Key to the 1843 Prophetic Chart
referred to is the ten commandments, see Ex.xxxi (31),18; xxxii,15,16; xxxiv,28; Deut.iv (4),13; ix,9-11; x,4. 7. In this Sanctuary the priests ministered. Ex.xxviii (28),41,43; xxix,30; xxxv,19; Lev.iv (4),6,7,16,17; xvi,2-9; Heb.ix (9),6,7; xiii,11,etc.
8. The transgressor confessed his sin over the head of his victim, thus transferring his guilt to it. The victim was slain, and the blood bearing that guilt was sprinkled by the priest within the Sanctuary had to be freed once a year; and this service was called its cleansing. Lev.i (1),4,5; iv,6; xvi,16,33; Heb.ix (9),7; Eze.xlv (45), 18.
9. This cleansing was performed with blood. Lev.xvi (16),15,16,18,19,32,33; Ex.xxix (29),36,37; Eze.xlv (45),18-20; Heb.ix (9),22,23. 10. This Sanctuary was not an original building, but was made after the pattern of a greater and more perfect tabernacle, which must therefore be the great antitype of this earthly building, and must take its place when the latter has served its purpose. Ex.xxv (25),9,40; xxvi,30; Acts vii (7),44; Heb.viii (8),5. When the tabernacle of Moses gave place to the temple of Solomon, it was still according to the pattern. 1 Chron.xxviii (28),10-13,19.
11. This was the Sanctuary of the first covenant, Heb.ix (9),1, and was destroyed by Titus in A.D.70. Dan.ix (9),26. For a historical record of this event, see Josephus' Wars, book vi, chap.iv,sec.5. 12. This was a type or figure of the Sanctuary of the New Covenant , WHICH IS IN HEAVEN. Heb.viii (8),1-5; ix,23,24; Ps.cii (102),19.
The heavenly Sanctuary resembles the earthly in that, 1. It has two holy places. Heb.ix (9),24. See also, verses 8 and 12, and chap.x, 19, in each of which texts the words rendered "holiest," and "holy place," are plural in the original, and should be so rendered, holy places, as they are in many translations. Compare, also, Ex.xxvi (26),31-35, and xxx,1,6, with Rev.iv (4),1,2,5; viii,3-5; 9.
2. It contains the law (covenant or testament). Rev.xi (11),19. Here is brought to view the ark, in the temple or Sanctuary in Heaven; and the ark was used as the depository of the tables of the covenant or ten commandments. Ex.xxv (25),21,22; xxvi,33,34; xl,20,21; 1 Kings viii,6-9; Heb.ix (9),1-4.
3. It has a service of priesthood. Heb.vi (6),19,20; viii,1-5; ix,24; x,19-21. 4. Christ bore our sins in his own body on the tree [Pet.ii,24]; and through his ministration our sins, when we confess them to him, are transferred to the Sanctuary above, rendering it in this sense only , impure. Nothing less can be argued from the type.
5. It is therefore to be cleansed. Dan.viii (8),14. This text must refer to the heavenly Sanctuary; for the earthly was destroyed only 526 years after the 2300 commenced. This cleansing of the heavenly Sanctuary is accomplished with blood. Heb.ix (9),11,12,23,24.
6. When the glory of the Lord filled the tabernacle, or temple, in the type, there was no ministration. Ex.xl (40),34,35; 1 Kings viii,10,11. So it will be in the antitype. Rev.xv (15),8.