FROM YOUR PASTOR’S DESK:
September 21
THE SANCTUARY DOCTRINE EXPLAINS THE WAY OF SALVATION OF THE GOSPEL (Part 8)
The Seven Lamps in the Earthly Sanctuary Type:
“For there was a tabernacle made; THE FIRST, wherein was the CANDLESTICK, and the table, and the shewbread; which is called the sanctuary.” Heb. 9: 2, KJV. “And thou [Moses] shalt make the SEVEN LAMPS thereof: that they may give light over against it (see verses 31-36).
“In the holy place [of the earthly sanctuary] was the CANDLESTICK, on the south [side of the sanctuary], with its SEVEN LAMPS giving light to the sanctuary both by day and by night; on the north stood the table of the showbread; and before the veil [the second] separating the holy from the most holy [‘apartment’ or ‘place’] was the golden altar of incense, from which the cloud of fragrance, with the prayers of Israel, was DAILY ascending before God.” – Great Controversy, 1911 ed., p. 412.
Seven Lamps of Fire in the Heavenly Sanctuary: Rev. 4: 5; EW 251. In vision, God’s last-day messenger says: “I was shown what did take place in heaven at the close of the prophetic periods in 1844. . . . I was then bidden to take notice of the two apartments of the heavenly sanctuary. The curtain or ‘door’ was opened, and I was permitted to enter.
In the first apartment I saw the CANDLESTICK WITH SEVEN LAMPS, the table of shewbread, the altar of incense, and the censer. All the furniture of this [first] apartment looked like purest gold and reflected the image of the one who entered the place.”
- E. G. White, Early Writings, p. 251.
(To be continued). Bless all, NMF.