"The service in the earthly sanctuary shows that the sanctuary itself could not be cleansed until each of the worshipers had been
cleansed.
*It could not be cleansed so long as there was pouring into it, by the confessions of the people and the intercession of the priests, a stream of iniquities, transgressions, and sins.
The cleansing of the sanctuary was the taking away from the sanctuary all the transgressions of the people which had been taken into it during the service of the year.
*And this stream must be stopped at its fountain in the hearts and lives of the worshipers, before the sanctuary itself could be cleansed.
Therefore the first work in the cleansing of the sanctuary was the cleansing of the people--bringing in everlasting righteousness in the heart and life of each one of the people themselves. When the stream that flowed into the sanctuary was thus stopped at its source, then alone could the sanctuary itself be cleansed from the sins which had flowed into it.
The priesthood of Christ in the true sanctuary does take away sins forever, does perfect "forever those who are being sanctified." (Hebrews 10:14).
E.J.Waggoner
*It could not be cleansed so long as there was pouring into it, by the confessions of the people and the intercession of the priests, a stream of iniquities, transgressions, and sins.
The cleansing of the sanctuary was the taking away from the sanctuary all the transgressions of the people which had been taken into it during the service of the year.
*And this stream must be stopped at its fountain in the hearts and lives of the worshipers, before the sanctuary itself could be cleansed.
Therefore the first work in the cleansing of the sanctuary was the cleansing of the people--bringing in everlasting righteousness in the heart and life of each one of the people themselves. When the stream that flowed into the sanctuary was thus stopped at its source, then alone could the sanctuary itself be cleansed from the sins which had flowed into it.
The priesthood of Christ in the true sanctuary does take away sins forever, does perfect "forever those who are being sanctified." (Hebrews 10:14).
E.J.Waggoner
