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When Jesus told the parable of the sower, He taught the disciples that He spoke in parables because the people would not understand and then taught the disciples what His parables meant. I tend to believe that anyone searching Scripture and meditating on these parables would be able to arrive at their meaning. Of course, today, we have the book Christ Object Lessons to consider when studying what Jesus taught. However, IMHO, the desert sanctuary and the Jerusalem temple were also parables. The desert sanctuary was one huge physical parable with its services and it summed up the entire plan of salvation. Central throughout the sanctuary message was Jesus and His various roles in the whole plan of salvation. God does not waste words or symbols and there was very little in the sanctuary or its services which does not have symbolic meaning related to the plan of Salvation. Entering into the Most Holy Place on His return to heaven would have been inconsistent with the temple services and holidays. The earthly sanctuary and the heavenly sanctuary are very consistent with each other. The day of Atonement was one day of a year. If Jesus entered the Most Holy Place immediately on His return to Heaven, then the Day of Atonement would have lasted most of a year in the temple calendar. Of interest I find that everything outside of the Sanctuary itself (in the courtyard) were parts of the plan of salvation that happened on earth. This would have been the sacrifice of the animals and the sacrifice of Jesus. This roughly corresponds to justification and/or reconciliation. The Holy Place has it part in the daily life of a Christian and is largely a heaven supported activity and corresponds to sanctification, hence the symbolism of the Holy Place has much to do with the Christian life. The Most Holy Place is an end time event in the plan of salvation and has much to do with glorification which is not completed until the return of Jesus. For if, when we were enemies, we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son, much more, being reconciled, we shall be saved by his life. Romans 5:10 You have a bit of a problem here. If 2300 morning-evening works out to 1150 days, then 1260 days works out to 630 days! I think you are mixing in the morning and evening sacrifices and according to Paul, those evening morning sacrifices ended at the death of Jesus and would not be part of a 2300 day prophecy.

Stinsonmarri: You suggest that I am racist. There is a sense in which you speak truth. In some ways I have treated you in a racist manner. I have given you more leeway to post than I have given some White people. I have done that in part because you are a Black female. That is racist. Stinsonmarri: In this forum, you have benefited from a racist manner in which I have responded to you. Let me make a suggestion: I believe that you need a cooling off period of time. Let us say, one week. Perhaps if you had a week to cool off and think about it, you would come back to this forum in a more civil manner. I am not going to ban you for a week, and primarily because you are a Black female. Perhaps you would like to ban yourself from posting here between now and next Sabbath. Think about it and let us know.

phkrause: I would like to humbly apologize to you. I thought that the article was very good, as I stated. I sorry to have put the parenthesis up with THE NAME YAHWEH ELOE up with the quotation please for give me! I did not realize sincerely that it would bring in the problem I cause for it to be there. My purpose was to provide YAHWEH SACRED NAME which I will always do not matter the negativity toward me. I did not want it to bring down the topic of your thread. I will be more mindful of that in the future. The message of truth must come out so please continue to provide it please. We are living in a chilling time and evil is constantly trying to stop the prophecies for being fulfilled. My mistake was how I wrote, to allow it to be about my writing and not about the message. That's what he does. Do not let this be a set back on your part! You have the correct message and may YAHWEH continue to provide you with the message that needs to be heard. When I comment, I will pray not to draw any attention to me or my mistakes is my prayer! Happy Sabbath and Blessings to you!

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