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Series Code: SSOS
Program Code: SSOS190013A
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00:25 Welcome to the Sanctuary, Salvation and our Savior. 00:30 My name is David Shin 00:31 and I'm so glad that you've been on this journey with us 00:34 and we've come to our last episode in this Series 00:39 on the Sanctuary 00:40 where we've been looking at the plan of salvation 00:43 through the lens of the Sanctuary, 00:45 understanding our own Christian experience... 00:48 how God brings us into the Courtyard... 00:50 into the Holy Place 00:52 and into the Most Holy Place. 00:54 We've been also using the Sanctuary as the lens... 00:57 as the hermeneutical key 00:59 for understanding the work and ministry of Jesus Christ, 01:02 past, present and future, 01:05 and today, I want to cite a few quotations 01:09 from one of my favorite books. 01:10 It's entitled, "The Great Controversy" 01:13 about the significance of the work 01:16 and ministry of Jesus Christ in heaven 01:19 in the last compartment of the heavenly sanctuary. 01:22 Here it is, from the book, "The Great Controversy" 01:25 page 423, 01:27 "The subject of the sanctuary was the key 01:30 which unlocked the mystery 01:32 of the disappointment of 1844. 01:34 It opened to view a complete system of truth, 01:38 connected... harmonious, 01:39 showing that God's hand had directed 01:42 the great Adventist movement and revealing present duty 01:45 as it brought to light 01:46 the position and work of His people. " 01:49 In 1844, there was a great Millerite Movement 01:53 where individuals... God-fearing individuals 01:57 gathered together on October 22, 1844, 02:01 believing that Jesus was going to come. 02:04 This came as the result of the study of Daniel and Revelation 02:08 specifically, Daniel chapter 8 verse 14 02:12 where it says, "Unto 2,300 days, 02:14 then shall the sanctuary be cleansed 02:16 and the misunderstanding came about 02:18 because people assumed 02:19 that when Jesus was going to cleanse the sanctuary, 02:22 that the sanctuary was the earth 02:24 and what other time was Jesus going to cleanse the earth 02:28 than at the Second Coming? 02:30 So in prophetic timeline, 02:32 these individuals... the Millerites... 02:35 got the date right but they got the event wrong. 02:40 Let me say that again, "They got the date right 02:44 but the event wrong. " 02:47 The event was wrong because the Bible does not say 02:51 that the earth is the sanctuary, 02:54 rather, there is an earthly sanctuary 02:58 as in the time of Moses, 03:00 but after the time of Christ, according to Hebrews chapter 8, 03:02 things shifted to the heavenly sanctuary 03:05 and in Great Controversy, this penetrating analysis 03:10 of what unlocked the mystery 03:12 or of the great disappointment of 1844, 03:16 it was the study of the sanctuary... 03:19 the study of the sanctuary opened to view 03:23 a complete system of truth. 03:26 In other words, the sanctuary was more than just a doctrine. 03:30 The sanctuary was a hermeneutical key 03:33 which is an interpretive lens 03:35 for understanding the work and the ministry of Christ 03:38 and when the Bible say, "Unto 2,300 days, 03:41 then shall the sanctuary be cleansed... " 03:43 was not referring to the cleansing of the earth 03:46 at the Second Coming of Jesus, 03:49 but rather, it was referring 03:51 to the work and ministry of Jesus Christ 03:55 in the cleansing of the heavenly sanctuary. 03:59 We move on in our Great Controversy quotations, 04:03 page 489, 04:04 "The sanctuary in heaven is the very center 04:09 of Christ's work in behalf of men. " 04:12 Now, some people have said, 04:14 "Look, we don't need the sanctuary anymore 04:16 because Jesus came to this earth. " 04:18 But in reality, the sanctuary is the center 04:23 of Christ's work as our High Priest in heaven. 04:27 In order to understand what Jesus has been doing 04:32 after the cross, 04:34 we must use the reference point of the sanctuary. 04:38 It's like a map. 04:39 It tells us what Jesus has done at the cross 04:42 as the Lamb of God that takes away the sins of the world... 04:44 what Jesus has been doing as our High Priest... 04:48 and in 1844, according to Daniel chapter 8 verse 14, 04:50 Jesus transitioned into His last phase of ministry 04:56 in behalf of men. 04:58 The Great Controversy, page 409, 05:00 "The Scripture which above all others 05:03 had both been the foundation 05:05 and the central pillar of the Advent faith 05:08 was the declaration: 05:09 'Unto two thousand three hundred days, 05:12 then shall the sanctuary be cleansed. '" 05:14 Think about the implications of this. 05:17 If you have a structure that is held up by pillars 05:21 and you take away the central pillar... 05:25 by implication, the pillar that is holding 05:28 the whole edifice together, 05:31 what happens to that structure? 05:32 The whole structure falls. 05:36 In other words, the central to the Advent movement 05:40 and Seventh-day Adventism, 05:42 is this idea of the cleansing of the sanctuary. 05:46 We'll be unpacking the... the... the Biblical evidence 05:50 for the existence of a heavenly sanctuary 05:52 and here's a bird's eye view of Moses' sanctuary 05:55 that was received from God on Mount Sinai... 05:57 remember Moses went up to Mount Sinai 05:58 and when he came down from the mountain, 06:01 he came down with two things, 06:03 he came down with the Law of God 06:05 which God had inscribed with His own finger on tablets of stone, 06:09 and he also came down with... in his mind 06:13 all of the descriptions 06:15 and all of the blueprints for the making of the sanctuary 06:21 and also all of the articles of furniture 06:25 that were found within it. 06:27 And here we have a blueprint 06:29 for understanding the work of Jesus Christ. 06:32 Remember, Jesus is the Lamb of God 06:34 who takes away the sins of the world... 06:36 the Altar of Burnt Offering represents the cross, 06:39 Jesus died on Calvary in A.D. 31 06:42 and then, there's another person that is important... 06:46 another entity I should say, 06:48 that is important in the sanctuary process 06:50 because when the sinner brings the lamb into the sanctuary 06:55 and that lamb dies, 06:57 the sinner did not take that blood himself 07:00 into the Holy Place, 07:02 the sinner was dependent on the Priest 07:06 to take the blood into the sanctuary 07:09 on his behalf. 07:11 In other words, the priest was to apply the benefits 07:16 of the sacrifice on behalf of the sinner. 07:20 The sinner did not apply the benefits himself. 07:23 It was dependent on the priest 07:25 and the Bible tells us that Jesus is our High Priest 07:28 in heaven. 07:29 In other words, Jesus is the One 07:32 that applies the benefits of His sacrifice 07:35 on our behalf as our High Priest. 07:39 So, Jesus is the Lamb and Jesus is the High Priest. 07:44 Jesus typifies the important entities 07:48 that make the sanctuary service possible. 07:51 Here's another quote, 07:54 "The theme of the Bible, 07:56 the theme about which every other 07:59 in the whole Bible clusters, 08:01 is the redemption plan... 08:03 the restoration of the human soul of the image of God. 08:07 From the first intimation in the hope 08:09 in the sentence pronounced in Eden 08:10 to that last glorious promise of Revelation, 08:13 "They shall see His face; 08:15 and His name shall be on their foreheads. " 08:19 The subject of the sanctuary... 08:21 the model of the sanctuary is really a picture 08:24 of this restorative process... 08:26 how God will bring us all the way back. 08:29 Notice the operative word in this quote. 08:31 "Restoration" 08:33 Eden lost... Eden restored. 08:36 God wants to bring us into that Most-Holy-Place experience... 08:39 face-to-face communion with God... 08:41 "They shall see His face 08:42 and His name shall be on their foreheads. " 08:43 God brings us into the Holy Place... 08:45 God brings us into the Most Holy Place... 08:48 to that face-to-face encounter with God 08:50 and the subject of the sanctuary is restoration 08:54 and this restoration process is made possible 08:58 because of two key entities... the lamb... and the priest. 09:03 The lamb and the priest make restoration possible 09:08 in the sanctuary. 09:09 The lamb represents Jesus Christ. 09:11 The priest represents Jesus Christ as well. 09:16 The burden of every book and every passage of the Bible 09:20 is the unfolding of this wondrous theme... 09:22 man's uplifting... 09:24 the power of God 'which giveth us the victory 09:27 through our Lord Jesus Christ... '" 09:29 in the book "Education. " 09:30 The Bible tells us, 09:32 "Your way, O God, is in the sanctuary. " 09:36 In other words, the sanctuary is more than just a doctrine, 09:41 The sanctuary is to be our hermeneutical reference point. 09:46 Now I have eye glasses 09:48 and the sanctuary, in a way, is like eye glasses. 09:52 It's a framework... 09:54 it's a map that helps us to understand 09:56 what Jesus has done... 09:57 is doing... 09:59 and will do. 10:00 "Your way, O God, is in the sanctuary. " 10:04 In Daniel chapter 8:14, the Bible tells us, 10:07 "Unto 2,300 days, then shall the sanctuary be cleansed. " 10:13 Now, when Daniel wrote this, he understood 10:19 that this was prophetic time 10:21 and when you follow the prophetic lineage out... 10:24 this is not talking about the earthly sanctuary, 10:28 because the earthly sanctuary is no longer relevant 10:31 after Jesus died on the cross, 10:33 Jesus transitioned to the heavenly sanctuary, 10:36 and in Daniel chapter 8:14, 10:38 when you follow the prophetic time marker, 10:40 when it talks about the 2,300 days 10:42 and the sanctuary being cleansed, 10:44 this is not referring to the cleansing 10:46 of the earthly sanctuary, 10:48 rather, this is referring to the cleansing 10:50 of the heavenly sanctuary. 10:52 Now, here's the question, 10:53 I thought that heaven was a pure place. 10:58 What in heaven would need to be cleansed? 11:02 I mean, this is a question that people have asked, 11:05 I mean, how is it possible that... 11:06 that there's anything in heaven especially a sanctuary 11:10 that would be defiled 11:11 and would be in need of cleansing? 11:14 Now, the way that we understand 11:16 why something as the sanctuary needs to be cleansed 11:20 is to follow the progression of the sanctuary service 11:24 specifically, the daily service. 11:27 Now, in the daily service, 11:29 there was something peculiar that happened 11:31 every time a lamb was slain 11:33 and we find it in Leviticus chapter 4 verse 32, 11:36 "If he brings a lamb as a sin offering, 11:38 then he shall lay his hand on the head of the sin offering, 11:41 and shall kill it as a sin offering 11:43 at the place where they kill the burnt offering. 11:45 And the priest shall take some of the blood 11:47 of the sin offering with his finger, 11:48 and put it on the horns of the altar of the burnt offering, 11:51 and pour all the remaining blood at the base of the altar. " 11:54 Here's what took place, 11:55 In the sanctuary service, 11:57 the sinner would bring the lamb into the sanctuary 12:00 and with his own hand 12:01 he would slit that animal's throat from ear to ear. 12:06 The priest would be there to catch the blood 12:09 and then the priest would take that blood 12:13 into the sanctuary 12:15 and he would do one of two things... 12:17 he would either take that blood and sprinkle it on the veil 12:21 which was before the altar, 12:23 or he would place his finger in that bowl 12:25 and place it on the horns of the Altar of Incense. 12:29 There was another place that, according to this verse 12:32 that he would put that... that imprint of blood on 12:35 was in the outer court 12:37 on the horns of the burnt offering. 12:39 So, follow me now, 12:41 the... the... the sin of that person 12:44 was being transferred from the person... to the animal 12:49 to the blood... to the sanctuary 12:53 and this was a part of what we call "the daily service. " 12:58 In other words, this took place in the annual calendar 13:03 every single day of the Jewish year. 13:06 So, follow me, every day, 13:09 as the people brought their sacrifices in, 13:13 the sanctuary was becoming "Polluted" 13:17 with the record of forgiven sins of Israel 13:22 and as this accumulated over the year, 13:25 once a year, on the Day of Atonement, 13:28 there was a cleansing of the sanctuary... Yom Kippur 13:34 in which the sanctuary and the record of sins 13:37 were removed. 13:39 Now, we're going to be taking a short break, 13:42 but stay with us as we continue in our study 13:44 of the Day of Atonement 13:46 and the cleansing of the sanctuary... 13:48 how we see that Jesus is in heaven on our behalf 13:51 cleansing the heavenly sanctuary. 13:54 We'll be right back... 13:55 stay with us as we continue in our study. |
Revised 2019-11-05