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DANIEL AND THE REVELATION-Uriah Smith

~The Response of History to the Voice of Prophecy~

Chapter 8 – Vision of the Ram, He-Goat & Little Horn
4. Is the temple in heaven the sanctuary?

There now remains but this one claim to be

examined; namely, that the sanctuary

mentioned in the text is what Paul calls in

Hebrews the “true tabernacle, which the Lord

pitched, and not man,” to which he expressly

gives the name of “the sanctuary,” and which

he locates in “the heavens;” of which

sanctuary, there existed, under the former

dispensation, first in the tabernacle built by

Moses, and afterward in the temple at

Jerusalem, a pattern, type, or figure. And let it

be particularly noticed, that on the view here

suggested rests our only hope of ever

understanding this question; for we have seen

that all other positions are untenable. No

other object which has ever been supposed by

any one to be the sanctuary — the earth, the

land of Canaan, or the church — can for a