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Sanctuary, Salvation & Our Savior

David Shin

Sanctuary, Salvation & Our Savior: Back to the Father’s House

Sanctuary, Salvation & Our Savior: It’s All About Jesus

Sanctuary, Salvation & Our Savior: Justified in the Courtyard

Sanctuary, Salvation and Our Savior: Sanctified in the Holy Place

Sanctuary, Salvation and Our Savior: Glorified in the Most Holy Place

Sanctuary, Salvation and Our Savior: Burnt Offering

Sanctuary, Salvation and Our Savior: Cleansed at the Laver

Sanctuary, Salvation and Our Savior: Fed at the Table

Sanctuary, Salvation and Our Savior: Altar of Incense

Sanctuary, Salvation and Our Savior: The Lampstand

Sanctuary, Salvation and Our Savior: The Law in the Ark

Sanctuary, Salvation and Our Savior: Sabbath and Sanctuary

We're continuing in our series entitled Sanctuary, Salvation, and Our Savior.

And let's do a brief review from last Sabbath.

We studied about how Moses was given a blueprint of the sanctuary in heaven.

This was to be a miniature replica of God's house in heaven.

And Moses was given the exact dimensions and the materials as to how he was to build this earthly sanctuary.

And there were 3 compartments in the sanctuary that Moses was to build.

You had the courtyard, which had 2 articles of furniture, the brazen altar, and the laver.

You had the holy place, which had 3 articles of furniture, the candlesticks, the altar of incense, and the table of showbread.

And then you had the most holy place, which had 1 article of furniture, the Ark of the Covenant.

And God's plan was to bring humanity back to the Father's house.

We studied last Sabbath how the sanctuary was used as a place where it was the command center of the universe, kind of like the White House, which is the residence of the President and also his command center.

It was a place of gathering and a place of worship.

And after sin, this place, the command center, took on the additional functions of the plan of salvation.

And Adam and Eve, back in Eden, before sin, were able to have face-to-face communion with God right here, signified by the most holy place experience, face-to-face conversation with God.

After sin, we were not able to have that face-to-face encounter anymore, so we were outside of the sanctuary and God's plan is to bring us all the way back, to bring us home, into the courtyard, into the holy place, and into the most holy place.

And in the book of Revelation 22, when it's all said and done, the Bible says, and we shall see his face.

Let's take a look at the structure of the sanctuary.

The sanctuary was not a big structure, at least the 1 that was given to Moses, the tent tabernacle.

It was a hundred and 50 feet long and seventy-five feet wide, a rectangle, And the wall around the sanctuary was not an iron wall made of stones and bricks.

It was made of linen, all the way around the sanctuary.

And there was 1 way into the sanctuary, 1 way into the courtyard, 1 way into the holy place, and 1 way into the most holy place.

And at the entrances of Each compartment was not a gate of iron with a padlock.

There was a veil over each 1 of the entrances.

The courtyard was surrounded by a linen fence.

There were actually 3 veils, and here are the references.

The veil to the holy place, Exodus 26.37, referred to as the hanging.

And the veil to the most holy place, those 3 veils, and this implied an invitation to enter.

There was no barrier between the tabernacle and the earth, and the same ground that the Ark of the Covenant, which had the Shekinah glory and the presence of God, was standing on the same ground as the Israelites.

The Shekinah Glory sat on the same ground as everybody else, but it was packaged in a veil.

And we come to our first point in your study guide.

If you want to follow along, there is a study guide in your bulletin.

And this is point number 1 from our study today.

The sanctuary reveals the incarnation of Jesus.

Jesus did not become physically like the nature of Adam before the fall.

He took on the nature of humanity after the fall.

Physically, he took on our humanity, and heaven came all the way down.

The Bible declares that the heavens itself cannot contain the glory of God, and it's a wonderful thing to contemplate and a mystery how the God of heaven could put himself into a human being.

And yet, that glory was packaged in humanity so that we could interact with God.

Just like the sanctuary came all the way down, Jesus came all the way down, yet he was packaged in human flesh.

And the Bible says in the book of Hebrews that the veil is his flesh.

The sanctuary reveals the incarnation, and look at this in Exodus chapter 25, verse 8, let them make me a sanctuary that I may dwell among them.

The Shekinah glory, dwelling with the people of God.

In John chapter 1 in verse 14, talking about Jesus and the word Jesus was made flesh and dwelt among us and we beheld his glory.

That is a direct reference to Exodus 25 verse 8, a direct reference to the sanctuary.

In other words, Jesus, the incarnation of Jesus, was symbolized in the structure of the sanctuary itself.

The Shekinah glory came all the way down, yet it was packaged.

It was in the package of humanity so that we could behold the glory and the character of God.

Mind-boggling accommodation of the transcendent God of the universe becoming human so that we could behold his glory.

I have this quotation in your study guide in these words is announced the fulfillment of the Purpose that has been hidden from eternal ages Christ was about to visit our world and become incarnate.

He says, a body thou has prepared for me.

Had he appeared with the glory that was his before the father, with the Father before the world was, we could not have endured the light of His presence.

That we might behold it and not be destroyed, the manifestation of His glory, " and listen to this, was shrouded.

And look at the language that Desire of Ages uses.

His divinity was veiled with humanity, the invisible glory in the visible human form.

God became man and the glory was shrouded, was veiled.

The invisible God in the visible human form.

Leslie Harding says this, "'Christ took human nature as a screen through which to display God's character to the universe praise his name We come to our point number 2 in your study guide.

The sanctuary reveals the plan of salvation.

He came all the way down and The glory of God was packaged, unveiled in human flesh, and the sanctuary reveals the plan of salvation through Jesus Christ.

When you look at the sanctuary, there were not 5 or 10 entrances into the sanctuary.

Jesus said, I am the way, the truth, and the life.

Jesus' claim is a claim of exclusivity, not plurality.

And when you look at the sanctuary, this indicates through the veils that God is not trying to keep us out of heaven.

We come to our first point of the plan of salvation.

We come into the sanctuary through Jesus and because of Jesus, and the entire sanctuary structure is all about Jesus.

He is the embodiment of the sanctuary, and the first point of access is because of Jesus.

John chapter 10, verse 9 says, I am the door.

Then we come to our first article of furniture and that is the brazen altar And this altar of sacrifice represents Jesus as our Savior.

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Sanctuary, Salvation & Our Savior

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