What was meant by cleansing the Sanctuary on the New Moon of the First Month?
The entire system of worship in Israel was based around the Tabernacle and the Temple. This physical Tabernacle and Temple was a copy of the heavenly structure, which is a spiritual edifice and Moses was shown a plan on which to build the physical Tabernacle. The worship of God had to be pure and He desired to be worshipped in spirit and in truth. The physcial system pointed towards Messiah and the spiritual Temple which was the Church. We as the church are the spiritual Temple. The physical had to be cleansed and the priesthood made ready for the Passover, as we have to be cleansed and made ready for the second Sacrament. Only those who have been baptised as repentant adults into the body of Christ are able to partake of the first and Lords Supper element of the Passover. This was the significance behind Christ cleansing the Temple, both at the beginning of his ministry and before the Passover of his death, when he established the Lords Supper on the Preparation Day of the Cagigah mea
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