Welcome back to In
Search of the Truth.
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I'm Karen Byrd.
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The camping industry has
grown to be quite impressive.
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If you didn't know
this then chances are
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you haven't been to Cabela's.
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They only have 12 Retail
stores across the country
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but those things are
the size of a shopping mall!
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You can actually go
fishing, rock climbing or
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do some target
practice in the store!
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Some people wonder why
anyone would want to go camping.
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Camping means no
mattress, no bathroom,
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no refrigerator,
and no microwave.
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But you can't experience the
close association with friends,
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the stunning vistas,
or the fellowship around
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the evening campfire quite like
you can when you're camping.
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You just feel more
alive in the early morning,
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whether you're camping
near civilization where you
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can do fishing or
boating, or whether you are
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roughing it along
the less traveled trails
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where wild animals
still chance upon your path.
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Though one enjoys his time
in the great out of doors, even
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the most avid camper is usually
very happy to get back home.
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Camping is great for a
weekend or even a week or two
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but then one longs for
the comfortable kitchen,
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the softer chair, the plush
carpet and the warm shower.
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How would you like to go camping
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with millions of
people for over a year?
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Today Charles is taking
us to the place where God
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actually went camping
with over 2 million people.
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Not for a week or even a month.
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He will be taking us to a
place where God camped out
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for more than a year.
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From this Mountain
in the Sinai peninsula
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God actually spoke in the
hearing of all the people.
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He even developed a dramatic
play that went on daily.
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This dramatic illustration
not only opened to the people
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His plan for their salvation but
predicted what His plans were
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for those living
in the 21st century.
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Over the next two
programs you can join Charles
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in the same search for the truth
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traveled by this former
nation of slaves as they went
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camping with God.
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Some three thousand
five hundred years ago,
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far away in the land of Egypt,
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about 2 million slaves
were preparing to leave.
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The God of creation had
convinced the reluctant Pharaoh
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to "let His people go. "
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God led them out through
the most inhospitable terrain
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and provided
wonderfully for them.
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He provided water from
rocks and food from the skies.
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A pillar of cloud led
them by day keeping them cool.
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And this pillar changed
to a pillar of fire by night
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providing the
light and I assume warmth
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on those cold desert nights.
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Finally God brought them
to Mt. Sinai where He purposed
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to educate this large group
of people about His character,
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about His plan for
their complete salvation.
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To help them understand
things that they could not see,
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to comprehend things
of an eternal nature,
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he created a living illustration
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in the giant sand
box of the desert.
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God gave to Moses full
instructions for constructing
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a building called the sanctuary,
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which would serve as a
dwelling place for God.
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This sanctuary and its
services were to demonstrate
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the plan of salvation to
this former nation of slaves.
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One thousand years later, an
angel told the prophet Daniel
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that the date for the
judgment to begin in heaven
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was revealed in
the sanctuary service.
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Further, the book
of Revelation reveals
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that God's end-time people
will announce to the world
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that the heavenly
judgment has begun.
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All these points will become
clear as you continue your study
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of the three angels'
messages of Revelation 14:6-14.
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Today we're going to
go back to the desert
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and explore the sanctuary
and discover its meaning,
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not just for
the sons of Abraham,
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but also for our lives today.
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Moses spent 40 days and
nights on the mountain with God.
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While there God asked
Moses to have the people
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"Make me a sanctuary;
that I may dwell among them. "
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Imagine it, the
God of the universe
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wanting to tabernacle, to go
camping with us human beings.
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The sanctuary was an
elegant, tent-type structure
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15' x 45' based
on an 18 inch cubit
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where the
supernatural presence of God
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dwelt and special
services were conducted.
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The walls were made
of upright acacia boards.
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On our recent trip
through the desert of Sinai
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we found acacia trees
still growing in the desert.
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These boards were to
be overlaid in pure gold
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and set up in sockets of silver.
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The roof was made of
four layers of coverings:
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linen, goat's hair,
ram's skin, and badger skin.
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It had two rooms: the holy
place and the most holy place.
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A thick, heavy veil or
curtain separated the two rooms.
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The courtyard area around
the sanctuary was 75' x 150'.
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It was fenced with
fine linen cloth supported
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by 60 pillars of brass.
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And what did God
expect His people to learn
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from the sanctuary?
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The same things
that we can learn.
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We can learn about Him,
His plans and the way He works
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in the affairs of men.
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Psalms 77:13 tells us,
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"Thy way, O God,
is in the sanctuary:
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And who is so
great a God as our God?"
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God's way, His plan
of salvation, is revealed
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in the earthly sanctuary.
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Even future events of
judgment are prophesied
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in the types and
services the Israelites
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were invited to participate in.
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In fact, did you know that the
Bible teaches that everything
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in the sanctuary or connected
with its services was a symbol
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of something Jesus
would do in saving us?
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This means that we cannot fully
comprehend the plan of salvation
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until we
understand the symbolism
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connected with the sanctuary.
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It was important to
God that mankind would get
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the correct picture of who
He is and what His plans are
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so he admonished Moses,
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"See... that thou make all
things according to the pattern
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showed to thee in the mount. "
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The sanctuary blueprints
and the full specifications
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for its construction
were given to Moses by God.
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And here is an interesting
point that we should not miss.
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The sanctuary on earth was a
copy of the sanctuary in heaven.
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Jesus acts as the High Priest in
that sanctuary as our minister.
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"We have such an high
priest," Paul tells us,
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"who is set on the right hand
of the throne of the Majesty
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in the heavens; a
minister of the sanctuary,
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of the true tabernacle, which
the Lord pitched, and not man. "
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All this serves as "[an] example
and shadow of heavenly things. "
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Remember, Moses'
desert sanctuary was a copy
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of the original
sanctuary in heaven.
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Let's take a tour of
this ancient structure
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and see if there are
any lessons for us today.
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As you enter the
courtyard of the sanctuary,
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the first thing you would see
is the altar of burnt offerings
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where animals were sacrificed.
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This altar represented
Jesus, the ultimate sacrifice.
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Next you'd find the
laver, located between the altar
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and the entrance
of the sanctuary.
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This large
washbasin was made of brass.
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Here, priests
washed their hands and feet
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before offering a sacrifice
or entering the sanctuary.
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The water represented cleansing
from sin, or the new birth.
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Leaving the temple courtyard
we next visit the holy place.
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What furniture
would you find there?
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First, on the right you'd
find the table of shewbread.
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This represents
Jesus, the living bread.
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On the left you'd
see the seven-branch
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candlestick or menorah.
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This oil lamp was
kept burning night and day
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and represents Jesus,
the light of the world.
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The Oil represented the
Holy Spirit that Jesus sends
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to all those who believe in Him
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and receive the gift of
repentance and are baptized.
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Last, you'd find the altar
of incense standing just before
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the curtain separating the
holy place from the most holy.
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The altar represented
the prayers of God's people
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and the work of our High Priest,
Jesus, in praying for us.
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The only piece of
furniture in the most Holy Place
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is the Ark of the Covenant.
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This box, or chest
also made of acacia wood
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and overlaid with
gold was the center
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of this whole symbolic
training tool in the wilderness.
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Symbolized here, on top of the
chest and between the two angels
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was his throne in Heaven.
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What work is Jesus
doing for us beyond the veil?
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Let's look into the
most holy place and see.
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There are two things that
we should notice about this box
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in the most holy
of the sanctuary.
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First we should notice
what was inside the ark.
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Do you know what was in
it? The Ten Suggestions.
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That is what some
people try to make of them.
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No, it was the Ten
Commandments, which God wrote
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with His own
finger on tables of stone
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which His people
will always obey.
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This is the law that is
as enduring as God himself
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for it is His own character!
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That law cannot be
changed and the penalty
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for breaking the law is death.
BUT look closer at the box.
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The top of the ark where
the angels surround the Shekinah
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or the glory of
God's own presence
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is called the mercy seat.
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Mercy would be extended
to them through the blood
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which was sprinkled on
the mercy seat by the priest.
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The blood of the
animal represents Jesus' blood
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that was shed for us to
bring us forgiveness of sin.
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Most regular readers of God's
word already know that Jesus
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is our only hope of
getting out of this world of sin
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and being citizens of
the colossal city in space
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that He is preparing
for those who love Him.
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But why did animals
need to be sacrificed
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in the Old
Testament sanctuary services?
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We can begin to
understand what the reason is
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by reading from
Paul's letter to the Hebrews.
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"And almost all things are
by the law purged with blood;
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and without the shedding
of blood is no remission. "
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The sacrificing of
animals was necessary to help
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people understand that without
the shedding of Jesus' blood,
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their sins would
never be forgiven.
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The ugly, shocking truth
is that the punishment for sin
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is eternal death.
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Since all of us have
sinned, all of us should die.
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When Adam and Eve sinned,
they would have died at once
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if Jesus had not
stepped forward and offered
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to give His
perfect life as a sacrifice
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to pay the death
penalty for all people.
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That's what Jesus was
telling us when he said,
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"... this is my
blood of the new testament,
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which is shed for many
for the remission of sins. "
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After sin, God
required the sinner
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to bring an animal sacrifice.
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The sinner was to kill
the animal with his own hand.
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It was a bloody
and disturbing thing.
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And it indelibly impressed
the sinner with the solemn
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reality of sin's awful
consequences - eternal death
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and the desperate need of
a Savior and a substitute.
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Without a Savior, no one
had any hope for salvation.
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The sacrificial system taught,
through the symbol of the slain
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animal, that God would give
His Son to die for their sins.
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That's why John
the Baptist cried out,
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"Behold the lamb of God,
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which taketh away
the sin of the world. "
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How were the animals sacrificed
in the sanctuary service?
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God's directions
read like this...
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"And he shall put his hand upon
the head of the burnt offering;
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and it shall be accepted for
him to make atonement for him. "
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"And he shall kill it
on the side of the altar
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northward before the LORD:
and the priests, Aaron's sons,
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shall sprinkle his blood
round about upon the altar. "
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When the sinner
brought a sacrificial animal
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to the entrance of the
courtyard, a priest joined him.
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The sinner then laid his
hands on the animal's head
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and confessed his sins.
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They symbolized
the transfer of the sin
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from the sinner to the animal.
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At that point, the
sinner was considered innocent
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and the animal guilty.
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Since the animal was
now symbolically guilty,
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it had to pay the
sins' wage - death.
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The priest then handed
him a knife and a basin
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and the sinner was required
to take the innocent life
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of the animal with his own hand.
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Each sinner was
thus graphically taught
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that sin caused the
innocent animal's death
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and that his sin would cause
the death of innocent Jesus.
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While there were
regular sacrifices
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from individual sinners,
there was another sacrifice
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that happened in
this symbolic theatre.
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Sometimes the
priest offered a sacrifice
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for the whole congregation.
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What animal was it and what did
the priest do with the blood?
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We can read about it
in Leviticus 4:16-17.
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"And the priest that
is anointed shall bring
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of the bullock's blood to the
tabernacle of the congregation:
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And the priest shall dip
his finger in some of the blood,
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and sprinkle it seven
times before the LORD,
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even before the veil. "
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When a sacrifice
was offered for the sins
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of the entire congregation the
blood was taken by the priest,
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who represented Jesus
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into the sanctuary and
sprinkled before the veil
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which separated the two rooms.
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The presence of God dwelt
on the other side of the veil.
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Thus, the sins of the people
were removed and symbolically
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transferred to the sanctuary.
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This ministry of
the blood by the priest
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foreshadowed Jesus' present
blood-ministry for us in heaven.
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After Jesus died on the
cross as our sacrifice for sin,
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He arose and went to heaven as
our Priest to present His blood
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in the heavenly sanctuary
as the atoning sacrifice.
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The blood ministered
by the earthly priest
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represents Jesus
applying His blood
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to our record of sins
in the sanctuary above,
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showing that they are forgiven
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when we confess
them in His name.
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But if the sins of the
people are symbolically taken
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into the sanctuary over
and over during the year
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it seems that symbolically they
would begin to pile up there.
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What happens to them?
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The Prophet Daniel
piques our interest
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with this prophetic insight
regarding all those sins.
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"And he said unto me, Unto two
thousand and three hundred days;
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then shall the
sanctuary be cleansed. "
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Daniel was talking
about a literal cleansing
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in the heavenly sanctuary.
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Can we understand
what he was saying
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by looking at the symbolic
sanctuary in the wilderness?
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I believe we can.
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Once a year there was
a most solemn ceremony.
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You can read about it in
Leviticus 23 verses 27-28.
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"And on the tenth
day of this seventh month
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there shall be a
day of atonement:
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it shall be an holy
convocation unto you;
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and ye shall afflict your souls,
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...ye shall not do
any work in that same day:
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for it is a day of atonement,
to make an atonement for you
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before the LORD your God. "
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Once each year, on
the Day of Atonement,
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a solemn Day of
Judgment took place in Israel.
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All were to confess every sin.
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Those who refused were
that very day cut off forever
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from the camp of Israel.
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Then two goats were selected:
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One, the Lord's goat;
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the other, the
scapegoat, representing Satan.
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The Lord's goat
was slain and offered
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for the sins of the people.
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But on this day the blood
was taken into the most holy
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and sprinkled upon
and before the mercy seat.
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Only on this
special judgment day
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did the high priest
enter the most holy place
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to meet God at the mercy seat.
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The sprinkled blood,
representing Jesus' sacrifice,
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was accepted by God, and
confessed sins of the people
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were transferred from the
sanctuary to the high priest.
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He then transferred these
confessed sins to the scapegoat,
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which was led
into the wilderness.
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In this manner the
sanctuary was cleansed
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of the sins of the people,
which had been transferred there
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by the blood
sprinkled before the veil
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and had been
accumulating for the year.
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God takes upon Himself
the penalty of our bad choices
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as illustrated
in the Lord's goat.
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But the scapegoat,
which represents Satan,
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bears the blame and
final punishment for the sins
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he has led men to commit.
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Remember we said that
we cannot fully comprehend
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the plan of salvation until
we understand the symbolism
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connected with the sanctuary?
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Then what part in the plan of
salvation are we to understand
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in the Day of Atonement?
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What does this
service foreshadow?
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The prophet Daniel saw in vision
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the cleansing of
the heavenly sanctuary.
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In Daniel 8:14 he
says, "And he said unto me,
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Unto two thousand
and three hundred days;
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then shall the
sanctuary be cleansed. "
00:18:38.60\00:18:41.87
Well we already know what
has made the sanctuary dirty.
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It is all the sins that have
been carried into the holy place
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symbolically by the
priests during the year.
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What does it take to
"cleanse" those sins away?
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Paul tells us in Hebrews 9:23,
"It was therefore necessary
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that the patterns of
the things in the heavens
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should be purified with these. "
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The pattern was the
sanctuary in the wilderness.
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That pattern
used the Lord's Goat
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to symbolically
cleanse the sanctuary.
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Paul finishes, "but the
heavenly things themselves
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with better
sacrifices than these. "
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The Day of Atonement service
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pointed to the blotting out
of sin by the real High Priest
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in the heavenly sanctuary.
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Through His
blood applied to those
00:19:29.84\00:19:31.75
written in the book of
life, Christ would confirm
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the decisions of His
people to serve Him eternally.
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This special judgment
day, like Israel's Yom Kippur,
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foreshadowed the final atonement
to be made for planet Earth.
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From the yearly type of
the ancient Day of Atonement,
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all of humanity is assured that
our faithful High Priest, Jesus,
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still mediates in
heaven for His people
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and stands ready to
blot out all the sins
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of all who exercise
faith in His shed blood.
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The final atonement leads to the
final judgment, which settles
00:20:04.49\00:20:08.35
the sin question in the
life of every individual,
00:20:08.38\00:20:12.33
culminating in either
eternal life or death.
00:20:12.36\00:20:16.06
The next time we are
together we're going to look
00:20:16.10\00:20:18.01
at the judgment in great detail.
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After all, if we are
going to be judged by the God
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of the universe
we might as well know
00:20:22.81\00:20:24.97
when that judgment
is going to take place,
00:20:25.01\00:20:27.36
and what the standard is by
which we are going to be judged
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so there are no surprises.
00:20:31.12\00:20:33.78
Not long ago I
stood on the desert floor
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looking up at Mt. Sinai.
00:20:36.78\00:20:39.12
Perhaps it was
on this very summit
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that God talked with Moses
and gave him the blueprints
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for the tabernacle, the
tent from which God was planning
00:20:44.73\00:20:48.19
to teach the people
about His plans for them.
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It might have been
in the valleys below
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this desolate windswept summit
00:20:54.27\00:20:56.74
that the people worked
together to make God's tent,
00:20:56.78\00:20:59.50
the tent in which He
would be camping with them
00:20:59.53\00:21:02.22
in their 40 years
of desert wanderings.
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What a fantastic God we have
to want to tabernacle with us.
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What a personal God who wants us
to know Him on a personal level.
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To understand what
He did to redeem us
00:21:14.89\00:21:17.87
from the poor
choices that we've made.
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Just imagine being
one of the privileged ones
00:21:20.85\00:21:23.26
who saw the mountain lit
up with the Glory of God,
00:21:23.30\00:21:26.63
being able to hear
His voice as He shared
00:21:26.66\00:21:28.96
with mankind the
Ten Commandments.
00:21:28.99\00:21:33.49
Here in this austere wasteland
of the Sinai peninsula,
00:21:33.53\00:21:38.35
with nothing to distract
the mind from the majestic view
00:21:38.38\00:21:41.72
of the mountain enshrouded
with the glory of the Savior,
00:21:41.75\00:21:45.48
history records that God
began to reveal to a nation
00:21:45.51\00:21:49.23
of ignorant
slaves and to the world
00:21:49.26\00:21:52.30
His plan for the
redemption of lost mankind.
00:21:52.34\00:21:57.30
We need not offer a Lamb today
since Jesus is the Lamb of God
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that takes away
the sins of the world,
00:22:01.40\00:22:03.52
but we would be wise to
open our Bibles for ourselves
00:22:03.56\00:22:08.36
and begin to read
and learn about His plan
00:22:08.39\00:22:11.76
to save us and our
families from eternal ruin.
00:22:11.79\00:22:15.03
You may never get to
stand on the mountain of God
00:22:15.07\00:22:18.28
in the desert of
Sinai, but someday,
00:22:18.31\00:22:21.19
if you choose to
accept Jesus as your savior,
00:22:21.23\00:22:23.96
if you trust Him each day
to live in you, to will in you,
00:22:24.00\00:22:27.49
to do in you His good pleasure,
00:22:27.52\00:22:30.09
you will get to stand
on the mountain of God
00:22:30.13\00:22:32.72
with all those
who allow Him to write
00:22:32.75\00:22:35.52
His covenant
law in their hearts.
00:22:35.56\00:22:38.30
Someday you can stand with
the redeemed from all ages,
00:22:38.89\00:22:42.18
not seeing Him in a
cloud on a mountain,
00:22:42.21\00:22:44.67
or in a tent full of
symbolism on the valley floor,
00:22:44.71\00:22:48.10
but you can see
Him face to face.
00:22:48.13\00:22:50.83
No doubt, camping
with God personally
00:22:50.86\00:22:53.53
would be a radical experience.
00:22:53.56\00:22:55.95
But how could that many
people survive in the desert?
00:22:55.99\00:22:59.51
According to the
story in the book of Exodus
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God provided them with
food and water each day.
00:23:01.47\00:23:04.40
The army is familiar
with this type of logistics
00:23:04.43\00:23:07.35
and according to the
Quartermaster General,
00:23:07.38\00:23:09.78
it is reported that
Moses would have to have
00:23:09.81\00:23:12.18
1,500 tons of food each day.
00:23:12.21\00:23:16.34
Logistics would
require two freight trains
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each a mile long, to
supply that much food.
00:23:19.50\00:23:22.54
The water needed would pose an
even larger procurement issue!
00:23:22.58\00:23:26.34
If they only had enough to
drink and wash a few dishes,
00:23:26.37\00:23:29.36
it would take
11,000,000 gallons each day.
00:23:29.39\00:23:32.95
To transport that
amount of water would require
00:23:32.99\00:23:35.78
another freight train
with tank cars stretched out
00:23:35.81\00:23:38.57
for 3 miles, each and every day.
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The same God who looked
after the physical needs
00:23:43.09\00:23:45.86
of those desert travelers
00:23:45.89\00:23:47.59
was even more interested
in their spiritual needs.
00:23:47.63\00:23:51.35
And that same God is
also deeply interested in you.
00:23:51.39\00:23:55.08
Would you like to learn more
00:23:55.11\00:23:56.40
about this giant
sandbox illustration
00:23:56.44\00:23:58.70
called the Tabernacle?
00:23:58.73\00:24:00.82
You can with our
free Bible Study guide.
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I hope you'll
request yours today.
00:24:04.04\00:24:06.31
Here is the
information you will need.
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God drew the plans
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To access this
powerful resource, go to:
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www. amazingfacts. org
00:24:16.14\00:24:19.30
Simply select
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From there you can order the
entire set of these study guides
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or you can look and listen
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You can even enroll in the
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00:24:33.83\00:24:36.61
Again, this study guide is
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world at: www.amazingfacts.org
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The same God who has
the power to create life
00:24:47.03\00:24:49.62
has the power to sustain life.
00:24:49.63\00:24:52.32
And the same God that has
the power to give and sustain
00:24:52.36\00:24:55.16
physical life has the power to
help us understand eternal life.
00:24:55.20\00:25:00.84
What an experience!
00:25:00.87\00:25:03.08
In our next program
our search for the truth
00:25:03.12\00:25:05.28
will take us into
the most holy place
00:25:05.31\00:25:07.92
of the sanctuary on
the Day of Atonement.
00:25:07.96\00:25:10.99
This service was a
type of God's Judgment.
00:25:11.02\00:25:13.92
Might God's
prophecies actually predict
00:25:13.95\00:25:16.82
the day that judgment begins?
00:25:16.85\00:25:19.28
In our next broadcast entitled,
"A Date with the Judge"
00:25:19.31\00:25:23.37
we'll explore God's
three phase judgment process
00:25:23.40\00:25:27.03
and how you can be
ready for that promised event.
00:25:27.06\00:25:30.93
Join us next time as we
go in search of the truth.
00:25:30.96\00:25:34.82