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This was clear expressed to Israel: “And it shall be our righteousness, if we observe to do all these commandments before the Lord our God, as he hath commanded us.” (Deut. 6, 25) This is the final purpose of God in the whole justification and sanctification process. If all the saving acts that God accomplishes for men, do not lead the sinner to an obedient relationship with God and their savior, they could not be admitted to live in the eternal presence with a holy God, and with holy angels in heaven. SEN728 – Cleansing of the Sanctuary INITIATIVE Mitternachtsruf www.hopeandmore.at 74
• A final purpose of obedience The possibility that sin and rebellion would come up again in heaven would be great, if God does not make sure that the mind and the heart of the forgiven sinner would not be brought under the absolute submission to God’s law. God must make it sure that His forgiveness is not just a juridical act in favor for the sinner, but make him ready to live forever in a free and honest relationship to his creator, his savior, and his sacred law. God could not keep in heaven rebellious angels, which did not want to live anymore in perfect obedience to His will and His law. In His great love he sure was ready to forgive them, but forgiving must be followed by obedience, otherwise it is worth nothing. Because all these rebellious angels where not ready anymore to submit her life in obedience to God, in showing by this that they are willing to accept the righteousness and love of God, they could not stay in heaven anymore. So in a certain sense they where purged out and separated from heaven for ever and ever. So when God had to separate this rebellious angels from heaven, because they would not be ready to return and be forgiven, and also be obedient, why should he admit sinners into heaven, when they wont get really cleansed, and stay obedient, and in accordance to the law of God? But to be able to do that, God sent His Son not just to die for our sins, and to forgive us, but to do all He can, to help us getting separated from sin, and to get in a loving relationship with our Savior, and his holy and righteous law. By his grace, He wants to help us to transform our character in the complete image of his own character, which was typified by the tabernacle that Moses had to build in the perfect image of the heavenly sanctuary. • The church as a purified sanctuary In sanctuary language spoken, it means that as the OT-sanctuary was a perfect image for the character of Christ, so it should become also a perfect image for our character. As Jesus in His earthly life was to be in perfect accordance to the sanctuary of the heavenly pattern, now by the grace, and help of Jesus, and by the helping and renewing power of the Holy Spirit the church would also become a sanctuary, a living temple, according to the heavenly pattern! (Rom 12,1-2, 1. Chor. 3, 16+17: 1. Chor. 6, 19 + 20) This is the final and deepest meaning that we could give and find in the building of the earthly sanctuary in Moses time according to the heavenly pattern. God by commanding Moses to by carefully in doing everything according to the heavenly pattern, was illustrating, how He would finally like to see and to transform the living character of His people on earth. If we miss this view in our doctrine of the sanctuary and especially in our understanding of the purification of the sanctuary in the Most Holy place, then we also miss the most important and deepest point of the doctrine of justification by faith! Personally I would probably never have thought of this connection, if I wouldn’t have found it in E.G.White’s explanation of the earthly sanctuary. I personally cannot remember just one Adventist book where I would have found this thought. (Probably there is one though?) Here the statements of E. G. White where she shows how the sanctuary model was first a model for the character of God in heaven, then of Christ on earth, then I desired model for Israel in OT-time, and finally the model for the remnant church, that would have to meet Jesus at his coming. E.G.White and the real sense of the building of the OT- tabernacle SEN728 – Cleansing of the Sanctuary INITIATIVE Mitternachtsruf www.hopeandmore.at 75
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