Q5 Who worked in the sanctuary as representatives of Christ?
There are priests that offer gifts according to the law: Who serve unto the example and shadow of heavenly things, as Moses was admonished of God when he was about to make the tabernacle: Hebrews 8:4,5.
Q6 What was the title of the principal priest?
For every high priest taken from among men is ordained for men in things pertaining to God, that he may offer both gifts and sacrifices for sins: Hebrews 5:1
Q7 How did this sanctuary show how God deals with the personal sin in our lives?
Without shedding of blood there is no remission. Hebrews 9:22
He shall bring his trespass offering unto the Lord for his sin which he hath sinned. Leviticus 5:6
NOTE: In the Garden of Eden, God gave Adam and Eve just one commandment - that there was one tree of which they were not to eat. They were told that the penalty for eating of this tree was death. It showed them that they had the faculty of choice.
If they loved and trusted God they would show it by obeying Him.
If they disobeyed and rebelled against God again by choice, then their gift of life from God would cease.
They ate the fruit. Adam and Eve should have died that very day, but God provided a substitute. Animals died so that they could both have another opportunity and they could be free from their guilt and fear. They wore the skins of those animals as a reminder; they were covered by the blood. What an object lesson of the death of Jesus, and how we are covered by His blood.
This is how personal sacrifices for sin began. They all pointed to a Saviour to come.
Q8 By what words did John the Baptist show 4000 years later, that he understood this concept?
The next day John seeth Jesus coming unto him, and saith, Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world. John 1:29
Q9 Before there was a sanctuary where were the sacrifices made?
And Israel took his journey with all that he had, and came to Beersheba, and offered sacrifices unto the God of his father Isaac. Genesis 46:1
NOTE: The sacrifices were made in the family by the head of the household, wherever they might be living. After 2500 years it became God’s plan that the followers of God, the Children of Israel, were to be a nation. The offering of the sacrifices was to take place in a place that belonged to them all—the sanctuary. The had all given something of their valued possessions to enable it to be built. The women had even given their mirrors to be melted down. It was a daily opportunity to be forgiven of sin, and to be free from guilt, by faith in the sacrifice that prefigured the death of Jesus.
Here are artists impressions and a diagram of the sanctuary that Moses built according to the pattern of the one in heaven. It is described in Exodus 35-38. |
