Romans." " out of one of them," as the ten horns of the
Surely we need not question which was exceed- fourth beast in the seventh chapter, could be said
ing great, the Roman power which exacted the to come out of that beast, when they were ten
tribute, or Antiochus who was compelled to pay it. kingdoms set up by the conquerors of Rome.
4. The power in question was " little,' at first, 2. It was to wax exceeding great toward the
but it waxed or grew" exceeding great toward the south, and toward the east, and toward the pleas-
south, and toward the east, and toward the pleas- ant land. [Pale tine. Ps. cvi, 24; Zech. vii, 14.]
ant land." What can this describe but the con- This was true of Rome in every particular. Wit-
quering marches of amighty power ? Rome was ness its conquests in Africa and .Asia, and its over-
almost directly northwest from Jerusalem, and throw of the place and nation of the Jews. John
its conquests in Asia and Africa were, of course, xi, 48.
towards the east and south; but where were Anti- 3. It was to cast down of the host and of the stars.
o~hus' conquests ? He came into possession of a This is predicted respecting the dragon. Rev. xii,
kingdom already established, and Sir Isaac Newton 3, 4. .All admit that the dragon was Rome.
says, "He did not enlarge it." Who can fail to see their identity?
5. Out of many reasons that might be added 4. Rome was emphatically a king of fierce coun- .
to the above, we name but one. This power was tenance, and one that did understand dark senten-
to stand up against the Prince of princes. Verse } ces. Moses used similar language, when as all
25. The Prince of princes is Jesus Christ. Rev. ' agree, he predicted the Roman power. Deut.
i, 5; xvii, 14; xix, 16. But Antioch us died 164 xxviii, 49, 50.
years before our. Lord was born. It is settled, 5. Rome did destroy wonderfully. Witness its
therefore, that another power is the subject of this overthrow of all opposing powers.
prophecy. The following facts demonstrate that- 6. Rome has destroyed more of " the mighty
ROME IS THE POWER IN QUESTION.
and holy people," than all other persecuting pow-
ers combined. From fifty to one hundred millions
1. This po.wer was to come forth from one of of the church have been slain by it.
the four kingdoms of Alexander's empire. Let us
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midst of thE! week occurred in the spring of A. D.
31, just three and a half years from the commence- of the 2300 years was confidently expected in
ment of Christ's ministry. The remaining three 1843. But if the 2300 years began with th com-
and a half years of' the seventieth week, ended in ) mencement of n . c. 457, they would not end till
the autumn of .A. D. 34. Here the seventy weeks, .). the last day of A. D. 1843, as it would require. all
which had been cut off upon the Jews, in which of 457 and all of 1~43, to make 2300 full years.
they were "to finish the transgression," clo e with But'at the close of 1843, it wa.s clearly seen that
the Jewish Sanhedrim's act of formally rejecting as the crucifixion occurred in the midst of the
Christ by per ecuting his disciples, and God gives week in the spring of A. D. 31, the remainder of
the s~ventieth week, viz., three and a half years
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the great Apostle to the Gentiles his commission
to them. Acts ix. would end in the autumn of A. D. 34. And as
The first three and a half years of the seventieth the seventy weeks or 490 years, ended in the sev-
week ended in the first Jewish month [April] in enth month autu~n of A. D. 34-, it is a settled
the spring of A. D. ~1. The remaining three .and point that the days began, not in t~e spring, with
a half years would. therefore end in the seventh Ezra's starting from Babylon, but m ~he autumn,
month, autumn of A. D. 34. with the commencement of the work at J erusaJem.
Here ends the great period ~hich Gabriel, in Ezra vii. And this view that the days begin with
explaining the 2300 days to Daniel, tells him was the actual commencement of the work, is much
cut off upon Jerusalem and the Jews. Its com- stren O'thened by the fact that the first seven weeks, or
mencement, intermediate dates, and final termina- 4V y:Urs, are manifestly a~lotte~ to the work. of
tion are unequivocally established. It remains then restoration in "troublous t1mes. And that pcnod
to notice this one grand fact: the first 490 years of could only begin with the actual commencement
the 2300 ended in the seventh month, autumn of of the work. Dun. ix, 25.
A. D. H4. This period of 490 years being cut off When it was seen that only 456 years and a
from the 2300, a period of 181U years remains. fraction had expired before Christ, it was at once un-
This period of 1810 years being added to the sev- derstood that 1~43 years and a portion of 1844, suf-
enth month, autumn of A. D. <H, ~rings us to the ficient to make up a full year when joined to thatfrac-
seventh moiith, autumn of 1844. tion was required in order to make 2300 full years.
Let us recur to the events of 1843 and 1844. In ~ther words, the 230Q days in full time ~ould
Previous to the year 1843, the evidence on the expire in -the seventh month, 1844. And if we
going forth of the decree in B. c. 457 had been take into the account the fh.ct that the midst of
clearly and faithfully set forth. And as the period J the seventieth week was the fourteenth .day of the
of 457 years before hrist, subtracted from the 2300 first month and consequently the end of the sev~
would leave but 1843 years after Chr~st, the end enty weeks' must have been at a. correspondi.ng
point in the seventh month, A. D. 34, we percmve
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54 THE SANOTUABY. TilE SANCTUARY . 55
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hands have established." Ex. xv, 17. "And h-e land of Canaan was the mountain of the inheTit-
led them on safely, so that they feared not but ance. Ex. xv 17. 2. That mountain was the
the sea overwhelmed their enemies. Add he bo1'de1 of the ~anctuary. Ps. lxxviii, 54. .~ In
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brou~ht them the ~order ofnis sanctuary, even
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that border God built his sanctuary. Ps. lxxvm, 69
to thiS ~o~tam, whiCh. his. right hand ~ad pur- 4. In that sanctuary God dwelt. Ps. lxxiv, 7 ; Ex.
chased. And he bwlt his sanctuary hke high xxv, 8. 5. In that border the people dwelt. Ps.
palaces, like the earth which he hath established lxxviii 54 56. These facts demonstrate that the
for ever." Ps. lxxviii, 53, 54, 69. same Spirit moved both those " holy men ?f old."
The :first of these texts, it will be noticed is ta- ))
These texts perfectly ha~moniz~, not only w1th ~ach .
ken from the song f Moses, after the pass~ge of other, but with the ent1re test1mony of the.B1ble,
the Red- Sea. It is a prediction of what God respecting the sanctuary. If the rea~er s.till per-
would do for Israel. The second text was written sists in confounding the sanctuary mth Its bor-
about five hundred years after the sono- of Moses. der the land of Canaan we request him to listen
What Moses utters as a prediction th~ Psallnist while a king of.Judah p~ints out the distinction:.
~ecord~ as .a matter of history. He~ce, the psalm ., "Art thou our God, who didst drive out the Ill-
IS an ~nsptred commentary on the song of Moses. habitants of th1.'s land before thy people Is:ael, and
:U: the first text be read without the other, the rdea gavest it to the seed of Abraham thy fnend f?r
might be gathered that the mountain was the sanc- ever? And they dwelt therein, and hav_e b'l.ttlt
tuary, th?ugh it does not directly state this. Even thee a sanctuary therein for thy name, saym~, If,
as one might get the idea that the tribe of Judah when evil cometh upon us, as the sword, JUd~
was ~ou~~ Zion, were they to read only the ex-
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ment, o1 pestilence, or famine, we stand befor~ t~1s
pressiOn, but chose the tribe of Judah the house, and in thy presence, (_for thy J?-~e IS ID'
Mount ~ion which he loved," [Ps. lxxviii,' 68,] this house,) and cry unto thee m our affiictwn, then
a~d omit those texts which inform us that Mount thou wilt hear and help." 2 Chron xx, 7-9
Z1.on was the city of David, a part of Jerusalem This language is a perfect parallel to that of P~.
[2 .s~. y, 6, 7,] a~d was located in Judalt, as on~ t)
lxxviii, 54, 65, 69. In the clearest manner 1t
of Its c~t1es. Ezra I, 3, Ps. lxix, 35. points out the distinction between the land of ~a
. But if the ~econd text be read in connection naan, and the sanctuary which was built therem;
~th the first, It destroys the possibility of such an and it does clearly teach that that sanctuary was
mferen.ce. ?-'he Psalmist states that the mountain the house erected as the habitatio~ of God.
of the mhentance was the border of the sanctuary. But there is another text by which some attempt
And t~at God, after driving out the heathen be- to prove that Canaan is the sanct~ary. "~he
~ore h_Is people, proceeded to build his sanctuary people of thy holiness. have possessed It but a httle
like h1gh palaces. See 1 Chron. xxix, 1. 1. The while: our adversanes have trodden down thy
ii,J God forsook his habitation, and gave his glory, DAVID DESIRES TO BUILD .A. GLORIOUS SANC-
(the ark of his testament,) into t'he hands of the ene- TUARY.-The situation of God's house came into
my, the Philistines. Ps. lxxviii, 60-62; J er. vii, the mind of David, and he " desired to find a tab-
12-14; 1 Sam. iv. It does not appear that after the ernacle for the God of Jacob." Acts vii, 46; Ps.
a1k of God was taken from the tabernacle at Shiloh, cxxxii, 1-5. He set this matter before Nathan
and God there fo1sook his habitation, that his the prophet, who said to him, "Do all that is in
glory, or the ark of his covenant, ever return- thy heart, for God iswith thee." But that night
ed to thab building. The other sacred ves- God charged Nathan to say to David, " Thus saith
sels remained with the tabernacle, which in the the Lord, thou shalt not build me a house to dwell
days of Saul seems to have been located at in." 1 Ohron. xvii, 1-4; 2 Sam. vii, 1-5. This
Nob; [1 Sam, xxi; :Matt. xii. 3, 4; lVIark ii, 26 ;] was because David had been a man of w:ar, and
and in the days of David, at Gibeon. 1 Ohron. had shed blood abundantly. But God promised
xvi, 39; xxi, 29, 30; 1 K!ngs iii, 4; 2 Ohron. i, that Solomon, his son, should build the house. 1
3. And here we leave it for the present to fol- Chron. xxii, 7-10. Then David proceeded to
low the ark. make great preparation for the building. Chaps.
The ark was taken by the Philistines, and kept xxii; xxix. The place where the angel .of the
in their land seventh months, in which time they Lord appeared to Dav~d, at the time when the
were smitten with sore plagues, and Dagon, their plague was stayed, viz., the threshing-floor of
god, twice fell before it. They then returned it to . Ornan the Jebusite, {chap. xxi, 14-18,] upon
Israel to Beth-shemesh. At this place 50,000 of
Israel were smitten for looking into the ark. 1
Sam. iv, v, vi. From thence it l'emoved to Kir-
' - 1\lount Moriah" [2 Chron. iii, 1; Gen. xxii, 2,
14,] which was near to Mount Zion, was the place
of God's habitation. Ps. lxxviii, 6R, 69; cxxxiiJ
jath-jearim to the house of Abinadab, where it 13, li. And here, "like high palaces,'' God's
abode twenty years. 1 Sam. vii, 1, 2 .. In this sanctuary was built. 1 Chron. xxix, 1.
period it is said that all Israel " lamented after SOLOMON AND THE PRINCES CHARGED TO
the Lord." From .this place it was removed to BUILD THE 8ANCTUA.RY.-"Now ~et your heart
the house of Obed-edom where it abode three and your soul to seek the Lord your God; arise
months. 2 Sam. vi, 1-11; 1 Chron. xiii. From therefore, and build ye the sanctuary of the Lord
this place, David re~oved it to his own city, Je- God, to bring the ark of the covenant of the Lord,
rusalem, and placed it in a tabernacle which he and the holy vessels of God, into the house that
had pitched. 2 Sam. vi, 12-17; 1 Chron. XV; . is to be built to the name of the Lord." Chap.
xvi, 1. It was at this time, when the Lord had
given David rest from all his enemies, and he
xxii, 19. "Take heed now; for the Lord h~th
chosen thee to build an house for the sanctuary ;
dwelt securely in his own house, that the habita- be strong, and do it." Chap xxviii, 10. Then
tion of hii God came before his mind. 5
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hands which are the figures of the true." Heb. thee . a sanctuary therein." 2 Chron. xx, 7, 8.
ix, 23, 24. And in verse 9, he quotes the words used at the
~he history of th~ sanctuary ~s stated -very ful- J) dedication of the temple. 1 Kings viii, 33-39.
ly m the books of Kings, and m . 2 Chronicles. After this, we read that U zziah, king of Judah,
The Psalmi t prays that God would send "help being lifted up with pride, went into the temple-to
from. the sanctuary.'' Ps. xx, 2. He lifted up burn incense. And the priests ordered him to go
his han~~. "toward. the oracle of. thy sanctuary.n out of the sanctuary. 2 Chron. xxvi, 16-18. Still
Ps. xxvm, 2, margm. See 1 Kmgs vi, 19, 20. later, we read that Hezekiah offered a sin-offering
He calls upon the saints to "worship the Lord in (. for the kingdom, and for the sanctuary, and for
his glorious sanctuary." Ps. xxix, 2, margin. Judah. 2 Ohron. xxix, 21. And he called up-
He prays "to see. thy power and thy glory, so as . on all Israel to yield themselves. unto the Lord,
I have seen thee m th~ sanctuary/' Ps. lxiii, 2. and enter into his sanetuary. And he prays for
He speaks of "the gomgs of my God, my KinO' those who were not cleansed according to the pur-
in the nctuary." Ps. lxviii, 24, ~9. In P~: ification of the sanctuary. 2 Chron. xxx, 8, 19.
lxxviii, 4, he styles the land of Canaan "the About this time, God says py Isaiah, " I have
border of the sane uary." And in verses 68 69 profaned the princes of the sanctuary, and have
he testifies that God " built his sanctuary' lik~ given Jacob to the curse, and Israel to reproach-
high palaces" at Mount Zion in Judah. He es." Isa. xliii, 2~. Next, Zephaniah complains
" went into the sanctuary of God," and saw the that her prophets are light and treacherous per-
end of the wicked. Ps. lxviii, 17. He testifies sons; her priests have polluted the sanctuary, they
that.~' thy way, 0 G~d, is in t~e sanctuary." Ps .. have done violc~ce to the law. Zeph. iii; 4.
lxxvn, 13. He predwts the future desolation of After this, Ezekiel says, "Thou hast defiled
God's temple, or sanctuary. Ps. .lxxiv 3 7 my sanctuary." Eze. v, 11; viii, 6. And in
lxxix, 1. In Ps. ;x.evi? 6, he decla~ es that "~tre~gth
1
and beauty are m h1s sanctuary_ And in verse
his view of the men with the slaughtering weap-
ons, they were charged to "begin at my sanctua-
9, margiil, he says, "0 worship the Lord in the ,)) ry." "And they began at the ancient men which
. glorious sanctuary." "Lift up your hands in the were before the house." Eze. ix, 9. And in
sanctuary, and bless the Lord." Ps. cxxxiv I chapter xxiii, 38, 39, h~ says, "Moreover, this
2. " Praise God in his sanctuary." Ps. cl 1'. ' they have done unto me: they have defiled my
From the period in which the Psalms' were sanctuary in the same day, and have profaned my
written, we pass down in the history of the kin~ Sabbaths. For when they had slain their children
of Judah to J ehoshaphat. In prayer he states to their idols, then they came the same day into
that God gave the land of Canaan to the people of . my sanctuary to profane it: and lo, thus have
Israel, "and they dwelt therein, and have built they done in the midst of mine house." And in
EZEKIEL OFFERS TO ISRAEL A SANC~UARY. er erected. But that this proph~cy does .not. be-
lono- 0
to the future reign of Chnst and his samts,
It was fourteen years after the sanctuary had the following facts demonstrate:
been destroyed, that God gave E zekiel the "pat- 1. The Prince that shall reign over God's p~o
tern" of another, to show to 'the house of I srael. ple fsrael, for ever, is none. other than Jesus ?hnst.
Chaps. xl-xlviii. ~rhis building consisted of two There is to be but one Prmce and Sbepheid that
holy places. Chap. xli. And the most holy place shall be the King over Israel in the glorified sta~~'
was of the same size with that in the temple of and that one is Jesus. Luke i, 32, 33; Eze. xxxvn,
So!o~on. Verse 4; 1 Kings vi, 19, 20. To this l) 22, 24; J er. xxiii, 5,, 6; Mic~h .v, 2. ~ut the
pm~dmg the word sanctuary is applied in the fol- prince here spoken of by Ezeklel.Is not Chnst, but
lowmg. texts : Eze. xli, 21, 23 ; xlii, 20 j xliii, a poor frail mortal. .For (1) he 1s c~mmande~ to
21; xhv, 1, 5, (verses 7, 8, refer to Solomon's. offer a bullock as a sm-offenng for htmself. Eze.
temple,)..~, 11, 15, 16, 27 ; xlv, 2, 3, 4, 18; xlvii, xlv 22. But Jesus Christ is himself the great
12; xlvm, 8, 10, 21. It was offered to the house sin:o:ffering for the world. 1 John ii, I, 2. (2)
of Israel then in captivity on this condition, that J) He was to offer all manner of offerings for himsei[.
they should be "ashamed" of their iniquities, and Eze. xlvi, 1-8. But Jesus Christ caused all th1s
put them away. If they did this, God would "to cease'' at his death. Dan. ix, 27. (3) ~od
cause this building to be established, and would says to these princes, "Take away your exact1o?s
cause .~~the twelve ~ribes" to return. Chap. xl, from my people." Eze. ~lv, 9. But.when Chnst
4; xhu, 10, 11; xhv, 5-8; xlvii, 13-3B; xlviii. reio-ns there will be nothmg oppress1ve, for the
But the house of Israel were not at all ashamed. e ' will be peace, and the exactors ng
officers hteons-
For when the decree for Israel's restoration went ness. Isa.lx, 17-19. (4) And this princ~ is to
forth, all Israel could go up to the land where have sons and servants to whom, if he will, he
God's abundant blessing was promised. See .the may give an inheritance. But that wh~ch ~e
decree of Cyrus. 2 Chron, xxxvi 22 23 Ezra gives to his servants will return to the pnnce m
. 1-4
1, .. 13 . B ut the ten tribes' slighted
; vn, ' ' the the year of Jubilee. Eze. xlvi, 16, 1_7. And he
offer of Cyrus, ~s well as the promised blessings of is forbidden to oppress the people. V ers~ 18.
God, ~nd the tr1b~s of Judah and Benjamin, with Surely, it would be blasphemous to a~pl! th1s to
a portion of the tnbe of Levi, and a few others, our Lord Jesus Christ. Hence, Ezeklel1s not pre-
were all that went up. Ezra i 5 vii 7 viii dicting the future reign of Christ over the house
15 ' ' 'theJ gra-'
. . Thus the house of Israel rejected
of Israel.
Cious o:ff~r of th~ Lord, and slighted the inestima- 2. Christ says, "t~e chi~dren of. this world (or
ble bless~?gs w~~h God would have given them. ao-e) marry and are giVen m marnage; but they
0
Eze. xlvn; xlvm. Hence this sanctuary was nev- which shah be accounted worthy to obtain that
)) I
world, (or age,) and the resurrection from the dead tribes of Israel accepted the proffered bo~n, Vje
neither marry, nor are given in marriage. Luk~ will now show. 1. It was to be ~ulfi}led while cu-
xx, 35. Now hear EzeJnel: "Neither shall they cumcision was in force. Eze. :Khv, 9. But th~t
(God's priests) \ake for their wives a widow nor was abolished at the first advent. GaL. v, 2.; v1,
her that is put away; but they shall take maid- 9. C 1 11 ll-10. 2. It was wh1le d1vorce
1:.I' h .
a :ts of the seed of the house of Israel or a widow 0. '
was allowed. Eze. x1iv, 22. B~t t at IS now
t~at. had a pri~st before.n Eze. xliv, 22: In the pre- done away. Matt. v, 31, 3:l; xrx, 8, 9. 3.
dwtwn of Christ, respecting that acre0
or world to The distinction between meats, clean and un-
come, he positively affirms thatthere shall be no mar- t) clean, is recognized. Eze. xliy, 23, 31. .But
rying or giving in marriage there; but in Ezekiel we no such distinction is now recogmzed by the B_1ble.
~nd the Lord's priests marrying, and have intima- Rom. xiv. 4 Sacrifice, offerings, burnt-offcrm~s,
tiOns, even that divorce and death are not un- and sin-offerings, of bulls and goats were then m
known! Therefore it is evident that Ezekiel does force. Eze. xlvi. But they are not now acc~p~
not refer to the age to come. Certain it is that ble to God. Heb. x. 5. The feasts and the J~bl
had those priests been "counted worthy to obtain l))
lee were then in force. Eze. xlv, 21-25; xlv1, 9,
that world/' they would not be represented as 11, 17. But they were nailed to the cros_s. . Col.
marrying in it I And this, too, in the promised ii. 6. The Levitical priesthood was th~n m force.
land, the very !teart of the future kingdom ! Eze. xl, 46; xliv, 15. But the pnhesth~od tf
3. And Christ adds: "Neither can they die Melcbisedec, which passeth not to anot ~r, as a-
any more; for they are equal unto the angels." ken its place. Heb. v-ix. 7. ''The m1d~le wall
Luke xx, 36. And Paul testifies that at the last of partition') then existed, as all the~e _ord~nances .
trump, "this mortal shall put on immortality," prove as well as the acknowledged d1stmct10n be-
and death shall be swallowed up in victory. 1 tweed " the seed of tbe bouse of Israel" _an.d the
Cor. xv, 51-54. But Ezekiel has deaths even in stranger. Eze. xliv, 22; xlvii, 22. But 1t IS now
the families of God's priests, and they themselves broken down. Eph. ii. But we leave the sanctu-
defiled by attending their burials, and oblicred to ary offered to the twelve tribes! th~t we may follow
offer for themselves a sin-offering! ! S~e Eze. the history of Judah and BenJam.m.
xliv, 25-27. Are such persons equal to the an-
gels? Are they where they can die no more? THE SANCTUARY REBUILT.
Surely they are not. Then it is demonstrated that Cyrus the kino- of Persia, in the :first year of
Ezekiel does not refer to the world or ao-e to come . his reig~, put forth a decree for the resto:atio~ of
. That the sanctu~ry, priesthood and offerings, God's sanctuary which had so long been m l'ums.
WJt~ the accompanymg blessings, would have be(n Ezra i, 1-4. And in this decree he not only gave
reahzed in the Mosaic dispensation, had the twelve permission to tbe whole house of Israel to go up
sanctuary of the first covenant, when he pronoun- 15. Israel proceeded to "fimsh t~e transg.re~swn,.
ces that sanctuary a figure or pattern of the true. for which God would cut them off from bemg his
people, by rejecting the Messiah. Dan. ix 24 Surely God does. nothing i;- vain, and ali this is
John i, 11; Matt. xxiii, 32; 1 Thess. ii, 15.l6. ' full of meaning. Nor will the student of the Bi-
ble be at a loss to answer these questions. The
Gon FORSAKES THE SANCTUARY.-" 0 Jeru.
salem, Jerusalem ! thou that killest the prophets building itself was but a u figure of the true," a
and stonest them which are sent unto thee ho~ " pattern of things in the heavens." 'rhe priests
often would I have gathered thy children tog~thcr which there ministered, served " unto the example
and shadow of heavenly things," and the sacrifices
even a.s a hen gathereth her chickens under he;
there offered, continually pointed forward to the
wings, and ye would not! B ehold you1 house is
I great sacrifice that should be made for the sin of
left unto yo1'- desolate!" Matt. xxiii 37 38 1
Luke xiii, 34, 35. After uttering th~se ~ords
man. These great truths are plainly stated in
Jesus departed from the temple1 which wa& n~
He b. viii-x. We shall now pass from the shadow
longer God's habitation . And as he went out he to the substance.
declared that it should be thrown down, and not'one THE TYPICAL SANCTUARY GIVES PLACE TO THE
stone left upon anot.her. Matt.. xxiv, 1, 2. And TRUE.
what Gabnel and Jesus had thus predicted the l. The sanctuary of the first covenant ends with
Romans in a few years fulfilled, and the " wo::ldly that covenant, and does not constitute the sanctu
sanctuary'' ceased to exist. ary of the new covenant. Heb. ix, 1, 2, 8, 9;
. DATEs.-Moses ere~ted the sanctuary, (accord , Acts vii, 4.8, 49. 2. That sanctuary was a figure
mg to the chronology m the margin,) B . c. 1490. for the time then present, or for that dispensation.
It was forsaken at Shiloh, B. c. 1141. Solomon Heb. ix, 9. That is, God did not, during the typ-
erected the sanctuary, B . o. 1005. It was forsaken . ical dispensation, lay open the true tabernacle; but
of God B. c. 588. Rebuilt by Zerubbabel, B. c. gave to ~he people a figure or pattern of it. 3. When
515. Forsaken and left desolate, A. n. 31. We the work of the first tabernacle was accomplished,
have now followed the sanctuary to its end. ..And the way of the temple of .God in heaven was laid
here we pause for reflection and inquiry. Why did open. Heb. ix, 8; Ps. xi, 4; Jer. xvii, 12. 4. The
God ordain this extraordinary arrangement? The typical sanctuary and the carnal ordinances con-
sacrifices offered in this building could never take n.ected with it, were to last only till the time of
away ~ins. "\Yhy then were they instituted? reformation. And when that time arrived, Christ
The pnests whiCh here ministered were so imper- came, an High Priest of good things to come by a
fect that they had ~o offer for ~hemselves. Why greater and more perfect tabernacle. Heb. ix,
then was such a pnesthood ordamed ? The build- 9-12. 5. The rending of the vail of the earthly
ing itself was but an imperfect, temporary struc- sanctuary at the death of our Saviour evinced that
ture, though finished to the perfection of human its services were finished. 1\fatt. xxvii, 50, 51;
art. Why then was such a structure erected ?
c~)
t)) ~
nacle [Rev. xiii, 6 ; Heb. viii, 2] by calling its The ministration in the earthly sanctuary was
own sanctuary the temple of God and by turninO' perform~~ by ~he Levit.i.~al. order of Rriesthood.
away the worship of them that d ~ell on the earth Ex. xxvm; xxix; Lev. vm; u; He b. v11. ~~e act
from "the temple of God in hea-ven," to the sane~ preparatory to the commencement of the mt~ls~ra
tuary of Satan at Rome. lt has trod under foot tion in that earthly tabernacle, ~as the anomtmg
th~ Son of God, ,the m~~ister of the ~eavenly sanc- of its two holy places, and of all :.~s sacred vessels.
tuary, fHeb. x, 29; vm, ~,] by makmg the Pope Ex. xl' 9 xxx ' 26-29 , Lev. vm, 10. The en-
the head of the church, mstead of Jesus Christ ' . sum-
tire work of the priests in the two holy places IS
[Eph. ~~ 23,] and by. l.ead~~g men to the worship med up as follows : " Now when these thin.gs were
of tha.t son of perdttion, as one able to forgive thus ordained the priests went always mto the
past sms, and confer tbe right to commit them in first tabernacl~, accomplishing the.servic~ of God;
the future, aud thus turning men from Him who but into the second went the h1gh pnest alone
alone ha~ po":er o earth to forgive sins, and to once every year, not without blood, which he o~~
pardon Imqmty and transgression. Such has fered for himself, and for the errors of the people.
been the natme of the warfare which Satan has Heb. ix, 6, 7. The ministration in . the earthly
maint~ine~ ag~inst the sanctuary and the cause of sanctuary is thus present~d befor~ us ~n two grand
God, m his. vam ~ttempts to defeat the great plan divisions. First, the da1ly serviCe m t~e holy
.of r~demptwn whwh God has been carrying forward place, which consisted of the re&ular mormng and
~n his sanctuary. In order to present the oleane- evening burnt-offering, [Ex. xx1x, 3?-43; Num.
mg of the sanctuary of God in heaven it is neces- xxviii, 3-8,]. the burning o~ swee~ mc.ense upon
sary to notice briefly ' the golden altar, when the h1~h pnest hghted the
lamps every morning and evenmg, [Ex. xxx, 7, ~'
THE MINISTRATION AND CLEANSING OF THE 34-36; xxxi, 11,] the special work upon the Lords
EARTHLY SANCTUARY.
Sabbaths, and also upon the an~~al sabbaths, ~ew
We h~ve before shown that the earthly sanctu- moons and feasts; [Num. xx~u, 11-31., xx1x;
ary consisted of two holy places, and that it was a Lev. xxiii,J and beside all this, the spe~1al wo~k
pattern of the true tabernacle of God in heaven. for individuals as they should present ~het.~ partic-
We shall now present, in a brief manner the work ular offerings during the year. Lev. 1-vu. And
of ministration in both those holy place~ and also second, the yearly work, in the most holy ylace,
the wo:k. of cl.eansing that sanctuary, at the end of for the sins of the people, and for the clean tng ot
that mtmstratwn, every year, and shall prove that the sanctuary. Lev. xvi. T~us each of t~e two
that ministration was the e~ample and shadow of holy places had its appropnate work ~ss1gne~.
Chri t's more excellent ministry in the true taber- The glory of th~ God of Israel was manifested m
nacle. both apartments. When he entered the tabernacle
at the first, ~is glory filled both the holy places. 5 7 8. He next proceeded to offer the goat, upon
Ex. x!, 34, 35. See also 1 KinO's viii 10 11 :. w'hi~h the Lord's lot fell, as a sin-offering for the
2 Chron. v, 13, 14; vii, 1, 2. I~ the d~or ~f th~ ~~- . d
first apartment, the Lord stood and talked with We shall now show that he offered th1s bloo
Mose~. Ex. xxxiii, 9-11. ln this place God for two purposes : l. " To make a~ a~n~~ent
promise~ to meet with the children of Isra~l, and for the children of Israel, for all thmr sms. 2.
to _sanc~fy the tabernacle with his glory. Ex. To cleanse or "make an atonement for the holy
xx1x! 4""'--44 ~ xxx, 36. In the holiest, also, God sanctuary/' Let us read a portion of th.e chap~er.
mamfested Ius glory in a special manner. Ex. xxv "Then shall he kill the goat of the sm-off~n~g
21, 22; Lev. xvi, 2. ' that is for the people, and bring his b~ood .w1thm
. I the first apartment stood the priests in a con- the vail and do with that blood as he did with the
tmual cou~se of ~inistra.tion for the people. 'He blood of the bullock, and sprinkl~ it upon the mer-
th~t had smned, brought his victim to the door of cy-seat, and before the mercy-seat; and he shall
t~IS a.partzrwnt to oe offered up for himself. He make an atonement for the holy place, because of
1a1d his ha!ld n the head of the victim to de- the uncleanness of the children of Is~ael~ and be-
~?te that his si~ . as transferred to it. Lev. i; cause of their transgressions in all theu sms; ~nd
111. The~ the VICtl~ was slain on account of that so shall he do for the tabernacle of t~e congreg_at10n
tra!lsgress10n, and his blood, bearing that sin and that remaineth amongth~m in theEidst oftherrun-
guilt, .was carrie~ into the sanctuary, and sprinkled cleanness. And there shall be no man in. the taber-
u~o~ 1t.. Lev. 1v. Thus, through the year, this t) na.cle of the congregation when h~ goethm to make
.anmst~atwn went forward; the sins of the peo- an atonement in the holy place, until he come out, and
~le bemg transferred from themselves to the vic- .uave made an atonement for himself, and for his
tims off~red in sacrifice, and through the blood of household and for all the congregation of Israel.
the sacnfices, transferred to the sanctuary itself. And he shall 0'0 out-unto the altar that is before the
.~n th~ tenth day of the seventh month, th; Lord and mak~ an atonement for it; and shall take of
mirustr_atiOn was changed from the holy place, the blood of the bullock, and of the blood of the goat,
where It had been continued through the year to and put it upon the horns of the altar round. abo?t.
t~e mos.t holy place. Lev. xvi, 2. 29-34. The And he shall sprinkle of the blood. upon It With
high pnest entered the holiest with the blood of a his finO'er seven times and cleanse It, and hallow
bullock, as a sin-offering for himself. Verses 3, it fro; the uncleanne~s of the children o.f.Tsrael.
6, 11-14. He then received of the children of And when he hath made an end ofrecone1lmg .the
Israel two kids of the goats for a sin-offering.
J)
holy place, and the taberna~le of the _congregatiOn,
Upon these goats he cast lots; one lot for the and the altar, he shall brmg the hve goat; and
Lord, and the other for the scape-goat. Verses Aaron shall lay both his hands upon the head of
the live goat, and confess over him all the iniqui- through the year been borne into the sanctuary
ties of _the children of Israel, and aU their trans- and sprinkled upon it. Verses 16, 18-20, 33;
gressions in all their sins, putting them upon the Ex. xu, 10. 4. That the high priest, having by
head of the goat, and shall send him away by the blood removed the sins of the people from the
hand of a fit man into the wilderness; and the sanctuary bears them to the door of the taberna-
goat shall bear upon him all their iniquities unto cle [N um~ xviii, 1 ; Ex. xxviii, 38] where the scape-
a land not inhabited; and he shall let go the goat goat stands and putting both his hands upon the
into the wilderness." " And this shall be a stat- head of th~ goat, and confessing ~ver him .all :he
ute forever unto you ; that in the seventh month, iniquities of the children of Israel ~n all theu sms,
on the tenth day of the mQnth, ye shall afflict your he puts them upon the.h~a~ o~ ~he ~oat, and sends
souls and do no work at all, whether it be one of him away, with all the1r m1qmt1es, mto a land not
your own country or a stranger that sojourneth inhabited. Verses 5, 7-10, 20-22. The sanctua-
among you ; for on that day shall the priest make ry was thus cleansed from the sins of the people,
an atonement for you, to cleanse you, that ye may and those sins were borne by the scape-goat from
be clean from all your sins before the Lord." the sanctuary . The foregoing,. P.reseD;ts ~ our
"And he shall make an atonement for the holy view a general outline of the m1mstrat10n m the
sanctuary, and he shall make an atonement for the worldly sanctuary. The following scriptures show
tabernacle of the congregation, and for the altar j that that ministration was the example and shad-
and he shall make an atonement for the priests, ow of Christ's ministry in the tabernacle in heav-
and for aU the people of the -congregation. And J en: "Now of the things which we have spoken,
this shall be an everlasting statute unto you, to this is the sum : We have such an high priest, who
make an atonement for the children of Israel for is set on the riO'ht hand of the throne of the Majesty
all their sins once a year." Verses 15-22, 29, 30, in the heaven~: a minister of the sanctuary, and
33, 34. . of the true tabernacle, which the Lord pitched, and
We have here read several important facts. 1. not man. For every high priest is ordained to of-
On the tenth day of the seventh month the minis- J j fer gifts and sacrifices wherefore it is of necessi-
tration was changed from the holy place to the ho- ty that this man have ~omewhat also to o:ff~r. For
liest of all. Verses 2, 29-34. 2. That in the if he were on earth, he should not b~ a prtest, ~ee
most holy place, blood wa-s offered for the sins of inO' that there are priests that offer g1fts accordmg
0
\he people to make an atonement for 'them. V er- to the law who serve unto the exarn.,ple and shad-
se~ 5. 9, 15, 17, 30, 33, 34; He b. ix, 7. 3. That ow of heav~nly things, as Moses was admonished of
J J God when he was about to make the tabernacle;
the two holy places of the sat1ctuary, and also the
altar of incense were on this day cleansed from the for See (saith he) that thou make all things ac-
sins of the people, which, as we have seen, had co;ding to the pattern ~hewed to thee in the
sins, forever sat down on th~ right hand of God" Holy Ghost, this signifying, that the way into the
rHeb. x, 12,] forbids the idea of his ministering in holiest of all was not yet made manifest, while as
the two holy places. But we answer, so far as the . the first tabernacle was yet standing." Reb. ix,
idea of sitting down is concerned, it would be 8. " Having, therefore, brethren, boldness to en-
equall~ pr?per to represent hi~ as standing on the
ter into the holiest by the blood of J es1;1s/' Chap.
Fathers nght hand. Acts vn, 56. And if the x, 19. But as has been before remarked, the
Savi~ur is at "the r!ght hand of the power of
word rendered " holiest of all,n is the same that is
God when dcscendmg from heaven, .as he testifies rendered "sanctuary' 1 in chap. viii, 2, and is not
respecting hi~self, [Matt. xxvi 1 64; Mark xiv, " hagia hagion1" holy of holies, as in chapter ix,
62; Luke xxu, 69,] then he certainly can be at 3 but is simply "hagion,'' holies, plural. The
r~ndering of Macknight, which correctly translates
the Father's right hand ;in both the holy places.
But we have direct testimony here. Paul says the word in the plural, removes all difficulty. He
t~.~t Christ is a "minister of the sanctuary." Reb.
. translates these two texts as follows: " The Holy
vm, 2. That the word " hagion," here rendered Ghost signifying this, that the way of the holy
sanctuary, is plural, no one can deny. It is liter- places was not yet laid open, while the :first
ally rendered by the Douay Bible, " the holies/' tabernacle still standeth." "Well then, breth-
As translated by Macknight, Heb. viii 1 2 reads ren having boldness in the entrance of the holy
thus: "Now of the thi11gs spoken the 'chief is we pla~es, by the blood of Jesus." These texts,
have such a High Priest as became us wh~ sat therefore, do not favor the doctrine that Christ is
down at the right hand of the throne of th~ Majesty a minister of only one of the holy places. .With a
in the heavens, a minister of the holy places name- literal rendering oftheword, giving it in the plural
ly, of the true tabernacle, which the Lord pitched in our language, just as it was written by Pa.ul, the
and not man.' 1 We draw two conclusions from the objection to Christ's ministration in the two holy
foregoing. (1.) Our Lord can be a minister of places of the heavenly sanctuary is entirely remov-
t?e two holy places, and yet be at the Father's ed. The way into the holy places of the heaven-
nght hand. (2.) He must minister in both the ly sanctuary was not laid open, while .the minis-
holy places, or Paul's language that he is a minis- tration in the earthly tabernacle contmued; but
when that ministration was abolished, the way of
ter of the. holie~ or holy places, [plural,] is not
the heavenly holy places was laid open, and we
~rue. A ~1gh pnest t?at should. minister simply
m the hohest of all, 1s not a mmister of the holy have boldness to enter by faith, where our High
places. Priest is ministering for us.
3. But another argument to prove that Christ It may be proper to add, that the phrase render-
ministers only in the most holy place, has been ed "into the holy place," in Reb. ix, 12, 25, and
ur~ed by some, from the followin~ texts : H The
"i~to the sanctuary," in chap. :xiii, 11, is the same
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that in chap. ix, 24, is literally rendered in the ()'olden altar of incense, were both represented, and,
plural, u into the holy#places." Macknight ren- by God's express direction, placed in the first
ders them all in the plural. Then the heavenly apartment. Num. viii, 2-4; Heb. ix:, 2; Lev.
tabernacle, where our Lord Jesus Christ ministers, xx:iv, ~-4; Ex. xl, 24-27. The scene of this via-
is composed ofholy places, as really as was its pat- ion is the first apartment of the heavenly sanctua-
tern or image, the earthly tabernacle; and our great ry. Here it was that John saw the Lord Jesua.
High Priest is a minister of those holy places while Rev. v, 6-8.
at the Father's right hand. Let us read Isaiah's description of this place.
Let us now examine those scriptures which pre- "In the year that king Uzziah died, I s~w, also,
sent our Lord's position and ministry ~n the tab- the Lord sitting upon a throne, high and li!ted up,
ernacle in heaven. In vision at Patmos, the be- and his train filled the temple. Above It stood
loved disciple had a view of the temple of God, the the seraphims : each one bad six wings ; with twai!l
heavenly sanctuary. A door was Qpened in heaven ... he covered his face, and with twain he covered !ns
This must be the doot of the heavenly tabernacle, feet and with twain he did fly. And one cned
for it disclosed to John's view the throne of God, unt~ another, and said, Hoty, holy, holy, is the
which was in that temple. Rev. iv, 1, 2; xvi, 17; Lord of hosts: the whole earth is full of his glory.
J er. xvii, 12. It must be the door of the first And the posts of the door ~oved at the voice. of
apartment, for thatofthesecondapartment (which him that cried, and the house wa.s filled w1th
discloses the ark containing the commandments) smoke. Then said I, Woe is me ! for I am un-
is not opened until the sounding of the seventh done; because I am a man of unclean lips, and I
angel. Rev. xi, 19. And the view that John dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips; for
was looking into the :first apartment of the heav- mine eyes have seen the King, the Lord of hosts.
e~ly sanctuary, when he saw the Lord Jesus take Then flew one of the seraphims unto me, havi.ng
the book from the hand of him that sat upon the a live coal in his hand, which he had taken W1th
throne, is strikingly confirmed by what he saw be- the tongs from off the altar." Isa. vi, 1-6.
fore the throne. He testifies that there were That this was a v:iew of the heavenly tabernacle,
seven lamps . of fire burning before the thr~ne, and not of the temple .~t J erusalet;n, may be. proved=
which are the seven spirits of God." Rev. iv, 5 ; by comparing John xn 39-4~. w1th ~sa. ~1, 8-10.
Zech. iv, 2. He also saw the golden altar of in- words written by Isaiah, wh1le lookmg mto the
cense before the throne, and witnessed the min- temple of God, are quoted by John, :wlth the ~ec
istration a~ that altar with the golden censer. laration that Isaiah spake them wh1le beholdmg
Rev. viii, 3. In the ear.thly tabernacle, which Christ's glory. That John and Isaiah both beheld
was the pattern of things in the heavens, the the same place, is eviden~ : both b~held the th~one
golden candlestick with its seven lamps, and the of God, and him that s1ts upon It ; [Isa. VI, 1 ;
forth the work in the heavenly sanctuary. And these. Therefore Christ hath not entered into the
we have also seen that the sins of those who come holy .places .made with hands; the images of the
to God th1ough our great High Priest are commu- true holy places ) but into heaven itself, iOW t, to
nicated to the sanctuary, as was the case in the appear before the face of God, on our acco_un .
type. But we are not left without direct testimo- Heb. ix, 22-24. The~ the fact of the cleansmg of
ny on this important point. T~e apostle Paul the heavenly sanctuary IS plronly taught ~y the B:POS-
states the fact of the cleansing of the earthly and tle Paul in his commentary on the typiCal system.
the heavenly sanctuaries, and plainly affirms that And this great truth, plainly stated, is worthy of
the latter must be cleansed for the same reason lasting remembrance. .
that the former had been. He speaks as follows : By many the idea of the cleansmg of the
":And almost all things are by the law purged '
heavenly sanctuary Will 'h scorn, "b e-
. be treate d w1t
W1th blood; and without shedding of blo'od is no cause," say they, "there is nothing in heaven to
remission. It was therefore necessary that the pat- be cleansed/' Such overlook the fact that the
terns of things in the heavens should be purified holy of holies, where God ~anife~ted his glorr,,
with these; but the heavenly things themselves and which no one but the h1gh pr1est could enter,
with better sacrifices than these. For Christ is was accordinO' to the law, to be cleansed, because
not entered into the holy places made with hands the'sins of th~ people were bo:ne into it by the
which are the figures of the true; but into heave~ blood of sin-offering. Lev. XVI. And they over-
itself, now to appear in the presence of God for look the fact that Paul plainly testifies that the
us.'" Reb. ix, 22-24. Two important facts heavenly sanctuary must be cleansed for ~he same .
are stated in this portion of scripture. 1. The reason. Heb. ix, 23, 24. See also C~L 1, 20. It
earthly sanctuary was cleansed by blood. 2. The was unclean in this sense only: the sms of. men
hea~enly sanc_tuary must be cleansed by better had been borne into it through the bloo~ of sm-of-
sacrifices, that 1s, by the blood of Christ. It is plain ferinO' and they must be removed. ThlS fact can
then, that the idea of cleansing the sanctuary by O)
be O'ra.sped by every mm .
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