The Revelation of the Glory... Into the Holy of Holies. Part 34
17/05/20
The earthly ministry of Christ finished at the cross the alter of sacrifice in A.D. 31, it's curious to know that this knowledge although taught by the apostolic church was banished from the minds of Christians and led to the great disappointment of 1844. The popular error that the earth was the sanctuary was deceitfully used to justify for the need of visible man high priest 'the vicar of Christ' and the desire to restore the temple in literal Jerusalem under the banner of Zionism. How many things do we now do as a Christian tradition but has pagan origins and remain so with deception as their primary intention. Maybe we should mention these few examples which are questionable: Christmas, Easter, Eucharist, Virgin Mary, Sunday Worship, Speaking with tongues, healing services, infant baptism, mass, indulgences, life after death, purgatory, modern theology, ecumenicalism, racism, feminism, (that special sin we can't talk about but can talk about other sins), prosperity gospel, idol worship, Christian yoga, popery and the unholy alliance of church and state. If you happen to be believing and practising anything that is restricted by the Word of God or not sustained by the Word of God, cast it out. I am not saying that wearing a suit or playing classical music is better than the modest African attire or our modest mbira, I understand that some of westernised Christianity has led to slavery and colonialism, so as erroneous interpretations will manifest themselves in fanatical mindset and finally a rejection of the genuine religion as manifested in the life. The time has come to study your Bible for yourself and form your opinions for yourself and then by your example encourage others to follow your example. When we have a personal relationship with Christ by not honouring Him through erroneous interpretations, we can then enter by faith into the Holy of Holies and Christ in you the hope of glory.
Our scripture reading is taken from John 17:23 "I in them, and thou in me, that they may be made perfect in one; and that the world may know that thou hast sent me, and hast loved them, as thou hast loved me".
Without apology, I will not be celebrating the mission work of "Father Gonzalo da Silveira" the Jesuit who came to evangelize Africa and paving the way for oppression and apartheid. How could anyone enter the Holy of Holies with such hellish doctrines. All they gave us was stripes to chastise each other and eventually to genocides like that in Rwanda in the nineties.
This reminds me of the verse in Isaiah which exposes these enemies of the gospel : "His watchmen are blind: they are all ignorant, they are all dumb dogs, they cannot bark; sleeping, lying down, loving to slumber. - Yea, they are greedy dogs which can never have enough, and they are shepherds that cannot understand: they all look to their own way, every one for his gain, from his quarter. Come ye, say they, I will fetch wine, and we will fill ourselves with strong drink; and to morrow shall be as this day, and much more abundant". Isaiah 56:10-12
The other object lesson we can glean from the great disappointment of 1844 is that many could not enter into the Holy of Holies by faith because they were corrupted by the flatteries of false ministers. The spiritual things we read are also practical in our lives, as we see a temple in the spiritual with it's apartments, so our bodies are the temple. Ordinary priests could minister on the outer spaces of the sanctuary but could not minister in the inner spaces nor enter the Holy of Holies. In the practical, do not allow priests to corrupt us in the within, only Christ should be allowed to enter within the veil otherwise we will be guilty of adultery. Those who allowed such a scenario as stated above, became spiritual harlots. The main purpose of the Revelation of Jesus is to allow Him to the enter into our within (marriage) and shut out the other priests.
“In common with the rest of the Christian world, Adventists then held that the earth, or some portion of it, was the sanctuary. They understood that the cleansing of the sanctuary was the purification of the earth by the fires of the last great day, and that this would take place at the second advent. Hence the conclusion that Christ would return to the earth in 1844.”—The Great Controversy, 409.
This prophetic period came to its close on October 22, 1844. The disappointment to those who expected to meet their Lord on that day was great. Hiram Edson, a careful Bible student in mid-New York State, describes what took place among the company of believers of which he was a part... “Our expectations were raised high, and thus we looked for our coming Lord until the clock tolled twelve at midnight. The day had then passed, and our disappointment had become a certainty. Our fondest hopes and expectations were blasted, and such a spirit of weeping came over us as I never experienced before. It seemed that the loss of all earthly friends could have been no comparison. We wept and wept, till the day dawn.... CIHS 4.2
“After breakfast I said to one of my brethren, ‘Let us go and see and encourage some of our brethren.’ We started, and while passing through a large field, I was stopped about midway of the field. Heaven seemed open to my view, and I saw distinctly and clearly that instead of our High Priest coining out of the most holy place of the heavenly sanctuary to this earth on the tenth day of the seventh month, at the end of the 2300 days, He, for the first time, entered on that day into the second apartment of that sanctuary, and that He had a work to perform in the most holy place before coming to the earth; that He came to the marriage, or in other words, to the Ancient of Days, to receive a kingdom, dominion, and glory; and that we must wait for His return from the wedding. And my mind was directed to the tenth chapter of Revelation, where I could see the vision had spoken and did not lie.”—Unpublished manuscript published in part in The Review and Herald, June 23, 1921.
There followed a careful investigation of the scriptures that touched on this subject—particularly those in Hebrews—by Hiram Edson and two close associates, Dr. F. B. Hahn, a physician, and O. R. L. Crosier, a teacher. The result of this joint study was written up by Crosier and was published, first in The Day Dawn, a paper of limited circulation, and then in rewritten and enlarged form in a special issue of the Day-Star, on February 7, 1846. This was a more widely read Adventist journal, published at Cincinnati, Ohio. Through this medium it reached a number of the disappointed Advent believers. The rather lengthy presentation, well supported by Scripture, brought hope and courage to their hearts as it clearly showed that the sanctuary to be cleansed at the end of the 2300 days is in heaven, and not on earth, as they had believed earlier. - CIHS 5.1
“The passing of the time in 1844 was a period of great events, opening to our astonished eyes the cleansing of the sanctuary transpiring in heaven, and having decided relation to God’s people upon the earth.” Manuscript 13, 1889, published in Counsels to Writers and Editors, 30. - CIHS 5.5
“In the holiest I saw an ark; on the top and sides of it was purest gold. On each end of the ark was a lovely cherub, with its wings spread out over it. Their faces were turned toward each other, and they looked downward. Between the angels was a golden censer. Above the ark, where the angels stood, was an exceeding bright glory, that appeared like a throne where God dwelt. Jesus stood by the ark, and as the saints’ prayers came up to Him, the incense in the censer would smoke, and He would offer up their prayers with the smoke of the incense to His Father. In the ark was the golden pot of manna, Aaron’s rod that budded, and the tables of stone which folded together like a book. Jesus opened them, and I saw the Ten Commandments written on them with the finger of God. On one table were four, and on the other six. The four on the first table shone brighter than the other six. But the fourth, the Sabbath commandment, shone above them all; for the Sabbath was set apart to be kept in honor of God’s holy name. The holy Sabbath looked glorious—a halo of glory was all around it. I saw that the Sabbath commandment was not nailed to the cross. If it was, the other nine commandments were; and we are at liberty to break them all, as well as to break the fourth. I saw that God had not changed the Sabbath, for He never changes.”—Early Writings, 32, 33. - CIHS 8.6
Instead of the prophecy of Daniel 8:14 referring to the purifying of the earth, it was now plain that it pointed to the closing work of our High Priest in heaven, the finishing of the atonement, and the preparing of the people to abide the day of His coming. - CET 56.3
To be continued...
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