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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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Ministry in the Two Apartments
In the service of the earthly sanctuary, which, as we have seen, is a figure of the service in the heavenly, when the high priest on the Day of Atonement entered the most holy place, the ministration in the first apartment ceased. God commanded: “There shall be no man in the tabernacle of the congregation when he goeth in to make an atonement in the holy place, until he comes out.” Leviticus 16:17. So when Christ entered the holy of holies to perform the closing work of the atonement, He ceased His ministration in the first apartment. But when the ministration in the first apartment ended, the ministration in the second apartment began. When in the typical service the high priest left the holy on the Day of Atonement, he went in before God to present the blood of the sin offering in behalf of all Israel who truly repented of their sins. So Christ had only completed one part of His work as our intercessor, to enter upon another portion of the work, and He still pleaded His blood before the Father in behalf of sinners.CIHS 158.2
This subject was not understood by Adventists in 1844. After the passing of the time when the Saviour was expected, they still believed His coming to be near; they held that they had reached an important crisis and that the work of Christ as man's intercessor before God had ceased. It appeared to them to be taught in the Bible that man's probation would close a short time before the actual coming of the Lord in the clouds of heaven. This seemed evident from those scriptures which point to a time when men will seek, knock, and cry at the door of mercy, and it will not be opened. And it was a question with them whether the date to which they had looked for the coming of Christ might not rather mark the beginning of this period which was immediately to precede His coming. Having given the warning of the judgment near, they felt that their work for the world was done, and they lost their burden of soul for the salvation of sinners, while the bold and blasphemous scoffing of the ungodly seemed to them another evidence that the Spirit of God had been withdrawn from the rejecters of His mercy. All this confirmed them in the belief that probation had ended, or, as they then expressed it, “the door of mercy was shut.”CIHS 159.1