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

and this earth is finally to be purified by fire; and so
the burning of this earth is what the prophet means when he
says that "then shall the sanctuary be cleansed." But the
earth is not to be burned till Christ comes; for he is to
be revealed "in flaming fire, taking vengeance on them that
know not God, and that obey not the gospel." Hence they extended
their deduction another degree, and said, Then the
Lord will come. By this process of reasoning, they then had
the text completely transformed so that it would read,
"Unto two thousand and three hundred days, then shall the
sanctuary be cleansed -- or which is the same thing, then
shall the earth be burned -- or which is an inseparable
event, then shall the Lord come." And considering this last
that feature of the proposition which would be better understood,
they made it the burden of their proclamation
that the Lord would come at the end of the days in 1844.
p. 202, Para. 3, [LOOKING].
A portion of the evidence has already been presented to
show what the true sanctuary is, and what the cleansing is,
which the prophecy declared was to take place at the end of
the days; but the field will not be entirely canvassed, and
every objection receive its due share of attention until
further evidence is offered to disprove the view on which
Adventists went astray in 1844, and to show that the earth
is not the sanctuary, neither the land of Palestine, not
the church, to which some have tried to apply it. It will
strengthen the evidence which shows what the sanctuary is,
to show what it is not. p. 203, Para. 1, [LOOKING].
The Earth not the Sanctuary? This is shown, -- p. 203,
Para. 2, [LOOKING].
1. By the definition of the word "sanctuary," which, according
to Webster, Walker, Cruden, and the Bible, is defined
to mean, "A holy place, a sacred place, a dwellingplace
for the Most High." Is the earth such a place? or has
it been such since sin entered therein to mar and defile?
Every one knows it has not; and this fact alone is sufficient
to preclude forever the idea that this earth is the
sanctuary. p. 203, Para. 3, [LOOKING].
2. The antitypical nature of the new covenant sanctuary
shows that it cannot be applied to this earth. As we have
seen, the sanctuary of the former dispensation was a type
of the sanctuary of the present dispensation. Is it now the
earth? Then the former sanctuary prefigured it. But in what