Then Shall the Sanctuary Be Cleansed - Donald K. Short

The "True Tabernacle" and the Church
In 1844 after the Disappointment, a new work
was to be done which had never been attempted
before. The believers were to see and understand
the rebellion of the human heart against God and
truth. Their enmity had remained unconscious,
awaiting revelation in the final atonement. The
work begun then would result in complete
reconciliation; the atonement would become a fact.
There would be a people sealed and made ready to
see God face to face. This sealing work described
in both Revelation and Ezekiel awaits its
culmination and is portrayed by the Lord's
messenger as a solemn experience:
The class who do not feel grieved over their
own spiritual declension, nor mourn over the sins
of others, will be left without the seal of God. The
Lord commissions his messengers, the men with
slaughtering weapons in their hands: "Go ye after
him through the city, and smite: let not your eye
spare, neither have ye pity: slay utterly old and
young, both maids, and little children, and women:
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