Then Shall the Sanctuary Be Cleansed - Donald K. Short

about the Messiah was right but what they had
understood was wrong. Their vision was filled with
the throne, the crown, and the glory and they failed
to see the shame and agony of the garden, the
judgment hall and the cross of Calvary.
Our own church forefathers in the days of
William Miller were troubled with the same kind
of dim vision and poor understanding of God's total
plan. Their immeasurable longing to get out of this
world provided zeal and produced hymns of hope
that ring clear and beautiful to this day. But to a
large degree their desires were egocentric and there
was a veil over their eyes. Human opinions,
traditions, popular errors and the false teachings of
men blinded them so they could only partially
grasp the truth they needed to know.
As Seventh-day Adventists we face the same
danger. The farther we travel from our beginnings
the greater the peril that we will disregard our
heritage. It took only four generations from Noah
to Nimrod to obliterate from their minds the history
of world destruction by flood and to set up Babylon
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