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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
minister of the true tabernacle, the

sanctuary in heaven, he states that the priests

on earth served unto the example and shadow

of heavenly things. In other words, the work of

the earthly priests was a shadow, an example,

a correct representation, so far as it could be

carried out by mortals, of the ministration of

Christ above. These priests ministered in both

apartments of the earthly tabernacle, Christ

therefore ministers in both apartments of the

heavenly temple; for that temple has two

apartments, or it was not correctly

represented by the earthly; and our Lord

officiates in both, or the service of the priest

on earth was not a correct shadow of his work.

But Paul directly states that he ministers in

both apartments; for he says that he has

entered into the holy place (Greek, τὰ ἅγια ,

the holy places) by his own blood. Hebrews