Instruction from the Sanctuary in Heaven

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Ellen G. White Estate, Devotional for August 29
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Instruction from the Sanctuary in Heaven

Let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, having
our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience. Heb. 10:22. 


"And, behold, one like the Son of man came with the clouds of heaven,
and came to the Ancient of days, and they brought him near before him."
Dan. 7:13. . . . The coming of Christ here described is not His second
coming to the earth. He comes to the Ancient of days in heaven to
receive dominion, and glory, and a kingdom, which will be given Him at
the close of His work as a mediator. It is this coming, and not His
second advent to the earth, that was foretold in prophecy to take place
at the termination of the 2300 days in 1844. Attended by heavenly
angels, our great High Priest enters the holy of holies, and there
appears in the presence of God . . . to perform the work of
investigative judgment, and to make an atonement for all who are shown
to be entitled to its benefits. 

May the Lord give us to see the need of drinking from the living
fountain of the water of life. Its pure streams will refresh and heal us
and refresh all connected with us. Oh, if the hearts were only subdued
by the Spirit of God! If the eye were single to God's glory, what a
flood of heavenly light would pour upon the soul. He who spake as never
man spake was an educator upon earth. After His resurrection He was an
educator to the lonely, disappointed disciples traveling to Emmaus, and
to those assembled in the upper chamber. He opened to them the
Scriptures concerning Himself and caused their hearts to bound with a
holy, new and sacred hope and joy. 

>From the Holy of Holies, there goes on the grand work of instruction.
The angels of God are communicating to men. Christ officiates in the
sanctuary. We do not follow Him into the sanctuary as we should. Christ
and angels work in the hearts of the children of men. The church above
united with the church below is warring the good warfare upon the earth.
There must be a purifying of the soul here upon the earth, in harmony
with Christ's cleansing of the sanctuary in heaven. 

God's people are now to have their eyes fixed on the heavenly sanctuary,
where . . . our great High Priest . . . is interceding for His people.

>From Maranatha - Page 249