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position invariably in the second apartment of the sanctuary.
This, then, is the opening of the most holy place of
the heavenly sanctuary. And when does this take place? --
At the sounding of the seventh trumpet. Rev. 11:15. The
events mentioned to take place under this trumpet are: 1.
The anger of the nations (verse 18), commencing especially
when so many European thrones toppled to the dust in 1848,
and continuing to the present time. 2. "And thy wrath is
come," referring to the seven last plagues in the near future.
3. The kingdoms of this world become the kingdom of
our Lord and of his Christ. Verse 15. This will be fulfilled
when Christ takes the throne of his kingdom, and
worldly kingdoms hostile to him are given into his hands to
be dashed to pieces. Ps. 2:8,9; Dan. 2:44. 4. "And the time
of the dead, that they should be judged, and that thou
shouldest give reward unto thy servants the prophets, and
to the saints, and them that fear thy name, small and
great; and shouldest destroy them which destroy the earth."
Verse 18. p. 226, Para. 2, [LOOKING].
This must reach over to the final destruction of the
wicked at the end of the one thousand years. 5. "And the
temple of God was opened in heaven." We know from the argument
on the sanctuary and the 2300 days, that this took
place in 1844. And, conversely, as it does not take place
till the sounding of the seventh trumpet, the last of that
series, we know it must take place somewhere near the end,
and could not have taken place at the opening of this dispensation,
as some vainly imagine. This is the earliest
event mentioned that takes place under the sounding of the
seventh trumpet, and hence the inference is necessary that
the seventh trumpet commenced to sound at that point. When
the 2300 days ended, the seventh trumpet began to sound,
the temple of God was opened in heaven, and the work of the
cleansing of the sanctuary was entered upon. p. 226, Para.
3, [LOOKING].
And what results from the opening of this temple? --
"There was seen," says John, "In his temple the ark of his
testament." He does not say simply, I saw it, but it "was
seen." John, standing here as the representative of the
church, clearly teaches that the church would then by faith
behold the ark in the tabernacle above. The sight of the
ark suggests one thing, and one only, and that is the law
of God contained in the ark. The ark was called the ark of
the testament because it contained the tables of the testimony
which God gave to Moses, the ten commandments. It owed