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“evening-morning” sequence is also specifically linked with the
continual pillar of cloud above the wilderness tabernacle (Num. 9:15-16,
21). “On the day the tabernacle was raised up, the cloud covered the
tabernacle, the tent of testimony; and at evening there was above
the tabernacle the appearance of fire until morning. So it was
continually; the cloud covered it, and the appearance of fire by night”
(Num. 9:15-16). The description commences with the pillar of fire at night
“from evening till morning it was above the tabernacle” like fire
(9:15) and concludes with the cloud by day (9:16). Quoting W. H. Shea, “during
the wilderness wandering the time to carry out the various sanctuary
activities of the “evening-morning” sequence was marked off by God
Himself. At evening the cloud turned to a pillar of fire. In the morning
the fire turned into a pillar of cloud (Num. 9:15-16, 21). This language
in the Pentateuch sounds very much like the background for these “sanctuary
days” in Daniel 8:14.”105
The sanctuary day or “evening-morning” cycle was superintended by
Jehovah Himself, symbolized by the cloud during the day and changing to
the appearance of fire at night (1 Cor. 10:1-4). The counterfeit cultic
“evening-morning” expression in Dn. 8:14 would thus include a
counterfeit christ.
The horn from littleness in its
papal form counterfeits all aspects of true worship by setting before the
saints 1) a false worship system associated with the self exalting
character of a counterfeit hattamid or sweet aroma; 2) a false Holy
Spirit with counterfeit light and truth and 3) a false christ, a savior
who is not nigh at hand to help in every time of need but who is replaced
by a counterfeit human priest. A summary of the genuine and counterfeit
elements of the “evening-morning” worship cycle is illustrated in the
following table.
Evening-Morning
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