Revelation

Introduction

The aim of this research is to gather information on the different areas of The Sanctuary Service and look at each area in depth. The major areas that will be focused on are The Earthly and Heavenly Sanctuary, Scenes of the two apartments and Jesus as our High Priest in the Heavenly Sanctuary. I’ll look at the first or holy apartment and how frequently it was used, the meaning and purpose of the symbols in the earthly sanctuary, the seven churches in revelation. The next area that will be focused on is the seven seals, the functions of the earthly priests, the eschatological implication of the seven last plagues, comparison between the priests in the heavenly and earthly sanctuary and the significance of the present functions of the heavenly priest. All these areas will be looked at in their entirety so as to give an understanding of their meanings and also to broaden your knowledge base where the sanctuary service is concerned.

EARTHLY BAND HEAVENLY SANTUARY

The first or holy apartment was for daily use.

Hebrews 9:6-"Now when these things were thus ordained, the priests went always into the first tabernacle, accomplishing the service of God."

The first, or holy, apartment had three articles of furniture: the golden candlestick with seven lamps (Exodus 25:37), the table of shewbread, and the altar of incense. The service here was daily. On the altar of incense, the priest burned incense morning and evening. A magnificent veil separated this apartment from the second.

For a description of the furniture of the first apartment, turn to Exodus 25:23-40; 30:1-6; 40:22-27.

2. The second, or most holy, apartment was entered only once a year.

Hebrews 9:7-"Into the second went the high priest alone once every year, not without blood, which he offered for himself, and for the errors of the people."

In the second, or most holy, apartment was the ark, the central figure of the entire sanctuary. In the ark were the Ten Commandments engraved on tablets of stone. All services centered in the fact that men had transgressed