the true tabernacle, which the Lord pitched and not man;" Hebrews 8:1,2.
That is the Sanctuary of the "better (the new) covenant;" verse 6.
The Sanctuary to be cleansed at the end of 2300 days is also the Sanctuary of the new covenant, for the vision of the treading down and cleansing, is after the crucifixion.
We see that the Sanctuary of the new covenant is not on earth, but in heaven.
The true tabernacle which forms a 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 does the same apostle say the Lord has pitched? "A city which hath foundations whose builder and maker is God;" Hebrews 11:10.
What is its name? "The heavenly Jerusalem;" Hebrews 12:22; Revelation 21. "A building of God, an house not made with hands eternal in the heavens;" 2Corinthians 5:1. "My Father's house of many mansions;" John 14:2.
When our Saviour was at Jerusalem, and had pronounced its house desolate, the disciples came to Him to show Him the buildings of the temple.
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; 1Chronicles 22:17-19; 28:9-13; 2Chronicles 29:5,21; 36:14,17.
Such an announcement would tend to fill them with sadness and fear, as foretelling the derangement, if not the total prostration of their entire 3 religious system.
But to comfort and teach them, He says, "In My Father's house are many mansions ;" John 14:1-3.
Standing, as He was, on the dividing line between the typical covenant and the anti-typical, and having just declared the house of the former no longer valid, and foretold its destruction; how natural that He should point His disciples to the Sanctuary of the latter, about which their affections and interests were to cluster as they had about that of 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