Lessons for Bible Students.
The Cleansing of the Sanctuary.
(PROPHECY OF DANIEL, PP. 75–85.) 1. By whom was the ministration in the earthly sanctuary, performed? 2. What was the act preparatory to the commencement of the ministration in that earthly tabernacle? 3. How does Paul sum up the entire work of the priests in the two holy places? 4. How is the ministration of the earthly sanctuary thus presented before us? 5. What was the first of these? 7. What may thus be said of each of the two holy places? 8. In how many apartments was the glory of the God of Israel manifested? 9. What did the priests do in the first apartment? 10. What did the person do that had sinned? 11. He laid his hand upon the victim to denote what? 12. What was then done to the victim? 13. What was done with his blood so shed? 14. This ministration went on through the year; what was the result of it? 15. On what day and month was the ministration changed from the holy place to the most holy? 16. With what did the high priest enter into the holiest? 17. What did he then receive of the children of Israel? 18. What was his first act with these goats? 19. What did he next proceed to do? 20. For how many purposes was this blood offered? 21. What were these purposes? 22. In Leviticus xvi, we read several important facts: first, what was done on 10th day of the seventh month? p. 78, last paragraph. 23. What was offered in the most holy place? 24. What was cleansed on that day from the sins of the people? 25. The high priest having by blood removed the sins of the people from the sanctuary, where did he bear them? 26. What stood at the door of the sanctuary as the high priest came out? 27. Having come to the door of the sanctuary, what did the priest do with the sins which he bore out? 28. The scape-goat having thus received the iniquities of the children of Israel, what was done with him? 29. What was thus done to the earthly sanctuary? 30. Of what was this ministration an example and shadow? 31. In Heb. viii, 1–6, &c., are some facts stated, worthy of careful attention; first, where is the priesthood of this dispensation? 32. Of what is our High Priest the minister? 33. What is said of the offering of our high priest, and where does he make it? 34. Was Christ a priest when upon earth? 35. What did the ministry of the priests in the earthly tabernacle shadow forth? 36. What was the entire typical service? 37. Who is the minister of the good things thus shadowed forth? 38. At the close of the typical services, who came? 39. What is the dividing point between the two dispensations? and why? 40. What was laid on Jesus and what did he bear in his own body on the tree? 41. For what was he raised from the dead? 42. For what has he ascended into Heaven? 43. What is contended by some in reference to Christ's ministering in both apartments of the heavenly sanctuary? p. 81, top, 44. The anointing of the most holy in Dan. ix, 24, is often urged as what? 45. But when the most holy was anointed, what was anointed with it? 46. And after this anointing, where did the ministration begin? 47. And of what was this order the example? 49. As far as the idea of sitting is concerned, how would it be equally proper to represent him? 50. How is Christ represented, even when coming in the clouds of heaven? 51. Can he not then be at the Father's right hand in both the holy places? 52. Where have we direct testimony on this point? 53. The word sanctuary being there in the plural what does it signify? 54. If our Lord does not then minister in both the holy places, what becomes of Paul's language? 55. What other texts have been urged to prove that Christ ministers only in the most holy place? 56. Is the word rendered holiest in these texts, singular or plural? 57. Being in the plural, and signifying holy places, what becomes of the objection based upon them? 58. What did the beloved disciple behold in vision at Patmos? p. 83, second paragraph. 59. A door was opened in Heaven; what door was this and why? 60. What shows it to have been the door of the first apartment? 61. What did he see before the throne? 62. In the earthly tabernacle where were the golden candlestick, and altar of incense placed? 64. What shows that Isaiah had a view of the heavenly tabernacle, and not the temple at Jerusalem? 65. In the visions of John and Isaiah, what is evident? 66. In the shadow was each part of the work many times repeated? 67. How is it in the substance? 68. How long, then, must our Lord continue his ministration in the first apartment?