Then Shall the Sanctuary Be Cleansed - Donald K. Short

days I will build another made without hands"
(Mark 14:57).
Their rejection of Christ reflected their own
disdain for the temple they claimed to revere.
Every article of furniture, every ritual act, was a
symbol that revealed Messiah whom they denied.
He was the Lamb, the Priest, the Shekinah. Their
blind rejection of Him was like a prophecy
foreshadowing the destruction of the temple. But in
three days His resurrection would reconstruct a
temple of truth for which the stone temple had been
but a type. The temple built with hands would give
way before the temple built by the Spirit. The High
Priest would verily become "a minister of the
sanctuary, and of the true tabernacle, which the
Lord pitched, and not man" (Hebrews 8:2).
The frightening testimony God has given to this
church is that we too are the victims of this
blindness. Adventists are the only corporate body
that has existed since the time of Israel who, like
them, was born and nurtured in the symbology of
the sanctuary. The realization of the heavenly
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