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The European Union in Prophecy
24. The Most Holy Place
The subject of the sanctuary was the key which unlocked the mystery of the
disappointment of 1844. It opened to view a complete system of truth, connected and
harmonious, showing that God's hand had directed the great advent movement and
revealing present duty as it brought to light the position and work of His people. As
the disciples of Jesus after the terrible night of their anguish and disappointment
were "glad when they saw the Lord," so did those now rejoice who had looked in faith
for His second coming. They had expected Him to appear in glory to give reward to
His servants. As their hopes were disappointed, they had lost sight of Jesus, and with
Mary at the sepulcher they cried: "They have taken away my Lord, and I know not
where they have laid Him." Now in the holy of holies they again beheld Him, their
compassionate High Priest, soon to appear as their king and deliverer. Light from the
sanctuary illumined the past, the present, and the future. They knew that God had
led them by His unerring providence. Though, like the first disciples, they themselves
had failed to understand the message which they bore, yet it had been in every respect
correct. In proclaiming it they had fulfilled the purpose of God, and their labor had
not been in vain in the Lord. Begotten "again unto a lively hope," they rejoiced "with
joy unspeakable and full of glory."
Both the prophecy of Daniel 8:14, "Unto two thousand and three hundred days;
then shall the sanctuary be cleansed," and the first angel's message, "Fear God, and
give glory to Him; for the hour of His judgment is come," pointed to Christ's
ministration in the most holy place, to the investigative judgment, and not to the
coming of Christ for the redemption of His people and the destruction of the wicked.
The mistake had not been in the reckoning of the prophetic periods, but in the event
to take place at the end of the 2300 days. Through this error the believers had suffered
disappointment, yet all that was foretold by the prophecy, and all that they had any
Scripture warrant to expect, had been accomplished. At the very time when they were
lamenting the failure of their hopes, the event had taken place which was foretold by
the message, and which must be fulfilled before the Lord could appear to give reward
to His servants.
Christ had come, not to the earth, as they expected, but, as foreshadowed in the
type, to the most holy place of the temple of God in heaven. He is represented by the
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