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A simplified version of
THE DAY-STAR EXTRASaturday, February 7, 1846
which contained
The article on the sanctuaryby
O. R. L. Crozier
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1st edition June 1999ISBN 1-877158-51-8
2nd edition December 2011With paraphrase notes
This edition June 2013
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In this editionBible references have been added where needed,
and all the text modernised for easier understanding.The spelling errors in the original printing
and the factual mistakes have also been corrected.
All the emphasis has been added (or retained) by the editor of this new version, as he sees fit.
This article naturally contains the understanding that the compiler sees in Crozier’s words, and therefore we recommend that you eventually read the original for yourself so that you can compare them. To help in this we have inserted notes which indicate approximately the page in the original publication which is being rewritten. Where we have inserted a clearer or extra thought we have often put it in a smaller font and square brackets [like this].
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The shadow tabernaclein the wilderness
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CONTENTS
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Section heading
The Simplified
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The Originalversion
Prologue 9 -
Prologue and Preface from the 1st edition 13 5
The Law of Moses 21 13
The legal types and antitypes 23 17
The Passover – the rebirth 24 18
The Feast of Unleavened Bread - education 25 19
The First Fruits – of the new life 26 20
The Feast of Weeks (Pentecost) –power to witness 26 20
The sanctuary – the plan of redemption 27 23
The priesthood of Christ – and the believers 33 32
The atonement – the judgment 36 37
The leper (= the sinner with inward sin) 37 38
The individual atonement - forgiveness 39 40
The national atonement – the cleansing 41 42
The anti-types – the spiritual realities 44 49
Entering the second apartment – for the judgment 46 51
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The atonement made at Calvary 48 55
The Age to come – the millennium 50 59
The cleansing of the sanctuary – the removal of sins 54 64
The scapegoat – the destination of the forgiven sins 57 69
The transition – from the old to the new 60 74
The overlapping – two at once 62 77
A further letter on the autumn types 66 83
The memorial of trumpets – the warnings 66 84
The trumpet of the Jubilee – the last trump 67 85
The Jubilee year – the restoration 67 85
The feast of tabernacles – the 1,000 years 68 87
Epilogue 71 -
Appendix A – some details of the services 77 89
Appendix B – the feasts of the LORD 90 103
Appendix C – the Passover ritual 94 107
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What Solomon’s temple may have looked like.
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Prologue
In his article Crozier revealed some major new points of doctrine for that time which, if accepted, would have led the small group of Adventists who had survived the Great Disappointments of 1843 and 1844, in to the NEW world very quickly.
Some of the new doctrines were:1. The sanctuary of the new covenant is in heaven and we are to attend it by faith, knowing what our High Priest has already done, and learning what He is going to do, from the old covenant sanctuary.
2. The rituals of the old covenant earthly sanctuary pictured spiritual events, some of which have begun, and others which are yet to be fulfilled.
3. These events took only a day (or a few days) in the earthly type, but in the spiritual fulfilments have, and will, occupy many years during the Gospel and subsequent Dispensations!
4. Bible history is divided into Dispensations (periods of time containing certain activities), and these periods overlap each other, so that while one is finishing another is beginning. This explains why some periods in the future can be confusing. One major overlap (apart from the transformation from the Jewish to the Christian period), is the change from the daily to the yearly sections of the sanctuary rituals. In the spiritual system both can operate at the same time! Another is the changeover from the Gospel Dispensation to the sounding of the trumpet of the 7th angel. Revelation 11:15.
5. The sanctuary in heaven (in the New Jerusalem) needs to be “cleansed” before the Second Advent. After that, the “host” of God’s people will still be persecuted as part of the prophecy of Daniel 8:13-14.
6. He also makes the point early in his article that the Old and the New Covenants are not the same as the everlasting covenant. All are founded on the “This do and live” principle, for the two later ones are performance based, with the Old requiring a Passover and animal sacrifices, and the New needing baptism and the LORD’s supper. (Leviticus 18:5; Luke 10:28.) But this also applies to the everlasting covenant which has need of the exercise of faith in a Creator who can do what He says He will do, including the new birth. (Genesis 15:6.)
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It will become apparent as you read that the church has actively accepted some of these doctrines, neglected others, and even rejected some in favour of old Protestant ideas, one of which Crozier meets head on!! Because of this, we have been “wandering in the wilderness” and will continue to do so until we accept all. This is not say that Crozier was 100% correct in all his ideas, but he was so far in advance of the Bible scholars of his day that what he did have could have changed Christian history, or at the very least SDA history.
We are told: “The Lord shew [showed] me in vision, more than one year ago, that Brother Crozier had the true light, on the cleansing of the sanctuary, &c; and that it was his will, that Brother C. should write out the view which he gave us in the Day-Star, Extra, February 7, 1846.
“I feel fully authorized by the Lord, to recommend that Extra, to every saint”. A Word to the Little Flock, Page 12.
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From this to this
And then where?
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Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the LORD:
and he shall turn the heart of the fathers to the children, and the heart of the children to their fathers,
lest I come and smite the earth with a curse. Malachi 4:5-6
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Prologue and Preface from the 2nd edition
This is probably the most important book written to Seventh-day Adventists apart from the writings of Ellen G. White.
Have you ever heard of it?
Or of him?
In Early Writings, pages xvii, xviii, and xix in the Historical Prologue contain the following:-
Two groups of Adventists
“At first only a few were identified with this group who were moving forward in advancing light. By the year 1846 they reckoned their number as about fifty.”
“The larger group who turned from confidence in the fulfillment of prophecy in 1844 numbered approximately thirty thousand. Their leaders came together in 1845 in a conference in Albany, New York, April 29 to May 1, at which time they restudied their positions. By formal action they went on record as warning against those who claim “special illumination”, those who teach “Jewish fables” and those who establish “new tests” (Advent Herald, May 14, 1845). Thus they closed the door to the light on the Sabbath and the Spirit of Prophecy. They were confident that prophecy had not been fulfilled in 1844, and some set time for the termination of the 2300-day period in the future. Various times were set, but one after another they passed away . . . “
Dawn on the light of the sanctuary
“But we must now turn back to those who tenaciously clung to their confidence that prophecy had been fulfilled on October 22, 1844, and who with open minds and hearts stepped forward into the Sabbath and the sanctuary truths as the light of heaven illuminated their pathway. These people were not localized in any one place but were individuals or very small groups here and there throughout the north central and north-eastern part of the United States.”
“Hiram Edson, one of this group, lived in central New York State at Port Gibson. He was the leader of the Adventists in that area. The believers met in his home on October 22, 1844, to await the coming of the Lord.Calmly and patiently they awaited the great event. But as the hour of midnight came and they realized the day of expectation had passed, it became clear that Jesus would not come as soon as they had thought. It was a time of bitter
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disappointment. In the early morning hours Hiram Edson and a few others went out to his barn to pray, and as they prayed, he felt assured that light would come.”
“A little later, as Edson and a friend were crossing a cornfield to visit fellow Adventists, it seems as if a hand touched his shoulder. He looked up to see - as if in a vision - the heavens opened, and Christ in the heavenly sanctuary entering into the most holy place, there to begin a work of ministry in behalf of His people, instead of coming forth from the most holy place to cleanse the world with fire, as they had taught. Careful Bible study by Hiram Edson;F. B. Hahn, a physician; and O. R. L. Crozier, a schoolteacher, soon revealed that the sanctuary to be cleansed at the end of the 2300 years was not the earth but the tabernacle in heaven, with Christ ministering in our behalf in the most holy place. The mediatorial work of Christ answered to the “hour of God's judgment” call sounded in the message of the first angel (Rev. 14:6,7). Mr. Crozier, the schoolteacher, wrote the findings of the study group.These were printed locally, and then in a fuller form in an Adventist journal known as the Day-Star, published in Cincinnati, Ohio. A special number dated February 7, 1846, was devoted entirely to this Bible study on the question of the sanctuary.”
Truths Confirmed by Vision
”While this study was in progress, and before their work was made known, far to the east in the State of Maine, a vision was given to Ellen Harmon in which she was shown the transfer of the ministry of Christ from the holy place to the most holy place at the end of the 2300 days. The record of this vision is found in Early Writings, pages 54-56 . . .”
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PREFACE
This article, “The Sanctuary”, by O. R. L. Crozier, was originally printed in the Day-Star Extra newspaper on 7 February, 1846. Regarding it, Ellen White wrote in a letter to Eli Curtis on 21 April, 1847:
“I believe the Sanctuary, to be cleansed at the end of the 2300 days, is the New Jerusalem Temple, of which Christ is a minister. The Lord shew [showed] me in vision, more than one year ago, that Brother Crozier had the true light, on the cleansing of the Sanctuary, &c; and that it was his will, that Brother C. should write out the view which he gave us in the Day-Star, Extra, February 7, 1846. I feel fully authorized by the Lord, to recommend that Extra, to every saint”. A Word to the Little Flock, Page 12.
His thoughts on the overlapping of the dispensations will, no doubt, be of great interest to present-day students of the Bible. Also his comments on the atonement being completed at the cross.
The Day-Star was a weekly paper published by E. Jacobs, and although Crozier was a regular contributor to the paper this article was considered so important that an extra edition was used for its publication. In this printing the Bible quotes have been italicized and the abbreviated references used have been changed to give the full name of each Bible book. The smaller size words in square brackets have been added by the compiler, but the words in the curved brackets are in the original. All emphasis is in the original. Also the long paragraphs in the article have been broken into smaller ones for easier reading. Some obvious spelling mistakes have been corrected. Crozier corrected many mistakes made in the original printing in a later letter.
A letter from Crozier explaining his thoughts on the “autumnal types” is also included. In reference to these types EGW wrote:
“Arguments drawn from the Old Testament types also pointed to the autumn as the time when the event represented by the ‘cleansing of the sanctuary’ must take place . . . These types [those of the spring, March/April] were fulfilled, not only as to the event, but as to the time . . . In like manner the types which relate to the second advent must be fulfilled at the time pointed out in the symbolic service [September/October].” The Great Controversy, pages 399-40.
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And in another place:“In the prophecies the future is opened before us as plainly as it was opened
to the disciples by the words of Christ. The events connected with the close of probation and the work of preparation for the time of trouble, are clearly presented . . . He [the Christian] has a chart pointing out every waymark on the heavenward journey, and he ought not to guess at anything.”
The Great Controversy, pages 594 and 598.
The word “dispensation” as used in this book indicates a period of time or the granting of a special attribute of God. For instance, there are:-
The Dispensation of the Fullness of Times ...... Eph 1:10
the Dispensation of Grace .............................. Eph 3:2
the Gospel Dispensation ................................ 1 Cor 9:17
the Dispensation of God ................................ Col 1:25
every dispensation from Adam ...................... 4T 476
the Old Testament Dispensation ................... 7BC 953
the Mosaic Dispensation ................……....... AA 189
the Jewish Dispensation ................................ GC 324
the New Testament Dispensation .................. 7BC 953
the Christian Dispensation ............................ 6BC 1061
the Gospel Dispensation ............................... 7BC 971
the Dispensation of Mercy ............................. DA 243
the Dispensation of the Holy Spirit ................ TM 511
Dispensations overlap by various time-periods
“The restoration of the Spirit is the covenant of grace”. ST August 7, 1901.
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What this book is about.
A very brief résumé
Owen R. L. Crozier was one of the first Seventh-day Adventists to recognise that there was a sanctuary in heaven and that Jesus had moved into the second apartment of it on 22 Oct 1844.
His book was endorsed by EGW as recommended by God for every Seventh-day Adventist to read.
In the book he lays out three major truths.
The first section of the book explains that the “law of Moses”, the ceremonies of the Old Testament were in fact, acted-out prophecies of the work of Jesus on earth and in heaven.
He divides the sanctuary service into TWO major portions.
The first, occupied the early part of the year and is called the spring or “vernal” types. They began in the early part of the gospel “dispensation” and have been operating in the 1,844 years since Calvary. BUT THEY ARE ALSO TO CONTINUE ON INTO THE LATTER YEARS until the close of probation for the world just before the second coming.
The second portion of the ceremonies are called autumn types, and they did not commence until 1844, but they will continue on until AFTER the second coming and right up to the earth made new after the lake of fire. This view harmonises well with the understanding that there are two rooms in the heavenly sanctuary which have two different functions.
Crozier then allocates quite a few pages to proving that the “sanctuary” is not the earth as was commonly believed in his day, but is an actual building in heaven in which Jesus operates as a high priest. He made the point that the Day of Atonement ceremony pointed forward to a heavenly event which will CONTINUE INTO THE THOUSAND YEARS OF REVELATION 20.
The second major truth he presents is that the various dispensations into which the history of the Bible is divided OVERLAP EACH OTHER. There is no abrupt movement from one to another, and in the case of the end of the Jewish dispensation and the beginning of the Christian, there was an overlap period of seven years. This was the last period of Daniel 9:27.
Likewise, in the changeover from “the gospel dispensation” at the close of probation for the world, and the beginning of “the dispensation of the fullness of
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times”, (which began in October 1844), there is/was a similar period but not necessarily the same length.
THAT PERIOD HAS NOW LASTED 156 YEARS (2000)–167 years (2011)
This overlap explains why Jesus on earth sometimes held rigidly to the old ways and at other times moved in union with the Christian era. He knew that He was operating in both dispensations. This is highlighted by such actions as sending lepers to be examined by the priests and to make suitable offerings in the temple. At the same time, He ordained twelve men as leaders in the new branch of His church and taught them to move on from the Old Testament rituals.
Crozier sees the 1,000 years as a time of cleansing (learning?) AFTER THE PEOPLE OF GOD ARE SINLESS AND RESURRECTED.
He spends some time proving that the scapegoat could not be Jesus but is actually a type of Satan, and clearly shows that he is not destroyed at the second coming but left to wander the wilderness earth during the 1,000 years.
The third point he makes is that the “host” (God’s people) are still to suffer persecution in “the last end of the indignation” AFTER the sanctuary is cleansed. This includes the period of the seven last plagues.
It is important to realise that this was the first in-depth understanding of the heavenly sanctuary and its prophecies that God had ever been able to give to His people since the time of Calvary. Because of this we may expect that we may not agree with some of his statements and conclusions, but this should not alter the main points. See Appendix A, page 89 in which we have supplied some newer details regarding the sacrificial offerings.
If you have any problems understanding any of this book please contact us and we will endeavour to help you out. If you do contact us we will only answer your direct questions and promise not to bother you with any other material.
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The Sanctuary
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The Law of Mosesby
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A covenant (Editor’s note)
A covenant is an agreement in which two or more parties agree to do certain things, often for a specified time.
The 1st (or old) covenant was the agreement between the LORD and the Hebrews/Jews that they would show their faith and understanding by observing certain rituals and animal sacrifices. It lasted from Moses’ time (c. 1500BC) to the stoning of Stephen in 34AD.
The 2nd (or new) covenant was the agreement between the LORD and the Christians that they would show their faith and understanding by baptism and the LORD’s supper. It is to last from the baptism of Christ in 27AD till the Close of Probation.
The everlasting (or perpetual) covenant is the agreement made between the LORD and ANYONE who will allow Him to change their heart and show that experience by keeping the Ten Commandments. It began in the Garden of Eden with Adam and Eve, and will last until the resurrection and translation of the righteous.
The basis for all three of the covenants was that God promised to write His law in the hearts of those who accepted the conditions.
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The Law of Moses
“Remember you the Law of Moses My servant, which I commanded to him in Horeb [Mt. Sinai] for all Israel, with the statutes and judgments”.
Malachi 4:4.
This verse is one of the last texts in the Old Testament, and because it is connected with the words “the great and dreadful day of the LORD” (verse 5), it implies that the Law of Moses (the ceremonial rituals of old Israel), contains things that will help us understand that day. We should remember that Jesus Himself taught from “Moses and the prophets”. Luke 16:31.
The following is based on page 14:The Law of Moses is what Paul calls The First Covenant, and it was given to the Hebrew people when the Son of God “took them by the hand, to lead them out of the land of Egypt”. Hebrews 8:9. See also Jeremiah 31:32 and 1 Kings 8:9.
This was NOT the covenant made with Abraham, nor does it affect that. [That is called The Everlasting Covenant.]
The covenant of promise made to Abraham and his Seed, Christ, was confirmed 430 years before the Law of Moses was given, and “ . . . no man disannuls, or adds thereto”. Galatians 3:15. This is established in verse 17 where it is written,“And this I say, that the covenant, that was confirmed before of God in Christ,the Law [of Moses], which was four hundred and thirty years after, cannot disannul, that it should make the promise of none effect”.
That’s because the inheritance is not through our actions in the Law, but through the promise of God. See verse 18. [The Law of Moses leads us to (teaches us about) Christ. Galatians 3:24-25.]
Therefore righteousness comes by the promises of God, not by keeping the Law of Moses in either the Old or the New Testament times. “Wherefore then serves the law [of ceremonies]? It was added because of transgressions, till the Seed should come to whom the promise was made . . .” Verse 19. In the day that Abraham “believed in the LORD and He counted it to him for righteousness”, He made a covenant [agreement] with him saying, “To your seed have I given this land, from the river of Egypt to the great river, the river Euphrates”. See Genesis 15:6; 18.
At the same time He told him about the 430 years of affliction, at the end of which He delivered the descendants of Abraham from Egypt and gave them the Lawof Moses, which He called a covenant. 2 Chronicles 5:10; Exodus 24:3-8.
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Later, after the 40 years wandering, Moses said, “The LORD made not this covenant [just] with our fathers, but with us, even us, who are all of us here alive this day.” [His audience was mainly the second generation, for nearly all of the first generation had died in the wilderness, except Joshua and Caleb.] Deuteronomy 5:1-3.
The following is based on page 15:This covenant (the law of ceremonies) was to continue only “till the Seed (Christ) should come”, then “a new covenant” was to be made. Isaiah 42:1-6; 49:5-9.He confirmed The Second Covenant, the new one (the rituals of Christianity), in Daniel 9:27, and in the gospel teaching. Mark 1:14-15, Matthew 4:23.
“. . . These are the two covenants . . .” Galatians 4:27, and NEITHER of them is the one made to Abraham, but both are involved in, and teach of, that one.
Paul contrasts these two covenants, calling the latter the “better covenant”,the “perfect” one (Hebrews 8:6), whereas the former, “the Law [of Moses], made nothing perfect but had only a “figure”, “patterns”, or “a shadow of good things to come”. Hebrews 7:19; 9:9, 23; 10:1.
But the “body”, the substance of both of those legal “shadows” is Christ [and is a third covenant, if you will accept it, even though it was made before the others]. Hebrews 8:6.
The Law of Moses should be studied and “remembered” as a simplified model of the great system of redemption [not just salvation], containing symbolic pictures of the work begun by our Saviour at His first advent [as well as types which cover the whole plan], when He came to “fulfil the law” [Matthew 5:17.]
The recovery of this planet will be completed in “the redemption of the purchased possession to the praise of His glory”. [Ephesians 1:14.] But redemption is deliverance purchased by the payment of a ransom[? rather, “price”], therefore it cannot be complete till man and earth shall be delivered from all the subjection and consequences of sin. The last act of deliverance will be at the end of the thousand years. To this the shadow of the Law extended!
That this true is evident from these points:
1. The cleansing of the [earthly] sanctuary formed a part of the [annual] legal service (Leviticus 16:20-33) and its fulfilment [in the heavenly] was not to be accomplished until the end of the 2,300 days. Daniel 8:14.
The following is based on page 16:2. The [ceremonial] sabbaths in the Law of Moses [see Leviticus 23] typify the great sabbath time, the seventh millennium [the 1,000 years]. Hebrews 4:3.
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3. The Jubilee [the 50th year in the Law, Leviticus 25:10] typifies the release and return to their home lands of all captive Israel. This cannot be fulfilled till the resurrection of the just. [Matthew 5:5.]
4. The sabbath types at the end of the ceremonial law year were not fulfilled at the first advent.
5. The legal 10th day atonement [with the scapegoat] was not, nor could it be, fulfilled at that time. Although He blotted out “the hand writing of ordinances [Moses’ law of ceremonies] that was against us, which was contrary to us, and took it out of the way [put it to one side], nailing it to His cross [so we would see it there]” (Colossians 2:14), yet after His resurrection both He and His apostles made use of the Law as proof of His Messiahship. He was buried and rose again, and sent down the Holy Ghost fifty days after His resurrection in direct fulfilment of the types in the Law [Leviticus 23:15-17], which would not have been the case if the significance of the Law had ceased at the cross.
In fact, His anointing [baptism] and crucifixion were only the beginning of its fulfilment. [Matthew 5:17.]
The following is based on page 17:All will admit that some of the types have been fulfilled and that others have not. Because there are some yet to be fulfilled, we should remember and study the Law to learn about them.
The legal types and antitypes
That some of the types [the figures] have met their antitypes [their spiritual realities] is beyond dispute. By learning how they did this, and the principle as to the time on which they were fulfilled, we can more understandingly proceed with the investigation of the others.
There were two classes of types or shadows:The vernal [the northern hemisphere spring time ones – our March/April], and the autumnal [the northern hemisphere autumn, our September/October.]
The former met their antitypes at the First Advent, but the latter are to be fulfilled in connection with, and after, the Second Advent.
The spring types were:the Passover meal on the 14th day of the 1st month; the Feast of Unleavened Bread
which lasted from the 15th to the 21st of the same month;
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the waving of the First Fruits on the 16th day of the 1st month;and the Feast of Weeks (aka Pentecost)
50 days after the waving, in the 3rd month. Leviticus 23:1-21.
Our Saviour was scrupulously precise in commencing their spiritual fulfilment at the very times they were to be observed in the Law, literally to the month, day and hour. But we err when we think of them as being in the Jewish Dispensation when they were actually at the beginning of the Gospel (or Christian) Dispensation, for the dispensations overlap. [More on this later.]
[There was a Dispensation which started from the Garden of Eden when the promise was given that there would be “enmity” between the Seed of the woman and the serpent. Genesis 3:15. It is called the Dispensation of Grace [the everlasting gospel], and covers all of human history. Ephesians 3:1-6. There will be more on this later too!]
The following is based on page 18:
The Passover – the rebirth
“For I delivered to you first of all that which I also received, how that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures”. 1 Corinthians 15:3.
“Christ our Passover [Lamb] is sacrificed for us”. 1 Corinthians 5:7.
Paul considered it of the first importance to tell us of the fact that Christ died for our sins in fulfilment of the killing of the Passover Lamb [not the daily lamb]. This fact he gleaned from the Law of ceremonies, although nowhere does it say so directly. Yet so clear was the antitype that it furnished unanswerable proof that Jesus was the Messiah.
[We are told by two witnesses in the scriptures that the Son of God (not the Son of man), “died” (or made the real sacrifice) in the Garden of Eden when Adam and Eve first sinned and the Dispensation of Grace [with the everlasting gospel] began. So the ultimate reality of the Passover commenced then, but in the Law of Moses it originates on the night before the Hebrews were led out of Egypt, which is why we sometimes see it as beginning at the cross. Exodus 12. However, in the New Testament it is written; “. . . the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world. If any man have a [spiritual] ear, let him hear”. Revelation 13:8-9. “Forasmuch as you know that you were not redeemed with corruptible things, [such] as silver and gold, from your vain conversation [conduct] received by tradition from your fathers; but with the precious blood of Christ, as of a [Passover] Lamb without blemish and without spot: who verily was foreordained before the foundation of the world, but was manifest [shown] in these last times [on the cross] for you, who by Him do believe in God, that raised Him up from the dead, and gave Him glory; that your faith and hope might be in God”. 1 Peter 1:18-21.]
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The Jews could not lay hands on Him till His hour had come, then being “brought as a Lamb to the slaughter” He died, “our Passover”, in the very month, day, and hour of the killing of the legal [earthly] Passover lamb. [Isaiah 53:7.] Thus it is proved that the Passover antitype (the spiritual reality) began at the crucifixion,but where must it end?
Let the Saviour answer:“And He said to them, ‘With desire I have desired to eat this passover with you before I suffer: for I say to you, I will not any more eat thereof, until it be fulfilled in the kingdom of God’. And He took the cup, and gave thanks, and said, ‘Take this, and divide it among yourselves: for I say to you, I will not drink of the fruit of the vine, until the kingdom of God shall come’.” Luke 22:15-18.
The following is based on page 19:The real Passover feast must be “fulfilled [finished] in the kingdom of God”, which, according to verse 18, was then, and is yet, to come. So long then as we pray, “Your kingdom come” the Passover antitype is not yet finished! The LORD instituted His supper, the communion service for the new covenant, in the place of the Passover feast of old, and as often as we do it we show forth His death till He comes, as did the old type. [1 Corinthians 11:26.]
The beginning of the spiritual Passover “day” is shown by His physical death, and the end of it is His second coming, therefore it spans and is fulfilled during the entire Gospel Dispensation, and is some 2,000 years in length.
[There are the SHADOW and the SPIRITUAL pictures,both of which show us the REAL ones.]
The Feast of Unleavened Bread - education
This feast was attached to the Passover type, starting the day after the Passover.
[Paul wrote:] “Your glorying is not good. Know you not that a little leaven [yeast] leavens the whole lump [of flour]? Purge [search] out therefore the old leaven, that you may be a new [all over] lump, as you are [now] unleavened, for even Christ our Passover is sacrificed for us. Therefore let us keep the feast, not with old [physical] leaven, neither with the [spiritual] leaven of malice and wickedness; but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth”. 1 Corinthians 5:6-8.
The type was carnal (of the earth), for the bread was made from earthly grain;the antitype is spiritual and the “bread” is truth, the Word of God received in sincerity as knowledge increases. The bitter herbs with which it was eaten seem to typify the trials of the followers of God in their new state. As the people of old began to eat unleavened bread and bitter herbs on the 14 th at the Passover [Exodus 12:8] as well as in the seven days following, so the trials of the church began when the “Shepherd was smitten and the sheep scattered” [Zechariah 13:7; Matthew 26:31.]
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The persecution will end and the antitype be superseded only “when the Chief Shepherd shall appear” and gather the “flock of slaughter” with joy to our beloved Zion. [1 Peter 5:4.]
The following is based on page 20:
First Fruits – the fruits of the new life
This was a handful of the first ripe fruit or grain for the season. If we read 1 Corinthians 15:4, 20, 23 and Acts 26:23 we will see that Christ “rose again the third day according to the scriptures” as “the first fruits of them that slept” thus laying the foundation of the resurrection to life. [The 14th was the death; the 15th the rest in the grave; and the 16th the resurrection.]
[The handful of barley was offered literally on the 3rd day after the Passover (the 16th of the 1st month), the day AFTER the first ceremonial sabbath (rest day) of the ritual, to show that Christ is the First among many. The second yearly sabbath was the last day of the seven day feast, the 21st of the month. Leviticus 23:6-8. Because the Passover could fall on any day of the week (it was eaten on the evening of the full moon of the month), the succeeding days could also be any day of the week.]
The Feast of Weeks - power to witness
The fruits appear to be connected with the Day of Pentecost at which two loaves of the new flour baked with leaven were waved before the LORD in the sanctuary. “When the Day of Pentecost was fully come” [50 days after the crucifixion, Acts 2:1]the Holy Ghost, the principle of life, came upon the disciples.
This Spirit, which is the only thing recorded as the antitype of the Feast of Weeks, is to abide with the church till it shall quicken [make alive] the bodies of the saints “at His coming”. Romans 8:11.
It must now be clear that all the spring types having begun with the opening of the Gospel Dispensation, will not end until it closes. [Each one begins, and then continues, as the others join it, in the same manner as the three angels’ messages.]
From that we must conclude that the autumn types, the Feast of Trumpets, the Day of Atonement, and the Feast of Tabernacles (with its two ceremonial sabbaths), when they join the others will occupy a period of time relative to that occupied by their types in somewhat the proportion of the spring types. In other words, the periods of their fulfilments must also spread over a dispensation of many years.
(The Day of Pentecost was called The Feast of Weeks because it was based on counting seven weekly Sabbaths from the day of the wave offering, and then moving on to the next day, which was therefore always a Sunday or 1st day (that year it was the fiftieth day from Calvary, so since then it has been known as Pentecost, the 50 th day, but it wasn’t always the 50th). Although always observed on the 1st day of the week it was the third ceremonial sabbath for
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the year. The other days of the ceremonial law could fall on any day of the week as mentioned before.)
The following is based on page 23: (Pages 21 and 22 contain diagrams.)
The sanctuary – the plan of redemption
The earthly sanctuary was the heart of the typical system of types and antitypes. There the LORD placed His name [showed His character], manifested His glory [His power], and held conversations with the high priest relative to the welfare of Israel. [Numbers 27:21.]
While we enquire from the scriptures what the sanctuary means, let all prejudice be dismissed from our minds, for the Bible clearly defines what the sanctuary is, and answers every reasonable question you may ask concerning it.
The name, sanctuary, is applied to several different things in the Old Testament.
The Wonderful Numberer did not tell Daniel WHAT sanctuary was to be cleansed at the end of the 2,300 days, but called it THE SANCTUARY, as though Daniel well understood it, and that he did is evident from the fact that he did not ask what it was. But as it has now [in 1846] become a matter of dispute as to what the sanctuary is, our only safety lies in seeking from the New Testament the divine comment on it. Its decisions should place the matter beyond all controversy with Christians.
Paul freely discusses this subject in his Epistle to the Hebrews, to whom the typical covenant applied. He takes up their “ceremonies of the Law” (in the first covenant) which had then become a hindrance to them, admits all they claim relative to their first use and importance, and then explains their real object and end (in the second covenant).
The following is based on page 24: “Then verily the first covenant had also ordinances [rituals] of divine service, and a worldly [earthly] sanctuary [building]. For there was a tabernacle [tent] made; the first, wherein was the candlestick, and the table, and the showbread; which is called the sanctuary [or holy place]. And after the second veil, the tabernacle which is called the Holiest of all [the most holy]; which had the golden [portable] censer, and the ark of the covenant overlaid round about with gold, wherein was the golden pot that had manna, and Aaron's rod that budded, and the tables of the covenant [the Ten Commandments]; and over it the cherubims [angels] of glory shadowing the Mercy Seat; of which we cannot now speak particularly”. Hebrews 9:1-5.
An in-depth description of the sanctuary and its furniture can be found in the last four books of the Pentateuch, [Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers and Deuteronomy].
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“Sanctuary” was the first name the LORD gave it (Exodus 25:8), which name covers not only the tabernacle [building] with its two apartments, but also the court and all the vessels of the ministry. It is this that Paul calls the sanctuary of the first covenant, “which was a figure for the time then present, in which were offered both gifts and [animal] sacrifices”. Hebrews 9:9.
“But Christ being come a High Priest of good things to come by a greater and more perfect tabernacle, not made with hands” has changed that. Verse 11. The priests entered the “figures” or “patterns of the true” with the evidence of an animal’s death, but Christ entered the “heavenly places themselves” when He entered “heaven itself” with the evidence of His own death. Verses 23-24. When He ascended to the right hand of the Father “in the heavens” He became “A minister of the sanctuary and of the true tabernacle, which the LORD pitched and not man”. Hebrews 8:1-2. That is the sanctuary of the “better (the new) covenant” [for the spiritual rituals of Christianity]. Verse 6.
The following is based on page 25:The sanctuary to be cleansed at the end of the 2,300 days is also the sanctuary of the new covenant, for the vision of the treading down and cleansing comes to an end long after the crucifixion, in 1844. We see then that the sanctuary of the new covenant is not on earth, but in heaven. The true tabernacle which forms part of the new covenant sanctuary was made and pitched by the LORD, in contradistinction to that of the first covenant which was made and pitched by man, in obedience to the command of God. Exodus 25:8.
Now what else does the apostle say the LORD has pitched? “A city which has foundations, whose builder and maker is God”. Hebrews 11:10. What is its name? “The heavenly Jerusalem”. Hebrews 12:23; Revelation 21:2.It is “a building of God, a house not made with [human] hands, eternal in the heavens”. 2 Corinthians 5:1. It is, “My Father’s house of many mansions”.See John 14:2. When our Saviour was at Jerusalem and had pronounced its house (temple) desolate, the disciples came to Him to show the glory of the buildings. Then He said, “There shall not be left here one stone upon another that shall not be thrown down”. Matthew 24:1-2.
That temple was their sanctuary and the heart of their religion. 1 Chronicles 22:17-19; 28:9-13; 2 Chronicles 29:3-5, 21; 36:14,17. Therefore, such an announcement would tend to fill them with sadness and fear, as foretelling a break, if not the total end of their entire religious system. But to comfort and teach them, He says,“In My Father’s house are many mansions”. John 14:1-3.
The following is based on page 26:Standing as He was, on the dividing line (the overlap) between the typical covenant and the anti-typical (between the earthly figure and the spiritual reality), and having just declared the house of the former to be no longer valid and foretold
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its destruction, how natural that He should point His disciples to the sanctuary of the anti-type [the one in heaven], about which their affections and interests were to cluster as they had about the former.The sanctuary of the new covenant is connected with New Jerusalem, like the sanctuary of the first covenant was with Old Jerusalem. As that was the place where the priests of that covenant worked, so this in heaven is where the Priest of the new covenant ministers. To these places in heaven, and to these only, the New Testament applies the name “sanctuary”, and it does appear that this should forever set the question at rest.
But as we have been long and industriously taught to look to the earth for the sanctuary, it may be proper to enquire, “By what scriptural authority have we been thus taught?” I can find none! If others can, let them produce it. Let it be remembered that the definition of sanctuary is “a holy or sacred place.” Is the earth, is Palestine, such a place? Their entire contents answer, No!
Was Daniel so taught? Look at his vision. “And the place of His sanctuary was cast down”. Daniel 8:11. This casting down was in the days and by the means of the Roman power [Pagan and Papal]; therefore, the sanctuary of this text was not the Earth, nor Palestine, because the former [the earth] was cast down by the fall of Adam and Eve more than 4000 years before, and the latter [Palestine/Israel] at the [Babylonian] captivity more than 700 years previous to the time of this verse, and neither of them were cast down by Roman agency.
[The sanctuary of Daniel 8 was “cast down” by both the Pagan and Papal divisions of Rome. One in 70AD, and the other about 538AD.]
The following is based on page 27:The sanctuary cast down is His against whom [the apostate bishop of] Rome magnified himself, which was the Prince of the host, Jesus Christ; and Paul teaches that His sanctuary is in heaven. Again, “For the ships of Chittim shall come against him; therefore shall he be grieved and return, and have indignation against the holy covenant (Christianity), so shall he do; he shall even return and have intelligence with them (priests and bishops) that forsake the holy covenant.And arms (civil and religious) shall stand on his part, and they (Rome and those that forsake the holy covenant) shall pollute the [heavenly] sanctuary of strength.” Daniel 11:30-31.
What was this that Rome and the apostates of Christianity should jointly pollute?
This combination was formed against the “holy covenant” and it was the sanctuary of that covenant they polluted; which they could do as well as to pollute the name of God, for this was the same as profaning or blaspheming His name. Jeremiah 34:16; Ezekiel 20; Malachi 1:7.
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In this sense this “politico-religious” beast polluted the [heavenly] sanctuary, (Revelation 13:6) and cast it down from its place in heaven, (Psalm 102:19; Jeremiah 17:12; Hebrews 8:1-2) when they called Rome the holy city, (Revelation 21:2) and installed the Pope there with the titles, “Lord God the Pope,” “Holy Father,” “Head of the Church.” &c.
And there, in the counterfeit “temple of God” he professes to do what Jesus actually does in His sanctuary. 2 Thessalonians 2:1-8.
The [heavenly] sanctuary has been trodden underfoot (Daniel 8:13), the same as the Son of God has. Hebrews 10:29.
The following is based on page 28:Daniel prayed, “Cause Your face to shine upon Your sanctuary which is desolate;” Daniel 9:17. This was the earthly sanctuary built by Solomon. He said, “You have commanded me to build a temple upon Your holy mount, and an altar in the city wherein You dwell, a resemblance [copy] of Your holy tabernacle, which You have prepared from the beginning.” Wisdom of Solomon 9:8 [this is one of the books of the Apocrypha]; 1 Chronicles 28:10-13.
It shared in the 70 years desolation of Jerusalem. Daniel 9:2; 2 Chronicles 36:14-21. It was rebuilt after the Babylonian captivity. Nehemiah 10:39.
Moses received the patterns of the sanctuary built at Sinai “by the Spirit”, when he was with the LORD forty days in the cloud on the Mount; and David received the patterns of that built by Solomon, which superseded Moses' with its chambers, porches, courts, the courses of the priests and Levites and all the vessels of service, &c. by the same Spirit. 1 Chronicles 28:10-13. It is clear that both Moses and David had prophetic visions of the New Jerusalem with its sanctuary and Christ, the officiating Priest.
When that built by Moses was superseded by Solomon's, the ark [of the covenant,a symbol of God’s throne] was borne from the former to the latter. 2 Chronicles 5:2-8. The sanctuary comprehended not only the tabernacle, but also all the vessels of the ministry, enclosed by the court in which the tabernacle stood. Numbers 3:29-31; 10:17, 21.
So the court in which the Temple stood was also properly called the sanctuary.
The following is based on page 29:We learn the same from 2 Chronicles 29:18, 21. “We have cleansed all the house of the Lord, and the altar of burnt offering, with all the vessels thereof, and the showbread table with all the vessels thereof.” The brass altar of burnt-offering with its implements stood before the temple in the courtyard, the whole of which are in verse 21 called the sanctuary.
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“Well”, says one, “is not Palestine called the sanctuary?” I think not. In Exodus 15:17 it is written, “You shall bring them in and plant them in the mountain of Your inheritance, in the place, O LORD, which You have made for You to dwell in; in the sanctuary, O LORD, which Your hands have established”. What is it which the LORD “has made to dwell in,” which His “hands have established?” Paul says it is “a city”, “a tabernacle,” and “a building . . . in the heavens.” Hebrews 11:10; Hebrews 8:2; 2 Corinthians 5:1.
And the LORD had chosen Mt. Zion in Palestine for the place of the earthly sanctuary’s final location. “For the LORD has chosen Zion; He has desired it for His habitation. This is My rest forever; here will I dwell; for I have desired it”. Psalm 132:13-14. “He brought them to the border of the sanctuary, even to this mountain;” (Psalm 78:54) which was its chosen border or place; but not the sanctuary itself, any more than Mt. Moriah, on which the Temple was built, was the Temple itself. Did they regard that land as the sanctuary? If they did not, we should not.
A view of some of the texts in which the word occurs will show this:
“Let them make me a sanctuary;” (Exodus 25:8), “The shekel of the sanctuary,” (Exodus 30:13) and above twenty others like it. “Then wrought Bezaleel and Aholiab, and every wise-hearted man, in whom the Lord put wisdom and understanding to know how to work all manner of work for the service of the sanctuary;” Exodus 26:1-6, [see Exodus 36:1]. “Before the veil of the sanctuary,” Leviticus 4:6. “Carry your brethren from before the sanctuary.” Leviticus 10:4.
The following is based on page 30: “Nor come into the sanctuary;” Leviticus 12:4. “He shall make atonement for the tabernacle;” Leviticus 16:33. “Reverence my sanctuary;” Leviticus 19:30; 26:2. “Nor profane the sanctuary of his God;” Leviticus 21:12. “Vessels of the sanctuary;” Numbers 3:31. “Charge of the sanctuary;” Numbers 3:32,38. “They minister in the sanctuary:” Numbers 4:12. “In the sanctuary and in the vessels thereof;” verse 16. “And when Aaron and his sons have made an end of covering the sanctuary, and all the vessels of the sanctuary, as the camp is to set forward; after that the sons of Kohath shall come to bear it;” Numbers 4:15; 7:9; 10:21.
“That there be no plague among the children of Israel when the children of Israel come nigh to the sanctuary;” Numbers 8:19 “You and your sons and your father's house with you shall bear the iniquity of the sanctuary.” Numbers 18:1.
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“He has defiled the sanctuary of his God;” Numbers 19:20. Joshua “took a great stone and set it up there under an oak that was by the sanctuary of the LORD.” Joshua 24:26, “All the instruments of the sanctuary.” 1 Chronicles 9:29. “Build you the sanctuary.” 1 Chronicles 22:19. “Governors of the sanctuary.” 1 Chronicles 24:5. “The LORD has chosen you to build a house for the sanctuary.” 1 Chronicles 28:10; 2 Chronicles 20:8. “Go out of the sanctuary.” 2 Chronicles 26:18; 29:21; 30:8. “Purification of the sanctuary.” 2 Chronicles 30:19; 36:17.
The following is based on page 31:I have given nearly every text, and, I believe every different form of expression in which the word [sanctuary] occurs till we come to the Psalms; so that every one can see what they understood the sanctuary to be. And of the fifty texts quoted, not one applies it to the land of Palestine, nor any land. That sanctuary, though enclosed with curtains, was called “the house of the LORD,” (Judges 18:31;1 Samuel 1:7, 24), and was pitched at the city of Shiloh at the time of dividing the land; Judges 18:1, 10, hence it was called the “Tabernacle of Shiloh,” (“safety and happiness”). Psalm 78:60. The LORD forsook it when the Philistines captured the ark [of the covenant] (1 Samuel 4:3-11) and He “delivered his strength into captivity, and his glory into the enemy's hand.” Verse 21.
When released by the Philistines the ark was brought back to Kirjath-jearim(1 Samuel 7:1-2), from there taken to the house of Obed-edom, and from there to the city of David which is Zion. (2 Samuel 6:1-19; 5:9.) And finally, at the direction of Solomon, it was conveyed into the Holy of Holies of the newly-built temple (1 Kings 8:1-6), which was erected in Mount Moriah near Mount Zion in Jerusalem. 2 Chronicles 3:1.
The Lord has chosen Zion to dwell in rest forever (Psalm 132:13-14), but as yet he has dwelt there but a short time, and then in curtains made with hands; but when he shall appear in his glory he will have “mercy on Zion” and build it up; then Jerusalem shall be “a quiet habitation, a tabernacle that shall not be taken down.” (Psalm 102; Isaiah 33:20). And then “the people shall dwell in Zion at Jerusalem.” Verses 18-19. [See also Revelation 21:3.]
The Song of Moses (Exodus 15), is evidently prophetic, and contemplates the happy scenes of the Edenic Zion.
The following is based on page 32:And so Ezekiel has it. The Lord will bring the whole house of [spiritual] Israel up out of their graves into the land of Israel [at that time the whole world]; and then set his sanctuary and tabernacle in the midst of them for evermore.
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The sanctuary is not “the land of Israel” nor the people, for it is set in their midst, and is built and forms a part of the city whose name is, “The Lord is there.”
The Priesthood of Christ – and of the believers.
The priesthood of the worldly sanctuary of the first covenant belonged to the sons of Levi; but that of the heavenly, of the better covenant, to the Son of God.He fulfils both the Priesthood of Melchisedec and Aaron. In some respects the Priesthood of Christ resembles that of Melchisedec; and in others that of Aaron or Levi.
1. He was “made a High Priest forever, after the order of Melchisedec.”[The Greek word] “Taxis”, rendered “order” [in the text], properly signifies “series, succession.” Christ, like Melchisedec, had no priestly descent of pedigree. Hebrews 7:3 (margin). That is, He never followed nor will have a successor in office; and “because he continues [for]ever, has a unchangeable Priesthood,” (which passes not from one to another; margin) verse 24.The priesthood of Levi to be continuous needed many persons, and a succession of priests, “because they were not suffered to continue by reason of death.” Hebrews 7:23.
2. Being after the order of Melchisedec, he is superior to the sons of Levi; because [through Melchisedec] he blessed and received tithes from them in Abraham. Hebrews 7:1, 7, 9-10. [Genesis 14:18-20.]
[“It was Christ that spoke through Melchisedec, the priest of the most high God.
Melchisedec was not Christ, but he was the voice of God in the world, the representative of the Father”. R&H, Feb 18, 1890, para 10.]
3. He is King and Priest; a King by birth, being from the tribe of Judah, and a Priest by the oath of his Father. Verses 14, 21.
4. Being himself perfect, and his priesthood unending, he is able to “perfect forever” and “save them to the uttermost that come unto God by him, seeing he ever lives to make intercession for them.” Verse 25.
The following is based on page 33:He was not called after the order of Aaron; i.e. not in his succession; but this does not at all prove that the priesthood of Aaron was not typical of the Priesthood of Christ. Paul distinctly shows that it is.
1. After calling upon us to “consider the Apostle and High Priest of our profession (or religion), Christ Jesus,” Paul lays the foundation of the investigation by drawing the analogy between Moses over his house (“oikos” = people) and Christ over his. (Hebrews 3:1-6.) Then he says: “Moses verily was faithful in all his
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house, as a servant, for a testimony of those things which were to be spoken after.” This clearly shows that the Mosaic economy was typical of the divine.
2. He shows that he was called of God to be a High Priest “as was Aaron.” Hebrews 5:1-5.
3. Like Aaron and his sons, he took upon him flesh and blood, the seed of Abraham; “was in all points tempted like as we are, yet without sin;” was made “perfect through suffering;” and “in all things it behoved him to be made like unto his brethren that he might be a merciful and faithful High Priest in things pertaining to God, to make reconciliation for the sins of the people:” Hebrews chapters 2 to 4.
[Compiler’s note: There is no #4 in the original list.]
5. Both orders were ordained then in things pertaining to God; that (they might) offer both gifts and sacrifices for sins”. Hebrews 5:1; 8:3.
The following is based on page 34:6. Paul evidently considered the Levitical priesthood typical of Christ's from the pains he takes to explain the analogies and contrasts between them.
7. “And they truly were many priests, because they were not suffered to continue by reason of death: but this man, because he continues forever, has an unchangeable priesthood.” Hebrews 7:24.
8. “Who needs not daily, as those high priests, to offer up sacrifices, first for his own sins, and then for the people's; for this he did once when he offered up himself.” Verse 27.
9. “For the law makes men high priests which have infirmity [weaknesses]; but the work of the oath which was since the law, makes the Son [into a High Priest] who is consecrated (perfected, margin) for evermore.” Hebrews 7:23-28.
10. “But now has he obtained a more excellent ministry” than theirs. Hebrews 8:6.
11. “By how much also he is the mediator of a better covenant” than theirs. Hebrews 8:6.
12. “But Christ being come a High Priest of good things to come, by a greater and more perfect tabernacle” than theirs. Hebrews 9:11.
13. “Neither by the blood of goats and calves [bulls], but by his own blood,he entered in once into the holy place.” Verse 12.
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14. “For if the blood of bulls and of goats and the ashes of a [red] heifer sprinkling the unclean sanctifies to the purifying of the flesh; how much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without spot to God, purge your conscience.” Verses 13-14.
15. “For Christ is not entered into the holy places made with hands, which are figures of the true; but into heaven itself.” Verse 24.
The following is based on page 35:16. “Nor yet that he should offer himself often, as the high priest enters into the holy place every year with blood of others;” “but now once in the end of the world has he appeared to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself.” Verses 25-26.
[Crucifixion was a continuous process of death, and the Son of God’s “death” began in Eden and finishes at the close of probation.]
17. “And as it is appointed unto men (the priests) once to die, but after this the judgment: so Christ was once offered to bear the sins of many; and unto them that look for him shall he appear the second time without sin unto salvation.” Verses 27-28.
18. “For the law having a shadow of good things to come, and not the very image of the things, can never with those sacrifices which they offered year by year continually, make the comers thereunto perfect;” but “by one offering he has perfected forever them that are sanctified.” Hebrews 10:14.
19. “It is not possible that the blood of bulls and of goats should take away sins;” . . . “but a body have You prepared me.” Verses 4-5.
These are part of the contrasts or comparisons the Apostle draws between the Levitical priesthood and Christ's and there is a resemblance in every instance,but Christ's is superior to Levi's. I add one more. Hebrews 8:4-5. “For if he were on earth he should not be a priest, seeing that there (margin, they) are priests that offer gifts according to the law: who serve unto the example and shadow of heavenly things.”
[Two priestly groups are compared. The priesthood of Levi was made up of a succession of men because of death, and is only a shadow, but the Melchisedek priesthood is based on an everlasting life and is the reality which brings perfection. The two priests of that order whom Paul refers to (Christ and Melchisedek) live forever.
The features of the shadow always bear a resemblance to those of the priestly service “in the heavens” (verses 1-2) [which is] performed by our high priest in his sanctuary; therefore if the shadow is service, the substance is service also.
The following is based on page 36:
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Because the priests of the law served unto the example and shadow of the heavenly service we can from their service learn something of the nature of the heavenly service. “Moses was admonished of God when he was about to make the tabernacle; for, see (says He) that you make all things according to the pattern showed to you in the Mount”. Hebrews 8:5.
None can deny that, in obedience to this admonition, Moses made or instituted the Levitical priesthood; it was then “according to the pattern” which the Lord showed him, and that pattern was of heavenly things. Hebrews 9:23. If there was not another text to prove that the Levitical priesthood was typical of the Divine, this would abundantly do it. Yet some are even denying this obvious import of the priesthood; but if this is not its import, I can see no meaning in it.It would be an idle round of ceremonies without sense or use, as it did not [make] perfect those for whom it was performed; but looked upon as typical of the heavenly, it is replete with the most important instruction.
As this is the application made of it by the New Testament, so we must regard it, while we examine the atonement made under the Levitical priesthood.
The atonement – the judgment
“Now when these things (the worldly sanctuary with its two apartments and the furniture in each) were thus ordained, the [many] priests went always (daily, Hebrews 7:27; 10:11) into the first tabernacle, accomplishing the service of God; but in the second went the high priest alone once [on one day] every year, not without blood [the evidence of death], which he offered for himself, and for the errors of his people.” Hebrews 9:6-7.
The following is based on page 37:Here Paul divides the services of the Levitical priesthood into two classes - one daily in the Holy, and the other yearly in the Holy of Holies.
Their stated daily services, performed in the Holy [1st apartment] and at the brass altar in the court before the tabernacle, consisted of a burnt-offering of two lambs, one in the morning [9am] and the other at even [3pm], each with a meat [meal] offering which was one tenth of an ephah of flour mingled with the fourth part of a hin of beaten oil, and a drink-offering which was one-fourth of a hin of strong wine. The meat-offering was burnt with the lamb, and the drink-offering was poured in the Holy [on the earth floor]. Exodus 29:38-42; Numbers 28:3-8.
In connection with this, they burned on the golden [prayer] altar in the Holy [the 1st
room], sweet incense, which was a very rich perfume, when they dressed and lit the lamps every evening and morning. Exodus 34-38; 31:11; 30:7-9. The same was
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afterwards done at the Temple. 1 Chronicles 16:37-40; 2 Chronicles 2:4; 13:4-12; 31:3; Ezra 3:3.
[This represented the prayers mixed with Christ’s righteousness. Revelation 8:3-4.]This did not atone for sins either individually or collectively.
The daily service just described was a sort of continual intercession; but the making of the atonement was a special work for which special directions are given. Different words are used both in the Old Testament and New, to express the same idea as at-one-ment.
The following is based on page 38:Examples: [the red emphasis is in the original]The italicized words are, in the text, synonymous with atone or atonement. “You shall cleanse the altar when you have made an atonement for it”. Exodus 29:36. “The priest shall make an atonement for her and she shall be clean”. Leviticus 12:8.
The leper (= the sinner with inward sin)
“This shall be the law of the leper in the day of his cleansing”. Leviticus 14:2; “The priest shall make an atonement for him and he shall be clean”. verse 20.
The atonement could not be made for him till after he was healed of the leprosy. Leviticus 13:45-46. Till he was healed, he had to dwell alone outside the camp.
[Leprosy is used as a picture of indwelling sin, and until this is removed from the natural man or woman and replaced with “the good health” of our Saviour, we are doomed to remain outside the family of God.]
Then, Leviticus 14:3-4; “The priest shall go forth out of the camp; and the priest shall look, and behold if the plague of the leprosy be healed in the leper; then shall the priest command to take for him that is to be cleansed two birds alive and clean,” etc. [Like the two goats of the Day of Atonement.]
The law was the same in cleansing a house from the leprosy. Verses 33-57.The stones affected with the plague were removed and the house “scraped within round about” and then repaired with new material [like the new world].
[The “daily” did NOT atone for sins,it was a sort of continual intercession for guidance [or dedication].]
Physical uncleanness is now all removed and we would call it clean;but it was not so [in God’s sight]; it is only just prepared to be cleansed according to the law.
“And he shall take to cleanse the house two birds” etc. Verse 49.
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“And he shall cleanse the house with the blood of the birds” etc. . . . And made an atonement for the house, and it shall be clean.” Verses 52-53.
“And he shall go out to the [golden] altar that is before the Lord, and make an atonement for it. And he shall sprinkle of the blood upon it with his finger seven times, and cleanse it and hallow [make it holy] it from the uncleanness of the children of Israel.” Leviticus 16:18-19. See also 2 Chronicles 29:24.
The following is based on page 39: “Moses took the blood, and put it upon the horns of the [brass] altar round about with his fingers and purified the altar, and poured the blood at the bottom of the altar, and sanctified it, to make reconciliation upon it.” Leviticus 8:15.
“And they made reconciliation with their blood upon the [brass] altar, to make an atonement for all Israel.” 2 Chronicles 29:24.
“I will cleanse them from all their iniquities, . . . and I will pardon all their iniquities.” Jeremiah 33:8.
“Being now justified by his blood, . . . by whom we have now received the atonement.” Romans 5:9-11. “Who hath reconciled us to himself by Jesus Christ.” 2 Corinthians 5:17-19.“And that he might reconcile both unto God.” Ephesians 2:16.
“The blood of bulls . . . sanctifies to the purifying of the flesh” but the blood of Christ shall purge our conscience from dead works. Hebrews 9:13-14. He is the Mediator for the “redemption of the transgressions,” and to “perfect forever them that are sanctified.” Hebrews 10:14.
“In whom we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of our sins.” Ephesians 1:7.
“Be converted that your sins may be blotted out.” Acts 3:19.
From these texts we learn that the words atone, cleanse, reconcile, purify, purge, pardon, sanctify, hallow, forgive, justify, redeem, blot out, and some others, are used to signify the same work, viz., bringing into favour with God; and in all cases blood [the evidence of death] is the means, and sometimes blood and water.
The following is based on page 40:The atonement is the great idea of the Law, as well as that of the Gospel; and as the design of that Law’s atonement was to teach us that of the Gospel, it is very important to be understood.
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The atonement which the priest made for the people in connection with their daily ministration was different from that made on the tenth day of the seventh month.
In making the former, the ordinary priests went no further than in the Holy [the 1st
apartment]; but to make the latter the high priest entered the Holy of Holies - the former was made for individual cases, the latter for the whole nation of Israel collectively the former was made for the forgiveness of sins, the latter for blotting them out - the former could be made at any time, the latter only on the tenth day of the seventh month.
Hence the former may be called the daily atonement and the latter the yearly,or the former the individual, and the latter the national atonement.
The individual atonement - forgiveness
The individual atonement for the forgiveness of sins was made for a single person, or for the whole congregation in case they were collectively guilty of some sin. The 1st chapter of Leviticus gives directions for the burnt-offering [of dedication of our life], the 2nd for the meat [meal]-offering [typical of our possessions], the 3rd for the peace-offering [saying ‘Thank You’], and the 4th for the sin-offering, which, as its name implies, was an offering for sins [an atonement], in which he who offered it attained forgiveness of his sins.
The trespass-offering, Leviticus chapters 5 and 6:1-7, was similar to the sin-offering [but often involved a third party].
“If a soul sin through ignorance,” Leviticus 4:2, “when he knows of it, then shall he be guilty.” Leviticus 5:3. [Specific confession was required, not just a general statement.] “And it shall be when he shall be guilty in any of these things, that he shall confess that he has sinned in that thing.” verse 5.
The following is based on page 41:From Numbers 5:6-8, it appears that confession and restitution are necessary in all cases before the atonement could be made for the individual. “When a man or woman shall commit any sin that man commit, to do a trespass against the Lord [or a fellow-being], and that person be guilty, then they shall confess their sin which they have done [on the head of a FEMALE GOAT, Leviticus 4:27-31], and he shall recompense [pay back] his trespass with the principle thereof, and add unto it the fifth part [20%] thereof, and give it unto him against whom he has trespassed.”
Then he or the elders (if it was for the congregation) brought the victim for the sin or trespass-offering to the door of the tabernacle of the congregation on the north side of the altar of burnt offering in the court. Leviticus 4:24; 1:11; 17:1-7.
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There he (or the elders) laid his hand on its head, transferring the “death” of that sin to it, and then he killed it. Leviticus 4:2-4, 13-15, 22-24, 27-29.
[The priests and the congregation killed a bullock to show the seriousness of their collective sin. Leviticus 4:3; 14. An individual ruler brought a MALE GOAT in place of the common person’s female one, but that blood did not go into the building. Verse 23.]
Then, the victim being presented and slain, the priest that was anointed [the one on duty] took some of the blood into the Holy [the 1st apartment], and with his finger sprinkled it before the veil of the sanctuary [on the ground] and put some of it upon the horns of the altar of incense, then poured the remainder of the blood at the bottom of the brass altar [back out in the courtyard]. Thus he made an atonement for the individual, and his sin was forgiven. Leviticus 4:5-10, 16:20, 25-26, 30-35.
[It is important to note that Crozier has overlooked the ritual for an ordinary person and ruler, when the priest ate a portion of the animal, and did NOT take any of its blood into the building. Leviticus 6:24-26; 29-30. The blood required for the forgiveness was supplied by the priest’s confession of the sins which he carried on behalf of others on to a bullock at the end of his shift. Leviticus 4:3-12. Thus the ONLY blood ever to be taken into the sanctuary building FOR FORGIVENESS was bullock’s blood! Forgiveness was not obtained by the blood of a lamb entering the building!]
The carcasses of the sin-offering were [often] taken without the camp and burned “in a clean place.” Leviticus 4:11-12, 21. [The body was discarded as not wanted!]
It should be distinctly remembered that the priest did not begin his duties till he obtained the blood of the victim, and that they were all performed in the court (the enclosure of the sanctuary), and that the atonement thus made was only for the forgiveness of sins.
The following is based on page 42:These points are expressly taught in this chapter and the following one on the trespass-offering. Here is an atonement, to make which, the priests only entered the Holy, and to make it they could enter that apartment “always” or “daily.”
“But into the second (the Holy of Holies) went the high priest alone once every year, not without blood, which he offered for himself, and for the errors of the people.” (“Laos” = nation).
The National Atonement – the cleansing
This defines the yearly [ceremony] to be The National Atonement, of which the Lord “speaks particularly” in Leviticus 16. “And the Lord said unto Moses, speak unto Aaron, your brother, that he come not at all times into the holy place within the veil [the second apartment], before the Mercy Seat, which is upon the ark; that he die not: for I will appear in the cloud upon the Mercy Seat.” Verse 2.
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For what purpose and when could he enter it? “To make an atonement for all Israel, (the whole nation,) for ALL their sins once a year.” “On the tenth day of the seventh month,” Leviticus 16:34, 29. [He went in and out at least 5 times on that day.]
In the Law of Moses this was the most important day of the year: [for it prefigured the judgment of the saints – first the righteous dead, then the living].
The following is based on page 43:On that day the whole nation having had their individual sins previously forgiven by the [daily] atonements made in the Holy, then assembled about their sanctuary, while the High Priest, attired in his holy garments for glory and beauty (Exodus 28:4), having the golden bells on the hem of his robe that his sound may be heard when he goes in before the Lord, the breast-plate of judgment on his heart, with their names engraved therein that he may bear their judgment, also in it the Urim and Thummim (light and perfection), and the plate of pure gold, the holy crown, (Leviticus 8:9; Exodus 28:36), with “HOLINESS TO THE LORD” engraved upon it, placed upon the fore-front of his mitre that he may bear the iniquities of the holy things, enters the Holy of Holies to make an atonement to cleanse them, that they may be clean from all their sins before the Lord. Leviticus 16:30.
[In actual fact, the high priest went into the second room dressed that way to take the record of the forgiven sins from the earth floor in the first room (and from the incense altar) in to the presence of the Father with the blood of the bull, and that’s what the people heard. After that ritual he changed his clothes into a special set of white ones without the bells to accomplish the cleansing by the blood of the goat. This means that the people then had to imagine by faith what he was doing – they could NOT hear him moving about. It was not until after the scapegoat had received the deaths associated with the forgiven sins that the priest changed back into his coloured clothes and became seen and heard again. Leviticus 16:4, 23-24; 32-33. That “quiet time” must have been an unnerving experience for those waiting at the sanctuary in case something went wrong!]
The victims for the atonement of this day were, for the priest himself [and on behalf of the people], a young bullock for a sin-offering (verses 3, 6) and a ram for a burnt offering, and for the cleansing of the people, two goats; one for asin-offering, and the other for the scapegoat, and a ram for a burnt-offering. (Verses 3-8.)
He first killed or caused to be killed the bullock for a sin-offering for himself and “his house[hold]”. Verse 11.
“Then he shall take a [portable] censer full of burning coals of fire from off the [incense] altar before the Lord, and his hands full of sweet incense beaten small, and bring it within the veil [into the second room]. And he shall put the incense upon the fire before the Lord [he shall put the censer on the Mercy Seat and add more incense to it] , that the cloud of the [new] incense may cover the Mercy Seat that is upon the
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testimony [the Ten Commandments] that he die not. And he shall take of the blood of the bullock, and sprinkle it with his finger upon the Mercy Seat eastward [in the front]; and before the Mercy Seat [on the ground] shall he sprinkle of the blood with his finger seven times [depositing the evidence of the death associated with the confessed and forgiven sins].” Verses 12-14.
So much in preparation to make an atonement for the people; a description of which follows:
The following is based on page 44: “Then shall he kill the goat of the sin-offering which is for the people and bring his blood within the veil [into the second room], and do with that blood as he did with the blood of the bullock, and sprinkle it upon the Mercy Seat. And he shall make an atonement for (cleanse, see marginal references,) the holy place (within the veil, verse 2) because of the uncleanness of the children of Israel, because of their transgressions in all their sins;
“and so shall he do (i.e. atone for or cleanse), for the tabernacle of the congregation (the Holy [the first room]) that remains among them in the midst of their uncleanness.” Verses 15-16.
“And he shall go out (of the Holy of Holies) to the [incense] altar that is before the Lord (in the Holy) and make an atonement for it; and shall take of the blood (for himself), and of the blood of the goat (for the people), and put it upon the horns of the altar round about. And he shall sprinkle of the blood upon it with his finger seven times, and cleanse it, and hallow it from the uncleanness of the children of Israel.” Verses 18-19. [The blood of this atonement was not used in the courtyard, even though it represents a sanctified place on the earth.]
The altar was the golden altar of incense in the Holy upon which the blood of individual atonements was sprinkled during the daily ministration. Thus it [had] received the uncleanness from which it is now cleansed. “Aaron shall make an atonement upon the horns of it once a year, with the blood of the sin-offering of atonement.” Exodus 30:1-10. We see from verse 20, that at this stage of the work “he has made an end of reconciling [cleansing] the holy place, and the tabernacle of the congregation, and the altar”, i.e. the Holy of Holies, the Holy, and the incense [prayer] altar in the latter.
The following is based on page 45:We have before seen that [the words] atone, reconcile, cleanse, etc., signify the same, hence at this stage he has made an end of cleansing those places. As the blood of atonements for the forgiveness of sins was not sprinkled in the court, but in the tabernacle only, the entire work of cleansing the sanctuary was performed within the tabernacle building.
These were holy things, yet cleansed yearly.
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The holy place within the veil [the second room] contained the ark of the covenant, covered with the Mercy Seat, overshadowed by the cherubims [angels], between which the LORD dwelt in the cloud of divine glory. Who would think of calling such a place unclean? Yet the LORD provided at the time, yea, before it was built, that it should be annually cleansed.
It was by blood [death], and not by fire, that this sanctuary, which was a type of the new covenant sanctuary, was cleansed (or atoned for).
The high priest on this day “bore the iniquities of the holy things which the children of Israel hallowed in all their holy gifts”. Exodus 28:38. These holy things composed the sanctuary. “And the LORD said to Aaron, You, and your sons, and your father's house with you shall bear the iniquity of the sanctuary”. Numbers 18:1.
The following is based on page 46:This “iniquity of the sanctuary” we have learned was not its own properly, but the children of Israel's, God's own people's, which it had received from them.And this transfer of iniquity from the people to their sanctuary was not a mere casualty because of scenes of lawless rebellion, bloodshed or idolatry among themselves, nor the devastation of an enemy; but it was according to the original arrangement and regular operation of this typical system. For we must bear in mind that all the instructions were given to Moses and Aaron before the erection of the sanctuary.
Provision was made to make atonement for sins committed in ignorance; but not till after they were known, Leviticus 4:14, 5:3-6, then of course they became sins of knowledge. Then the individual bore his/her iniquity, Leviticus 5:1-17; 7: 1-8, till he/she presented his/her offering to the priest and slew it, the priest made an atonement with the blood, Leviticus 17:11, and he/she was forgiven. Then of course, he/she was free from his iniquity.
[All this was planned before the erection of the sanctuaryas a picture of what was already going on in heaven,
and had been from Adam to Moses through Christ the Son of God.]
Now at what point did he [the sinning Christian] cease to bear his/her iniquity? Evidently when he had presented his victim slain; he had then done his part. Through what medium was his iniquity conveyed to the sanctuary? Through his victim, or rather its blood, when the priest took and sprinkled it before the veil and on the incense/prayer altar. Thus the iniquity was communicated to their sanctuary. [The “sinful” blood of a bull was the medium which polluted the sanctuary.]
[All this was duplicated in the heavenly sanctuary to show what was happening inside the Son of God from the Garden of Eden onwards, to demonstrate to the angels and the people of the universe the way of redemption! It typifies the mind and heart of God! See note 2, page 73.]
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The first thing done for the people on the tenth day of the seventh month was to cleanse it by the same means, the application of blood, but this time with “sinless” blood of a goat. This done, the high priest bore the “iniquity of the sanctuary” in himself for the people “to make atonement for them.” Leviticus 10:17.
[So Christ transfers the forgiven sins at the time of confession into the building(i.e. deeper within Himself, to the prayer altar),
and then picks them up again at the end of time for the removal.]
The following is based on page 49: (pages 47-48 have diagrams.)“And when he has made an end of reconciling the holy place (within the second veil, verse 2) and the tabernacle of the congregation [the first room] and the altar(or when he has cleansed the whole sanctuary), “he [the “fit” man] shall bring the live goat, and Aaron shall lay both his hands upon the head of the live goat, and confess over him all the iniquities of the children of Israel, and all their transgressions and all their sins, putting them upon the head of the [scape] goat, and shall send him away by the hand of a fit man into the wilderness. And the goat shall bear upon him all their iniquities into a land not inhabited (margin, [a land] of separation)” Leviticus 16:20-22.
This was the only office of the scape-goat, to finally receive and bear away from Israel all their forgiven iniquities (but not the sinful nature illustrated by the Passover circumcision), into an uninhabited wilderness and there retain them, leaving Israel at their sanctuary, and the priest to complete the atonement of the day by burning the fat of the sin-offerings, and offering the two rams for burnt-offerings on the brass altar in the court. Verses 24-25.
The burning outside the camp of the carcasses of the sin-offerings closed the services of this important day. Verse 27.
The antitypes – the spiritual realities
As this legal system which we have been considering was only a “shadow,”a “figure”, and “patterns”, of no value in itself, being useful only to teach us the nature of that perfect system of redemption which is its “body”, the “things themselves;” which was devised in the councils of heaven, and is being wrought out by “the only Begotten of the Father;” let us, guided by the Spirit of truth, learn the solemn realities thus shadowed forth.
The following is based on page 50:By these patterns, finite as we are, we may like Paul, extend our research beyond the limits of our natural vision to the “heavenly things themselves.”
Here we find the entire ministry of the law fulfilled in [and by] Christ, who was anointed with the Holy Ghost and by his own blood (illustrating His death) entered his sanctuary, in heaven itself, when he ascended to the right hand of the throne of
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the Majesty in the heavens, as “a minister of the Holies” [the first apartment] (Greek = “Hagion”), etc. Hebrews 8:6, 2.
Paul, after speaking of the daily services in the Holy, and the yearly in the Holy of Holies, says, “The Holy Ghost this signifying that the way [the meaning] of the Holies (Greek = “Hodon Hagion”) was not yet made manifest [or clearly seen]: while as the first tabernacle was yet standing, which was a figure for the time then present, in which were offered” etc. “until the time of reformation.But Christ being come, a High Priest of the (Greek “ton”) good things to come, by a greater and more perfect tabernacle, not made with hands, “by his own blood he entered on or into the holy things” (Greek “eis hagia”) Hebrews 9:8-12. The phrase, “eis hagia” in verse 12, is the same as that rendered “holy places,”in verse 24.
“Hagia”, in these two verses, is in the acc. pl. neuter [accusative, plural, neuter] and governed by the preposition “eis” which signifies on, into, upon,or among. Thus “Hagia”, being a neuter adjective, is properly rendered “holy things;” but “Hagia” in verse 2, is in the nom. sin. fem. [nominative, singular, feminine] and is properly rendered “Holy place”.
The definite article “the” belonging before “good things” in verse 11 and Hebrews 10:1 makes the expression mean things “good in themselves, or abstractly good.”
The following is based on page 51:This shows the perfect harmony of Hebrews 9:11-12, 23-24, and Hebrews 10:1. The “things” are “good in themselves,” “holy,” or “heavenly,” and in “heaven itself,” where Christ has entered as our High Priest to “minister” for us; and those “holy things” “in heaven” are connected with the “greater and more perfect tabernacle,” “which the Lord pitched and not man;” the same as the holy things of the first covenant were connected with their tabernacle, Hebrews 9:1-5; and all those holy things together make the sanctuary.
The Holies (both of them) verse 8, the way of which was not made manifest [or clearly seen] till the time of reformations, when Christ shed his own blood, belong to his “greater and more perfect tabernacle,” spoken of in the next verse. I have translated the names literally, because they are not literal in our common version. The Douay Bible [the Catholic version] has them as here given. The [Greek] word in Hebrews 9:8, 10, 19 is “Hagion”, “of the Holies” instead of the “holiest of all”; and shows that the blood of Christ is the way or means by which he, as our High Priest was to enter both apartments of the heavenly tabernacle [but not at the same time].
Now if there be but one place in the heavens, as many say, why were there two in the figure? And why, in applying the figure, does Paul speak of two? Perhaps those
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who “despise the law” and “corrupt the covenant of Levi” can explain this;if not, we advise them to abide by Paul's exposition of the matter.
Entering the second apartment – for the judgment
The following is based on page 52:Hebrews 6:19-20 is supposed to prove that Christ entered the Holy of Holies at his ascension, because Paul said he had entered within the veil. But the veil which divides between the Holy and the Holy of Holies is “the second veil,” Hebrews 9:3; hence there are two veils, and that in Hebrews 6, being the first of which he speaks, must be the first veil, which hung before the Holy, and in Exodus was called a curtain. When he entered within the veil, he entered his tabernacle, of course the Holy, as that was the first apartment; but our hope, as an anchor of the soul, enters within [both] the veils, i.e. the atonement of both apartments, including both the forgiveness [in the daily] and the blotting out of sins [in the judgment].
Those who hold that Christ entered the Holy of Holies at [or just after Calvary],and has been ministering therein ever since his ascension, also believe, as of course they must, that the atonement of the Gospel Dispensation is the antitype of the atonement made on the tenth day of the seventh month under the law.
[Today this is taught as “The atonement was made and finished on the cross”!]
If this is so, the events of the legal tenth day in the Law of Moses, have had their antitypes during the Gospel Dispensation. The first event in the atonement service of that tenth day was the cleansing of the sanctuary, as we have seen from Leviticus 16. Then, upon their theory, the sanctuary of the new covenant was cleansed in the early part of the Gospel Dispensation.
There is no evidence that either the earth or Palestine, their “sanctuaries”, were then cleansed. I call them “their sanctuaries”, for they are not the Lord's. But if the Lord's new covenant sanctuary was then cleansed, the 2,300 days [of Daniel 8:14] ended then [soon after Calvary]; but if they are years, which we all believe, they extend 1,810 years beyond the 70 weeks [to 1844], and the last of those [70] weeks [27AD to 34AD] was the first seven years of the new covenant or Gospel Dispensation.
The following is based on page 53:The fact that those days reach 1,810 beyond the 70 weeks, and that the sanctuary could not be cleansed till the end of those days, is demonstration that the antitype of the legal tenth day is not the Gospel Dispensation.
Again, if the atonement of that day is typical of the atonement of the Gospel Dispensation, then the atonement made in the Holy, Hebrews 9:6, previous to that day, was finished before the Gospel Dispensation began.
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[Some believe that the atonement was made early in the Gospel Dispensation (at the cross) but this is not possible in the types. There is an “atonement” made for the forgiveness of sins, but it was not made on the 10th day of the 7th month. It was actually a “daily” atonement. If the yearly “atonement” was made at the cross then the Day of Atonement is over and the sanctuary already cleansed.]
It has been shown that a daily atonement was made for the forgiveness of sins, and I have found no evidence that such an atonement was made on tenth day of the seventh month [that ritual was for the removal of already forgiven sins]. The Gospel Dispensation began with the preaching of Christ, and if it is the antitype of the legal tenth day, one of the two things is true;
1. Either the Saviour, instead of fulfilling, has destroyed the greater part of the law, the daily service of the Holy which occupies the whole year except one day, the tenth of the seventh month;
2. Or else he fulfilled the whole law except one three hundred and sixtieth part of it before the Gospel Dispensation began, and before he was anointed as the Messiah to fulfil the law and the prophets.
One of these two conclusions is inevitable on the hypotheses that the Gospel Dispensation and the atonement made in it, is the antitype of the legal tenth day, and the atonement made in it.
Upon which of these horns will they hang?
The following is based on page 54:If on the former, the declaration, “I came not to destroy the law,” pierces them;but if they choose the latter, it then becomes them to prove that the law, which had a shadow of good things to come, was fulfilled within itself, that the shadow and substance filled the same place and time. Also they will need to prove that the entire atonement for the forgiveness of sins was made before the Lamb was slain with whose blood the atonement was to be made.
Now it must be clear to every one, that if the antitype of the yearly service (Hebrews 9:7), began at the first Advent, the antitype of the daily (Hebrews 9:6), had been previously fulfilled; and, as the atonement for forgiveness was a part of that daily service, they are involved in the conclusion that there has been no forgiveness of sins under the Gospel Dispensation. [Note this point with care.]
Such a theory is wholly at war with the entire intelligence of the Gospel Dispensation, and stands rebuked, not only by Moses and Paul, but by the teaching and works of our Saviour and his commission to his apostles, and by their subsequent teaching and the history of the Christian church.
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The atonement made at Calvary
The following is based on page 55:But again, they say the atonement was made and finished on Calvary, when the Lamb of God expired. So men have taught us, and so the churches and world believe; but it is none the more true or sacred on that account, if unsupported by Divine authority.
Perhaps few or none who hold that opinion have ever tested the foundation on which it rests.
1. If the atonement was made on Calvary, by whom was it made?The making of the atonement is the work of a Priest, but who officiated on Calvary? - Roman soldiers and wicked Jews.
2. The slaying of the victim was not making the atonement.The sinner slew the victim, Leviticus 4:1-4, 13-15. etc. [It was] after that the Priest took the blood and made the atonement. Leviticus 4:5-12, 16-21.
3. Christ was the appointed High Priest to make the atonement, and he certainly could not have acted in that capacity till after his resurrection, and we have no record of his doing any thing on earth after his resurrection, which could be called the atonement. [He was “asleep” in the grave until Sunday, then spent the next forty days in visiting with His followers, after a brief trip to heaven. 1 Corinthians 15:3-7; Acts 1:1-4.]
4. The atonement was made in the sanctuary, but Calvary was not such a place.
5. He could not, according to Hebrews 8:4, make the atonement while on earth. “If he were on earth, he should not be a Priest.” The Levitical was the earthly priesthood, the Divine [the Melchisedec], the heavenly.
6. Therefore, he did not begin the work of making the atonement, whatever the nature of that work may be, till after his ascension, when by his own blood he entered his heavenly sanctuary for us [forty days after the crucifixion]. The following is based on page 56:Let us now examine a few texts that appear to speak of the atonement as passed. “By whom we have now received the atonement,” (Romans 5:11, margin, reconciliation). This passage clearly shows a present possession of the atonement at that time the apostle wrote; but it by no means proves that the entire atonement was then in the past.
When the Saviour was about to be taken up from his apostles, he “commanded them that they should not depart from Jerusalem, but wait for the promise of the Father,” which came on the day of Pentecost when they were all “baptized with the Holy Ghost.” Christ had entered his Father's house, the sanctuary, as High Priest,
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and began his intercession for his people by “praying the Father” for “another Comforter,” John 14:15, “and having received of the Father the promise of the Holy Ghost,” he shed it down upon his waiting apostles. Acts 2:33. Then, in compliance with their commission, Peter, at the third hour of the day began to preach, “Repent, and be baptized [passovered] every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ, for the remission of sins,” Acts 2:38.
This word remission, signifies forgiveness, pardon or more literally sending away of sins.
The following is based on page 57:Now put by the side of this text another on this point from his discourse at the ninth hour of the same day, Acts 3:19, “Repent you therefore; and be converted that your sins may be blotted out when the times of refreshing shall come from the presence of the Lord.” Here he exhorts to repentance and conversion (turning away from sins); for what purpose? “That your sins may be (future) blotted out.”
Every one can see that the blotting out of sins does not take place at repentance and conversion; but follows, and must of necessity be preceded by them. Repentance, conversion, and baptism had then become imperative duties in the present tense; and when performed, those doing them “washed away” (Acts 22:16) remitted or sent away from them their sins. (Acts 2:28); and of course are forgiven and have “received the atonement;” but they had not received it entirely at that time, because their sins were not yet blotted out.
How far then had they advanced in the reconciling process?
Just so far as the individual under the law had when he had confessed his sin, brought his victim to the door of the tabernacle, laid his hand upon it and slain it, and the priest had with its blood entered the Holy and sprinkled it before the veil and upon the altar and thus made an atonement for him, and he was forgiven. [See Appendix A, page 66, for an update on this statement.]
Only that was the earthly type, and this the spiritual reality.
That prepared for the cleansing of the great day of atonement; this for the blotting out of sins “when the times of refreshing shall come from the presence of the Lord, and he shall send Jesus.” Hence, “by whom we have now received the atonement” is the same as “by whom we have received forgiveness of sin.” At this point the man is “made free from sin” by being forgiven.
The Lamb on Calvary's cross is our victim slain [as the Passover Lamb, not the daily burnt sacrifice]; “Jesus the Mediator of the new Covenant” “in the heavens” is our interceding High Priest, making atonement with his own blood, by and with which he entered there.
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The following is based on page 58:The essence of the process is the same as in the “shadow”.
1st. Convinced of sin;2nd. Repentance and Confession;3rd. Present the Divine sacrifice bleeding.
This done in faith and sincerity we can do no more, no more is required [of us].
Then in the heavenly sanctuary our High Priest with his own blood makes the atonement and we are forgiven [blood is the evidence of a death]. 1 Peter 2:24; “Who his own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree.” See also Matthew 8:17; Isaiah 53:4-12. His body is the “one sacrifice” for repenting mortals, to which their sins are imputed, and through whose blood in the hands of the living active Priest they are conveyed to the heavenly sanctuary. That was offered “once for all,” “on the tree;” and all who would avail themselves of its merits must through faith, there receive it as theirs, bleeding at the hands of sinful mortals like themselves.
[Although all Christians are individually guilty of the death of the Son of God because of the exchange made in the Passover, no human caused the death of the Son of man on the cross. On the contrary, He stated emphatically that He willing laid down His life for His sheep. John 10:15. Then He said, “Therefore does My Father love Me, because I lay down My life, that I might take it again. No man takes it from Me, but I lay it down of Myself. I have power to lay it down, and I have power to take it again. This commandment [permission] have I received of My Father”. John 10:17-18. It was a great picture of His eternal sacrifice!]
After thus obtaining the atonement of forgiveness we must “maintain good works,” not the “deeds of the law;” but “being dead to sin should live unto righteousness” [in the new covenant]. (1 Peter 2:24.)
This work we all understand to be peculiar to the Gospel Dispensation.
The following is based on page 59:
The Age to Come - the millennium
All believers in the Bible expect a glorious age to follow the present, and entertain some ideas of its nature which they profess to have drawn from the Bible.[Some of] the churches think the Bible teaches the final triumph of Christian principles in the conversion of all nations; while we believe that the glories of that age will be ushered in by the personal and visible Advent of Jesus, the resurrection and change of his saints and the destruction of his enemies.
Hence all admit our license to inquire and speak the nature of that age, and certainly we have liberty to learn what the scriptures say on the subject.
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“And Jesus answering said to them, The children of this world (age) marry and are given in marriage; but they which shall be accounted worthy to obtain that world (age) and the resurrection from the dead, neither marry nor are given in marriage”. Luke 20: 34-35.
“That world” is placed in contrast with “this world” – in “this” they marry and are given in marriage, in “that” they shall do neither; but are exempt from death and are like the angels. Thus he teaches a future and peculiar age, to enjoy which we must also obtain the resurrection from the dead.
It will be an age of rewards. “You shall be recompensed at the resurrection of the just”. Luke 14:14. “Blessed is he that shall eat bread in the Kingdom of God”. Verse 15. “Verily, I say to you, That you which have followed me in the regeneration, when the Son of Man shall sit in the throne of his glory, you also shall sit upon twelve thrones judging [leading] the twelve tribes of Israel”. Matthew 19:28. Our Father's Kingdom for which we now pray will then have come, when His will be done on earth as it is in heaven. It will be “the day of the LORD,” “the day of judgment & perdition of ungodly men” (2 Peter 3:7); “in which the heavens and earth which are now shall pass away” (2 Peter 3:10), and the promised New Heavens and earth appear.
The following is based on page 60:This identifies “the age to come” with “the times of restitution”.
The Greek word, “Apokalaslasis”, means restoration of any thing to its former state, hence, “the introduction of a new and better era”; and “the times of refreshing”. “Anapsuxis, refreshing coolness after heat, recreation, rest”.
The identity of “The Times of Restitution” with “The Dispensation of the Fullness of Times” is also apparent. Ephesians 1:10. As Peter in Acts 3: presents the two cardinal points in the atonement, conversion at present, and blotting out of sins future; so Paul in this epistle, Ephesians 1:7, says, “in whom we have redemption, [in] the forgiveness of sins”.
At the same time we receive the Holy Spirit of promise, the earnest [down payment] of our inheritance, verses 13-14, which makes known to us the mystery of his will, “That in the Dispensation of the Fullness of Times he might gather together all things (on, in, or by,) Christ, both which are in heaven and which are on earth.” Ephesians 1:10.
This gathering is the future object of hope [and is] the same as the redemption (deliverance procured by the payment of a ransom [the price*]) of the purchased possession. Ephesians 1:14. (* Ransom implies a kidnapper, or villain, while price is simply the cost of a transaction.)
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The things to be gathered are in heaven and earth, and “anakephalaios” signifies to bring or reduce back again under one head. That is, the different and sundered [separated] parts of the Kingdom, Capitol and King “in heaven,” [and] the subjects and territory “on the earth,” are to be redeemed or gathered again into one kingdom under one “Head,” of the Son of David, and the Dispensation of the Fullness of Times is the period in which it is to be done. This is the period of inheritance and follows that of the Dispensation of Grace. Ephesians 3:2, 6. (See also Hosea 1:11.) In it the promises of the covenants in their largest sense will be inherited.
The following is based on page 61:We think it has been shown that the atonement of the Gospel Dispensation is the antitype of that made by the priests in their daily service, and that prepared for, and made necessary, the yearly atonement, and [that this latter atonement] cleansed the sanctuary and the people from ALL their sins. It appears like a certainty, that the antitypes of the daily ministration of the priests and the vernal [spring] types stretch right through the Gospel Dispensation.
As that composed but part of the atonement and antitypes we have good reason to believe that the remaining antitypes, the autumnal, and the remainder of the atonement, the yearly, will be fulfilled on the same principle as to time and occupy a period or dispensation of at least 1000 years.
[Just as the “daily” (made up of the Passover (“rebirth”), Unleavened Bread (“sound doctrine”) and Pentecost (“the warning ability”) and will occupy all the Gospel Dispensation (from 27AD to the second coming), so the “yearly” (The Feasts of Trumpets, Atonement and Tabernacles) will occupy a period of at least 1,000+ years, having commenced in 1844.
“That age” will be highly exalted above “this age”, and form the stepping-stone to the unmingled fadeless and eternal glories of the earth redeemed and Edenized again. Who can find fault, if the Lord has given us in the law the shadows of that age? Who will not rather seek the Spirit of Truth which shall “bring all things to your remembrance,” even “the Law of Moses” and “show us things to come,” “the good things to come”?
The following is based on page 62:It will be literally an age of repairs, in which the immortal saints will work under the supervision of the King of kings - an age of restitution, of blotting out of sin with all its direful effects, the age for the redemption of the purchased possession, the grand and final Jubilee, in which all captives of Zion in and out of the grave, being released and gathered from among the heathen and out of all countries, shall be cleansed from all their iniquities, possess their “own land,” and the wastes shall be builded. They shall be “one nation . . . And David my servant shall be king over them; and they shall have one shepherd: they shall also walk in my judgment, and observe my statutes, and do them.” Ezekiel 37:21-24.
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“And I will set my sanctuary in the midst of them for evermore. My tabernacle also shall be with them: yea, I will be their God, and they shall be my people.And the heathen shall know that I the Lord do sanctify Israel, when my sanctuary shall be in the midst of them for evermore.” Ezekiel 37:26-27.
They [the rejecters] shall know this when Satan shall gather them, Gog and Magog, from the four quarters of the earth [after the second resurrection] about the “camp of the saints and the beloved City” (Revelation 20:8-9,) when they shall “come into the land that is brought back from the sword,” “the land of unwalled villages,”the desolate places that are at that time inhabited by “them that are at rest,”“that are gathered out of the nations, which have gotten cattle and goods, that dwell in the midst of the land.” (See Ezekiel chapters 38 and 39.)
But at the same time [in amongst the rejecters] “every man's sword shall be against his brother,” [Zechariah 14:13] and “fire from God out of heaven shall devour them:” See again Ezekiel chapters 36, 37, 38.
The following is based on page 63:We have seen that the Dispensation following the Gospel Dispensation is a day of cleansing, and continues even after the Lord has taken his people from among the heathen and gathered them out of all countries into their own land, which is evidently the same as bringing them up out of their graves into the land of new Israel [heaven and the new world]. “Then, (after the resurrection and they are brought into their own land) will I sprinkle clean water upon you, and you shall be clean;” Ezekiel 36:24-25.
To cleanse the people, that they might be clean from all their sins “before the Lord” was the object of the atonement of the tenth day of the seventh month under the law. Leviticus 16:30. The evidence is satisfactory to my mind that that day is [the beginning of] the type of the Dispensation of the Fullness of Times, the age to come.
What! Are we to be sinful and unclean when immortal? Let us “be patient.” “The righteous shall not make haste.” (Isaiah 28:16.)
The Lord says he will sprinkle them with clean water [containing the ashes] and cleanse them thereby after he has gathered them into their own land. (Ezekiel 36:25.) Whether the sprinkling of water is literal or figurative, it shows that he will perform a cleansing process upon them. Blood and water issued from our Saviour's side. Objects under the law were cleansed by blood and water; and we have already seen that if those objects were physically unclean, as by the leprosy or any thing else, all such uncleanness had to be removed in preparation for the real cleansing.
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The following is based on page 64:The atonement was made for the object with blood or blood and water, and the atonement cleansed them. [Consider the ritual of the ashes of the red heifer in Numbers chapter 19 which was used after a death.]
So our Saviour after he had cleansed the leper of his disease commanded him to go and offer for his cleansing. Mark 1:41-44. So the people were themselves freed from their sins by the atonement previously made for them individually in the Holy, to prepare them for the yearly cleansing.
From this it is manifest that the whole house of Israel will need to have their sins forgiven and their vile bodies changed to fit them for the cleansing spoken of. Ezekiel 36:25. The cleansing of the sanctuary did not finish the cleansing for the people; for, after the scape-goat had borne away all the iniquities of the people, the high priest had yet to offer the burnt-offerings and burn the fat of the sin-offerings on the altar in the court, which formed a part of the atonement of the day; and it required the whole atonement of that day to cleanse the people. Leviticus 16:22-30.
[Consider the fact that many of the resurrected ones will have gone into their graves with grievous errors of doctrine which will need to be removed from their minds. Some, who thought they were unbelievers, will even have despised what they saw as professed Christianity, but which was merely a counterfeit!]
The following is based on page 65:
The cleansing of the sanctuary – the removal of sins
This, in fulfilment of the Law, is the first event in the antitype of the tenth day of the seventh month. We have seen, both from the New Testament and the Old, that this sanctuary is not earthly but heavenly, in the New Jerusalem, as the sanctuary of the first covenant formed a part of Old Jerusalem.
Here an inferential objection arises, which in many minds overwhelms any amount of Bible argument on this point. It is, New Jerusalem cannot be defiled, hence needs no cleansing; therefore, New Jerusalem is not the sanctuary.
A very summary process of inferential deduction truly, especially for those who have said so much on the insufficiency of mere inferential [circumstantial] testimony. We would advise them to review the grounds of their faith, and see how many and strong arguments they have for the earth or Palestine being the sanctuary, and how many objections to the sanctuary of the new covenant being where its Priest is, that are not entirely inferential; and then in place of their inferences, take the plain testimony of the Word and teach it.
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But how was the sanctuary defiled? The sanctuary of the Old Testament, being on earth, could be, and was, defiled in various ways - by an unclean person entering it; “She shall touch no hallowed thing, nor come into the sanctuary, until the days of her purifying be fulfilled;” Leviticus 12:4.
It could be profaned by the high priest going out of it for the dead while the anointing oil was upon him (Leviticus 21:12); by a man's negotiating to purify himself (Numbers 19:20). The entire chief of the priests and of the people polluted it by transgressing very much after all the abominations of the heathen.2 Chronicles 36:14. “Surely, because you have defiled my sanctuary with all your detestable things, and with all your abominations (idolatry), therefore will I diminish you”. Ezekiel 5:11.
The following is based on page 66: “Moreover this they have done to me; they have defiled my sanctuary in the same day, and have profaned my Sabbaths: for when they had slain their children to their idols, then they came the same day into my sanctuary to profane it”. Ezekiel 33:38-39. “Her priests have polluted the sanctuary; they have done violence to the law”. Zephaniah 3:4.
Antiochus polluted it by offering swine flesh upon its altar. [See 1 Maccabees 1:41-50? in the Apocrypha.]
From these texts we can clearly see that it was moral rather than physical uncleanness that defiled the earthly sanctuary in the sight of the LORD. True, it did become physically unclean, but that uncleanness had to be removedbefore the atonement was made by which it was reconciled or cleansed.See 2 Chronicles 29. And that, we have seen was the law of cleansing (Leviticus chapters 12 to 15). The object must be made visibly clean, so to speak, so that we would call it clean, to prepare it for its real cleansing with blood. Now no one supposes that New Jerusalem is unclean or ever has been, as its type was when overrun, desecrated and desolated by Syrian, Chaldean or Roman soldiery, or trodden by wicked priests. Even if it were, the removing of such defilement would not be the cleansing it was to undergo at the end of the 2300 days.
The sanctuary was unclean in some sense, or else it would not need to be cleansed; and it must in some way have received its uncleanness from man.
Removed, as the heavenly sanctuary is far from the midst of mortals and entered only by our Forerunner, Jesus, made a High Priest, it can only be defiled by mortals through his agency, and for them cleansed by the same agency.
The following is based on page 67:
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The legal typical earthly process of defiling and cleansing the sanctuary through the agency of the priest [in the Old Testament] has been examined.
With that in our minds, let us go to the New Testament. Paul says, “For it pleased the Father that in him should all fullness dwell, and having made (margin, making) peace through the blood of his cross, by him to reconcile all things unto himself; by him I say, whether they be things on earth or things in heaven.” Colossians 1:19-20. When “things on earth” are spoken of in connection or contrast with “things in heaven,” no one can understand them all to be in the same place. “Things in heaven” are to be reconciled as well as “things on earth.”
If they needed reconciling they were unreconciled; if unreconciled, then unclean in some sense in his sight. The blood [death] of Christ [as the Son of God] is the means, and Christ himself is the agent of reconciling to the Father both the things in heaven and the things on earth. People have an idea that in heaven where our Saviour has gone, every thing is, and always was perfect beyond change or improvement. But he said, “In my Father's house are many mansions; if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you.” [John 14:2.] He went into heaven, and Paul says that the “building of God, a house not made with hands” is in the heavens. 2 Corinthians 5:1.
For what did he go to his Father's house? “To prepare a place for you.”
Then it was unprepared, and when he has prepared it, he will come again and take us to himself.
Again, “It was therefore necessary that the patterns of things in the heavens should be purified with these; but the heavenly things themselves with better sacrifices than these.” Hebrews 9:23.
The following is based on page 68:What were the patterns? “The tabernacle and all the vessels of the ministry,” (verse 21), which constituted the worldly sanctuary. Hebrews 9:1.
What were the heavenly things themselves? The greater and more perfect tabernacle (verse 11), and the good things and the holy things (verses 11-12). These are all in heaven itself.
“For Christ is not entered into the holy places made with hands, which are figures of the true; but into heaven itself.” Verse 24.
Paul here shows that it was as necessary to purify the heavenly things, as it was to purify their patterns, the worldly. It was therefore necessary. Why? He has before been speaking of the daily ministration of the priests, and its antitype, Christ's mediation of the new covenant, “for the redemption of the transgressions.”
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Under the former the blood of bulls and goats and the ashes of a [red] heifer sanctified [cleansed] to the purifying of the flesh [on the earth]; but under the latter, the blood of Christ purges our conscience. Then “without shedding of blood is no remission.” (Verse 22.)
The necessity of cleansing the heavenly things is induced [brought about] by the daily atonement being made therein through the blood of Christ for the remission or forgiveness of sins and purifying of our consciences. And almost all things are by the law purged with blood. The patterns were purified “every year” (verse 25) with the blood of bulls and goats; but in the antitype of that yearly expiation the heavenly things themselves must be purified with the blood of the better sacrifice of Christ himself once offered.
This reconciles the “things in heaven” (Colossians 1:20) and cleanses the sanctuary of the new Covenant. Daniel 8:14.
The following is based on page 69:
The Scape-goat – the destination of the forgiven sins
The next event of that day after the sanctuary was cleansed, was putting all the iniquities and transgressions of the children of Israel upon the head of the scape-goat and sending him away into a land not inhabited, or of separation.
It is supposed by almost every one that this goat typified Christ in some of his offices, and that the type was fulfilled at the first Advent. From this opinion I must differ; because,
1st. That goat was not sent away till after the High Priest had made an end of cleansing the sanctuary, Leviticus 16:20-21; hence that event cannot meet its antitype till after the end of the 2300 days.
2nd. It was sent away from Israel into the wilderness, a land not inhabited, to receive them. If our blessed Saviour is its antitype, He also must be sent away, not his body alone, but soul and body, for the goat was sent away alive, from, not to nor into this people; neither into heaven, for that is not a wilderness or land not inhabited.
3rd. It received and retained all the iniquities of Israel; but when Christ appears the second time He will be “without sin.”
4th. The goat received the iniquities from the hands of the priest and he sent it away. As Christ is the priest the goat must be something else besides himself, and which he can send away.
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5th. This was one of two goats chosen for that day, one was the Lord's and offered for a sin-offering; but the other was not called the Lord's neither offered as a sacrifice. Its only office was to receive the iniquities from the priest after he had cleansed the sanctuary from them, and bear them into a land not inhabited, leaving the sanctuary, priest and people behind and free from their iniquities. Leviticus 16:7-10, 22.
The following is based on page 70:6th. The Hebrew name of the scape-goat, as will be seen from the margin of
verse 8, is “Azazel”. On this verse, William Jenks, in his Comp[rehensive] Com[mentary] has the following remarks;
“Scape-goat. See diff[erent] opin[ion] in Bochart. Spencer, after the oldest opinion of the Hebrews and Christians, thinks Azazel is the name of the devil; and so Rosenmire, whom see. The Syriac [translation] has “Azazel, the angel, (Strong one) who revolted.”
7th. At the appearing of Christ, as taught from Revelation 20, Satan is to be bound and cast into the bottomless pit, which act and place are significantly symbolized by the ancient High Priest sending the scape-goat into a separate and uninhabited wilderness.
8th. Thus we have the Scripture, the definition of the name in two ancient languages both spoken at the same time, and oldest opinion of the Christians in favour of regarding the scape-goat as a type of Satan. In the common use of the term, men always associate it with something mean, calling the greatest villains and refugees from justice scape-goats.
Ignorance of the law and its meaning is the only possible origin that can be assigned for the opinion that the scape-goat was a type of Christ.
The following is based on page 71:Because it is said, “The goat shall bear upon him all their iniquities into a land not inhabited” (Leviticus 16:22), and John said, “Behold the Lamb of God, that takes (margin, bears) away the sin of the world,” it is concluded without further thought that the former was the type of the latter. But a little attention to the law will show that the sins were borne from the people by the priest, and from the priest by the goat.
1st. They are imparted to the victim.
2nd. The priest bore them in its blood to the sanctuary.
3rd. After cleansing them from it on the tenth day of the seventh month, he bore them to the scape-goat.
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4th. The goat finally bore them away beyond the camp of Israel to the wilderness.
This was the legal process, and when fulfilled the author of sins will have received them back again, (but the ungodly will bear their own sins), and his head will have been bruised by the seed of the woman; the “strong man armed” will have been bound by a stronger than he, “and his house (the grave) spoiled of its goods (the saints).” Matthew 12:29; Leviticus 11:21-22 [see Leviticus 16:21-22]. The thousand years imprisonment of Satan will have begun, and the saints will have entered upon their millennial reign with Christ.
The following is based on page 72:The antitype of the legal tenth day, the Dispensation of the Fullness of Times, must begin long enough before the 1000 years of Revelation 20: to give time for the cleansing of the sanctuary, the antitype of confessing and putting the sins on the head of the scape-goat.
This antitype covers the time occupied by the “last end of indignation” (Daniel 8:19); the cry of God's elect to be avenged (Luke 18:1-8); the travail of Zion, (Ezekiel in the valley of dry bones); the loud cry of the 5th angel (Revelation 14:15); the Laodicean church (Revelation 3:14); and the 7 last plagues. (Revelation chapters 15 & 16.)
Our limits will not admit of [our giving] the particulars here. The first resurrection is fixed at the appearing of Christ and so is the beginning of the 1000 [years] at the first resurrection. 1 Thessalonians 4:16; Revelation 20:4-5.
The sanctuary must be cleansed before Christ appears; because,
1. He “was once offered to bear the sins of many; and unto them that look for him shall he appear the second time without sin unto salvation.” Now as his last act in bearing the sins of many is to bear them from the sanctuary after he has cleansed it, and as he does not appear till after having borne the sins of many, and then without sin; it is manifest that the sanctuary must be cleansed before he appears.
2. The host are still under the indignation [or persecution] after the sanctuary is cleansed. Daniel 8. Both the sanctuary and the host were trodden under foot. “Unto 2300 days then shall the sanctuary [begin to] be cleansed,” or justified (margin).
This is the first point in the explanation, and after this Daniel still “sought for the meaning of the vision,” and Gabriel came “to make him know what should be in the last end of the indignation.”
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The following is based on page 73:In the explanation which follows he says nothing about the sanctuary, because that had been explained by the Wonderful Numberer. He now tells him about the host upon whom the last end of the indignation still rests after the sanctuary is cleansed.
This indignation is the Lord's staff - in the hands of the wicked - to chastise his people. It was first put into the hands of the Assyrian and has been inherited by each of his successors, which have in turn been sent “against an hypocritical nation, to take the prey and to take the spoil and to tread them down like the mire of the streets.” Isaiah 10:6.
The last end of the indignation is evidently the bitter persecutions, and the severe and searching trial of God's people, after the sanctuary is cleansed, and before the indignation is made to cease in the destruction of the little Horn, the fruit and the successor of the Assyrian. Daniel 8:25; Isaiah 10:12, 25.
3. The sanctuary must be cleansed before the resurrection, for the Lord has provided a comforting message for his people, telling them that it is done. “Comfort ye, comfort you my people, says your God. Speak you comfortably to Jerusalem, and cry unto her that her warfare (margin, appointed time) is accomplished, that her iniquity is pardoned: for she has received of the Lord's hand double for all her sins.” Isaiah 40:1-2.
Jerusalem and the Lord's people are here spoken of, as the sanctuary and host are in Daniel 8. His people, when Jerusalem's appointed time is accomplished, are affected and are to be comforted by telling them that her iniquity is pardoned.
The following is based on page 74:This must be New Jerusalem (for there was never any time set for pardoning the iniquity of Old Jerusalem), which must have had iniquity of some kind and from some source, else she could not be pardoned of it. The fact that the Lord has commanded to comfort his people by telling them that Jerusalem's iniquity is pardoned, is proof positive that she had iniquity, and that it will be removed before his people are delivered and enter her with songs and everlasting joy.
This message is similar to that in Isaiah 52:9. After the good and peaceful tidings have been published, saying to Zion, Your God reigns, it is declared, “The Lord has comforted his people, he has redeemed Jerusalem.” - New Jerusalem was in a state from which she had to be redeemed, and that before the resurrection; for the next verse says, “All the ends of the earth shall see the salvation of our God.”
The Transition – from the old to the new
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The opinion generally obtains that the seventh trumpet ushers in the Age to come. The first thing upon its sounding are “great voices saying, The kingdoms of this world are become the kingdoms of our Lord and of his Christ.” [Revelation 11:15.] These voices must be heard in the world in which those kingdoms are. It is also evident that the kingdoms sustain a different relation to God at the time these voices are heard, from what they did before the 7th trumpet sounded. [This is the close of human probation.]
The following is based on page 75:The declaration, “He shall reign forever and ever;” and the humble expression of thanks from the twenty-four elders, (a symbol of the whole church), “Because You have taken to You Your great power and have reigned”, (Revelation 11:17) shows that at that time he began to reign in a special sense.
Such voices have been heard since the 7th month [October 22] 1844, and produced the effects here described, deep humiliation and profound gratitude. [But now they need to be heard again! See Revelation 10:11.]
This change of the relation of the kingdoms of this world to Christ, is the same as making his enemies his footstool (Hebrews 10:13), which event was expected by him while he sat at the right hand of the Father fulfilling the daily ministration. Hebrews 10:11-12. Revelation 10 gives in part the character and circumstances of the transition from the Gospel to the following Dispensation. The angel that declares, “There should be time no longer,” is not speaking of the time of the Lord at his appearing, for after uttering that oath he told John, “You must prophesy again.” Whatever the nature of this prophesying may be, it certainly follows the oath of verses 6-7.
I think we have misunderstood the 7th verse.
We have understood or explained the 6th verse as the language of the angel, but the 7th as a declaration of John; whereas both verses are the language of the angel, the 7th being a qualification or explanation of the 6th, showing the manner in which time should close. The angel of the Philadelphia church having “an open door” gave the Midnight Cry with the solemn assurance of this oath. He swore, or positively declared, “That there should be time no longer, but in the days of the voice of the 7th angel, when he shall begin to sound, the mystery of God should be finished, as he has declared to his servants the prophets.” [See note 1 on page 73.]
There are “days” (plural) in which the 7th angel begins to sound.
The following is based on page 76:Whether these days are literal or symbolic, which is most in accordance with the character of this book, they denote a short period of time, in which not only the 7th angel begins to sound, but the mystery of God is finished also.
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Thus we see that the mystery is finished, not in a point, but in a period, and while the mystery is finishing, the 7th angel is beginning to sound. What is the mystery to be finished? “The mystery of the Gospel.” Ephesians 6:19. “The mystery which was kept secret since the world began, but is now made manifest.”
The riches of the glory of this mystery is “Christ in you, the hope of glory” [through the Passover ritual]. Colossians 1:27. “The mystery of Christ, which in other ages was not made known unto the sons of men, as it is now revealed unto his holy apostles and prophets by the spirit; that the Gentiles should be fellow heirs, and of the same body, and partakers of his promise in Christ by the gospel.” Ephesians 3:4-6.
It is the mystery of the Dispensation of the Grace of God. Verse 2.
These texts show that the mystery of God or Christ is the Gospel Dispensation.It is the period of hope and heirship. While we hope we pray for the object of hope, and that is glory - as exhibited on the Holy Mount, immortality, the kingdom and society of Jesus.
The following is based on page 77:Until these are obtained we hope; and while we hope the mystery is not finished.
The overlapping – two at once
Again, we are potential heirs during the mystery of God, and when that is finished, we shall become inheritors. We must therefore conclude that the mystery of God (the gospel message) will end with the mysterious change from mortal to immortality. 1 Corinthians 15:51-54. Then, as the Dispensation of the Fullness of Times begins with the 7th trumpet, and the Gospel Dispensation reaches to the resurrection, it is manifest that the Dispensation of the Fullness of Times, begins before the Gospel Dispensation ends.
There is a short period of overlapping or running together of the two Dispensations, in which the peculiarities of both mingle like the twilight, minglings of light and darkness.
This was also the manner of change from the Dispensation of the Law to the [Dispensation of the] Gospel. Gabriel said to Daniel, “Seventy weeks are determined upon your people and upon the holy city.” [Daniel 9:24.] It is presumed that all agree that these 70 weeks reached to the end of the legal dispensation and no further [34AD]. The Messiah came at the end of the 69 weeks [or the beginning of the 70th depending on how you see it] and began to preach the gospel, (Mark 1:14-15; Matthew 4:23) which Paul calls the New Covenant. And he confirmed this covenant with many for one week, the last one of the 70.
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The following is based on page 78:Hence, the legal Dispensation ended seven years after the Gospel Dispensation began; and the last symbolic week of one was the first of the other; and while one was being finished, the other was being introduced and confirmed or established.
Whether that period of seven years is an express type of the crisis period between the Gospel Dispensation and the Dispensation of the Fullness of Times or not, it furnishes a strong argument from analogy, corroborating the plain testimony of the Word, that there must be such a period.
I see no evidences that the latter must be of the same length of the former.To learn its length we must have recourse to other sources of evidence.Yet there is a striking similarity between them.
At that time [the 70th week of the Jews] the world and the mass of God's professed people were unbelieving, and greatly indifferent about the transpiring events in the Providence of God, momentous as they were. The adherents to the new era [the Christians] were a sect everywhere spoken against. They had little or no reverence for the old and commandment-nullifying traditions of Judaism. They were called movers of seditions, endangering the place and nation; drunken, because filled with the Holy Ghost; and mad, because mighty in the truth.
The following is based on page 79:They had peculiar faith; and their preaching and conduct were such as to cause the professors [of Judaism] to accuse them of breaking the law; and finally they [the Jews] denounced and excluded the whole Christian group of religionists en masse for their infidelity.
The teaching and practice even of our Saviour and the apostles appeared to them contradictory - at times they seemed to recognize the authority of the law, and then again totally to disregard it, and insist upon the new order of things. He resolved their ten commandments into two (Matthew 22:36-40); dismissed the woman without being stoned according to the law (John 8:10-11); forgave sins without the legal sacrifices (Matthew 9:2-7); healed without requiring to offer according to the law, and that even on the Sabbath day (John 5:8-9); and yet declared that he came not to destroy the law, but to fulfil it (Matthew 5:17).
Again, when he had healed a leper, he charged him to go and show himself to the priest and offer for his cleansing those things which Moses commanded (Luke 17:14). He also ate the Passover according to law.
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Both he and his apostles, on some occasions excluded, and on others admitted the Gentiles to privileges, which according to the law could be enjoyed only by the Jews. Thus they recognized the presence and claims of both dispensations at the same time; one entering and displacing the other, not instantly, but gradually, by a succession of events, each distinct in itself, but all connected in harmony, transpiring in fulfilment of prophesy, and forming the circumstances of the Advent, which was one distinct event, and the nucleus of all the rest.
A little before his crucifixion Jesus came [riding on the mule] as King to Jerusalem, the Metropolis and Capitol of that Dispensation. (Zechariah 9:9; Matthew 21:5). The City was under his absolute authority for a time; he had declared its house desolate and now entered and cleansed the temple again. Luke 19:45.
The following is based on page 80:As then, so now, according to the Scriptures, a series of events constitute the circumstances of our Lord's appearing, and form the crisis of the two Dispensations. In that period his crucifixion and resurrection were the principle events to which all others are subservient.
But there are other events connected with these, and which must of necessity precede them. One of these events as we have already seen is the cleansing of the sanctuary. Another is the marriage. That Christ ever was or ever will be married as human beings are, no one pretends; but that there is a divine transaction, illustrated for our understanding under the figure of a marriage, it is infidelity to deny.
The following is based on page 81:Christ is the Bridegroom and New Jerusalem the Bride. Revelation 21:2.The marriage then signifies their union in a special sense, and of course must take place where the bride is, in the heavens. The heavens must receive Jesus till the times of restitution, then the Father will send him from the heavens. Acts 3:20-21.
He went to his Father's house in New Jerusalem, and when he has prepared it he will come again from it to receive us (Luke 12:36). True the word “Gaines”, which is rendered marriage or wedding, signifies “the nuptial ceremony, including the banquet”; but not the banquet alone, as some would have us believe.
Where is the place of these transactions? With the Bride of course.
When the Bridegroom came to the marriage then, he could not have come to the earth from heaven, for then he would have come from instead of to the marriage, but he must have come to the place of marriage, in New Jerusalem.
But says one, “How could he come where he was already?” We must remember that the Bride is not a person, but a city, 12,000 furlongs or 1,500 miles square. The central point and fountain of all its glory is the Ancient of days.
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Christ doubtless has been personally within the limits of that City ever since his ascension, and when the [midnight] cry in 1844 was given he came to the Ancient of Days and the scenes of marriage, which in their amplitude will occupy a great part, if not all, of the Dispensation of the Fullness of Times, then began.
And, as when Christ comes again he will come from New Jerusalem after the scenes of marriage have there begun, every one will see that he will return to earth from the wedding, and we, waiting, will meet him and return with him to the bridal City to share in the festive joys.
The following is based on page 82:Dear Brethren, I must close for the present and leave the subject with you.May the Lord correct and enlarge our conceptions of himself and his Plan, and direct our hearts into the patient waiting for Jesus. Let us in humble obedience follow the Lamb in the expanding developments of His Word and Providence.
Canandaigua, N.Y. Jan. 17, 1846,
O. R. L. CROZIER.
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A further letter from O. R. L. CrozierPublished in the Day Star 11 May 1846
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East Hamilton Mad. Co., April 13, 1846.
Dear Bro Jacobs,If there is room in your little sheet, I wish to lay before the brethren a few thoughts on the anti-types of the autumnal types. They were the memorial of blowing of trumpets on the first day of the seventh month, the day of Atonement and Jubilee trumpet on the tenth, and the Feast of Tabernacles on the fifteenth of the seventh month. Some evidences have been presented in the “Day-Star Extra” to show that the vernal [or spring] types receive their anti-types during the Gospel dispensation and in connection with the anti-typical daily ministration.
So far as I know, it has always been conceded until lately that the fall types were to receive their fulfilment at the Second Advent. To escape the consequences of abiding by this obviously scriptural view of those types, some deny it and explain them away or as fulfilled during the Gospel dispensation; thus furnishing another example of prospective faith, but present infidelity - faith in unfilled, and infidelity in fulfilling prophecies.
The following is based on page 84:
The memorial of trumpets – the warnings
Trumpets were blown, and burnt offerings, and sin offerings offered on the first day of every month in the year. Numbers 28:11-15. But the first day of the 7th month was one of special importance, on which was “a holy convocation”, “no servile work” was done, they afflicted their souls, and offered an offering made by fire unto the Lord; and kept the day as a sabbath. Numbers 29:1-6. Leviticus 23:23, 25.
Their time being lunar, watchmen were stationed on the hills to watch the appearance of the moon. The first who saw it blew his trumpet, and the rest heard and swelled its sound till the hills of Judea resounded with peals of trumpets.In this way the approach of the great Day of Atonement was announced.The fulfilment of this memorial of blowing trumpets must be the proclamation of the coming of the anti-typical day of atonement, which is the Dispensation of the Fullness of Times.
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The object in either case was to make ready for the atonement. This was the office of the Advent movement (or Elijah movement) up the tenth day of the seventh month 1844. The 2300 days ending on that day, the Bridegroom came to the marriage and began the cleansing of the sanctuary which is the first event in the day of atonement.
The following is based on page 85:
The Trumpet of the Jubilee – the last trump
This was sounded “on the tenth day of the seventh month, in the day of atonement”. Leviticus 25:9. Hence, we could not have the Jubilee trumpet till the anti-typical day of atonement began, which was in the autumn [October] of ‘44.
The midnight cry was not the Jubilee trumpet, because it did not occur “on the tenth day of the seventh month, in the day of Atonement”. That was the last blast in the anti-type of the “memorial of blowing trumpets” “in the new moon” “to make ready” for the day of atonement “in” which the trumpet of the Jubilee should sound throughout all the land.
This corroborates the view, published by yourself in the “Star” several months since, as to the identity of the Jubilee trumpet with the seventh trumpet. Revelation 11:15-19. This trumpet would only interest those who were to be benefited by the release; hence, would be sounded to [heard by] Israel only.
Our shut-door position since the 10th of the 7th month ‘44 has been peculiarly adapted to the Jubilee trumpet.
[This was a mistaken concept. The two doors [veils] have, and will, remain open at the same time until the close of probation. In the sanctuary the high priest had to go through the first apartment to reach the second, and it was at that time that the “daily” ceased. Leviticus 16:17. The sanctuary is only “shut” to those who refuse to walk into it “by faith” through their High Priest. Read prayerfully Revelation 3:7-8.]
The jubilee year – the restoration
“And you shall hallow the fiftieth year, and proclaim liberty throughout all the land unto all the inhabitants thereof: it shall be a jubilee unto you; and you shall return every man unto his possession, and you shall return every man unto his family”. Leviticus 25:10. The captives were not only released, but they also returned to their possessions in that year.
The following is based on page 86:The period of this release and restoration was not a day; but a year. “A jubilee shall that fiftieth year be unto you”, verse 11.
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It was the great sabbatic year, in which the land, as well as the people, was redeemed. Verses 24, 28.
The Hebrew servants were only to serve “unto the year of Jubilee”, verse 40; hence, they were free the moment that year began, and the year was occupied in returning to (or taking) and securing their possessions. According to the revealed purposes of God, the events to occur in fulfilment of that year are not confined to the limits of one literal year; but the period of their occurrence is the thousand years’ Day of the Lord. 2 Peter 3: - the year of the Lord’s redeemed – “the sabbath that remains to the people of God”. Hebrews 4:9 (margin) and Revelation 20.
The binding of Satan and loosing of the “captive exiles” from the “prison house” - the “better resurrection” obtained by all the “heirs of promise” mark the beginning of the great and final Jubilee; Isaiah 42:6-16; 49:8-12; 51:12-23; Hebrews [6:17] 12. Then the Redeemer of Israel will “establish the earth” and “cause to inherit the desolate heritages” [Isaiah 49:8] and “they shall build up the desolation of many generations”. The purchased possessions will be redeemed unto the praise of His glory. Ephesians 1:14. - “Jerusalem shall be inhabited in her own place”, and the Saints released from suffering, shall reign with Christ in possession of the kingdom under the whole heaven.
The following is based on page 87:
The Feast of Tabernacles – the 1,000 years
The last feast was kept seven days, 15th to 22nd of the seventh month [that’s actually eight days!], during which all that were Israelites born, dwelt in booths [tents] which were made of the branches of trees, (Nehemiah 8:14-15), and they rejoiced before the Lord. Leviticus 23:33-45. [It had a ceremonial sabbath on the first day and another on the eighth day.]
It was called also the “Feast of Ingathering” and was celebrated after they had “gathered in their corn and wine out of the field”. Exodus 23:16; Deuteronomy 16:13-15.
This feast then must meet its anti-type after the harvest of the earth is gathered.
We are yet in the reaping time, [nay!] rather the severing of the tares from the wheat: when this is done the wheat will be gathered. (Matthew 13:30.) As to the time and circumstances of the gathering, the words of our Saviour are explicit and satisfactory. “They shall see the Son of man coming, in the clouds of heaven with power and great glory. And he shall send his angels with a great sound of a trumpet and they shall gather together his elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other.” Matthew 24:30-31.
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These words are too plain to be misunderstood and too important to be overlooked. If the personal and visible Second Advent of Jesus in his distinctive character is spoken of in this discourse, it is in the 30th verse. No mere spiritual coming or manifestation answers this prophecy. It is the coming of the Son of Man. If Christ is only Spirit He is not the Son of Man.
The following is based on page 88:After the coming of the Son of Man the harvest of the earth is to be gathered in, and that will begin the anti-type of the Feast of Tabernacles; which, in its completion, it is evident, will extend through the millennial [1,000 year] joyous reign of the saints with Christ.
Your unworthy brother waiting for Jesus,O. R. L. Crozier.
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The ark of the covenant The priest, the censer, The table of and the altar of incense shewbread
The killing area
The altar of self sacrifice
The laver
The 2nd The 1st for washing The courtyard apartment apartment hands and feet
The 7 branched The laver The brass altar candlestick of sacrifice
The sanctuary illustrated(not to scale)
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EGW also wrote:***************(BeginQuote)
{GC 399.1 - 400} Arguments drawn from the Old Testament types also pointed to the autumn as the time when the event represented by the “cleansing of the sanctuary” must take place. This was made very clear as attention was given to the manner in which the types relating to the first advent of Christ had been fulfilled. The slaying of the Passover lamb was a shadow of the death of Christ. Says Paul: “Christ our Passover is sacrificed for us.” 1 Corinthians 5:7. The sheaf of first fruits, which at the time of the Passover was waved before the Lord, was typical of the resurrection of Christ. Paul says, in speaking of the resurrection of the Lord and of all His people: “Christ the first fruits; afterward they that are Christ's at His coming.” 1 Corinthians 15:23. Like the wave sheaf, which was the first ripe grain gathered before the harvest, Christ is the first fruits of that immortal harvest of redeemed ones that at the future resurrection shall be gathered into the garner of God.
These types were fulfilled, not only as to the event, but as to the time. On the fourteenth day of the first Jewish month, the very day and month on which for fifteen long centuries the Passover lamb had been slain, Christ, having eaten the Passover with His disciples, instituted that feast which was to commemorate His own death as “the Lamb of God, which takes away the sin of the world.”That same night He was taken by wicked hands to be crucified and slain. And as the antitype of the wave sheaf our Lord was raised from the dead on the third day, “the first fruits of them that slept,” a sample of all the resurrected just, whose “vile body” shall be changed, and “fashioned like unto His glorious body.” Verse 20; Philippians 3:21.
In like manner the types which relate to the second advent must be fulfilled at the time pointed out in the symbolic service. Under the Mosaic system the cleansing of the sanctuary, or the great Day of Atonement, occurred on the tenth day of the seventh Jewish month (Leviticus 16:29-34), when the high priest, having made an atonement for all Israel, and thus removed their sins from the sanctuary, came forth and blessed the people.
So it was believed that Christ, our great High Priest, would appear to purify the earth by the destruction of sin and sinners, and to bless His waiting people with immortality.***************(EndQuote)
And in another place:
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{GC 594.1}Before His crucifixion the Saviour explained to His disciples that He was to be put to death and to rise again from the tomb, and angels were present to impress His words on minds and hearts.
But the disciples were looking for temporal deliverance from the Roman yoke, and they could not tolerate the thought that He in whom all their hopes centered should suffer an ignominious death. The words which they needed to remember were banished from their minds; and when the time of trial came, it found them unprepared. The death of Jesus as fully destroyed their hopes as if He had not forewarned them.
So in the prophecies the future is opened before us as plainly as it was opened to the disciples by the words of Christ. The events connected with the close of probation and the work of preparation for the time of trouble, are clearly presented. But multitudes have no more understanding of these important truths than if they had never been revealed. Satan watches to catch away every impression that would make them wise unto salvation, and the time of trouble will find them unready . . .
{GC 595.1} But God will have a people upon the earth to maintain the Bible, and the Bible only, as the standard of all doctrines and the basis of all reforms.
The opinions of learned men, the deductions of science, the creeds or decisions of ecclesiastical councils, as numerous and discordant as are the churches which they represent, the voice of the majority--not one nor all of these should be regarded as evidence for or against any point of religious faith.
Before accepting any doctrine or precept, we should demand a plain “Thus says the Lord” in its support.
Satan is constantly endeavoring to attract attention to man in the place of God.He leads the people to look to bishops, to pastors, to professors of theology, as their guides, instead of searching the Scriptures to learn their duty for themselves. Then, by controlling the minds of these leaders, he can influence the multitudes according to his will . . .
{GC 596.1} The spirit which actuated those priests and rulers is still manifested by many who make a high profession of piety. They refuse to examine the testimony of the Scriptures concerning the special truths for this time. They point to their own numbers, wealth, and popularity, and look with contempt upon the advocates of
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truth as few, poor, and unpopular, having a faith that separates them from the world . . .
{GC 598.1} It is not enough to have good intentions; it is not enough to do what a man thinks is right or what the minister tells him is right. His soul's salvation is at stake, and he should search the Scriptures for himself. However strong may be his convictions, however confident he may be that the minister knows what is truth, this is not his foundation.
He has a chart pointing out every waymark on the heavenward journey, and he ought not to guess at anything. ***************(EndQuote)
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{7BC 971.7} This time, which the angel declares with a solemn oath, is not the end of this world's history, neither of probationary time, but of prophetic time, which should precede the advent of our Lord. That is, the people will not have another message upon definite time. After this period of time, reaching from 1842 to 1844, there can be no definite tracing of the prophetic time. The longest reckoning reaches to the autumn [October] of 1844. ***************(EndQuote)
Note 2:The sanctuary buildings (both on earth and in heaven) should be recognised as representing the immortal body of the Son of God. Therefore, by going in to them by faith, we enter into the mind of God by faith. “For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, says the LORD; I will put My laws into their mind [as they are in Mine], and write them in their hearts [as they are in Mine]: and I will be to them a God, and they shall be to Me a people [we shall be one]”. Hebrews 8:10.
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Some Details of the Sanctuary Services(as we know them in 2013)
This article will, of necessity, be only a brief explanation of the plan of redemption as shown in the sanctuary and its services. There are many other details which can be seen in the Scriptures, and doubtless many more waiting to be discovered as time goes on. But it is time that what we do know should be published so that all the misinformation in religious circles may be cleared away.
We need first of all to get it clear in our minds that the blood of a lamb was NEVER used in the sanctuary building!! That is a misconception that the Advent people had in 1844 and which has been passed on to subsequent teachers ever since. The ONLY blood that was used in the building was that of a bullock or of a goat. “But in those [animal] sacrifices there is a remembrance again made of sins every year. For it is not possible that the blood of bulls and of goats should take away sins”. Hebrews 10:3-4.
The other misunderstanding is that “sinners” came to the courtyard. That area was surrounded by a white linen curtain which represented the righteousness of Christ, and the only people who could, and would, come into that place were the followers of God who had put on that robe, and yet who had sinned after that, for only a child of God can be forgiven legally. Such a one said, “I put on righteousness, and it clothed me: my judgment was as a robe and a diadem”. Job 20:14. See also Ephesians 4:24; Isaiah 61:10.
“Sinners” is the word used in the Bible to describe those who are outside of Christ. Thus it is written, “Behold, the righteous shall be recompensed in the earth [in the end]: much more the wicked and the sinner”. Proverbs 11:31. (The final events are earthly ones.) “Though a sinner do evil a hundred times, and his [physical] days be prolonged [on earth], yet surely I know that it shall be well with them that fear God, which fear before Him: but it shall not be well with the wicked, neither shall he prolong his [eternal] days, which are as a shadow; because he fears not before God”. Ecclesiastes 8:12-13. And another, “. . . We who are Jews by nature, and not sinners of the Gentiles . . .” Galatians 2:15.
The sanctuary services really started with the Passover ritual on the 14 th day of the 1st month in which thousands of lambs were killed, cooked by roasting, and then eaten in the houses of the people, AFTER all the males in the households had been
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circumcised (if they weren’t already). Exodus 12:48, 3-6, 22-23. The blood from those animals was to be sprinkled on the doorposts in verse 7, making the sign of a cross behind which the firstborn of Israel and his family could shelter. No confessions of sins were required, for this was NOT a sin offering, but an exchange of life. But it was this lamb that represented the Son of God in His death. “The next day John sees Jesus coming to him, and said, ‘Behold the Lamb of God, which takes away the sin of the world’.” John 1:29. (For more on the 8 day Passover, see Appendix C, page 86).
Then it is written, “Purge out [remove] therefore the old leaven, that you may be a new lump [sanctified], as you are [now] unleavened [justified]. For even Christ our passover is sacrificed for us. Therefore let us keep the Feast [of Unleavened Bread which came immediately after the Passover, seven days from the 15th to the 21st], not with old leaven [of error], neither with the leaven of malice and wickedness; but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth [in righteousness]”. 1 Corinthians 5:7-8.
The “daily” or “continual” sacrifice on the brass altar in the courtyard was a BURNT offering, not a sin offering, and as such typified Christ’s continual ministry on behalf of His people. It was NOT used as a sin offering by anybody, for that is an entirely different ritual with different rules.
***************(Begin Quote)Exodus 29:38 Now this is that which you shall offer upon the altar; two lambs of the first year day by day continually. [24/7/365] 39 The one lamb you shall offer in the morning and [you will keep it burning until joined by] the other lamb [which] you shall offer at even [equivalent to our 9am and 3pm, the two quarters of the sun’s apparent movement, the third and ninth hours, for they observed 12 hour days. John 11:9]: 40 and with the one lamb a tenth deal of flour mingled with the fourth part of a hin of beaten oil; and the fourth part of a hin of wine for a drink offering. 41 And the other lamb you shall offer at even, and shall do thereto according to the meat [cereal] offering of the morning, and according to the drink offering thereof, for a sweet savour, an offering made by fire to the LORD [and you will keep this one burning until joined by the morning one]. 42 This shall be a continual BURNT offering throughout your generations at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation before the LORD: where I will meet you, to speak there to you. [See Exodus 33:8-9.]***************(End Quote)
The LORD said, “Command Aaron and his sons, saying, This is the law of the burnt offering: It is the burnt offering, because of the burning upon the altar all night to the morning, and the fire of the altar shall be burning in it . . . And the fire
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upon the altar shall be burning in it; it shall not be put out: and the priest shall burn wood on it every morning, and lay the burnt offering in order upon it; and he shall burn thereon the fat of the peace offerings. The fire shall ever be burning upon the altar; it shall never go out”. Leviticus 6:9-13.
The life of the Son of God has revolved around one thing since the sin of Adam, whom He taught to offer a burnt offering. (He used the skins to clothe them in place of their fig leaves. Genesis 3:21.) Adam in turn, passed the rite on to his sons. Genesis 4:3-5.
Lateral thought:The presence of the LORD in the earthly tabernacle in the days of Moses is an indicator to us that He did not BEGIN His priestly ministry after the crucifixion, but went back to CONTINUE it in the sight of the angels. In the reality, He can do that work from anywhere and at any time, for He IS the tabernacle of the LORD and all the services of the sanctuary are fulfilled in Him! “And you are complete in Him, which is the Head of all principality and power: in whom also you are circumcised with the circumcision made without hands, in putting off the body of the sins of the flesh by the circumcision of Christ: buried with Him in baptism, wherein also you are risen with Him through the faith of the operation of God, who has raised Him from the dead. And you, being dead in your sins and the uncircumcision of your flesh, has He quickened [spiritually resurrected] together with Him, having forgiven you all trespasses . . .” Colossians 2:10-13.
The “holy line” of Adam, Seth, Noah, Abraham, Isaac and Jacob etc. all had this experience and presented burnt offerings to illustrate it. (See Genesis 8:20; 12:7; 35:1.)
The circumcision associated with the Passover represented the REMOVAL of the sinful portion of the life which we receive in the first birth, while the eating of the flesh of the lamb indicated the ENTRANCE of the life of Christ into the life of the one requesting deliverance through the second “birth”. “O wretched man that I am! Who shall deliver me from the body of this death?” Romans 7:24. Circumcision was “added” about 2,000 years later because of Abram’s transgression. Galatians 3:19. (See also Genesis chapters 16 and 17 for the reason.)
THEN, armed and protected with that “new birth” righteousness, a Christian who had sinned could approach the sanctuary courtyard with an animal to make an atonement for that sin. But in the sanctuary service that animal was a FEMALE GOAT!! Understanding is progressive - “The path of the just[ified one] is as the shining light, that shines more and more to the perfect [last] day”. Proverbs 4:18.
Then he went through this procedure:
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***************(Begin Quote)Leviticus 4:27 And if any one of the common people sin through ignorance, while he does somewhat against any of the commandments of the LORD concerning things which ought not to be done, and be guilty; 28 or if his sin, which he has sinned, come to his knowledge: then he shall bring his offering, a kid of the goats, a female without blemish, for his sin which he has sinned. 29 And he shall lay his hand upon the head of the sin offering [transferring the guilt of the sin to it by open confession], and slay the sin offering in the place of the burnt offering [in the same place where all the animals were killed, on the north side]. 30 And the priest shall take of the blood thereof with his finger, and put it upon the horns of the [brass] altar of burnt offering [in the courtyard], and shall pour out all [the rest of] the blood thereof at the bottom of the altar [none of it enters the building]. 31 And he shall take away all the fat thereof, as the fat is taken away from off the sacrifice of peace offerings; and the priest shall burn it upon the altar for a sweet savour to the LORD; and the priest shall make an atonement for him, and it shall be forgiven him.***************(End Quote)
If the offerer was not able to supply a goat, then a lamb could be used, so long as it also was a FEMALE, but a goat was first choice. Verse 32.
The animal was female to represent the offerer as the “wife” of Christ and dependent on Him, and yet needed to be a “goat” because that animal is more independent than a sheep which has a strong mob mentality, and this trait pictured the individuality of God’s people.
Dependence on the one hand, and individuality on the other.
The fat was burned on the altar because it was too dangerous for human consumption as we are well aware of today, but the rest of the goat’s flesh was eaten by the assisting priest, thus transferring the record of the “death” of the offerer to the priest. Of course, to the practical Jewish mind, the eating of a token portion was sufficient to convey the lesson, for no one could eat the whole animal.
***************(Begin Quote)Leviticus 6:25 Speak to Aaron and to his sons, saying, This is the law of the sin offering: In the place where the burnt offering is killed shall the sin offering be killed before the LORD: it is most holy [very dangerous, for it is sin-tainted. Romans 6:23]. 26 The priest that offers it for sin shall eat it: in the [a] holy place shall it be eaten, in [a special place in] the court of the tabernacle of the congregation. 27 Whatsoever shall touch
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the flesh thereof shall be holy [be in danger, for only Christ can handle it in the reality]: and when there is sprinkled of the blood thereof upon any garment, you shall wash that whereon it was sprinkled in the [a] holy place [yes, there were washrooms there too!] . . .
30 And no sin offering, whereof any of the blood is brought into the tabernacle of the congregation to reconcile withal in the holy place [the 1st apartment], shall be eaten: it shall be burnt in the fire. ***************(End Quote)
The remainder of the sin offering was given to other priests. “Every male among the priests shall eat thereof: it shall be eaten in the [a] holy place [with reverence, for] it is most holy [there were kitchens and eating places in the courtyard, but they have no relevance to the illustration of redemption, and are not mentioned in Moses’ building.] As the sin offering is, so is the trespass offering: there is one law for them: the priest that makes atonement therewith shall have it”. Leviticus 7:6-7.
Lateral thought:It would be well to note here that any confession of sin could not be of a general nature, such as “LORD, I am a sinner”, but must be specific and to the point, so that “the watchers and the holy ones” could see and hear that the guilty one knew and understood what he/she had done. “And it shall be, when he shall be guilty in one of these things, that he shall confess that he has sinned IN THAT THING: and he shall bring his trespass offering to the LORD for his sin which he has sinned, a female from the flock, a lamb or a kid of the goats, for a sin offering; and the priest shall make an atonement for him concerning his sin”. Leviticus 5:5-6.
“Speak to the children of Israel, When a man OR WOMAN shall commit any sin that men commit, to do a trespass against the LORD [and a fellow human], and that person be guilty; then they shall confess their sin which they have done: and he [she] shall recompense his [her] trespass with the principal thereof, and add to it the fifth part thereof [20% withholding fee], and give it to him against whom he has trespassed”. Numbers 5:6-7.
There was also provision for a sin offering to be made in the law for those who were very poor, and even destitute!
***************(Begin Quote)Leviticus 5:7 And if he be not able to bring a [female goat or a] lamb, then he shall bring for his trespass, which he has committed, two turtledoves, or two young pigeons, to the LORD; one for a sin offering, and the other for a burnt offering. 8 And he shall bring them to the priest, who shall offer that which is for the sin offering first, and wring off his head from his neck, but shall not divide it asunder:
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9 and he shall sprinkle of the blood of the sin offering upon the side of the altar; and the rest of the blood shall be wrung out at the bottom of the altar: it is a sin offering [so he will eat the flesh]. 10 And he shall offer the second for a burnt offering, according to the manner [wholly burnt on the altar]: and the priest shall make an atonement for him for his sin which he has sinned, and it shall be forgiven him.
11 But if he be not able to bring two turtledoves, or two young pigeons, then he that sinned shall bring for his offering the tenth part of an ephah of fine flour for a sin offering; he shall put no oil upon it, neither shall he put any frankincense thereon: for IT IS A SIN OFFERING [even though bloodless – void of death].
12 Then shall he bring it to the priest, and the priest shall take his handful of it, even a memorial [a sample] thereof, and burn it on the altar, according to the offerings made by fire to the LORD: IT IS A SIN OFFERING. 13 And the priest shall make an atonement for him as touching his sin that he has sinned in one of these, and it shall be forgiven him: and the remnant shall be the priest's to eat, as a meat [cereal] offering.***************(End Quote)
Thus we see the meaning behind the words, “And ALMOST all things are by the law purged with blood; and without shedding of blood is no remission”. Hebrews 9:22. This was, of course, really reserved for those spiritual ones who had no conscious knowledge of the physical death of the Son of God, but are still covered by it because they have on the robe of righteousness. (It is given with the invitation to the wedding, even on the highways and byways. Matthew 22:1-14.)
The problem now is that while the Christian who had sinned can at that instant go free from the sanctuary, the priest has become a “sinning” person in his or her place! “For He has made Him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in Him”. 2 Corinthians 5:21. What could the priest do about it? What can Christ do with the guilt and death that we have passed over to Him?
***************(Begin Quote)Leviticus 4:3 If the priest that is anointed do sin according to the sin of the people [this was one who was on duty in the sanctuary and who had been personally cleansed before starting work. Exodus 40:30-32]; then let him bring for his sin, which he has sinned, a young bullock without blemish to the LORD for a sin offering. 4 And he shall bring the bullock to the door of the tabernacle of the congregation before the LORD [in the courtyard]; and shall lay his hand upon the bullock's head
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[confessing the other person’s sin which was now classed as his own], and kill the bullock before the LORD. 5 And the priest [another one] that is anointed [personally “clean”] shall take of the bullock's blood, and bring it to the tabernacle of the congregation [the first apartment]: 6 and the priest shall dip his finger in the blood, and sprinkle of the blood seven times [on the ground] before the LORD, before the veil of the [second] sanctuary.
[A priest carrying sin in himself could not approach God– it had to be a “clean” person in the eyes of the spectators.]
7 And the priest shall put some of the blood upon the horns of the [golden] altar of sweet incense before the LORD, which is in the tabernacle of the congregation; and [afterwards] shall pour all [the rest of] the blood of the bullock at the bottom of the [brass] altar of the burnt offering, which is at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation [in the courtyard].
8 And he shall take off from it all the fat [the dangerous bits] of the bullock for the sin offering; the fat that covers the inwards, and all the fat that is upon the inwards, 9 and the two kidneys, and the fat that is upon them, which is by the flanks, and the caul above the liver, with the kidneys, it shall he take away, 10 as it was taken off from the bullock of the sacrifice of peace offerings [Leviticus 3:1-5]: and the priest shall burn them upon the altar of the burnt offering. 11 And the skin of the bullock, and all his flesh, with his head, and with his legs, and his inwards, and his dung, 12 even the whole bullock shall he carry forth WITHOUT [outside] THE CAMP to a clean place, where the ashes are poured out, and burn him on the wood with fire [for it was now surplus to the ceremony]: where the ashes are poured out shall he be burnt.***************(End Quote)
“And no sin offering, whereof any of the blood is brought into the tabernacle of the congregation to reconcile withal in the holy place [the 1st apartment], shall be eaten: it shall be burnt in the fire”. Leviticus 6:30.
The record of the “death” for that sin is now in the tabernacle, but who put it there? And what was the vehicle of transfer? The picture shows us the transfer of the “death” to our Saviour in the courtyard (on the earth) and then of Him taking it into the heavenly sanctuary as His own, through the medium of the blood (death) of a strong Person (the bull, not a lamb). “Be you therefore followers of God, as dear children; and walk in love, as Christ also has loved us, and has given Himself for us an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweetsmelling savour”. Ephesians 5:1-2.
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“For such a High Priest became us, who is holy, harmless, undefiled, separate from sinners, and made higher than the heavens; who needs not daily, as those high priests, to offer up sacrifice, first for His own sins, and then for the people's: for this He did once, when He offered up Himself”. Hebrews 7:26-27.
[If we are willing to see it, it is all wrapped up in the one.]
“So Christ was once offered to bear the sins of many; and to them that look for Him shall He appear the second time without sin to salvation [redemption]”. Hebrews 9:28.
The same procedure, and animal, was to be used when the whole church sinned before the LORD, for it is His “body”. Leviticus 4:13-21; Ephesians 5:25-30. However, if an individual leading person in the church sinned then he was to bring a MALE goat and go through the same procedure as the common person.
It just cost him more because of his position.
***************(Begin Quote)Leviticus 4:22 When a ruler has sinned, and done somewhat through ignorance against any of the commandments of the LORD his God concerning things which should not be done, and is guilty; 23 or if his sin, wherein he has sinned, come to his knowledge; he shall bring his offering, a kid of the goats, a male without blemish: 24 and he shall lay his hand upon the head of the goat, and kill it in the place where they kill the burnt offering before the LORD: it is a sin offering.
25 And the priest shall take of the blood of the sin offering with his finger, and put it upon the horns of the altar of burnt offering, and shall pour out his blood at the bottom of the altar of burnt offering. 26 And he shall burn all his fat upon the altar, as the fat of the sacrifice of peace offerings: and the priest shall make an atonement for him as concerning his sin [by eating it], and it shall be forgiven him. ***************(End Quote)
So the ONLY blood to enter the sanctuary was the blood of a bull used on behalf of a priest or the whole church! And the body of that animal was discarded afterward as no longer required. That’s how it is with the heavenly sanctuary.
“Wherefore when He comes into the world, He says, ‘[Animal] sacrifice and offering You would not, but a [human] body have You prepared Me. In burnt offerings and sacrifices [of animals] for sin You have had no pleasure. Then said I, “Lo, I come (in the volume of the book it is written of Me,) to do your will, O God”. Above [before] when He said, ‘Sacrifice and offering and burnt offerings
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and offering for sin You would not, neither had pleasure therein’; which are offered by the law; then said He, ‘Lo, I come to do Your will, O God’. [In this] He takes away the first, that He may establish the second. By the which will we are sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all”. Hebrews 10:5-10.
So why do we need to know about the old sanctuary and its services? Because through them we can learn the fine details of what He has done, and is doing, for us. That will naturally lead on for us to know what He is GOING to do so that we may co-operate with Him as fully as possible in the days that lie ahead.
The sins so far mentioned were sins of ignorance or those which had been overlooked, but what about deliberate, conscious, ones? Can we be forgiven for those too? “You have forgiven the iniquity of Your people, You have covered ALL their sin. Selah. [“Selah” means stop, and think prayerfully about what you have just read]”. Psalm 85:2.
It is also written, “Wherefore I say to you, All manner of sin and blasphemy shall be forgiven to men: but the blasphemy against [rejection of] the Holy Ghost shall not [cannot] be forgiven to men [for He is God’s only means of communication and understanding]”. Matthew 12:31.
Therefore, in the law it is written;***************(Begin Quote)Leviticus 6:1 And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying, 2 If a soul sin, and commit a trespass against the LORD, and lie to his neighbour in that which was delivered him to keep, or in fellowship, or in a thing taken away by violence, or has deceived his neighbour; 3 or have found that which was lost, and lies concerning it, and swears falsely; in any of all these that a man does, sinning therein [these are conscious acts]:
4 Then it shall be, because he has sinned, and is guilty, that he shall restore that which he took violently away, or the thing which he has deceitfully gotten, or that which was delivered him to keep, or the lost thing which he found, 5 or all that about which he has sworn falsely; he shall even restore it in the principal, and shall add the fifth part [20% damages] more thereto, and give it to him to whom it appertains, in the day of his trespass offering [before coming to the LORD. Matthew 5:23-24.]. 6 And he shall bring his trespass offering to the LORD, A RAM without blemish out of the flock, with your estimation [a fine imposed by the priest], for a trespass offering, to the priest: 7 and the priest shall make an atonement for him before the LORD [by eating its flesh]: and it shall be forgiven him for any thing of all that he has done in trespassing therein.***************(End Quote)
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Like the leader in Leviticus 4:22 this type of sin requires the use of a full grown ram’s blood regardless of the individual situation of the sinning Christian. Added to that was a “fine”, the value of which the priest would assess, depending on the seriousness of the transgression. In like manner the LORD would have us understand that restitution to the one sinned against (God or man) is only the beginning of the reconciliation of the sin. We need to realise the effect it has on our Saviour for eternity, for the cleansing of the sanctuary (referred to as being “restored to its rightful place” in the margin, in Daniel 8:14,) does not occur for Him personally. He will bear the wounds [not scars] in His hands forever. “And I beheld, and, lo, in the midst of the throne and of the four beasts [the redeemed of God], and in the midst of the elders, stood a Lamb AS IT HAD [just] BEEN SLAIN . . .” Revelation 5:6.
Although cleansed from the deaths associated with the ACTIONS of sin committed by Christians (He has held them temporarily, but then they go on the scapegoat), He bears the burden of the exchange of life (justification) forever, for His is an eternal sacrifice. If the scapegoat bore these then Satan would be our saviour, which is why they are not mentioned in connection with the sanctuary!
But in the type the record of the “death” associated with the actions of sin has only progressed via the priest’s confession to the veil which separates the two rooms – God the Father has not received the notification yet.
So, on the Day of Atonement (the 10th day of the 7th month), the record of ALL the sins of ALL the people are moved in one operation from the first apartment into the second one. How is this accomplished? By the blood of a bull! When? After the line of would-be confessors with their female goats is dealt with, and their sins transferred to the priests. At that point, there are no more sins to confess and God’s people stand ready for their sealing. Then, to complete the picture, the priests confess their(!) sins to the high priest who ends up bearing the whole burden.
The stage is then set for the judgment of the living:***************(Begin Quote)Leviticus 16:2 And the LORD said to Moses, “Speak to Aaron your brother, that he come not at all times into the holy place within the veil before the Mercy Seat, which is upon the ark [the second apartment]; that he die not: for I will appear in the cloud upon the Mercy Seat [which is My throne]. 3 Thus shall Aaron come into the holy place [the second apartment]: with [the blood of] a young bullock for a sin offering, and a ram [which he will use later] for a burnt offering”.***************(End Quote)
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Dressed in his coloured uniform as a representation of redemption (the one with the bells on it so that we can “hear” where He is, Exodus 28:33), the high priest kills a bull after confessing the latest round of sins over it, and then proceeds into the building picking up the records of sin “deaths” which are already there and takes them all into the second room into the presence of the Father. (See Daniel 7:13-14; 26-27.)
In his role as mediator he carries the names of the children of Israel on his shoulders and over his heart on the breastplate. “And you shall put the two stones upon the shoulders of the ephod for stones of memorial to the children of Israel: and Aaron shall bear their names before the LORD upon his two shoulders for a memorial . . . And you shall make the breastplate of judgment with cunning [intricate] work; after the work of the ephod you shall make it; of gold, of blue, and of purple, and of scarlet, and of fine twined linen, shall you make it . . . And you shall set in it settings of stones, even four rows of stones . . . And the stones shall be with the names of the children of Israel, twelve, according to their names, like the engravings of a signet; every one with his name shall they be according to the twelve tribes”. Exodus 28:12-21.
***************(Begin Quote)Leviticus 16:11 And Aaron shall bring the bullock of the sin offering, which is for himself, and shall make an atonement for himself, and for his house [family], and shall kill the bullock of the sin offering which is for himself: 12 and he shall take a [portable] censer full of burning coals of fire from off the altar before the LORD, and his hands full of sweet incense beaten small [strong prayers], and bring it within the veil: 13 and he shall put the incense upon the fire before the LORD, that the cloud of the incense may cover the Mercy Seat that is upon the testimony, that he die not.
[He goes in and out of the second room at least three times altogether on that day, possibly five times –
#1 to take in the censer and the incense; #2 then the bull’s blood; #3 and after that the goat’s blood.]:
14 and he shall take of the blood of the bullock, and sprinkle it with his finger upon the Mercy Seat eastward [in the front of the Ancient of Days]; and before the Mercy Seat shall he sprinkle of the blood with his finger seven times [on the ground] . . .
27 And [afterwards, the body of] the bullock for the sin offering, and [the body of] the goat for the sin offering, whose blood was brought in to make atonement in the holy place, shall one carry forth without the camp; and they shall burn in the fire their skins, and their flesh, and their dung. 28 And he that burns them shall wash his clothes, and bathe his flesh in water, and afterward he shall come into the camp.
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29 And this shall be a statute for ever to you: that in the seventh month, on the tenth day of the month, you shall afflict your souls, and do no work at all, whether it be one of your own country, or a stranger that sojourns among you: 30 for on that day shall the priest make an atonement for you, to cleanse you, that you may be clean from ALL your sins before the LORD.***************(End Quote)
After using the bull’s blood, “he [the high priest] shall put on the holy linen [white] coat, and he shall have the [white] linen breeches upon his flesh, and shall be girded with a [white] linen girdle, and with the [white] linen mitre shall he be attired: these are holy garments; [no colour = no mercy, no bells = no hearing, so we will have to live by faith during this time] therefore shall he wash his flesh in water, and so put them on”, for the time of forgiveness is over, the “mystery of God is finished”. Leviticus 16:4; Revelation 10:7.
It is now time for cleansing the sanctuary of the records of “death” which have polluted it.
***************(Begin Quote)Leviticus 16:7 And he [the “fit” (capable) man] shall take the two goats, and present them before the LORD at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation. 8 And Aaron shall cast lots upon the two goats [for only God could distinguish between them]; one lot for the LORD, and the other lot for the scapegoat. 9 And Aaron shall bring the goat upon which the LORD's lot fell, and offer him for a sin offering.
10 But the goat, on which the lot fell to be the scapegoat, shall be presented alive before the LORD, to make an[other kind of] atonement with him, and to let him go [later] for a scapegoat into the wilderness . . .
15 Then shall he kill the goat of the sin offering that is for the people [without putting his hands on its head], and bring his [sinless] blood within the veil, and do with that blood as he did with the blood of the bullock, and sprinkle it upon the Mercy Seat, and before the Mercy Seat [thereby “picking up” the records of death]: 16 And he shall make an atonement [cleansing] for the holy place [the second apartment], because of the uncleanness of the children of Israel, and because of their transgressions in all their sins: and so shall he do for the tabernacle of the congregation [the first room], that remains among them in the midst of their uncleanness. [The courtyard and its furniture is not cleansed by blood, but by fire, for it represents the earth, and this occurs at another time. Revelation 20:9.]
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17 And there shall be no man [any other priest] in the tabernacle of the congregation [the first room] when he goes in to make an atonement in the holy place, until he come out, and have made an atonement for himself, and for his household, and for all the congregation of Israel [because the continual (daily) work of forgiveness has ceased]. ***************(End Quote)
The “clean” blood of the LORD”s goat is used to “pick up” the record of deaths and transfer it to the scapegoat who is then released far way in the wilderness by the “fit”, or capable, man. “And the goat shall bear upon him all their iniquities unto a land not inhabited [void of life]: and he shall let go the goat in the wilderness [his natural habitat]”. Leviticus 16:22.
Then comes the final ritual for the day. “And Aaron shall come into the tabernacle of the congregation, and shall put off the linen garments, which he put on when he went into the holy place, and shall leave them there [to be used the following year]: and he shall wash his flesh with water in the holy place, and put on his garments, and come forth [a picture of the second coming], and offer his burnt offering [of dedication to God], and the burnt offering of the people, and make an atonement for himself, and for the people”. Leviticus 16:23-24.
The last Feast of the ceremonials occurred from the 15 th to the 22nd of the seventh month (an eight day period) when the people abandoned their homes and lived in temporary tents made from branches of trees. This represents the time we will spend with the LORD in heaven.
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For more on these feasts, see Appendix B, next page.
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Appendix B:
The Feasts of the LORD
***************(Begin Quote)Leviticus 23:1 And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying, 2 Speak to the children of Israel, and say to them, Concerning the feasts of the LORD, which you shall proclaim to be holy convocations [ceremonial sabbaths], even these are My feasts [times of celebration]. 3 Six days shall work be done: but the seventh day is the Sabbath of rest, a holy [weekly] convocation; you shall do no work therein: it is the Sabbath of the LORD in all your dwellings.
4 These are the feasts of the LORD, even [days of] holy convocations, which you shall proclaim in their seasons [and observe like weekly Sabbaths]. #1. 5 In the FOURTEENTH DAY OF THE FIRST MONTH at even is the LORD's passover [which pictures justification through the death of the Son of God].
[This is NOT a ceremonial sabbath, but a working day.]
#2. 6 And on the FIFTEENTH DAY OF THE SAME MONTH is the feast of unleavened bread to the LORD [depicting sanctification]: seven days you must eat unleavened bread. 7 In the first day you shall have a holy convocation [ceremonial sabbath #1]: you shall do no servile [ordinary] work therein. 8 But you shall offer an offering made by fire to the LORD seven days: in the seventh day is a [nother] holy convocation [ceremonial sabbath #2]: you shall do no servile [ordinary] work therein [also]. 9 And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying, 10 Speak to the children of Israel, and say to them, When you be come into the land which I give to you, and shall reap the harvest thereof, then you shall bring a sheaf of the firstfruits of your [first] harvest [for the year] to the priest:
11 and he shall wave the sheaf before the LORD, to be accepted for you:ON THE MORROW AFTER THE [ceremonial] SABBATH [the 16th day of the month] the priest shall wave it [above his head in front of the sanctuary, for it typifies the resurrection of Christ. 1 Corinthians 15:20]. 12 And you shall offer that day when you wave the sheaf a he lamb without blemish of the first year for a burnt offering to the LORD. 13 And the meat [cereal] offering
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thereof shall be two tenth deals of fine flour mingled with oil, an offering made by fire to the LORD for a sweet savour: and the drink offering thereof shall be of wine, the fourth part of an hin. 14 And you shall eat neither bread, nor parched corn, nor green ears, until the selfsame day that you have brought an offering to your God: it shall be a statute for ever throughout your generations in all your dwellings. #3. 15 And you shall count to you from the morrow after the [ceremonial] sabbath [the 16th day of the month], from the day that you brought the sheaf of the wave offering; seven [weekly] Sabbaths shall be complete: 16 EVEN TO THE MORROW AFTER THE SEVENTH SABBATH SHALL YOU NUMBER FIFTY DAYS [this would ALWAYS be a Sunday, called the Day of Pentecost (the 50th day) and is in the 3rd month]; and you shall offer a new meat [cereal] offering to the LORD. 17 You shall bring out of your habitations two wave loaves of two tenth deals: they shall be of fine flour; they shall be baked with leaven; they are the firstfruits to the LORD [representing the gift of the Spirit to less than perfect men – for they are “baked with leaven”]. 18 And you shall offer with the bread seven lambs without blemish of the first year, and one young bullock, and two rams: they shall be for a burnt offering to the LORD, with their meat [cereal] offering, and their drink offerings, even an offering made by fire, of sweet savour to the LORD. 19 Then you shall sacrifice one kid of the goats for a sin offering, and two lambs of the first year for a sacrifice of peace [thank You] offerings. 20 And the priest shall wave them with the bread of the firstfruits for a wave offering before the LORD with the two lambs: they shall be holy to the LORD for the priest [and others to eat]. 21 And you shall proclaim [sabbath #3] on the selfsame day, that it may be a holy convocation to you: you shall do no servile [ordinary] work therein: it shall be a statute for ever in all your dwellings throughout your generations. 22 And when you reap the harvest of your land, you shall not make clean riddance of the corners of your field when you reap, neither shall you gather any gleaning of your harvest: you shall leave them to the poor, and to the stranger: I am the LORD your God. [You will share your blessings with actions after the words during the 4 th, 5th and 6th “months”.] #4. 23 And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying, 24 Speak to the children of Israel, saying, IN THE SEVENTH MONTH, IN THE FIRST DAY OF THE MONTH, shall you have a [ceremonial] sabbath [#4], a memorial of blowing of [warning] trumpets, a holy convocation. 25 You shall do no servile [ordinary] work therein: but you shall offer an offering made by fire to the LORD [and for the next ten days warn the world of the soon coming judgment day].
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#5. 26 And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying, 27 Also on THE TENTH DAY OF THIS SEVENTH MONTH there shall be a Day of Atonement [the Day of Judgment]: it shall be a holy convocation [#5] to you; and you shall afflict your souls, and offer an offering made by fire to the LORD. 28 And you shall do no work in that same day: for it is a day of atonement, to make an atonement for [all of] you before the LORD your God. 29 For whatsoever soul it be that shall not be afflicted [upset] in that same day [by the recognition of his or her past sins], he shall be cut off from among his people. 30 And whatsoever soul it be that does any work in that same day, the same soul will I destroy from among his people.
31 You shall do no manner of [ordinary] work [all that day]: it shall be a statute for ever throughout your generations in all your dwellings. 32 It shall be to you a sabbath of rest [like the weekly one], and you shall afflict your souls: in the ninth day of the month at even, from even to even, shall you celebrate your sabbath. #6. 33 And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying, 34 Speak to the children of Israel, saying, THE FIFTEENTH DAY OF THIS SEVENTH MONTH shall be the Feast of Tabernacles [living in tents] for seven days to the LORD [a picture of being with Him in heaven during the 1,000 years. 1 Thessalonians 4:17].
35 On the first day shall be a holy convocation [#6]: you shall do no servile [ordinary] work therein. 36 Seven days you shall offer an offering made by fire to the LORD [Hebrews 13:15-16]: ON THE EIGHTH DAY shall be a[nother] holy convocation [#7] to you; and you shall offer an[other] offering made by fire to the LORD: it is a solemn assembly; and you shall do no servile [ordinary] work therein. 37 These are the feasts of the LORD, which you shall proclaim to be holy convocations [seven ceremonial sabbaths in all], to offer an offering made by fire to the LORD, a burnt offering, and a meat [cereal] offering, a sacrifice, and drink offerings, every thing upon his day: 38 beside the [weekly] Sabbaths of the LORD, and beside your gifts, and beside all your vows, and beside all your freewill offerings, which you give to the LORD. 39 Also in the fifteenth day of the seventh month, when you have gathered in the fruit of the land, you shall keep a feast to the LORD seven days: on the first day shall be a [ceremonial] sabbath, and on the eighth day shall be a [ceremonial] sabbath. 40 And you shall take you on the first day the boughs of goodly trees, branches of palm trees, and the boughs of thick trees, and willows of the brook [to make natural dwelling places]; and you shall rejoice before the LORD your God seven days.41 And you shall keep it a feast to the LORD seven days in the year [the eighth day is
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a picture of the preparation for the return to earth]. It shall be a statute for ever in your generations: you shall celebrate it in the seventh month. 42 You shall dwell in booths seven days [nights]; all that are Israelites born shall dwell in booths: 43 that your generations [posterity] may know that I made the children of Israel to dwell in booths, when I brought them out of the land of Egypt: I am the LORD your God [the eighth day has no “night” in heaven]. 44 And Moses declared to the children of Israel the feasts of the LORD.***************(End Quote)
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Appendix C:
Some Details of the Passover ritual(as we know them in 2013)
Before we can appreciate what these words mean today, we need to investigate the old system to see what it teaches. The original “pass over” occurred at midnight on the night before the departure from Egyptian slavery. At that time, all those firstborn who were in the houses which had the blood of the Lamb on their doorposts were protected from the destroyer. “For the LORD will pass through to smite the Egyptians; and when He sees the blood upon the lintel, and on the two side posts, the LORD will pass [hover] over the door, and will not suffer the destroyer to come in to your houses to smite [kill] you. And you shall observe this thing for an ordinance to you and to your sons for ever”. Exodus 12:23-24.
After the first anniversary of the Passover was observed at Mount Sinai and the people moved to Kadesh-Barnea where they refused to go on into the Promised Land (Numbers 14:1-24), the LORD suspended both circumcision and the Passover ceremonies until they crossed the River Jordan thirty-eight years later.At that time He gave them some new directions through Moses concerning them. “For you shall pass over Jordan to go in to possess the land which the LORD your God gives you, and you shall possess it, and dwell therein. And you shall observe to do all the statutes and judgments which I set before you this day”. Deuteronomy 11:31-32.
***************(Begin Quote)Joshua 5:1 And it came to pass, when all the kings of the Amorites, which were on the side of Jordan westward, and all the kings of the Canaanites, which were by the [Mediterranean] sea, heard that the LORD had dried up the waters of Jordan from before the children of Israel, until we were passed over, that their heart melted, neither was there spirit in them any more, because of the children of Israel. 2 At that time the LORD said to Joshua, “Make you sharp knives [sharpen the brass (bronze) knives], and circumcise again the children of Israel the second time”. 3 And Joshua made him sharp knives, and circumcised the children of Israel at the hill of the foreskins. 4 And this is the cause why Joshua did circumcise: All the people that came out of Egypt, that were males, even all the men of war [twenty years old and upward], died in the wilderness by the way, after they came out of Egypt. 5 Now all the people that came out were circumcised: but all the people that were born in the wilderness by the way as they came forth out of Egypt, them they had
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not circumcised. 6 For the children of Israel walked forty years in the wilderness, till all the people that were men of war, which came out of Egypt, were consumed, because they obeyed not the voice of the LORD: to whom the LORD swore that He would not show them the land, which the LORD swore to their fathers that He would give us, a land that flows with milk and honey. 7 And their children, whom He raised up in their stead, them Joshua circumcised: for they were uncircumcised, because they had not circumcised them by the way. 8 And it came to pass, when they had done circumcising all the people, that they abode in their places in the camp, till they were whole [recovered]. 9 And the LORD said to Joshua, “This day have I rolled away the reproach of Egypt from off you. Wherefore the name of the place is called ‘Gilgal’ to this day.
10 And the children of Israel encamped in Gilgal, and kept the passover on the fourteenth day of the month at even in the plains of Jericho [they had circumcised on the tenth day of the month, which was choosing day for the Passover. Exodus 12:3; 48-49].
11 And they did eat of the old corn of the land on the morrow after the passover, unleavened cakes, and parched corn in the selfsame day [Exodus 12:8].
12 And the manna ceased on the morrow after they had eaten of the old corn of the land; neither had the children of Israel manna any more; but they did eat of the fruit of the land of Canaan that year.***************(End Quote)
Moses had also told them, “You shall not do after all the things that we do here this day, every man whatsoever is right in his own eyes. For you are not as yet come to the [Sabbath] rest and to the inheritance, which the LORD your God gives you. But when you go over Jordan, and dwell in the land which the LORD your God gives you to inherit, and when He gives you [physical] rest from all your enemies round about, so that you dwell in safety; then there shall be a place which the LORD your God shall choose to cause His name to dwell there; there shall you bring all that I command you; your burnt offerings, and your sacrifices, your tithes, and the heave offering of your hand, and all your choice vows which you vow to the LORD”. Deuteronomy 12:8-11.
Then he continued:***************(Begin Quote)Deuteronomy 12:28 Observe and hear all these words which I command you, that it may go well with you, and with your children after you for ever, when you do that which is good and right in the sight of the LORD your God.
29 “When the LORD your God shall cut off the nations from before you, where you go to possess them, and you succeed them, and dwell in their land; 30 take heed to
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yourself that you be not snared by following them, after that they be destroyed from before you; and that you inquire not after their gods, saying, ‘How did these nations serve their gods? Even so will I do likewise’. 31 “You shall not do so to the LORD your God: for every abomination to the LORD, which He hates, have they done to their gods; for even their sons and their daughters they have burnt in the fire to their gods.
32 “What thing soever I command you, observe to do it: you shall not add thereto, nor diminish from it”. ***************(End Quote)
One of the major changes was that the Passover was no longer to be practised at home, but along with all the other sacrificial rituals, it was to be observed at the sanctuary in its various locations. (e.g. Joshua 18:1; 2 Samuel 7:6.)
In Solomon’s time the temple site in Jerusalem became the permanent place. This meant that the males of Israel had to travel to that place for the three pilgrimages they made each year.
“Three times you shall keep a feast to Me in the year. You shall keep the Feast of Unleavened Bread: (you shall eat unleavened bread seven days, as I commanded you, in the time appointed of the month Abib; for in it you came out from Egypt: and none shall appear before Me empty [handed].) And the [one day] Feast of Harvest [aka Pentecost], the firstfruits of your labours, which you have sown in the field: and the [eight day] Feast of Ingathering, which is in the end of the year, when you have gathered in your labours out of the field. Three times in the year all your males shall appear before the LORD GOD”. Exodus 23:14-17.
Thus it was written:***************(Begin Quote)Deuteronomy 16:1 Observe the month of Abib, and keep the passover to the LORD your God: for in the month of Abib the LORD your God brought you forth out of Egypt by night.2 You shall therefore sacrifice the passover to the LORD your God, of the flock and the herd, in the place which the LORD shall choose to place His name there. . .
5 You may not sacrifice [kill] the passover within any of your gates, which the LORD your God gives you: 6 but at the place which the LORD your God shall choose to place His name in, there you shall sacrifice [and eat] the passover at even, at the going down of the sun, at the season that you came forth out of Egypt. 7 And you shall roast and eat it in the place which the LORD your God shall choose: and you shall turn in the morning [after midnight], and go to your tents. 8 Six
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days you shall eat unleavened bread: and on the seventh day shall be a solemn assembly to the LORD your God: you shall do no work therein. ***************(End Quote)
There were two unfortunate outcomes from this new rule: The first was that often the females of Israel were thereby excluded from observing the Passover ritual, and the other was that it soon became attached (in the minds of the men) to the Feast of Unleavened Bread which followed it. “Now the Feast of Unleavened Bread drew nigh, which is called the Passover”. Luke 22:1. This made it an eight day feast like that of the Feast of Ingathering (or Tabernacles as it was sometimes known), and this spoilt the special significance of the latter festival.
In actual fact, the Passover “meal” (and its rituals) was observed on a working day (the 14th of the 1st month). It was the NEXT day, the 15th, which was the first ceremonial sabbath (rest day) of the Feast of Unleavened Bread. This was followed by the firstfruits of the first harvest for the year, on the 16 th which was also a working day. Thus Jesus Christ died on Friday the 14 th, rested in the tomb on Saturday the 15th and rose in the splendour of His work as the Firstfruits (the most important) of the dead on Sunday the resurrection day, the 16 th. “But now is Christ risen from the dead, and become the firstfruits of them that slept [in death] . . . For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive. But every man in his own order: Christ the firstfruits; afterward they that are Christ's at His coming”.1 Corinthians 15:20-23. The feast also ended in a “holy convocation”, another ceremonial sabbath day, the 21st . “In the fourteenth day of the first month at even [sunset] is the LORD's passover. And on the fifteenth day of the same month is The Feast of Unleavened Bread to the LORD: seven days you must eat unleavened bread. In the first day you shall have a holy convocation [a rest day]: you shall do no servile [ordinary] work therein. But you shall offer an offering made by fire to the LORD seven days: in the seventh day [the 21st of the month] is [also] a holy convocation: you shall do no servile work therein [either]”. Leviticus 23:5-8. However, I don’t think the women minded too much about being excluded from the play-acting of religion, for they were far too busy dealing with the realities of it. They understood what took the men much longer to comprehend, “Purge out therefore the old leaven [the old errors], that you may be a new lump, as you are [now] unleavened. For even Christ our passover [Lamb] is sacrificed for us. Therefore let us keep the Feast, not with old leaven [of rituals], neither with the leaven of malice and wickedness [the old spiritual life]; but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth [the new life]. 1 Corinthians 5:7-8.
Spiritually, the believer in the gospel “chooses” to make the Son of God their Saviour on the 10th day of the new year, kills and ingests the body of Christ on the 14th after being prepared by a removal of the old life (Romans 7:4), then relaxes on
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the 15th in the knowledge that slavish obedience is not required, but only willing, loving service. They then rise to the resurrection of a new creation to be trained for a Pentecost of witness to the world.
Then shall they say: “Come, and let us return to the LORD: for He has torn, and He will heal us; He has smitten, and He will bind us up. After two days will He revive us: in the third day He will raise us up, and we shall live in His sight. Then shall we know, if we follow on to know the LORD: His going forth is prepared as the morning; and He shall come to us as the rain, as the latter and former rain to the earth”. Hosea 6:1-3. Thus it is written; “Paul, a servant of Jesus Christ, called to be an apostle, separated to the gospel of God, (which He had promised afore by His prophets in the holy scriptures,) concerning His Son Jesus Christ our LORD, which was made of the seed of David according to the flesh; and declared to be the Son of God WITH POWER, according to the spirit of holiness, by the resurrection from the dead: by whom we have received grace and apostleship, for obedience to the faith among all nations, for His name”. Romans 1:1-5.
Later, Paul also wrote: “Know you not, that so many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ were baptized into His death? Therefore we are buried with Him by baptism into death: that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life. For if we have been planted [buried] together in the likeness of His death, we shall be also in the likeness of His resurrection: knowing this, that our “old man” is crucified with Him, that the body of sin might be destroyed, that henceforth we should not serve sin. For he that is “dead” is freed from [the slavery of] sin. Romans 6:3-7.
This experience is also described as a “marriage” in Romans 7:4. “Wherefore, my brothers [and sisters], you also are become dead to the law by the body of Christ; that you should be married to another, even to Him who is raised from the dead, that we should bring forth fruit [“children”, or actions] to God”.
This is how God sees His “wife”:-***************(Begin Quote)Proverbs 31:10 Who can find a virtuous woman [a Christian]? For her price is far above rubies. 11 The heart of her husband [Christ] does safely trust in her, so that he shall have no need [fear] of spoil. 12 She will do him good and not evil all the days of her life [she is mistress of his house]. 13 She seeks wool, and flax, and works willingly with her hands [alongside her servants]. 14 She is like the merchants' ships; she brings her food from afar [has a
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great selection]. 15 She rises also while it is yet night [before dawn], and gives meat [breakfast] to her household, and a portion to her maidens. 16 She considers a field, and buys it: with the fruit of her hands she plants [plans] a vineyard. 17 She girds her loins with strength, and strengthens her arms. 18 She perceives [supervises] that her merchandise is good: her candle goes not out by night [till late at night]. 19 She lays her hands to the spindle, and her hands hold the distaff [she multi-tasks].
20 She stretches out her hand to the poor; yea, she reaches forth her hands to the needy [she has a sympathetic heart].
21 She is not afraid of the snow for her household [her converts]: for all her household are clothed with scarlet [woollen clothing, the robe of righteousness]. 22 She makes herself coverings of tapestry; her clothing is silk and purple [functional and beautiful].
23 Her husband is known in the gates [the places of assembly], when he sits among the elders of the land [talking over the weighty matters of the law].
24 She makes fine linen, and sells it; and delivers girdles to the merchant.25 Strength and honour are her clothing; and she shall rejoice in time to come [she looks forward to a better world]. 26 She opens her mouth with wisdom; and in her tongue is the law of kindness. 27 She looks well to the ways of her household, and eats not the bread of idleness.
28 Her children arise up, and call her blessed; her husband also, and he praises her. 29 “Many daughters [of Israel] have done virtuously, but you excel them all”. 30 Favour is deceitful, and beauty is vain: but a woman that fears the LORD, she shall be praised. 31 Give her of the fruit of her hands; and let her own works praise her in the gates [and in the eyes of God].***************(End Quote)
In this way, the gospel is preached in all the world. (Matthew 24:14.)
So why did God change His mind about the passover?
Well, of course, He didn’t do that! It is ALWAYS His people who desire the change and the LORD goes along with them as much as He can while still doing His work in the background. They did not have the “rest” principle of the weekly Sabbath, and yet loved the rituals and ceremonies of the law, so He gave them a legal Passover. By having the Passover meal in Jerusalem, He moved them away from the heathen practices, but unfortunately, the majority lost the spiritual significance of it.
Then He waited patiently.
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After the return from the Babylonian exile there arose two groups among the Jews who differed in their understanding of the timing and place of the Passover and we are shown this at the time of Christ, who of course, kept the Passover and the Feast at the right time and in the right way.
***************(Begin Quote)Matthew 26:17 Now the first day of the Feast of Unleavened Bread the disciples came to Jesus, saying to Him, “Where will You that we prepare for You to eat the passover?18 And He said, “Go into the city to such a man, and say to him, ‘The Master says, My time is at hand; I will keep the passover at your house with My disciples’.” 19 And the disciples did as Jesus had appointed them; and they made ready the passover. 20 Now when the even was come, He sat down with the twelve.***************(End Quote)
This was Thursday night in our timing, and the Passover day was just beginning with the sunset. The sunrise was Friday morning in our terms (sometimes called “Good Friday”). They had killed and prepared the Passover lamb on what we would call Thursday afternoon, because in the ritual it was the “eating” of it that was most important, not the death or the cooking.
But the Pharisees had a different period in mind:***************(Begin Quote)Mark 14:1 After two days was the Feast of the Passover, and of Unleavened Bread: and the chief priests and the scribes sought how they might take Him by craft, and put Him to death. 2 But they said, “Not on the Feast day, lest there be an uproar of the people”.***************(End Quote)
The religionists decided not to capture Him on the Feast day, yet He was arrested and tried right through the night of the 14 th into the early hours of Friday morning which was the first part of the Passover day! (They did not consider that day to be important!)
***************(Begin Quote)John 18:28 Then led they Jesus from Caiaphas to the hall of judgment: and it was early [Friday morning]; and they themselves went not into the judgment hall, lest they should be defiled; but that they might eat the passover [that night, our Friday night, which was beginning of the weekly Sabbath].
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So we see that there was a discrepancy in their understanding of the law. They, like many of the evangelists of today, failed to see the significance of the Passover day, and concentrated their teachings on the rituals which followed it. Thus they preached (and still do), a gospel without power!
***************(Begin Quote)John 19:13 When Pilate therefore heard that saying [that Christ was a rebel king], he brought Jesus forth, and sat down in the judgment seat in a place that is called “the Pavement” [by the Romans], but in the Hebrew, “Gabbatha”.
14 And it was the preparation of the Passover [the day before the Sabbath], and about the sixth hour [6am Friday morning, Roman time, which starts at midnight]: and he said to the Jews, “Behold your King”! 15 But they cried out, ‘Away with Him, away with Him, crucify Him’. Pilate said to them, ‘Shall I crucify your King?’ The chief priests answered, ‘We have no king but Caesar’. 16 Then delivered he Him therefore to them to be crucified. And they took Jesus, and led Him away. 17 And He bearing His cross went forth into a place called “The Place of a Skull”, which is called in the Hebrew “Golgotha”: 18 where they crucified Him [at 9am Friday morning], and two others with Him, on either side one, and Jesus in the midst . . .
31 The Jews therefore, because it was the preparation, that the bodies should not remain upon the cross on the Sabbath day, (for that Sabbath day was a high day [both a weekly and a yearly day],) besought Pilate that their legs might be broken, and that they might be taken away. ***************(End Quote)
Since the destruction of the temple in the year 70AD there has been no set place in which to observe the Passover, so it has reverted to being observed in the houses of the Jews in a modified form.
However, as we read these modern-day comments on the ritual we can easily see the confusion that still reigns among them.
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Together with Shavuot ("Pentecost") and Sukkot ("Tabernacles"), Passover is one of the three pilgrimage festivals (Shalosh Regalim) during which the entire Jewish populace historically made a pilgrimage to the Temple in Jerusalem.[3] Samaritans
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still make this pilgrimage to Mount Gerizim, but only men participate in public worship.[4][5] . . .
In Israel, Passover is the seven-day holiday of the Feast of Unleavened Bread, with the first and last days observed as legal holidays and as holy days involving abstention from work, special prayer services, and holiday meals; the intervening days are known as Chol HaMoed ("Weekdays of the Festival"). Diaspora Jews historically observed the festival for eight days, and most still do. Reform and Reconstructionist Jews and Israeli Jews, wherever they are, usually observe the holiday over seven days. The reason for this extra day is due to enactment of the Sages. It is thought by many scholars that Jews outside of Israel could not be certain if their local calendars fully conformed to practice of the Temple at Jerusalem, so they added an extra day. But as this practice only attaches to certain (major) holy days, others posit the extra day may have been added to accommodate people who had to travel long distances to participate in communal worship and ritual practices; or the practice may have evolved as a compromise between conflicting interpretations of Jewish Law regarding the calendar; or it may have evolved as a safety measure in areas where Jews were commonly in danger, so that their enemies would not be certain on which day to attack.[10]
Karaite Jews and Samaritans use different versions of the Jewish calendar, which are often out of sync with the modern Jewish calendar by one or two days. In 2009, for example, Nisan 15 on the Jewish calendar used by Rabbinical Judaism corresponds to April 9. On the calendars used by Karaites and Samaritans, Abib or Aviv 15 (as opposed to 'Nisan') corresponds to April 11 in 2009. The Karaite and Samaritan Passovers are each one day long, followed by the six day Festival of Unleavened Bread – for a total of seven days.
According to Exodus 12:3 the Passover lamb must be separated on the "10th day of the Month" therefore, a full cycle of the moon must be observed to determine when to hold the Passover. It cannot merely be held on the first full moon after the Spring Equinox. It must be observed after the first New Moon after the Equinox, then count 10 days, and 14th, and 15th, then always the Passover falls on the Full Moon . . .
Main article: Korban PesachWhen the Temple in Jerusalem was standing, the focus of the Passover festival was the Passover sacrifice (Hebrew korban Pesach) also known as the "Paschal Lamb"). Every family large enough to completely consume a young lamb or wild goat was required to offer one for sacrifice at the Jewish Temple on the afternoon of the 14th day of Nisan,(Num 9:11) and eat it that night, which was the 15th of Nisan (Exodus 12:6). If the family was too small to finish eating the entire offering in one sitting, an offering was made for a group of families. The sacrifice could not be offered with anything leavened,(Exodus 23:18) and had to be roasted, without
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its head, feet, or inner organs being removed (Exodus 12:9) and eaten together with unleavened bread (matzo) and bitter herbs (maror) (Exodus 12:9 One had to be careful not to break any bones from the offering, (Exodus 12:46) and none of the meat could be left over by morning (Exodus 12:10 Exodus 23:18 ).
Because of the Passover sacrifice's status as a sacred offering, the only people allowed to eat it were those who had the obligation to bring the offering. Among those who could not offer or eat the Passover lamb were: An apostate (Exodus 12:43), a servant (Exodus 12:45), an uncircumcised man (Exodus 12:48), a person in a state of ritual impurity, except when a majority of Jews are in such a state (Pesahim 66b), and a non-Jew. The offering had to be made before a quorum of 30 (Pesahim 64b). In the Temple, the Levites sang Hallel while the priests performed the sacrificial service. Men and women were equally obligated regarding the offering (Pesahim 91b).
Women were obligated, as men, to perform the Korban Pesach and to participate in a Seder. . . .
Today, in the absence of the Temple, the mitzvah of the Korban Pesach is memorialized in the Seder Korban Pesach, recited in the afternoon of Nisan 14, and in the form of symbolic food placed on the Passover Seder Plate, which is usually a roasted shankbone. The eating of the afikoman substitutes for the eating of the Korban Pesach at the end of the Seder meal (Mishnah Pesachim 119a). Many Sephardi Jews have the custom of eating lamb or goat meat during the Seder in memory of the Korban Pesach.***************(End Quote)
oooOoooFor more, see also:
http://www.biblicalperspectives.com/books/festivals_1/3.html
http://www.bbc.co.uk/religion/religions/judaism/holydays/passover_1.shtml
http://jewishappleseed.org/apple/passover.htm
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