The Story of the Seer of Patmos

CHAPTER XXIV. THE SANCTUARY AND ITS SERVICE

1. Of what is the book of Revelation a revelation? How was Christ represented to John? What do we have in the fourth chapter? How does the eighth chapter reveal Christ? What does the eleventh chapter reveal? With these facts in view, what is necessary? SSP 411.6

2. Of what was the earthly sanctuary a type? With what was the sanctuary surrounded? What was done in the court? Was any blood ever shed in the holy or most holy place? Where did Christ offer His life? Where did He then enter, and for what purpose? SSP 411.7

3. Who alone entered the holy places on earth? Where are the people of God to-day? How do they follow their High Priest? To whom was there virtue in every service? To what did those priests serve? SSP 411.8

4. What is our High Priest now doing? For what purpose did the high priest enter the holy place in the earthly sanctuary? How much incense was placed on the altar morning and evening? Who could detect the fragrance of this incense? What was ascending when he was placing this incense on the fire? What did this incense fitly represent? SSP 411.9

5. What does Christ add to the prayers of His people? What may those who believe this know? Upon what will the Father look? SSP 411.10

6. What stood upon the north side of the holy place? What was this bread called? Who is our living bread? Whom does Christ represent in the presence of the Father? Whom did the twelve loaves represent? SSP 411.11

7. When were the children of Israel to prepare their bread for the Sabbath? When was this shewbread prepared? What must it teach us? What lesson is to be derived from the priest eating of that bread? SSP 411.12

8. What would Christ have every one of His followers do? What kind of a priesthood are the people of God? SSP 411.13

9. What did the golden candlestick represent? How was it made? What lesson is there in this? What did this candlestick uphold? What did the seven lamps signify? What does Christ say of the church? How does the Spirit of God shine upon the earth? SSP 411.14

10. When an individual separates from the church, what relation does he sustain to the candlestick? Who dressed and filled the lamps, and what is its lesson? What is the privilege of every child of God to believe? SSP 412.1

11. For how long a time was the work performed in the first apartment? For how many was this provision made? What did this sin offering show? What ceremony did the sinner perform when he brought his offering? Upon whom does the sinner now lay his sins by confession? In what way was the sin conveyed to the sanctuary? When the blood was not taken in, in what other way was the sin conveyed to the sanctuary? How was this fulfilled in Christ? SSP 412.2

12. In what way did Christ enter the heavenly sanctuary? In what two ways was it necessary for the sin to be conveyed into the typical sanctuary? How many offerings did it take to represent the complete work of Christ? Who separated the fat from the offering? What did the priest do with it, and what did it typify? What made this a sweet savor to the Lord? SSP 412.3

13. Where was the remainder of the blood poured out? How often was this ceremony performed? In what way did the Lord show He approved of it? SSP 412.4

14. Where did the Lord meet and commune with those who brought the offering? What was the crowning day in the tabernacle service? Was this the only day that the service was carried within the second veil? SSP 412.5

15. What must the priest do for himself and household? How many goats were chosen, and for what purpose? For what purpose was the Lord’s goat offered? What did the priest do with its blood? SSP 412.6

16. Describe the cleansing of the golden altar. After the high priest had made an end of cleansing the sanctuary, what did he do with the sins? What became of the goat that bore the sins? SSP 412.7

17. When did Christ, our High Priest, enter the most holy place? How long did Christ officiate in the first apartment? What was removed from the earthly sanctuary? What was this day called? Why? SSP 412.8

18. What is necessary in order for Christ to accomplish His work? What did Daniel see? What does John say? What does the removal of sins necessitate? What has been going on since 1844? Whose names will come up before the Father? What words come back to earth? What is done when every case is decided? What does He then do with the sins of God’s people? SSP 412.9

19. Where is Satan during the thousand years? After the sins were laid upon the scapegoat in the type, what did the priest then do? Where were the bodies of the offerings burned? What was there left of that which represented sin and defiled the sanctuary? SSP 412.10

20. In the antitypical day of atonement, what will be left of sin, sinners, and Satan? What important relation will Satan then sustain to the new earth? SSP 412.11

21. Will the earth ever again be marred by sin? Will sorrow and pain ever again be felt? SSP 412.12

22. What will come before the Lord throughout the ceaseless ages of eternity? What will everything that hath breath do? SSP 412.13