Answers to Challenges on the

Adventist Understanding of Daniel

8:14
Adventists must prove............a lot of unscriptural things to prove their
beliefs???
This is what is being said on the forums.

Let's look at some of these things we supposedly "must prove".

The challenges, which I understand were originated by Robert Brimsmead, are

in black print. Answers in color.

Challenge: What concerns me is that this interpretation of an investigative

judgment which is based on a single text, with no other scriptural witnesses and
no New Testament confirmation, should be made an article of faith alongside
faith in the sinless life and resurrection of Jesus. Some Adventists think that
believing this interpretation of Daniel 8:14 is as important as believing in
Christ.

The above statement makes several false assumptions. Our belief is NOT
based upon a single text. It is based on a golden thread of truth running
all though the scriptures. It is supported in the New Testament. And yes,
it is important to understand.

The challenger realizes it is important to know about Christ's life here on

earth.
He knows it's important to know about Christ's death and resurrection.
But why would he insist that we STAY in the past.
Why does he insist that knowing about Christ's present work in the
heavenly sanctuary is somehow, not important.
It's all very much part of salvation's story.

The heavenly sanctuary message is all about Christ and His ministry in
the plan of salvation for humanity.

Hebs.8:1,2 "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.
Hebs. 9:15 "For he is the mediator of the new testament"

Romans 5.9-10 Much more then, being now justified by his blood,
we shall be saved from wrath through him. 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.

To understand the ministry of Christ in the heavenly sanctuary IS

important. Yet, as Daniel 8 has predicted, that truth is cast to the ground,
and trampled upon. Especially the part that deals with the "Day of
Atonement" at the end of salvation's history.

On this website you will find many pages showing the vaste Biblical
support for our understanding of Christ's ministry in the heavenly
sanctuary. This page will look at the specific challenges as they are listed
below in black:

Challenge: He must prove that 2,300 evening and morning sacrifices equal
2,300 full days when there is no evidence from Daniel 8:14 -- or any text of
Scripture -- to show it.

Why must I prove that sacrifices equal days?

The word “sacrifice” is supplied every single time in Daniel 8. That means the
translator added it! Not once does Daniel say anything about sacrifices in
chapter 8. The word "sacrifice" was added in verse 11, it was added in verse 12,
it was added in verse 13. It was added EVERY SINGLE TIME. If Daniel had
MEANT sacrifices he would have written it-- as he did in Daniel 9:27, BUT
HE DID NOT, for he meant the "continual" "daily" "tamid" ministry of the
priest in the "HOLY PLACE" not the sacrifices.

Therefore all we need to understand is the term evening/morning.

Daniel 8.14
And he said unto me, Unto two thousand and three hundred
evening/mornings; then shall the sanctuary be cleansed.
Now when the question is asked “How long the vision concerning the daily
"tamid" and the transgression of desolation..."?” A meaningful answer MUST
indicate a time period.
The context of the question would infer that the answer be a time unit, not an
activity.

The Bible tells us that evening/mornings are DAYS. Therefore the translation:

8.14
And he said unto me, Unto two thousand and three hundred days; then
shall the sanctuary be cleansed.
Is in agreement with Biblical usage of the term.
EVENING/MORNING = 1 day.
The evening and the morning were the first day
The evening and the morning were the second day
The evening and the morning were the third day
ETC. (Gen. 1)

You will notice that when the Bible uses evening/morning it is speaking of
days.
When the bible speaks of the morning and evening sacrifices it always uses the
REVERSE order. "Morning" first, then "evening". (See: 2 Kings 16:15; 1
Chron. 16:40; 2Chro. 2:4; 13:11; 31:3)

Also please note that the verses speaking of the PRIEST'S CONTINUAL (or
daily tamid) service in the sanctuary itself, IN THE HOLY PLACE, it uses the
term in the same order as Daniel-- evening and morning!

Leveticus 24:3 "In the tabernacle of the congregation, shall Aaron order
it from the evening unto the morning before the LORD continually:"

Ex. 27.21 In the tabernacle of the congregation without the veil, which is
before the testimony, Aaron and his sons shall order it from evening to
morning before the LORD:

If Daniel had meant "sacrifices" in chapter eight, he would have said

"sacrifices" as he did in Daniel 9:27. However, the word is NOT mentioned AT
ALL by Daniel, in Daniel 8. It was added by translators. When the little horn
magnifies himself to the Prince of Heaven and seeks to cast to the earth the
heavenly sanctuary truth, Christ has already completed the GREAT
SACRIFICE at the cross and is in heaven as our HIGH PRIEST in "continual"
"tamid" ministry. The "once and for all" sacrifice has taken place, there are no
more sacrifices.
Now some argue and ask, why didn't Daniel simply say "days" as he did in
Daniel 12?

That's because Daniel was speaking about the "DAILY" ministry in the holy
place. (not in the courtyard) He used the same terminology as Lev. 24:3.
You see Daniel chapters 9,8,7, give a picture of CHRIST'S ministry for our
salvation.

• Daniel 9 focuses on the "outer court" (this earth) and points to the
sacrifices and "outer court" activities of the sanctuary-- these culminate
in Christ's sacrifice when He came to earth, and when he caused those
sacrifices to cease.
• Daniel 8 focuses on the daily ministry in the holy place, which was
transfered to the heavenly sanctuary when Christ ascended into heaven
and became the High Priest.
• Daniel 7 focuses on the Most Holy, judgement, when the false Christians
(horn) are judged and the saints vindicated.

He must prove that in prophecy a day equals a year, and that an evening and a
morning sacrifice equals one day which he can then turn into one year.

It has already been shown that evening and morning SACRIFICES are
not even mentioned in Daniel chapter 8, the word sacrifices has been
added in later years. Genesis chapter one clearly shows that
evening/mornings are DAYS.

The day for a year principle is clearly established in Daniel nine where
seventy weeks (490 days) equal 490 years, spanning the time from the
restoration of Jerusalem after the Babylonian captivity, to the appearance
of Messiah the Prince.

The question asked in Daniel 8:13

"How long the vision concerning the daily and the transgression
of desolation...."
refers to the entire vision (hazon). This means that the 2300 (days) or
evening and mornings must start during the rule of the Persian (ram) and
extend through the reign of the Grecian Empire (Goat), it extends
through the four horn powers and on to the career of the little horn, until
we come to the point IN THE TIME OF THE END.
 The word "vision" (hazon) occurs three times in the introduction of this
vision .

8.1-3 In the third year of the reign of king Belshazzar a vision

appeared unto me, even unto me Daniel… And I saw in a vision;
… in the province of Elam; and I saw in a vision, and I was by
the river of Ulai. Then I lifted up mine eyes, and saw, and, behold,
there stood before the river a ram.
The word “vision” occurs again in verse 13. It occurs three more times
after verse 13.
"When I, Daniel, had seen the vision, I sought to understand it"
(v. 15)…Gabriel, make this man to understand the vision.(v. 16)
… he said unto me, Understand, O son of man: for at the time of
the end the vision.
Gabriel then starts explaining the vision, starting with the ram. (v. 20)

So we see every time the word "vision" (hazon) appears in Daniel it is

referring to THE WHOLE vision.

Remember the question, How long the vision concerning the daily and
the transgression of desolation…the answer, 2300 evening/mornings.
And then…….

The context implies that the period began when the daily sacrifice was
suspended. He must show that it began in 457 BC; a date having nothing to do
with the daily sacrifice.

Again the argument against our understanding is built totally upon a

word that isn’t even in the original. The word “sacrifices” is totally and
completely supplied in Daniel 8. Nowhere in Daniel eight does it
mention anything about sacrifices being suspended.

The horn magnifies himself even to the Prince of Hosts, which is

CHRIST,
(see Joshua 5:14-17 where "captian" #8269, is the same word as
"prince" #8269 in Daniel 8)
and takes Christ's "continual" or "daily" away from Christ (approbriating
it to himself)
and casts the PLACE of the sanctuary down
the place of the sanctuary is IN HEAVEN, -- for the horn reaches even
to the host of heaven
 and diverts the focuse people away from heaven, casting the PLACE of
the sanctuary back to earth, to an earthly priestly system that claims to
forgive sins, etc.
-- in the minds of the people the sanctuary is again on earth, not in it's
REAL PLACE, in heaven.

People have added words to the Bible to promote their interpretations:

for instance the TEV takes the liberty to say “It will continue for 1,150
days, during which evening and morning sacrifices will not be offered.”

That is totally assuming a meaning that is not in the original at all.

Daniel writes simply: “How long shall be the vision, concerning the
daily, and the transgression of desolation, to give both the sanctuary and
the host to be trodden under foot? And he said to me, unto two thousand
and three hundred evening/mornings; then shall the sanctuary be
cleansed.”

There is nothing at all about 2300 sacrifices being suspended. The text is
simply giving a length of time pointing to AN END.

Daniel 8 has been tampered with to try to force it to fit the Epiphanies
interpretations, but the original does not support that interpretation.

The vision began with the RAM, the question was “how long the
vision”?
We know of a surety that the MEDIO PERSIAN kingdom, represented
by the ram, was there in 457 B.C.

The question “How long the vision?……

The angel is sent to make known the vision.
. He begins by saying:

The ram which thou sawest having two horns are the kings of
Media and Persia. (8.20)
The Ram was in in power in 457 B.C.
He must prove that the "cleansing of the sanctuary" means cleansing it from the
confessed sins of the saints when the context refers to cleansing it from
pollution by the enemy of the saints.
The challenger assumes that only "obviously" wicked people who make
no claim to being "in God's truth", could represent that "little horn".
This is the crucial crux of the issue. The little horn that ends up casting
"THE PLACE of the sanctuary down", and magnifies himself even to the
Prince of Hosts (Christ), has TAKEN OVER-- taken from Christ, the
daily ministry of the heavenly sanctuary. He has set himself up in the
place of God!

Let us consider further the scripture expressions in Daniel 8 concerning

this little horn power. In verses 11 and 25, of this little horn power it is
said: "He shall magnify himself in his heart." "He magnified himself even
to [or against] the prince of the host;" and "he shall also stand up against
[or reign in opposition to] the Prince of princes." This is explained in 2
Thessalonians, second chapter, where the apostle, in correcting wrong
impressions which the Thessalonians had received concerning the
immediate coming of the Lord, says: "Let no man deceive you by any
means: for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first,
and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition; who opposeth and
exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshiped; so that
he as God sitteth in the temple of God, showing himself that he is God.
Remember ye not, that, when I was yet with you, I told you these things?"
2 Thess. 2:3-5. Plainly this scripture describes the same power that is
represented by the little horn in Daniel 8. But there are other
considerations which more fully show it. He says that when he was at
Thessalonica with the brethren he had told them these very things which
now he writes. In Acts 17:1-3, is the record concerning Paul when he was
yet with the Thessalonians, as follows: "Now when they had passed
through Amphipolis and Apollonia, they came to Thessalonica, where was
a synagogue of the Jews: and Paul, as his manner was, went in unto them,
and three Sabbath days reasoned with them out of the Scriptures." And in
this reasoning with them out of the Scriptures, he told them about this
falling away which should come, in which would be the revealing of the
man of sin, the mystery of iniquity, the son of perdition, who would
oppose himself to God and would exalt himself above all that is called
God or that is worshiped, even putting himself in the place of God and
passing himself off for God.

In reasoning with the people out of the Scriptures, where in the Scriptures
did Paul find the revelation from which he could tell to the Thessalonians
all this? It was in this eighth chapter of Daniel where the apostle found it,
and from this it was that he told it to them while he was there. For in the
eighth chapter of Daniel are the very expressions which he uses in 2
Thessalonians, of which he says, "Remember ye not, that, when I was yet
with you, I told you these things?" This fixes the time to be after the
apostles' days, when Rome magnified itself "even to the Prince of the
host" and "against the Prince of princes;" and connects it directly with the
falling away, or apostasy, which developed the Papacy, or Rome, in its
latter and ultimate phase.
Now let us read verses 11 and 12 of Daniel 8 and it will be plainly seen
that here is exactly the place where Paul found the scripture from which he
taught the Thessalonians concerning the "man of sin" and the "mystery of
iniquity:" "Yea, he magnified himself even to the Prince of the host, and
by him the daily sacrifice was taken away, and the place of his sanctuary
was cast down. And an host was given him against the daily sacrifice by
reason of transgression, and it cast down the truth to the ground; and it
practiced and prospered."

This plainly points out that which took away the priesthood, the ministry,
and the sanctuary of God and of Christianity.

Let us read it again. "Yea, he [the little horn--the man of sin] magnified
himself even to the Prince of the host ["against the Prince of princes"--
Christ], and by him [the man of sin] the daily sacrifice [the continual
service, the ministry, and the priesthood of Christ] was taken away, and
the place of His sanctuary [the sanctuary of the prince of the host, of the
Prince of princes--Christ] was cast down. And an host was given him [the
man of sin] against the daily sacrifice [against the continual service, of the
ministry of Christ, the Prince of the host] by reason of transgression cast
down the truth to the ground; and it practiced, and prospered."

It was "by reason of transgression," that is, by reason of sin, that this
power gained "the host" that was used to cast down the truth to the
ground, to shut away from the church and the world Christ's priesthood,
His ministry, and His sanctuary; and to cast it all down to the ground and
tread it underfoot. It was by reason of transgression that this was
accomplished. Transgression is sin, and this is the consideration and the
revelation upon which the apostle in 2 Thessalonians defines this power as
the "man of sin" and the "mystery of iniquity."

In Daniel 8:11-13; 11:31; and 12:11, it will be noticed that the word
"sacrifice" is in every case supplied. And it is wholly supplied, for in its
place in the original there is no word at all. In the original the only word
that stands in this place is the word tamid, that is here translated "daily."
And in these places the expression "daily" does not refer to the daily
sacrifice any more than it refers to the whole daily ministry or continual
service of the sanctuary, of which the sacrifice was only a part. The word
tamid in itself signifies "continuous or continual," "constant," "stable,"
"sure," "constantly," "evermore." Only such words as these express the
thought of the original word, which, in the text under consideration, is
translated "daily." In Numbers 28 and 29 alone, the word is used
seventeen times, referring to the continual service in the sanctuary.

And it is this continual service of Christ, the true High Priest, "who
continueth ever," and "who is consecrated forevermore" in "an
 unchangeable priesthood"--it is this continual service of our great High
Priest, which the man of sin, the Papacy, has taken away. It is the
sanctuary and the true tabernacle in which this true High Priest exercises
His continual ministry that has been cast down by "the transgression of
desolation." It is this ministry and this sanctuary that the "man of sin" has
taken away from the church and shut away from the world and has cast
down to the ground and stamped upon and in place of which it has set up
itself "the abomination that maketh desolate." What the former Rome did
physically to the visible or earthly sanctuary, which was "the figure of the
true" (Dan. 9:26, 27; Matt. 24:15), that the latter Rome has done
spiritually to the invisible or heavenly sanctuary that is in itself the true."
Dan. 11:31; 12:11; 8:11, 13.

In the apostasy, the bishops, presbyters, deacons, and the eucharist were
made to succeed the high priest, priests, Levites and sacrifices of the
Levitical system. Now by every evidence of the Scriptures, it is certain
that, in the order of God it was Christ and His ministry and sanctuary in
heaven and this alone, that in truth was the object of the Levitical system
and that is truly the Christian succession to that system. Therefore when in
and by the apostasy the system of bishops as high priests, presbyters as
priests, deacons as Levites, and the Supper as a sacrifice was insinuated as
the Christian succession to the Levitical system, this of itself was nothing
else than to put this false system of the apostasy in the place of the true,
completely to shut out the true, and finally, to cast it down to the ground
and stamp upon it.

And this is how it is that this great Christian truth of the true
priesthood, ministry, and sanctuary of Christ is not known to the
Christian world today. The "man of sin" has taken it away and
cast it down to the ground and stamped upon it.
A.T. Jones (Consecrated Way)

So yes, this cleansing determines who the REAL followers of God are.

Just like the typical "Day of Atonement" when the sanctuary was
cleansed, those who were not true followers of God were "cut off"
Lev. 23.29 For whatsoever soul it be that shall not be afflicted in that
same day, he shall be cut off from among his people.

Paul writes about this:

in Romans 1 he writes about the wicked, who know about the judgment
of God, but continue to commit things worthy of death.
Then in Romans 2:3-10, he turns and points to "professing" followers of
God.
 Do you think, you can judge them, but that you, who do the same
things will escape the judgment of God? ...the goodness of God
leads to repentance, but you after the hardness and impenitent
heart treasure up unto yourself wrath against the day of wrath
which will revel the righteous judgment of God; Who will render
to every man according to his deeds: to them who by patient
continuance in well-doing seek for glory and honour and
immortality, ETERNAL LIFE. But to them that are headstrong,
and do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, indignation
and wrath.

According to Paul's gospel 2.16 God shall judge the secrets of

men by Jesus Christ

And in Hebrews 10:30 "The Lord shall judge his people."

And Peter writes: 1 Peter 4:17 "judgment must begin at the house
of God: and if it first begin at us, what shall the end be of them
that obey not the gospel of God? "

He must prove that confessed sins defile the sanctuary; an idea stated nowhere
in Scripture.

Yes, it is. That’s what the whole “day of atonement” is all about!

The Priest “shall take of the blood of the goat and sprinkle it upon
the mercy seat, and before the mercy seat (15) 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. (16)
…And he shall go out to the altar (of incense) 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.(18) 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.(19) And when he
has made an end of reconciling the holy place, and the tabernacle
of the congregation and the altar, (20)….
.
Yes, it says the tabernacle was to be cleansed because of the
transgression and sins of the people!
On the day of Atonement we see something very different from the daily
rituals. Cleansing occurs for the sinner during the daily rituals, BUT only
on the day of atonement does the sprinkling of blood result in cleansing
for the sanctuary itself, and for the altar and for the people.

The Day of Atonement is the day of the cleansing of the

sanctuary/temple. How is it that the sanctuary/ temple was defiled. This
is not dealing with mere hygienic issues, this is dealing with the
principle of cleanness and purity in opposition to
contamination/defilement. Leviticus 16:16 states that this atonement for
the holy place must be made because of the uncleanness of the children
of Israel, and because of their transgressions, for all their sins, — that is
why the Priest must make this atonement for the tabernacle of meeting
which stands in the midst.

Obviously the tabernacle has been defiled by the sins of the people, and
on the day of atonement, the scriptures clearly state an atonement must
be made for the tabernacle itself.

Then notice what happens at the end of the rituals on the day of
atonement. Remember the sacrifice was already made, the priest already
entered the holy and most holy place with the blood, where he makes an
atonement for the holy place, because of the sins of the people, it is when
he returns from making an atonement that he lays both of his hands on
the head of the live goat, and confesses over it all the iniquities of the
children of Israel, and all their transgression in regard to all their sins;
and he shall lay them on the head of the goat" (Lev. 16:21)
Here we see a clear representation of sin being transferred by the laying
on of hands. Where did this sin come from? Was not the sin forgiven at
the sacrifice? Was not the presenting of the blood in the Most Holy Place
enough? Did this not blot out the sins already? Where did these sins
come from which the priest placed upon the head of the scape goat after
making an end of atoning?

Here we see something so obvious it amazes me that people refuse to see

it. The sanctuary needed to be cleansed because of the sins of the people
which had been transferred from the confessing sinners upon the
sacrificial animals throughout the year, and then transferred into the
sanctuary, either by the priest sprinkling the blood, or eating the flesh of
the sacrifice.(Lev. 6:26; 10:17)
 On the day of atonement, an atonement is made for the tabernacle, to
cleanse the sanctuary because of these sins accumulated there.

Sacrifice is made, the cleansing blood is applied at the mercy seat as well
as at the altar of incense. The sanctuary is cleansed. The priest returns
from the cleansing of the sanctuary "when he has made an end of atoning
for the tabernacle of meeting and the altar" (Lev. 16:20) Then he goes
and places ALL the sins upon the goat who is cast far out, forever
banned. This is the FINAL cleansing in the “salvation year”.

Hebrews 9:22-23
“Almost all things are by the law purged (#2511) with blood; and
without shedding of blood is no remission.
It is therefore necessary that the patterns of things in the heavens
should be purified (#2511)with these: but the heavenly things
themselves with better sacrifices than these.”
Yes, it all fits together. The day of atonement, the cleansing of the
earthly sanctuary occurred at the END of the Jewish salvation year. In
the same way the cleansing of the HEAVENLY sanctuary occurs at the
END of TIME, just prior to the close of earth’s probation.

The focus is on the END of the 2300 day/years…..”for at the time

appointed the end shall be.” That is when the cleansing of the heavenly
sanctuary takes place.

He must assume the 490 years are cut off from the 2,300 year although nothing
is said of this in Daniel 8 or 9.

Dan. 9.24
Seventy weeks are determined (chathak) upon thy people and upon thy
holy city, to finish the transgression, and to make an end of sins, and to
make reconciliation for iniquity, and to bring in everlasting
righteousness, and to seal up the vision and prophecy, and to anoint the
most Holy.
Seventy weeks, which stretch from Jerusalem’s restoration to Messiah the
Prince, (9:25) are 490 day/years "determined for your people," the Jewish
nation.
The word for “determined” is "chathak" which means to cut off, to sever from,
to amputate.
Cut off from what?
The angel says “understand the vision”.
What vision? No vision is given in Daniel 9, just an explanation.

We know from Daniel’s account in chapter 8 that he did not fully understand
the vision of chapter 8. In chapter nine Daniel is studying and praying. He has
read what Jeremiah says about Israel’s captivity lasting 70 years. He has
obviously grasped the concept that the vision of Daniel 8 covers a very long
period--to the time of the end-- and he is very concerned. He is seeking to
reconcile the two, trying to fit this all together with his understanding of the
restoration of Jerusalem and the temple, both of which lay in total ruins, having
been destroyed by Babylonian armies. This is what Daniel was most concerned
about, how does Israel and Jerusalem fit in with this vision.

Gabriel now explains that Jerusalem will be rebuilt, he only explains the
portion involving the Jews--which is 490 day/years cut off from the time period
given in the previous vision-- the 2300 day/years. Israel was being given a
second chance! They were being gathered back into their land to prepare
themselves for the coming Messiah! But after the 490 years, desolation far
worse than what Epiphanies wrought befalls Jerusalem and the temple, for it
would be destroyed and made desolate. (9:26,27).

Daniel 8 takes us beyond the earthly sanctuary to the heavenly sanctuary,

where the Prince of Heavenly Host is-- His sanctuary may be trampled but it
can NEVER be destroyed, it will triumph in the end.

Therefore, Daniel 9 speaks of the OPENING of the heavenly. When something

is "anointed" is is the inaugaration, or launching-- See Revelation 4 and 5,
Christ is declared worthy"

For after His ascension he entered the heavenly sanctuary with His own blood
to begin His ministry there.

Daniel 8 speaks of Christ's "daily" ministry and the CLOSING WORK of the
sanctuary in the end of time.

He must assume that the 2,300 years and the 490 years begin together.

They do begin at the same time.

The vision of Daniel 8 begins with the Ram which is Media Persia.
The 2,300 day/years tell us how long the vision, which begins with
 Media Persia, and ends with the sanctuary being cleansed at the “time of
the end“.

The 490 years are clearly stated as beginning with the restoration of
Jerusalem after the Babylonian captivity. It was a Persian king that made
the decree, and 483 years later Messiah the Prince came to earth.

So the Bible says:

Restoration (which took place during “Ram’s” rule) to Messiah the
Prince, (Jesus life, death and the opening of the heavenly sanctuary is
490 day/years.

The Vision also begins with the “Rams” rule and goes to the cleansing of
the sanctuary-- 2300 day/years.

He must maintain that the reconsecration of the sanctuary (Daniel 8:14) and the
anointing of the sanctuary (Daniel 9:24) are not the same thing, though they
seem to.

Why should we assume the above?

Nowhere does it speak of “reconsecration of the sanctuary” in Daniel
8:14.

The word in Daniel 8:14 is

(#6663) “ntsadaq” from "tsadaq" which has a forensic meaning of
“justify, vindicate, clear, made righteousness, cleanse" .
Forensic means it is connected with or used in courts of law.
The word used in Daniel is a stronger, term then the “cleansed” used in
Leviticus, for this cleansing IS THE REAL THING.
Indeed this passage might well be translated: “Then shall the sanctuary
have atonement made for it”.
Remember that the REAL “cleansing“ must be done with the BETTER
sacrifice of Christ. When Christ cleanses the heavenly sanctuary it will
stand in the courts of eternal law for all eternity.

“Then shall the sanctuary be cleansed” announces the beginning of the

great Day of Atonement. It is the beginning of the judicial court
conducted in heaven as outlined in Daniel 7, when the ancient of Days
takes His seat, and all the angels are witnesses, the books are opened and
the court is in session.
Following this judicial court, the counterfeit “religious” horn and beast is
destroyed and God’s saints receive the inheritance.

The anointing of the sanctuary, or “most holy” in Daniel 9:24 comes at

the end of the 490 day/years, when Messiah the Prince returned to
heaven after His victory over Satan at the cross. With His own blood He
entered the heavenly sanctuary to minister for the salvation of mankind.

In Daniel 8, it speaks of the Prince of the Heavenly Host and His

DAILY--
The cleansing of the heavenly sanctuary is the "last work" during the
time of the end.

Daniel 7 shows us that after this "judgment" sits, the saints receive their
inheritance, while the false system is destroyed.

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February 17, 2003 by Ulrike Unruh