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SENIOR DIVISIW, No. 272, 810 alerER::1 #:^ # THE BLESSING OF DAILY STUDY “There should be a living, growing interest in storing the mind with Bible truth. The precious knowledge thus gained will build a barrier about the soul.”—Counsels on Sabbath School Work, page 36. Let us resolve to be more diligent in the study of His word and “set apart a little time each -day for the study of the Sabbath school lesson.”—Counsels on Sabbath School Work, page 41.
My Daily Lesson Study Pledge As one who greatly desires to improve his knowledge of the Scriptures, I pledge myself to the careful and prayerful study of some portion of my Sabbath school lesson each day of the week.
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Lesson Titles for the Quarter
1. The Plan of Salvation Revealed in Type
2. The Earthly Sanctuary
3. Furnishings of the Sanctuary
4. The Priesthood Before the Cross
5. The Sanctuary System of Sacrifices
6. Annual Feasts and Ceremonial Sabbaths
7. The Day of Atonement
8. Christ Our Sacrifice
9. The Transition From the Earthly Sanctuary to the Heavenly
10. The Priesthood of Christ
11. Time of Cleansing of the Heavenly Sanctuary
12. The Investigative Judgment
13. The Close of Probation and the Removal of Sin
Sabbath School Lesson Quarterly, No. 272, April-June, 1963. 20 cents a single copy, 75 cents a year (four issues) ; no additional charge to countries requiring extra postage. Published in the U.S.A. by Pacific Press Publishing Association (a corporation of S.D.A.), 1350 Villa Street, Mountain View, California. Second-class mail privileges authorized at Mountain View, California. Form 3579 requested. When a change of address is desired, please be sure to send both old and new addresses. Copyright, 1963, by Pacific Press Publishing Association Printed in U.S.A. Sabbath School Lesson Quarterly THE SANCTUARY Its Importance for Us Today
GENERAL INTRODUCTION
“The significance of the Jewish economy Daniel, ‘Unto two thousand and three is not yet fully comprehended. Truths hundred days; then shall the sanctuary be vast and profound are shadowed forth in cleansed.’ Dan. 8:14. its rites and symbols. The gospel is the “Our faith in reference to the messages of key that unlocks its mysteries. Through a the first, second, and third angels was cor- knowledge of the plan of redemption, its rect. The great waymarks we have passed truths are opened to the understanding. are immovable. . . . These pillars of truth Far more than we do, it is our privilege to stand firm as the eternal hills, unmoved understand these wonderful themes.”— by all the efforts of men combined with Christ’s Object Lessons, page 133. those of Satan and his host.”—Life “Jesus Christ was the foundation of the Sketches, page 278. whole Jewish economy. He established the “In the future, deception of every kind sacrificial offerings which typified Himself. is to arise, and we want solid ground for The whole system of types and symbols our feet. We want solid pillars for the was one compacted prophecy of the gospel, building. Not one pin is to be removed a presentation of Christianity.”—Ellen G. from that which the Lord has established. White, Review and Herald, March 21, 1893. The enemy will bring in false theories, “As a people we should be earnest stu- such as the doctrine that there is no sanc- dents of prophecy; we should not rest until tuary. This is one of the points on which we become intelligent in regard to the sub- there will be a departing from the faith.” ject of the sanctuary, which is brought out —Ellen G. White, Review and Herald, May in the visions of Daniel and John. This 25, 1905. subject sheds great light on our present In some instances in this series of lessons position and work, and gives us unmistak- a number of texts are listed following the able proof that God has led us in our past question. It may not be necessary to read experience. It explains our disappointment the whole passage in order to ascertain the in 1844, showing us that the sanctuary to be answer to the question, but the student will cleansed was not the earth, as we had sup- gain a better understanding of the point posed, but that Christ then entered into the under consideration if he reads the key most holy apartment of the heavenly sanc- text in its context. It is not the plan, of tuary, and is there performing the closing course, for the teacher in the class to com- work of His priestly office, in fulfillment of ment on every text of Scripture listed in the words of the angel to the prophet the Lesson Quarterly.
Lesson 1, for April 6, 1963
The Plan of Salvation Revealed in Type
MEMORY VERSE: “I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel.” Gen. 3:15. STUDY HELPS: “Patriarchs and Prophets,” pages 63-70, 370-373; “The Desire of Ages,” pages 19-26; “S.D.A. Bible Commentary.” DAILY STUDY ASSIGNMENT AND RECORD
Check Here Check Here Sabbath afternoon: General survey; Tuesday: Questions 8-10.
learn memory verse. ❑ Wednesday: Read Study Helps. Sunday: Questions 1-5. ❑ Thursday: Questions 11-14. 0 Monday: Questions 6, 7. ❑ Friday: Review entire lesson. ❑
Lesson Outline:
I. God’s Plan to Restore Fallen Man I11. The Sacrificial System Before Sinai 1. Man’s original perfect nature. Gen. 8. Sacrificial offering introduced. Gen. 1:26; Ps. 8:5, 6. 4:3, 4. 2. Man’s fall from perfection. Gen. 9. Cain’s offering rejected. Gen. 4:5. 3:1-6. 10. Noah’s sacrificial offerings. Gen. 3. The effects of sin on man’s nature. 8:20, 21. Rom. 5:12, 19. 11. Abraham’s worship of the true God. 4. God’s plan revealed. Gen. 3:15. Gen. 12 :8, last part; 13:4. 5. God’s plan fulfilled in Christ. Gal. 12. Offering of Isaac gives clearer 4:4, 5. demonstration of God’s plan. Gen. 22:1-18.
- God’s Remedy for Sin 13. Jacob’s confidence in God shown
- The Messiah to suffer for sin. Isa. by sacrifice. Gen. 46:1. 53:5-8. 14. Israel’s need for sacrifice at time of
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How sin can be forgiven. Acts 5:31. the Exodus. Ex. 5:1-3.
THE LESSON
God’s Plan to Restore Fallen Man NOTE.-“The love and peace which had been theirs was gone, and in its place they
- In whose image was man cre- felt a sense of sin, a dread of the future, ated? Gen. 1:26; Ps. 8:5, 6. a nakedness of soul. . . . They now be- gan to see the true character of their sin. . . . Under the curse of sin all nature was to witness to- man of the character and NOTE.-“Man was to bear God’s image, results of rebellion against God.”-Patri- both in outward resemblance and in char- archs and Prophets, pages 57-59. acter. . . . His nature was in harmony with the will of God. His mind was ca- 4. In what words did God offer pable of comprehending divine things. His hope to man in his sinful condition? affections were pure; his appetites and pas- Gen. 3:15. sions were under the control of reason. He was holy and happy in bearing the image of God and in perfect obedience to His NorE.-“But when Satan heard the dec- will.”-Patriarchs and Prophets, page 45. laration that enmity should exist between himself and the woman, and between his
- Under what circumstances did seed and her seed, he knew that his efforts
man disregard God’s specific com- to deprave human nature would be inter-
mand? Gen. 3:1-6. rupted; that by some means man was to
be enabled to resist his power. . . .
It is the grace that Christ implants in
the soul which creates in man enmity
- What were the results of man’s against Satan. Without this converting first disobedience? Rom. 5:12, 19. grace and renewing power, man would [4 ] continue the captive of Satan, a servant defilement of sin, and renew our hearts ever ready to do his bidding. But the in His own likeness.”—Steps to Christ, new principle in the soul creates conflict pages 28, 29. where hitherto had been peace. The power which Christ imparts enables man to resist the tyrant and usurper.”—The Great Con- The Sacrificial System Before Sinai troversy, page 506. 8. By whom and under what cir-
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When the fullness of the time cumstances were the first recorded of- was come, whom did God send into ferings presented to the Lord? Gen. the world and for what purpose? Gal. 4:3, 4. 4:4, 5. Compare John 3:16; 1 John 2:2.
NoTE.—"The sacrificial offerings were or- dained by God to be to man a perpetual NOTE.—"None but Christ could redeem reminder and a penitential acknowledgment fallen man from the curse of the law and of his sin and a confession of his faith in bring him again into harmony with Heaven. the promised Redeemer. They were in- Christ would take upon Himself the guilt tended to impress upon the fallen race the and shame of sin—sin so offensive to a holy solemn truth that it was sin that caused God that it must separate the Father and death. To Adam, the offering of the first His Son. Christ would reach to the depths sacrifice was a most painful ceremony. His of misery to rescue the ruined race."—Patri- hand must be raised to take life, which archs and Prophets, page 63. only God could give. . . . As he slew the innocent victim, he trembled at the thought God's Remedy for Sin that his sin must shed the blood of the spotless Lamb of God. This scene gave him a deeper and more vivid sense of the - What work did Isaiah declare greatness of his transgression, which noth- the Messiah was to do? Isa. 53:5-8. ing but the death of God’s dear Son could expiate.”—Patriarchs and Prophets, page 68. 9. What was God’s reaction to NOTE.—”Christ was treated as we de- Cain’s offering? Gen. 4:5. Compare serve, that we might be treated as He de- Heb. 9:22. serves. He was condemned for our sins, in which He had no share, that we might be justified by His righteousness, in which we had no share. He suffered the death which NOTE.—”Without the shedding of blood was ours, that we might receive the life there could be no remission of sin; and which was His. ‘With His stripes we are they were to show their faith in the blood healed.’“—The Desire of Ages, page 25. of Christ as the promised atonement by offering the firstlings of the flock in sacri-
- Through whom only can sin be fice.” forgiven? Acts 5:31. Compare Heb. “Those who feel no need of the blood of 9:22; Isa. 53:10, 12. Christ, who feel that without divine grace they can by their own works secure the approval of God, are making the same mistake as did Cain. If they do not accept NoTE.—”When the light from Christ the cleansing blood, they are under con- shines into our souls, we shall see how im- demnation. There is no other provision pure we are; we shall discern the selfish- made whereby they can be released from ness of motive, the enmity against God, the thralldom of sin.”—Patriarchs and that has defiled every act of life. Then we Prophets, pages 71, 73. shall know that our own righteousness is indeed as filthy rags, and that the blood 10. How did Noah demonstrate his of Christ alone can cleanse us from the faith in and his knowledge of the [51 sacrificial system of worship? Gen. such torture of soul as did the offering of 8:20, 21 his son. God gave His Son to a death of agony and shame. . . . There was no voice to cry, ‘It is enough.’ To save the fallen race, the King of glory yielded up His life. What stronger proof can be given of the
- By what act did the patriarch infinite compassion and love of God?”— Abraham show his faith in God? Gen. Patriarchs and Prophets, page 154. 12:8, last part; 13:4. 13. How did Jacob show his faith in God as he prepared to leave Canaan for Egypt? Gen. 46:1. NoTE.—”But the true faith was not to become extinct. God has ever preserved a remnant to serve Him. Adam, Seth, Enoch, Methuselah, Noah, Shem, in unbroken line, NoTE.—Jacob had poured oil and wine had preserved from age to age the precious on the rock in covenant earlier in life. Now revealings of His will. The son of Terah the record assures us that he still worshiped became the inheritor of this holy trust. God in the sacrificial system known to all the . . . He [God] communicated His will to patriarchs. God at this time honored Jacob Abraham, and gave him a distinct knowl- by renewing to him the promises made to edge of the requirements of His law and of Abraham and Isaac. the salvation that would be accomplished through Christ.”—Patriarchs and Prophets, 14. In Moses’ appeal to Pharaoh, page 125. See Genesis 26:5. what was the reason given for Israel’s desire to leave Egypt? Ex. 5:1-3.
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Through what severe test was Abraham given a clearer understand- ing of the meaning of the sacrificial system? Gen. 22:1-18. NoTE.—In bondage Israel had well-nigh forgotten the God of their fathers. The sacrificial system had almost fallen into dis- use. It was time on God’s prophetic clock NOTE.—”It was to impress Abraham’s for the worship of the true God to be fully mind with the reality of the gospel, as well restored. as to test his faith, that God commanded him to slay his son. The agony which he endured during the dark days of that fear- ful trial was permitted that he might un- If you will help the Sabbath derstand from his own experience some- School, the Sabbath School thing of the greatness of the sacrifice made will help you. by the infinite God for man’s redemption. No other test could have caused Abraham
Lesson 2, for April 13, 1963 The Earthly Sanctuary
MEMORY VERSE: “Let them make Me a sanctuary; that I may dwell among them.” Ex. 25:8. STUDY HELPS: “Patriarchs and Prophets,” pages 343-347, 374, 375, 357; “S.D.A. Bible Commentary.” [6] DAILY STUDY ASSIGNMENT AND RECORD
Check Here Check Here Sabbath afternoon: General survey; Tuesday: Questions 5-7.
learn memory verse. ❑ Wednesday: Read Study Helps. Sunday: Questions 1, 2. ❑ Thursday: Questions 8-11. ❑ Monday: Questions 3, 4. ❑ Friday: Review entire lesson. 0
Lesson Outline: I11. The Tabernacle Structure 5. The court. Ex. 27:9, 18. I. Purpose and Origin of Sanctuary 6. The tent. Ex. 26:1-37. Plans 7. The veil between the two rooms in 1. God wants to dwell among His peo- the tent. Ex. 26:31-33. ple. Ex. 25:8. 2. Origin of sanctuary plans. Ex. 25: IV. Lessons From the Sanctuary 9, 40; 26:30. 8. The earthly sanctuary illustrates
- Material Provision for Sanctuary the plan of salvation. Heb. 9:23, 24.
Construction 9. The body is a temple for the in-
dwelling Spirit. 1 Cor. 6:19, 20.
- Freewill offerings of materials by 10. The church is God’s household. congregation. Ex. 25:1-8 ; 35:4-9. Eph. 2:19-22.
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Liberality marked Israel’s giving. 11. Christ is the builder of the temple. Ex. 36:3-7. Zech. 6:12, 13.
THE LESSON
Purpose and Origin of Sanctuary “The whole worship of ancient Israel was a promise, in figures and symbols, of Plans Christ; and it was not merely a promise, but an actual provision, designed by God
- For what purpose was the sanc- to aid millions of people by lifting their tuary constructed? Ex. 25:8. thoughts to Him who was to manifest Him- self to our world.”-Testimonies to Minis- ters, page 123.
NOTE.-“God commanded Moses for Is- 2. Where did Moses obtain the rael, ‘Let them make Me a sanctuary; that plans for the construction of the I may dwell among them’ (Ex. 25:8), and tabernacle? Ex. 25:9, 40; 26:30. He abode in the sanctuary, in the midst of His people. Through all their weary wan- dering in the desert, the symbol of His presence was with them. So Christ set NoTE.-“In the building of the sanctuary up His tabernacle in the midst of our hu- as a dwelling place for God, Moses was man encampment. He pitched His tent by directed to make all things according to the the side of the tents of men, that He might pattern of things in the heavens. God called dwell among us, and make us familiar with him into the mount, and revealed to him His divine character and life. ‘The Word the heavenly things, and in their similitude became flesh, and tabernacled among us the tabernacle, with all that pertained to it, (and we beheld His glory, glory as of the was fashioned. Only Begotten from the Father), full of “So to Israel, whom He desired to make grace and truth.’ “-The Desire of Ages, His dwelling place, He revealed His glorious page 23. ideal of character. The pattern was shown 17 1 them in the mount when the law was given from pillars of brass. The entrance to this from Sinai and when God passed by before enclosure was at the eastern end. It was Moses and proclaimed, ‘The Lord, The closed by curtains of costly material and Lord God, merciful and gracious, long- beautiful workmanship, though inferior to suffering, and abundant in goodness and those of the sanctuary. The hangings of the truth.’ “—Education, page 35. court being only about half as high as the walls of the tabernacle, the building could be plainly seen by the people without.”— Material Provision for Sanctuary Patriarchs and Prophets, page 347. Construction 6. Give a brief description of the tabernacle structure. Ex. 26:1-37.
- From what sources were the ma- terials for the construction of the tabernacle to come? Ex. 25:1-8; 35: 4-9. NoTE.—The description of the taber- nacle is recorded in Exodus 26, which the student may wish to read. Some aspects of the structure may seem obscure to the NOTE.—”When the people of God were modern reader, but the main features of about to build the sanctuary in the wilder- the building may be deduced with clarity. ness, extensive preparations were neces- “The tabernacle was so constructed that sary. Costly materials were collected, and it could be taken apart and borne with the among them was much gold and silver. As Israelites in all their journeyings. It was the rightful owner of all their treasures, the therefore small, being not more than fifty- Lord called for these offerings from the peo- five feet in length, and eighteen in breadth ple; but He accepted only those that were and height. Yet it was a magnificent struc- given freely.”—Testimonies, vol. 5, p. 268. ture. The wood employed for the building and its furniture was that of the acacia
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What was the response to the tree, which was less subject to decay than appeal for materials to build the tab- any other to be obtained at Sinai. The walls ernacle? Ex. 36:3-7. consisted of upright boards, set in silver sockets, and held firm by pillars and con- necting bars; and all were overlaid with gold, giving to the building the appearance NoTE.—”All who love the worship of of solid gold. The roof was formed of four God and prize the blessing of His sacred sets of curtains, the innermost of ‘fine- presence will manifest the same spirit of twined linen, and blue, and purple, and sacrifice in preparing a house where He may scarlet: with cherubim of cunning work;’ meet with them. They will desire to bring the other three respectively were of goats’ to the Lord an offering of the very best hair, rams’ skins dyed red, and seal skins, that they possess.”—Patriarchs and Proph- so arranged as to afford complete protec- ets, pages 344. tion.”—Patriarchs and Prophets, page 347.
7. How was the interior of the tab- The Tabernacle Structure ernacle divided? Ex. 26:31-33. See Heb. 9:1-3. -
What surrounded the taber- nacle? Ex. 27:9, 18.
NOTE.—"The building was divided into two apartments by a rich and beautiful NoTE.—The court around the tabernacle curtain, or veil, suspended from gold-plated was twice as long as it was wide. "The pillars; and a similar veil closed the en- sacred tent was enclosed in an open space trance of the first apartment. These, like called the court, which was surrounded by the inner covering, which formed the ceil- hangings, or screens, of fine linen, suspended ing, were of the most gorgeous colors, blue, [8 1purple, and scarlet, beautifully arranged, NOTE.—”In the cleansing of the temple, while inwrought with threads of gold and Jesus was announcing His mission as the silver were cherubim to represent the an- Messiah, and entering upon His work. That gelic host who are connected with the work temple, erected for the abode of the divine of the heavenly sanctuary and who are Presence, was designed to be an object les- ministering spirits to the people of God on son for Israel and for the world. From earth.”—Patriarchs and Prophets, page 347. eternal ages it was God’s purpose that every created being, from the bright and holy seraph to man, should be a temple for the Lessons From the Sanctuary indwelling of the Creator. Because of sin, humanity ceased to be a temple for God.
- Of what was the earthly sanc- Darkened and defiled by evil, the heart of tuary a type or shadow? Heb. 9:23, man no longer revealed the glory of the Divine One. But by the incarnation of the
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Compare Heb. 8:2. Son of God, the purpose of Heaven is ful- filled. God dwells in humanity, and through saving grace the heart of man be- comes again His temple. God designed that the temple at Jerusalem should be a con- NOTE.—”Moses made the earthly sanc- tinual witness to the high destiny open to tuary, ‘according to the fashion that he every soul.”—The Desire of Ages, page 161. had seen.’ . . . That sanctuary [in heaven], in which Jesus ministers in our behalf, is the 10. In what figurative language did great original, of which the sanctuary built the apostle speak of the believers as by Moses was a copy. “The heavenly temple, the abiding place a group? Eph. 2:19-22. Compare Ps. of the King of kings— . . . no earthly 114:2.
“The Bible is our rule of NOTE.—”The Jewish tabernacle was a type of the Christian church. . . . The faith and doctrine. There is church on earth, composed of those who nothing more calculated to are faithful and loyal to God, is the ‘true energize the mind and tabernacle,’ whereof the Redeemer is the strengthen the intellect than minister. God, and not man, pitched this tabernacle on a high, elevated platform. the study of the word of God. This tabernacle is Christ’s body, and from No other book is so potent north, south, east, and west, He gathers to elevate the thoughts or those who shall help to compose it”— give vigor to the faculties, as Ellen G. White, Signs of the Times, Feb. 14, 1900. the broad, ennobling truths “Of surpassing beauty and unrivaled of the Bible.”—Gospel splendor was the palatial building which Workers, page 249. Solomon and his associates erected for God and His worship. Garnished with precious stones, surrounded by spacious courts with magnificent approaches, and lined with carved cedar and burnished gold, the temple structure could represent its vastness and its glory. Yet important truths concerning structure, with its broidered hangings and rich furnishings, was a fit emblem of the the heavenly sanctuary and the great work living church of God on earth, which there carried forward for man’s redemp- through the ages has been building in ac- tion were to be taught by the earthly sanc- tuary and its services.”—Patriarchs and cordance with the divine pattern, with ma- Prophets, page 357. terials that have been likened to ‘gold, silver, precious stones,’ polished after the similitude of a palace.’ 1 Corinthians 3:12;
- To what did Paul compare the Psalm 144:12. Of this spiritual temple human body? 1 Cor. 6:19, 20. Christ is ‘the chief Cornerstone; in whom [9] all the building fitly framed together grow- prophecy of Zechariah concerning Him eth unto a holy temple in the Lord.’ “- `whose name is The Branch.’ . . . ‘He shall Prophets and Kings, page 36. build the temple of the Lord.’ By His sacrifice and meditation Christ is both the
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In Zechariah’s prophecy, what foundation and the builder of the church work was to be accomplished by “the of God. The apostle Paul points to Him as Man whose name is The Branch”? ‘the chief Cornerstone; in whom all the Zech. 6:12, 13. building fitly framed together groweth into an holy temple in the Lord: in whom ye also,’ he says, ‘are builded together for an NOTE.-“The work of Christ as man’s habitation of God through the Spirit.’”- intercessor is presented in that beautiful The Great Controversy, pages 415, 416.
Lesson 3, for April 20, 1963 Furnishings of the Sanctuary
MEMORY VERSE: “And there was given unto him much incense, that he should offer it with the prayers of all saints upon the golden altar which was before the throne.” Rev. 8:3. STUDY HELPS: “Patriarchs and Prophets,” pages 347, 348, 356, 357; “S.D.A. Bible Commentary.”
DAILY STUDY ASSIGNMENT AND RECORD
Check Here Check Here Sabbath afternoon: General survey; Tuesday: Questions 8-10. 111
learn memory verse. ❑ Wednesday: Read Study Helps. Sunday: Questions 1, 2. ❑ Thursday: Questions 11, 12. Monday: Questions 3-7. ❑ Friday: Review entire lesson.
Lesson Outline: 7. Intercession at the altar of incense. Ex. 30:1-9. I. The Court Furnishings I11. The Furniture of the Most Holy 1. The altar of burnt offering. Ex. 40:6, 7; 27:1-8; 38:1-7. Place 2. The brazen laver. Ex. 40:7; 30: 8. The ark. Ex. 25:10-15. 18-21; 38:8. 9. The mercy seat. Ex. 25:17-20. 10. The law within the ark. Ex. 25:16;
- The Holy Place and Its Furniture 40:20; Deut. 10:1-5.
- The first apartment or holy place. Ex. 26:31-33; Heb. 9:1-3. IV. Communion Between God and His
- Table of shewbread, candlestick, People altar of incense. Ex. 26:35; 40: 22-27. 11. God to speak from between the
- The shewbread. Lev. 24:5-9. cherubim. Ex. 25:21, 22.
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The golden candlestick. Ex. 25:31- 12. The manifestation of the presence 39; 37:17-23. of God. Lev. 16:2. [101 THE LESSON
The Court Furnishings Nom—The first apartment was twice as long as the second. In it the common
- What stood between the gate of priests ministered daily. This room was the court and the door of the taber- called the holy place. It was separated from the second room by a beautiful veil of blue, nacle? Ex. 40:6, 7; 27:1-8; 38:1-7. purple, and scarlet fine-twined linen on which were embroidered cherubim. The second room, a perfect square, was called the holy of holies—the most holy place. NoTE.—”In the court, and nearest the 4. Name the three pieces of furni- entrance, stood the brazen altar of burnt offering. Upon this altar were consumed ture found in the first apartment or all the sacrifices made by fire unto the holy place. Ex. 26:35; 40:22-27. Lord, and its horns were sprinkled with the atoning blood.”—Patriarchs and Prophets, page 347. NOTE.—”The table of shewbread stood
- What other article of furniture on the north. With its ornamental crown, stood in the court? Ex. 40:7; 30:18-21; it was overlaid with pure gold. . . . On 38:8. the south was the seven-branched candle- stick, with its seven lamps. Its branches were ornamented with exquisitely wrought flowers, resembling lilies, and the whole was made from one solid piece of gold. NOTE.—”Between the altar and the door . . . Just before the veil separating the of the tabernacle was the laver, which was holy place from the most holy and the im- also of brass, made from the mirrors that mediate presence of God, stood the golden had been the freewill offering of the women altar of incense.”—Patriarchs and Proph- of Israel.”—Patriarchs and Prophets, page ets, page 348.
- Here the priests must wash before entering the tabernacle tent. The symbol- 5. What was on the table, and for ism of cleanness or purity of the priest- what purpose? Lev. 24:5-9. hood is self-evident. “Moses at the burning bush was directed to put off his sandals, for the ground whereon he stood was holy. So the priests were not to enter the sanctuary with shoes NOTE.—”The shewbread was kept ever upon their feet. Particles of dust cleaving before the Lord as a perpetual offering. to them would desecrate the holy place. Thus it was a part of the daily sacrifice. It They were to leave their shoes in the court was called shewbread, or ‘bread of the before entering the sanctuary, and also to presence,’ because it was ever before the wash both their hands and their feet be- face of the Lord. It was an acknowledg- fore ministering in the tabernacle or at the ment of man’s dependence upon God for altar of burnt offering. Thus was con- both temporal and spiritual food, and that stantly taught the lesson that all defilement it is received only through the mediation must be put away from those who would of Christ. God had fed Israel in the wil- approach into the presence of God.”— derness with bread from heaven, and they Patriarchs and Prophets, page 350. were still dependent upon His bounty, both for temporal food and spiritual blessings. Both the manna and the shewbread pointed The Holy Place and Its Furniture to Christ, the living Bread, who is ever in the presence of God for us. He Himself said, ‘I am the living Bread which came
- What were the two apartments, down from heaven’ John 6:48-51. Fran- or rooms, of the tabernacle called? kincense was placed upon the loaves. When Ex. 26:31-33; Heb. 9:1-3. the bread was removed every Sabbath, to [ 11 be replaced by fresh loaves, the frankin- now to direct their prayers to Christ, their cense was burned upon the altar as a me- great High Priest, who, unseen by human morial before God.—Patriarchs and Proph- vision, is pleading in their behalf in the ets, page 354. sanctuary above. “The incense, ascending with the prayers
- Describe the candlestick and the of Israel, represents the merits and inter- use to be made of it. Ex. 25:31-39; cession of Christ, His perfect righteousness, which through faith is imputed to His peo- 37:17-23. ple, and which can alone make the wor- ship of sinful beings acceptable to God. Be- fore the veil of the most holy place was an altar of perpetual intercession.”—Patri- NOTE.—”In the manifestation of God to His people, light had ever been a symbol archs and Prophets, page 353. of His presence. At the creative word in the beginning, light had shone out of dark- The Furniture of the Most ness. Light had been enshrouded in the pillar of cloud by day and the pillar of Holy Place fire by night, leading the vast armies of Israel. Light blazed with awful grandeur 8. What was Moses commanded to about the Lord on Mount Sinai. Light make for the second apartment? Ex. rested over the mercy seat in the taber- 25:10-15. nacle. Light filled the temple of Solomon at its dedication. Light shone on the hills of Bethlehem when the angels brought the message of redemption to the watching shepherds. 9. Describe the cover of the ark. “God is light; and in the words, ‘I am Ex. 25:17-20. the light of the world,’ Christ declared His oneness with God, and His relation to the whole human family. It was He who at the beginning had caused ‘the light to shine NoTE.—”The cover of the sacred chest out of darkness.’ 2 Cor. 4:6. He is the light was called the mercy seat. This was of sun and moon and star. He was the wrought of one solid piece of gold, and spiritual light that in symbol and type and was surmounted by golden cherubim, one prophecy had shone upon Israel. But not standing on each end. One wing of each to the Jewish nation alone was the light angel was stretched forth on high, while given. As the sunbeams penetrate to the the other was folded over the body (see remotest corners of the earth, so does the Ezekiel 1:11) in token of reverence and light of the Sun of Righteousness shine humility.”—Patriarchs and Prophets, page upon every soul.”—The Desire of Ages, 348. page 464. 10. What was to be placed within
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Describe the altar of incense and the ark? Ex. 25:16; 40:20; Deut. 10: the service connected with it. Ex. 1-5. Compare 1 Kings 8:9. 30:1-9.
NorE.—"Beyond the inner veil was the NoTE.—"When the priest offered incense holy of holies, where centered the symbolic before the Lord, he looked toward the service of atonement and intercession, and ark; and as the cloud of incense arose, the which formed the connecting link between divine glory descended upon the mercy seat heaven and earth. In this apartment was and filled the most holy place, and often so the ark, a chest of acacia wood, overlaid filled both apartments that the priest was within and without with gold, and having obliged to retire to the door of the taber- a crown of gold about the top. It was nacle. As in that typical service the priest made as a depository for the tables of looked by faith to the mercy seat which stone, upon which God Himself had in- he could not see, so the people of God are scribed the Ten Commandments. Hence it [ 12 ]was called the ark of God’s testament, or cloud rested upon the one at the left to the ark of the covenant, since the Ten reveal disapproval or rejection.”—Patri- Commandments were the basis of the cov- archs and Prophets, page 349. enant made between God and Israel. . . . “By sin man was shut out from God. The law of God, enshrined within the ark, Except for the plan of redemption, eter- was the great rule of righteousness and nal separation from God, the darkness of judgment. That law pronounced death unending night, would have been his. upon the transgressor; but above the law Through the Saviour’s sacrifice, communion was the mercy seat, upon which the presence with God is again made possible. We may of God was revealed, and from which, by not in person approach into His presence; virtue of the atonement, pardon was in our sin we may not look upon His face; granted to the sinner.”—Patriarchs and but we can behold Him and commune with Prophets, pages 348, 349. Him in Jesus, the Saviour.”—Education, page 28. “Communion with God through prayer Communion Between God and and the study of His word must not be His People neglected, for here is the source of his strength. No work for the church should
- From what place in the sanc- take precedence of this.”—Testimonies, vol. tuary did God promise to speak with 6, p. 47. Israel? Ex. 25:21, 22. Compare Num. “Nothing is more needed in our work than the practical results of communion 7:89. with God. We should show by our daily lives that we have peace and rest in the Saviour. His peace in the heart will shine forth in the countenance. It will give to
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In what other manner was the voice a persuasive power. Communion God’s presence manifested between with God will ennoble the character and the cherubim? Lev. 16:2. the life. Men will take knowledge of us, as of the first disciples, that we have been with Jesus. This will impart to the worker a power that nothing else can give. Of this NOTE.—Cherubim is a translation of the power he must not allow himself to be de- Hebrew word, and is plural in form. The prived. singular form is cherub. “We must live a twofold life—a life of “Above the mercy seat was the Shekinah, thought and action, of silent prayer and the manifestation of the divine Presence; earnest work. The strength received through and from between the cherubim, God made communion with God, united with earnest known His will. Divine messages were some- effort in training the mind to thoughtful- times communicated to the high priest by ness and care-taking, prepares one for daily a voice from the cloud. Sometimes a light duties, and keeps the spirit in peace under fell upon the angel at the right, to signify all circumstances, however trying.”—The approval or acceptance, or a shadow or Ministry of Healing, page 512.
Lesson 4, for April 27, 1963 The Priesthood Before the Cross
MEMORY VERSE: “And Abel, he also brought of the firstlings of his flock and of the fat thereof. And the Lord had respect unto Abel and to his offering.” Gen. 4:4. STUDY HELPS: “Patriarchs and Prophets,” pages 72, 177, 350, 351, 359-362, 375, 376; “S.D.A. Bible Commentary,” on Exodus 28; Num. 18:2-7. [ 13 DAILY STUDY ASSIGNMENT AND RECORD Check Here Check Here Sabbath afternoon: General survey; Tuesday: Questions 7-9. ❑ learn memory verse. ❑ Wednesday: Finish reading Study Sunday: Questions 1-3; begin read- Helps. ❑ ing Study Helps. ❑ Thursday: Questions 10-13. Monday: Questions 4-6. ❑ Friday: Review entire lesson.
Lesson Outline: I11. Priestly Apparel 7. Garments of the high priest. I. Priesthood During Patriarchal Times Ex. 28:2-39. 1. In the beginning man talked face to 8. The breastplate. Ex. 28:15-29. face with God. Gen. 3:8-11. 9. The Urim and Thummim. Ex. 2. Patriarchal priesthood. Gen. 4:3-5. 28:30. 10. The high priest’s miter. Ex. 28:36-
- A National Priesthood Founded 38; 39:30, 31.
11. The garments of the common
- Levites appointed to sanctuary ser- priests. Ex. 39:27-29. vice. Num. 3:5, 6, 12, 45.
- The family of Aaron chosen for the priesthood. Ex. 28:1; Num. 18:1, 7. IV. Priestly Consecration
- Contrast in Aaronic and Levitical service in the sanctuary. Num. 12. Anointed for service. Ex 29:4-9, 18:2-7. 20, 21, 35.
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Tithing system and the sanctuary. 13. Other duties of the priests. Lev. Num. 18:21; Heb. 7:5. 10:11.
THE LESSON
Priesthood During Patriarchal concerned, these brothers were equal. Both were sinners, and both acknowledged the Times claims of God to reverence and worship.” -Patriarchs and Prophets, page 72.
- How did God communicate with “In the earliest times every man was the man in the beginning? Gen. 3:8-11. priest of his own household. In the days of Abraham the priesthood was regarded as the birthright of the eldest son.”-Patri- archs and Prophets, page 350. NoTE.-In the beginning man talked with “They [Esau and Jacob] were taught to God face to face. No priestly ministry regard the birthright as a matter of great was necessary, for there was no sin to break importance, for it included not only an the communion between man and God. inheritance of worldly wealth, but spiritual preeminence. He who received it was to be
- After the entrance of sin, how the priest of his family, and in the line of did man approach God? Gen. 4:3-5. his posterity the Redeemer of the world would come.”-Patriarchs and Prophets, page 177.
NOTE.-Adam had been taught the re- sponsibilities of the patriarchal priest. In A National Priesthood Founded turn he taught his sons in their maturity to carry on the priestly responsibilities. “So 3. Instead of the firstborn of every far as birth and religious instruction were family, whom did God choose to do [ 14 ] the work of the sanctuary? Num. Priestly Apparel 3:5, 6, 12, 45. 7. Describe the garments of the high priest. Ex. 28:2-39.
NOTE.—”By divine direction the tribe of Levi was set apart for the service of the sanctuary. . . . Now, instead of the first- NOTE.—”The garments of the high priest born of all Israel, the Lord accepted the were of costly material and beautiful work- tribe of Levi for the work of the sanctu- manship, befitting his exalted station. In ary.”—Patriarchs and Prophets, page 350. addition to the linen dress of the common priest, he wore a robe of blue, also woven
- To whom did God restrict the in one piece. Around the skirt it was orna- priesthood at this time? Ex. 28:1; mented with golden bells, and pomegranates Num. 18:1, 7. of blue, purple, and scarlet. Outside of this was the ephod, a shorter garment of gold, blue, purple, scarlet, and white. It was confined by a girdle of the same colors, beautifully wrought. The ephod was sleeve- NOTE.—”The priesthood . . . was re- less, and on its gold-embroidered shoulder stricted to the family of Aaron. Aaron and pieces were set two onyx stones, bearing his sons alone were permitted to minister the names of the twelve tribes of Israel.”— before the Lord.”—Patriarchs and Prophets, Patriarchs and Prophets, pages 350, 351. page 350. 8. What did the high priest wear
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How was the work of the Levites over his breast? Ex. 28:15-29. distinguished from that of the priests? Num. 18:2-7.
NOTE.—"Over the ephod was the breast- plate, the most sacred of the priestly vest- NoTE.—The Levites were to assist the ments. This was of the same material as Aaronic priests in the work of the sanctu- the ephod. It was in the form of a square, ary. The priests alone were ordained to do measuring a span, and was suspended from the work within the sanctuary. "To the the shoulders by a cord of blue from golden Levites was committed the charge of the rings. The border was formed of a variety tabernacle and all that pertained thereto, of precious stones, the same that form the both in the camp and on the journey."— twelve foundations of the City of God. Patriarchs and Prophets, page 375. Within the border were twelve stones set in gold, arranged in rows of four, . . . en- - What means of support did God graved with the names of the tribes.”— ordain for the priests and Levites? Patriarchs and Prophets, page 351. Num. 18:21; Heb. 7:5. “Of Aaron, the high priest of Israel, it is written, He ‘shall bear the names of the children of Israel in the breastplate of judgment upon his heart, when he goeth in unto the holy place, for a memorial be- NoTE.—”The tithe was to be exclusively fore the Lord continually.’ What a beautiful devoted to the use of the Levites, the tribe and expressive figure this is of the unchang- that had been set apart for the service of ing love of Christ for His church ! Our the sanctuary.” great High Priest, of whom Aaron was a “The work of the gospel, as it widens, type, bears His people upon His heart. requires greater provision to sustain it than And should not His earthly ministers share was called for anciently ; and this makes the His love and sympathy and solicitude?”— law of tithes and offerings of even more Gospel Workers, page 34. urgent necessity now than under the He- brew economy.”—Patriarchs and Prophets, 9. In addition to the twelve stones pages 526, 529. engraved with the names of the tribes, [ 15 ] what two were placed on the breast- NoTE.—”The robe of the common priest plate? Ex. 28:30. was of white linen, and woven in one piece. It extended nearly to the feet, and was confined about the waist by a white linen NOTE.—”At the right and left of the girdle embroidered in blue, purple, and breastplate were two large stones of great red. A linen turban, or miter, completed brilliancy. These were known as the Urim his outer costume.”—Patriarchs and Proph- and Thummim. By them the will of God ets, page 350. was made known through the high priest. When questions were brought for decision before the Lord, a halo of light encircling Priestly Consecration the precious stone at the right was a token of the divine consent or approval, while a 12. Describe the ceremony of con- cloud shadowing the stone at the left was secration for Aaron and his sons. Ex. an evidence of denial or disapprobation.”— 29:4-9, 20, 21, 35. Read the details Patriarchs and Prophets, page 351. in the rest of the chapter.
- What did the high priest wear on his head? Ex. 28:36-38; 39:30, 31. 13. In addition to the service of NorE.—”The miter of the high priest con- the sanctuary, what other duties were sisted of the white linen turban, having the priests to discharge? Lev. 10:11. attached to it by a lace of blue, a gold plate bearing the inscription, ‘Holiness to Jehovah.’ Everything connected with the apparel and deportment of the priests was NoTE.—In the Christian home, the fa- to be such as to impress the beholder with ther is especially charged with the respon- a sense of the holiness of God, the sacred- sibility of maintaining the spiritual welfare ness of His worship, and the purity re- of his family. quired of those who came into His pres- “In a sense the father is the priest of the ence.”—Patriarchs and Prophets, page 351. household, laying upon the family altar “Everything worn by the high priest was the morning and evening sacrifice. But to be whole and without blemish. The pat- the wife and children should unite in prayer tern of the priestly robes was made known and join in the song of praise. In the to Moses in the mount. Every article the morning before he leaves home for his high priest was to wear, and the way it daily labor, let the father gather his chil- should be made, were specified. These gar- dren about him and, bowing before God, ments were consecrated to a most solemn commit them to the care of the Father in purpose. By them was represented the heaven. When the cares of the day are past, character of the great antitype, Jesus Christ. let the family unite in offering grateful They covered the priest with glory and prayer and raising the song of praise, in beauty, and made the dignity of his office acknowledgment of divine care during the to appear. When clothed with them, the day. priest presented himself as a representative “Fathers and mothers, however press- of Israel, showing by his garments the ing your business, do not fail to gather glory that Israel should reveal to the world your family around God’s altar.”—Ministry as the chosen people of God. Nothing but of Healing, pages 392, 393. perfection, in dress and attitude, in spirit and word, would be acceptable to God. He is holy; and His glory and perfection must be represented in the earthly service. Noth- “No covetous person can pass ing but perfection could properly repre- sent the sacredness of the heavenly service.” through the pearly gates; for —Ellen G. White, Youth’s Instructor, June all covetousness is idolatry.” 7, 1900. —Counsels on Stewardship, page 26.
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How were the common priests clothed? Ex. 39:27-29. [ 16 1 Lesson 5, for May 4, 1963
The Sanctuary System of Sacrifices
MEMORY VERSE: “1 beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service.” Rom. 12:1. STUDY HELPS: “Patriarchs and Prophets,” pages 352-355; “S.D.A. Bible Commen- tary.” DAILY STUDY ASSIGNMENT AND RECORD
Check Here Check Here Sabbath afternoon: General survey; Tuesday: Questions 8, 9. ❑
learn memory verse. ❑ Wednesday: Read Study Helps. ❑ Sunday: Questions 1-3. ❑ Thursday: Questions 10-13. ❑ Monday: Questions 4-7. ❑ Friday: Review entire lesson. ❑
Lesson Outline: 7. Flesh to be eaten by priest. Lev. 6:25, 26. I. The Sacrificial System Points to Christ I11. Confession and Restitution 1. The promised seed. Gen. 3:15. 8. Confession required. Lev. 5:5. 2. Sacrifices point to suffering and 9. Restitution for damages or stolen death. 1 Peter 1:18, 19; Heb. 9:22. goods. Lev. 6:4, 5. 3. Animal sacrifice a type only. Heb. 10:1-4. IV. Additional Lessons
- Sacrifices of Daily Ministration
10. Life in the blood. Lev. 17:11.
- The morning and evening burnt of- 11. Salt with every sacrifice. Lev. 2:13. fering. Num. 28:3-8. 12. Service at the golden altar. Ex.
- Sin offerings. Lev. 4:27-29. 30:7-9.
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Blood to be ministered. Lev. 4:30, 13. Sacrifices without blemish. Lev. 34, 35. 4:3, 23, 28; Heb. 9:14; 1 Peter 1:19.
THE LESSON
The Sacrificial System Points to women from the bondage of sin and the grave. Christ “The first intimation of such a hope was given to Adam and Eve in the sentence pro-
- What intimation of triumph was nounced upon the serpent in Eden. . . . embodied in the promise of the “seed” As the guilty pair listened to these words, of the woman? Gen. 3:15. they were inspired with hope; for in the prophecy concerning the breaking of Satan’s power they discerned a promise of deliver- ance from the ruin wrought through trans- NOTE.-“From the day our first parents gression.”-Prophets and Kings, pages 681, lost their Eden home, to the time the Son 682. of God appeared as the Saviour of sinners, the hope of the fallen race was centered in 2. Why were animal sacrifices or- the coming of a Deliverer to free men and dained? 1 Peter 1:18, 19; Heb. 9:22. 17 NOTE.—”Many have expressed wonder altar, with its appropriate meat offering, that God demanded so many slain victims thus symbolizing the daily consecration of in the sacrificial offerings of the Jewish the nation to Jehovah, and their constant people ; but it was to rivet in their minds dependence upon the atoning blood of the great truth that without the shedding Christ.”—Patriarchs and Prophets, page of blood there is no remission of sins. A 352. lesson was embodied in every sacrifice, im- “The hours appointed for the morning pressed in every ceremony, solemnly and the evening sacrifice were regarded as preached by the priest in his holy office, sacred, and they were to be observed as the and inculcated by God Himself,—that set time for worship throughout the Jewish through the blood of Christ alone is there nation. . . . In this custom Christians have forgiveness of sins. . . . The sacrifice of our an example for morning and evening Saviour has made ample provision for every prayer.”—/bid., pp. 353, 354. repenting, believing soul. We are saved be- cause God loves the purchase of the blood 5. By what method did the in- of Christ.”—Ellen G. White, Review and dividual sinner obtain the forgiveness Herald, Sept. 21, 1886. of sin? Lev. 4:27-29. “The sacrificial offerings were established by infinite wisdom to impress upon the fallen race the solemn truth that it was sin which caused death. Every time the life of NOTE.—”The repentant sinner brought a sacrificial offering was taken, they were his offering to the door of the tabernacle, reminded that if there had been no sin, and, placing his hand upon the victim’s there would have been no death. ‘The head, confessed his sins, thus in figure trans- wages of sin is death.’ “—Ellen G. White, ferring them from himself to the innocent Review and Herald, March 2, 1886. sacrifice. By his own hand the animal was then slain.”—Patriarchs and Prophets, page
- What could the blood of animals 354. not do? Heb. 10:1-4. 6. How did the priest minister the blood and fat of the sin offering? Lev. 4:30, 34, 35. NOTE.—”The types and shadows of the sacrificial service, with the prophecies, gave the Israelites a veiled, indistinct view of the mercy and grace to be brought to the world by the revelation of Christ. To 7. What was done with the body of Moses was unfolded the significance of the the sacrificial victim? Lev. 6:25, 26. types and shadows pointing to Christ. He saw to the end of that which was to be done away when, at the death of Christ, type met antitype. . . . The sacrifices and NorE.—In some cases “the blood was offerings pointed forward to the sacrifice He carried by the priest into the holy place [Christ] was to make. The slain lamb and sprinkled before the veil, behind which typified the Lamb that was to take away was the ark containing the law that the the sin of the world.”—Ellen G. White, Re- sinner had transgressed. . . . In some cases view and Herald, April 22, 1902. the blood was not taken into the holy place; but the flesh was then to be eaten by the priest, as Moses directed the sons of Aaron, Sacrifices of Daily Ministration saying, ‘God bath given it you to bear the iniquity of the congregation.’ “—Patriarchs
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How was Israel taught to wor- and Prophets, page 354. ship God morning and evening? “The sins of the people were transferred Num. 28:3-8. in figure to the officiating priest, who was a mediator for the people. The priest could not himself become an offering for sin, and make an atonement with his life, for NoTE.—”Every morning and evening a he was also a sinner. Therefore, instead of lamb of a year old was burned upon the suffering death himself, he killed a lamb [ 18 ] without blemish; the penalty of sin was NOTE.—”In the plan of redemption there transferred to the innocent beast, which must be the shedding of blood, for death thus became his immediate substitute, and must come in consequence of man’s sin. typified the perfect offering of Jesus The beasts for sacrificial offerings were to Christ.”—Ellen G. White, Signs of the prefigure Christ. In the slain victim, man Times, March 14, 1878, page 81. was to see the fulfillment for the time be- A careful reading of Leviticus 4 will re- ing of God’s word, ‘Ye shall surely die.’ And veal that only the sacrifices where a priest the flowing . . . of the blood of beasts was might be involved—a priestly sin or a to point forward to a Redeemer who would national sin—resulted in blood being one day come to the world and die for the sprinkled before the veil in the first apart- sins of men. And thus Christ would fully ment. In the case of all individual sacri- vindicate His Father’s law.”—Ellen G. fices by rulers or people, the priest was White, Review and Herald, March 3, 1874. required to eat of the sacrifice and to place the blood on the horns of the altar of burnt 11. What was added to every sacri- offering. Of these arrangements, we read: fice? Lev. 2:13. “Both ceremonies alike symbolized the transfer of the sin from the penitent to the sanctuary.”—Patriarchs and Prophets, page 355.
Confession and Restitution NOTE.—”In the ritual service, salt was added to every sacrifice. This, like the of-
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In cases where someone’s prop- NOTE.—”The incense, ascending with the erty rights had been infringed, what prayers of Israel, represents the merits and more was the penitent required to do? intercession of Christ, His perfect righ- Lev. 6:4, 5. Read verses 1-7. teousness, which through faith is imputed to His people, and which can alone make the worship of sinful beings acceptable to God.” —Patriarchs and Prophets, page 353.
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What special significance was did Christ as the Lamb of God meet attached to the blood in all these this standard? Lev. 4:3, 23, 28; Heb. sacrifices? Lev. 17:11. 9:14; 1 Peter 1:19. [ 19 ] Lesson 6, for May 11, 1963
Annual Feasts and Ceremonial Sabbaths
MEMORY VERSE: “Now therefore, if ye w ill obey My voice indeed, and keep My covenant, then ye shall be a peculiar treasure unto Me above all people: for all the earth is mine: and ye shall be unto Me a kingdom of priests, and an holy nation.” Ex. 19:5, 6. STUDY HELPS: “Patriarchs and Prophets,” pages 537-542; “S.D.A. Bible Commen- tary.”
DAILY STUDY ASSIGNMENT AND RECORD
Check Here Check Here Sabbath afternoon: General survey; Tuesday: Questions 9-11.
learn memory verse. ❑ Wednesday: Read Study Helps. 0 Sunday: Questions 1-3. ❑ Thursday: Questions 12, 13. Monday: Questions 4-8. ❑ Friday: Review entire lesson. 0
Lesson Outline: 8. The antitypical Pentecost. Acts 2:1-11, 41. I. The Passover and Its Significance 1. Reminders of the covenant. Deut. I11. Other Feasts and Ceremonial 16:16; Ex. 34:23. Sabbaths 2. A great deliverance. Ex. 12:29-33. 3. Preparations for departure. Ex. 9. The blowing of trumpets-a warn- 12:3, 6, 7, 11, 21-23. ing. Lev. 23:23-25; Num. 29:1. 4. To remind of redeeming power of 10. The Feast of Tabernacles. Lev. God. Lev. 23:4-12. 23:34-43. 5. Christ our Passover. 1 Cor. 5:7. 11. Ceremonial sabbath vs. seventh-day Sabbath. Lev. 23:37, 38.
- The Wave Sheaf and Pentecost 12. Seven ceremonial sabbaths each
year. Lev. 23:7, 8, 15-39.
- Firstfruits. Lev. 23:10, 11. 13. Shadowy sabbaths end at cross.
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Harvesttime. Lev. 23:15-21. Col. 2:14-17.
THE LESSON
The Passover and Its Significance fruits of His bounties. The object of all these regulations was stated: they pro-
- What three annual convocations ceeded from no exercise of mere arbitrary sovereignty; all were given for the good were all Israel required to attend? of Israel. The Lord said, ‘Ye shall be holy Deut. 16:16; Ex. 34:23. men unto Me’-worthy to be acknowl- edged by a holy God.”-Patriarchs and Prophets, page 311.
NoTE.-“Yearly feasts were appointed, at 2. Through what climactic experi- which all the men of the nation were to ence did the Israelites pass as they assemble before the Lord, bringing to Him were delivered from Egyptian bond- their offerings of gratitude and the first- age? Ex. 12:29-33. [ 20 ] 3. How had the Israelites been com- The Wave Sheaf and Pentecost manded to protect themselves from the destroying angel and to prepare 6. What harvest ceremony was cele- for this sudden departure? Ex. 12: brated immediately after the Pass- 3, 6, 7, 11, 21-23. over? Lev. 23:10, 11.
NorE.—"The Passover was followed by 4. What feast was ordained in con- the seven days' Feast of Unleavened Bread. nection with the Exodus from Egypt? The first and the seventh day were days Lev. 23:4-12. of holy convocation, when no servile work
was to be performed. On the second day
of the feast, the firstfruits of the year's
harvest were presented before God. Barley
was the earliest grain in Palestine, and at
the opening of the feast it was beginning NOTE.—"In commemoration of this great to ripen. A sheaf of this grain was waved deliverance a feast was to be observed yearly by the priest before the altar of God, as an by the people of Israel in all future gen- acknowledgment that all was His. Not erations. . . . The Passover was to be both until this ceremony had been performed commemorative and typical, not only point- was the harvest to be gathered."—Patri- ing back to the deliverance from Egypt, archs and Prophets, page 539. but forward to the greater deliverance which Christ was to accomplish in freeing 7. Fifty days after the Passover, His people from the bondage of sin."— Patriarchs and Prophets, pages 274-277. what convocation was celebrated? "The first of these festivals, the Passover, Lev. 23:15-21. the Feast of Unleavened Bread, occurred in Abib, the first month of the Jewish year, corresponding to the last of March and the beginning of April."—Ibid., p. 537. NorE.—"Fifty days from the offering of
the firstfruits, came the Pentecost, called 5. By what term did Paul refer to also the Feast of Harvest and the Feast of our Lord? 1 Cor. 5:7. Weeks. As an expression of gratitude for
the grain prepared as food, two loaves
baked with leaven were presented before
God. The Pentecost occupied but one day,
which was devoted to religious service."— NOTE.—"The sacrificial lamb represents Patriarchs and Prophets, page 540. `the Lamb of God,' in whom is our only hope of salvation. Says the apostle, 'Christ 8. What significant events occurred our Passover is sacrificed for us.' 1 Corin- on the Day of Pentecost in the year of thians 5:7. It was not enough that the Christ's death? Acts 2:1-11, 41. paschal lamb be slain; its blood must be sprinkled upon the doorposts; so the merits of Christ's blood must be applied to the soul. We must believe, not only that he died for the world, but that he died for NoTE.—Christ had sown the seed of His us individually. We must appropriate to word for three and a half years. Then ourselves the virtue of the atoning sacri- came His sacrifice as the true Passover, fice. . . . The flesh was to be eaten. It is His resurrection, and His presentation be- not enough even that we believe on Christ fore the Father's throne as the sheaf of for the forgiveness of sin; we must by faith the firstfruits. Fifty days later came the be constantly receiving spiritual strength descent of the Holy Spirit at Pentecost, and nourishment from Him through His with the harvest of souls resulting. Thus word."—Patriarchs and Prophets, page 277. type met antitype at Pentecost.
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Other Feasts and Ceremonial as was, and is, the seventh-day Sabbath of the fourth commandment. Sabbaths 12. In the Jewish calendar when
- What feast preceded the Day of did the ceremonial sabbaths occur? Atonement? Lev. 23:23-25; Num. 29:1. Answer: The first connected with the Passover Feast fell on the fifteenth day of NoTE.—The civil year ended with the the first month (Abib, or Nisan). Ex. blowing of the trumpets, followed ten days 12:16; Lev. 23:7. later by the Day of Atonement. The blow- The second came on the last day of this ing of the trumpets was a call to prayer, a feast, on the twenty-first of Nisan. Lev. call to self-examination in preparation for 23:8. the Day of Atonement. The third fell fifty days later at Pente- cost (Sivan 6). Lev. 23:15, 16, 21.
- Soon after the Day of Atone- The fourth came on the civil new year’s day—first of the seventh month (Tishri). ment, what joyous feast was cele- Lev. 23:23-25. brated? Lev. 23:34-43. The fifth fell on the tenth day of the seventh month—the Day of Atonement, the most sacred of the yearly sabbaths. Lev. 23:27, 32. NOTE.—”In the seventh month came the The sixth fell on the first day of the Feast of Tabernacles, or of ingathering. Feast of Tabernacles—the fifteenth day of This feast acknowledged God’s bounty in the seventh month. Lev. 23:39. the products of the orchard, the olive The seventh and last of the ceremonial grove, and the vineyard. It was the crown- sabbaths fell on the last day of this feast, ing festal gathering of the year. . . . Now the twenty-second day of the seventh the people came with their tributes of month. Lev. 23:36, 37. thanksgiving to God, who had thus richly blessed them.”—Patriarchs and Prophets, 13. What did Paul say in regard to page 540. ceremonial sabbaths? Col. 2:14-17. “The Feast of Tabernacles was not only commemorative, but typical. It not only pointed back to the wilderness sojourn, but, as the Feast of Harvest, it celebrated the NOTE .—Shado ws dissolve before the ingathering of the fruits of the earth, and bright rays of the Sun of Righteousness. pointed forward to the great day of final Ceremonial sabbaths were days of many ingathering, when the Lord of the harvest sacrificial offerings on the altar of burnt shall send forth His reapers, . . . to gather offering. When the Lamb of God gave His the wheat into His garner.”—Ibid., p. 541. life on Calvary’s cross, these ceremonials lost their significance. But the seventh-day
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How were the ceremonial sab- Sabbath will continue through eternity. baths distinguished from the seventh- Isaiah 66:22, 23. day Sabbath? Lev. 23:37, 38.
"In the Bible we have the NOTE.—The three annual feasts and the unerring counsel of God. Its Day of Atonement included seven annual teachings, practically car- ceremonial sabbaths, which were dedicated to holy convocations and for offering sacri- ried out, will fit men for any fices to the Lord. Like your birthday, position of duty."—Gospel these sabbaths fell on different days of the Workers, page 253. week in successive years. They were typi- cal sabbaths and not memorials of creation, [ 22 3Lesson 7, for May 18, 1963
The Day of Atonement MEMORY VERSE: "On that day shall the priest make an atonement for you, to cleanse you, that ye may be clean from all your sins before the Lord." Lev. 16:30. STUDY HELPS: "Patriarchs and Prophets," pages 355-358; "The Great Contro- versy," pages 417-419; "S.D.A. Bible Commentary." DAILY STUDY ASSIGNMENT AND RECORD Check Here Check Here Sabbath afternoon: General survey; Tuesday: Questions 8-10. learn memory verse. ❑ Wednesday: Read Study Helps. Sunday: Questions 1-3. ❑ Thursday: Questions 11-13. 0 Monday: Questions 4-7. ❑ Friday: Review entire lesson.
Lesson Outline:
I. Sacred Day; Holy Priesthood; Sins 7. Incense in the golden censer. Lev. of the Year 16:12, 13. 1. The most solemn of the ceremonial I11. The Blood of Atonement sabbaths. Lev. 23:27-32. 2. The high priest alone officiated in 8. The Lord’s lot and its blood. Lev. the atonement service. Ex. 30:10; 16:7-9. Heb. 9:7. 9. Atonement blood within the veil. 3. All sins of the year in the sanctuary. Lev. 16:15, first part. Lev. 4:27-31. 10. Sprinkling of the atonement blood on the mercy seat. Lev. 16:14, 15.
- Solemnity of Atoning Services
IV. Sins Removed From the Camp
- A pure, holy priesthood must serve. Lev. 16:3, 4, 6. 11. Sins removed from sanctuary. Lev.
- Soul-searching confession and re- 16:20, 21. pentance. Num. 29:7; Lev. 12. How God blots out sin. Lev. 16:30; 23:28-32. Isa. 43:25; 44:22.
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Cleansing by blood alone. Heb. 13. My Sin Bearer. Isa. 53:4, 5, 7, 8, 9:22, 23. 10; Rom. 3:24, 25.
THE LESSON
Sacred Day; Holy Priesthood; holy place for the cleansing of the sanctu- ary. The work there performed completed Sins of the Year the yearly round of ministration.”-The Great Controversy, page 419.
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Of all the ceremonial sabbaths, 2. Which priest performed the which was the most solemn? Lev. ceremonies on this day? Ex. 30:10; 23:27-32. Heb. 9:7.
NOTE.-The work of the Day of Atone- NoTE.-"Once a year, on the great Day ment was the responsibility of the high of Atonement, the priest entered the most priest. [ 23 ]3. Of what did the sin offering NOTE.—”The cleansing, both in the typi- consist, and how was it offered? Lev. cal and in the real service, must be ac- 4:27-31. complished with blood: in the former, with the blood of animals; in the latter, with the blood of Christ. Paul states, as the reason why this cleansing must be per- formed with blood, that without shedding NoTE.—”In the sin offerings presented of blood is no remission. Remission, or during the year, a substitute had been ac- putting away of sin, is the work to be cepted in the sinner’s stead; but the blood of accomplished.”—The Great Controversy, the victim had not made full atonement for pages 417, 418. the sin. It had only provided a means by which the sin was transferred to the sanc- 7. What did the priest first carry tuary. By the offering of blood, the sinner into the divine Presence? Lev. 16: acknowledged the authority of the law, con- 12, 13. fessed the guilt of his transgression, and ex- pressed his faith in Him who was to take away the sin of the world; but he was not entirely released from the condemnation of the law.”—Patriarchs and Prophets, pages NOTE.—”Just as he entered within the 355, 356. second veil, carrying the golden censer filled with coals of fire from the altar be- fore the Lord, and his hand full of incense, Solemnity of Atoning Services he placed the incense upon the coals in the censer, that the cloud of fragrant incense
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What cleansing service must the might cover him as he passed in before the visible presence of God, as manifested be- high priest perform in the court on tween the cherubim above the mercy seat.” the Day of Atonement? Lev. 16:3, —S. N. Haskell, The Cross and Its Shadow, 4, 6. page 210.
The Blood of Atonement Nom—The high priest was to cleanse himself in the court before he began the 8. Where was the blood obtained cleansing of the sanctuary. The sacrifice for the atonement cleansing? Lev. of the bullock and the washing of water 16:7-9- preceded the offering of the goat. - What were the Israelites com- manded to do on the Day of Atone- NOTE.—”On the Day of Atonement two ment? Num. 29:7; Lev. 2 3:2 8-32. kids of the goats were brought to the door of the tabernacle, and lots were cast upon them, ‘one lot for the Lord, and the other lot for the scapegoat.’ . . . The goat upon which fell the lot for the Lord was to be NOTE.—”Every man was to afflict his slain as a sin offering for the people.”— soul while the work of atonement was go- The Great Controversy, page 419. ing forward. All business was laid aside, and the whole congregation of Israel spent 9. Where did the high priest take the day in solemn humiliation before God, with prayer, fasting, and deep searching of the blood of the atonement goat? heart.”—Patriarchs and Prophets, page 355. Lev. 16:15, first part. It was a veritable day of judgment to Israel, and he who ignored it was excom- municated from the ancient church. 10. What did the priest do with
- By what is remission of sin ac- the blood in the most holy place? complished? Heb. 9:22, 23. Lev. 16:14, 15. [ 24 7 NoTE.—”On the Day of Atonement the NoTE.—”As in the final atonement the high priest, having taken an offering for sins of the truly penitent are to be blotted the congregation, went into the most holy from the records of heaven, no more to be place with the blood and sprinkled it upon remembered or come into mind, so in the the mercy seat, above the tables of the law. type they were borne away into the wilder- Thus the claims of the law, which de- ness, forever separated from the congrega- manded the life of the sinner, were satis- tion.”—Patriarchs and Prophets, page 358. fied.”—Patriarchs and Prophets, page 356. 13. Who is the Sin Bearer for Sins Removed From the Camp every repentant sinner? Isa. 53:4, 5, 7, 8, 10; Rom. 3:24, 25. Compare
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After cleansing the sanctuary, 2 Cor. 5:21. what did the high priest do? Lev. 16:20, 21.
NoTE.—"It is for thee that the Son of NoTE.—"Then, in his character of medi- God consents to bear this burden of guilt. ator the priest took the sins upon himself, . . . He . . . offers Himself upon the cross and, leaving the sanctuary, he bore with as a sacrifice, and this from love to thee. him the burden of Israel's guilt. At the He, the Sin Bearer, endures the wrath of door of the tabernacle he laid his hands divine justice, and for thy sake becomes sin itself."—The Desire of Ages, pages 755, upon the head of the scapegoat and con- 756. fessed over him 'all the iniquities of the children of Israel, and all their transgres- sions in all their sins, putting them upon the head of the goat.' And as the goat bearing these sins was sent away, they were, "As you repeat the confi- with him, regarded as forever separated dence you have in Jesus, from the people."—Patriarchs and Proph- Satan will flee; for he can- ets, page 356. not bear the name of Jesus." -
What did God promise to do —Historical Sketches, page for His people on the Day of Atone- 141. ment? Lev. 16:30. Compare Isa. 43: 25; 44:22.
Lesson 8, for May 25, 1963 Christ Our Sacrifice
MEMORY VERSE: “The next day John seeth Jesus coming unto him, and saith, Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world.” John 1:29. STUDY HELP: “The Desire of Ages,” pages 741-757.
DAILY STUDY ASSIGNMENT AND RECORD
Check Here Check Here Sabbath afternoon: General survey; Wednesday: Questions 12, 13; read
learn memory verse. 0 from Study Help. ❑ Sunday: Questions 1-5. Thursday: Finishing reading Study Monday: Questions 6-8. 0 Help. Tuesday: Questions 9-11. 0 Friday: Review entire lesson.
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Lesson Outline: 7. Christ died for the ungodly. Rom. 5:6-8. I. The Lamb of God 8. Christ offered Himself once for all. Heb. 9:24-28. 1. A lamb used as sacrifice. Num. 28: 3, 4; Lev. 4:32; 5:6. I11. Cleansing by His Blood 2. Jesus, the Lamb of God. John 1:29, 36. 9. Redeemed with the precious blood 3. Messiah’s death fulfilled prophecy. of Christ. _1 Peter 1:18, 19. Luke 24:13-15, 25-27. 10. Christ’s blood cleanses from all sin. 4. Jesus identified as the Lamb 1 John 1:7. brought to the slaughter. Acts 11. Saints overcome by the blood of 8:30-35. the Lamb. Rev. 12:10, 11. 5. Jesus, a Lamb as it had been slain. Rev. 5:5-9. IV. Reconciliation With God
- Christ’s Death for Sinners 12. Reconciled to God by the death of
His Son. Rom. 5:10.
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Christ came to save sinners. 1 Tim. 13. God was in Christ reconciling the 1:15. world. 2 Cor. 5:18, 19.
THE LESSONThe Lamb of God “When at the baptism of Jesus, John pointed to Him as the Lamb of God, a new light was shed upon the Messiah’s work.
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- What animal was commonly of- The prophet’s mind was directed to the fered as a sacrifice in the services of words of Isaiah, ‘He is brought as a lamb to the sanctuary? Num. 28:3, 4; Lev. the slaughter.’ Isa. 53:7. During the weeks 4:32; 5:6. that followed, John with new interest studied the prophecies and the teaching of the sacrificial service. He did not distin- guish clearly the two phases of Christ’s work, -as a suffering sacrifice and a conquering
- How did John the Baptist in- king,-but he saw that His coming had a troduce Jesus to his audience on the deeper significance than priests or people banks of the Jordan? John 1:29, 36. had discerned.”-Ibid., pp. 136, 137. 3. After His resurrection, what point in Old Testament prophecies of the Messiah did Jesus emphasize? NOTE.-“John had been deeply moved as Luke 24:13-15, 25-27. he saw Jesus bowed as a suppliant, plead- ing with tears for the approval of the Fa- ther. As the glory of God encircled Him, and the voice from heaven was heard, John recognized the token which God had prom- NoTE.-“Beginning at Moses, the very ised. He knew that it was the world’s Re- Alpha of Bible history, Christ expounded deemer whom he had baptized. The Holy in all the Scriptures the things concerning Spirit rested upon him, and with out- Himself. . . . Christ performed no miracle stretched hand pointing to Jesus, he cried, to convince them, but it was His first work ‘Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh to explain the Scriptures. They had looked away the sin of the world.’ upon His death as the destruction of all “None among the hearers, and not even their hopes. Now He showed from the the speaker himself, discerned the import prophets that this was the very strongest of these words, ‘the Lamb of God.’ “-The evidence for their faith.”-The Desire- of Desire of Ages, page 112. Ages, pages 796-799. [26 1 4. What Old Testament prophecy no longer plead for the guilty race. It was was used by Philip to teach the mis- the sense of sin, bringing the Father’s sion of Christ? Acts 8:30-35. wrath upon Him as man’s substitute, that made the cup He drank so bitter, and broke the heart of the Son of God.”—The Desire of Ages, page 753. “Christ laid down His life, shed His
- In the book of Revelation, un- blood, suffered the death penalty for the der what symbol is Jesus frequently sinner, and became the sin bearer for every presented? Rev. 5:5-9. Compare Rev. repenting, believing soul. We see sin fully 17:14; 19:7. punished in the Substitute, and the sinner fully saved through His merit.”—Ellen G. White, Signs of the Times, January 2, 1896. “Christ laid aside His royal robes and NOTE.—”The Saviour is presented before garbed Himself with humanity and offered John under the symbols of ‘the Lion of sacrifice, Himself the priest, Himself the the tribe of Judah,’ and of ‘a Lamb as it victim.”—The Acts of the Apostles, page 33. had been slain.’ Revelation 5:5, 6. These symbols represent the union of omnipotent 8. In contrast to the multiple of- power and self-sacrificing love. The Lion ferings of the ancient sanctuary, how of Judah, so terrible to the rejecters of His many times was it necessary for Christ grace, will be the Lamb of God to the obedient and faithful.”—The Acts of the to offer Himself? Heb. 9:24-28. Apostles, page 589. “The uplifted Saviour is to appear in His efficacious work as the Lamb slain, sitting upon the throne, to dispense the priceless NoTE.—”Christ’s sacrifice in behalf of covenant blessings, the benefits He died man was full and complete. The condition to purchase for every soul who should of the atonement had been fulfilled. The believe on Him.”—Testimonies to Ministers, work for which He had come to this world page 92. had been accomplished.”—The Acts of the Apostles, page 29. Christ’s Death for Sinners Cleansing by His Blood
- For what purpose did Christ come into the world? 1 Tim. 1:15. 9. What specific feature of the an- Compare John 3:16. cient sacrifices did Peter select to illustrate the redeeming grace of Christ? 1 Peter 1:18, 19.
- In carrying out His purpose toward sinful men, through what ex- perience did Christ pass? Rom. 5:6-8. NOTE.—”Every soul is precious, because it has been purchased by the precious blood of Jesus Christ.”—Testimonies, vol. 5, pp. 623, 624. NoTE.—”Upon Christ as our substitute and surety was laid the iniquity of us all. He was counted a transgressor, that He might redeem us from the condemnation of When the church enables the law. The guilt of every descendant of men to outthink, outlove, Adam was pressing upon His heart. The wrath of God against sin, the terrible mani- and outlive the world, it festation of His displeasure because of in- demonstrates its right to ex- iquity, filled the soul of His Son with con- istence. sternation. . . . Christ felt the anguish which the sinner will feel when mercy shall 27 ] 10. What spiritual function is ascribed to the blood of Christ by the apostle John? 1 John 1:7. Compare “Success in any line demands Rev. 7:14; Heb. 9:14. a definite aim. He who would achieve true success in life must keep steadily in view the aim worthy of his NoTE.—”There is but one power that endeavor.”—Education, page can break the hold of evil from the hearts 262. of men, and that is the power of God in Jesus Christ. Only through the blood of the Crucified One is there cleansing from NOTE.-“It is the work of conversion and sin. His grace alone can enable us to resist sanctification to reconcile men to God by and subdue the tendencies of our fallen bringing them into accord with the princi- nature.”—Testimonies, vol. 8, p. 291. ples of His law. In the beginning, man was created in the image of God. . . . The
- Through what do the saints principles of righteousness were written gain the victory over the evil one? upon his heart. But sin alienated him from Rev. 12:10, 11. his Maker. He no longer reflected the di- vine image. His heart was at war with the principles of God’s law. . . . But ‘God so loved the world, that He gave His only- begotten Son,’ that man might be recon- Reconciliation With God ciled to God. Through the merits of Christ he can be restored to harmony with his Maker.”—The Great Controversy, page 467.
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Though man was an avowed enemy of God, what was accom- 13. Who was with Christ in this plished by the death of Christ? Rom. work of reconciliation? 2 Cor. 5: 5:10. 18, 19.
Lesson 9, for June 1, 1963
The Transition From the Earthly Sanctuary to the Heavenly
MEMORY VERSE: “We are sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.” Heb. 10:10. STUDY HELP: “The Great Controversy,” pages 409-417.
DAILY STUDY ASSIGNMENT AND RECORD
Check Here Check Here Sabbath afternoon: General survey; Wednesday: Questions 9-11. 0
learn memory verse. ❑ Thursday: Questions 12, 13; read Sunday: Questions 1-3. ❑ Study Help. Monday: Questions 4, 5. ❑ Friday: Review entire lesson. ❑ Tuesday: Questions 6-8. ❑
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Lesson Outline: 8. “A figure for the time then pres- ent.” Heb. 9:1, 9. I. The Earthly Sanctuary Rejected and Ill. The True Sanctuary in Heaven Destroyed 9. The way into the new covenant 1. Daniel’s prophecy of sanctuary de- sanctuary opened. Heb. 9:8. struction. Dan. 9:25, 26. 10. The true sanctuary which God 2. The house left desolate. Matt. pitched. Heb. 8:1, 2. 23:38. 11. Christ’s sacrifice presented in the 3. The inner veil rent. Matt. 27:50, 51. greater and more perfect taber- 4. Christ’s application of Daniel’s nacle in heaven itself. Heb. 9:11, prophecy. Matt. 24:15-18; Luke 12, 22-28. 21:20, 21. 5. Stones of temple to be cast down. IV. The Transition From the Earthly to Matt. 24:1, 2. the Heavenly Sanctuary
- The Earthly Sanctuary a Copy 12. Typical sacrifices fulfilled in the
“once for all” perfect sacrifice.
- Plans for sanctuary given by God. Heb. 10:1-14. Ex. 25:9, 40; 1 Chron. 28:11, 12, 19. 13. New-covenant worshipers enter
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A shadow of heavenly things. Heb. the heavenly sanctuary by the 8:4, 5. blood of Christ. Heb. 10:19, 20, 22.
THE LESSON
The Earthly Sanctuary Rejected 3. When Jesus died upon the cross, and Destroyed what took place within the temple in Jerusalem? Matt. 27:50, 51.
- What prediction regarding the destruction of the sanctuary was re- corded by the prophet Daniel? Dan. 9:25, 26. NOTE.—”When the loud cry, ‘It is fin- ished,’ came from the lips of Christ, the priests were officiating in the temple. It
- After His woes on the scribes was the hour of the evening sacrifice.. . and Pharisees and His mourning over With intense interest the people were look- Jerusalem, what did Jesus say about ing on. But the earth trembles and quakes; their house of worship? Matt. 23: for the Lord Himself draws near. With a
- See also verses 2, 13, 15, 23, rending noise the inner veil of the temple is torn from top to bottom by an unseen 25, 37. hand, throwing open to the gaze of the multitude a place once filled with the presence of God. . . . NOTE.—”The second temple was not hon- “Type has met antitype in the death of ored with the cloud of Jehovah’s glory, but God’s Son. . . . It was as if a living voice with the living presence of One in whom had spoken to the worshipers: There is dwelt the fullness of the Godhead bodily. now an end to all sacrifices and offerings . . . In the presence of Christ, and in this for sin. The Son of God is come according only, did the second temple exceed the first to His word.”—The Desire of Ages, pages in glory. But Israel had put from her the 756, 757. proffered Gift of heaven. With the humble Teacher who had that day passed out from 4. How did Jesus apply the proph- its golden gate, the glory had forever de- ecy of Daniel to New Testament parted from the temple.”—The Great Con- times? Matt. 24:15-18; Luke 21: troversy, page 24. 20, 21. [ 29 ] NOTE.—”Jesus declared to the listening 8. What does the apostle state re- disciples the judgments that were to fall garding the temporary nature of the upon apostate Israel, and especially the “worldly sanctuary”? Heb. 9:1, 9. retributive vengeance that would come upon them for their rejection and crucifix- ion of the Messiah. Unmistakable signs would precede the awful climax. The dreaded hour would come suddenly and The True Sanctuary in Heaven swiftly. And the Saviour warned His fol- lowers: ‘When ye therefore shall see the 9. What inspired application is abomination of desolation, spoken of by made of the types in the worldly Daniel the prophet, stand in the holy place, sanctuary? Heb. 9:8. (whoso readeth, let him understand:) then let them which be in Judea flee into the mountains.’ Matthew 24:15, 16; Luke 21: 20, 21. When the idolatrous standards of the Romans should be set up in the holy 10. What does the apostle call the ground, which extended some furlongs out- sanctuary connected with the throne side the city walls, then the followers of in heaven? Heb. 8:1, 2. Christ were to find safety in flight.”—The Great Controversy, pages 25, 26.
- What specific prediction of the N0TE.—”Here is revealed the sanctuary
destruction of the temple was made of the new covenant. The sanctuary of
by Christ Himself? Matt. 24:1, 2. the first covenant was pitched by man,
built by Moses; this is pitched by the Lord,
not by man. In that sanctuary the earthly
priests performed their service; in this,
NOTE.—”All the predictions given by Christ, our great High Priest, ministers at
Christ concerning the destruction of Jeru- God’s right hand…. Paul says that the first
salem were fulfilled to the letter.” “After tabernacle ‘was a figure for the time then
the destruction of the temple, the whole present, in which were offered both gifts
city soon fell into the hands of the Romans. and sacrifices;’ that its holy places were
. . . Both the city and the temple were
patterns of things in the heavens;' that razed to their foundations, and the ground the priests who offered gifts according to upon which the holy house had stood was the law served 'unto the example andplowed like a field.’“—The Great Contro- shadow of heavenly things,’ and that versy, pages 29, 35. `Christ is not entered into the holy places made with hands, which are the figures The Earthly Sanctuary a Copy of the true; but into heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God for us.’ He- brews 9:9, 23; 8:5; 9:24. The sanctuary in - Who provided the plans for heaven, in which Jesus ministers in our building the tabernacle in the wilder- behalf, is the great original, of which the ness and for Solomon’s temple? Ex. sanctuary built by Moses was a copy.”— 25:9, 40; 1 Chron. 28:11, 12, 19. The Great Controversy, pages 413, 414. 11. What offering was made by the Priest of this “greater and more per-
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Of what was the ministry of the fect tabernacle”? Heb. 9:11, 12, 22-28. earthly priests an “example and shadow”? Heb. 8:4, 5. NoTa.—”Important truths concerning the heavenly sanctuary and the great work NOTE.—The Revised Standard Version there carried forward for man’s redemption reads: “They serve a copy and shadow of were taught by the earthly sanctuary and the heavenly sanctuary.” its services. [ 30 “The holy places of the sanctuary in The Transition From the Earthly to heaven are represented by the two apart- ments in the sanctuary on earth. As in the Heavenly Sanctuary vision the apostle John was granted a view of the temple of God in heaven, he be- 12. How does the apostle describe held there ‘seven lamps of fire burning be- the transition from the offering of fore the throne.’ Revelation 4:5. He saw animal sacrifices to the acceptance of an angel ‘having a golden censer; and there was given unto him much incense, that he the “once for all” sacrifice of the body should offer it with the prayers of all saints of Christ? Heb. 10:1-14. upon the golden altar which was before the throne.’ Revelation 8:3. Here the prophet was permitted to behold the first apartment of the sanctuary in heaven; and he saw there the ‘seven lamps of fire,’ and 13. What makes it possible for the ‘golden altar,’ represented by the golden new-covenant worshipers to enter candlestick and the altar of incense in the with boldness the heavenly sanctuary? sanctuary on earth. Again, ‘the temple of Heb. 10:19, 20, 22. God was opened’ (Revelation 11:19), and he looked within the inner veil, upon the holy of holies. Here he beheld ‘the ark of His testament,’ represented by the sacred chest constructed by Moses to contain the law of God. . . . “Moses made the earthly sanctuary after a pattern which was shown him. Paul Real Christian giving is the teaches that that pattern was the true outflowing of Christian char- sanctuary which is in heaven. And John acter. testifies that he saw it in heaven.”—The Great Controversy, pages 414, 415.
Lesson 10, for June 8, 1963 The Priesthood of Christ
MEMORY VERSE: “Wherefore He is able also to save them to the uttermost that come unto God by Him, seeing He ever liveth to make intercession for them.” Heb. 7:25. STUDY HELPS: “Selected Messages,” b. 1, pp. 340-344; “The Great Controversy,” pages 420-432; “S.D.A. Bible Commentary.” Those who have the book “Ques- tions on Doctrine” will find it helpful to read the compilation of statements from the writings of Ellen G. White found on pages 680-692.
DAILY STUDY ASSIGNMENT AND RECORD
Check Here Check Here Sabbath afternoon: General survey; Tuesday: Questions 8-10.
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Lesson Outline:
I. Christ Qualifies as High Priest of the I11. As Priest, Christ Must Offer Church Sacrifice 1. Christ presented as High Priest. 8. Christ must have something to of- Heb. 3 :1. fer. Heb. 8:3. 2. Christ took human nature. Heb. 9. Christ enters the heavenly sanctu- 2:14 (first part), 16, 17. ary by His own blood.- -Heb. 3. Christ tempted in all points. Heb. 9:11, 12. 2:18; 4:15. 10. Christ’s sacrifice is offered only
- Christ’s Priesthood Compared and once. Heb. 10:11, 12.
Contrasted With Earthly Priesthood
IV. Christ Intercedes for Us Before God
- Earthly priests’ service limited by death. Heb. 7:23. 11. Christ’s blood cleanses sinners from
- Christ’s unchangeable priesthood. all sin. Heb. 9:14. Heb. 7:24, 25. 12. Under new covenant, God’s law
- Christ’s sinlessness contrasted with written in heart and mind. Heb. fallibility of human priesthood. 8:6; 10:16. Heb. 7:26, 27. 13. Christians admonished to steadfast-
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Christ serves in the heavenly sanc- ness in faith and diligence in good tuary. Heb. 8:1, 2; 4:14; 9:24. works. Heb. 10:21-24.
THE LESSON
Christ Qualifies as High Priest man; yet He was the blameless Son of God.”-The Desire of Ages, page 311. of the Church “The humanity of the Son of God is everything to us. It is the golden chain
- In the book of Hebrews, who is that binds our souls to Christ, and through presented as the High Priest of the Christ to God. . . . Christ was a real man; Christian church? Heb. 3:1. He gave proof of His humility in becom- ing a man. Yet He was God in the flesh.” -Ellen G. White, The Youth’s Instructor, Oct. 13, 1898. “Be careful, exceedingly careful as to NOTE.-“Christ is the Minister of the how you dwell upon the human nature of true tabernacle, the High Priest of all who Christ. Do not set Him before the people believe in Him as a personal Saviour; and as a man with propensities of sin.”-Ellen His office no other can take. He is the G. White, The Seventh-day Adventist Bible High Priest of the church, and He has a Commentary, vol. 5, p. 1128. work to do which no other can perform.” -Ellen G. White, The Signs of the Times, 3. How fully did Christ enter into Feb. 14, 1900. the experiences of mankind? Heb.
- In order to qualify as priest, of 2:18; 4:15. what did the Son of God partake? Heb. 2:14 (first part), 16, 17. NOTE.-“Christ alone had experience in all the sorrows and temptations that befall human beings. Never another of woman NoTE.-“Jesus was in all things made born was so fiercely beset by temptation; like unto His brethren. He became flesh, never another bore so heavy a burden of even as we are. He was hungry and thirsty the world’s sin and pain. Never was there and weary. He was sustained by food and another whose sympathies were so broad refreshed by sleep. He shared the lot of or so tender. A sharer in all the experiences [32 of humanity, He could feel not only for, between transgression and the pure, spot- but with, every burdened and tempted less righteousness of One that knew no and struggling one.”—Education, page 78. sin.”—Ellen G. White, The Seventh-day “Would that we could comprehend the Adventist Bible Commentary, vol. 5, p. significance of the words, ‘Christ suffered, 1142. being tempted.’ While He was free from the taint of sin, the refined sensibilities of 7. As antitype of the earthly priests, His holy nature rendered contact with evil where did Christ enter upon His unspeakably painful to Him. Yet with priestly ministry? Heb. 8:1, 2; 4:14; human nature upon Him, He met the arch- 9:24. apostate face to face, and singlehanded withstood the foe of His throne. Not even by a thought could Christ be brought to yield to the power of temptation.”—Ellen G. White, Review and Herald, Nov. 8, 1887. NOTE.—”The intercession of Christ in man’s behalf in the sanctuary above is as Christ’s Priesthood Compared and essential to the plan of salvation as was His death upon the cross. By His death Contrasted With Earthly Priesthood He began that work which after His resur- rection He ascended to complete in heaven.”
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What human limitation circum- —Ellen G. White, The Signs of the Times, Jan. 11, 1910. scribed the service of the earthly priests? Heb. 7:23. As Priest, Christ Must Offer Sacrifice
- In contrast, what is said of the 8. In common with earthly priests, priestly ministry of Christ? Heb. 7: what was it necessary for Christ to do? 24, 25. Heb. 8:3.
NoTE.—”Jesus stands before the Father, continually offering a sacrifice for the sins NoTE.—”As in the typical service the of the world. . . . Because of the continual high priest laid aside his pontifical robes commission of sin, the atoning sacrifice of and officiated in the white linen dress of a heavenly Mediator is essential. Jesus, our an ordinary priest; so Christ laid aside His great High Priest, officiates for us in the royal robes and garbed Himself with hu- presence of God, offering in our behalf His manity and offered sacrifice, Himself the shed blood.”—Ellen G. White, The Youth’s priest, Himself the victim.”—The Acts of Instructor, April 16, 1903. the Apostles, page 33.
- What other characteristic of 9. What evidence of sacrifice does Christ makes His work for us effica- Christ present in the heavenly sanc- cious? Heb. 7:26, 27. tuary? Heb. 9:11, 12.
NOTE.—”Amid impurity, Christ main- NoTE.—”The work of Christ in the sanc- tained His purity. Satan could not stain tuary above, presenting His own blood or corrupt it. His character revealed a each moment before the mercy seat, as He perfect hatred for sin. It was His holiness makes intercession for us, should have its that stirred against Him all the passion of full impression upon the heart, that we a profligate world; for by His perfect life may realize the worth of each moment.” He threw upon the world a perpetual re- —Testimonies on Sabbath School Work, proach, and made manifest the contrast page 86. [ 33 10. In what other respect is Christ’s 13. Since we now have “an High sacrifice contrasted with the earthly Priest over the house of God,” what type? Heb. 10:11, 12. are we invited to do? Heb. 10:21-24.
NOTE.—”Type met antitype in the death NOTE.—”Jehovah did not deem the plan of Christ, the Lamb slain for the sins of of salvation complete while invested only the world. Our great High Priest has made with His love. He has placed at His altar the only sacrifice that is of any value in an Advocate clothed in our nature. As our our salvation. When He offered Himself on Intercessor, Christ’s office work is to in- the cross, a perfect atonement was made troduce us to God as His sons and daugh- for the sins of the people.”—Ellen G. White, ters. He intercedes in behalf of those who The Signs of the Times, June 28, 1899. receive Him. With His own blood He has paid their ransom. By virtue of His merits He gives them power to become members Christ Intercedes for Us Before God of the royal family, children of the heav- enly King. And the Father demonstrates
- What does the blood of Christ His infinite love for Christ by receiving and do for the believer? Heb. 9:14. welcoming Christ’s friends as His friends. He is satisfied with the atonement made. He is glorified by the incarnation, the life, death, and mediation of His Son. NOTE.—”By pledging His own life, Christ “In Christ’s name our petitions ascend to has made Himself responsible for every the Father. He intercedes in our behalf, man and woman on the earth. He stands and the Father lays open all the treasures in the presence of God, saying, Father, I of His grace for our appropriation. . . . take upon Myself the guilt of that soul. It Christ is the connecting link between God means death to him, if he is left to bear it. and man. He has promised His personal If he repents, he shall be forgiven. My intercession. He places the whole virtue blood shall cleanse him from all sin. I of His righteousness on the side of the sup- gave My life for the sins of the world. pliant. He pleads for man, and man, in “If the transgressor of God’s law will see need of divine help, pleads for himself in the in Christ his atoning sacrifice, if he will presence of God, using the influence of the believe in Him who can cleanse from all One who gave His life for the life of the unrighteousness, Christ will not have died world. As we acknowledge before God for him in vain.”—Ellen G. White, Review our appreciation of Christ’s merits, fra- and Herald, Feb. 27, 1900. grance is given to our intercessions. As we approach God through the virtue of the
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Under the new covenant of Redeemer’s merits, Christ places us close by His side, encircling us with His human which Christ is minister, what change arm, while with His divine arm He grasps is wrought in human hearts and the throne of the Infinite.”—Testimonies, minds? Heb. 8:6; 10:16. vol. 8, pp. 177, 178.
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Time of Cleansing of the Heavenly Sanctuary
MEMORY VERSE: “Christ is not entered into the holy places made with hands, which are the figures of the true; but into heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God for us.” Heb. 9:24. STUDY HELPS: “S.D.A. Bible Commentary;” “Thoughts on Daniel and the Revela- tion,” on Daniel 8 and 9; “The Great Controversy,” pages 324.329; “Prophets and Kings,” pages 698, 699.
DAILY STUDY ASSIGNMENT AND RECORD
Check Here Check Here Sabbath afternoon: General survey; reading Study Helps. 0
learn memory verse. ❑ Wednesday: Read further from Sunday: Questions 1-4. ❑ Study Helps. Monday: Questions 5-7. ❑ Thursday: Questions 10-12. 0 Tuesday: Questions 8, 9; begin Friday: Review entire lesson.
Lesson Outline: 7. Christ’s anointing by baptism and the Spirit. Acts 10:36-38. I. The 2300 Days of Daniel’s Prophecy I11. The Crucifixion of Christ and the 1. The cleansing of the sanctuary at Destruction of the City the end of 2300 days. Dan. 8:13, 8. Christ crucified in the midst of the 14, 17. week. Dan. 9:27, middle part. 2. The angel comes to explain the vi- 9. Destruction of the city and the sion. Dan. 9:17, 20-23. sanctuary. Dan. 9:26. 3. The seventy weeks allotted to the Jews. Dan. 9:24. IV. The Sanctuary and Its Cleansing. 4. The reckoning of prophetic time. Under the New Covenant Ezek. 4:1-6; Num. 14:22, 23, 30-34. 10. The sanctuary of the new covenant.
- The Seventy Weeks Heb. 8:1, 2; 9:1, 9-12.
11. Sanctuary cleansed from sin un-
- The decree that marked the be- der old covenant. Lev. 16:16, 30, ginning of the period. Dan. 9:25, 33. first part. 12. The blood of Christ cleanses
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The coming of Messiah the Prince. “heavenly things.” Heb. 9:11, 12, Dan. 9:25, last part. 23, 24.
THE LESSON
The 2300 Days of Daniel’s Prophecy 2. While the prophet Daniel
- When Daniel was shown the prayed for the restoration of the deso- desolating work of the little horn, late sanctuary in Jerusalem, for what what message concerning restoration purpose was the angel Gabriel sent to was he given? Dan. 8:13, 14, 17. him? Dan. 9:17, 20-23. [ 31 ] NoTE.—”The angel had been sent to Dan- “These three kings [Cyrus, Darius, and iel for the express purpose of explaining Artaxerxes], in originating, reaffirming, and to him the point which he had failed to completing the decree, brought it to the understand in the vision of the eighth chap- perfection required by the prophecy to ter, the statement relative to time—’unto mark the beginning of the 2300 years.”— two thousand and three hundred days; then The Great Controversy, pages 326, 327. shall the sanctuary be cleansed.’“—The Great Controversy, page 326. 6. Who would appear at the end of the -first-sixty-nine of the seventy
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What specific prophetic period weeks? Dan. 9:25, last part. did the angel mention, and upon whom was it determined? Dan. 9:24.
NoTE.—" 'From the going forth of the commandment to restore and to build Je- NOTE.—"After bidding Daniel 'under- rusalem unto the Messiah the Prince shall stand the matter, and consider the vision,' be seven weeks, and threescore and two the very first words of the angel are: weeks'—namely, sixty-nine weeks, or 483 `Seventy weeks are determined upon thy years. The decree of Artaxerxes went into people and upon thy Holy City.' The word effect in the autumn of 457 B.c. From this here translated 'determined' literally signi- date, 483 years extend to the autumn of fies 'cut off.' Seventy weeks, representing A.D. 27. . . . At that time this prophecy was 490 years, are declared by the angel to be fulfilled."—The Great Controversy, page cut off, as specially pertaining to the Jews. 327. But from what were they cut off? As the 2300 days was the only period of time 7. How does the New Testament mentioned in chapter 8, it must be the refer to Christ's anointing for His period from which the seventy weeks were ministry? Acts 10:36-38. cut off; the seventy weeks must therefore be a part of the 2300 days, and the two periods must begin together."—The Great Controversy, page 326. NOTE.—"According to the prophecy, this - What Bible experiences give the period was to reach to the Messiah, the clue for interpreting prophetic peri- Anointed One. In A.D. 27, Jesus at His ods which are measured by “days”? baptism received the anointing of the Holy Ezek. 4:1-6; Num. 14:22, 23, 30-34. Spirit and soon afterward began His minis- try. Then the message was proclaimed, `The time is fulfilled!”—Prophets and Kings, page 699. NoTE.—”A day in prophecy stands for a year.”—Prophets and Kings, page 698. The Crucifixion of Christ and the Destruction of the City The Seventy Weeks
- What event was to mark the 8. What was to take place in the beginning of the seventy weeks? Dan. midst of the week? Dan. 9:27, middle 9:25, first part. part.
NOTE.—”A starting point for this period NoTE.—” ‘In the midst of the week He is given. . . . The commandment to restore shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to and build Jerusalem, as completed by the cease.’ In A.D. 31, three and a half years decree of Artaxerxes Longimanus, went into after His baptism, our Lord was crucified. effect in the autumn of 457 B.c. See Ezra With the great sacrifice offered upon Cal- 6 :14 ; 7 : 1, 9.”—Prophets and Kings, pages vary, ended that system of offerings which 698, 699. for four thousand years had pointed for- 36 ward to the Lamb of God. Type had met pointed. At the death of Christ the typical antitype, and all the sacrifices and obla- service ended. The ‘true tabernacle’ in tions of the ceremonial system were there heaven is the sanctuary of the new cove- to cease.”—The Great Controversy, pages nant. And as the prophecy of Daniel 8:14 327, 328. is fulfilled in this dispensation, the sanctu- ary to which it refers must be the sanc-
- According to the prophecy of tuary of the new covenant. At the termi- Daniel, what was to happen to the nation of the 2300 days, in 1844, there had city and the sanctuary? Dan. 9:26. been no sanctuary on earth for many cen- turies. Thus the prophecy, ‘Unto two thousand and three hundred days; then shall the sanctuary be cleansed,’ unques- tionably points to the sanctuary in heaven.” NOTE.—”In vain were the efforts of Titus —The Great Controversy, page 417. to save the temple; One greater than he had declared that not one stone was to be 11. What cleansing took place on left upon another. “The blind obstinacy of the Jewish lead- the ancient Day of Atonement? Lev. ers, and the detestable crimes perpetrated 16:16, 30, 33. within the besieged city, excited the horror and indignation of the Romans, and Titus at last decided to take the temple by storm. He determined, however, that if possible it 12. By whose blood will the should be saved from destruction. But his “heavenly things” be cleansed? Heb. commands were disregarded.” 9:11, 12, 23, 24. “After the destruction of the temple, the whole city soon fell into the hands of the Romans. The leaders of the Jews forsook their impregnable towers, and Titus found them solitary. He gazed upon them with NoTE—”The blood of Christ, while it was amazement, and declared that God had to release the repentant sinner from the given them into his hands; for no engines, condemnation of the law, was not to cancel however powerful, could have prevailed the sin; it would stand on record in the against those stupendous battlements. Both sanctuary until the final atonement; so in the city and the temple were razed to their the type the blood of the sin offering re- foundations, and the ground upon which moved the sin from the penitent, but it the holy house had stood was ‘plowed rested in the sanctuary until the Day of like a field.’ Jeremiah 26:18.”—The Great Atonement. Controversy, pages 33, 35. “In the great day of final award, the dead are to be ‘judged out of those things which were written in the books, according The Sanctuary and Its Cleansing to their works.’ Revelation 20:12. Then Under the New Covenant by virtue of the atoning blood of Christ, the sins of all the truly penitent will be blotted from the books of heaven. Thus
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To what sanctuary does the the sanctuary will be freed, or cleansed, apostle direct the eyes of New Testa- from the record of sin.”—Patriarchs and ment Christians? Heb. 8:1, 2; 9:1, Prophets, pages 357, 358. 9-12.
"Every day some portion of NoTE.—"The question, What is the sanc- time should be appropriated tuary? is clearly answered in the Scrip- to the study of the lessons." tures. The term 'sanctuary,' as used in the Bible, refers, first, to the tabernacle built by —Counsels on Sabbath Moses, as a pattern of heavenly things; School Work, page 53. and, secondly, to the 'true tabernacle' in heaven, to which the earthly sanctuary [37 ]Lesson 12, for June 22, 1963
The Investigative Judgment
MEMORY VERSE: “He that overcometh, th e same shall be clothed in white raiment; and I will not blot out his name out of the book of life, but I will confess his name before My Father, and before His angels.” Rev. 3:5. STUDY HELPS: “The Great Controversy,” chapter 28; “S.D.A. Bible Commentary.”
DAILY STUDY ASSIGNMENT AND RECORD
Check Here Check Here Sabbath afternoon: General survey; Tuesday: Questions 8-10.
learn memory verse. Wednesday: Read Study Helps. Sunday: Questions 1-4. Thursday: Questions 11-13. 0 Monday: Questions 5-7. Friday: Review entire lesson.
Lesson Outline: 7. The book of life, and the beginning of judgment. Ex. 32:32; Phil. 4:3; I. The Judgment in Prophecy and Type 1 Peter 4:17. 1. The judgment in prophetic vision. I11. Blotting Out Sins or Names Dan. 7:9, 10. 8. Unforgiven sins require blotting out 2. The time of judgment announced. of names. Ex. 32:33. Rev. 14:6, 7. 9. Overcomers retained in the book of 3. A time prophecy points to cleansing. life. Rev. 3:5. Dan. 8:14. 10. God deals with the sins of His peo- 4. The atonement, a cleansing cere- ple. 1 John 1:9; Prov. 28:13; Isa. mony. Lev. 16:29, 30, 33, 34. 43:25.
- God’s Record of Men’s Lives IV. Our Advocate in the Judgment
11. Christ as our Advocate. Heb. 9:24;
- Judged from the books of record. 1 John 2:1. Dan. 7:10. 12. Christ confesses those who confess
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Contents of the record books. Mal. Him. Matt. 10:32, 33. 3:16; Neh. 13:14; Ps. 56:8; Eccl. 13. Names retained in the book of life. 12:14; Matt. 12:36, 37; 1 Cor. 4:5. Rev. 21:23, 24, 27.
THE LESSON
The Judgment in Prophecy and when the characters and the lives of men should pass in review before the Judge of Type all the earth, and to every man should be
- Describe the judgment scene de- rendered ‘according to his works.’ The An- cient of Days is God the Father. . . . It is picted in vision before the prophet He, the source of all being, and the foun- Daniel. Dan. 7:9, 10. tain of all law, that is to preside in the judgment. And holy angels as ministers and witnesses, in number ‘ten thousand times ten thousand, and thousands of NorE.-“Thus was presented to the proph- thousands,’ attend this great tribunal.”- et’s vision the great and solemn day The Great Controversy, page 479. [ 38 ] 2. What New Testament prophetic God’s Record of Men’s Lives message announces that a time of judgment has arrived? Rev. 14:6, 7. 5. In Daniel’s vision of the judg- ment what records were introduced? Dan. 7: 10. Compare Rev. 20:12, last part.
- What prophecy in the book of Daniel pointed to momentous future events? Dan. 8:14. 6. From specific statements and Scriptural allusions what may we in- fer is written in these books? Mal. NOTE.—”Both the prophecy of Daniel 3:16; Neh. 13:14; Ps. 56:8; Eccl. 12: 8:14, ‘Unto two thousand and three hun- 14; Matt. 12:36, 37; 1 Cor. 4:5. dred days; then shall the sanctuary be cleansed,’ and the first angel’s message, `Fear God, and give glory to Him; for the hour of His judgment is come,’ pointed to Christ’s ministration in the most holy place, NOTE.—”God’s law reaches the feelings to the investigative judgment.”—The Great and the motives, as well as the outward Controversy, page 424. acts. It reveals the secrets of the heart, flashing light upon things before buried in
- In the ancient typical service, darkness. God knows every thought, every what ceremony resulted in a cleansing purpose, every plan, every motive. The of both sanctuary and people? Lev. books of heaven record the sins that would 16:29, 30, 33, 34. have been committed had there been op- portunity. God will bring every work into judgment, with every secret thing. By His law He measures the character of every man. As the artist transfers to the canvas NOTE.—”As anciently the sins of the peo- the features of the face, so the features of ple were by faith placed upon the sin of- each individual character are transferred fering, and through its blood transferred, to the books of heaven. God has a perfect in figure, to the earthly sanctuary, so in photograph of every man’s character, and the new covenant the sins of the repentant this photograph He compares with His law. are by faith placed upon Christ and trans- He reveals to man the defects that mar his ferred, in fact, to the heavenly sanctuary. life, and calls upon him to repent and turn And as the typical cleansing of the earthly from sin.”—Ellen G. White, Signs of the was accomplished by the removal of the Times, July 31, 1901. sins by which it had been polluted, so the “In the books of heaven our lives are as actual cleansing of the heavenly is to be accurately traced as in the picture on the accomplished by the removal, or blotting plate of the photographer. Not only are we out, of the sins which are there recorded. held accountable for what we have done, But before this can be accomplished, there but for what we have left undone. We are must be an examination of the books of held to account for our undeveloped char- record to determine who, through repent- acters, our unimproved opportunities.”— ance of sin and faith in Christ, are entitled Ellen G. White Review and Herald, Sept. to the benefits of His atonement. The 22, 1891. cleansing of the sanctuary therefore in- “The record of every life is written in volves a work of investigation—a work of the books of heaven. Every sin that has judgment. This work must be performed been committed is there registered. Every prior to the coming of Christ to redeem regret for sin, every tear of repentance, His people; for when He comes, His re- every confession of guilt, and the forsaking ward is with Him to give to every man of every darling sin, is also recorded.”— according to his works.”—The Great Con- Ellen G. White, Signs of the Times, May troversy, pages 421, 422. 16, 1895. [ 39 ] 7. What special book of register Christ as their atoning sacrifice, have had does God maintain in heaven, and pardon entered against their names in the with whom does judgment begin? Ex. books of heaven; as they have become par- 32:32; Phil. 4:3; 1 Peter 4:17. takers of the righteousness of Christ, and their characters are found to be in harmony with the law of God, their sins will be blotted out, and they themselves will be accounted worthy of eternal life.”—The NOTE.—”When we become children of Great Controversy, page 483. God, our names are written in the Lamb’s book of life, and they remain there until the time of the investigative judgment. Our Advocate in the Judgment Then the name of every individual will be called, and his record examined by Him 11. Who is man’s advocate in the who declares, ‘I know thy works.’ “—Ellen courts above? Heb. 9:24; 1 John 2:1. G. White, Signs of the Times, Aug. 6, 1885. Compare Dan. 7:13. “The book of life contains the names of all who have ever entered the service of God.”—The Great Controversy, page 480. “In the great day of final atonement and investigative judgment the only cases con- NOTE.—”Jesus will appear as their Ad- sidered are those of the professed people of vocate to plead in their behalf before God. God. The judgment of the wicked is a . . . As ‘ the books of record are opened distinct and separate work, and takes place in the judgment, the lives of all who have at a later period. ‘Judgment must begin at believed on Jesus come in review before the house of God.’ “—Ibid. God. Beginning with those who first lived upon the earth, our Advocate presents the Blotting Out Sins or Names cases of each successive generation, and closes with the living. Every name is men- tioned, every case closely investigated.”—
- On what basis are names blotted The Great Controversy, pages 482, 483. out of God’s book? Ex. 32:33. 12. On what basis will Christ con- fess us as His beftire His Father and the angels? Matt. 10:32, 33. NOTE.—”When any have sins remaining upon the books of record, unrepented of and unforgiven, their names will be blotted out of the book of life, and the record of their good deeds will be erased from the NOTE.—”The divine Intercessor presents book of God’s remembrance.”—The Great the plea that all who have overcome Controversy, page 483. through faith in His blood be forgiven their transgressions, that they be restored to their
- Whose names are retained in the Eden home, and crowned as joint heirs with book of life? Rev. 3:5. Himself to the ‘first dominion.’ . . . He asks for His people not only pardon and justification, full and complete, but a share in His glory and a seat upon His throne.
- What is God’s provision for . . . Christ will clothe His faithful ones dealing with sins committed by His with His own righteousness, that He may present them to His Father ‘a glorious people? 1 John 1:9; Prov. 28:13; Isa. church, not having spot, or wrinkle, or any 43:25. such thing.’ Ephesians 5:27. Their names stand enrolled in the book of life, and concerning them it is written: ‘They shall walk with Me in white: for they are NOTE.—”All who have truly repented of worthy.’“—The Great Controversy, page sin, and by faith claimed the blood of 484. f 40] 13. What will be the privilege of Hebrews 6:20. There the light from the those whose names are retained in the cross of Calvary is reflected. There we may book of life? Rev. 21:23, 24, 27. Com- gain a clearer insight into the mysteries of redemption.”-The Great Controversy, page pare Rev. 3:5. 489.
NOTE.-“The intercession of Christ in A Christian steward does not man’s behalf in the sanctuary above is dedicate his time, his talent, as essential to the plan of salvation as was His death upon the cross. By His death He his treasure that they may be- began that work which after His resurrec- come God’s, but because they tion He ascended to complete in heaven. ARE God’s. We must by faith enter within the veil, `whither the Forerunner is for us entered.’
Lesson 13, for June 29, 1963
The Close of Probation and the Removal of Sin
MEMORY VERSE: “Let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us, looking unto Jesus the Author and Finisher of our faith.” Heb. 12:1, 2. STUDY HELPS: “The Great Controversy,” pages 613, 614, 658-660, 673-678; “S.D.A. Bible Commentary.”
DAILY STUDY ASSIGNMENT AND RECORD
Check Here Check Here Sabbath afternoon: General survey; Tuesday: Questions 7-9.
learn memory verse. ❑ Wednesday: Read Study Helps. ❑ Sunday: Questions 1-3. ❑ Thursday: Questions 10-13. ❑ Monday: Questions 4-6. ❑ Friday: Review entire lesson.
Lesson Outline: I11. The Final Disposition of Sin and Sinners I. Cleansing the Soul Temple 7. Sins placed on scapegoat. Lev. 16:20-22. 1. The soul temple. 2 Cor. 6:16. 8. Satan bound a thousand years. Rev. 2. Affliction of soul on the Day of 20:1-3. Atonement. Lev. 16:29. 9. Final fate of Satan and his follow- 3. Lay aside besetting sins and resist ers. Rev. 20:9, 10, 14, 15; 21:8. evil. Heb. 12:1-4. IV. The Universe Clean From Sin
- The Close of Probation 10. New heaven and new earth. Rev.
21:1.
- The final decree fixes human des- 11. Sin and its results banished by God. tiny. Rev. 22:11, 12. Rev. 21:4, 27.
- Christ’s warning of surprise and 12. Tree of life restored. Rev. 22:2. disaster. Mark 13:35-37. 13. God dwells with His people. Rev.
- Be always ready. Matt. 24:44. 21:3; 22:1, 3-5. [ 41 ] THE LESSON
Cleansing the Soul Temple NOTE.-“I saw angels hurrying to and fro in heaven. An angel returned from the earth with a writer’s inkhorn by his side, and
- What are the people of God said reported to Jesus that his work was done, to be? 2 Cor. 6:16. that the saints were numbered and sealed. Then I saw Jesus, who had been minister- ing before the ark containing the Ten Com- mandments, throw down the censer. He raised his hands upward, and with a loud
- What was to be the attitude of voice, said, It is done. And all the angelic every devout worshiper on the Day of host laid off their crowns as Jesus made the Atonement? Lev. 16:29. solemn declaration, He that is unjust, let him be unjust still; and he which is filthy, let him be filthy still; and he that is righ- teous, let him be righteous still; and he that is holy, let him be holy still. NorE.—”While the investigative judg- “I saw that every case was then de- ment is going forward in heaven, while the cided for life or death. Jesus had blotted sins of penitent believers are being removed out the sins of His people. He had received from the sanctuary, there is to be a special His kingdom, and the atonement had been work of purification, of putting away sin, made for the subjects of His kingdom. among God’s people on earth.”—Ellen G. While Jesus had been ministering in the White, Review and Herald, Jan. 17, 1907. sanctuary, the judgment had been going on for the righteous dead, and then for
- As Christians look to Jesus min- the righteous living. The subjects of the kingdom were made up. The marriage of istering for them before the throne the Lamb was finished. And the kingdom, of God, what should be the result in and the greatness of the kingdom under their own lives? Heb. 12:1-4. the whole heaven, was given to Jesus, and the heirs of salvation, and Jesus was to reign as King of kings, and Lord of lords.” —Spiritual Gifts, vol. 1, pp. 197, 198. NorE.—”While Christ is cleansing the 5. What warning did Christ give sanctuary, the worshipers on earth should His disciples? Mark 13:35-37. carefully review their life, and compare their character with the standard of righ- teousness. As they see their defects, they should seek the aid of the Spirit of God to enable them to have moral strength to resist the temptations of Satan, and to reach the NOTE.—”We are waiting and watching perfection of the standard. They may be for the return of the Master, who is to victors over the very temptations which bring the morning, lest coming suddenly seemed too strong for humanity to bear; he find us sleeping. What time is here re- ferred to? Not to the revelation of Christ for the divine power will be combined with in the clouds of heaven to find a people their human effort, and Satan cannot over- come them.”—Ellen G. White, Review and asleep. No; but to His return from His Herald, April 8, 1890. ministration in the most holy place in the heavenly sanctuary, when He lays off His priestly attire and clothes Himself with The Close of Probation garments of vengeance, and when the man- date goes forth: ‘He that is unjust, let him
- What irrevocable divine decree be unjust still.’ . . . When Jesus ceases to plead for man, the cases of all are for- fixes the destiny of every human be- ever decided. . . . This time finally comes ing just before Christ returns? Rev. suddenly upon all.”—Testimonies, vol. 2, 22:11, 12. pp. 190, 191. t 42 ] 6. With what words did Christ ad- and dreary wilderness.”—The Great Con- monish His followers who would be troversy, page 658. watching for His return? Matt. 24:44. “Since Satan is the originator of sin, the direct instigator of all the sins that caused the death of the Son of God, justice de- mands that Satan shall suffer the final punishment. Christ’s work for the redemp- tion of men and the purification of the uni- verse from sin will be closed by the removal NoTE.—”Go to your rest at night with of sin from the heavenly sanctuary and every sin confessed. Thus we did when in the placing of these sins upon Satan, who 1844 we expected to meet our Lord. And will bear the final penalty.”—Patriarchs now this great event is nearer than when we and Prophets, page 358. first believed. Be ye always ready, in the “Satan rushes into the midst of his fol- evening, in the morning, and at noon, that lowers and tries to stir up the multitude to when the cry is heard, ‘Behold, the Bride- action. But fire from God out of heaven is groom cometh; go ye out to meet Him,’ rained upon them, and the great men, and you may, even though awakened out of mighty men, the noble, the poor and miser- sleep, go forth to meet Him with your able, are all consumed together. I saw that lamps trimmed and burning.”—Testimo- some were quickly destroyed, while others nies, vol. 9, p. 48. suffered longer. They were punished ac- cording to the deeds done in the body.. . . “Satan and his angels suffered long. Satan The Final Disposition of Sin and bore not only the weight and punishment Sinners of his own sins, but also of the sins of the redeemed host, which had been placed upon
- In the ceremonies of the ancient him; and he must also suffer for the ruin Day of Atonement, where were the of souls which he had caused.”—Early sins of the congregation finally Writings, pages 294, 295. placed? Lev. 16:20-22. 8. How does the book of Revela- tion picture the effect on Satan of the second coming of Christ? Rev. 20:1-3.
NOTE.—”Now the event takes place, fore- shadowed in the last solemn service of the Day of Atonement. When the ministration in the holy of holies had been completed, NOTE.—”For a thousand years, Satan will and the sins of Israel had been removed wander to and fro in the desolate earth to from the sanctuary by virtue of the blood behold the results of his rebellion against of the sin offering, then the scapegoat was the law of God. During this time his suf- presented alive before the Lord; and in the ferings are intense. Since his fall his life of presence of the congregation the high priest unceasing activity has banished reflection; confessed over him ‘all the iniquities of the but now he is deprived of his power and children of Israel, and all their transgres- left to contemplate the part which he has sions in all their sins, putting them upon the acted since first he rebelled against the head of the goat.’ Leviticus 16:21. In like government of heaven, and to look for- manner when the work of atonement in the ward with trembling and terror to the heavenly sanctuary has been completed, dreadful future when he must suffer for then in the presence of God and heavenly all the evil that he has done and be pun- angels and the host of the redeemed the ished for the sins that he has caused to be sins of God’s people will be placed upon committed.”—The Great Controversy, page Satan; he will be declared guilty of all the 660. evil which he has caused them to commit. And as the scapegoat was sent away into 9. What will be the fate of Satan a land not inhabited, so Satan will be ban- and all his followers? Rev. 20:9, 10, ished to the desolate earth, an uninhabited 14, 15; 21:8. [ 43 NOTE.—”The wicked receive their recom- mate and inanimate, in their unshadowed pense in the earth. Proverbs 11:31. They beauty and perfect joy, declare that God is `shall be stubble: and the day that cometh love.”—The Great Controversy, page 678. shall burn them up, saith the Lord of hosts.’ Malachi 4:1. Some are destroyed as in a 12. What precious gift, originally moment, while others suffer many days. bestowed on man in the beginning, All are punished ‘according to their deeds.’ will be restored to the human race? The sins of the righteous having been trans- ferred to Satan, he is made to suffer not Rev. 22:2. only for his own rebellion, but for all the sins which he has caused God’s people to commit. His punishment is to be far greater than that of those whom he has deceived. 13. How does the prophet describe After all have perished who fell by his the supreme privilege of the re- deceptions, he is still to live and suffer on.” deemed? Rev. 21:3; 22:1, 3-5. —The Great Controversy, page 673.
The Universe Clean From Sin NOTE.—"The people of God are privileged
to hold open communion with the Father 10. What did John see in vision re- and the Son. Now we see through a glass, placing the sinful world of today? darkly.' 1 Corinthians 13:12. We behold Rev. 21:1. the image of God reflected, as in a mirror,
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We shall stand in His presence and behold 11. What will be entirely missing the glory of His countenance."—The Great in this new earth? Rev. 21:4, 27. Controversy, pages 676, 677.
NOTE.—”The great controversy is ended. “The Lord designs that the Sin and sinners are no more. The entire means entrusted to us shall universe is clean. One pulse of harmony and gladness beats through the vast creation. be used in building up His From Him who created all, flow life and kingdom.”—Counsels on light and gladness, throughout the realms Stewardship, page 35. of illimitable space. From the minutest atom to the greatest world, all things, ani-
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ANTILLIAN U.M. 11,345,777 195 15,887 20,476 Si. LAURENVW CAYENNE CARIBBEAN U.M. 2,390,263 206 22,371 26,598 4.v. FRENCH GUIANA CENTRAL AMERICAN U.M. 12,086,476 185 15,187 18,208 COLOMBIA-VENEZUELA U.M. 22,166,000 110 17,491 24,102 FRANCO-HAITIAN U.M. 4,682,394 86 21,745 31,619 MEXICAN U.M. 37,611,640 217 27,104 49,308 WEST INDIES U.M. 1,788,302 326 34,612 40,498 - - DIVISION TOTALS 92,070,852 1,325 154,397 210,809