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Sabbath School 2nd Quarter 2025: Allusions, Images, Symbols: How to Study Bible Prophecy?

Mark Finley

Is Ellen White a Prophet or Plagiarist?

01 Some Principles of Prophecy

02 The Genesis Foundation

03 Images from Marriage

04 The Nations Part 1

05 The Nations: Part 2

06 Understanding Sacrifice

07 Foundations of Prophecy

08 In the Psalms, Part 1

09 In the Psalms Part 2

10 Upon Whom the Ends Have Come

11 Ruth and Esther

12 Precursors

Live Longer with God’s Health Blueprint

13 Images of the End

Welcome back to another 1 of our Sabbath School lessons.

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In the Psalms, we don't often equate the Psalms with the book of Revelation, but this lesson provides insights into how the Psalms correlate with the Bible's last book, the book of Revelation.

Our memory text for this week is found in Revelation 14 verse 1, Then I looked, and behold, a lamb standing on Mount Zion, and with him 144, 000, having his father's name written on their foreheads.

What relationship do the Psalms have to the ministry of Christ in the final days of earth's history?

1 thing is for certain, The Psalms reveal a God of holiness, a God of righteousness, a God whom we can never approach except through Jesus.

So let's first go to the book of Hebrews and learn a little bit about the intercession of Christ in the heavenly sanctuary, then compare his intercession to what he wants to do in our lives and we'll notice that both in the Psalms and the book of Revelation.

But to get the setting, let's go to Sunday's lesson, Hebrews 9, verse 11 to 15.

In Hebrews 9, verse 11, I read, but Christ came as high priest of the good things to come with the greater and more perfect tabernacle not made with hands that is not of this creation.

Not with the blood of goats and calves, but with his own blood he entered the most holy place once for all, having obtained eternal redemption for us.

For if the blood of bulls and goats and the ashes of a heifer sprinkling the unclean sanctifies for the puring of the flesh.

How much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit authored himself without spot to God, purge your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?" I want to look at that passage phrase by phrase because it can lead to misunderstanding.

First verse 11, but Christ came as high priest of good things to come with the greater more perfect tabernacle.

The heavenly sanctuary is the perfect sanctuary.

So Christ's sacrifice is better, Christ's priesthood is better, Christ's heavenly temple is better than all the earthly sacrifices or priesthoods or earthly temples.

Now Notice in verse 12, it says, not with the blood of bulls and goats, but with his own blood he entered the most holy place once for all, having obtained eternal redemption for us.

Some people are very confused of that, because they say, Seventh-day Adventists believe in a two-part sanctuary in heaven, the holy and the most holy.

Does this say that Christ ascended to the most holy place of the heavenly sanctuary shortly after his ascension?

If you look at the King James Version, you certainly get that impression.

It would be better translated, the holy of holies.

In other words, this expression ta hagia applies to the entire sanctuary.

So just as the high priest entered the sanctuary to inaugurate it and then began his ministry in the holy place, so when Jesus ascended to heaven, he inaugurated the heavenly sanctuary and then began his ministry in the holy place.

But notice it says he did that once and for all, having obtained eternal redemption for us.

Through Christ, in Christ, by Christ, because of Christ, because of his sacrifice, we have eternal redemption.

Then, as we look at verse 14, How much more shall the blood of Christ, rather than the blood of bulls and goats, through the eternal spirit offered himself without spot to God, purge your conscience from dead works to serve the living God.

So we have eternal salvation, eternal redemption as we reach out by faith to receive it.

We accept what Christ has done on the cross by our conscious choice.

But that Choice is something prompted by the Holy Spirit.

God always takes the initiative in salvation.

But the purpose of the plan of salvation, the purpose of the heavenly sanctuary, the purpose of the book of Revelation is to reveal Christ as the dying lamb, Christ as the living priest, and Christ as the 1 who cleanses our conscience from dead works.

In other words, Jesus wants to produce a purified people, a holy people.

The grace of God delivers us both from the guilt of sin and from the grip of sin.

It delivers us from the penalty of a broken law by giving us both forgiveness for the past and power for the present.

So Jesus, our high priest, is doing a work in heaven's sanctuary to get a people ready for his soon return.

Monday's lesson, 1 day they will stand with him on Mount Zion.

What are these people like who stand with him on Mount Zion?

The Bible calls them the 144, 000, a term used of the living redeemed when Jesus comes.

In Revelation 14, verse 1 to 5, it says they follow the lamb wherever he goes.

It says in Revelation 14, 1 to 5, there's no guile in their mouth.

They have not committed spiritual fornication and gone after some other lover.

Now how does the book of Psalms parallel with Revelation chapter 14?

We find it in Psalm 15, and so we go back to Psalm 15.

Notice the parallels of God desiring to prepare a people that live godly lives of holiness before his throne.

Psalm 15, and we read, "'Lord, who may abide in your tabernacle?

"'Who will dwell in your holy hill?' "'What is God's tabernacle?' "'It's the sanctuary.' "'What is God's holy hill?' "'It's Mount Zion.' exactly like Revelation 14, 1 says, and I beheld on Mount Zion.

He that walks uprightly and works righteousness.

He does not backbite with his tongue, nor does evil to his neighbor, nor does he take up reproach against his friend." So here you have a description of a righteous people.

Righteous because Christ's righteousness covers their past and Christ's righteousness in the heart transforms their present.

We see something very similar in Psalm 24.

In Psalm 24 we read, verse 1, the earth is the Lord's in all its fullness, the world and those who dwell therein.

Then it raises a very similar question in verse 3, who may ascend into the hill of the Lord or who may stand in his holy place?

He who has clean hands and a pure heart, who has not lifted up his soul to an idol nor sworn deceitfully, He shall receive blessing from the Lord and the righteousness from the God of his salvation." So once again, in Psalm 15 and Psalm 24, we see the work of God.

God is attempting to get a people ready for his soon return.

He's attempting, through his grace and by his power, to perform a cleansing work in our lives that makes us more like him.

He desires not simply that the law of God be written on tables of stone, although it is, but he wants it to be written in our hearts.

Look, we're going to look at Exodus chapter 34, 1-7.

You remember in Revelation 14, it talks about the father's name written on their foreheads.

He talks about Moses in verse 1, cutting 2 tables of stone like the first ones, because you remember Moses came down off the mountain, he saw the Israelites worshipping around the golden calf, and he broke the 10 Commandments.

So Moses cuts the tablets of stone, and God says, I'll write them.

He says, be ready in the morning and come up to Mount Zion.

We read about Mount Zion in Revelation chapter 14.

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