"the sanctuary of God" Psa 73:17

“The Sanctuary,” in some of the allusions of the Psalms, stands not so much for the material building as for the revealed purpose of God with Israel and mankind in relation thereto, which was thankfully perceived and received by “such as were of clean heart.” Thus in Psalm 73:17, the Psalmist, plagued and chastened among the ungodly, whose prosperity he was tempted to envy, said: “It was too painful to me; until I went into the Sanctuary of God, then understood I their end.” “Thou shalt guide me with thy counsel, and afterwards receive me to glory” (verse 24). Something more than a merely physical going into the Sanctuary is obviously signified here—namely, the truly enlightened worship of God in the “guidance of His counsel.” It is even so in Christ the Sanctuary. Human misery and the apparent inequality in the experiences alike of the godly and the ungodly is unintelligible until we “go into the Sanctuary” — until we learn the whole counsel of God “in Christ.” Then we “understand” and “endure.” “For all the gods of the nations are idols, but the Lord made the heavens. Honour and majesty are before him, strength and beauty are in his Sanctuary” (Psa. 96:6). Individually, this is already revealed in Christ the Sanctuary; but it will not be made plain to mankind until “he cometh to judge the earth” (verse 13). Then they will “understand.”

1910 The Christadelphian p 224–225.