FROM THE FIRST COVENANT SANCTUARY TO THE NEW COVENANT SANCTUARY

FROM YOUR PASTOR’S DESK:

FROM THE FIRST COVENANT SANCTUARY TO THE NEW COVENANT SANCTUARY

God commanded Moses: “Let them make Me a sanctuary that I might dwell among them.” – Exo. 25:9. The first sanctuary (later called tabernacle, the temple) built by Moses in obedience to God’s command, was not a permanent structure, but a collapsible. portable one to facilitate its travel with Israel throughout the Wilderness journey to the earthly Canaan.

“After the settlement of the Hebrews in Canaan, the tabernacle was replaced by the Temple of Solomon, which though a PERMANENT structure and upon a larger scale, observed the same proportions, and similarly furnished. In this form the sanctuary existed—-except as it lay in ruins at Daniel’s time by the Romans in A. D. 70. [Restored by the returning Jews led by Ezra, then Nehemiah under the three-fold successive decrees of three pagan Persian kings, Cyrus, Darius, and Artaxerxes].

“This is the ONLY sanctuary that ever existed on the earth, of which the Bible gives any information. This was declared by Paul to be the SANCTUARY OF THE FIRST COVENANT.

“But has the New Covenant no new sanctuary? Turning again to the book of HEBREWS [Paul wrote this book] the seekers for truth found that the EXISTENCE of a SECOND, or NEW COVENANT SANCTUARY, was implied already in the words of Paul already quoted: ‘Then verily the first covenant had ALSO ordinances of divine services, and a worldly [earthly] sanctuary.’ (Heb. 8:1,2). And the use of the word ‘also’ intimates that Paul had made mention of this sanctuary.

Turning back to the beginning of the previous chapter, they read: ‘Now of the things which we have spoken this is the sum: We have such an High Priest, who is set on the right hand [position of ultimate authority] of the throne of the Majesty of the universe; a Minister of the sanctuary: and of the TRUE TABERNACLE, which the LORD pitched, not NOT MAN.’ (Exo.25: 9, 40).

“Here is revealed the sanctuary of the New Covenant. The sanctuary of the first covenant was ‘pitched by man,’ built by Moses; but this is pitched by the Lord, not man. In that sanctuary [of the first covenant] the earthly priests performed their service; in this [the New Covenant], Christ, our great High Priest, ministers at God’s right hand. One sanctuary was on earth, the other is in heaven.”- Great Controversy, 1911 ed., pp. 412, 413.

It is because the Christian world has failed to diligently and thoroughly study the precious sanctuary doctrine taught from the very beginning by Moses and on to Paul, that it’s so ignorant and ultra vulnerable to Satan’s deceptive counterfeit teachings on the priesthood, the atonement (the sacrificial, and the blood atonement during the cleansing by the blood of sprinkling in the most holy on the day of atonement. See Lev. 16:1-4; Heb.chapters 8, 9, 10.
(To be continued). Bless all, NMF