June 28 2020
FROM YOUR PASTOR’S DESK:
THE SECRET OF WHY THE SANCTUARY DOCTRINE IS IGNORED OR OPPOSED BY MAINSTREAM CHRISTIANITY
“Behold, I have set before thee an open door, and no man shutters; and shutteth, and no man openeth.” Rev. 3: 7, 8.
These “doors” refer to the door to the holy and door to the most holy places of the heavenly sanctuary where Christ has been ministering as our merciful High Priest since His ascension after His resurrection two thousand years ago in 31 A.D.
Of the faithful believers of the Advent Movement who were studying the prophecies, “None could fail to see that if the EARTHLY sanctuary was a FIGURE or a PATTERN of the heavenly, the LAW deposited in the ark on earth was and EXACT TRANSCRIPT of the law in the ark in heaven; and that an ACCEPTANCE of the truth concerning the heavenly sanctuary involved and ACKNOWLEDGEMENT of the claims of God’s law, and THE OBLIGATION OF THE SABBATH OF THE FOURTH COMMANDMENT.
“Here was the secret of the bitter and determined opposition to the harmonious exposition of the Scriptures that revealed THE MINISTRATION OF CHRIST in the heavenly sanctuary.
“Men sought to CLOSE the door which Christ has opened, and to OPEN the door which He has closed. [Rev. 3:7,8 quoted]. Christ had opened the door, or MINISTRATION OF TH MOST HOLY PLACE, light was shining from the OPEN DOOR of the sanctuary in heaven, and the FOURTH COMMANDMENT was shown to be INCLUDED [not excluded, abrogated, nailed to the cross or done away with!] in the law which is there ENSHRINED; what God has established, no man could overthrow. [As in, “what God has joined together let no man put asunder.”].” Great Controversy, p. 485.
It is clear. No true Christian will accept that it is OK to worship other gods or make make graven images or take the name of the Lord in vain or to disrespect parents, or kill and murder or commit adultery and fornication or to steal and rob or to bear false witness/lie or to covet but to “keep the Bible Sabbath of the fourth commandment memorializing creation? This is the “stumbling block” and the only way around it is not THROUGH it but to deny the whole law itself! What a shameful, bold-faced contradiction of professed faith in God and His Word who calls Himself “the Lord of the Sabbath,” not the “sabbath” himself! The Sabbath is a day of 24 hours, not a person much less the Creator “who made the Sabbath FOR man!”
Pass this on! NMF