Lessons for Bible Students.
(PROPHET OF DANIEL, PP, 51-61.) 1. Moses having received the pattern of the sanctuary, in what chapter and book do we find an account of his erecting it? 2. Did God, after this, take possession of it as his dwelling-place? 3. How many times is this building called the sanctuary in the book of Exodus? 4. What does Paul say the first covenant had? 5. What was there in the first apartment? 6. What was the apartment after the second vail called? 7. What did that apartment contain? 8. What question is settled by this comment of Paul's? 9. Was the earthly sanctuary a pattern of the true? 10. What is said in regard to the earthly priests in Heb. viii, 5? 11. What are the earthly tabernacle and its sacred vessels called in Heb. ix, 23, 24? 12. What two important facts do we learn from these texts? 14. What is the sanctuary called in the book of Joshua? 15. Where was it first set up in the promised land? 17. What did God do on account of the gross wickedness of the priests and people? 18. Did the ark, after taken by the Philistines, ever return to the tabernacle? 19. Where was the tabernacle located in the days of Saul? 20. Where in the days of David? 21. How long did the ark remain with the Philistines? 22. What happened to them while it was with them? 23. To what place did they return it to Israel? 24. How many of Israel were smitten for looking into it there? 25. To what place was it removed from thence? 26. How long did it abide there? 27. To what place was it then removed? 28. From this place where did David remove it? 29. What was it that at this time came into the mind of David? 30. What did Nathan, the prophet, at first say to David in regard to this matter? 31. What did he afterward say? 32. Why could not David build the Lord a house to dwell in? 33. What did God promise? 34. What place was selected on which to erect the sanctuary? 35. Where do we find a full account of the erection of this glorious sanctuary? 36. How much time was occupied in building it? 37. How did it differ from the tabernacle? 38. The temple being finished, did the tabernacle give place to it? 39. What became of the sacred vessels of the tabernacle? 40. What was done with the ark? 41. Did God take possession of this new building? 42. How was this manifested? 43. Was the temple a pattern of the true sanctuary? 45. What is said in the book called Wisdom of Solomon, chap. ix, 8. 46. Where is the history of the sanctuary very fully stated? 48. What does the Psalmist testify in verses 68, 69? 49. What words does Jehoshaphat quote in 2 Chron. xx, 9, when speaking of the sanctuary which had been built in Canaan? 50. About this time what did God say by Isaiah? 51. What complaint did Zephaniah utter? 52. What did God threaten to do to the sanctuary on account of these sins of the people? 53. How did the people treat the messengers and prophets of God? 54. Did God fulfill his threatening? 55. What was done to the house of God? 56. Where is this recorded? 57. What notable period of time commenced with this destruction? See verse 21; Jer. xxv, 11. 58. What predictions were verified in this destruction? 59. What did God promise to be to Israel in the time of their dispersion? 60. How long did the sanctuary, thus destroyed, remain desolate? 61. What does Daniel pray near the close of the 70 years' captivity?