Good morning, friends,
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and welcome to
Sabbath School Study Hour
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here at the Granite Bay Church.
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Thank you for being a
part of our study time
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together this morning.
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Now over the past few weeks,
we've been studying through
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a new lesson quarterly entitled
Preparing for the End Times,
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just a great series of lessons.
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And today, we're
on lesson number 5,
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which is entitled
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"Christ in the
Heavenly Sanctuary,"
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so that's going to be
our study for this morning.
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Before we get to
our lesson, however,
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I'd like to let
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Now it's going to
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We have a digital
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dealing with this subject
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called the
Cleansing of the Temples.
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Well, before we get to
our study time this morning,
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as we normally like to do,
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we like to begin our program
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by lifting our voices in song.
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Thank you so much
for singing with us.
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And at this time, Pastor Ross
will have our opening prayer.
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Dear Father in heaven, again,
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we thank You for the opportunity
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to gather together
and open up your Word
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and study this
very important subject,
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talking about Jesus
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and His high priestly ministry
in the heavenly sanctuary,
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please be with us.
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Guard our thoughts, our hearts,
and help us to see the work
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Jesus is doing for us
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and the work He
wants to do in us.
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Thank you, Lord, for
Your promise to be with us.
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In Jesus name, amen.
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Our lesson today is going to
be brought to us by Pastor Doug.
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Morning,
everybody. Good morning.
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And we're glad to
see every one of you
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here at the Granite Bay Church.
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I want to welcome
those who are watching
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our Sabbath School Study Hour.
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And as Pastor Ross
mentioned, we are continuing on
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through our lesson
dealing with preparation
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for the end time.
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That's pretty
appropriate, don't you think?
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I heard in the news yesterday
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that missiles had been
fired in the Middle East.
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But I don't let that shake me.
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The Bible says there will be
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wars and rumors of
wars until the end.
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The important
thing is not so much
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what's
happening in the headlines
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but what's happening your heart.
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That's how we get
prepared for what's coming.
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So our lesson today is
dealing with a very important
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and often neglected
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and misunderstood
subject about the sanctuary,
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and in particular,
talking about Christ
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in the Heavenly Sanctuary.
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It's lesson number 5,
and we have memory verse.
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And the memory verse is
from Philippians 2:9, 10.
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I'll be reading it from
the New King James Version,
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Philippians 2: 9, 10.
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Are you ready? I'd
like you to say it with me.
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Here we go.
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"Therefore God
has highly exalted Him
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and given Him a name
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which is above every name,
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that at the name of
Jesus every knee should bow,
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of those in
heaven, and those on earth,
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and those under the earth,"
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heaven above, on the
earth, under the earth,
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who are those under the earth?
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It's talking about the...
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It's sort of a poetic
language, talking about...
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even the devil and his
forces will someday bow.
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Now I don't know
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how I can possibly overstate
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the importance of understanding
the subject of the sanctuary
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because it is woven in the
warp and woof of all the Bible.
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It appears there in
the beginning, in Genesis,
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if not there,
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Exodus all the
way to Revelation.
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Just to give you
a little score here.
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The word "temple" is
found 378 times in the Bible.
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The word "sanctuary" 165 times,
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the word "tabernacle" 333 times,
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and sometimes
various sundry places
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it'll say "my house"
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adding up to about
928 times in the Bible,
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the sanctuary is referenced,
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that's more than
the name of Jesus.
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And so this is a
very important subject.
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Now there are
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important
characters in the Bible.
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You can talk about Moses,
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and he's a great
character in the Bible.
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You can talk about
Abraham, talk about Jesus,
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talk about David,
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but there's a great
building in the Bible,
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when we think
about personalities,
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we can learn so
much from the people,
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but you can actually
learn something from a place.
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It's a building that teaches us.
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Now the reason
this is so important
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is 'cause
Christ compares himself
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with the building,
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He integrates
himself with the building.
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I'm going to give you a
number of verses to look at.
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And a matter of
fact, I'll be surprised
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if we get
through all our verses,
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I should probably pause
here and remind our friends,
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I want to welcome
those who are watching online
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and satellite, but
if you have questions,
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if you're watching
either online, satellite,
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you can text us or
Facebook us questions.
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Last third of the lesson
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we usually take
two or three questions
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that come in and
that are on the lesson.
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I'm going to cover
a lot of scriptures.
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Psalm 77:13,
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"Your way, O God,
is in the sanctuary."
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The way of God, the will of God,
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the way He saves us,
it's in the sanctuary.
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And maybe before
I go any farther,
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I should just give you
a little visual picture.
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When the children of
Israel came out of Egypt
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and they went
through the Red Sea,
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God did not say,
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"Okay, we're
going to make a beeline
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to the Promised Land,"
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instead they headed south.
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And He took them to Mount Sinai
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and gave them
the Ten Commandments.
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But while he
was on the mountain,
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he also received
the ceremonial law
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and basically,
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they had a whole new
economy that was begun.
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They had a new calendar
that began with the Passover.
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And He said, "You're
going to build a place,
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a temple for Me."
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The later temples
that were built...
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The first one was portables,
it was very ingenious.
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The other ones built by Solomon,
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subsequently by the
time of Ezra and Nehemiah,
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and it was
refurbished by Herod the Great,
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that was the third temple.
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So they were like these
three earthly tabernacles.
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They all followed basically
the same principle design.
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You entered,
there's a main door,
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and there was an
altar in the courtyard,
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place of sacrifice, one door in.
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Then beyond that,
there was a lever,
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big basins where hands and feet
of the priests could be washed
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and other
things could be washed.
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Then from
there, you entered into
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what they called the Holy Place,
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which was a sacred room
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that only the
priests could enter into,
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the sons of Aaron.
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The Levites would do
ministry in the courtyard,
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but only the sons of
Aaron served as priests.
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And in there you had
three articles of furniture.
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You had a table
with bread on it,
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you had a
candlestick, seven lamp stands.
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We talk about menorah today,
but they had that back then.
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And you have an
altar of incense.
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It was a little altar
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where they would put incense on.
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Then there was the final room
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which was what you would call
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the Holy of Holies
or the inner sanctum
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and it's where there was
one article of furniture,
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it was the national treasure,
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and inside the national treasure
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was the Word of God.
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It was a golden box,
sometimes called an ark,
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the word ark
just means container.
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Noah built an ark.
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Jochebed, Moses's
mother, built an ark.
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She put her baby in
it, and it's a container.
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And this container,
this golden container,
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everybody would love to
find the golden container.
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But the important
thing was the rocks inside
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that had the Word
of God written on them,
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the law of God, the Word of God,
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the rock upon which
the government was built.
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It was the
constitution of Israel.
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It was holy.
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It was something that was sacred
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because God's finger etched it,
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God's mouth spoke those words,
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and so it
represented the presence of God.
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Above the ark, they called
it the mercy seat, two angels.
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And between the two angels
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looking down
towards the Word of God,
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there sometimes
His glory would appear
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and this Shekinah glory
would shine out of there,
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and it represented
the presence of God.
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Moses would often
walk into the sanctuary
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to commune with God
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and He would speak
with this Shekinah glory
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that was there
above the mercy seat
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in the Holy of Holies.
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Moses, a type of high
priest, he could go in,
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is also a type of Christ, okay.
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There's a
picture of the sanctuary.
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So first thing, if
you want to be forgiven,
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the sanctuary
represents the presence of God.
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They were told to
pray towards that place
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if they were carried away.
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So Daniel prayed
towards that place,
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it represented
the presence of God,
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the earthly
sanctuary was a model,
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a miniature model,
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of a very real
dwelling place of God in heaven.
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Now it's an imperfect model,
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and each time they
built the sanctuary,
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they tried to make
it a little better.
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The Temple of Solomon was
the most beautiful of all,
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it was a lot more elaborate
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than the wilderness
portable sanctuary they have.
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But they all represented
the dwelling place of God.
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On earth, there were
golden angels above the ark,
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in Heaven, God does not have
golden angels by His throne,
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He's got real ones.
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On earth, they had wallpaper
with angels engraved in it,
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in heaven, there is not
a wallpaper golden angels,
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they have a
living wall of angels,
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ten thousand times ten thousand
and thousands of the thousands
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ministering spirits
that God has created,
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the angels.
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And on the veil
between the holy place
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and the most holy place,
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there were angels
woven into the fabric.
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God does not have a curtain
hanging in heaven somewhere,
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he's probably
got a wall of angels.
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And so the things
about the heavenly sanctuary
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are going to be
a little different.
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But notice really
quick, you walk in,
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you're separated
from God on the outside,
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the whole idea of the
sanctuary is to approach God.
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Do you notice
it's a straight line?
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You walk through the
door, you got the altar of fire,
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you got the altar
of water, you walk in,
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and then there's
a door beyond that,
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you get the Holy of Holies,
you're trying to get to God.
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There's three rooms,
there's three phases.
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You are
justified in the courtyard,
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you're sanctified
in the holy place,
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and if you get to
the presence of God,
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you are glorified,
that's glorification.
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The children of
Israel went through
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three stages in salvation.
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They were justified
by the lamb in Egypt,
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they were
sanctified in the wilderness,
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they finally
received the promise
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when they're
glorified in the Promised Land.
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How many doors were
there into the sanctuary?
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One door.
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How many doors does
Jesus say there are?
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One door. Who does
Jesus say is the door?
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He says, "I'm the door.
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If anyone tries
to go over the wall,
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he's a thief and a
robber," there's one door,
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there's one way.
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People, "Oh, there's many rivers
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that lead to the ocean."
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It doesn't
matter what you believe.
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There is one way,
there is no other name
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given among men
whereby we must be saved.
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He is the door.
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Then you walk to the altar.
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And that's a symbol of the cross
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where Christ suffered for us,
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and He was offered for us,
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and they put a
lamb on the altar there,
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the lambs were slain
by the side of the altar.
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Who is the lamb? Jesus.
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And then the lamb's blood
was offered by the priest.
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Who is the priest?
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Jesus. Jesus.
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And then you went to the water.
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Who is the living water?
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Jesus. Jesus.
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And then you went
into the holy place
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and you got a stack of bread.
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Who is the bread of life?
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Jesus. Jesus.
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And then on the other side
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you got a candle
stick with light.
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Who is the light of the world?
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Jesus. Jesus.
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And then you have
the altar of incense,
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and it tells us in Revelation
00:14:41.34\00:14:42.68
that the prayers of
the saints ascended,
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in whose name do we pray?
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Jesus Jesus.
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Then you go into
the Holy of Holies
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and it's this ark that
contains the Word of God.
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When did God come to earth
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where His Word was
contained in a person?
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Jesus. It's Jesus.
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Who is the rock? It's Jesus.
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The whole sanctuary
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is telling us
something about Jesus.
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Now I'm just giving you
the fifth grade level here.
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I'm just doing a quick flyover,
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it is much, much
deeper than that,
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but I don't have
time to go into it.
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So you can see how
this building is telling us
00:15:14.68\00:15:17.41
not only about how we're
saved, but it's all talking,
00:15:17.41\00:15:19.81
it's telling us
something about Christ.
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I want to just give
you a few scriptures
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that illustrate
how much the Bible
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has to say about the
sanctuary, and it's just a few.
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In a moment, someone's going
to read for me Psalm 63, okay.
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Isaiah 6, the
vision, conversion of Isaiah.
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How does it happen?
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Isaiah 6:1, "In the
year that King Uzziah died,
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I saw the Lord
sitting on a throne,
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high and lifted up,
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and the train of His
robe filled the temple."
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What's the Lord
sitting on? His throne.
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Where is it? In the temple.
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"Above it stood seraphim,
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each one had six wings:
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with two he covered his face,
with two he covered his feet,
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and with two he flew.
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And one cried to another."
So how many seraphim are there?
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Two.
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It's like the
cherubs by the throne of God.
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"Holy, holy, holy
is the Lord of hosts."
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It's one for the
Father Son and Spirit.
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"The whole earth
is full of His glory!
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And the posts of the
door," these pillars,
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there are two great pillars
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when you entered
Solomon's sanctuary,
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they even named them.
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I just know one
that's called Boaz,
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I forgot what the
name of the other one was.
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Jachin. Jachin.
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And you remember what they mean,
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Boaz means strength,
what does Jachin mean?
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I forgot.
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I'm getting old, I
forget some of these things.
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Anyway, there
are two big pillars,
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bronze pillars.
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And so here Isaiah's vision
is the heavenly sanctuary.
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Go to Daniel 8, an
important verse for us.
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Read in verse 11.
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"He even exalted himself,"
speaking of the beast power.
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"He exalted himself as
high as the Prince of the host,
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and by him the daily
sacrifices were taken away,
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the place of His
sanctuary cast down."
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So what does the
devil want to do?
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Cast down the sanctuary.
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You go to verse 14, "He said,
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'Two thousand
three hundred days,
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the sanctuary
will be cleansed.'"
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There will be a restoration.
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So there's a battle
going on about this sanctuary.
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Go ahead, please
read for us Psalm 63.
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"So I have looked
for You in the sanctuary
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to see Your
power and Your glory."
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If you want to see the
power and the glory of God,
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David said, "It can be
found in the sanctuary."
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Look at Ezekiel 10,
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and I should probably tell you
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if you want to read
about the sanctuary in Ezekiel,
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you may as well
read the whole book
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because you find
the word 47 times.
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Ezekiel 10, you
can read all of them,
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read verse 3 here.
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"Now the cherubim were standing
on the south side of the temple
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when the man
went in," this angel
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"and the cloud
filled the inner court."
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That happens in
the Book of Chronicles.
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"Then the glory of the
Lord went up from the cherub
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and paused over the
threshold of the temple;
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and the house was
filled with the cloud,
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and the court was
full of the brightness
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of the glory of God."
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And so you just see
that here these prophets,
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they're often talking
about these prophecies
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happening in the sanctuary.
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Look at Haggai 1:7,
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"Thus says the Lord of
hosts, 'Consider your ways!
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Go up to the
mountains, bring wood,
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and build the temple,
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that I might
take pleasure in it'"
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Haggai is the one who said,
00:18:15.42\00:18:16.93
if you want God
to bless your house,
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you need to build His house.
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Now that's always a good
thing for a pastor to say
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when you're in a
church building program.
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And it is true, but
it's bigger than that.
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If you want Him
to build your house,
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then we need to build
up His church, His work.
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It's not just
talking about the building,
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but it can be used that way.
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Revelation 1:12,
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"Then I turned to
see the voice of Him
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who spoke with me.
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And having turned, I
saw seven candlesticks."
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Where does that appear?
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First chapter of Revelation,
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the vision is
taking place where?
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Sanctuary.
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And you go a little
later in Revelation, it says,
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I saw the temple of God
open in heaven, I saw the ark.
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A little later in
Revelation, it says,
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I saw the altar of
incense, and under this altar,
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the saints are
praying and crying,
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and so you see the
furniture of the sanctuary
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all through Revelation.
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It's very hard to understand
some of these prophecies
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if you don't understand
00:19:09.08\00:19:10.51
the importance of the sanctuary.
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Quite a few of
the Bible prophets,
00:19:13.28\00:19:16.35
Daniel, Ezekiel,
00:19:16.35\00:19:18.15
Zechariah, Isaiah,
00:19:18.15\00:19:20.76
their visions are in some way
00:19:20.76\00:19:22.16
in the context of
the heavenly temple.
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Now let me give you
a quote from the book
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The Great Controversy.
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This is page 488.
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"The subject of the sanctuary
and the investigative judgment
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should be clearly
understood by the people of God.
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All need a
knowledge for themselves
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of the position and work
of their great High Priest."
00:19:39.74\00:19:42.44
That's what
we're studying today.
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"Otherwise it will
be impossible for them
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to exercise the faith
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which is essential at this time
00:19:48.62\00:19:51.05
or to occupy the position
that God designs them to fill."
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That's pretty serious.
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Now why is that important?
00:19:56.59\00:19:58.13
There is a false
teaching that goes around,
00:19:58.13\00:20:00.96
it's called once
saved, always saved.
00:20:00.96\00:20:03.60
And it places great emphasis,
00:20:03.60\00:20:05.63
and it's appropriate
to place great emphasis
00:20:05.63\00:20:07.87
on the work of
Jesus as our lamb.
00:20:07.87\00:20:11.47
But if you stop there
with the work of Jesus
00:20:11.47\00:20:13.94
as our lamb,
00:20:13.94\00:20:15.44
then really it's
all justification
00:20:15.44\00:20:17.85
and you don't
understand sanctification
00:20:17.85\00:20:19.85
and glorification.
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Is Jesus' work for us over? No.
00:20:21.18\00:20:25.12
Matter of fact, He rested
in the tomb on the Sabbath,
00:20:25.12\00:20:27.52
He rose on the first
day to continue His work
00:20:27.52\00:20:30.33
at the right hand of the Father,
00:20:30.33\00:20:31.93
where He ever lives to
make intercession for us.
00:20:31.93\00:20:34.60
When you pray,
we plead the blood
00:20:34.60\00:20:37.20
that was
offered 2,000 years ago,
00:20:37.20\00:20:38.87
but we're
talking to a living God,
00:20:38.87\00:20:40.77
the Bible says,
through faith we boldly come
00:20:40.77\00:20:42.84
before His throne of grace,
where Jesus is entered for us,
00:20:42.84\00:20:45.74
He is our High Priest.
00:20:45.74\00:20:47.38
And so understanding
that He is still a living God,
00:20:47.38\00:20:50.35
He's very active
and He's involved,
00:20:50.35\00:20:52.85
and there's a work that He
is doing on our behalf in heaven
00:20:52.85\00:20:55.52
is very important
for the people of God.
00:20:55.52\00:20:58.19
If there's going
to be people in time
00:20:58.19\00:21:00.16
that are going to be mature
00:21:00.16\00:21:01.36
in
understanding the role of God,
00:21:01.36\00:21:04.13
this would be
that generation, right?
00:21:04.13\00:21:06.33
If not now, then when?
00:21:06.33\00:21:08.20
And so this is important.
00:21:08.20\00:21:11.13
So what is Christ doing
for us in the sanctuary?
00:21:11.13\00:21:13.90
That's what the
lesson is talking about.
00:21:13.90\00:21:15.80
And why is it important for us
to understand in the last days?
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Okay, we're going to...
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That was a long
introduction, sorry.
00:21:20.51\00:21:22.74
We're going to
the first section,
00:21:22.74\00:21:26.11
the supreme sacrifice,
00:21:26.11\00:21:28.35
talking about the
lamb that was offered.
00:21:28.35\00:21:31.02
Well, actually, the
importance of the lamb,
00:21:31.02\00:21:32.69
we get to the
lamb in just a moment.
00:21:32.69\00:21:34.82
Now look for
instance in Romans 8:3.
00:21:34.82\00:21:38.19
"For what the law could not do
00:21:38.19\00:21:39.89
in that it was
weak through the flesh,
00:21:39.89\00:21:41.93
God did by sending His own Son
00:21:41.93\00:21:45.63
in the likeness of sinful flesh,
00:21:45.63\00:21:47.97
on account of sin.
00:21:47.97\00:21:49.40
He condemned sin in the flesh,"
that's a very important verse,
00:21:49.40\00:21:53.21
talking about the incarnation.
00:21:53.21\00:21:55.24
When Jesus came,
00:21:55.24\00:21:56.48
did He come down
as a divine being?
00:21:56.48\00:21:59.68
Did He walk around glowing
00:21:59.68\00:22:01.32
or did He take on
the form of sinful flesh?
00:22:01.32\00:22:04.99
Doesn't mean He
sinned, but He took the body...
00:22:04.99\00:22:09.62
Was Adam taller than us?
00:22:09.62\00:22:12.73
And Eve? Yes.
00:22:12.73\00:22:14.56
And they lived longer. Yes.
00:22:14.56\00:22:16.50
More powerful.
00:22:16.50\00:22:18.63
Has something
happened to the human race
00:22:18.63\00:22:20.17
in the last 6,000 years?
00:22:20.17\00:22:23.37
Sin has degenerated the race.
00:22:23.37\00:22:26.68
We've got genetic problems
00:22:26.68\00:22:28.14
and our lives
have been shortened.
00:22:28.14\00:22:30.25
Did Jesus take the
form of a 20-foot tall Adam
00:22:30.25\00:22:33.65
when He came or
did He take the form
00:22:33.65\00:22:35.42
that had been
degenerated by sin?
00:22:35.42\00:22:38.65
That's right. He
took sinful flesh.
00:22:38.65\00:22:40.22
He didn't have sin, it
just means He took a body.
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How does the
Book of Matthew begin?
00:22:42.66\00:22:46.09
The generation of
Jesus Christ, right?
00:22:46.09\00:22:51.13
It goes through His family tree.
00:22:51.13\00:22:53.40
Why does it go
through His family tree?
00:22:53.40\00:22:55.97
It tells us about
all the different DNA
00:22:55.97\00:22:58.11
that ended up
coming into this body.
00:22:58.11\00:23:00.31
Yes, it is true, He was
conceived by the Holy Spirit,
00:23:00.31\00:23:02.71
but there was definitely
something human in Him.
00:23:02.71\00:23:06.11
He probably looked very
much like the people of His time
00:23:06.11\00:23:09.25
because He had some of that DNA.
00:23:09.25\00:23:11.55
So Jesus came as a human,
He condemned sin in the flesh
00:23:11.55\00:23:16.39
because while He
was in His flesh, He,
00:23:16.39\00:23:19.63
through the power of
the Father and the Spirit,
00:23:19.63\00:23:21.50
lived a holy life
00:23:21.50\00:23:23.83
as an example that
through the same power
00:23:23.83\00:23:26.30
we through trusting in
Him can be new creatures.
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Amen. Did that make sense?
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All right, read
in 1 Timothy 1:17,
00:23:31.94\00:23:36.01
"Now to the King eternal,
00:23:36.01\00:23:39.01
immortal, invisible,
to God alone who is wise."
00:23:39.01\00:23:44.05
And you read in 1
Timothy 6:16, speaking of God,
00:23:44.05\00:23:47.19
"Who alone has immortality."
00:23:47.19\00:23:49.79
So one of the things we learned
about Jesus was He created.
00:23:49.79\00:23:55.30
Remember, the Bible says,
"For God so loved the world
00:23:55.30\00:23:58.00
He gave His only begotten,"
00:23:58.00\00:23:59.17
begotten, that
means there was a time
00:23:59.17\00:24:00.94
when He was brought forth.
00:24:00.94\00:24:04.21
Was Jesus created?
00:24:04.21\00:24:05.94
Did God make a
creature to die for our sins?
00:24:05.94\00:24:10.18
If He's created,
then He's not the creator.
00:24:10.18\00:24:14.82
Jesus is immortal.
00:24:14.82\00:24:17.05
He's eternal, from
everlasting to everlasting,
00:24:17.05\00:24:19.42
He is the Alpha and Omega,
00:24:19.42\00:24:21.22
He's without
beginning and without end.
00:24:21.22\00:24:24.36
Christ is
everlasting. So I want you to...
00:24:24.36\00:24:26.90
This first part of the
lesson is trying to help us
00:24:26.90\00:24:28.80
grasp the magnitude
00:24:28.80\00:24:30.33
of what was
given in the sacrifice.
00:24:30.33\00:24:33.03
Almighty God gave
Himself in His Son.
00:24:33.03\00:24:37.21
And you can read
again 1 Corinthians 15:53.
00:24:37.21\00:24:40.34
When do we get immortality?
Are we immortal now?
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Every day I look in the
mirror, it's looking worse.
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And I'm reminded
that I'm not immortal.
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Something is
happening that isn't good.
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Hopefully, something good
is happening on the inside,
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but the outside, not so good.
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You know, when I
got my first gray hair,
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I plucked it out.
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Unfortunately, all of my
gray hair appeared on top,
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so see what happened?
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You can't fight it.
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Philippians 2:5,
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"Let this mind be in you,"
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and this explains
how he condescended
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and humbled Himself.
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Someone's going to
read for me John 2:19 later.
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"Let this mind be in you
which was also in Christ Jesus
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who being in the form of God,"
so prior to the incarnation,
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He is in the form of God,
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"did not consider it
robbery to be equal with God,"
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for Him to claim equality
with God is not stealing,
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it was appropriate,
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"but He made
himself of no reputation."
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He not only...
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he didn't say, well, yeah,
I'm closely related to God,
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He took no reputation,
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"taking the form
of a bondservant,"
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born in a stable,
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"and coming in
the likeness of men
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and being found in
appearance as a man,
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He humbled himself,"
laid aside his divinity,
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"and became obedient
to the point of death,"
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when He said,
"Father not my will,
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thy will be done,"
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He surrendered to the death,
even the death of the cross.
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And for this cause,
God's going to exalt him
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above every other name.
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All right, and then go ahead...
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Well, no, here
I'll read Luke 9:22,
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Jesus warned them about
his suffering several times.
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"He said, 'The Son of
Man must suffer many things
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and be rejected by the elders
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and the chief
priests and the scribes,
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and be killed, and be
raised the third day.'"
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So he came as a sacrifice.
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He knew that was
part of the plan.
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Go ahead and read for us John 2.
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"Jesus answered
and said to them,
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'Destroy this temple,
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and in three days
I will raise it up.'
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But He was speaking of
the temple of His body."
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All right, so here we've
got the connecting link in this,
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between Jesus and the temple.
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He said, you know,
Bible says, don't you know,
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your body is the
temple of the Holy Spirit?
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But Christ said, My
temple, My body is a temple too.
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The church is
the body of Christ.
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The Bible says that you
and I are living stones.
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Ephesians says we are build up
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into a holy house
that is inhabited by God.
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When Christ died, and
this is just so important,
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when Jesus died in 31 AD,
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and there was a
great earthquake,
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what happened in
the temple on earth?
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The earthquake,
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the veil was ripped
from top to bottom by hand?
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An angel.
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And when Christ
died during the Passover,
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He fulfilled the purpose
of the sacrificial system.
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He was the Passover
Lamb. We all together?
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Not only was the
veil in the temple rent,
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representing that we
now have a new temple.
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Remember, Jesus said,
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destroy this
temple made with hands,
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three days I'll
make one without hands.
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In fact, what I
just quoted to you
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is a little different from John.
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What I quoted to you is
what they said at his trial.
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They couldn't get any
two witnesses to agree.
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The only two witnesses
they could get to agree
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are the ones you
said, we heard him say,
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destroy this
temple made with hands,
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and I will raise up
another one made without hands.
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Now we know He's speaking
of His body, His church.
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Church is the body of Christ.
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So we are built up to
be a dwelling place of God,
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Christ is the cornerstone,
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look at all the
verses on the cornerstone.
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Why cornerstone?
Cornerstone of the temple.
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And so much of the
Bible is saying now,
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we are a living house,
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Christ doesn't
inhabit a building
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where you go in and you've got
just a few priests to come in,
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we become a nation of
priests, as a living temple,
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as the Body of Christ,
we are to make atonement,
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every believer is to
bring others to Christ.
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When you bring them to church,
you bring people to Jesus,
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you help them find out
about the plan of salvation.
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It's all depicted in
this Old Testament economy.
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Am I making
sense or am I rambling?
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Karen tells me
sometimes, "You're rambling."
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And so I just...
I wanted to know.
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A little bit, huh? Okay.
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Let me tell you why I
think this is so important,
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and I'm spending
a lot of time on it.
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Now this is a quote
you don't hear very often.
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This is Review and
Herald, May 25, 1905,
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from the Spirit of Prophecy.
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"In the future,
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deception of
every kind is to arise,
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and we want solid
ground for our feet.
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We want solid
pillars for the building.
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Not one pin is to be removed
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from that which
the Lord established.
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The enemy will
bring in false theories
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such as the doctrine
that there is no sanctuary."
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Have we encountered that?
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This was foretold in
1905. It perfectly came to pass.
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"This is one of the points
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on which there will be a
departing from the faith.
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Where shall we find safety
unless it be in the truths
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that the Lord has gives
us for the last 50 years?"
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When she wrote
that, for 50 years,
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the Lord had given them truths
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about the importance
of the sanctuary message.
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And I think that
is still true today.
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Can you say amen? Amen.
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All right, now we're
going into the next section,
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the Lamb of God.
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We talked about the importance
of the sacrifice, the value.
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The Bible tells us that
when you brought a lamb,
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could you bring
any kind of lamb?
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It had to be perfect.
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So what greater gift
could be given than God?
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God gave Himself.
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And when you think, what
could be more valuable...
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You know, kids like
to ask the question,
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"Can God make a rock
too big for Him to lift?"
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If He can do anything,
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He should be able to make a
rock too big for Him to lift.
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But if He can do
anything, He can lift it.
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It's one of those
circular questions
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supposed to
just waste your time.
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But how can you find anything
more valuable than the Creator?
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Because if the Creator,
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one had to make
something more valuable,
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well, the one who made it
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is always going to be
worth more than what He made
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'cause He can make another one.
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You know what I mean?
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It's like eating the
goose that made the golden egg.
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So when you sacrifice
Jesus, it's the Creator.
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What more can God give
than when He gave His Son,
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and He is
referred to as the Lamb.
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That's what they
brought for their forgiveness.
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Someone's going to
read in just a moment.
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Looks like John is
going to be reading John.
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John 1:35, I'm
going to read 1 John 1:29,
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"And the next day,"
this is at the Jordan River,
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"John saw Jesus coming
towards him and he said,"
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John the Baptist said, "Behold!
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The Lamb of God who takes
away the sin of the world!"
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Now why did he say that?
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I'll get to that in a minute.
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Go ahead, read your
verses are very similar.
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"Again, the next day,
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John stood with
two of his disciples.
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And looking at Jesus
as He walked, he said,
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'Behold the Lamb of God!'"
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So on multiple
occasions he says,
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"Behold the
Lamb, Behold the Lamb,"
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that's the whole
sermon in itself.
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Now we are told
to behold Christ.
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Christ said, "If I am lifted up,
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I will draw all men to me."
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When they lifted up the serpent
and the people looked in faith,
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they were healed from the
venom that was killing them,
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they looked and they lived.
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And so there's some
power in beholding Christ.
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We are
transformed, the Bible says,
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"By beholding, we
become like what we look at."
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And so when John said,
"Behold, the Lamb of God,"
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there's really a very
important lesson in that.
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How was Isaiah converted?
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In the year the
King Isaiah died,
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I saw the Lord.
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He sees the Lord in
the year that he died.
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You know the
song if we sing about
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looking at the cross,
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beholding the
cross, beneath the cross,
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there's something about
looking at the Lamb of God.
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Do you remember when Abraham
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went up the mountain with Isaac,
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and God had told
him to offer his son.
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Abraham had not
revealed it to Isaac yet.
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And as they're
going up the mountain,
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he knows the time is coming,
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he's got to tell
him what's going on
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'cause he's a smart young man
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and he realizes
we're going to sacrifice.
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Okay, Father,
we've done that before,
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they've gone to the
mountains of Moriah,
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and Abraham said,
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"Isaac, you carry the wood,
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and I've got what it
takes to make the fire,
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we've got a knife,
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let's head on up to
the place of sacrifice."
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And finally, he
didn't want to question
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that his dad was
getting old and forgetful.
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But he says, "Father,
help me, we've got the wood,
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we've got the
fire, where's the lamb?"
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And Abraham said in
those immortal words,
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"My son, God will
provide himself a lamb."
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Now that's understood
that God provided a lamb
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that day for Abraham,
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there was a ram
caught by its horns,
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God provided a ram.
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But it's a bigger picture,
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God would
provide himself a lamb,
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and that's what happened.
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God the Son provided himself
a lamb for our sacrifice.
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So when...
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And through the ages,
they all keep wondering,
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"When will God come incarnate?
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When will the Messiah come?"
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When John the Baptist,
there at the Jordan said,
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"Behold the Lamb of God,"
00:34:03.57\00:34:05.31
that was a
breathtaking statement
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because they were
coming to John, saying,
00:34:06.78\00:34:08.31
"Are you the Messiah?
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Are you Elijah who is to come?
00:34:09.88\00:34:11.45
Are you that prophet
that Moses talked about?"
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And he said, "No, no,
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I'm not worthy to bear the shoes
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of the one that's coming."
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Finally, when he saw Jesus,
it's like, you know, drumroll.
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I mean, I can't
emphasize how important it was,
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it was a moment.
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They saw the heavens
open, they saw Him illuminate,
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especially the baptism of Jesus.
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So He was
identified as the Lamb of God,
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even a voice from heaven,
said, "This is My beloved Son,"
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so it was a big announcement.
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This is the Lamb of God.
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Okay, I've got
a couple questions
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I see have come in.
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I just want everyone to know,
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I don't see these
questions in advance.
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So, "Where is the Ark
of the Covenant today?"
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Well, it's a good
relevant question.
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People always want to know that.
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That question has become popular
00:34:51.62\00:34:53.89
for a couple of reasons.
00:34:53.89\00:34:56.73
One of them is they
made a movie about it.
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But as near as we can tell,
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there's no statement
that tells where it is
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but you can
deduce with some safety.
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We know that when
Nebuchadnezzar came
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in the days of Jeremiah,
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and he destroyed the temple
and he burned it with fire,
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before he burnt with fire,
00:35:13.64\00:35:14.71
he took all the precious
articles out of the temple,
00:35:14.71\00:35:18.58
and it itemizes
most of those things
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because they
returned to the temple
00:35:20.88\00:35:23.08
in the time of
Ezra and Nehemiah,
00:35:23.08\00:35:24.82
King, was it
Darius or Ahasuerus,
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gave the holy
vessels back to Ezra.
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The ark is never mentioned.
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The last time
the ark is mentioned,
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I think it's during
the time of Hezekiah.
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It was still in the temple,
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I think it also says
during the time of Josiah
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if I'm not mistaken.
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Because Jeremiah
said very plainly,
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the city is
going to be destroyed,
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a palace will be burned,
the temple will be burned,
00:35:50.88\00:35:53.92
it's believed that
Jeremiah has connected
00:35:53.92\00:35:56.25
with the priest's family
00:35:56.25\00:35:58.15
and some of the faithful priests
00:35:58.15\00:35:59.42
that were left.
00:35:59.42\00:36:00.69
They took the ark by night
00:36:00.69\00:36:03.06
and they hid it in a cave
00:36:03.06\00:36:05.09
and sealed it somewhere
in the vicinity of Jerusalem
00:36:05.09\00:36:07.93
because Jerusalem was besieged
00:36:07.93\00:36:09.76
by the
Babylonians for two years,
00:36:09.76\00:36:11.43
they couldn't...
00:36:11.43\00:36:12.50
Some people say,
"Oh, they carried it off
00:36:12.50\00:36:13.57
to Egypt or Ethiopia."
00:36:13.57\00:36:14.80
No, they had to hide it
00:36:14.80\00:36:16.77
in a pretty close
proximity to the temple.
00:36:16.77\00:36:20.34
If you've been to Jerusalem,
it is honeycombs with caves.
00:36:20.34\00:36:25.05
And so literally,
00:36:25.05\00:36:26.72
they have tombs
and caves and tunnels,
00:36:26.72\00:36:28.68
every time they try
and dig and build there,
00:36:28.68\00:36:30.22
they run into another one.
00:36:30.22\00:36:32.45
It's in a sealed cave
00:36:32.45\00:36:33.89
somewhere no one has
found it from that day to this.
00:36:33.89\00:36:36.86
And wouldn't it be something
if they did discover it?
00:36:36.86\00:36:39.46
Wouldn't that be nice?
00:36:39.46\00:36:41.56
Might be one of the
greatest archaeological
00:36:41.56\00:36:43.83
finds of history.
00:36:43.83\00:36:45.00
All right, another question.
00:36:45.00\00:36:47.40
Do you think Jesus will
come on the Day of Atonement?
00:36:47.40\00:36:50.17
As far as the day
of the Second Coming,
00:36:50.17\00:36:52.84
will it be on
the Day of Atonement?
00:36:52.84\00:36:55.84
I don't know.
00:36:55.84\00:36:57.21
I don't know that
He's obligated to do that.
00:36:57.21\00:36:58.81
Sometimes people say,
00:36:58.81\00:36:59.88
"Will Jesus
come at the very time
00:36:59.88\00:37:02.32
when the jubilee is fulfilled?"
00:37:02.32\00:37:06.39
You know, God,
when we get to heaven,
00:37:06.39\00:37:07.82
I think we're going to see
that God did follow a calendar.
00:37:07.82\00:37:10.66
When we look back and say,
00:37:10.66\00:37:11.73
"Look at that, it all
happened right on schedule."
00:37:11.73\00:37:13.46
I mean, He died on
the Passover, right,
00:37:13.46\00:37:15.63
why wouldn't he come
on some special event?
00:37:15.63\00:37:19.93
The only reason I say He may not
00:37:19.93\00:37:21.57
is because Christ
said in such an hour
00:37:21.57\00:37:23.17
you think not He comes.
00:37:23.17\00:37:26.37
So He might surprise everybody.
00:37:26.37\00:37:27.61
And you think He's
going to be coming on Sabbath
00:37:27.61\00:37:29.54
while He might
show up on a Wednesday.
00:37:29.54\00:37:31.25
I mean...
00:37:31.25\00:37:32.61
So we got to be
very careful to say,
00:37:32.61\00:37:34.22
oh, this is when He should come.
00:37:34.22\00:37:37.12
There were seven different days,
00:37:37.12\00:37:40.92
annual days, in
the Jewish feasts,
00:37:40.92\00:37:45.29
and He could
come any one of those.
00:37:45.29\00:37:47.10
Some say, well, wouldn't
it be the Feast of Trumpets?
00:37:47.10\00:37:49.13
Because He's going to come
and there will be a trumpet.
00:37:49.13\00:37:51.83
And Revelation talks
about seven trumpets.
00:37:51.83\00:37:54.00
And others say, well, it
would be like the Passover
00:37:54.00\00:37:56.30
'cause it's the
great deliverance,
00:37:56.30\00:37:57.54
they had the Passover
and they came out of Egypt.
00:37:57.54\00:38:00.78
And others are asking, well,
00:38:00.78\00:38:01.88
would it be the
Day of Atonement,
00:38:01.88\00:38:02.94
the final judgment?
00:38:02.94\00:38:04.61
Almost, every one of the
feasts could be connected
00:38:04.61\00:38:06.55
with the Second
Coming if you want.
00:38:06.55\00:38:08.38
You see what I'm
saying? So we don't know.
00:38:08.38\00:38:11.22
It probably will be one of them,
00:38:11.22\00:38:12.62
but I wouldn't
start to speculate.
00:38:12.62\00:38:14.72
What do we know
about the day and the hour?
00:38:14.72\00:38:17.39
Nothing.
00:38:17.39\00:38:18.46
If you meet someone that
says they figured it out,
00:38:18.46\00:38:20.06
be very careful
00:38:20.06\00:38:21.56
'cause Jesus is
pretty clear on that.
00:38:21.56\00:38:22.93
Do we have another
question? Oh, here it is, yes.
00:38:22.93\00:38:26.27
Does the cleansing
of sin happen before
00:38:26.27\00:38:28.67
or after the Day of Atonement?
00:38:28.67\00:38:31.21
Well, the putting away of sin
00:38:31.21\00:38:32.94
is supposed to be
happening in God's people now.
00:38:32.94\00:38:36.44
I mean, God forbid
that anybody thinks,
00:38:36.44\00:38:39.38
well, it's not the
Day of Atonement yet,
00:38:39.38\00:38:40.98
so I'm not going to
repent and turn from my sins.
00:38:40.98\00:38:44.59
The Lord wants us to...
00:38:44.59\00:38:45.65
What's the best time
to repent of your sins?
00:38:45.65\00:38:48.49
When the Lord convicts
you of your sins, right?
00:38:48.49\00:38:51.76
What's the best
time to apply the blood?
00:38:51.76\00:38:54.23
When the temple is still open,
00:38:54.23\00:38:55.53
you don't want to wait
until the Day of Atonement
00:38:55.53\00:38:57.53
when the laundromat closes.
00:38:57.53\00:38:59.87
Amen?
00:38:59.87\00:39:01.37
And so, ultimately, the...
00:39:01.37\00:39:06.01
And maybe I should explain.
00:39:06.01\00:39:07.44
That gets into the lesson here,
00:39:07.44\00:39:08.54
so I'm going to finish
00:39:08.54\00:39:09.61
answering that
question in the lesson,
00:39:09.61\00:39:11.31
looks like I still
have time to do that.
00:39:11.31\00:39:13.72
All right, let's go back.
00:39:13.72\00:39:14.85
So we talked
about the Lamb of God.
00:39:14.85\00:39:16.18
Let me tie this off.
We talked about Abraham.
00:39:16.18\00:39:19.05
And go to
Revelation, who is the Lamb?
00:39:19.05\00:39:21.09
Revelation 5:6, "I
looked, and behold,
00:39:21.09\00:39:23.99
in the midst of the throne
00:39:23.99\00:39:25.13
and of the four
living creatures,
00:39:25.13\00:39:26.29
and in the midst of the elders,
00:39:26.29\00:39:28.03
stood a Lamb as
though it had been slain..."
00:39:28.03\00:39:31.27
Now when John writes that,
00:39:31.27\00:39:32.83
what does that mean
to all of his readers?
00:39:32.83\00:39:36.97
They need to have some
context in the Old Testament,
00:39:36.97\00:39:39.27
why are you slaying lambs?
00:39:39.27\00:39:40.48
What does the
slain lamb represent?
00:39:40.48\00:39:42.78
It represented the Lamb
of God, forgiveness for sin,
00:39:42.78\00:39:45.81
a sacrifice
happened in the sanctuary.
00:39:45.81\00:39:49.45
It not only tells us
00:39:49.45\00:39:50.65
a Lamb as though
it had been slain
00:39:50.65\00:39:52.59
having seven
horns and seven eyes.
00:39:52.59\00:39:56.56
Have you ever seen a
lamb with seven horns?
00:39:56.56\00:39:59.63
Now you might see a deer...
00:39:59.63\00:40:00.66
If you're a hunter,
00:40:00.66\00:40:01.70
you might see
that was a 6 pointer,
00:40:01.70\00:40:02.86
that was an 8
pointer, that was a 12 pointer,
00:40:02.86\00:40:05.27
they're talking about
an even number of antlers,
00:40:05.27\00:40:08.00
how big the horns were.
00:40:08.00\00:40:10.14
But you don't ever say
that was a seven pointed lamb.
00:40:10.14\00:40:14.54
The lambs don't grow
their horns that way,
00:40:14.54\00:40:16.28
they have two horns.
00:40:16.28\00:40:18.38
And then seven eyes,
this is obviously symbolic,
00:40:18.38\00:40:21.62
talking about that
God knows all things.
00:40:21.62\00:40:24.39
Okay.
00:40:24.39\00:40:25.85
A horn in the
Bible represented power.
00:40:25.85\00:40:28.46
Remember, the visions of Daniel
00:40:28.46\00:40:29.86
where one horn pushed
against the other horn,
00:40:29.86\00:40:32.83
and these little horns,
00:40:32.83\00:40:33.90
these kingdoms
and powers come up,
00:40:33.90\00:40:35.50
the Christ had this
lamb with the seven horns
00:40:35.50\00:40:37.53
represents perfect power.
00:40:37.53\00:40:40.67
Now the next section talks
about Jesus is our High Priest.
00:40:40.67\00:40:44.64
In Hebrews 7:1,
00:40:44.64\00:40:46.64
so we got another question
we'll get to in just a moment.
00:40:46.64\00:40:49.18
Hebrews 7:1-3,
00:40:49.18\00:40:51.55
he talks about this enigmatic
individual called Melchizedek.
00:40:51.55\00:40:56.35
Hebrew 7:1-3,
"For this Melchizedek,
00:40:56.35\00:40:58.89
king of Salem,
priest of the Most High God,
00:40:58.89\00:41:01.49
who met Abraham returning
00:41:01.49\00:41:02.96
from the slaughter of
the kings and blessed him,
00:41:02.96\00:41:05.96
to whom also
Abraham gave a tenth of all,
00:41:05.96\00:41:08.76
being first translated
'king of righteousness,'
00:41:08.76\00:41:11.20
and then also king of
Salem, meaning 'king of peace,'
00:41:11.20\00:41:14.34
without father,
and without genealogy,
00:41:14.34\00:41:18.21
having neither beginning
of days nor end of life,
00:41:18.21\00:41:20.51
but he's made
like the Son of God,
00:41:20.51\00:41:22.11
he remains a
priest continually."
00:41:22.11\00:41:24.35
Now you need to read Genesis.
00:41:24.35\00:41:26.72
Let me give you the story.
00:41:26.72\00:41:29.05
Abraham went to rescue Lot.
00:41:29.05\00:41:32.02
Lot had been carried
away captive by Chedorlaomer
00:41:32.02\00:41:35.96
and four other
kings from the north.
00:41:35.96\00:41:38.49
He attacked Sodom and Gomorrah,
00:41:38.49\00:41:40.46
and the two lesser
kingdoms in the south,
00:41:40.46\00:41:43.37
they conquered them.
00:41:43.37\00:41:44.87
They carried away all
the booty from those cities
00:41:44.87\00:41:47.87
and the people as slaves
and they were heading up north.
00:41:47.87\00:41:50.81
Before they got all
the way back to Damascus,
00:41:50.81\00:41:52.64
Abraham in confederacy
00:41:52.64\00:41:54.68
with some of the other
local nomads, Mamre and Eshkol,
00:41:54.68\00:41:59.31
they came together with Abraham
00:41:59.31\00:42:00.68
who had 300 soldiers of his own.
00:42:00.68\00:42:03.45
They snuck up by night,
00:42:03.45\00:42:04.79
they attacked
Chedorlaomer and their forces,
00:42:04.79\00:42:07.36
they soundly defeated them.
00:42:07.36\00:42:09.09
They were all drunk celebrating.
00:42:09.09\00:42:11.23
And he liberated Lot
and all the captives.
00:42:11.23\00:42:14.83
It's interesting
that God would use Abraham
00:42:14.83\00:42:17.40
to save Sodom and Gomorrah.
00:42:17.40\00:42:20.17
That's why it says in James,
don't forget that God saved...
00:42:20.17\00:42:24.04
Talks about God saved
them before He destroyed them.
00:42:24.04\00:42:27.41
So God had shown them mercy.
00:42:27.41\00:42:28.61
Anyway, so on his way back,
00:42:28.61\00:42:30.98
Abraham leading this coalition,
he's like the general,
00:42:30.98\00:42:35.08
he has rights to all
of the bounty of this war.
00:42:35.08\00:42:38.55
He doesn't even
give it to the kings,
00:42:38.55\00:42:40.19
he liberated them.
00:42:40.19\00:42:42.26
He said I'm not gonna take
even a shoelace from Sodom lest
00:42:42.26\00:42:44.69
you say I made Abraham rich.
00:42:44.69\00:42:45.96
If I become rich,
it'll be God that does it,
00:42:45.96\00:42:48.13
not because I
robbed it from you,
00:42:48.13\00:42:50.77
but he takes, he says,
00:42:50.77\00:42:51.80
I will take a tenth
00:42:51.80\00:42:52.87
and I'm giving
it to Melchizedek,
00:42:52.87\00:42:55.34
the king of Salem.
00:42:55.34\00:42:57.37
The word
Melchizedek means a king,
00:42:57.37\00:43:01.38
zedek means righteousness,
00:43:01.38\00:43:03.31
but he's the king of Salem,
Salem, shalom means peace.
00:43:03.31\00:43:07.35
Later that same spot was
known as the Jeru-Shalom.
00:43:07.35\00:43:10.95
So here you've got Melchizedek,
a king of righteousness,
00:43:10.95\00:43:14.06
he's a priest, it
says, of the most High God.
00:43:14.06\00:43:16.93
Now I thought
these were Canaanites.
00:43:16.93\00:43:18.16
What is a priest of the
most High God doing in Canaan?
00:43:18.16\00:43:21.63
It's a little
mysterious, isn't it?
00:43:21.63\00:43:24.70
Well, there's
been some speculation.
00:43:24.70\00:43:26.70
Some people say,
well, the Bible says,
00:43:26.70\00:43:28.24
He is without beginning
of days or father or mother,
00:43:28.24\00:43:30.24
that means it
was the Holy Spirit.
00:43:30.24\00:43:31.97
That means it was Jesus.
00:43:31.97\00:43:33.64
And who was Melchizedek?
Melchizedek was a real person.
00:43:33.64\00:43:36.78
The reason it says,
00:43:36.78\00:43:38.28
Paul says he's without
father or mother or genealogy,
00:43:38.28\00:43:42.22
it just means,
there's no genealogy,
00:43:42.22\00:43:44.22
it doesn't tell
what his people are,
00:43:44.22\00:43:45.39
he just appears and disappears,
but he was a real person.
00:43:45.39\00:43:49.52
The best explanation I've heard,
00:43:49.52\00:43:52.13
do you realize at
the time of this event,
00:43:52.13\00:43:55.26
Shem was still
alive, the son of Noah?
00:43:55.26\00:43:59.47
He had heard,
00:43:59.47\00:44:01.10
and he was
hundreds of years old,
00:44:01.10\00:44:02.37
and he served Jehovah.
00:44:02.37\00:44:04.07
He had heard that
00:44:04.07\00:44:05.54
even though they were
serving idols now in Mesopotamia
00:44:05.54\00:44:09.34
that God had led Abraham
00:44:09.34\00:44:11.31
and he was still
serving the true God
00:44:11.31\00:44:12.91
and given this land to Abraham,
00:44:12.91\00:44:15.02
he took his family
00:44:15.02\00:44:16.72
and he moved into
the hills of Salem.
00:44:16.72\00:44:20.12
And who else would
be greater than Abraham?
00:44:20.12\00:44:23.59
And he was recognized
00:44:23.59\00:44:24.63
as a priest of
the most High God.
00:44:24.63\00:44:25.93
He was still live.
00:44:25.93\00:44:27.13
He's one of the
only survivors...
00:44:27.13\00:44:28.43
the only survivor of
the flood at that point,
00:44:28.43\00:44:31.13
I've heard that explanation,
00:44:31.13\00:44:32.40
I forget if it's Josephus
00:44:32.40\00:44:33.67
or some of the Jewish traditions
00:44:33.67\00:44:35.84
that say that, I
thought, don't know that.
00:44:35.84\00:44:38.54
I can't prove it, you
probably can't disprove it,
00:44:38.54\00:44:40.34
but it's just interesting.
00:44:40.34\00:44:42.04
And so we don't
know who Melchizedek was,
00:44:42.04\00:44:43.75
but he's a real person.
00:44:43.75\00:44:45.21
He's a type of Christ.
00:44:45.21\00:44:47.58
It says when Abraham comes,
he brings forth bread and wine.
00:44:47.58\00:44:51.05
And doesn't Jesus
make a covenant with us
00:44:51.05\00:44:53.05
with bread and wine,
His blood and His body?
00:44:53.05\00:44:55.76
And so you look at
this, king of righteousness,
00:44:55.76\00:44:57.83
king of peace, bread and
wine, we pay tithe to him.
00:44:57.83\00:45:02.30
And so Paul then makes a case
00:45:02.30\00:45:03.93
that Melchizedek
is a type of Christ,
00:45:03.93\00:45:06.17
and even though
Abraham is going to end up
00:45:06.17\00:45:08.77
having the Levites
00:45:08.77\00:45:10.04
and the sons of
Aaron in his genes,
00:45:10.04\00:45:11.87
he says Abraham is paying tithe
00:45:11.87\00:45:13.38
to a greater
priest in Melchizedek
00:45:13.38\00:45:16.08
who's a type of a
different priesthood,
00:45:16.08\00:45:17.61
he represents Christ.
00:45:17.61\00:45:19.85
That was kind of deep,
but that's what Paul says,
00:45:19.85\00:45:21.82
Paul's a little deep.
00:45:21.82\00:45:23.12
All right, another question.
00:45:23.12\00:45:26.22
How do you explain the
importance of the Sanctuary
00:45:26.22\00:45:28.29
to someone who doesn't
believe in its relevance?
00:45:28.29\00:45:32.16
I'd say we need to
prioritize what God prioritizes.
00:45:32.16\00:45:36.53
And as I mentioned, if
God mentions something,
00:45:36.53\00:45:39.73
almost a thousand
times in the Bible,
00:45:39.73\00:45:42.24
and it goes virtually
from Genesis to Revelation,
00:45:42.24\00:45:45.61
it must be something
he wants us to understand.
00:45:45.61\00:45:48.48
If so many of
these apocalyptic visions
00:45:48.48\00:45:50.78
happened in the
context of the sanctuary,
00:45:50.78\00:45:53.45
now Paul says so much
about the plan of salvation
00:45:53.45\00:45:55.62
connected with the sanctuary
and the priesthood in Hebrews,
00:45:55.62\00:45:58.65
it's a subject he
wants us to understand.
00:45:58.65\00:46:00.36
Does that make sense?
00:46:00.36\00:46:02.02
So I'm trying to do that really.
00:46:02.02\00:46:03.83
All right, go to Hebrews 7,
00:46:03.83\00:46:06.96
talking about Jesus
our High Priest, verse 24.
00:46:06.96\00:46:10.70
"But He, because
He continues forever,"
00:46:10.70\00:46:13.34
unlike Melchizedek,
00:46:13.34\00:46:14.97
"has an unchangeable priesthood.
00:46:14.97\00:46:16.91
Therefore He is
also able to save
00:46:16.91\00:46:18.81
to the uttermost of those
who come to God through Him..."
00:46:18.81\00:46:22.78
How do we come to
God? Through Christ.
00:46:22.78\00:46:24.55
Christ is our intercessor.
00:46:24.55\00:46:28.02
You know what a mediator is?
00:46:28.02\00:46:30.52
Sometimes you get two parties
00:46:30.52\00:46:31.59
and they just can't
come to some solution,
00:46:31.59\00:46:34.19
you get a third
party to come and try
00:46:34.19\00:46:35.69
and objectively look at
both sides and develop peace.
00:46:35.69\00:46:40.36
Some of you
remember the old gas stoves
00:46:40.36\00:46:43.03
that were really simple?
00:46:43.03\00:46:44.73
We had one growing up in my day,
00:46:44.73\00:46:46.84
and it had three settings on it.
00:46:46.84\00:46:49.84
It had a high,
low, and in the middle,
00:46:49.84\00:46:53.58
it had medium.
00:46:53.58\00:46:55.34
And medium meant in
between the two others.
00:46:55.34\00:47:00.15
Moses was a mediator.
00:47:00.15\00:47:02.48
He would go up the mountain,
00:47:02.48\00:47:03.99
he talked to God for the people.
00:47:03.99\00:47:05.32
The people said,
"Don't let God talk to us,
00:47:05.32\00:47:07.46
we're gonna burn
up," you remember?
00:47:07.46\00:47:09.02
They said, "Don't
let God talk to us,
00:47:09.02\00:47:10.66
we can't handle it."
00:47:10.66\00:47:12.03
They said,
"Moses, you talk to God."
00:47:12.03\00:47:13.60
When Moses came down, they said,
00:47:13.60\00:47:15.10
"Moses, your face is
shining, cover your face."
00:47:15.10\00:47:18.03
So Moses was like a
go-between, he talked to God,
00:47:18.03\00:47:20.74
his face would
shine, he covered his face,
00:47:20.74\00:47:22.07
he talked to the people.
00:47:22.07\00:47:23.57
And so he was the mediator.
00:47:23.57\00:47:26.04
Now who is the mediator
now for us with the Father?
00:47:26.04\00:47:30.91
Jesus.
00:47:30.91\00:47:31.98
The cross was a ladder
00:47:31.98\00:47:33.62
that reached
from heaven to earth.
00:47:33.62\00:47:36.48
And do you remember
when Jacob had a dream?
00:47:36.48\00:47:42.62
And what did he
dream about? A ladder.
00:47:42.62\00:47:45.89
And the ladder had angels
going up and down, ostensibly,
00:47:45.89\00:47:49.10
they're bringing prayers
00:47:49.10\00:47:50.53
and bringing answers to prayers,
00:47:50.53\00:47:52.10
they're ministering
spirits to humanity,
00:47:52.10\00:47:54.24
they're dispensing the grace
and the requests of the saved.
00:47:54.24\00:47:57.11
It's a heavenly escalator.
00:47:57.11\00:47:59.11
Philip comes to Jesus.
00:47:59.11\00:48:02.44
And Jesus said, "Oh, Phillip,
I saw you under the fig tree."
00:48:02.44\00:48:06.38
He says, "Wow,
Lord, You're the Messiah."
00:48:06.38\00:48:08.58
"Are you impressed
00:48:08.58\00:48:09.65
because I said I
saw you under the tree?"
00:48:09.65\00:48:11.39
Jesus said to Philip,
00:48:11.39\00:48:12.69
"Hereafter, you will see
greater things than these,
00:48:12.69\00:48:14.79
you will see the angels of God
00:48:14.79\00:48:16.66
ascending and
descending on the Son of Man."
00:48:16.66\00:48:20.36
Christ is the mediator,
00:48:20.36\00:48:21.93
He is the ladder that
connects earth with heaven.
00:48:21.93\00:48:24.70
We pray in whose
name? Jesus' name.
00:48:24.70\00:48:27.30
It's through Christ
00:48:27.30\00:48:28.64
that the Father
gives us His grace.
00:48:28.64\00:48:30.47
So He is a
mediator, it's telling us.
00:48:30.47\00:48:33.58
That's the priest's job.
00:48:33.58\00:48:35.61
Able to save to
the uttermost of those
00:48:35.61\00:48:37.28
who come to God through Him
00:48:37.28\00:48:39.91
since He always lives to
make intercession for them.
00:48:39.91\00:48:43.45
What time of day
can you pray to God
00:48:43.45\00:48:45.02
and ask for your
prayers to be answered?
00:48:45.02\00:48:47.79
Always loves to
make intercession.
00:48:47.79\00:48:50.09
Does the Lord ever say,
00:48:50.09\00:48:51.16
"Uh, you know I've
been at this all day,
00:48:51.16\00:48:52.26
can you just give Me a break?"
00:48:52.26\00:48:54.03
Or is He eager to hear you pray?
00:48:54.03\00:48:57.27
You can't worry the Lord.
00:48:57.27\00:48:58.37
He wants to hear you pray
more than you want to pray.
00:48:58.37\00:49:03.87
Let me see here.
00:49:03.87\00:49:06.04
"For such a High
Priest was fitting for us,
00:49:06.04\00:49:08.78
who is holy, harmless,
00:49:08.78\00:49:10.58
undefiled,
separate from sinners,
00:49:10.58\00:49:13.21
and has become
higher than the heavens."
00:49:13.21\00:49:15.92
I'm gonna read now jump
down to Hebrews 9:11-15.
00:49:15.92\00:49:20.39
"But Christ came as High Priest
of the good things to come,
00:49:20.39\00:49:23.99
with greater and
more perfect tabernacle
00:49:23.99\00:49:26.63
made with hands
that is not His creation.
00:49:26.63\00:49:29.70
Not with the blood
of goats and calves,
00:49:29.70\00:49:31.33
but with His own blood,"
00:49:31.33\00:49:32.63
it's a better
temple, it's better blood,
00:49:32.63\00:49:35.10
"He entered the
Most Holy Place for all,
00:49:35.10\00:49:37.61
having obtained
eternal redemption.
00:49:37.61\00:49:40.41
For if the blood
of bulls and goats
00:49:40.41\00:49:42.24
and the ashes of a
heifer, sprinkling the unclean,
00:49:42.24\00:49:44.51
sanctifies for the
purifying of the flesh,
00:49:44.51\00:49:48.25
how much more shall
the blood of Christ,
00:49:48.25\00:49:51.35
who through the
eternal Spirit offered Himself
00:49:51.35\00:49:53.46
without spot to God
cleanse your conscience,"
00:49:53.46\00:49:56.49
so the cleansing
happens here too,
00:49:56.49\00:49:57.89
"from dead works to
serve the living God?
00:49:57.89\00:50:00.90
And for this reason
00:50:00.90\00:50:01.93
He is the
Mediator of a new covenant,
00:50:01.93\00:50:04.00
by means of death,
00:50:04.00\00:50:05.23
for the redemption
of the transgressions
00:50:05.23\00:50:06.94
under the first covenant,
00:50:06.94\00:50:08.24
that those who are called
00:50:08.24\00:50:09.34
might receive the promise
of an eternal inheritance."
00:50:09.34\00:50:12.41
Well, it's a powerful verse.
00:50:12.41\00:50:14.48
So Jesus is our intercessor.
I want to read this to you.
00:50:14.48\00:50:18.88
I'm looking at the clock,
00:50:18.88\00:50:19.88
and I wanna make sure
and cover something here.
00:50:19.88\00:50:21.55
Hebrews 9:11,
00:50:21.55\00:50:23.18
"But Christ came as High Priest
00:50:23.18\00:50:25.65
for the good things to come,
00:50:25.65\00:50:27.62
with a greater and the
more perfect tabernacle
00:50:27.62\00:50:29.69
not made with hands,
not of this creation,
00:50:29.69\00:50:32.16
not with the blood
of goats and calves,
00:50:32.16\00:50:33.50
but with His own blood
00:50:33.50\00:50:34.56
He entered the Most Holy Place."
00:50:34.56\00:50:36.90
When did Jesus
entered the most holy place?
00:50:36.90\00:50:38.77
He first entered
the most holy place
00:50:42.47\00:50:44.54
when He ascended to heaven.
00:50:44.54\00:50:47.14
Now the Day of Atonement
00:50:47.14\00:50:48.91
was something that
happened once a year,
00:50:48.91\00:50:51.65
is typically Yom
Kippur the end of the year.
00:50:51.65\00:50:55.32
But there was one other time
00:50:55.32\00:50:56.82
when Moses
entered the holy place.
00:50:56.82\00:50:58.65
You know when that was?
00:50:58.65\00:51:00.26
After they built
the temple, He went in.
00:51:00.26\00:51:02.99
And the Bible says
he offered a sacrifice
00:51:02.99\00:51:05.49
and he activated the temple,
00:51:05.49\00:51:08.80
he consecrated
all the furniture,
00:51:08.80\00:51:10.30
he sprinkled blood on it,
00:51:10.30\00:51:12.00
and then it began
their ceremonial cycle.
00:51:12.00\00:51:15.60
But he first went in and
after it was all complete,
00:51:15.60\00:51:18.17
he sanctified
it, he activated it.
00:51:18.17\00:51:20.94
And he went into
the holy of holy places
00:51:20.94\00:51:22.11
when he did that.
00:51:22.11\00:51:23.14
Moses could do that
00:51:23.14\00:51:24.21
as our mediator and high priest.
00:51:24.21\00:51:26.72
When Jesus ascended to heaven,
00:51:26.72\00:51:28.18
there is a big
argument in the Adventist church
00:51:28.18\00:51:30.32
because we know
what happened in 1844,
00:51:30.32\00:51:32.39
we entered the last phase
of his work as our high priest,
00:51:32.39\00:51:35.16
and he entered
into his final ministry
00:51:35.16\00:51:37.66
in the Holy of Holies.
00:51:37.66\00:51:39.73
But when Christ told Mary,
00:51:39.73\00:51:41.00
"Do not cling to me,
00:51:41.00\00:51:42.06
for I have not yet
ascended to my Father,"
00:51:42.06\00:51:45.40
He had not yet...
00:51:45.40\00:51:46.60
when He rose from the dead,
He had not yet been to heaven.
00:51:46.60\00:51:48.84
He went to heaven.
00:51:48.84\00:51:49.94
Now what was the
heavenly sanctuary doing
00:51:49.94\00:51:51.77
before Christ died?
00:51:51.77\00:51:53.61
Are they offering
blood of goats up there?
00:51:53.61\00:51:55.81
No, the only thing
that would be offered
00:51:55.81\00:51:57.81
in the heavenly sanctuary
00:51:57.81\00:51:58.88
is Christ
pleading His own blood.
00:51:58.88\00:52:00.62
Am I right?
00:52:00.62\00:52:02.98
So when Christ rose,
00:52:02.98\00:52:04.69
He went into
the most holy place,
00:52:04.69\00:52:06.96
He was enthroned.
00:52:06.96\00:52:08.22
The Father said,
"Your gift is successful."
00:52:08.22\00:52:10.26
The angels rejoiced.
00:52:10.26\00:52:11.96
He spread out His
hands and bled His blood,
00:52:11.96\00:52:14.96
then He comes down to earth.
00:52:14.96\00:52:17.00
He activated, you might
say the heavenly sanctuary,
00:52:17.00\00:52:20.14
He comes down to earth,
and He says, "All hail."
00:52:20.14\00:52:24.47
Do you notice, He told
Mary, "Do not detain me."
00:52:24.47\00:52:27.64
But Sunday evening,
00:52:27.64\00:52:29.08
by the time He
comes back down again,
00:52:29.08\00:52:30.35
He says, "All hail,"
and they worshiped Him.
00:52:30.35\00:52:33.25
He went to the Father.
00:52:33.25\00:52:35.42
Jesus says, "I go to my
Father and your Father."
00:52:35.42\00:52:38.19
And so when people say,
00:52:38.19\00:52:40.89
"You know, He didn't
enter the Holy of Holies
00:52:40.89\00:52:44.09
until He ascended until 1844."
00:52:44.09\00:52:48.33
He did when He
first died on the cross
00:52:48.33\00:52:50.17
and ascended into heaven
00:52:50.17\00:52:51.90
and activated the
heavenly sanctuaries.
00:52:51.90\00:52:54.34
You've got the biblical example
of that in the Old Testament.
00:52:54.34\00:52:59.71
Why did the high
priest rend his garments
00:52:59.71\00:53:03.81
when he condemned Jesus?
00:53:03.81\00:53:07.88
Not only was a
veil in the temple rent
00:53:07.88\00:53:09.82
because we have a new temple,
00:53:09.82\00:53:12.12
the high priest
rent his garments
00:53:12.12\00:53:13.46
because we have
a new priesthood.
00:53:13.46\00:53:15.32
You and I are a
nation of priests in that
00:53:15.32\00:53:18.73
we make intercession
for others with God,
00:53:18.73\00:53:21.40
we're to do that special work.
00:53:21.40\00:53:23.50
Ephesians 2:18,
00:53:23.50\00:53:25.40
"For through Him, through Jesus,
00:53:25.40\00:53:27.24
we both have access by
one Spirit to the Father."
00:53:27.24\00:53:31.54
Hebrews 9:24,
00:53:31.54\00:53:32.61
"For Christ has not
entered the holy places
00:53:32.61\00:53:34.88
made with hands, which
are copies of the true,
00:53:34.88\00:53:37.28
but into heaven itself,
00:53:37.28\00:53:38.75
now to appear in the
presence of God for us."
00:53:38.75\00:53:42.02
So isn't that...
00:53:42.02\00:53:43.12
You know, don't you like
having friends in high places?
00:53:43.12\00:53:47.12
See, I know people
that know the president.
00:53:47.12\00:53:49.86
And that makes me feel important
00:53:49.86\00:53:50.86
because I know someone
that knows the president.
00:53:50.86\00:53:53.83
But you and I can say,
00:53:53.83\00:53:56.00
"We know someone
who knows the Father."
00:53:56.00\00:53:59.23
Through Christ we can
have a personal relationship,
00:53:59.23\00:54:02.34
we can boldly
come into His presence.
00:54:02.34\00:54:05.24
Why wasn't Moses instructed
00:54:05.24\00:54:06.91
to take the
tablets out of the Ark
00:54:06.91\00:54:08.68
to be read to the people?
00:54:08.68\00:54:10.21
Well, because it was
really a sacred object,
00:54:10.21\00:54:13.52
they had a written
transcript of that as well.
00:54:13.52\00:54:16.58
You'll notice not only
in the Book of Deuteronomy
00:54:16.58\00:54:18.75
but in the Book of
Exodus 20, Deuteronomy 5,
00:54:18.75\00:54:21.12
the Ten Commandments
were written by Moses
00:54:21.12\00:54:23.32
so we could look at that.
00:54:23.32\00:54:25.53
How many of you have
read the Constitution?
00:54:25.53\00:54:28.20
Some of you have read.
00:54:28.20\00:54:29.26
How many of you read
part of the Constitution?
00:54:29.26\00:54:31.63
Okay, did you
pull out the original
00:54:31.63\00:54:34.14
and read it or
did you read a copy?
00:54:34.14\00:54:37.51
So it serves the same purpose.
00:54:37.51\00:54:39.91
Well, you know, it looks like
00:54:39.91\00:54:40.98
we've got just a
moment or two left,
00:54:40.98\00:54:42.78
let me read a couple
more verses to you here.
00:54:42.78\00:54:46.01
Hebrews 8:5, it says,
00:54:46.01\00:54:48.52
"The earthly
things serve as a copy.
00:54:48.52\00:54:51.02
They are shadows of
the heavenly things.
00:54:51.02\00:54:54.06
As the Moses was
divinely instructed
00:54:54.06\00:54:56.12
when he was about
to make the tabernacle.
00:54:56.12\00:54:57.93
For He said, 'See
that you make all things
00:54:57.93\00:55:00.30
according to the pattern
shown you on the mountain.'"
00:55:00.30\00:55:03.40
And so this was an
example of the heavenly.
00:55:03.40\00:55:06.40
And then I want to
close with this verse
00:55:06.40\00:55:07.77
in Hebrews 9:19.
00:55:07.77\00:55:09.77
Hebrews 9:19.
00:55:09.77\00:55:11.07
This is referring to
00:55:11.07\00:55:12.14
what I just told
you about in Exodus.
00:55:12.14\00:55:14.48
"For Moses, when had spoken
every precept to all the people
00:55:14.48\00:55:17.81
according to the law,
00:55:17.81\00:55:19.25
he took the blood
of calves and goats,
00:55:19.25\00:55:21.38
and water, and
scarlet wool, and hyssop,
00:55:21.38\00:55:24.72
and he sprinkled
both the book itself
00:55:24.72\00:55:26.92
and all the people, saying."
00:55:26.92\00:55:28.66
So when he activated the temple,
00:55:28.66\00:55:30.86
he sprinkled all the furniture,
he sprinkled the people saying,
00:55:30.86\00:55:35.80
"This is the
blood of the covenant
00:55:35.80\00:55:37.27
that God has commanded you.
00:55:37.27\00:55:38.93
Then likewise he
sprinkled with blood
00:55:38.93\00:55:40.77
both the tabernacle
00:55:40.77\00:55:42.27
and all the
vessels of the ministry."
00:55:42.27\00:55:44.07
Would that include
the Ark of the Covenant?
00:55:44.07\00:55:46.27
To sprinkle the
Ark of the Covenant,
00:55:46.27\00:55:47.48
do you have to go in?
00:55:47.48\00:55:50.21
"All the
vessels of the ministry.
00:55:50.21\00:55:52.68
And according to the law
00:55:52.68\00:55:54.25
almost all things
are purified with blood,
00:55:54.25\00:55:56.25
and without shedding of
blood there's no remission."
00:55:56.25\00:55:58.42
So in 1844,
00:55:58.42\00:56:03.53
you entered the
last phase of the church,
00:56:03.53\00:56:05.29
you got seven phases
of the Church history.
00:56:05.29\00:56:07.50
It starts with Ephesus
and ends with Laodicea.
00:56:07.50\00:56:09.80
The age of Laodicea,
00:56:09.80\00:56:11.43
which means the
judging of the people,
00:56:11.43\00:56:13.77
began in 1844,
00:56:13.77\00:56:15.20
there's a great
revival in the church.
00:56:15.20\00:56:17.64
And Christ entered the
last phase of His ministry
00:56:17.64\00:56:20.38
which is a time of judgment.
00:56:20.38\00:56:22.21
God's people right now
00:56:22.21\00:56:23.95
are a nation of
kings and priests,
00:56:23.95\00:56:25.21
but we ought to be sanctifying
and evaluating our hearts
00:56:25.21\00:56:28.72
and making sure we are ready.
00:56:28.72\00:56:30.69
Was God more
severe with the priests
00:56:30.69\00:56:32.39
when they disobeyed?
00:56:32.39\00:56:34.19
When the sons of Aaron
went into the temple drinking,
00:56:34.19\00:56:37.13
what happened?
00:56:37.13\00:56:39.06
They were struck down.
00:56:39.06\00:56:41.13
We are a nation of priests.
00:56:41.13\00:56:42.16
God is calling for us,
00:56:42.16\00:56:43.26
standard of
holiness among his people,
00:56:43.26\00:56:45.23
we need a revival.
00:56:45.23\00:56:46.30
But what does God
say about Laodicea?
00:56:46.30\00:56:49.40
Poor, wretched,
miserable, blind, naked,
00:56:49.40\00:56:51.54
think they're rich
and increased with goods.
00:56:51.54\00:56:53.34
We need a revival, friends.
00:56:53.34\00:56:54.64
God's calling us to
be a holy generation,
00:56:54.64\00:56:57.31
a royal priesthood,
00:56:57.31\00:56:58.91
and this is the
sanctuary message.
00:56:58.91\00:57:00.92
So there's so
much more I could say.
00:57:00.92\00:57:02.52
Hopefully, you got
the gist of it though.
00:57:02.52\00:57:04.95
One reminder, friends,
we have a unique offer,
00:57:04.95\00:57:06.86
you need to text to get it,
00:57:06.86\00:57:08.12
and you're going to get a sermon
00:57:08.12\00:57:09.86
called Cleansing the Temples,
The Cleansing of the Temples.
00:57:09.86\00:57:14.10
And it's from our series,
The Doctrines That Divide.
00:57:14.10\00:57:17.73
The text number is 40544,
00:57:17.73\00:57:20.90
40544 and text
the letters SH014,
00:57:20.90\00:57:27.98
SH014.
00:57:27.98\00:57:29.81
And they'll give
you the information
00:57:29.81\00:57:31.05
how you can view that or
even I think request a DVD.
00:57:31.05\00:57:35.18
Thank you very much, friends,
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I think we're out of
time for today's study.
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God bless you,
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and we'll study His Word
together again next week.
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Let's face it.
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It's not always easy
to understand everything
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you read in the Bible.
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With over 700,000
words contained in 66 books,
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the Bible can
generate a lot of questions.
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To get biblical
straightforward answers,
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call into Bible Answers Live,
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a live nationwide
calling radio program
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where you can talk
to Pastor Doug Batchelor
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and ask him your most
difficult Bible questions.
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For times and
stations in your area
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or to listen to answers online,
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visit bal.AmazingFacts.org.
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