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

The fulfilment of these types shows us these facts: That
the great events for which the Passover, the day of firstfruits,
and the Pentecost were respectively noted, met
their antitype on the very days of the types. Applying the
same principle to the work on the tenth day of the seventh
month, we were led to expect the antitype of the great work
which characterized that day of atonement; namely, the
cleansing of the sanctuary, on the tenth day of the seventh
month of that year in which the 2300 days ended, as it was
at that point that the sanctuary was to be cleansed. p.
215, Para. 1, [LOOKING].
As those days ended in 1844, it was only necessary to find
the tenth day of the seventh month, Jewish time, of that
year; and as the year began with the first new moon after
the vernal equinox, the seventh month began on October 12,
and the tenth day of that month fell on October 22. The
historical and numerical arguments on the 2300 days have
shown that those days terminated in the autumn of that
year; and the argument from the types would hold the application
rigidly to that month and that day. This is why that
day was set for the coming of Christ. While it is marvelous
that so critical an examination of the types should not
have revealed to the Adventists of that time the fact that
the cleansing of the sanctuary was not the coming of
Christ; nevertheless, as their eyes were so holden that
they did not perceive this point, and as they supposed that
the cleansing of the sanctuary was inseparably connected
with the coming of Christ, they were left no alternative
but to fix that day for his appearing in the clouds of
heaven. p. 215, Para. 2, [LOOKING].
In the light of the argument on preceding pages, it is unnecessary
to add that all any one had a warrant to conclude
was that on that day the great work in the second apartment
of the heavenly sanctuary would commence. And if the argument
on the time and the types is correct (and who can dispute
it?), on that very day the solemn work in the most
holy of the heavenly sanctuary began. In the matter of the
time they were correct; in the event they were mistaken;
the Lord did not come to this earth, but he did enter into
the second apartment of the heavenly temple, and commenced
the work of cleansing the sanctuary. There was more to the
great religious awakening of that time than most men now
dream. The movement was not a failure, and is not to be
relegated to oblivion as a freak of fanaticism. If any date
deserves the leading place in the calendar of epochs and