Lesson 12 · March 23, 1895

The Judgment Message.—Continued

Review Questions.

(a) What is the longest prophetic period in the Bible?

(b) When did it begin and terminate?

(d) To what great event does the 2300 days reach?

(e) Where do we find messages pertaining to the time and the judgment?

Questions.

1.What change of position by the high priest was necessary when the sanctuary was cleansed?
2.How is this change in our Saviour's priestly work illustrated? . Note 1.
3.What was seen in the temple of God in heaven? .
4.Which apartment must have been opened to view? Why?
5.When did Christ begin His ministration there, and thus place before His people an open door?
6.What does it reveal to those who enter by faith within the second veil? ; . See note 1.
7.What does the ark of the testament contain? See note 1.
8.What church had this open door placed before them? . Note 2.
9.When did the work of cleansing the sanctuary begin?
10.Then when did our great High Priest place before His people an open door?
11.What were they enabled to see? .
12.Under the sounding of what trumpet did this occur? .
13.What was to take place in the beginning of the sounding of the seventh trumpet? .
14.What work of Christ constitutes the finishing of the mystery of God?
15.How was understood by the Advent people in 1844? Note 3.
16.When they met with their bitter disappointment, what effect did it have upon them? Note 4.
17.What instruction and encouragement did the faithful ones find in the Scriptures? .
18.In reviewing their position what did they find concerning the time? Note 5.
19.What did they learn in regard to the sanctuary and its cleansing? Note 6.
20.What did they see in the temple of God in heaven? .
21.What did they know must be contained in that ark?
22.As they by faith viewed the sacred ark with its holy law, how were they led to regard them?—With greater interest than ever before.
23.What conclusion did they reach respecting the law of God?—That it is unchangeable in its nature, and reads, and, therefore, requires, the same now as it did when spoken on Sinai and placed in the ark.
24.In what embarrassing position did they find themselves?—Working on the Lord's Sabbath, and keeping another day.
25.What did this lead them to do?—To study the Sabbath question with deep interest, in order to learn how this change was effected.

Notes

1. Our High Priest ministers in both apartments of the temple in heaven. He is also said to open and shut a door in connection with His work. Hence we are led to conclude that these acts represent the change in His position from one apartment to the other. The close of His work in the holy place would be fitly illustrated by His shutting the door or entrance into it, and the commencement of His work in the most holy place would be forcibly represented by His opening the door into that apartment; and in so doing He places before His people an open door which no man can shut. This enables them to look by faith through that open door and see their great High Priest ministering before the ark in the temple of God. . We know by the type that the ark contains the holy law of God without one jot or tittle changed.

2. The Philadelphia church had this open door placed before them. . This was the church that received the Advent message up to the autumn of 1844. They came right to the close of the great prophetic period in 1844, and there and then Christ placed before them an open door which reveals the ark of the testament to those who search to know the truth.

3. The Advent people in 1844 thought that the earth was the sanctuary, and that the cleansing of the sanctuary was the purification of the earth by fire at the second coming of Christ, preparatory to its becoming the home of the redeemed. Hence they believed that the 2300 days reached to the second coming of Christ and the judgment, events which they supposed coincided in point of time.

4. Their bitter disappointment caused those who had a genuine Christian experience to study the Scriptures more carefully and prayerfully than ever before.

5. In reviewing their position, they found there was no mistake in regard to the time, and therefore they began to study the other part of the text, which says, "Then shall the sanctuary be cleansed." Some, however, thought the trouble was in the computation of the time, and they endeavored to readjust the prophetic periods; and this has led to all the time setting since 1844.

6. Those who carefully studied the subject of the sanctuary with a desire to know the truth, learned the facts that are being brought out in these lessons.

Bible texts in this lesson

Revelation 3:7 · Revelation 3:8 · Revelation 11:19 · Hebrews 9:3 · Hebrews 9:4 · Revelation 11:15 · Revelation 10:7 · Daniel 8:14 · Hebrews 10:32-39

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