Before You Begin
Thesis. What sin lost was the IMAGE of God in man (Gen. 1:26; Gen. 5:3) — His glory, His name, His character (Exo. 33-34); and with it His presence (Isa. 59:2) and the life that comes from Him (Eze. 18:20). The Law is an image of God (God is love — 1 John 4:8 — and the law is love's standard), so the schoolmaster shows us the image we have marred. Christ is the EXPRESS image (Heb. 1:3) and the Life (John 14:6); He took our nature, was tempted in all points yet without sin (Heb. 4:15), and came to restore the image. By beholding His glory we are changed into the same image (2 Cor. 3:18), and truth is the sanctifier (John 17:17). The sanctuary is the structure of that restoration: Christ is the Ladder, the Gate, the House of God (John 1:51; John 10:9; 1 Chr. 28:10), and its three compartments are Justification, Sanctification, and Glorification.
Method. After Haskell's Bible Handbook: every line is ref → gloss, Bible and pioneer/EGW alike. Each passage is walked, and every symbol is defined the first time it appears — symbol = meaning, with the Scripture receipts that prove it (Miller's Rule 12: let the Bible define its own figures); later sections reference the owning section by title. Every section closes with the DEFINITION the verses built; the appendix gathers every symbol into one dictionary. The cloud of witnesses is the pioneers (esp. Waggoner and Jones of 1888) and Ellen White, each verified against the local corpus.