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- An Introduction
- The End of the 2300 Days
- A Truth Established by the Witness of the Holy Spirit
- The Sanctuary and the Sabbath
- The Sanctuary Truth Under Fire
- Points Sustained Only by Misused Scriptures
- The Reality of the Heavenly Sanctuary Affirmed
- The Ark and the Law in the Heavenly Sanctuary
- Last-Day Delusions Will Involve Vital Truth
- With Eyes Fixed on the Sanctuary
- This Little Book
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- Integrity of the Prophetic Periods
- The Sanctuary of the Old Covenant
- The New-Covenant Sanctuary in the Heavens
- The Glories of the Earthly Sanctuary and the Heavenly Temple
- Christ's Ministry in the Heavenly Sanctuary
- Determining the Sanctuary of Daniel 8:14
- Practical Lessons From the Types
- But a Type of Heavenly Realities
- The Cleansing of the Heavenly Sanctuary
- Study Questions
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Determining the Sanctuary of Daniel 8:14
The question, What is the sanctuary? is clearly answered in the Scriptures. The term “sanctuary,” as used in the Bible, refers, first, to the tabernacle built by Moses, as a pattern of heavenly things; and, secondly, to the “true tabernacle” in heaven, to which the earthly sanctuary pointed. At the death of Christ the typical service ended. The “true tabernacle” in heaven is the sanctuary of the new covenant. And as the prophecy of Daniel 8:14 is fulfilled in this dispensation, the sanctuary to which it refers must be the sanctuary of the new covenant. At the termination of the 2300 days, in 1844, there had been no sanctuary on earth for many centuries. Thus the prophecy, “Unto two thousand and three hundred days; then shall the sanctuary be cleansed,” unquestionably points to the sanctuary in heaven.CIHS 140.1
But the most important question remains to be answered: What is the cleansing of the sanctuary? That there was such a service in connection with the earthly sanctuary is stated in the Old Testament Scriptures. But can there be anything in heaven to be cleansed? In Hebrews 9 the cleansing of both the earthly and the heavenly sanctuary is plainly taught. “Almost all things are by the law purged with blood; and without shedding of blood is no remission. It was therefore necessary that the patterns of things in the heavens should be purified with these [the blood of animals]; but the heavenly things themselves with better sacrifices than these” (Hebrews 9:22, 23), even the precious blood of Christ.CIHS 140.2