LOOKING UNTO JESUS OR CHRIST IN TYPE AND ANTITYPE. BY ...

cleansing; and there can be nothing here but the presence
of sin to render such a work necessary. We look to the
type. A work of cleansing the sanctuary was performed every
year in the most solemn manner by divine appointment. Why
was this? What was there to render the cleansing of that
sanctuary necessary? p. 146, Para. 1, [LOOKING].
Into the most holy no man entered but the high priest, and
he but once a year. In a place so sacredly guarded, could
there have been anything physically impure? -- By no means.
And yet that sanctuary, the most holy place, as well as the
holy place, had to be cleansed. Again we ask the reader,
and especially any one who objects to the views here presented,
to ponder well the question, Why? But one answer
can be returned. The sins of the people were represented
there; and from their presence it must be purified. And
this work of cleansing, as we have seen, was not a purification
from material uncleanness, but simply a ceremony by
which imputed sins were removed and borne away forever. p.
146, Para. 2, [LOOKING].
So in the antitype. There is nothing literally impure or
unclean in the heavenly sanctuary. But the sins of all
those who have sought pardon through the merits of Jesus
have been transferred there; and these must be removed.
This is its cleansing. No other is brought to view. In reference
to no other act is the expression, "cleansing of the
sanctuary," ever used. No mind can fail to understand this,
and no one need to revolt at the idea. p. 147, Para. 1,
[LOOKING].
Paul's testimony in Heb. 9:22-24, which forever settles
this point, has already been presented. We scarcely need
repeat that the burden of Paul's argument is "remission,"
which is the removal of sin. He shows in these verses that
the earthly sanctuary had to be cleansed because sin was to
be remitted, and that it must therefore be accomplished
with blood. He then explicitly states that it was necessary
for the same reason that the heavenly sanctuary should undergo
a cleansing of the same nature, and by the same
means, only that now the sacrifice was infinitely better,
being the blood of Christ, instead of the blood of beasts.
On this point it is not necessary longer to dwell. No
statement is needed to add to such a plain declaration by
the apostle; no additional light is called for to help the
rays of the noonday sun. p. 147, Para. 2, [LOOKING].