Doctrine of the Sanctuary by Richard Davidson.
Day 1 - Overview and
highpoints of course expectations.
Sermon:
Ps 27 - This one thing I
desire of the LordÉ..to dwell in the house of the Lord all the days of my
life. The Sanctuary? Or in the
presence of the Lord - safe from danger, from self sinning.
God says to Nathan, You canŐt
build me a house but I will build you a house.
On Mount Moriah
He gathered cedar, gold,
silver, skilled people, appoints the priests, 4000 musicians paid by the tithe,
and wrote the things to sing. Count the songs written by David, 2/3 of the book
of Psalms. He wrote the hymn
book. And God gave David the plans
as the copy of the original.
His life passion was the
sanctuary.
In the old testament, the
other writers alongside David and the many chapters of the Torah (50 chapters)
deal with the sanctuary. It is the
passion of the prophets too, 50 chapters.
Then the whole book of psalms saturated with images of the sanctuary.
Book of Joshua - the keys of
each book focuses on the sanctuary.
1 -2 Samuel starts and
finishes with sanctuary.
Prophets - full of
information of it.
NT - Gospel of John centered
around the festivals of the sanctuary as Jesus fulfills each
Revelation - each section
starts with a scene in the sanctuary and key to understanding.
Pauline and other epistles
also include priesthood and mercy seat and laver wordage. Hebrews is loaded with it.
Sabbath 200 references here
and there comparatively.
Look at the life of the
Israelite. The modern life centers
around the mall, from one shrine to the other and offering our tithes to each
clothing stores. But ancient life
centered around the Sanctuary where they came to celebrate. 91xŐs they were
called to come to the Sanctuary (52 Sabbaths in those) . The temple was the center of their
life. They found fellowship, joy
and celebration, forgiveness, power and instruction from the priests.
Sanctuary isnŐt about
doctrine but about life.
1844 The Adventist pioneers
(GC 423) the doctrine of the Sanctuary was the key to understanding the times,
Adventist theologies key to understand truth.
Jesus is the center of the
Sanctuary. So the Adventist
message should have the Sanctuary as center to their message for he is center
and gives context to what he is doing - why any of it matters.
The spokes of a wheel
considered apart may be symmetrical but their utility only realized when
connected by a hub. The great
truths of revelation find their focal point.
The correct understanding of
the ministry at the sanctuary is the foundation of our faith EGW. Try teaching the Adventist message
through the explanation of the Sanctuary.
Our understanding of the
sanctuary is radically different from evangelical understanding of
reality. God had raised up the
Adventists to take back the sanctuary message that we have a real God who lives
in space and time in a sanctuary and that he invites us to live with him
forever.
Back to David. David wanted to be in the Sanctuary,
why? What is the sanctuary
experience? There are three parts
(suggested).
What is really of value,
worth dying for in this world?
Classical philosophers say :
Beauty, Truth and Goodness.
Esthetics, Dogmatics and Ethics
PP595 - EGW speaks of how our
schools should be like the schools of the prophets. There should be a radical change in educational
philosophy. Teachers should endeavor
to awaken desire for goodness, truth and beauty.
Davidson suggests those
things are there in the sanctuary.
Ps 27:4 To behold the beauty of the Lord. (NoŐam) - rare word; so lovely and attractive, it draws you
to it, moves you within and you say WOW!
The sanctuary message uplifts
the beauty of the Lord. DonŐt get
wrapped up in the theory of the truth that we donŐt get wrapped up in the
beauty. ŇWorship me in the beauty
of holiness.Ó PS 96:6 Strength and beauty are in his
sanctuary. Let His character
immerse us in His beauty, we fall in love. But beauty alone can be deceptive. Look at Buddhist monasteries and Catholic Cathedrals - it is
no guarantee of truth. We must
have the guarantee of truth.
(Baqar) =seek or inquire,
rare word= to not just seek but to intellectually reflect on it and search out
the truth of something, examine the evidence. To dig deep to find if something is true. David said he wants to go to the
sanctuary to dig deep.
Have you had a Baqar
experience?
Is it a doctrine to be
charted or one that changes your life.
Sanctuary doctrine the heart
of Adventism. And if it isnŐt true
then you have to walk away from Adventism.
Not only is it Biblical but
it was life-changing and he fell in love with it.
David. vs. 5-6 for in the time of trouble, he
shall hide me in his pavillion and lifted up above his enemies (vindicated from
false charges) investigative judgment a vindication from the lies of
Satan. CanŐt help to sing about
it. David says he would offer
sacrifices of joy ŇShouts of joyÓ.
vs. 13 - I would have lost
heart had I not found the (Tov) goodness of the Lord.
Last verse, David looks
forward when he looks forward to being in GodŐs sanctuary. Wait (Tikva) to hope and wait in the
Lord. The dead wait, but they cannot
tikva. It means to wait on
tiptoes. The center verse in this
chapter is what?
High verse - most crucial
point vs. 8 - your face Lord will I seek.
He is in the Heavenly sanctuary.
Calvary was the altar of the heavenly sanctuary. He will come to take us to the Heavenly
Sanctuary. In my FatherŐs house
(Sanctuary) are many mansions, and I am preparing one for you and I will take
you home to live with you for eternity.
Can we say, Ň I will be
there!Ó
Issues and Personalities of
the sanctuary doctrine out there.
Alive and well today in and
without Adventism.
A. Historical overview of
personalities and positions.
B. systematic enumeration
A. Four major eras in the
Adventist movement
Concerning
the crisis of sanctuary doctrine post 1844
Heirum Edson saw the vision
Oct 23, 1844. - breakthrough
1. 1860Ős
Detractors
BF
Snook - Conference President of Iowa
Conf.
WH
Brinkerhoff - His secretary, a lawyer
Both
didnŐt like organization of the church.
EGW supported organization so they had problems with her as a spokesman
of God and then rejected the sanctuary message and the investigative judgment.
(These come as a package deal you will notice.) 1865
open crisis started and they started the Marion Party after the name of the
town. They grew into the Church of
God, Seventh-day. 5000 members in
2002.
The Sabbath has power in the
sanctuary message. They donŐt have
it. Out of this came the World Wide Church of God, Garner Ted Armstrong and
Herbert Armstrong (Radio). This church recently rejected the seventh day
Sabbath.
Defenders
James
White
Uriah
Smith
JN
Andrews
2. Turn of the 20th century
Detractors
Dudley
Canright: Seventh-day Adventism
Renounced;
I
was CanrightŐs Secretary.
John
Harvey Kellogg: Sanctuary is
everywhere, God is everywhere - pantheism in everything. EGW paid his way into medical school
and pled with him not to follow into these ways of error.
A.F.
Ballenger: the theologian, missionary,
president of conf. But as he studied the topic he saw things different; he was
encouraged to study more but not print it, he did anyway and wrote Cast Our
for the Cross of Christ and Forty Fatal Errors.
7 points of deviation.
1) Heb 6:19-20 as point of departure ŇChrist has entered
into the veilÓ when did Jesus go into the Holy of Holies. Christ entered into the Most Holy
Place on the day of ascension. - current today
2) The holy place work was in the Old Testament by angels and
Melshezadek.
3) In the sanctuary service sin entered once sin was
committed - automatic
contamination. Sin comes out when
asked for forgiveness. -
current today
4) Two atonements, one the
atonement for iniquity for the world - on the cross. Then the atonement for judgment for Satan only.
5) Work of cleansing of the
sanctuary was judgment on the scapegoat - Satan
6) Rejects an
investigative judgment on GodŐs people. - current today
7) You canŐt have the
investigative judgment and assurance of salvation. He said
that SDA doctrine robs you of assurance of salvation. - current today
But the judgment brings
deliverance and the judge brings vindication for the good people. Within the
veil does mean going into the Holy of Holies. But why did he go there is the question - He went there to start the sanctuary
services on the inauguration day.
Defenders
S.N.
Haskell
F.C.
Gilbert
E.E.
Andross
3. 1930Ős
Detractors
L.R.
Conradi - born in Germany, to US then
to Europe as missionary and against righteousness by faith (and Jones and
Waggoner). HasselŐs dad conversed
with Conradi, he expected to be president; he planned to publish a view and
destroy EGWŐs voice in the church.
He didnŐt get elected and became a Seventh-day Baptist. EGW had rebuked him for things and he
hated her for it. Still there is a
sting in Europe against EGW.
WW
Fletcher - from Australia same as
Conradi summarized in 3 pts.
1) Christ immediately began
his Most Holy Place ministry when he ascended to Heaven.
2) The Sprinkling of the blood in the sanctuary wasnŐt to
transfer sin but to forgive, expiate, sin.
3) (Both above are contrary to EGW) Therefore rejecting EGW
authority as direct revelation from God.
Defenders
ML
Andreasen - wrote The Sanctuary
Service, setting forth the basic picture of the sanctuary service. He said there would be an end time
sinless generation that would vindicate the character of God.
4. 1980Ős
Detractors
Robert
Brinsmead - Australia
50-60Ős perfectionist phase
70Ős righteousness by faith
phase, wrote Present Truth,
then Verdict Magazine
80Ős he wrote 1844
Re-examined. June 1981 he published, ŇSabbatarianism Re-Examined.Ó Soon
after he left the SDA church. He presented universalism in the next issue -
that it doesnŐt matter what you believe, you will be saved. He is now in Australia and runs a night
club (dancing and unclean meat served special on Friday nights) and an avocado
farm.
Desmond
Ford - Australia never took the
perfectionist stage, He argued against BrinsmeadŐs perfectionist stage and
converted him and they preached together justification by faith. Yet from the get go he had questions
about the sanctuary doctrine and esp. the book of Hebrews. An exchange teacher
at PUC in Oct 27, 1979 he gave a lecture at an open meeting saying he couldnŐt
accept the investigative judgment and 1844 sanctuary message. He wrote the 991 page document. Aug
1980 115 leaders and teachers called to Lake View to discuss the manuscript
that he wrote. At the end meeting
it was determined he wasnŐt in harmony with SDA teachings and asked not to
teach those things. He ended up
loosing his credentials but stayed on at the PUC church membership until this
last year went back to Australia and had his membership removed. He had started up his own ministry,
ŇGood News Unlimited.Ó Over 100 ministers left the SDA church in the months
following 1980. 1/3 of
ministerial force in Australia were gutted when they followed Des Ford in
1980. After 1980 the GC set up the
DAR Com (the Daniel and Revelation Committee.) They brought out the hard
questions and wrestled with them for 10 years and produced 7 volumes. (Digging into the sanctuary message.)
Dec 27, 2002 by Des Ford: He
writes Ň I am in so much in sympathy of your efforts, I too attempted the
impossible, to support the investigative judgment. It became impossible.. I either had to ..(leave it) or deny
my SaviorÉ.the sooner you (let go) the sooner you will be happyÉ.consider you
may be mistaken.
Bill
Shea would debate with Ford. A
good friend of them both was Hepenstal.
His wife said to Ford, you act like the pope, like you never make
mistakes. He said he has made
thousands of mistakes but never in theology. That is his one big hang up. He wonŐt listen to others.
Dale
Ratliff - left the SDA church and
publishes a journal in Glendale, Calif.
Proclamation devoted to
getting Adventist ministers out of the church. Anti-SDAŐs.
Produced a video, taking it to evangelical churches. He wrote The Cultic Doctrine of
Seventh-day Adventists.
Raymond
Cottrell - on the internet is doing
the same thing right now. Internet
address: www.jesusinstituteforum.org /AssetOrLiability . He used to be and
editor of the Adventist review. He
thought the sanctuary doctrine wasnŐt biblical but only from EGW. That didnŐt last long. EGW said we must not believe because
she said but because it is in the Bible.
Defenders
DARcom - Daniel and Revelation Committee.
The basic issues that come
out here:
1) No Heavenly Sanctuary, is there one? Is it two part, is it reality or
abstraction?
2) Christ enters the Most Holy Place in 31 AD to start the Day
of Atonement.
3) Automatic defilement of the Sanctuary when sin is committed.
4) Azazel (scapegoat) doesnŐt represent Satan but Christ.
5) The Investigative Judgment isnŐt Biblical.
6) The idea of the investigative judgment is legalistic and
contradicts assurance of salv.
7) No historicist view of interpretation - it is wrong.
8) The Year-Day principal - NOT
9) Dan 8:14 = A. Epiphanies is the fulfillment not 1844
10) Rejection of EGWŐs
authority.
If you get all this you still
will miss the Sanctuary doctrine- even when showing all these points are
wrong. The question in the 3rd
millennium: So What? What
difference does the Sanctuary Doctrine impact my life?
Testimony : I was a legalist
and I didnŐt know it. I took the class on righteousness by faith with an
A+. But I didnŐt get it. Yet I didnŐt understand or have the
assurance of salvation. I read the
magazine by Brinsmead who was at that time in a 1950-60Ős perfectionist view
that we had to have the perfect acts and character of Christ before he can
come. For and Brinsmead helped him
to understand the issues and brought him to an understanding of the gospel.
Brinsmead is now an agnostic
and Universalist that everyone will be saved.
January 22, 2003
The cherubim in Gen 3
describes a cherubim with a flaming sword.
God makes skins for Adam and
Eve.
Gen 3 structured around the
sanctuary
The
sinner kills the animal. EGW says
that Adam took the life of the animal.
And
realizes and learns the plan of salvation right there.
Gen 2:24,25 they were naked
and not ashamed. (Arome =naked, not clothed in the normal manner). They
were clothed in robes of light. Check the creation story. It says that He made them in his own
image and in his likeness. Demute=
inner lightness, and outward appearance (image).
Third
creation account, Ps 104 goes through the 7 days of creation. Instead of saying, let there be light,
it says that God clothed -- with garments of light. Implying that they were covered with robes of light.
When
Adam and Eve sinned, they realized that they were naked (shamefully naked,
exposed in Hebrew) (Aroom) Gen 3:7.
They tried to cover themselves with fig leaves. Adam still said he was naked (even
though they were covered with fig leaves, yet still naked - more than physical
nudity (unmasked and exposed before God)) .
Nakedness of soul =
guilt. Fig leaves couldnŐt cover
the inward nakedness. Then what is
the clothing when they were clothed.
If it was inward nakedness, then they got inward clothing. God covered them with Ketonet =
garments, lbs = clothe. When
you see these two words together we only see them together when Moses clothed
the priests and Levites in the sanctuary.
Language for appointing someone for priestly ministry.
We now then have the priestly
inauguration of this couple to officiate there. This would be the first womenŐs ordination. (even in a
sinful world).
GodŐs plan was to have a
kingdom of priests 1 Peter 2:9.
Cain and Able bring
offerings. Gen 4:7 - after they
bring them (fruit and blood) based on the blood he is accepted. Cain depends on his works like the fig
leaves were works of Adam and Eve.
He didnŐt immediately reject him.
Grammer of the text supports not sin is crouching at the door. Instead can mean Ňsin offeringÓ. It means a sin offering is lying at the
gate of the garden, donŐt trust in your own works but the sin offering I made
available for you. Talking of the door into Eden.
Gate of the garden = door (an
opening) there it is,
the sin offering.
Sequence: 2nd
temple, Solomonic temple, mosaic tabernacle, Garden of Eden after sin and then
before sin. (see one page article in packet).
Which
way is the garden oriented - toward the east.
Which
way is the sanctuary oriented - toward the east.
The
tree of life was in the midst of the garden.
His
presence is in the midst of Israel
God
was walking around the garden in the midst of the day.
Deut
23 - God walking around the temple.
The
river that flows from the throne of God
The
river that flows from the garden.
Same
precious metals listed in the garden of Eden and in the sanctuary
Same
spheres of space, courtyard, holy and most holy place
Garden,
midst of garden?
6
days, 7th is Sabbath
Seven
sections ŇAnd God said to MosesÓ 6 times regarding the sanctuary
The
seventh is the Sabbath
In
the garden: Gen 2: The work
assigned to man is to Avad and Shamar, to serve and to guard. They were not
there to usurp and pervert or exploit the environment but to protect it. These two words together only in one
other place, in the ordination of the priests and Levites to serve and guard
the sanctuary. Num 3:7-8; Num
18:3-7
They are given the priestly
duties.
Greater
light and lesser light and for the light of the sanctuary
The
nature - almond tree, and lilly work, palm trees and open flowers in the
sanctuary. Why? You are in a garden!! He links the two.
God
saw, finished his work, then blessed (what happens when he finished the
sanctuary. Moses saw, finished his
work, then blessed it.
Terminological,
Structural, Verbal
Is
there an even more original sanctuary?
The Heavenly Sanctuary.
How far back can you go and
still find it. Is it there before
sin or after. Ezekiel 28: Is 14.
The fall of Lucifer (Jose
BertoluciŐs dissertation on this! In the library)
Isaiah 14 - to the Heavenly
realm - Satan says he will sit on
the mount of the congregation on the furthest north.
Ez 28:12,13 take a
lamintation to the King of Tyre (behind the scenes)
God appointed judges but He
was the king. He calls Saul a
prince, but says he will still be king.
King is the one behind the rulers.
Satan was in Eden, the garden
of God. (context) Every precious
stone your covering. The Heavenly
garden of Eden -
You are the anointed cherub
that covers, you were on the holy mountain of God - in the Holy of Holies on
the mountain of God. He walked
among the firey stones. Until iniquity
or better injustice was found in you.
<<Scripture presents Jesus already coming down as the Angel of the
Lord, He is like God but appears as the arch-angel.
See the equivilant between
the two trees - perhaps Jesus was the other covering cherub. How do you tell the difference?
Son - is the word, the living
word that comes down to be close to your creatures - the risk you may be
misunderstood. There is a test of
whether you trust what God says or not.
You cannot tell which is the tree of life and a tree of the knowledge of
good and evil.
Now you look at the days, two
days, Sabbath and any other day.
They look the same. All the
other commandments you can prove work but not the 4th. You can prove 1 in seven but not which
one.
Heavenly sanctuary is made
out of Heavenly Stuff.
One looks like a garden, a
tent, a structure - look for the commonalities to understand the original.
Hebrews 9 picks out the commonalities.
In ancient Near East, someone
dressing someone else is to set them aside for a special work; to appoint them
for a special job. . See the
links.
Notice it says he was the
covering cherub on the holy mountain of God. It was the mt of the Assembly. (the original purpose of the sanctuary - even before sin)
Refering to the holy mountain. The
mountain of the assembly. The
ultimate purpose isnŐtŐ to solve the sin problem. Place to come to worship.
DonŐt look at types and
antitypes to resolve sin - miss the point.
Before soteriology is
doxology. The place of worship. In revelation 21 - no more temple in the city
because God was there. It doesnŐt
say there is no sanctuary but that John didnŐt see a sanctuary for God was
there. There was no need for the
sun and moon for GodŐs light was enough.
So a sanctuary IS there.
Rev 21:2,3 ŇThen I John saw the holy City coming down..as a brideÉAnd I
heard a loud voice, Behold the Scane
(tabernacle, sanctuary) of God is with men. The sanctuary - Is it in the
city? It IS the city!!
***The shape of the city is a
cube, what else is a cube but the Most Holy Place!!
Ezekiel temple has a river flowing
from it too.
The sanctuary doesnŐt go away
but continues to remain for eternity.
Overview:
We see various sanctuaries
over the ages. Back to post-sin to
solve the sin problem; then the pre-fall Eden; but the original is in
Heaven. (Ezekiel 28, Isa 14
purpose Doxological, the Mount of the Congregation or of the Assembly). The ultimate question is, how far back
can you go- Jeremiah 17:12 ŇA glorious high throne, from the beginning,
from the very beginning is the place of our sanctuary.Ó The earthly sanctuary
never had a high and glorious throne.
God had a place for his creatures to come to meet.
Do you vision a place of
judgment?
Helical in Hebrew; in
Sumerian = EGAL; means Great House.
The house of the king. And if that king is divine then it is a
temple. Where God lives. It is the house of the Lord. ((Deonna, think how people come to eat
together to sup and celebrate and fellowship).
Exodus 25:8 - still primarily
a place to enter into fellowship with God.
Question: When you say
ŇworshipÓ, do you mean fellowship or what?
Exodus 15:17 - The song of
Moses ŇGod has delivered them, they are heading to the promised land, to the
place of their sanctuary. He will
bring them in and plant themÉ.
Tense of the verb (perfect,
already made - already established, as good as done, even before it has been
done.)
Exodus 25:8-9 Is this the
first mention of the building of the sanctuary? ŇLet them make me a sanctuary that
I may dwell among them. (Intimate fellowship)
Ňand see that you make everything like the pattern (Tabnit)É.Ó vs. 40 - And see
that you make everything according to the patternÉ..
What is that pattern? What did God show Moses on the
Mountain? Can we know?
Tabnit is related to the word
bana, ŇbuildÓ (verb). What is the
first thing on earth that God built?
Women. (Men were on a
potters wheel, crackpots;>) that word used with the creation of women.
Tabnit (noun) refers to
Ňminiature model of an original; pattern of the original for another copy. Look at 2 Kings 16:10,11. When King AhazÉsaw the altar that was at Damascus and sent a
pattern (a miniature model) with
the plans. The priest Uriah built the altarÉa copy/ Tabnit is an intermediately of what is original and what
will be.
So what Moses saw on the
mountain was a Tabnit of the original.
He took down the instructions. He built it like what he had seen.
So there is an original
Heavenly Sanctuary that is vast and made of Heavenly Stuff - real. If Moses had seen the original and told
to copy that - it would be overwhelming.
Pavement of sapphire - glimpse of it when the elders where there the
chapter before.
Tabnit found 20 times in the
OT
Heb 8:5 quotes from this text
(Ex 25:40); the greek equivilent =
tuthos = ŇtypeÓ. He was shown a type and told to make the earthly like the
heavenly had he seen.
Ex 25: 8 - use
9
and 40 is to understand what is going on in the Heavenly.
Vol4 Spiritual Gifts - p. 4A
-5 God presented before Moses a miniture model of the Heavenly Sanctuary. How could
she come to that conclusion when she didnŐt do a Hebrew, Sumerian, Greek study
of this word?
The foundation of typology in
Exodus 25.
Tupos =type occurs 20 xŐs in
the NT having to do with hermeneutical approach to the OT. 1: Romans 5:14 -
Adam a type of Christ
2. 1 Corinthians 10:6,7
Exodus events as types
3. 1 Peter 3:21 - the flood
and baptism (anti-tupos (in place of) of the flood) compared
4. Hebrews 8:5 - tupos
5. Hebrews 9:24 - anti-tupos
Anti- most often means =
corresponding to - the type. Is it just a way of thinking or is there a divine
design? The same characteristics
tie together as in the handout.
Illustration: jelly mold of a bird, hollow mold.
Tupos = literally means
hollow mold
1. It is real.
What is in it is real - not
anagogical.
Relationship between the
earthly and the heavenly.
2. It is not the original.
They happened typologically -
designed and in its very happening created to be a type.
3. Functions are to make the
end product. To shape.
4. We know what the end product will look like. The water will
conform to the basic contours of the reality. Jesus life - no human could make his life shaped as the
types of the OT. The new Moses, Adam, Elijah. Thus it must happen as it is written.
5. The end product
(anti-type) is greater than the
type .
January 29, 2003
Heavenly Sanctuary
1. Before SIN
a) Jeremiah 17:12 ŇFrom the
beginningÉ(Merishom and Makom) it takes us back to the beginning. God was from eternity. But the sanctuary referred to - from
the beginning. So God doesnŐt need it but made it for us. Since there were creatures, God made a
place to dwell among them. Then sanctuary is more for us than for God. It is a house to meet with him in time
and space. However God isnŐt
limited to time and space but can come into it.
b) Isaiah 14:13 The Mountain of the Congregation
c) Ezekiel 28:14 Holy
Mountain of God.Heavenly Eden
2) Eden (earthly a sanctuary)
- Gen 1-2 a replication of a
Heavenly Eden?
3) Exodus
25:9,40 Tovnit 1 Chronicles 28:11,12,19
Tovnit
=> copy of the heavenly
1) Job 1-2 Picture of un-fallen worlds leaders meet. Satan comes with them to represent
earth. If Adam hadnŐt fallen, he
would have been there.-Divine Assembly
2) Psalms 11:4; 18:6; 60:6; 108:7; 63:2 (?); 68:35; 96:6(?);
102:19; 150:1 (Hecal)
3) Isaiah 6:1-5 The picture of the Heavenly Sanctuary
and the 4 creatures singing Holy, Holy, Holy and they take a coal and touch
IsaiahŐs lip.
4) Jonah 2:7 - you have heard
my cry É
5) Micah 1:2
6) Habakkuk 2:20
7) Zechariah 6:12-13
8) Daniel 7:9-11; 13-14 The crowns cast at his feat and
millions ministering to him; the heavenly court room and the son of man comes
to the Ancient of Days. Fire and wheels.
9) Ezekiel 1; 10 and 11. The chariot comes from the North to the
earthly sanctuary.
10) Revelation 4 (like Isaiah
6) and Rev 11:19 and the tabernacle of God in heaven was opened. The tabernacle isnŐt heaven but heaven
has the tabernacle in it.; Rev 15:5,8 same.
11) 1 Kings 22: 19; 2
Chronicles 18:18 Picture of the
divine assembly in session.
12) Hebrews 7-10
What do we make of this
information? Is it literal or symbolic?
When found in the historical books and the legal material as well as the
prophetic books it helps to see it is literal. It is in the psalms and even more in Hebrews 7-10!!!
EGW: Strongest statements
GC 414-5, 421, 424
Why have such a hard time
with the idea of the sanctuary.
This society is infected with
platonic dualism. What is unseen
and thinking abstractly is more intelligent. Things that are eternal are grand and what is on earth is unimportant.
(?) We also donŐt like the idea of God being boxed up. God is not a god of boxes but breaks
the boxes.
Why do we think of the
Heavenly Sanctuary is a box for God.
But my house isnŐt a box for me.
It is my home and I am free to go where I want to go. But he has a house for our sake; he has
chosen to live in space and time
to meet with him. God limits
himself to join with us.
Heaven isnŐt less real than
this earth but MORE real than this earth.
Not hyper spiritualizing the
ŇsymbolismÓ of the sanctuary and also not hyper liberalizing it that it is only
just the size as the earthly one and that God is confined to it.
Biblical realism - something
can symbolize things and still be real.
He is a God of visual aids, audio and visual people. The communion service was real in that
there was bread and juice/wine and washing of feet but they were also
symbolizing greater things.
If God is infinite and he
makes finite creatures he must condensed and come down to be with us.
Good Book : ?Henry Cloud and
Townsand on ŇBoundariesÓ
ŇChanges that HealÓ about
obstacles in the past and what to do now.
Taking a different approach
to preaching the investigative judgment.
Doing a disservice by going right to Daniel because the context is
mixed. The context is the entire
scripture. Is investigative
judgment scriptural? In Hebrew it
is there: Rib.=covenant lawsuit or investigative judgment. Can see and read SheaŐs list of
texts.
What confirmed DavidsonŐs
belief. He started in
Genesis. IS it Biblical? Do GodŐs
people come under investigative judgment?
1) Genesis 3 - description of
Adam and Eve and their fall. God
comes and asks where are you. God
asks questions. Same questions as
though questioning witnesses and interrogating them and allowing them to
testify and then a verdict É
Leading theologian (German)
says what you have there is a legal investigative trial.
The first gospel judgment is
there too. GodŐs heart isnŐt in judging but in saving! The heart of the message is in
saving. (Ezekiel 28 - the fallen
cherib - describes a legal trial and investigative judgment - the first trial.)
First on earth is Genesis 3.
2) Next is in the story of
Cain and Able (Genesis 4) After the murder, God comes again and in verse 9 - he
asks where is Able, your brother - and invites him to testify. The verdict as murderer and the
judgment. Climax of the story, instead of destroying him, he puts a mark on him
to protect him. Investigative
judgment centered on GodŐs grace.
This is the regular procedure
of God in dealing with God .
Before he closes probation he first conducts an investigative judgment
for all to see the evidence, pleading with the guilty and offering vindication
instead of condemnation.
3) Gen 6 - the flood
story. Katuto calls it a legal trial
and judgment. God sees the evil,
God has determined to destroy manÉ.but Noah found grace in the eyes of the
Lord. Genesis 6-9 a chiastic structure, the climax is Chapter 8:1 ŇAnd God
remembered Noah and all the animals in the ark. Ň His ultimate
purpose was salvation. He had
wanted to save them all. Offering redemption and not destruction.
4) Gen 11 the tower of Babel.
Investigative judgment . vs. 5 ŇThe Lord came down to see the city.ÓÓ Does God
have myopia and need glasses to see something? What is happening.
He comes down to investigate something, to look at the evidence. He doesnŐt just pronounce ŇGuilty, not
Guilty!Ó But he comes down to see
and display the evidence. They
defy God to spread throughout the earth.
So God cuts off the top of the tower and changes their languages and
they spread out. He is a God of
the second chance.
If
you want to know what a judge is- go to judges ŇDelivererÓ. He wants to bring vindication of
scripture.
5) Genesis 18 to Sodom and
Gomorrah - the same language. vs.
21. And I will go down and see if
the cries that have come to me É.and he comes down in human form. AbrahamŐs
comment, shall not the judge of all the earthÉ.(investigative judgment)É
GodŐs regular procedure.
6) Psalm 11:4 in chiastic
arrangement with vs. 4 the key verse: The Lord is in his holy temple in
heaven. His eyes behold, His
eyelids. .BAHHAN=test or investigate. He investigates the sons of men. The
Lord, Bahhan the righteous.
This is an investigation not to condemn but to vindicate.
7) Ps 50 -
8) Deut 19:15-19 the earthly
sanctuary but a description too.
There were disputes brought there and the priests served as the court
room. Their work was to DARASH = to investigate the matter. Conduct the trial at the sanctuary, the
verdict and sentence.
9) Isaiah 3:13-14
10) Hosea 4:1
11) Micah 6:1-2; 7:9 Here were the best of illustrations how
the trial develops.
Micah lives in what period of
IsraelŐs history. 8th
cen. Before going into captivity.
Time almost up. Micah is like a prosecuting
attorney. (Mic 6)
ELEMENTS
OF A RIB (COVENANT LAWSUIT)
1. WITNESSES:
Plead your case, let the hills hear your voice. For the Lord has a Rib against his
people (3xŐs rib) mountains, hills are the witnesses. . Other gods are not existing to have as
witness. Mountains donŐt move. Yahweh
brings the lawsuit.
2. PREAMBLE (vs. 1,2)
3. HISTORICAL PROLOGUE - (vs. 3-4) God tells all he has done
for them.
God
puts himself on the witness stand and asks for their questions.
ŇWhat more could I have done.Ó
4. INDICTMENTS - vs. 8-12 He
talks about the wicked balances, ref to 10 commandments.
5. VERDICT : GUILTY-CURSES; INNOCENT-BLESSINGS AND VINDICATION
6. SENTENCE:
Therefore I will make you sickÉÉ.vs. 13-16 (language of Lev 27 and Dt
27-28)
Chapter 7 and vs. 9 - For the
repentant sinnerÉuntil he pleads my case (ribs my rib)
Conducts a trial - and he
will bring me forth to the light and I will see his righteousness.
Non of the investigative
judgments are for GodŐs sake for he knows everything. It is for our sake.
So is the sanctuary, for our sake.
As God asks questions, Adam and Eve show their guilt. The on looking universe can see. It is for him to reveal and see that he
is a fair God.
He doesnŐt just go around
zapping people. WeŐd all wonder
when it would happen to us and think that it was arbitrary. With the legal procedure we can see why
and even our own guilt.
For 15 years the ark was in
UzzahŐs living room. He could
demonstrate during that period of time that he was irreverent. There is a period of probation.
Nahab and Abihu - Moses leads
people into respect for God. ?
12) Ezekiel investigative
judgment
The
last vision given on the Day of Atonement, a day of judgment and
cleansing. Ezekiel isnŐt about God
judging but his reluctance. The final pause on the mount of Olives. 5 Centuries later Jesus comes to the
mount of Olives and weeps and says, Jerusalem I have longed to save you.
13) (Deonna bringing up this
one) - Job
14) Acts 7 - Stephen (last OT prophet) are conducting a lawsuit. Before they can kill him, ŇHeaven opens
and the son of man (Hebrews says he sat at the hand of his father) standing.
The verdict is announced (Daniel)
So now in your Bible study -
they can see that at the end of time, there is an investigative judgment with
power as good news.
Feb 5 Joanne
Davidson
Ex 25:1-9 Let them make me a
sanctuary that I may dwell among them.
Fundamental Theology: ŇThe
thinking behind the thinkingÓ
Assumptions and
presuppositions that help us interpret realityÉ.the ideas and concepts
And that leads to our
implications.
These presuppositions can
change but mostly figured out.
Kanole has contributed to
this deeply.
These presuppositions help
make the doctrine take shape.
Book, DarwinŐs God. In
constructing the system of evolution, biologists have assumptions:
About God, human nature,
sinÉ..affect ideas about scripture, creation..
Never do the Bible writers
try to prove that God exists, that just talk about him assuming he can
communicate, enter time and spaceÉ.he exists.
God created time, a week and
the cycles of the objects in space.
Greeks set up the concept of
timelessness.
Bible said that he is
eternal. What does timelessness include.
Greeks set up thinking that
influenced this.
SDAŐs unique in their concept
of timelessness. Helps to understand who God is.
Greeks, early church fathers,
Catholics and Protestants think otherwise, that God never changes (change would
be imperfection); canŐt be angry, because the day before he wouldnŐt be and
that suggests changeÉ.
Three great thinkers: About
Ex 25 about timelessness.
To study the basic essence of
something is called ontology.
No history, history not
important because God is always present in timelessnessÉ
But the Bible says that God
works in history and that God is involved in history (Exodus, Sanctuary, prophets,
fully God and fully man as Jesus, (continued stages of working in history) not
any problem for God.
Timelessness and eternity
have a precise definition in scripture.
I. Philo, a Jew in 1st century contemporary of Christ
with Greek influence in philosophy.
He says about God and
timelessness: God is excluded from the world and its history, not future. He is not in time but in eternity where
there is only present existence.
All those things that happens in history really doesnŐt matter. Real reality is found in Heaven where
there is timelessness.
But the Bible stresses on how
important things going on here are important and when he created the earth, It
was so good and John 3:16 life is so important that he was willing to give his
own life for it.
Timelessness in scripture -
God has not past present or future.
God can see all time at the same moment. God can enter our time zones freely. (ETERNAL)
Philo interprets then about
dwelling in the tabernacle. He
dismisses the surface meaning of the text. ŇGod dwells with us when the soul has an intelligent glimpse
of his intellectual manifestations.Ó
God doesnŐt need space and time for him to dwell in, only a soul aware
of him. Not literal reality. No building, jewels, priests, etc.
II. Thomas Aquinas: Catholic. 1200 years later. In the 13th
century. Theology is God. His understanding of God isnŐt
Biblical. God is without space,
spirit; we have body. We are in
time, God isnŐt. Since god has no
body or exists in time, he needs no sanctuary. It was only needed that God may make him self known
there. He says that the sanctuary
isnŐt necessary because only what happens in the mind matters that has contact
with what happens in Heaven.
Bible writers say how
important history is, at specific times and events and how he interacts with
individuals.
III. John Calvin: Protestant. Not yet understanding the Greek
influence. He didnŐt understand
that the sanctuary of exodus was real.
God is defused all over space.
No place can be defined for God.
God doesnŐt have a place, without body or time. So he cannot even be in heaven (Father,
which art in Heaven..) It is a metaphor for GodŐs glory.
He designed it to testify of
his grace only. Live on a higher rational plane.
Nobody except Christ that had
perfect theology. Learn from all
those before us.
Modern/Secular mind - it is a myth; money, power and will
to power matter only.
Process theology -
timelessness of God. Yet, God is in the world with us, but that he learns with
us. So closely identified with us, he learns like we do and processes with us.
He is in time. Manipulated by time like we are. Matures in his thinking like we
do.
Thus when the SDA church comes along and believes in a sanctuary.
It isnŐt mystical, time is
real, space is real, history is progressing and involved though not manipulated
by it. God is in control of the
stages of history. The sanctuary doctrine is important. Affirming human history, matter, using
the mind and senses to teach theological truth. A unique dynamic system. God is really involved in us. He wanŐts to be with us.
In studying the sanctuary we
see assumptions of the bible writers.
It isnŐt a systematic
theology, God working in history, making his ways known.
What is he doing, who he is
and how he identifies himself with us.
It isnŐt just a study of
feasts and festivals. It reminds
us that God wants to dwell with us, though not easy because we are
sinners. It reminds us of what he
does to make this possible. Moses
links it to time and space Ňjust like I told you.Ó
ŇHeaven is not less real, but
more real.Ó CS Louis.
True we should take our
presuppositions from scripture.
Biblical reality = time,
space, matter
Greek reality = spiritual
realm; Catholic reality = cultivating that spark in a person that hasnŐt fallen
yet that must be developed.
God loves matter, even fallen
matter. What is going on here is
radical, important. Sinfulness
is a barrier but God has done
everything to show that he wants to break down that barrier. No one ever saw the inside of the
sanctuary, ugly with skins on the outside.
The Study of
Beauty/Aesthetics (principals of beauty) in the Sanctuary.
Mostly done within the
Catholic denomination.
However, looking at the
Biblical definitions and orientation.
God gave strong stipulations
to care for the poor AND make me a sanctuary.
God wasnŐt to be worshipped
in an unfurnished tent.
Lots of chapters based on
sanctuary talk.
Mt
Sinai - must make it exactly like I tell you. Even tedious regarding hooks, nails and curtains, dies,
colors, woods, gems, É.see that you make it exactly like I have told you. The
liturgy, robes, garment - detailed. Ex 28:2.É garments for glory and for
beauty. X2.
Even
SolomonŐs temple (EGW: most beautiful building by human hands). Plans given to
him by David, given by the spirit.
Tons of details!! ŇThe Lord, made me understandÉ..and the work is great
because the palace is not for man but for the Lord God. God put in it tons of
gold, bronze, tapestry, wood, etc.
God didnŐt say, I give you the plans and you do the best you can - NO.
Ex 35, the Lord has called by name so and so and so and so and has filled him
with the spirit of God with knowledge and ..put in his heart the ability to
teach and skill to do all manner of work.
He provides the artisans to construct it. It is GodŐs will that things be beautiful. God was pleased
to have a place to dwell and that it was beautiful.
Learn
from this passage that being an artisan is a sacred occupation. He was filled with the Holy
Spirit. (on a prophet or priest
for sacred work okay but an artist? YES.)
Art can express the mind of God.
He was given wisdom and understanding. (not just playing around with
colors and paints) it takes skill to hammer gold without being torn. To know how to work with silver and
make a musical instrument. You
carve a guitar with a chainsaw, cutting with the grain to make it work. The knowledge of how to make a
tapestry, how to depict Seraphim (the burning ones) in a tapestry? What about
the songs they sang? 2 Sam 23:1-2 David said, ..the Spirit of the Lord spoke to
me and His word was on his tongue.
God inspired. Not to
come into GodŐs presence with any olŐ thing but with beautiful.
GodŐs prophetic truth was in
poetry (40%). Poetic
pronouncement. Why did God speak
through poetry. Samuel tells Saul:
when you come to the hill of GodÉyou will meet a group of prophets with
instruments and they will be (1
Sam 10:5) prophesying.
2 King 3 - music with
prophecy
EGW - curriculum of prophets:
law of God, instructions given to Moses, sacred history, sacred music and
poetry. PP 593. How often the psalmists speak of the
beauty of the Lord. PS 27
:One thing I desire of the Lord, that I may dwell in the house of the Lord, to
behold the beauty of the Lord.
Beauty a vital part of his character.
Why is God interested in
beauty? Is it just to make our
lives happier? What can God convey
with it? Why did God make the
sanctuary so beautiful and no one worshipped in it. But it was lavishly beautiful. What does God teach about himself?
Part of his nature.
It gives value to life.
CanŐt judge a book by his
cover - inside is full of beautiful light.
Poetry intensifies language
and the feelings and truths and strengthened.
If God is in the work of
changing lives, he would want the language to impress us.
All the minor prophets, all
the judgment stuff is in poetry.
Some wonder if beauty isnŐt
able to convey truth that words fail at.
Have you heard a song and you
feel such yet you cannot express it.
Another level of
communication - superior layer of communication.
It reminds us that we are not
just a mind but holistic. Mind,
soul and spirit and we can learn through our sense that words cannot express.
NT: Paul writes the esthetic
mandate. Whatsoever things are good, honest, pure, true and good report
think on those things. Written to
multi-cultural church.
OT: Mt Sinai - Joshua said, I
hear the sound of war, Moses said I hear the sound of worship. How would he be able to distinguish. HeŐd been in GodŐs presence. Moses had lived in a palace and
the priests there had wanted to initiate him into the cults of Egypt. He knew Egyptian worship. He was able to evaluate.
Taste and See that the Lord
is good. Look at that combination
of senses. That is how we
experience God.
The mind perceives truth and
the senses are more suspect - we think. But God demonstrates that he wishes
that we would come into a personal relationship with him with our senses.
There are dangers with
esthetic understanding:
God later condemns the vary
worship services he inspired. It
became noise and stench.
What happened in Micah
6. Did God make a mistake,
no. The power of beauty is so strong that then people think that all
that is important is what things look like.
God wants a transparent
expression of what I am doing in you.
He says he is sick of their
worship even though they follow it to the T, they missed the point with only
the externals in place. The heart isnŐt committed to him.
Seventy Week Prophecy
(Daniel 9:24-27) @ Jiri Moskala, Th.D., Ph.D.
vs. 24
Seventy weeks are cut off for
your people (2) and your holy city (3)
A1 to finish (end, put down)
rebellion (2)
A2 to seal sins (to bring an
end to sinning) (2)
A3 to atone for iniquity (2) B1 to bring in everlasting righteousness (3)
B2
to seal (to put to end/to confirm) vision
{How
the rest of the vision will also be fulfilled}
and prophet (prophetic vision) (2),
B3
and to anoint holy of holies (3).
vs. 25 Therefore know and
understand (this):
A1 The Coming of the
Messiah
>From the issuing of the
decree (command, word)
To restore and build
Jerusalem until the Messiah Prince
There will be seven weeks and
sixty-two weeks. B1 The Rebuilding of the City
It
will be rebuilt with square and moat, but in perilous
times (in times of trouble)
vs. 26
A2 The Death of the
Messiah
After sixty-two weeks, the
Messiah will be killed
and none will be for Him (He
will have nothing.) B2 The Destruction of the City and the Temple
And
the people of the Prince who will come, will cause
the
destruction of the city and the sanctuary. The (its)
end
will come in a flood; and till the end there will be
war. It is decreed about desolations.
vs. 27
A3 The Fulfillment of the
Sacrificial System by
the Messiah. He
will make strong (confirm)
a covenant with many in the
last (one) week;
and in the midst of this
week, He will cause
sacrifice and offerings to
cease.
B3
The Destruction of the City and the Destroyer
And
upon the wing of desolation comes a destroyer,
until
the end that has been decreed is pouring out on the
destroyer.
Daniel 7 - 9
Effect CAUSE
Visible invisible
Results roots
Ÿ
The order of these
chapters is unlike modern or Hellenistic thinking which from cause to effect
while Hebrew thinking is from the effect -to-cause.
Ÿ
The basic contour is a
progression or further elaboration from the chapter 2-7-8-9
Ÿ
Chapter 9 starts with a
prayer and then it moves to Gabriel explaining things to Daniel
Ÿ
See handout (Seventy
Week Prophecy as above)
Ÿ
6 phases with 6 Hebrew
infinitives
Holy of holies uses a
principle of PARS PRO TOTO - description of one part of the house to represent
the whole house.
Why 70 weeks given for the
anointing of the sanctuary - speaking of the anointing of the heavenly
sanctuary after his going to heaven.
Anointing of the sanctuary
539/8 - which sanctuary is the question? Because the Solomonic temple was
destroyed in 587/6. HerodŐs Temple
from 515-70 AD.
Sacrifices will cease as
recorded in Matthew.
I People II
City
Messiah - time related time-
never here
Tearing of the veil when
Jesus died on the cross = the fulfillment of everything predicted of the
Messiah through the sanctuary services - now end and cease. After his death you donŐt have to
sacrifice the animals.
7
weeks 62
weeks +
547 BC 408BC 27
AD 34
AD 70
AD
1. Mareh + been in Hebrew
2. Gabriel chapter
9:21 & 8:16
3. Time interpretation - position
Hazon - the whole vision,
Heben? - part of the vision
Chapter 8 time element at the
end
Chapter 9 the time element at
the beginning (unusual)
4. Cut off nehtach -only time
used in scripture; (Dan 8:24) for your people and the holy city ((((would this refer to the
branch and the Gentiles get grafted in - vision time period only)))) - Dan 9:24. Is not about the rejection of GodŐs
people but about the Messiah and his activity.
How do we know it was at the
end/beginning and not somewhere else.
2300 evening and mornings,
part cut for a purposes;
The sanctuary to be purified:
volume 6 Anchor Bible Dictionary, publish. 1992 page 739.
David
Wright not SDA scholar, saying this word = be purified.
Same as cleansed in KJV.
Septuagint in the Greek
language = to purify
Vulgate - Latin translation
of the Hebrew = purify and cleanse
Seriac Pershita = purify and
cleanse
In Job 4:17 - connects
between justify and purify. Hebrew
parallelism, just tsadak = beautification, purify NASDAQ (Dan 8:14)
To cleanse,
To justify, to make right.
To restore, To put to the
original state
To vindicate
Chapter 7
Lion/Bear/Leopard/horned beast/ 10 horns/ one horn/judgment; then the kingdom of God.
Chapter 8
Two animals, ram and goat. Used
only in the day of atonement!!! Dealing in chapter 8 with cleansing of the
sanctuary. Goat has a horn.
Cleansing of sanctuary; then the kingdom of God
In bold - they
correspond and parallel
Then in the terms of
the word what is judgment? To cleanse, justify, make right, restore and
vindicate.
Chapter 8:13,14 - main
points: How long before the rebellion etcÉ.2300 evenings and mornings. To
understand the question. The literal translation:
Until when the vision (Hazon), the daily (continual) -Tamid and the transgression desolating
to give both the sanctuary and the host a trampling. When the vision will come
to an end and what will follow?
Answer: until evening -
morning 2 thousand and three hundred, then the sanctuary will be Nitdaq
cleansed. (cleansed, justified, made right, restored, ..)
What does it mean? Judgment
happening in heaven chapter 7, the heavenly sanctuary. What God is doing in
heaven, helping his people.
Showing Daniel 7,8,9 linked.
This is key because we are the only denomination that thinks so. Others think A. Epiphanies cleansed it.
Lecture by Dr.
Gane--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Feb 19
Offerings before the
tabernacle is built
burnt offerings
Job
atones for his friends (sin offering)
friendship offering/.Peace
After the tabernacle is
built
Sin and guilt offerings.
Grain offering (in different
forms)
Is it right? But does that make it important, of
extreme value.
What is most important about
the sanctuary?
The
colors, pins, etc.
The
play/drama is the thing of important and the people.
The priest represents Christ,
the victim = Christ, veil, incense, offerings = Christ.
Leviticus structure:
Lev 1 - Burnt offering
(voluntary/private)
Lev 2 - Grain offering (voluntary/private)
Lev 3 - Well-being offering
(voluntary /private)
Lev 4:1-5:13 - Sin offering
(mandatory)
Lev 5:14-17 - Reparation
offering (mandatory)
Lev 6 & 7 - Supplementary
instructions for the priests
Lev 8 to 10 - Consecration
& Inauguration
Includes
Nadab and Abihu
They
dance to the calf
Lev 11 to 15 - Physical
ritual and Impurities
Things
to do with death.
12:6-8
woman gives birth to a child, brings a sin offering. Why?
About
physical impurity, the state of mortality
Lepercy,
in contact with mortality, discharges have to do with mortality
As
a state of fallen sin. To redeem
from that state of sin.
Does
Christ die for our acts of sin only?
But what of our state of mortality and
impurity.
John
3:16.. that whosoever believes in Him shall not perish
but
have everlasting life.
Lev 16 Day of Atonement
Lev 17 to 27 - Holy Life
Jews emphasized holy life all
week.
Are we seven day Adventists
or are we confined to the Seventh Day Adventists
Jesus: be holy as I am holy.
Then we get several laws:
what does that have to do with being holy -
Love your neighbor as your
self at the heart of the book of Lev.
What = holiness and = love God
Holiness is centered on God
and he defines holiness. That
helps to understand the sacrificial service and ?
God was located in the most
Holy Place enthroned above the cherubim.
Shikina (Ex 29:8) Mishkan, Shikan in Hebrew;
Purpose of the sanctuary - in
order that God may dwell among them.
Adventists think sanctuary
means judgment and atonement and getting rid of sin.
But
it is about presence.
Why
did God create me? (Looking in the mirror)
God must have had me for the
same reason I had a child. For company, to walk along the beach and interact
with. God is an extravert. He wants to be with his people as close
as he can get (for them) and project his right image. A god of immortality.
He doesnŐt want to destroy his people. Like a bubble (bubble boy)
It
was GodŐs palace.
For those who got married,
When you say ŇI Do.Ó it isnŐt just information but it changed reality. Lev 9 - fire consumed the
sacrifice. Showing that you can
interact with God.
Voluntary sacrifices may have
been whenever they went to the temple (1x year like in SamuelŐs fatherŐs case)
For a sin offering: it had a cost. They couldnŐt pay for forgiveness but
instead they were tokens, God paid the cost.
Come buy milk, without money
- a transaction of value; but the price to you is free; to God is priceless.
Minor impurities -
menstruation (water)
Having a child - requires
blood
Numbers 28-29 calendar of
sacrifices.
Morning and evening, Sabbath,
once a month, yearly feasts.
All points to Christ and how
he saves us.
Questions : Why the liver?
The thigh (covenant)
Cleansing?
Heavy in blood and produces sugar (energy)
Diaphram
or peritoneum
Sin offering of high priests
(Lev 4:3-12)
Offers
a special sin offering: Blood has
to go all the way inside the tent.
Ordinary priests - cannot eat
the flesh of his own sacrifice.
Paying
a debt and getting some back isnŐt right.
At the inauguration - the
sacrifice gets consumed in fire.
Lev 16 - This is the way
Aaron can go into the Most Holy Place so that he doesnŐt die. The whole procedure had to be done
properly. He confesses over the goat.
Attitude of giving all to
God. Attitude towards God.
Relational - Do you love him
and loyal to him; not do you have a perfect memory?
There is a sacrifice for
those that donŐt know what they did, with the most significant offering. Guilt takes people to drinking, extreme
sports, psychologist. Bible said :
Take it to me.
Woman couldnŐt be priests:
1) military role
2) men can be impure through
nocturnal imitation vs. woman doesnŐt know when onset is. Therefore could be ritually impure
without knowing it. It isnŐt that woman couldnŐt represent Christ.
3) Sin offering had to be a
female.
4) Patriarchal culture,
lineage traced through the male line.
Ancient priesthood and modern
ministry - which isnŐt modern priesthood.
Jesus is our priest. Daniel 9 - those that try to replace
those that he removed, those that carry on - that is the little horn.
Instruments of the temple:
One hand on the head by the
offered. Not giving full responsibility.
Slit the throat, animal
quickly looses consciousness.
Blood collected.
Priest at the jugular (not
pretty)
Mortality
isnŐt pretty
Priest takes blood and
splashes it around the sides of the altar.
Meanwhile the offered is
doing what? It has to be skinned (belongs to the priest Lev 7:8)
Then quarter it, priests lift
the heavy bull onto the altar. Except shins, entrals have to get washed.
(Feeces on both) DonŐt give a food gift with dung on it. It must be a proper food gift to the
lord.
3 beings came to Abraham, he
gave a fatted calf and grain. Then
Abraham discovers that it was a sacrifice to God.
If you offer a meal -
friendship. You donŐt eat with
your enemy. Jesus did. (Tax
collectors, IRS people, sinners)
Then he made smoke, the sacrifice
ends up being burned to get smoke like incense. God doesnŐt need it but it is pleasing. What was pleasing - the merits of
ChristŐs sacrifice and the honor to God.
Otherwise it is all impractical.
At the ugliness of the cross, we see the beauty of Christ and what he
did.
Cubit - length of mans
forearm (elbow to fingertip)
Grain - on altar
Well-being (no spoken
confession), blood around the altar
Then
the hard fat is taken off (kidneys etc) gets burnt (all blood and fat)
Prohibition
of eating blood,
Do
we have to do it now, (roasting,
salting)
Basic
thing, slit throat and leave hanging.
God
is creator, guardian of life. He
never gives right to humans
Helps
to respect the sanctity of life
Interesting
that those that respect animal life respects human life.
Moral
issue - respect for life. Way more serious than drinking alcohol.
Acts
15:20-29 Cannot be a Christian and ingest blood.
Shalom - well being Jacob
sends to find the well being of JosephŐs brothers.
The offered could eat. (What of the Passover offering)
Not even God consumes the
blood in the offering.
Priest gets the shoulder and
right thigh.
Mandatory sacrifices:
Priest takes the blood,
officiates. Takes blood with finger - sprinkles 7 times before the veil (in the
area, in front of the veil) Then once on each horn of the incense altar.
For the sin of the community
- instead of the priest laying on hands, the elders lay hands on the head of
the animal. Then everything else
is the same.
Why is the ritual for the
High Priest as serious as the sin of the whole community. Because he represents all Israel to
God. So when he sins it has a
communal responsibility and representative. Is 9:6 ŇThe government will rest on His shoulders.Ó
If you get burnt by the
church, remember Is 9:6 it all rests on His shoulders, you just work here.
Leaning on the head of the
animal - he has born our sin and carried our sorrows.
Purification offering -
better name, from acts of sin or from physical ritual impurity (2 types of
evils (Ps 103:1-3) dealing with acts and state.
For a commoner, lean on head
of animal is an unspoken confession (donŐt tell all nitty gritty) It isnŐt the priest that had authority
to forgive sins. Lev 4:31; 4:22;
4:35 Looking in Hebrew: The priest
will make atonement for him, (passive) and it shall be forgiven to him.
Instruction : Remove the fat.
What it is all about: Thus the priest shall make atonement for him, and he
shall be forgiven.
An interaction with God.
Atone: restore relationship,
removing evil to restore relationship.
Who is the subject of the
action? The priest, no. God!!
God forgives.
Lev 4:26 - the priest shall
make atonement for himÉ.
The priest removes the
sin/evil from the offered.
Remainder of the animal is
the priests after sprinkling blood on the horns.
The person commits sin
(knowing or not) and transfers the guilt to GodŐs realm, the priest and the
altar. The blood (if it splatters
on a garment, must be washed off) Evil transfers to the sanctuary and that is
why there is a need of the Day of Atonement.
Some ask how could the blood
(ChristŐs blood) would defile the sanctuary. But it is a medium.
When you wash your clothes does it look the same, the wash takes off the
dirt. Washed in the blood, it
takes the evil from the person.
For cases of sacrilege (eats
holy food without knowing or misuses tithe) misappropriation of tithe =
embezzling. If not knowing you
were doing wrong or the consequences.
Vacuuming
past Friday night, Sabbath. Did I
know it is wrong, did I intend to be disloyal to God? No What about deliberate
sins? Serious ones, not much Lev
5:1 (withholding testimony - you are required to testify and not to is perjury
for the community and grave sin.) RobberyÉdeliberate. Civil cases, fine, death payment. Numbers 15:22-31: if the
community or individual commits a sin- - - high handed sin (a hand that is
lifted up, the person is cut off.) Cutting off the line of descendents. No opportunity for offering
sacrifice. If you commit a defiant
sin against God and sever the relation with God.
Apparent contradiction 2
Chronicles 6:23? Manassah was evil, sacrificed kids in fire (should have been
cut off and his descendents. After
being in Babylon he calls out to God, he repents.) You donŐt legislate mercy. Mercy is over and
above the law.
Christ is able to do what the
sacrifices of the law of Moses could not do.
Manassah had to be saved, and
David had to be saved through Christ.
Grace isnŐt cheap. The standard is high. Even inadvertent sin is costly. Even more so the deliberate sin.
Our concept of sin is
filtered through the sermon on the mount.
We think of sin as hate, retaliation, lust of the eyes. Jesus raises the standard.
The Jews counted sin as
concrete overt actions.
EGW : Even our praise and
prayers to God requires the merit of ChristŐs sacrifice.
Much incense was given to
mingle with the prayers of the saints.
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Part for all principal : if
the priest receives blood on his head, his thumb and big toe, how much of the
priest is consecrated: the whole.
Lev 16:16 - unpurities are
removed from the Most Holy Place, how did it get there? Part is touched and the whole is
affected.
Sanctuary is about GodŐs
character, authority.
Daniel: GodŐs authority, reputation is legally
cleansed. The dynamics of how our
sins are dwelt with.
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Cont. Dr. Ganes presentation:
Am I forgiven in 31 AD? No, because I am not born yet and so
need a priest on my behalf when I sin and then ask forgiveness.
We start out lost, in seaÉ.a
lifeboat rescues us, Christ is the salvation - abundantly. The only way, the
only name that people can be saved. Act 12
Under obligation once sinned.
What to do and how to
respond?
Numb 19:13, 20 if a person
refuses atonement, he is cut off.
Because he didnŐt take the opportunity God gave him for cleansing.
Romans 2 - those who donŐt
know Christ.
Person may not know Christ as
Christ, but still listened to the Holy Spirit.
These rituals didnŐt
accomplish anything in and of themselves.
IT was an expression. It
was like acting out their prayers and transactions on the spiritual plane.
Blood applications in the
Holy Place during the year, Lev 4
What I donŐt get: people that
reject Christ in the distorted view that has been presented by a non-loving,
misrepresenting Christian or Muslim.
But they listen to the HS and live a life of love.
Can there be a person that
lives in love, Christian or not - and gains eternal life under JesusŐ blood and
1) ignores law, but lives in love, or 2) does good deeds for self- or 3) a mix
of self and others? Self answering. Self, no. Others, yes.
Hebrews 11:13
Jacob Milgrom (pomegranate)
is most written on Leviticus.
When a person commits a sin
unintentionally it transfers to the alter automatically affecting the
sanctuary. The sin of the
community affects the altar of incense.
The brazen and unrepented offenses affect the ark. Lev 20:3 and Num 19:13, 20. Altar Call, chapter ŇWasteÓ The offering acts as a ritual
detergent.
We confess our sins (phase 1)
and investigativeÉ(phase 2)
Milgrom missed the reversal
concept and how the person can be cut off.
We donŐt need to be ashamed
of what we believe. What we
believe stands up to the test of the text. DonŐt be afraid of what you will find. The Bible doesnŐt need you to defend
it. For those that donŐt agree
with SDA thought on the Sanctuary just donŐt know enough about it. We can be amazed that the pioneers, not
having computers, came up with the same results that we can get today.
Mercy the operative word.
What and when of the Judgment
Or the SO what? In the altar call, what difference does
it make. God is setting our
confidence in concrete. It tells me the seriousness of the times we live in. It makes a difference to the way we
live.
If we knew that Hitler was on
the rampage, would it make a difference?
IF we knew that the
terrorists were setting off bombs of poison in my city, would that matter to
me.
Why is the sanctuary
important
45 in prophets on sanctuary
45 booksÉ.?
3 fold sanct. Ps 27 and
handout. The goodness , beauty and truth of the sanctuary - understand.
Major disputed issues, list
names, detractors and advocates. Not to reproduce but to know who is for or
against. Can you place the person
in one of the four eras.
Where they belong in history.
Esp on BalangerŐs theology -
foundational.
Major modern figure -
Brinsmead and his phases
ÉÉand
rejection of the Sabbath.
Essay: major points on
Sanctuary debated and rejected todayÉfrom the destractors.
Typological relationships:
Greek
work tupos antitypes, where found, 5 characteristics on typol,ogy
Ex
25:9,40
Penguin
mold, typology concept and tupos.
Where is the heavenly
sanctuary mentioned in the Bible - references, know them
What is the nature of the
sanctuary, function before sin
Handout - basic idea of
Garden of Eden as the first sanctuary: Underlining is okay.
Investigative
judgment - Gen 3:15 Sodom/Gomorrah
Evidence of investigative
judgment.
Is 3: Mich 6, Hos 4 - ?
Ezekiel pattern - spend time
on this one. Confirmation of the
sanctuary.
The
type,
William
Shae - mull over it.
The
most clear type of the investigative judgment going on in Heaven
Essay
on this.
Essay - write the esthetics
of the sanctuary. Principals of beauty
Sanctuary
and fundamental theology.
The
place the Sanctuary doctrine plays on other systems, Catholics
About
investigative judgment and radical way of thinking about God
They
cannot see the sanctuary in heaven.
They need a conversion on the idea of biblical realism and God can come
into space and time,.
Dan 7 - 9
Going
through these chapters, over the notes and basic notes crucial to set forth the
sanctuary message from these chapters.
>From the reading: briefly review the evidence for the
Year date : not Ez, or Num.
Confirmation
of the sanctuary doctrine - from Daniel and others.
Moskil/ Nizdock - can mean
restore, vindicate, and ? vs. 14 is an answer to 13. How long
will the transgression be, and giving over to be trampelled. 2300 days the sanctuary will be
restored - the tomid, gospel, the sins accumulated in the sanctuary, cleansed,
Trampling under feet,
meaningn GodŐs people and God is being accused falsely. Basic problems in 13 is solved in 14 -
Not must talk on by Moskil.
Not covered: Biblical reasons
why Azazel isnŐt Christ but Satan.
Look at chapter in the book for 3-4 reasons.
Read notes.