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

espect did that sanctuary represent this earth? Can it for
a moment be supposed that Moses, when in the mount, was
shown this earth as a pattern from which he was to erect
the sanctuary, and that the nearest resemblance he could
make of it was an oblong building ten cubits in width, and
three times that number of cubits in length? And the same
inquiry might be extended to the furniture of the sanctuary.
Where on this earth is there any antitype of the ark,
the altar of incense, the golden candlestick, and the table
of showbread? p. 204, Para. 1, [LOOKING].
3. The use of the term in the Scriptures shows that it
cannot apply to this earth. The word "sanctuary" occurs one
hundred and forty-four times in the Bible; but it is not in
a single instance applied to the earth. The only texts
which one could imagine to have even a shadow of an application
to this earth, are Isa. 60:13; Eze. 37:26-28; Rev.
21:1-3. But these refer not to the present, but to the future,
and show simply that the earth renewed is the place
where the tabernacle of God, whatever that may mean in the
future state, will be located hereafter. p. 204, Para. 2,
[LOOKING].
4. But finally, if the earth is the sanctuary now, it was
just as much the sanctuary in the former dispensation. No
change has taken place by which it has become the sanctuary
now, in any sense, more than it must have been then. But
Paul says that the tabernacle built by Moses was the sanctuary
then; hence the earth was not then the sanctuary, and
therefore is not the sanctuary now. p. 204, Para. 3,
[LOOKING].
This view being so untenable, what shall be said of that
view which makes this earth only a part of the sanctuary,
and looks to heaven for the rest? It is strange that any
one should conceive such an idea, or for a moment endeavor
seriously to defend it. The only apology for such a view,
is that its advocates, misled by our common translation,
suppose that the Bible calls heaven the "most holy place."
But this is no apology; for no one can consistently set
himself forth as a religious teacher, who, on a point so
plain, is not acquainted with the correct reading. p. 205,
Para. 1, [LOOKING].
The Land of Canaan not the Sanctuary. -- The principles
already presented on the foregoing topic, go far toward
proving the incorrectness of those views which apply the