Dear Friends of "Dial Daily Bread,"
A new believer in Christ who had just been baptized asked, "I've been reading something from the Book of Daniel about a 'cleansing of the sanctuary' (8:14). What does it mean?"
I responded in part: "Christ's 'sanctuary' is His hospital where He labors as the Great Physician. Millions of angels serve Him as His 'nurses' in caring for people sick, not only of physical ailments, but sick of sin. They need to be healed. He is on duty 24 hours a day, seven days a week. And you are the only patient He has in that vast hospital which is His 'sanctuary.' So He devotes His full time to your case, as if there were not another person on earth, for He is infinite.
"For nearly 2000 years He served in the 'first apartment' of that heavenly sanctuary where His primary work was to prepare people to die and come up in the first resurrection, to everlasting life. And that was a wonderful work. But now in His special work in the Most Holy Apartment where He is performing that new ministry Daniel speaks of as 'cleansing the sanctuary,' He has a special work. He is preparing a body of people all over the earth to be ready to be translated without tasting death, as 1 Thessalonians 4:16, 17 describes, when He returns. And that is His purpose for you.
"He will accomplish that work if you do not interpose a rebellious will to hinder Him. It's not your work to save yourself, but you are to cooperate with Him in His work of saving you. He will hold your hand if you do not wriggle your hand out of His (Isa. 41:13).
"This wonderful ministry of cleansing the sanctuary is being accomplished all over the earth as people from 'every nation, kindred, tongue, and people' (Rev. 14:6-12) are responding to His ministry being done through Christ's Comforter, the Holy Spirit. Welcome to that happy body of people whose purpose is to stay close to Christ in His unique High Priestly ministry!"
When I finished, she sat back, smiled, and drew a deep breath. I asked, "Why did you take that deep breath?"
She replied, "Because that News is so Good!"
--Robert J. Wieland
From the "Dial Daily Bread" Archive: February 15, 2004.
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