From Eternity Past

Shiloh Becomes a Warning

The sanctuary service was finally transferred to the temple at Jerusalem, and Shiloh fell into ruins. Long afterward its fate was made use of as a warning to Jerusalem. “Go ye now unto My place which was in Shiloh,” the Lord declared by Jeremiah, “where I set My name at the first, and see what I did to it for the wickedness of My people Israel... . Therefore will I do unto this house, which is called by My name, wherein ye trust, and unto the place which I gave to you and to your fathers, as I have done to Shiloh.” Jeremiah 7:12, 14. EP 367.2

“When they had made an end of dividing the land,” Joshua presented his claim. He asked for no extensive province, but only a single city, Timnath-serah, “the portion that remains.” The conqueror, instead of being the first to appropriate the spoils of conquest, deferred his claim until the humblest of his people had been served. EP 367.3