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Does Christ's heavenly ministry follow the sanctuary's own three-phase pattern: inauguration, ongoing intercession, and Day of Atonement judgment? What biblical evidence supports or challenges each phase?

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ATONEMENT

  • For tabernacle and furniture LEV 16:15-20,33
  • DAY OF: Time EXO 30:10; LEV 23:27; 25:9; NUM 29:7. How observed EXO 30:10; LEV 16:2-34; 23:27-32; NUM 29:7-11; ACT 27:9; HEB 5:3; 9:7,19,22
  • MADE BY ANIMAL SACRIFICES: EXO 29:36; LEV 1:4; 4:20-35; 16:6-34; 17:11; NUM 15:22-28; HEB 9:22
  • MADE BY JESUS: Divinely ordained LUK 2:30-31; GAL 4:4-5; EPH 1:3-12; COL 1:19-20; 1PE 1:20; REV 13:8. Made once HEB 7:27; 9:24-28; 10:10,12,14; 1PE 3:18. Typified GEN 4:4/HEB 11:4; LEV 16:30-34/HEB 9:7,12,28; LEV 17:11/HEB 9:22

SANCTUARY

  • The Holy of Holies; in tabernacle HEB 9:2; divine dwelling EXO 25:8; in charge of high priest EXO 27:21; LEV 24:3; NUM 18:5; symbolic HEB 8:2,5

TABERNACLE

  • Pattern revealed to Moses EXO 25:9; ACT 7:44; HEB 8:5
  • The Holy Place EXO 26:31-37; 40:22-26; HEB 9:2-6,8
  • The Most Holy Place EXO 26:33-35; 40:20-21; HEB 9:3-5,7,8
  • Dedicated NUM 7; Sanctified EXO 29:43; 40:9-16; NUM 7:1
  • Anointed with holy oil EXO 30:25-26; LEV 8:10; NUM 7:1
  • Filled with cloud of glory EXO 40:34-38
  • Symbol of spiritual things PSA 15:1; HEB 8:2,5; 9:1-12,24

DEDICATION

  • Of tabernacle NUM 7; Solomon's temple 1KI 8; 2CH 7:5; second temple EZR 6:16-17; wall of Jerusalem NEH 12:27-43; Feast of Dedication JHN 10:22; 1KI 8:65; 2CH 7:8-10

JUDGMENT

  • THE GENERAL: DAN 7:9-10; PSA 9:7; 50:3-6; 96:13; ECC 12:14; MAT 25:1-46; JHN 5:22; ROM 2:5-16; 2CO 5:10; HEB 9:27; REV 11:18; 20:11-15; 22:12
  • ACCORDING TO WORKS: PSA 62:12; ECC 12:14; ROM 2:5-12; 2CO 5:10; REV 2:23; 20:12-13

INTERCESSION

  • OF MAN WITH GOD: EXO 28:12,29,30,38; 32:9-14; NUM 6:23-26; 16:46-50; DEU 5:5; JOB 9:32-33; ISA 62:6-7; EZK 22:30; HEB 13:18; 1JN 5:16
  • INTERCESSIONAL INFLUENCE OF THE RIGHTEOUS: GEN 18:26-32; REV 5:8; 8:3-4

PRIEST (HIGH PRIEST)

  • Melchizedek GEN 14:18; HEB 5:6,10; 6:20; 7:1-21
  • Consecration EXO 29:1-35; 40:12-16; HEB 7:21
  • DUTIES: Offer sacrifices HEB 5:1; 8:3; burn incense EXO 30:7-8; 1SA 2:28
  • On Day of Atonement EXO 30:10; LEV 16; HEB 5:3; 9:7,22-23
  • Had charge of sanctuary/altar NUM 18:2,5,7

MELCHIZEDEK

  • King of Salem GEN 14:18-20; PSA 110:4; type of Christ HEB 5:6,10; 6:20; 7:1-21

ADVOCATE

  • FIGURATIVE 1JN 2:1

MEDIATION

  • See INTERCESSION; JESUS, MEDIATOR