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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
9:12. There is therefore a work performed

by Christ in his ministry in the heavenly

temple, corresponding to that performed by

the priests in both apartments of the earthly

building. But the work in the second

apartment, or most holy place, was a special

work to close the yearly round of service, and

cleanse the sanctuary. Hence Christ’s

ministration in the second apartment of the

heavenly sanctuary must be a work of like

nature, and constitute the close of his work as

our great High Priest, and the cleansing of that

sanctuary.

As through the sacrifices of a former

dispensation the sins of the people were

transferred in figure by the priests to the

earthly sanctuary, where those priests

ministered, so ever since Christ ascended to