Hebrews 9:9-11 (KJV)
[SUP]9 [/SUP]Which was a figure for the time then present, in which were offered both gifts and sacrifices, that could not make him that did the service perfect, as pertaining to the conscience;
[SUP]10 [/SUP]Which stood only in meats and drinks, and divers washings, and carnal ordinances, imposed on them until the time of reformation.
[SUP]11 [/SUP]But Christ being come an high priest of good things to come, by a greater and more perfect tabernacle, not made with hands, that is to say, not of this building;
The earthly sanctuary and services were figures of the true. Notice verse 10 says until the time of reformation then verse 11 talks about the sanctuary in heaven. So when is this? After Jesus ascended to heaven he began the work as our high priest.
When Jesus died the Vail of the temple was torn in two showing the earthly sanctuary and services were finished.
*Hebrews 8:5 KJV*
Who serve unto the example and shadow of heavenly things, as Moses was admonished of God when he was about to make the tabernacle: for, See, saith he, that thou make all things according to the pattern shewed to thee in the mount.
Just to add to my earlier post this shows the earthly sanctuary and services were a shadow of the heavenly. The feasts were centered on the sanctuary. So which is more important the shadow or the heavenly?
Oh ya I forgot for the moment. SDA don't believe in a millennial reign of Jesus Christ on earth. Am I correct about that? Do you believe the prophecies of Ellen White as total truth? Quoting more of Hebrews to add with your quote.
For I will be merciful to their unrighteousness, and their sins and their iniquities will I remember no more. In that he saith , A new covenant, he hath made the first old . Now that which decayeth and waxeth old is ready to vanish away. Then verily the first covenant had also ordinances of divine service, and a
worldly sanctuary. (Hebrews 8:12-13 and Hebrews 9:1)
The Bible says the 2 feasts were observed long before the worldly sanctuary was built as recorded in Leviticus. The 3[SUP]rd[/SUP] feast (tabernacles) is recorded in Leviticus after God's dwelling place (His tabernacle) was erected.
Exodus 12:7=feast of unleavened bread
Exodus 34:22=feast of weeks
Exodus 40:17 The building of the first tabernacle/temple/sanctuary (God's dwelling place)
Leviticus 23:34 and 43=feast of tabernacles (the congregation's dwelling places, remembering their 40 year trek to the promised land and the sustenance of God along with the first Sabbath and the manna)
Remember, there is a tabernacle for God and a tabernacle for man. The feast of tabernacles revolves around man's dwelling place with our Lord in the center. Tell me again where you think the temple is right now. Is God's dwelling place in heaven separated from ours on earth? If the feasts are centered around the temple and we are the temple I suppose the feasts are centered around us. Right?
Hebrews 11:8-9
8 By faith Abraham, when he was called to go out into a place which he should after receive for an inheritance, obeyed ; and he went out , not knowing whither he went .
9 By faith he sojourned in the land of promise, as in a strange country, dwelling in
tabernacles with Isaac and Jacob, the heirs with him of the same promise:
John 2:19-21
19 Jesus answered and said unto them, Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up .
20 Then said the Jews, Forty and six years was this temple in building , and wilt thou rear it up in three days?
21 But he spake of the
temple of his body.
1 Corinthians 6:9 What? know ye not that
your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own?
Revelation 3:12 Him that overcometh will I make a pillar in the
temple of my God, and he shall go no more out: and I will write upon him the name of my God, and the name of the city of my God, which is new Jerusalem,
which cometh down out of heaven from my God: and I will write upon him my new name.
This scripture in Revelation (speaking to the church at Philadelphia) is confirmed by the following scripture in Zechariah.
Zechariah 14:16-19
16 And it shall come to pass, that every one that is left of all the nations which came against Jerusalem shall even go up from year to year to worship the King, the LORD of hosts, and to keep the
feast of tabernacles.
17 And it shall be, that whoso will not come up of all the families of the earth unto Jerusalem to worship the King, the LORD of hosts, even upon them shall be no rain.
18 And if the family of Egypt go not up , and come not, that have no rain; there shall be the plague, wherewith the LORD will smite the heathen that come not up to keep the
feast of tabernacles.
19 This shall be the punishment of Egypt, and the punishment of all nations that come not up to keep the feast of tabernacles.