FROM YOUR PASTOR’S DESK:
October 15
THE SANCTUARY DOCTRINE EXPLAINS THE WAY OF SALVATION OF THE GOSPEL (Part 25)
The Object of the Sanctuary Service is to Put Away Sin from Sinners
Apostle Paul wrote: “For then must He often have suffered since the foundation of the world [ see verses 24,25]: but now ONCE in the end of the world [age] hath He appeared to PUT AWAY SIN by the sacrifice of Himself.” Heb. 9:26, KJV.
Moses wrote: “For on that day [the closing service at the year’s end] the [high] priest shall make an ATONEMENT for you, to CLEANSE you, that you may be clean FROM all your SINS before the Lord.” Lev. 16:30.
Open your Bible and read for yourself Lev. 4:27-31 first. Now this:
“Through Moses, God’s purpose to send His Son as the Redeemer of the fallen race, was kept before [ancient] Israel. . . In patriarchal times the SACRIFICIAL offerings connected with divine WORSHIP constituted a perpetual reminder of a coming Savior; and thus it was with the ENTIRE RITUAL OF THE SANCTUARY SERVICES throughout Israel’s history.
In the MINISTRATION OF THE TABERNACLE, AND OF THE TEMPLE that afterward took its place, the people were TAUGHT EACH DAY BY MEANS OF TYPES AND SHADOWS, the great truths relative to the advent of Christ as Redeemer, PRIEST, and King; and ONCE each year their minds were carried forward to the coming events of the GREAT CONTROVERSY between Christ and Satan, the FINAL PURIFICATION OF THE UNIVERSE FROM SIN AND SINNERS.
“The sacrifices and offerings of the MOSAIC RITUAL were ever pointing toward a BETTER SERVICE, EVEN A HEAVENLY. The earthly sanctuary was ‘a figure of the time then present,’ in which were offered both gifts and sacrifices’; it’s TWO holy places were ‘patterns of things in the heavens;’ for Christ our great High Priest, is today a ‘Minister of the Sanctuary, and of the true Tabernacle, which the Lord pitched, and not man.’ [Heb. 9:2]” – E. G. White, Prophets & Kings, pp. 684, 685.
(To be continued). Bless all, NMF.