Leaf473
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Thanks for the explanation. I think I was able to follow what you were saying up until where the heavenly sanctuary is contaminated by human sin.I will let Bob explain the Adventist view on that.
As far as my view, in the Garden of Eden there was no need for a sanctuary. Adam spoke face to face with God in the garden. And in the New Jerusalem there is no need of a temple either, because the Lamb is the sanctuary.
God told Israel to build Him a sanctuary that He might dwell among them. We know that the earthly is a shadow of the heavenly, the true.
Exo 25:8 And let them make me a sanctuary, that I may dwell in their midst.
Exo 25:9 Exactly as I show you concerning the pattern of the tabernacle, and of all its furniture, so you shall make it.
But unlike Adam in the garden, now man cannot just go immediately into God's presence. The sanctuary was needed for Israel so that they could approach a holy God, and have their sin and uncleanness removed and atoned for.
Not anyone could go in. Only the priests could go into the first compartment, and only the high priest, once a year, with blood, and burning incense, and wearing the right garment, and approaching in the prescribed manner could go into the second.
Sin is pictured as contaminating things around it. The sanctuary is defiled by being in the midst of an unclean, sinful people. This is stated in the Day of Atonement service:
Lev 16:16 Thus he shall make atonement for the Holy Place, because of the uncleannesses of the people of Israel and because of their transgressions, all their sins. And so he shall do for the tent of meeting, which dwells with them in the midst of their uncleannesses.
Sin and uncleanness were to be kept away from the sanctuary:
Lev 22:3 Say unto them, Whosoever he be of all your seed among your generations, that goeth unto the holy things, which the children of Israel hallow unto the LORD, having his uncleanness upon him, that soul shall be cut off from my presence: I am the LORD.
Lev 22:4 What man soever of the seed of Aaron is a leper, or hath a running issue; he shall not eat of the holy things, until he be clean. And whoso toucheth any thing that is unclean by the dead, or a man whose seed goeth from him;
Lev 22:5 Or whosoever toucheth any creeping thing, whereby he may be made unclean, or a man of whom he may take uncleanness, whatsoever uncleanness he hath;
Lev 22:6 The soul which hath touched any such shall be unclean until even, and shall not eat of the holy things, unless he wash his flesh with water.
Lev 22:7 And when the sun is down, he shall be clean, and shall afterward eat of the holy things; because it is his food.
Another example of this is described in the uncleanness that happened when a woman had an irregular issue of blood.
Lev 15:29 And on the eighth day she shall take two turtledoves or two pigeons and bring them to the priest, to the entrance of the tent of meeting.
Lev 15:30 And the priest shall use one for a sin offering and the other for a burnt offering. And the priest shall make atonement for her before the LORD for her unclean discharge.
Lev 15:31 “Thus you shall keep the people of Israel separate from their uncleanness, lest they die in their uncleanness by defiling my tabernacle that is in their midst.”
Here it is necessary to remove her uncleanness so that she does not die in her uncleanness by defiling the tabernacle in their midst. She is to wait some time before going to be cleansed. And then the sin offering is the solution to uncleanness and sin, and there are various types spelled out for certain situations.
If a person does not repent, or does not submit to the sin offering for cleansing and atonement, then they paid the price for their own sin, and were cut off.
Num 19:13 Whoever touches a dead person, the body of anyone who has died, and does not cleanse himself, defiles the tabernacle of the LORD, and that person shall be cut off from Israel; because the water for impurity was not thrown on him, he shall be unclean. His uncleanness is still on him.
Here we have a case of someone who was eligible to be cleansed, but did not do so. As a result he is still unclean. And because of that he defiles the tabernacle. And here, because he did not accept the cleansing offered through the sacrifice, he is cut off and removes the defiling by the loss of his own life.
So sin defiles automatically everything around it. This is stated also in Numbers in regards to bloodshed. It defiled the whole land, and the Lord dwells in the land, in the midst of the people of Israel:
Num 35:34 You shall not defile the land in which you live, in the midst of which I dwell, for I the LORD dwell in the midst of the people of Israel.”
We also see this in the response of Isaiah when He sees the Lord in the temple:
Isa 6:5 And I said: “Woe is me! For I am lost; for I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips; for my eyes have seen the King, the LORD of hosts!”
Isa 6:6 Then one of the seraphim flew to me, having in his hand a burning coal that he had taken with tongs from the altar.
Isa 6:7 And he touched my mouth and said: “Behold, this has touched your lips; your guilt is taken away, and your sin atoned for.”
Isiah is afraid that he will perish if He is in the presence of a holy God. But he is atoned for.
In the earthly type sin defiled by its presence. The heavenly is said to be in need of cleansing, apparently because it is contaminated by sin in the universe. God wants to deal with the sin problem, and took measures through the plan of salvation to purify all things contaminated by Sin. It was through blood of animals in the type, which point to the blood of Christ in the reality.
But thanks again for the explanation.
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