ions, and was similarly furnished.
In this form the sanctuary existed--except while it lay in ruins in
Daniel's time--until its destruction by the Romans, in A.D. 70.

This is the only sanctuary that ever existed on the earth, of which the
Bible gives any information. This was declared by Paul to be the sanctuary
of the first covenant. But has the new covenant no sanctuary?

Turning again to the book of Hebrews, the seekers for truth found that the
existence of a second, or new-covenant sanctuary, was implied in the words
of Paul already quoted: "Then verily the first covenant had _also_
ordinances of divine service, and a worldly sanctuary." And the use of the
word "also" intimates that Paul has before made mention of this sanctuary.
Turning back to the beginning of the previous chapter, they read: "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; a minister of the sanctuary, and of the true tabernacle, which
the Lord pitched, and not man."(670)

Here is revealed the sanctuary of the new covenant. The sanctuary of the
first covenant was pitched by man, built by Moses; this is pitched by the
Lord, not by man. In that sanctuary the earthly priests performed their
service; in this, Christ, our great high priest, ministers at God's right
hand. One sanctuary was on earth, the other is in heaven.

Further, the tabernacle built by Moses was made after a pattern. The Lord
directed him, "According to all that I show thee, after the pattern of the
tabernacle, and the pattern of all the instruments thereof, even so shall
ye make it." And again the charge was given, "Look that thou make them
after their pattern, which was showed thee in the mount."(671) And Paul
says that the first tabernacle "was a figure for the time then present, in
which were offered both gifts and sacrifices;" that its holy places were
"patterns of things in the heavens;" that the priests who offered gifts
according to the law, served "unto the example and shadow of heavenly
things," and that "Christ is not entered into the holy places made with
hands, which are the figures of the true, but into heaven itself, now to
appear in the presence of God for us."(672)

The sanctuary in heaven, in which Jesus ministers in our behalf, is the
great original, of which the sanctuary built by Moses was a copy. God
placed His Spirit upon the builders of the earth