The Cleansing of the Temple - OUR BODY, the NEW JERUSALEM
Revelation 11:19 "Then God's temple in heaven was opened, and within his temple was seen the ark of his covenant. And there came flashes of lightning, rumblings, peals of thunder, an earthquake and a severe hailstorm".
…7Let us rejoice and celebrate and give Him the glory. For the marriage of the Lamb has come, and His bride has made herself ready.8She was given clothing of fine linen,” linen bright and pure. For the fine linen she wearsis the righteous acts of the saints. 9Then the angel told me to write, “Blessed are those who are invited to the marriage supper of the Lamb.” And he said to me, “These are the true words of God.”…
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The New Jerusalem Temple, the 144,000 sing "Hosanna to the Son of David, Hosanna, Hosanna! waving palm branches and throwing flowers for the Son of God to ride over. It was like a big parade, a wedding party procession!
"Moreover I will make a covenant of peace with them; it shall be an everlasting covenant with them: and I will place them, and multiply them, and will set my sanctuary in the midst of them for evermore" Ezekiel 37:26.
For Christ did not enter a man-made copy of the true sanctuary, but He entered heaven (our minds stayed upon God in the Most Holy Place in the Heanenly) itself, now to appear on our behalf in the presence of God.
"But Christ being come an High Priest of good things to come by a greater and more perfect tabernacle, not made with hands" Hebrews 9:11.
and who ministers in the sanctuary and true tabernacle set up by the Lord, not by man.
Now we know that if the earthly tent we live in is dismantled, we have a building from God, an eternal house in heaven, not built by human hands.
"We heard Him say, 'I will destroy this man-made temple, and in three days I will build another that is made without hands.'"
Matthew 25:7 "Then all the virgins woke up and trimmed their lamps.
The banquet supper is the feasting upon the writings of the early SDA pioneers and the Bible which are the Three Angel's Messages repeated, retold with ten times the power of the Midnight Cry today!!! Get to work brothers and sisters! Satan has stolen a march upon God's people while they slumbered and slept! It is high time to wake up and do what Jesus commanded us to do through our Prophetess Ellen G. White! May God bless her soul for her faithfulness in writing and the souls of the other pioneers like her husband, James S. White, Stephen N. Haskell, J. N. Andrews, Joesph Bates, Otis Nichols, and others. See a growing list below, click the link to see a picture of them and read their books, articles, and sermons! Get to work! Share their writings with your family and friends! Republish them to your social media! Share, share, share the works of the faithful PROTESTANT SDA PIONEERS brothers and sisters!
"Behold, I have made you a new, sharp threshing sledge with double edges [1840-1894 Protestant Three Angel's Messages Rev 14:6-12 Pioneers writings]; You will thresh the mountains and pulverize them, And will make the hills like chaff.
He says, "You are My war-club, My weapon of war; And with you I shatter nations, And with you I destroy kingdoms.
For thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: "The daughter of Babylon (modern Catholic Adventist organization) is like a threshing floor At the time it is stamped firm; Yet in a little while the time of harvest will come for her."
"The Lord will work to purify His church. I tell you in truth, the Lord is about to turn and overturn in the institutions called by His name.
"Just how soon this refining process will begin I cannot say, but it will not be long deferred. He whose fan is in His hand will cleanse His temple of its moral defilement. He will thoroughly purge His floor. God has a controversy with all who practice the least injustice; for in so doing they reject the authority of God and imperil their interest in the atonement, the redemption which Christ has undertaken for every son and daughter of Adam. Will it pay to take a course abhorrent to God? Will it pay to put upon your censers strange fire to offer before God, and say it makes no difference?" —Ellen G. White,Testimonies to Ministers and Gospel Workers, pp. 372-373.
"The heathen are sunk down in the pit that they made: in the net which they hid is their own foot taken" Psalm 9:15.
"Arise and thresh, O daughter of Zion (those who repeat the SDA 1840-1894 Pioneers writings): for I will make your horn iron, and I will make your hoofs brass: and you shall beat in pieces many people: and I will consecrate their gain to the LORD, and their substance to the Lord of the whole earth" Micah 4:13. <<<Be sure to click this link and read the cross references.
"That I may shew forth all thy praise in the gates of the daughter of Zion: I will rejoice in thy salvation" Psalm 9:14.
"His feet were like burnished brass, as if it had been refined in a furnace. His voice was like the voice of many waters" Revelation 1:15 WEB. <<<Be sure to click this link and read the cross references.
Isaiah 60:1-5: “Arise, shine; for thy light (living reality experiencing Jesus helping you in your life trials obeying testing perfecting messages=latter rain) is come, and the glory of the Lord is risen upon thee.” Isaiah 60:1. TO THOSE WHO GO OUT TO MEET THE BRIDEGROOM IS THIS MESSAGE GIVEN" Christ’s Object Lessons, p. 420.3. Note: GO OUT OF ALL 501c3 Non-profit, tax exempt churches in America today and all over the world and have home groups, home churches that adhere to the Three Angel's Messages (Revelation 14:6-12) that our faithful, keen, noble and true Protestant SDA pioneers taught from 1840-1894.
"Arise, O Lord; O God, lift up thine hand: forget not the humble. Wherefore doth the wicked contemn God? he hath said in his heart, Thou wilt not require it" Psalm 10:12-
Mrs. White wrote in a letter to Brother Eli Curtis on April 21, 1847:
"I believe the Sanctuary to be cleansed at the end of the 2300 days, is the New Jerusalem Temple, of which Christ is a minister. The Lord shew me in vision, more than one year ago, that Brother Crosier had the true light, on the cleansing of the Sanctuary, etc; and that it was His will, that Brother C. should write out the view which he gave us in the Day-Star Extra, February 7, 1846. I feel fully authorized by the Lord, to recommend that Extra, to every saint." - A Word to the "Little Flock," printed in 1847. You can read it, O. R. L. Crosier’s Article “The Law of Moses,” The Day-Star Extra, February 7, 1846] online here.
This New Jerusalem temple are those who live under the Third Angel's message timeframe (era). It is the City of Truth, Zion,
"Many who went forth to meet the Bridegroom under the messages of the first and second angels, refused the third, the last testing message to be given to the world, and a similar position will be taken WHEN the LAST (now) call is made." {RH, October 31, 1899 par. 12.
"And to her was granted that she should be arrayed in fine linen, clean and white: for the fine linen is the righteousness of saints" Revelation 19:8 KJV.
Fine linen, bright and clean, was given her to wear." (Fine linen stands for the righteous acts of God's holy people.)
She has been given the finest of pure white linen to wear." For the fine linen represents the good deeds of God's holy people.
it was granted her to clothe herself with fine linen, bright and pure”— for the fine linen is the righteous deeds of the saints.
She was given clothing of fine linen, linen bright and pure." For the fine linen she wears is the righteous acts of the saints.
And it was given to her that she should be clothed in bright, pure, fine linen." For the fine linen is the righteous acts of the saints.
It was given to her to clothe herself in fine linen, bright and clean; for the fine linen is the righteous acts of the saints.
And to her was granted that she should be arrayed in fine linen, clean and white: for the fine linen is the righteousness of saints.
Holman Christian Standard Bible
She was given fine linen to wear, bright and pure. For the fine linen represents the righteous acts of the saints.
International Standard Version
She has been given the privilege of wearing fine linen, dazzling and pure." (The fine linen represents the righteous deeds of the saints.)
She was permitted to be dressed in bright, clean, fine linen" (for the fine linen is the righteous deeds of the saints).
It was given to her that she would array herself in bright, pure, fine linen: for the fine linen is the righteous acts of the saints.
Aramaic Bible in Plain English
And it was given to her to wear fine linen, pure and bright, for the fine linen is the uprightness of The Holy Ones.
She has been given the privilege of wearing dazzling, pure linen." This fine linen represents the things that God's holy people do that have his approval.
And it was given to her to clothe herself in fine linen, bright andclean; for the fine linen is the righteous acts of the saints.
And to her was granted that she should be arrayed in fine linen, clean and bright: for the fine linen is the righteousness of the saints.
And to her was granted that she should be arrayed in fine linen, clean and white: for the fine linen is the righteous acts of saints.
And to her was granted that she should be arrayed in fine linen, clean and white: for the fine linen is the righteousness of saints.
And it was given unto her that she should array herself in fine linen, bright and pure: for the fine linen is the righteous acts of the saints.
And it is granted to her that she should clothe herself with fine linen, glittering and white. For the fine linen are the justifications of saints.
And it was given to her that she should be clothed in fine linen, bright [and] pure; for the fine linen is the righteousnesses of the saints.
And it was given unto her that she should array herself in fine linen, bright and pure: for the fine linen is the righteous acts of the saints.
And to her was granted that she should be arrayed in fine linen, clean and white: for the fine linen is the righteousness of saints.
And she was permitted to array herself in fine linen, shining and spotless; the fine linen being the righteous actions of God's people.
It was given to her that she would array herself in bright, pure, fine linen: for the fine linen is the righteous acts of the saints.
and there was given to her that she may be arrayed with fine linen, pure and shining, for the fine linen is the righteous acts of the saints.'
She makes coverings for herself; Her clothing is fine linen and purple.
"It shall be that when they enter at the gates of the inner court, they shall be clothed with linen garments; and wool shall not be on them while they are ministering in the gates of the inner court and in the house.
But you do have a few people in Sardis who have not soiled their garments, and because they are worthy, they will walk with Me in white.
Who will not fear You, O Lord, and glorify Your name? For You alone are holy. All nations will come and worship before You, for Your righteous acts have been revealed."
And out of the temple came the seven angels with the seven plagues, dressed in clean and bright linen and girded with golden sashes around their chests.
The armies of heaven, dressed in fine linen, white and pure, follow Him on white horses.