I was shown a Sanctuary upon earth containing two
apartments. It resembled the one in heaven. I was told that it was
the earthly Sanctuary, a figure of the heavenly. The furniture of
the first apartment of the earthly Sanctuary was like that in the
first apartment of the heavenly. The vail was lifted, and I looked
into the Holy of Holies, and saw that the furniture was the same
as in the Most Holy place of the heavenly Sanctuary. The priests
ministered in both apartments of the earthly. In the first apart-
ment he ministered every day in the year, and entered the Most
Holy but once in a year, to cleanse it from the sins which had
been conveyed there. I saw that Jesus ministered in both apart-
ments of the heavenly Sanctuary. He entered into the heavenly
Sanctuary by the offering of his own blood. The earthly priests
were removed by death, therefore they could not continue long;
but Jesus, I saw, was a priest forever.

At the crucifixion, as Jesus died on Calvary, he cried, It
is finished, and the vail of the temple was rent in twain, from the
top to the bottom. This was to show that the services of the
earthly Sanctuary were forever finished, and that God would no
more meet with them in their earthly temple, to accept their sac-
rifices. The blood of Jesus was then shed, which was to be min-
istered by himself in the heavenly Sanctuary. As the priests in
the earthly Sanctuary entered the Most Holy once a year to
cleanse the Sanctuary, Jesus entered the Most Holy of the heav-
enly, at the end of the 2300 days of Daniel 8, in 1844, to make a
final atonement for all who could be benefited by his mediation,
and to cleanse the Sanctuary.

Jesus did not come to earth as the waiting, joyful com-
pany expected, to cleanse the Sanctuary, by purifying the earth
by fire. I saw that they were correct in their reckoning of the
prophetic periods. Prophetic time closed in 1844. Their mistake
consisted in not understanding what the Sanctuary was, and the
nature of its cleansing. Jesus did enter the Most Holy place to
cleanse the Sanctuary at the ending of the days. I looked again
at the waiting, disappointed company. They looked sad. They
carefully examined the evidences of their faith, and followed
down through the reckoning of the prophetic periods, and could
discover no mistake. Time was fulfilled, but where was their
Saviour? They had lost him.
I was then shown the disappointment of the disciples as
they came to the sepulchre and found not the body of Jesus. Said
Mary, They have taken away my Lord, and I know not where
they have laid him. Angels told the sorrowing disciples that their
Lord had risen, and would go before them into Galilee.

Satan commenced his deception in Eden. He said to Eve,
Thou shalt not surely die. This was Satan’s first lesson upon the
immortality of the soul; and he has carried on this deception
from that time to the present, and will carry it on until the cap-
tivity of God’s children shall be turned. I was pointed to Adam
and Eve in Eden. They partook of the forbidden tree, and then
the flaming sword was placed around the tree of life, and they
were driven from the Garden, lest they should partake of the tree
of life, and be immortal sinners. The tree of life was to perpetu-
ate immortality. I heard an angel ask, Who of the family of
Adam have passed that flaming sword, and have partaken of the
tree of life? I heard another angel answer, Not one of the family
of Adam have passed that flaming sword, and partaken of that
tree; therefore there is not an immortal sinner. The soul that sin-
neth it shall die an everlasting death; a death that will last for-
ever, where there will be no hope of a resurrection; and then the
wrath of God will be appeased.
It was a marvel to me that Satan could succeed so well in
making men believe that the words of God, The soul that sinneth
it shall die, mean that the soul that sinneth it shall not die, but
live eternally in misery.