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

hands of wicked men. The sinner comes to Christ and virtually
lays his hand upon him by confessing his sins and
seeking pardon through his blood. His plea is accepted; for
Christ says that he will in nowise cast out any that come
unto him. By this act the sinner is pardoned; his sin is
transferred to his offering and through that by the ministration
of the priest who is also Christ, to the sanctuary
itself -- now in reality just as it was in the type in figure.
p. 122, Para. 2, [LOOKING].
If the idea should arise in any mind, that because Paul
says that we enter in by faith into the heavenly holy
places, the word should be in the singular number, because
we could not enter into two holy places at one and the same
time, it will be sufficient to remember that the texts do
not confine our entering these places to one and the same
time. It was doubtless this perplexity in the minds of the
translators, which led them deliberately to render a word
by the singular number, which is in the original in the
plural. Christ performs his ministry in both the holy
places respectively, according to whatever branch of his
work he is performing -- in the holy place till the work
there is concluded, then in the most holy, when the time
comes for the work which is to be accomplished there. And
Paul, speaking for the church since Christ ascended, says,
We enter into the holy places by faith. That is, the church
through all its history finds Christ by faith, wherever he
is. Those who live while Christ is in the first apartment,
find him there; and those who live when he ministers in the
second apartment, find him there. Both the holy places,
each apartment of the "true tabernacle" above, but each in
its appropriate time, are open to the church by faith, so
that they can approach their great High Priest, and present
their petitions to him. p. 123, Para. 1, [LOOKING].
If, then, there are two apartments in the sanctuary on
high where Christ ministers, as it has been shown that
there must be, and if Christ ministers in both, as the type
proves and Paul declares, it follows that at some time in
the course of his ministry, Christ must change the location
of his work, and enter from the holy place into the most
holy, to perform a special ministry there, as did the high
priest, under the type, on the day of atonement. But in the
type, the ministry in the most holy place was the last work
of the complete yearly round of service in the sanctuary,
when as we have seen, the work again began for another
year. So in the antitype, the work of Christ in the most