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Today’s subject – “The Longest Time Prophecy in the Bible – Part 2”

Before we begin today’s program, shall we reverently seek God’s presence. Heavenly Father we ask for divine guidance as we open the word and study the longest time prophecy in the Bible.  In Jesus name Amen.
I continue to keep my pledge to lift up my voice like a trumpet and to show God’s people where they are going against God’s Will.

Today, we're continuing to study the longest time prophecy in the Bible.  Last week we were looking at the earthly sanctuary, which was a pattern of the heavenly sanctuary. We saw how in type, sinners before the cross brought an innocent lamb to be offered as a sacrifice for his sin. 
The blood of that lamb contained the record of sin. And as the priest sprinkled some of this sin-stained blood in the sanctuary, in the Holy Place, this symbolically transferred that person's sin into this sanctuary, staining or polluting the sanctuary. (Jer.2:22; Isa.59:12; Hos.7:2; Jer. 17:1)
	The blood contained, symbolically, the record of sin. What records sin in the heavenly sanctuary? The books.  And that's what's open in the judgment.  (Dan.7:10)
Every day, lambs were slain in the court, outside the tent of the sanctuary.  
	The outer court symbolized the earth where Jesus came to be slain.  Jesus died in the court of this world, far outside the temple of heaven.	
	Many Christians can't really understand the earthly sanctuary, because they don't like to read Exodus, Leviticus, Deuteronomy, and Hebrews. 
	But remember: "All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness:  . . . " 2 Tim. 3:16
	The Old Testament is revealed in the New; and the New Testament is concealed in the Old.
	The sacrifices occurred day by day throughout the year. They would then have a special day, once every year, where the sanctuary would be cleansed from all the sin, that was symbolically, built up in it during the year.  
	At the end of the Jewish year, the trumpets would blow, and there was held a final service called the cleansing of the sanctuary.  Only once each year, the high priest—and only the high priest— would enter the Most Holy Place.  (Heb.9:6,7).
  	Just as the lamb in the outer court represented the death of Christ on Calvary, so the priest going daily into the Holy Place of the sanctuary represented Jesus entering the Holy Place of the heavenly sanctuary, so the high priest entering into the Most Holy Place of the earthly sanctuary at the end of the Jewish year represents Jesus, our High Priest, doing the final work of judgment in heaven's sanctuary at the end of time. The parallel is exact. 
	What did this mean to the people?  It was Yom Kippur, the day of Judgment. It was a day when God blotted out the record of sin. The people were to gather around the sanctuary and search their hearts, and examine their life to be sure they were pure and right with God. It was a solemn and serious time. Any Jew who didn't repent of his sins was judged, cut off, and separated from Israel.
  The Day of Atonement services are recorded in Leviticus 16:30   
	"For on that day shall the priest make an atonement for you to cleanse you, that you may be clean from all your sins before the Lord."
 	Sins were forgiven in the daily service.  But at the end of the year, the sanctuary was to be cleansed so the record of sin was blotted out.  Before Jesus comes again, there is also a work of cleansing of the record of sin to be done again. —The books of record will be examined and the Lord searches the hearts of His professed people.  The false professors of Christ are going to be blotted out of His book of life, (Rev. 3:5), and those who are genuine, who really want to follow the Lord, those who've been born again, these individuals will be retained in the Lamb's book of life.  
	Even though the atoning sacrifice was made at Calvary almost 2000 years ago, we must come to Jesus Christ in humility, earnestly repentant and willing to confess and forsake our sins. Then our sins will be sent beforehand into the heavenly sanctuary to be mediated by and atoned for by the saving blood of heaven's sacrifice Jesus Christ.  Our Advocate who pleads His blood on our behalf!  (Dan.7:9)
Hebrews 9:11,12
“But Christ being come an high priest of good things to come, by a greater and more perfect tabernacle, not made with hands, that is to say, not of this building; Neither by the blood of goats and calves, but by his own blood he entered in once into the holy place, having obtained eternal redemption for us.  
	Notice now, another text that speaks about the necessity to cleanse or purify the sanctuary in heaven.
	Hebrews 9:23   
"It was therefore necessary that the patterns (Ex. 25:9) of things in the (where?) heavens should be purified with these; but the heavenly things themselves with better sacrifices than these." 
There was a record of sin in the Old Testament sanctuary, there's a record of sin in the heavenly sanctuary.  It was in the blood down here, it's in the books up there. Both sanctuaries would be cleansed, but this earthly was only to serve us as an illustration of that in heaven. Hebrews tells us that Jesus would perform a "better' ministry.  What ministry is that?
	Vs.24 "For Christ is not entered into the holy places made with hands, which are the figures of the true... ."  In other words, Christ is not back in the old earthly sanctuary, but it says, but into heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God for us." 
And so we see clearly that Jesus has ascended into the heavenly sanctuary, and he's there, today ministering for us.     
Hebrews 8:1,2  
"Now of the things which we have spoken this is the sum:  We have such an high priest, who is set on the right hand of the throne of the Majesty in the heavens:  A minister of the sanctuary, and of the true tabernacle, which the Lord pitched, and not man."   
Everyday, the Old Testament priest went into the Holy Place, but at the end of the year, the high priest went into the Most Holy Place, and sprinkled that blood of the sacrifice representing the Lord upon the Mercy Seat, purifying the Sanctuary.
	This was symbolic of, Jesus going into the Most Holy Place, in the time of the end, to purify those books of record, which contain the sins of the people.
	When I come to Jesus and confess my sins, Jesus, my Priest up in heaven, appears before God in my behalf!  Do I need to go to any earthly priest?  No!! We have a high priest in a heavenly temple.  We don't need an earthly priest in an earthly temple. (1 Tim.2:5)  There's only One Mediator for man-kind—Jesus Christ!
	And Jesus said, in Matthew 10:32, “Whosoever therefore shall confess me before men, him will I confess also before my Father which is in heaven. " Jesus is truly, " . .  the Lamb of God, that taketh away the sin of the world."
	All these things in the earthly sanctuary had just pointed forward to Jesus. Now when Jesus ascended up to heaven He was to first minister in the Holy Place of the sanctuary. How do we know? We have the example of the earthly priest who first ministered in the Holy Place.
	Notice how John describes Jesus in Revelation 1:12,13    
"And I turned to see the voice which spake with me.  And being turned, I saw seven golden candlesticks;
	And in the midst of the seven candlesticks one like unto the Son of man, clothed with a garment down to the foot, and girt about the paps with a golden girdle.  His head and his hairs were white like wool, as white as snow; and his eyes were as a flame of fire.  And his feet like unto fine brass, as if they burned in a furnace; and his voice as the sound of many waters.  And he had in his right hand seven stars:  and out of his mouth went a sharp two-edged sword:  and his countenance was as the sun shineth in his strength.  And when I saw him, I fell at his feet as dead.  And he laid his right hand upon me, saying unto me, Fear not; I am the first and the last:  I am he that liveth, and was dead; and, behold, I am alive for evermore, Amen; and have the keys of hell and of death." 
 	That's Jesus Christ our high priest.  Revelation chapter 1 shows Jesus walking among the seven golden candlesticks, which is symbolic of the seven churches.  Where are the seven candlesticks, in the Holy or Most Holy Place?  Holy Place.  Now that just backs up what Hebrews said, "Christ entered once into the holy place." When John sees Jesus, He is standing right there in the Holy Place of the sanctuary. 
 	Where do we look for Jesus in the time of the end? In the Most Holy Place.  
Notice how Revelation takes us there.
	Let's read in Revelation 11:18,19, "And the nations were angry, and thy wrath is come, and the time of the dead, that they should be judged, 
	and that thou shouldest give reward unto thy servants the prophets, and to the saints, and them that fear thy name, small and great; and shouldest destroy them which destroy the earth.  
	And the temple of God was opened in heaven, and there was seen in his temple  the ark of his testament: and there were lightnings, and voices, and thunderings, and an earthquake, and great hail." 
In the time of the end, the temple of God was opened in heaven. Now friends, where is the ark of the testament?  
	It's right over here in the Most Holy Place isn't it?  John looked in vision into heaven and saw first the Holy Place in Revelation 1, but now in Revelation 11 he looks into the Most Holy Place and sees the ark of the covenant, that has the Ten Commandment law inside.  
   	God is painting for us a judgment hour scene. So at the time the judgment commences, Jesus' ministry has now shifted to the Most Holy Place. 

Time is up for this week, so be tuned in next week as we present “The Longest Time Prophecy in the Bible – Part 3”

Until next week, Jesus said in John 5:39, “Search the Scriptures, for in them ye think ye have eternal life: and they are they which testify of me”. Even so, Come Lord Jesus.