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

church instead of Christ, and by leading men to worship
this son of perdition as one not only able like God to forgive
past sins, but to go beyond what God ever proposed to
do, in forgiving them before their commission. Surely there
is propriety in speaking of this work as treading underfoot
the host and the sanctuary, or "blaspheming God's tabernacle
and them that dwell in heaven." And thus all the objection
that can be urged on this score, to the position taken
in this work, is removed out of the way. p. 208, Para. 2,
[LOOKING].
Still another consideration is presented, as a seeming objection
to the view here offered. It is said that even if
there is a sanctuary in heaven, to be at some time
cleansed, it cannot be the sanctuary of Dan. 8:14; for that
must be the very sanctuary that Daniel had in view, in the
land of Palestine, not a sanctuary in heaven. In reply it
would only seem necessary to point to the fact that there
is no sanctuary now in Palestine. There was none there when
the 2300 days ended, in 1844. And how can a sanctuary be
cleansed that does not exist? It must first be shown that
there is a sanctuary there, before one can talk of its
cleansing. p. 209, Para. 1, [LOOKING].
Still it is asked, If a man should promise to cleanse a
meeting-house in Detroit which had become defiled, and then
should go and cleanse one in Chicago, would that be fulfilling
the promise? Such a question betrays at once an utter
misapprehension of the question. In the first place,
the cleansing of the sanctuary is not the rescuing it from
its being trodden underfoot. It has reference to another
feature of the question entirely. In the answer to the
question by the angel, in Dan. 8:14, enough was given for
us to know; namely, the time when the closing scene in the
sanctuary work should commence, which after a brief but indefinite
space of time would bring us to the end of the
world. Secondly, the sanctuary in Palestine and the sanctuary
in heaven are not like two meeting-houses, one in Detroit
and the other in Chicago, having no connection with
each other. The sanctuaries are counterparts of each other.
They stand as type and antitype. When one had fulfilled its
design, it gave place to the other, which thenceforward became
the sanctuary. The first was given to lead us to the
second, and instruct us in reference thereto. Therefore
whatever is said in reference to the sanctuary which applies
to the former dispensation, has reference to the
sanctuary of that dispensation; and whatever applies to