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heavenly Sanctuary. The priests ministered in both apartments of the
earthly. In the first apartment he ministered every day in the year, and
entered the Most Holy but once in a year, to cleanse it from the sins
which had been conveyed there. I saw that Jesus ministered in both
apartments of the heavenly Sanctuary. He entered into the heavenly
Sanctuary by the offering of his own blood. The earthly priests were
removed by death, therefore they could not continue long; but Jesus, I
saw, was a priest forever. Through the sacrifices and offerings brought
to the earthly Sanctuary, the children of Israel were to lay hold of the
merits of a Saviour to come. And in the wisdom of God the particulars
of this work were given us that we might look back to them, and
understand the work of Jesus in the heavenly Sanctuary.
At the crucifixion, as Jesus died on Calvary, he cried, It is finished,
and the vail of the temple was rent in twain, from the top to the bottom.
This was to show that the services of the earthly Sanctuary were forever
finished, and that God would no more meet with them in their earthly
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temple, to accept their sacrifices. The blood of Jesus was then shed,
which was to be ministered by himself in the heavenly Sanctuary.
As the priests in the earthly Sanctuary entered the Most Holy once
a year to cleanse the Sanctuary, Jesus entered the Most Holy of the
heavenly, at the end of the 2300 days of Dan, viii, in 1844, to make a
final atonement for all who could be benefited by his mediation, and
to cleanse the Sanctuary.
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