LESSON VI.—THE SANCTUARY AND ITS CLEANSING—IN TYPE.
(Study for Sabbath, February 6.)
QUESTIONS.
1. Repeat Dan. 8:14. What line of reasoning upon this text led to the conclusion that the second coming of Christ would take place in the autumn of A. D. 1844? Note 1.
2. What does Dan. 8:14 say would take place at the end of the 2,300 days?
3. Repeat Heb. 8:1, 2, also 9:24. What literal sanctuary was in existence in A. D. 1844?
4. Repeat Heb. 9:23. Could a sanctuary in heaven need cleansing? Note 2.
5. Study Lev. 16:2. What instruction was given to Aaron concerning his entering the most holy place of the typical sanctuary?
6. Repeat Heb. 9:6, 7. By whom alone, and how often, was the most holy place to be entered?
7. Study carefully Lev. 16:5, 7-10. What was to be taken from the congregation of the children of Israel? Where, and before whom, were these two goats presented? How was a selection made between these two goats? For whom were these goats thus severally set apart? What was done with the great goat upon which the lot fell to the Lord's? For what purpose was the scapegoat reserved?
8. Study verses 15, 16. What was then done with the Lord's goat? Where was the blood brought? Upon what was the blood sprinkled? What was thus made on behalf of Israel?
9. Repeat verse 19. What was thus done to the sanctuary? From what was it cleansed? Was this cleansing of the sanctuary, then, from physical or from moral uncleanness? How had the sins of Israel been transferred to the sanctuary, and how were they removed once every year by this ceremony?
10. Repeat verses 21, 22. After the sins of Israel had been
