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crucify him. In doing this, they placed themselves where they could
not receive the blessing on the day of Pentecost, which would have
taught them the way into the heavenly Sanctuary. The rending of the
vail of the temple showed that the Jewish sacrifices and ordinances
would no longer be received. The great Sacrifice had been offered,
and had been accepted, and the Holy Spirit which descended on the
day of Pentecost carried the minds of the disciples from the earthly
Sanctuary to the heavenly, where Jesus had entered by his own blood,
and shed upon his disciples the benefits of his atonement. The Jews
were left in complete deception and total darkness. They lost all the
light they might have had upon the plan of salvation, and still trusted
in their useless sacrifices and offerings. They could not be benefited
by the mediation of Christ in the Holy place. The heavenly Sanctuary
had taken the place of the earthly, yet they had no knowledge of the
way to the heavenly.
Many look with horror at the course the Jews pursued toward
Jesus in rejecting and crucifying him. And as they read the history of
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his shameful abuse, they think they love Christ, and would not have
denied him like Peter, or crucified him like the Jews. But God who
has witnessed their professed sympathy for his Son, has proved them,
and has brought to the test that love which they professed for Jesus.
All heaven watched with the deepest interest the reception of the
message. But many who profess to love Jesus, and who shed tears as
they read the story of the cross, instead of receiving the message with
gladness, are stirred, with anger, and deride the good news of Jesus’
coming, and declare it to be delusion. They would not fellowship those
who loved his appearing, but hated them, and shut them out of the
churches. Those who rejected the first message could not be benefited
by the second, and were not benefited by the midnight cry, which was
to prepare them to enter with Jesus by faith into the Most Holy place
of the heavenly Sanctuary. And by rejecting the two former messages,
they can see no light in the third angel’s message, which shows the
way into the Most Holy place. I saw that the nominal churches, as
the Jews crucified Jesus, had crucified these messages, and therefore
they have no knowledge of the move made in heaven, or of the way
into the Most Holy, and they cannot be benefited by the intercession
of Jesus there. Like the Jews, who offered their useless sacrifices, they
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offer up their useless prayers to the apartment which Jesus has left, and