My High Priest.

 My Savior is my High Priest right now in the Heavenly Sanctuary.

Heb 8:1  Now of the things which we have spoken this is the sum: We have such an high priest, who is set on the right hand of the throne of the Majesty in the heavens; 

Heb 8:2  A minister of the sanctuary, and of the true tabernacle, which the Lord pitched, and not man. 

My Savior did away with the old sacrificial service covenant given to Moses- the ceremonial system that had been set up to point to the ultimate sacrificial service covenant- the one where HE sacrificed Himself as the last sacrificial spotless lamb- He was the Lamb of God that we would need.

Heb 8:10  For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, saith the Lord; I will put my laws into their mind, and write them in their hearts: and I will be to them a God, and they shall be to me a people: 

Heb 8:11  And they shall not teach every man his neighbour, and every man his brother, saying, Know the Lord: for all shall know me, from the least to the greatest. 

Heb 8:12  For I will be merciful to their unrighteousness, and their sins and their iniquities will I remember no more. 

Heb 8:13  In that he saith, A new covenant, he hath made the first old. Now that which decayeth and waxeth old is ready to vanish 

My Savior puts His laws into our minds and writes them on our hearts.

My Savior will complete the heavenly reality of the example given on earth.  

In 1844 Christ began to cleanse the heavenly sanctuary. For those who don't know what that means you need to read the following Biblical passage about the earthly sanctuary and the Day of Atonement. But first, let me give you a quick rundown about what you're going to read.  One day of the year was set aside to be Day of Atonement. On this day a bull, two rams and two goats would be used for the sacrifices. This is the only day in the entire year the High Priest could enter the Most Holy Place where the Ark of the Covenant was placed. Every other day of the year all the other sacrifices and services took place outside of the Most Holy Place. This day the blood of the sacrifices was brought into the Most Holy Place and sprinkled there on the Ark's Mercy Seat.  This blood was to make an atonement, as ALL sacrifices are made for. Then symbolically the High Priest after he'd done this, would place his hands on the head of a live goat and symbolically place ALL the sins for the entire year, that had been made in the sanctuary, onto that goat and then the goat would be taken far, far away into the wilderness and let go, taking with it all the sins of all the people for an entire year!  Then it would begin all over again the very next day- the sin offerings sacrificed would begin to accumulate on the Sanctuary and would do so until a full year passed and the Sanctuary was cleansed once more. 

I know you want to know what this has to do with you, why should you care about this out dated, no longer in effect ceremonial sacrificial day? Because, our Savior- as the Lamb of God - Sacrificed Himself and returned to the Heavenly Sanctuary and it's there the rest of the symbolic of the earthly must unfold.  We know without a doubt that Satan represented by the scapegoat- the goat led off into the wilderness ladened with all the sins, and he has yet to be led off, has yet to have all the sins placed upon him. We know Satan still lives and we still sin, but this won't be how it will end.  We need to understand the order of things and they dictate a cleansing of the heavenly Sanctuary will take place. It won't be for just a day, because UNLIKE the earthly Day of Atonement which was continuous- year after year, this is a FINAL cleansing, the LAST cleansing and it deals not only with a year's worth of sin, but sin from the first sin committed right to the last sin committed for all time! 

The beginning of the cleansing of the Heavenly Sanctuary is a part of prophetic history, one of the pieces of the prophetic puzzle we've been given. Without going into details here- In 1844 the Heavenly Sanctuary cleansing BEGAN. The cleansing will not be complete until right before our Lord Returns, and in that short period of time all that who live and belong to our Lord will be sinless before Him.  When eternity deciding probation is up for all of mankind, Jesus will finish the cleansing of the Heavenly Sanctuary and return to earth for His people. 

So go on and read about the Day of Atonement in the Bible, and we will continue this study tomorrow- by the GRACE of GOD.

The Day of Atonement

Lev 16:1  And the LORD spake unto Moses after the death of the two sons of Aaron, when they offered before the LORD, and died; 

Lev 16:2  And the LORD said unto Moses, Speak unto Aaron thy brother, that he come not at all times into the holy place within the vail before the mercy seat, which is upon the ark; that he die not: for I will appear in the cloud upon the mercy seat. 

Lev 16:3  Thus shall Aaron come into the holy place: with a young bullock for a sin offering, and a ram for a burnt offering. 

Lev 16:4  He shall put on the holy linen coat, and he shall have the linen breeches upon his flesh, and shall be girded with a linen girdle, and with the linen mitre shall he be attired: these are holy garments; therefore shall he wash his flesh in water, and so put them on. 

Lev 16:5  And he shall take of the congregation of the children of Israel two kids of the goats for a sin offering, and one ram for a burnt offering. 

Lev 16:6  And Aaron shall offer his bullock of the sin offering, which is for himself, and make an atonement for himself, and for his house. 

Lev 16:7  And he shall take the two goats, and present them before the LORD at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation. 

Lev 16:8  And Aaron shall cast lots upon the two goats; one lot for the LORD, and the other lot for the scapegoat. 

Lev 16:9  And Aaron shall bring the goat upon which the LORD'S lot fell, and offer him for a sin offering. 

Lev 16:10  But the goat, on which the lot fell to be the scapegoat, shall be presented alive before the LORD, to make an atonement with him, and to let him go for a scapegoat into the wilderness. 

Lev 16:11  And Aaron shall bring the bullock of the sin offering, which is for himself, and shall make an atonement for himself, and for his house, and shall kill the bullock of the sin offering which is for himself: 

Lev 16:12  And he shall take a censer full of burning coals of fire from off the altar before the LORD, and his hands full of sweet incense beaten small, and bring it within the vail: 

Lev 16:13  And he shall put the incense upon the fire before the LORD, that the cloud of the incense may cover the mercy seat that is upon the testimony, that he die not: 

Lev 16:14  And he shall take of the blood of the bullock, and sprinkle it with his finger upon the mercy seat eastward; and before the mercy seat shall he sprinkle of the blood with his finger seven times. 

Lev 16:15  Then shall he kill the goat of the sin offering, that is for the people, and bring his blood within the vail, and do with that blood as he did with the blood of the bullock, and sprinkle it upon the mercy seat, and before the mercy seat: 

Lev 16:16  And he shall make an atonement for the holy place, because of the uncleanness of the children of Israel, and because of their transgressions in all their sins: and so shall he do for the tabernacle of the congregation, that remaineth among them in the midst of their uncleanness. 

Lev 16:17  And there shall be no man in the tabernacle of the congregation when he goeth in to make an atonement in the holy place, until he come out, and have made an atonement for himself, and for his household, and for all the congregation of Israel. 

Lev 16:18  And he shall go out unto the altar that is before the LORD, and make an atonement for it; and shall take of the blood of the bullock, and of the blood of the goat, and put it upon the horns of the altar round about. 

Lev 16:19  And he shall sprinkle of the blood upon it with his finger seven times, and cleanse it, and hallow it from the uncleanness of the children of Israel. 

Lev 16:20  And when he hath made an end of reconciling the holy place, and the tabernacle of the congregation, and the altar, he shall bring the live goat: 

Lev 16:21  And Aaron shall lay both his hands upon the head of the live goat, and confess over him all the iniquities of the children of Israel, and all their transgressions in all their sins, putting them upon the head of the goat, and shall send him away by the hand of a fit man into the wilderness: 

Lev 16:22  And the goat shall bear upon him all their iniquities unto a land not inhabited: and he shall let go the goat in the wilderness. 

Lev 16:23  And Aaron shall come into the tabernacle of the congregation, and shall put off the linen garments, which he put on when he went into the holy place, and shall leave them there: 

Lev 16:24  And he shall wash his flesh with water in the holy place, and put on his garments, and come forth, and offer his burnt offering, and the burnt offering of the people, and make an atonement for himself, and for the people. 

Lev 16:25  And the fat of the sin offering shall he burn upon the altar. 

Lev 16:26  And he that let go the goat for the scapegoat shall wash his clothes, and bathe his flesh in water, and afterward come into the camp. 

Lev 16:27  And the bullock for the sin offering, and the goat for the sin offering, whose blood was brought in to make atonement in the holy place, shall one carry forth without the camp; and they shall burn in the fire their skins, and their flesh, and their dung. 

Lev 16:28  And he that burneth them shall wash his clothes, and bathe his flesh in water, and afterward he shall come into the camp. 

Lev 16:29  And this shall be a statute for ever unto you: that in the seventh month, on the tenth day of the month, ye shall afflict your souls, and do no work at all, whether it be one of your own country, or a stranger that sojourneth among you: 

Lev 16:30  For on that day shall the priest make an atonement for you, to cleanse you, that ye may be clean from all your sins before the LORD. 

Lev 16:31  It shall be a sabbath of rest unto you, and ye shall afflict your souls, by a statute for ever. 

Lev 16:32  And the priest, whom he shall anoint, and whom he shall consecrate to minister in the priest's office in his father's stead, shall make the atonement, and shall put on the linen clothes, even the holy garments: 

Lev 16:33  And he shall make an atonement for the holy sanctuary, and he shall make an atonement for the tabernacle of the congregation, and for the altar, and he shall make an atonement for the priests, and for all the people of the congregation. 

Lev 16:34  And this shall be an everlasting statute unto you, to make an atonement for the children of Israel for all their sins once a year. And he did as the LORD commanded Moses

May the Lord bless us as we seek to know the truth and only the truth. May the Lord guide us to all His truth, to all we need to comprehend so we can know Him and He know us! We know the work of our High Priest is now ongoing and the cleansing is continuing, but for how long? We don't know how long, but we've been given so many signs to know that it won't be much longer.  And regardless- either we will die from old age or other means or our Savior will return and we need to be ready, to be His always!

All through Jesus Christ our LORD and SAVIOR now and forever!!!!!!! Amen!