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

The first was a figure, the second the reality; the first a
shadow, the second the substance. But everything pertaining
to that dispensation was not a figure and a shadow. There
was something there real; and that was sin. Men were actual
transgressors. But sin, or transgression, is a violation of
law. Hence there was a real law there which they were
guilty of breaking; and that was the law contained in the
ark, the ten commandments. All that was typical was the
ministration connected with that law. There was real law
and actual sin; and the ministration, the service of the
priesthood, was for the purpose of taking away that sin.
But this could be done only in figure; for the blood of
beasts, the only blood they had to offer, Paul says, could
not in reality take away sin. But this typical ministration
looked forward to one to come, to be performed by our Lord,
which should in reality take away and destroy the sins of
men. p. 228, Para. 4, [LOOKING].
The offerings of that time were types of the offering of
our Lord. Those offerings had reference to the law contained
in the ark. The offering of our Lord must, therefore,
have reference to the law contained in the ark; for
what those offerings were in figure, his offering must be
in fact. The idea could not for a moment be conceived that
those offerings should have reference to one law, and yet
be types of an offering which would have reference to another
or a different law. This could not be possible. In
this case the one would not and could not be a type of the
other. The established relation of type and antitype existing
between these offerings shows that they must have reference
to identically one and the same law. Therefore, the
law in the ark in heaven, before which Christ ministers,
must read, word for word, letter for letter, jot for jot,
tittle for tittle, the same as the law that was deposited
in the typical ark here upon the earth. p. 229, Para. 1,
[LOOKING].
Such is the bearing which the subject of the sanctuary has
upon the law of ten commandments. It is an absolute demonstration
of their perpetuity and entire immutability. And
this is perhaps the reason why those who have set their
hearts against the law shut their eyes to the plain light
on the subject of the sanctuary. They cannot receive the
one without adopting the other. p. 229, Para. 2, [LOOK-
ING].
The temple has been opened in heaven, and John says there