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

successor on the throne of Judah, drew upon Jerusalem that
terrible destruction which for a while blotted it from the
face of the earth. Zedekiah foolishly defied the power of
the king who had already twice taken Jerusalem. Nebuchadnezzar
was thus brought a third time against the doomed
city, determined this time to quell forever its rebellious
spirit. After a siege of about one year the city fell --
B.C. 588. All the vessels that could be found in the house
of the Lord, were taken out, and all the riches were secured
that could be found in every house in the city. The
temple and the whole city were then set on fire. The walls,
fortress, and towers were overthrown, and every building in
the city was leveled to the ground, till, excepting only
the piles of unconsumable rubbish, the side of Jerusalem
was as bare as if no human foot had ever trodden thereon.
p. 73, Para. 2, [LOOKING].
As God had done to the sanctuary at Shiloh, he had now
done to the sanctuary at Jerusalem, but with tenfold heavier
judgment. In the light of these facts the following
references to the sanctuary are easily understood: Ps.
74:3,7; 79:1; Isa. 63:18; 64:10,11; Eze. 24:21; Jer. 51:51;
Lam. 1:10; 2:7,20; 4:1. p. 73, Para. 3, [LOOKING].
While Israel were thus dispersed among the nations, and
their beautiful sanctuary at Jerusalem lay in ruins, God
promised to be unto them as a little sanctuary, in the
countries where they should come. Eze. 11:16. Toward the
close of the seventy years' captivity, Daniel prayed thus
to God, "Cause thy face to shine upon thy sanctuary that is
desolate." Dan. 9:17. p. 74, Para. 1, [LOOKING].
5. -- A CONDITIONAL SANCTUARY. p. 74, Para. 2, [LOOKING].
While the Jews were reaping the fruit of their departures
from God, in the seventy years' captivity in Babylon, B.C.
606-536, the Lord set before them a new sanctuary, wonderful
and glorious, which they would be put in possession of,
and the ministrations of which they would enjoy, if they
would comply with the conditions upon which it was offered
them. This sanctuary has never been seen on the earth: and
the question why the prophecy has never been fulfilled very
naturally arises and demands solution. The skeptic very
promptly presents his solution in the assertion that the
word of God has failed; others offer a solution on the hypothesis
that the time has not yet come for its fulfilment,
but that it is to be fulfilled in the future, in a period