Can’t Understand by Editor

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jan 21, 1873

Can’t Understand

By Editor

In order to make room on the last page for the notice of publications which has thus far during this volume been crowded out, we here give place to the following matter, which would otherwise appear on that page.

Can’t Understand.

“I cannot understand that the sanctuary is to be cleansed by blood. Jesus comes and gathers out of his kingdom all things that offend.”—World’s Crisis of Jan. 8.

What has the gathering out of the kingdom to do with the cleansing of the sanctuary? Nothing. The kingdom is not the sanctuary. Why cannot persons understand what Paul tells them in plain language? Hear him. “And almost all things are by the law purged with blood; and without shedding of blood is no remission. It was therefore necessary that the patterns of things in the Heavens should be purified with these; but the heavenly things themselves with better sacrifices than these.” Heb. 9:22, 23.

The “patterns of things in the Heavens” consisted of the earthly tabernacle erected by Moses, and its sacred vessels; the “heavenly things themselves” are the true tabernacle above, the sanctuary which the Lord pitched and not man. Heb. 8:1, 2. Both the pattern and the true, the type and the antitype, were to be cleansed with blood, the earthly with the blood of calves and of goats, Heb. 9:19, the heavenly, with the blood of a better sacrifice, even the blood of Christ. It is impossible to make anything plainer than this. Is the language of the Crisis a fulfillment of Dan. 12:10?