FROM YOUR PASTOR’S DESK:
October 12
THE SANCTUARY DOCTRINE EXPLAINS THE WAY OF SALVATION OF THE GOSPEL (Part 22)
Jesus the Penitent Believer’s Priest and High Priest In the Heavenly Sanctuary/Temple:
Apostle Paul wrote (emphasis mine): “Which HOPE, we have as an ANCHOR OF THE SOUL, both sure and steadfast, and WHICH ENTERETH THE SECOND VEIL WHITHER THE FORERUNNER IS FOR US ENTERED, EVEN JESUS, MADE AN HIGH PRIEST after the order of Melchizedec.” Heb. 6:19,20, KJV.
“Now of the things which we have spoken, this is THE SUM: WE HAVE SUCH AN HIGH PRIEST on the right hand of the throne of the Majesty in the heavens. A MINISTER OF THE SANCTUARY, AND OF THE TRUE TABERNACLE, WHICH THE LORD PITCHED, AND NOT MAN.” Heb. 8: 1, 2, KJV.
The true hope and the sure anchor of every sincere and striving soul (the living person) is in the Forerunner, Who, as both Priest and High Priest, is the one and true “Minister of ministers” in the true heavenly sanctuary (as He is also the “King of kings, Lord of lords an and “God of gods”) who already entered into the second veil into the most holy place of the heavenly sanctuary in the year 1844, as prophesied in Daniel 8:14 to begin His final and closing work of cleansing that sanctuary.
This was the burden of the urgent warning of the first angel’s message in 1840, formally opening the intense three and a half year start of the Advent movement, “Fear God and give glory unto Him for the hour of His judgment is come.” (Rev. 14: 6, 7).
Thus the solemn plea: “Oh, let us live wholly for the Lord and show by a well-ordered life and godly conversation that we have been with Jesus and are His meek and lowly followers. We must work while the day lasts for when the dark night of trouble and anguish comes, it will be too late to work FOR GOD.
Jesus is in His holy temple and will now accept our [self] sacrifices, our prayers, and our confessions of faults and sins and will pardon [forgive; justify] all the transgressions of [antitypical, spiritual] Israel that they may be BLOTTED OUT BEFORE HE LEAVES THE SANCTUARY [See Acts 3:19].
When Jesus leaves the sanctuary, THEN they ‘who are holy and righteous will be holy and righteous STILL’; for all their sins will THEN be blotted out, and they will be SEALED with the seal of the living God.
But those that are unjust [unforgiven] and filthy [unrepented, unconfessed and clinging sins] will be ‘unjust and filthy still.’ [Rev. 22: 11]; FOR THEN THERE WILL BE NO PRIEST IN THE SANCTUARY to offer their sacrifices, their confessions, and their prayers before the Father’s throne. Therefore WHAT IS DONE TO RESCUE SOULS FROM THE COMING STORM OF [divine] WRATH MUST BE DONE BEFORE JESUS LEAVES THE MOST HOLY PLACE.”- E. G. White, “Early Writings,”’p. 48.
(To be continued). Bless all, NMF.