SQLite format 3@ A  O{tableTopicsTopicsCREATE TABLE 'Topics' (Title NVARCHAR(100), Notes TEXT)Kra01.02 Oil for Light: Spices, Sweet Incense{\rtf1\ansi\ansicpg1252\deff0{\fonttbl{\f0\fnil\fcharset0 Georgia;}} {\colortbl ;\red0\green0\blue0;\red255\green0\blue0;} {\*\generator Riched20 5.40.11.2210;}\viewkind4\uc1\pard\cf1\lang1033\f0\fs22 Thomas Newberry\par \b TYPES OF THE TABERNACLE\par \cf2\b0 Oil for the light.\cf1\par Exodus 25.6)\par \par The word "light" here, signifies "light-giver"; that is, the lampstand <e#01.01 Materials: Metals, Colours, Coverings.{\rtf1\ansi\ansicpg1252\deff0{\fonttbl{\f0\fnil\fcharset0 Georgia;}} {\colortbl ;\red0\green0\blue0;\red255\green0\blue0;} {\*\generator Riched20 5.40.11.2210;}\viewkind4\uc1\pard\cf1\lang1033\f0\fs22 Thomas Newberry\par \b TYPES OF THE TABERNACLE\par \cf2\b0 INTRODUCTION.\cf1\par (Exodus, Chapter 25. 1-9).\p$1)00 Thomas Newberry* y qT10;\red255\green0\blue0;\red0\green0\blue0;\red0\green128\blue0;\red0\green0\blue255;} {\*\generator Riched20 5.40.11.2210;}\viewkind4\uc1\pard\cf1\lang1033\b\f0\fs28 Thomas Newberry\par \cf2\b0\i\fs24 (1881-1901)\i0\fs22\par \cf1\b\fs28\par \cf2\fs24 Books\par 01 Types of the Tabernacle\par 02 Types of the Temple\cf1\fs28\par \par \b0\fs20 00.01\cf2 Biography of Thomas Newberry\par \cf1\b\fs28\par Types of the Tabernacle\par \cf2\b0\i\fs24 by Thomas Newberry\par \i0\fs22\par \cf3 01.01\cf2 Introduction: Materials: Metals, Colours, Coverings.\par \cf3 01.02\cf2 Oil for the Light: Spices, Sweet Incense\par \cf3 01.03\cf2 God's Holy Dwelling Place: Ark of Covenant\par \cf3 01.04\cf2 Propitiatory and the Cherubim: Table of Shewbread\par \cf3 01.05\cf2 The Lampstand\par \cf3 01.06\cf2 The Curtains of the Tabernacle\par \cf3 01.07\cf2 The Boards\par \cf3 01.08\cf2 The Bars\par \cf3 01.09\cf2 The Vail\par \cf3 01.10\cf2 The Brazen Altar\par \cf3 01.11\cf2 The Court of the Tabernacle\par \cf3 01.12\cf2 The Hangings of the Court\par \cf3 01.13\cf2 The Golden Altar of Incense\par \cf3 01.14\cf2 The Laver and its Foot\par \cf3 01.15\cf2 Directions for setting up the Tabernacle\par \cf3 01.16\cf2 The Tabernacle set up (The Overshadowing Cloud and the Indwelling Glory)\par \par \cf0{\field{\*\fldinst{HYPERLINK "http://www.newblehome.co.uk/newberry/tabernacle.html"}}{\fldrslt{\ul\cf4 http://www.newblehome.co.uk/newberry/tabernacle.html}}}\cf2\f0\fs22\par \par \cf1\b\fs28 Types of the Temple\par \cf2\b0\i\fs24 by Thomas Newberry\par \i0\fs22\par \cf3 02.01\cf2 Introduction, God's earthly dwelling-places\par \cf3 02.02\cf2 The temples of scripture\par \cf3 02.03\cf2 Preparations for the temple\par \cf3 02.04\cf2 The foundation platform\par \cf3 02.05\cf2 The measurements and structure\par \cf3 02.06\cf2 The stones of the temple\par \cf3 02.07\cf2 The woodwork and carvings\par The overlaying and garnishing\par \cf3 02.08\cf2 The doors and vail\par The cherubim\par The ark of the covenant\par \cf3 02.09\cf2 Plate of the holy place and holiest of all\par The altar of incense\par The tables of shewbread\par The golden lampstands\par The golden and silver vessels\par The two pillars\par \cf3 02.10\cf2 The brazen sea and lavers\par The brazen altar and the sacrifices\par The courts and gates\par The holy portion of the land\par The temple of Solomon filled with glory\par \cf3 02.11\cf2 Answers to questions\par \par \cf0{\field{\*\fldinst{HYPERLINK "http://www.newblehome.co.uk/newberry/temple.html"}}{\fldrslt{\ul\cf4 http://www.newblehome.co.uk/newberry/temple.html}}}\cf2\f0\fs22\par \par ----------------------------\par Placed into E-Sword TOP format by David Cox, \cf0{\field{\*\fldinst{HYPERLINK "http://www.davidcox.com.mx"}}{\fldrslt{\ul\cf4 http://www.davidcox.com.mx}}}\cf2\f0\fs22 \par dcox@davidcox.com.mx. Public Domain.\par } ar \par It is not here Israel seeking to provide a dwelling-place for God, as in David's case (Ps. 132. 1-5), but God desiring a dwelling-place for Himself amongst them. Man naturally desires not the presence of God with him here on earth, but God in the riches of His grace seeks to dwell with men. We must remember when this request from God was made. In the twentieth chapter, we have the giving of the law, in the three following chapters further precepts, then in chapter 24, Moses, Aaron, Nadab, Abihu, and seventy of the elders were called up unto mount Sinai. "And the glory of Jehovah abode upon mount Sinai, and the cloud covered it six days: and on the seventh day He called unto Moses out of the cloud. And the sight of the glory of Jehovah was like devouring fire. And Moses was in the mount forty days and forty nights." There, shut in with God, he receives directions concerning the Tabernacle. Thus the law includes within itself "a shadow of good things to come," and patterns of things in the heavens were given on mount Sinai.\par \par It is in the heart of man God desires His dwelling-place, hence it was from those who offered "willingly with the heart" His offering was to be taken. Where there is first a willing mind, it is accepted according to that a man hath. The widow's two mites given out of her penury, were more acceptable to God than the offerings of the rich out of their abundance.\par \par \cf2 THE MATERIALS.\cf1\par \par Verse 3. "And this is the offering (heave-offering) ye shall take of them."\par \par There are two kinds of offerings frequently mentioned. The wave-offering which was made to pass and re-pass before the eye of Jehovah, and the heave-offering which was lifted up to God and presented to Him. In this case it is the "heave-offering" (see margin of The Englishman's Bible).\par \par In the original there are two distinct terms employed for tent and tabernacle; in our Authorized Translation these terms are frequently confused, but the Spirit of God always uses them wi th precision. The tent (ohel) is the ordinary term for transitory habitations in the desert; hence "to dwell in tents" is characteristic of pilgrimage. The Tabernacle mishcahn, from shahcan, "to dwell," is more immediately connected with the presence of God. As God says in verse 8, "Let them make Me a sanctuary that I may dwell among them." God's dwelling-place among men must be holy, for holiness becometh God's house for ever.\par \par In the original Scriptures the term employed is "The Tent of the congregation." It is never written "Tabernacle of the congregation," although frequently so translated. The term "Tent of the congregation" is connected with the assemblage of God's people, at the door or entrance, where God promised to meet with them. The children of Israel were to encamp far off, round about the Tabernacle, thus leaving ample space in front and around, for the congregation to assemble. Those who brought a sacrifice entered the court, and killed and cut it into its pieces on the north side of the altar; the priests only were allowed to enter into the Sanctuary.\par \par \cf2 THE METALS.\cf1\par \par GOLD is the emblem of that which is divine, divinely excellent and precious, and reminds us of GOD THE FATHER.\par SILVER is typical of atonement and atonement price. "Ye were not redeemed with corruptible things such as silver or gold but with the precious blood of Christ" (1 Peter 1.18,19). The children of Israel when numbered, were required to give a half shekel of silver as a ransom for the soul, unto Jehovah (Exodus 30. 11-16). This brings the SON OF GOD to our remembrance.\par BRASS is the emblem of stability and enduring strength, as iron is the emblem of overcoming strength. "Thy shoes shall be iron and brass, and as thy day thy strength shall be" (Deut. 33.25), reminding us of the divine, eternal SPIRIT. "Not by might nor by power, but by My Spirit, saith Jehovah of hosts" (Zech. 4. 6). And "strengthened with might by His Spirit in the inner man" (Eph. 3.16). The boards of the Ta bernacle were overlaid with GOLD. The sockets of the Tabernacle were of SILVER. And the sockets for the Court were of BRASS. In Nebuchadnezzar's image there was the same order - gold, silver, brass. In light there are three primary colours - yellow, red, and blue. The gold corresponds with the yellow, as emblematic of God the Father; the silver with the red, as typical of the Son of God, His incarnation and atoning blood; the brass corresponds with the blue, as emblematic of the Holy Spirit, and His regenerating and resurrection power. First, divine sovereignty; second, redemption by Christ Jesus; third, sanctification by the Spirit.\par \par \cf2 THE COLOURS.\cf1\par \par Verse 4. "And blue, and purple, and scarlet."\par \par BLUE, according to the root of its Hebrew name, signifies "perfection"; it is also the colour of the heavens above, typical of that which is spiritual, heavenly, and perfect.\par \par SCARLET, Hebrew t\'f4lahath shanee, or the splendour a worm, typical of earthly dignity and glory, as Jesus Christ was born King of the Jews, and heir of David's royal throne.\par \par PURPLE is a combination of scarlet and blue, reminding us of the union of the earthly dignity and the heavenly perfectness in the Melchisedec priesthood of the Lord Jesus, who will sit as a priest upon His throne.\par \par What is symbolized by the Tabernacle in the wilderness? The first explanation is given in John 1.14, "The Word was made flesh and tabernacled among us." We have seen that in the Hebrew, the terms "tent" and "tabernacle" are distinct, but in the Greek one word is used for both, so the Lord Jesus was at once the Tabernacle in which God dwelt, and the Tent in which He sojourned among men, during the thirty-seven years of His life on earth. (For we must not leave out of account the four years of His infancy, before A.D. commenced).\par \par In a secondary sense, the Tabernacle in the wilderness is a type of the Church of the present dispensation from Pentecost to the return of the Lord Jesus. In Christ Jesus, Jew and Gentile are now builded together for a habitation of God through the Spirit (Eph. 2.22). The Temple of Solomon is the type not only of the Church, but of the whole of the redeemed in resurrection and heavenly glory.\par \par \cf2 THE COVERINGS.\cf1\par \par "And fine linen, and goat's hair, and rams' skins dyed red, and badgers' skins and shittim wood." Exod. 25. 4, 5.\par \par In these materials we have symbolically presented God's estimate of the human nature of the Lord Jesus Christ as Son of Man.\par \par First, fine linen, Hebrew, sheesh, signifying white, corresponding with the fine flour of the meat or gift-offering, nothing coarse or uneven. The pure, sinless humanity of the Lord Jesus, the Woman's seed, the Virgin's son, "that holy thing" begotten of the Holy Ghost, and called the Son of God. Though made in all points like unto His brethren, yet without sin; holy, harmless, undefiled. The finest texture woven in God's loom.\par \par Second, the goat's hair. In the parable of the sheep and goats in Matthew 25. 32, the sheep represent the righteous, and the goats the wicked. In the sin-offering, it was generally the kid of the goats that was to be offered. Romans 8.3, beautifully explains this. "God sending His own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh." It was not in sinful flesh but "in the likeness of sinful flesh" that Jesus came. "He knew no sin." He was "found in fashion as a man ;" hence he experienced hunger and thirst, sat weary at the well, fell asleep in the storm after the labours of the day. God never suffered His Holy One to see corruption, neither by disease in life nor decay after death. God not only numbered Him with transgressors on the tree, and made His soul an offering for sin, but in the person of Him who was Made in the likeness of sinful flesh though Himself sinless, God condemned and executed judgment on sin in the flesh. Hence there is "no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus," neither because of actual transgression, nor of duty omitted, nor for that inward depravity which they are conscious of. For the judgment of "sin in the flesh" has been borne in the sinless person of Immanuel on the Cross. On the great day of atonement, the sacrifice of the bullock, whose blood was brought into the Holiest, was for Aaron and his house, typical of Christ and the Church. (See Heb. 3.6). The goat was on behalf of Israel, and the scape-goat prefigured the putting away of Israel's sins nationally, on the ground of the new covenant. (See Jer. 1. 20).\par \par Third, "Rams' skins dyed red." The bullock represents Christ in service, the lamb in His meekness and gentleness, and the ram in His public testimony. As the lamb He increased in wisdom and stature and in favour with God and man; but as the ram, the world hated Him, because He testified of it that the works thereof were evil. It was to be "rams' skins dyed red," because He was not only the Faithful Witness in life, but sealed the testimony with His blood. The "coats of skin" with which God clothed our first parents in Eden, foreshadowed this. And Joseph's coat of many colours, which his brethren took and dipped in the blood of a kid of the goats and presented to their father, was likewise typical. The rider on the white horse in Revelation 19, is clothed with "a vesture dipped in blood," which probably has a twofold meaning; symbolical at once of His own atoning death, and of judgment which He executes on His foes.\par \par Fourth, "And badgers' skins." The term badgers' skins occurs elsewhere only in Ezekiel 16. 10, "And shod thee with badgers' skins," hence used where strength and durability were required. It was the external covering of the Tabernacle. This suggests the outward appearance of Jesus of Nazareth, the Son of Joseph, who, whilst the foxes had holes, and the birds of the air had nests, had not where to lay His head; having no form nor comeliness, but despised and rejected of men. His outer garments were divided among the soldiers who nailed Him to the tree. He was a stranger and a pilgrim here.\par \par Fifth, "And shittim wood." Wood from the wilderness of Shittim, typical of human nature; in the case of Christ, of sinless humanity. The children being partakers of flesh and blood, "He Himself likewise took part in the same" (Hebrews 2.14). "He was made in all points like unto His brethren, yet without sin" (Hebrews 4.15).\par \par The Tabernacle and Tent may also be regarded as typical of the Church in its present wilderness condition. "For whatsoever things were written aforetime were written for our learning" (Rom. 15.4).\par \par First, the "fine linen," typical of the Church, looked at in the Spirit, regenerated and sanctified by the Holy Ghost, and conformed to the example of Christ.\par \par Second, the "goats' hair," emblematic of what we truly are in the flesh, whilst Christ was only made in the likeness of it. It is also similar to the two wave loaves baken with leaven (Lev. 23.17), representing the Church of the present dispensation, composed of Jew and Gentile, not sinless according to the flesh, but conscious of and confessing the law of sin which is in their members. (Romans 7.)\par \par Third, "Rams' skins dyed red." As in Leviticus 23, the two wave loaves were accompanied by various sacrifices, so here the goats' hair curtains were covered over with the rams' skins dyed red. Thus while we confess our sinfulness, we realize that the blood of Jesus Christ, God's Son, cleanseth us from all sin; that our iniquity is forgiven, our sin covered.\par \par Fourth, the "badgers' skins." Whilst seeking a city yet to come, we confess that we are strangers and pilgrims here.\par \par Fifth, "Shittim wood." Though now by divine grace children of God, yet having been born in sin, shapen in iniquity, and by nature children of wrath even as others, there was need of the regenerating power of the Holy Ghost, and of redemption through the blood of the Lamb. The Church is composed of sinners saved by grace.\par \par } with its seven lamps which stood in the Tabernacle. In the Sanctuary natural light was in a measure shut out. Light during the night was supplied by the golden lampstand. The lamps were ordered by Aaron and his sons from evening to morning before Jehovah (Exodus 27. 20, 21). The children of Israel were commanded to bring the pure oil olive beaten for the light, to cause the lamp to burn continually (Lev. 24. 1-4).\par \par Primarily, the lampstand represents Christ, who, whilst He was in the world, was the light of the world; on Him the Spirit of God rested in all its fulness. He was anointed to teach and preach (Isaiah 11.2, 3; 61.1). And even after His resurrection, it was through the Holy Ghost that He gave commandment to His apostles whom He had chosen (Acts 1. 2). Now believers are exhorted to shine as lights in the world, holding forth the word of life (Philippians 2.15, 16), bearing their testimony, not in the words which man's wisdom teacheth, but in the words the Holy Ghost teacheth (1 Cor. 2. 13). It was for this purpose the apostle Paul besought the saints to pray on his behalf, for the supply of the Spirit of Jesus Christ (Philippians 1. 19). The Greek word here used implies "additional supply." Testimony for God in the Church and in the world, can only be kept up in its spirituality and efficiency, by the continual communication of grace from God through the Holy Ghost, out of the sufficiency which is in Christ Jesus.\par \par In Acts 2. we read, the Spirit was given at Pentecost; and in Acts 4., in answer to prayer, the disciples were again filled with the Holy Ghost, and with great power gave their testimony. The lamp is provided for the night season. It is during the present night-time of the world that the Church is called upon to hold forth the Word of life in the power of the Spirit of God. Whilst Christ was in the world He was the light of it, but that sun set behind the hill of Calvary when the Son of Man bowed His head upon the Cross. From that time till the appearing of "The Morning Star" the word of Christ to His disciples is, "Ye are the light of the world." "Let your light so shine" (Matt. 5. 14-16) that God may be glorified. And Pentecost supplied the oil for the light, that the lamp might burn continually. What is now needed is the continual additional supply.\par \par In Exodus 27. 20, the word to Moses is, "Thou shalt command the children of Israel, that they bring thee pure oil olive beaten for the light, to cause the lamp to burn always." The supply of the Spirit of God is to be kept up in answer to prayer; and if the people of God were diligent in seeking that supply, would there not be additional power in the ministry of the Word?\par Ministry should not be haphazard talk, but the result of careful study of the Word in dependence on the Holy Ghost. When Stephen, full of the Holy Ghost, spake in the council, they were not able to resist the wisdom and the spirit by which he spake (Acts 6.10). The secret of effective speaking is said to be "prepared unpreparedness," being thoroughly up in the subject, but leaving to the Spirit of God to direct the utterance. Then after the feast there may be twelve baskets left, and there is always a fresh supply, for God's truth is never exhausted.\par \par The lamp in the Tent of the Congregation was to be ordered by Aaron and his sons continually "BEFORE JEHOVAH." It is a matter of great importance, that ministry should be exercised consciously in the presence of God. The divine presence not only realized by the assembly according to Acts10. 33, "Now therefore are WE all here present before God, to hear all things commanded thee of God," but also by the speaker as delivering God's message, and with the ability which God giveth, that God in all things may be glorified (1 Peter 4.10, 11). Remembering that God hears every word, and that He is his most discriminating listener. If preaching before an earthly potentate would call for such care and circumspection, how much greater should it be, when speaking in the presence of the Majesty of heaven and earth.\par Spices for Anointing Oil.\par (Exodus 25.6: 30.22-23).\par \par "Moreover Jehovah spake unto Moses, saying 'Take THOU also unto thee principal spices, of pure myrrh five hundred shekels, and of sweet cinnamon half so much, even two hundred and fifty shekels, and of sweet calamus two hundred and fifty shekels, and of cassia five hundred shekels, after the shekel of the Sanctuary, and of oil olive a hin: and thou shalt make IT an oil of holy ointment, an ointment compound after the art of the apothecary: it shall be a holy anointing oil.'"\par \par "PRINCIPAL SPICES." The anointing oil was to be composed of the chief or most excellent spices.\par \par "PURE MYRRH ;" literally, freely-flowing myrrh - a fragrant spice, bitter to the taste, but sweet to the scent. The ordinary kind was obtained from the tree by lacerating the bark, but that which flowed freely and spontaneously without laceration was considered the most excellent and valuable. This is the kind here indicated by the Hebrew word.\par \par What do these four spices represent? They are all the produce of trees, the result of vegetation and life. They represent the excellencies and perfections of Christ as Son of Man, the chiefest among ten thousand and the altogether lovely. His humanity was so excellent and perfect, that infidels can but admire His portrait as drawn in the Gospels. The Bride in Canticles (5.13) says, "His lips are like lilies, dropping sweet-smelling myrrh." His townsmen at Nazareth marvelled at "the gracious words which proceeded out of His mouth," and the officers which were sent to take Him returned with the report, "Never 'man spake like this Man." And even His laceration on the Cross only brought out the words, "Father, forgive them; for they know not what they do." Myrrh is also a soother of pain, and the sympathy of Jesus how comforting!\par \par "SWEET CINNAMON" is the inner bark, sweet and also fragrant. Expressive of the sweetness and excellency of the character of Jesus, as witnessed by those who were familiar with His private walk.\par \par "SWEET CALAMUS" is the pith. Emblematic of the sweetness of the Spirit of Christ in all His internal thoughts, feelings, and affections; similar to the fat of the inwards, burnt as incense on the altar, which was for God alone, and only fully estimated by Rim.\par \par "CASSIA" is the outer bark. Expressive of the sweetness and excellency of the external character and conduct of the Lord Jesus in His daily walk.\par \par Pure Myrrh - - 500 shekels - - Bitter.\par Cinnamon - - 250 ,, - - Sweet.\par Calamus - - 250 ,, - - Sweet.\par Cassia - - 500 ,, - - Sweet.\par 500 shekels bitter, 1000 sweet; such is the composition.\par \par "After the shekel of the Sanctuary." Not man's estimate, but God's holy estimate of the graces of the Spirit of His Christ, which is here set forth.\par \par "AND OF OIL OLIVE A HIN." This pure olive oil symbolizes the Holy Ghost, the eternal Spirit of the Triune God. It was to be a full hin, for the Father gave not the Spirit by measure unto Him.\par \par "IT SHALL BE A HOLY ANOINTING OIL." "A COMPOUND COMPOUNDED." Two things strike us here.\par First, its holiness. This is twice mentioned, for the Spirit of Christ was a Holy Spirit.\par Secondly, the tempering of the precious spices together. Expressive of the incomparable excellency of the Spirit of Christ, produced by the exquisite blending of the various graces of His character, in perfect and harmonious oneness. It should be observed that the pure OIL OLIVE represents the Spirit of God apart from the Incarnation. The ANOINTING OIL with the spices added, is typical of the Spirit of Christ and the various graces of His Spirit, which are communicated to believers, and shared by them through the anointing of the Holy Ghost sent down from Christ exalted. "Like the precious ointment upon the head, that ran down upon the beard, even Aaron's beard: that went down to the skirts of his garments" (Ps. 133. 2). Thus they become Christ-like. Thus the character and graces of Christ as the anointed Son of Man are reproduced in those who drink into His Spirit.\par \par Not only under the law were almost all things sprinkled with blood (Heb. 9. 18-22), but we may say that almost all things also were anointed with oil.\par \par THE TABERNACLE TO BE ANOINTED.\par "And thou shalt take the anointing oil, and anoint the Tabernacle, and all that is therein." (Ex. 40. 9).\par For believers "are builded together for a habitation of God THROUGH THE SPIRIT" (Eph. 2. 22). So on the day of Pentecost, the Spirit from Christ risen and glorified, constituted the assembled believers the dwelling-place of God, and by that one Spirit are we all baptized into one Body.\par \par THE TENT OF THE CONGREGATION.\par "And thou shalt anoint the tent of the congregation therewith." (Ex. 30. 26).\par When believers are gathered together in the presence of God, and in the Name of the Lord Jesus, that which is of all importance is the power of the Spirit unquenched. This makes the assembly of believers the place of power, and joy, and blessing.\par \par THE ARK ANOINTED.\par "And the ark of the testimony." (Verse 26).\par Christ risen, exalted, anointed, having received of the Father the promise of the Holy Ghost, is the centre of gathering to the Church of God. He is the subject of testimony, and in Him all the promises of God are, Yea and Amen.\par \par THE TABLE ANOINTED.\par "And the table and all his vessels" (verse 27).\par The communion of saints, in the sacred remembrance of the sufferings and death of their divine Saviour, must be in the present power of the Spirit of Christ, and all things connected therewith should be done by the unction of the Holy Ghost.\par \par THE LAMPSTAND ANOINTED.\par "And the lampstand and his vessels" (verse 27).\par Testimony to Jesus and the ministration of God's Word is to be in the exercise of the gifts of the Spirit given by Christ exalted, and by His present guidance and grace, and everything connected with this ministry is to be in the power of the Spirit of Christ.\par \par THE GOLDEN ALTAR ANOINTED.\par "And the altar of incense" (verse 27).\par The worship of the Father in truth, can only be by the Spirit of Adoption - the Spirit of an ascended Christ. He helps our infirmities, He makes intercession, He causes our prayers and praises to ascend accompanied with all the fragrance of the Name of Jesus.\par \par THE BRAZEN ALTAR ANOINTED.\par "And the altar of burnt offering, with all his vessels" (verse 28).\par It was through the Eternal Spirit, that Jesus offered Himself without spot to God; and it is by the Holy Ghost sent down from heaven, that testimony is to be borne to the value of His blood, and to the fact of His resurrection, as the ground of communion between God and the soul.\par \par THE LAVER.\par "And the laver and his foot" (verse 28).\par The Spirit of God reveals Jesus in the holiness of His Person and walk down here, and makes Him practical sanctification to us. He also reveals to us a glorified Christ, and conforms us to Him, changing us into the same image from glory to glory (2 Cor. 3. 18).\par \par THE ANOINTING OF AARON AND HIS SONS.\par "And thou shalt anoint Aaron and his sons" (verse 30).\par The risen Jesus was anointed to His heavenly priest-hood, and it is the Spirit of the ascended Christ, received by the believer, which constitutes him one of God's holy and royal priesthood (1 Peter 2. 5, 9).\par \par A HOLY ANOINTING OIL.\par Verses 31-33.\par This unction of the Holy One is not to be imitated. In Acts 5. we have a solemn illustration of this, when the graces of the Spirit of Christ manifested in the church as received in Acts 4., were imitated by Ananias and Sapphira, they were cut off from the people of God. The substitution of the energy of the flesh for the power of the Spirit, cuts off from real spiritual communion with the people of God. God and Christ are most jealous for the honour of the Holy Ghost. All manner of sin and blasphemy may be forgiven unto men, but the blasphemy against the Holy Ghost hath no forgiveness (Matt. 12. 31, 32).\par \par \cf2 The Sweet Incense\par \cf1 (Exodus 25. 6; 30. 34-38).\par \par "And for sweet incense." "And Jehovah said unto Moses, Take unto thee sweet spices."\par \par These sweet spices express the divine estimate of the excellencies of the character of the Lord Jesus as Son of Man, "whose Name is as ointment poured forth" (Cant. 1, 3).\par \par The name of the first spice, "stacte", comes from a Hebrew word signifying to drop, to fall in drops, to distil, similar to the freely flowing myrrh used in the composition of the holy anointing oil.\par \par "Onycha" in Hebrew means also a lion, and suggests the thought of the uncompromising faithfulness, firmness, and decision of the character of Christ, setting His "face like a flint," boldly acting for God and reproving all manner of evil. He was not only the Lamb of God, but also the Lion of the tribe of Judah (Rev. 5. 5, 6).\par \par "Galbanum." The root of the word si gnifies "milk," or "fat," and connects the thought with the "fat which covered the inwards" - God's portion of the sacrifices, and emblematical of the internal preciousness of Jesus.\par \par "With pure frankincense." The Hebrew word signifies white. The richness and abundance of its perfume suggested the English word, meaning frank or liberal incense. It reminds us of the purity, piety, and acceptability of Him who was holy, harmless, undefiled, and separate from sinners.\par \par "Of each shall there be a like weight."\par \par How expressive of the character of Christ! What an even balance do we there discover! His grace, His firmness, His internal excellency and outward piety how exactly proportioned!\par \par "And thou shalt make IT a perfume, a confection after the art of the apothecary, tempered together (salted together), pure and holy" (verse 35).\par \par Perfume and incense are the same. There is but one word in the original. The graces and virtues which compose and make up the charac!ter of Jesus, how exquisitely tempered together! Not only equal, but harmonized, blended, and combined. "Tempered ;" Hebrew, "salted," or seasoned. The art of the apothecary so combining as to bring out the perfume in its exquisite perfection. "Pure and holy." What purity and holiness also are seen in the character and ways of Jesus!\par \par "And thou shalt beat some of it very small, and put it before the testimony in the tabernacle (tent) of the congregation, where I will meet with thee: it shall be unto you most holy" (verse 36).\par \par These sweet spices, beaten very small, may suggest the thought that the various excellencies and perfections of the Lord Jesus are to be searched out and discovered in His minutest recorded action and word, as well as in the more important occasions of His life. Some of it was to be put before the testimony in the tent of the congregation, where God promised to meet with His people. And when the people of God are gathered together in His presence, then the preciousness of the name of Jesus gives a perfume to their prayers and praises. And this is there for the encouragement of faith, and for the comfort and joy of our souls before God, "for ointment and perfume rejoice the heart."\par \par "And as for the perfume which thou shalt make, ye shall not make to yourselves according to the composition thereof: it shall be unto thee holy for Jehovah. Whosoever shall make like unto that, to smell thereto, shall even be cut off from his people" (verses 37, 38).\par \par This preciousness of Jesus is inimitable, and must not be counterfeited. Self-conceit through supposed resemblance will put the soul out of communion. Strange fire is natural, or fleshly excitement. Strange incense is Nature's imitation of the peerless preciousness of Christ. Both are alike forbidden of God. But fire from God's altar, and the sweet perfume of the excellency of Jesus, are provided for the true worshippers of the Father through the Son, and in the power of the Holy Ghost.\par \par } #And let them make Me a sanctuary, that I may dwell among them. According to all that I show THEE, after the pattern of the tabernacle, and the pattern of all the instruments thereof, even so shall ye make it."\par (Exodus 25. 8, 9).\par \par GOD having redeemed the people of Israel out of Egypt, desired to have a dwelling-place among them in the wilderness. So God now desires that sinners redeemed by the blood of the Lamb should be builded together for a habitation of God through the Spirit (Eph. 2. 22), and be built up a spiritual house composed of living stones (1 Peter 2. 5).\par \par When Jesus was here upon the earth, He Himself was the sanctuary and dwelling-place of God. In Him the glory of the Godhead dwelt. "The Word was made flesh and dwelt (tabernacled) among us, and we beheld His glory" (John 1. 14). Before His death, in this respect, He abode alone (John 12. 24). But having finished His work, and ascended up on high, He built the church of the living God, as a habitation for God (Matt. 1$6. 15-18). Upon this foundation, upon Himself, and on the confession of His name as the Christ, the Son of the living God, made known to the soul by the revelation of the Father, He built His Church, as the house of God, to be the pillar and ground of the truth (1 Tim. 3. 15).\par \par How perfect, how suggestive are the words of God! $e does not say, "Let them make themselves a tabernacle, or meeting-place, that I may come and visit them." It is natural to man to think of himself first, and to begin from himself. But God's thoughts and ways are the opposite of man's. God begins from Himself -"Let them make ME a sanctuary! that I may dwell among them."\par \par 0 for grace to learn this lesson perfectly! so that in meeting together in church fellowship our first thought may be, not of our own comfort and convenience, nor even our edification - God will take care of that - but that God may have a dwelling place among us, and that God, through Christ, may be glorified. "That I may dwell among them," not% as a wayfaring man that turneth aside to tarry for a night, but to be at home there. And Jesus has told us the secret of this (John 14. 23). And the secret is love and obedience - love to Christ and obedience to Him, "If a man love Me, he will keep My words; and My Father will love him, and We will come unto him, and make Our abode with him." The VISIT of Divine grace, in a Father's love and a Saviour's pity, to the abodes of the saints in the midst of their unworthiness and self-will, is one thing; the HOME-DWELLING of Divine love, where holiness is cultivated, truth maintained, and obedience sought, is another, and far more blessed. Again the Lord adds, "He that loveth Me not, keepeth not My sayings: and the word which ye hear is not Mine, but My Father's which sent Me." One proof of love to the Lord Jesus, and of regard to the authority of God, is keeping, retaining, and guarding the words of the Lord Jesus which He spake on earth, even those words which were given Him by His Father to make known to u&s. Surely it becomes us to be careful, lest on the authority of some two or three Arian manuscripts of the fourth and fifth centuries, we blot out large numbers of these inspired utterances from the sacred page. The Lord's message of commendation to the messenger to the church in Philadelphia was, "Thou hast a little strength, and hast kept My word, and hast not denied My name" (Rev. 3. 8).\par \par \cf2 SANCTUARY.\cf1\par \par God does not say, "Let them make Me a tabernacle, or a tent," as though anything would do for God; but "Let them make Me a SANCTUARY," a holy habitation, "that I may dwell." Yes, "holiness becomes God's house for ever." In the Gospel, God comes down to sinners; it is grace abounding amidst the aboundings of sin. But the truth for the saint is the doctrine which is according to godliness. To the sinner, by the gospel, God says: "Though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be white as snow: though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool." But to the believer He says, "What' fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? And what communion hath light with darkness? And what concord hath Christ with Belial? And what part hath he that believeth with an unbeliever? And what agreement hath the temple of God with idols? Wherefore come out from among and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing, and I will receive you: I will dwell in them, and walk in them; and I will be their God, and they shall be My people" (2 Cor. 6. 14-18).\par \par "Having, therefore, these promises, dearly beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all filthiness of the flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God" (2 Cor. 7. 1).\par \par \cf2 THE PLAN.\cf1\par \par In the things of God no place is left for human reason, and no margin for self-will. God has arranged everything according to infinite wisdom, and the word of God contains full instructions.\par \par These earthly types were the "example and shadow of heavenly things, as Moses was admonished of God wh(en he was about to make the tabernacle: for, see, saith He, that thou make all things according to the plan showed to thee in the mount" (Heb. 8. 5). Weighty and important words? May they be brought to bear upon our consciences, and tell upon our hearts!\par \par Thee assembly of believers on earth should be the reflection down here, of what the Church of the first-born is in Christ above.\par Is the Church above redeemed to God from an evil world? Church on earth is to be separate to God, as not of the world, even as Christ is not of it.\par Is the Church above one in Christ its glorious Head? Church on earth should exhibit this oneness. Is the Church above a holy and true church? The Church on earth should be conspicuous for holiness and truth, "the epistle of Christ known and read of all men," the pillar and ground of the truth." And just as Christ on earth was "God manifest in flesh ;" so the Church should exhibit Christ manifest in His people.\par \par In that marvellous prayer of the Lord Jesu)s recorded in John 17., this separateness, holiness, and oneness of the Church are the main subjects of His petitions. The Lord distinctly said, "I pray not for the world," neither is Israel mentioned, but His prayer is for those whom the Father had given Him out of the world. Of these He said, "They are not of the world, even as I am not of the world. I pray not that Thou shouldest take them out of the world, but that Thou shouldest keep them from the evil. Sanctify them through Thy truth; Thy word is truth."\par \par Three times He prays for their oneness. First, that they may be one after a Divine model (v11), "That they may be one as We are." Second, that they may be all one in the Spirit from Pentecost till His return, "That they all may be one; as Thou Father, art in Me, and I in Thee, that they also may be one in Us" (v21). And this oneness in the Spirit, notwithstanding their outward divisions, might be a proof to the world that He was the sent One of God, "That the world might believe that thou* didst send Me." Third, that they might be one in the glory, "And the glory which Thou hast given Me I have given them: that they may be one, even as We are one" (v22). That when thus manifested with Him in glory, it may be a proof to the World that He was not only the sent One, but that they also were loved with the same love. The answer to this prayer commenced at Pentecost, when the Holy Ghost came to sanctify them, and to baptise them into body, and He has continued in the world ever since to carry on the work, and will not cease until whole body is complete, and until He has established them, "unblamable in holiness before God, even Father, at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ all His saints" (1 Thess. 3. 13).\par \par \cf2 THE ARK OF THE COVENANT\cf1\par (Exodus 25. 10-22).\par \par Verse 10. "And they shall make an ark of shittim wood: two cubits and a half shall be the length thereof, and a cubit and a half the breadth thereof, and a cubit and a half the height thereof."\par \par NOAH was+ commanded to make "an ark" for the saving of his house; the Hebrew word there used is "tebah," as also in the "ark" of bulrushes in which Moses was laid. But the Hebrew word here employed is "ahrohn," which signifies a chest. This ark of the covenant is one of the most complete and comprehensive types of the Lord Jesus, a full length portrait. In the instructions given for the vessels of the tabernacle, the first mentioned is the ARK. As to worship, service, and testimony, God's centre is Christ. The SHITTIM WOOD IS a type of the sinless humanity of the Lord Jesus. And its dimensions being fixed by God, reminds us of the words of the Lord Jesus, "A body hast Thou prepared Me" (Hebrews x. 5).\par \par Verse 11. "And thou shalt overlay IT with pure gold, within and without shalt thou overlay it."\par \par Pure gold is the emblem of that which is divine, divinely excellent and holy. It typifies the Word which was in the beginning with God, and was God, made and tabernacling among us, the great mystery o,f God manifest in flesh. To the carnal mind human was conspicuous, He was Jesus the Nazarene. The badger's skin hid the glory of the tabernacle, but to the spiritually minded the gold hid the shittim wood, such could say, "And we beheld His glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father." And "The God shone glorious through the man." At foot of the Mount of Transfiguration, Jesus was seen in contact with sinners, and in conflict with Satan; but to the disciples on the mount He appeared in glory, and the Father Himself bare witness to Him.\par \par The ark was. to be overlaid within as well as without old. Every internal thought, feeling, and affection of the Lord Jesus was not only perfect as human, but spiritually and divinely excellent; like the fat of inwards burnt upon the altar which was for God alone. In Him dwelt all the fulness of the Godhead bodily, and in Him the Church of God is blessed with every Spiritual blessing. This ark of the covenant is the treasure chest of the family of God,- in which all the title deeds and promises of God in Him, Yea and Amen, are contained.\par \par "And thou shalt make upon it a crown of gold round about."\par \par This crown of gold surrounding the ark and surmounting it, kept the propitiatory or mercy-seat in its place; even so was it with Jesus, He for the joy that set before Him endured the cross, despising the shame; and, though for a season, made a little lower than the angels, He is now crowned with glory and honour. The obedient and humbled Son of man is now seated on the right hand of majesty and power, and glorified with the glory He had with the Father before the world was.\par \par Verses 12-15. "And thou shalt cast four rings of gold for it, and put them in the four corners thereof; and two rings shall be in the one side of it, and two rings in the other side of it."\par "And thou shalt make staves of shittim wood, and overlay THEM with gold. And thou shalt put the staves into the rings by the sides of the ark, that the ark may be born.e with them. The staves shall be in the rings of the ark: they shall not be taken from it."\par \par These rings and staves adapted the ark to the wilderness condition of God's people, ready at all times, not only to accompany them in their journeyings, but also in their wanderings. The rings were to be of gold, but the staves of shittim wood, overlaid with gold. The divine grace and human sympathy of the Lord Jesus renders Him sufficient to meet our every need. The staves were never to be taken from the rings; even so Jesus assures us, "Lo, I am with you alway"; "I will never leave you nor forsake you." The three families of Levites, Gershonites, Merarites, and Kohathites, may represent the evangelists, pastors and teachers of the Christian ministry. The Gershonites and Merarites, when the camp set forward, went before and set up the tabernacle, for these six wagons and twelve oxen were provided; but none were given he sons of Kohath, because the service of the sanctuary belonging unto them was that th/ey should bear it on their shoulders (Numbers 7. 9).\par \par To the charge of the Kohathites was committed the and other sacred vessels of the sanctuary. The teacher is specially thrown upon his individual responsibility before God in treating on those subjects which pertain to the person, offices, and perfections of the Son of God; he needs, in an especial manner, the unction from the Holy One. God is especially jealous of human interference in regard to the glory of His Son. When David put the ark upon a new cart, and Uzzah put forth his hand to steady it, God made a breach upon Uzzah. What is needed is not human intellect, invention, nor imagination, but the teaching and revealing of the Holy Ghost.\par \par Verse 16. "And thou shalt put into the ark the testimony which I shall give thee."\par Whilst Moses was on the Mount, receiving these instructions from God, respecting the tabernacle and its vessels, the children of Israel were impatient at his delay, had made the golden calf, and worshipped it. The law which they had undertaken to keep they had broken in its most essential parts. Thereupon Moses, on his coming down from the Mount, with the two tables of the testimony in his hand, which he had received from God, written with the finger of God, moved with holy indignation, brake the tables at the foot of the Mount.\par \par And Jehovah said unto Moses, "Hew thee two tables of stone like unto the first: and I will write upon these tables the words that were in the first tables, which thou brakest." These two tables of the testimony Moses was commanded to put into the ark. This type was fulfilled in Christ, who is the Mediator of the New Covenant, whose language was, according to Psalms 40. 8, "I delight to do Thy will, O My God: yea, Thy law is within My heart." Made of a woman, born under the law, He magnified that law, and made it honourable. And it is by abiding in Him that the righteousness of the law is fulfilled in us, who walk, not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.\par \par } eera01.02 Oil for Light: Spices, Sweet Incense{\rtf1\ansi\ansicpg1252\deff0{\fonttbl{\f0\fnil\fcharset0 Georgia;}} {\colortbl ;\red0\green0\blue0;\red255\green0\blue0;} {\*\generator Riched20 5.40.11.2210;}\viewkind4\uc1\pard\cf1\lang1033\f0\fs22 Thomas Newberry\par \b TYPES OF THE TABERNACLE\par \cf2\b0 Oil for the light.\cf1\par Exodus 25.6)\par \par The word "light" here, signifies "light-giver"; that is, the lampstand <e#01.01 Materials: Metals, Colours, Coverings.{\rtf1\ansi\ansicpg1252\deff0{\fonttbl{\f0\fnil\fcharset0 Georgia;}} {\colortbl ;\red0\green0\blue0;\red255\green0\blue0;} {\*\generator Riched20 5.40.11.2210;}\viewkind4\uc1\pard\cf1\lang1033\f0\fs22 Thomas Newberry\par \b TYPES OF THE TABERNACLE\par \cf2\b0 INTRODUCTION.\cf1\par (Exodus, Chapter 25. 1-9).\p$1)00 Thomas Newberry{\rtf1\ansi\ansicpg1252\deff0{\fonttbl{\f0\fnil\fcharset0 Georgia;}} {\colortbl  NNto 01.04 Propitiatory & Cherubim: Table of Shewbread{\rtf1\ansi\ansicpg1252\deff0{\fonttbl{\f0\fnil\fcharset0 Georgia;}} {\colortbl ;\red0\green0\blue0;\red255\green0\blue0;} {\*\generator Riched20 5.40.11.2210;}\viewkind4\uc1\pard\cf1\lang1033\f0\fs22 Thomas Newberry\par \b TYPES OF THE TABERNACLE\par \cf2\b0 THE PROPITIATORY AND THE CHERUBIM.\par \cf1 (Exodus 25. 17-22).\par \par Verse 17. \ldblquote And thou shalt make a mercy-seat [propitiatory] of pure gold: two cubits and a half shall be the length thereof, and a cubit and a half the breadth thereof.\2/m01.03 God's Holy Dwelling Place: Ark of Covenant{\rtf1\ansi\ansicpg1252\deff0{\fonttbl{\f0\fnil\fcharset0 Georgia;}} {\colortbl ;\red0\green0\blue0;\red255\green0\blue0;} {\*\generator Riched20 5.40.11.2210;}\viewkind4\uc1\pard\cf1\lang1033\f0\fs22 Thomas Newberry\par \b TYPES OF THE TABERNACLE\par \cf2\b0 GOD'S HOLY DWELLING PLACE\cf1\par \par ""3rdblquote\par \par THE spiritual import of this is clear from Rom. 3. 24, 25, where there is a manifest allusion to it by the Holy Ghost. "Christ Jesus, whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation [a propitiatory, or mercy-seat] through faith in His blood\rdblquote - the word rendered "propitiation," in Rom. 3. 25, being the same word that is used in Heb. 9. 5, and there translated "mercy-seat." This is the import of the publican\rquote s prayer in Luke 18. 13 -"God be merciful [propitious on the ground of reconciliation made] to me a sinner." The Hebrew word rendered "mercy-seat" signifies "to cover over;" to make atonement; to appease, or pacify.\par \par The material is of "pure gold," the emblem of that which is divine, or divinely pure and excellent. No shittim wood is in the propitiatory, therefore nothing human or angelic is symbolized, neither Church nor angels. This is a consideration too often overlooked. The propitiatory formed the lid of the ark in which were deposited the unbroken tables4 of the testimony; for the exercise of divine mercy towards guilty sinners, can only be on the ground of atonement made, and righteousness established. On this propitiatory the blood was sprinkled on the great day of atonement (Lev. 16.)\par \par The propitiatory was of the same dimensions and extent as the ark of the covenant. The exercise of divine mercy and grace is founded on the Person and work of the Lord Jesus Christ Himself, and is coextensive therewith. It has for its basis and foundation the incarnation, obedience, life, and death of Him who was eternally God, and is now the risen and glorified Christ, at God\rquote s right-hand above.\par \par Verses 18-20. "And thou shalt make two cherubim of gold, of beaten work shalt thou make THEM, in [from] the two ends of the mercy seat. And make one cherub on [from] the one end, and the other cherub on [from] the other end: even of [from] the mercy-seat [propitiatory] shall ye make the cherubim on the two ends thereof. And the cherubim shall stretch 5forth their wings on high, covering the mercyseat with their wings, and their faces shall look one to another; toward the mercy-seat shall the faces of the cherubim be."\par \par Cherubim is the plural of cherub, as we say ox, oxen; the "s" at the end is incorrect. The forms of these cherubim appear to be simpler than those described in Ezekiel 1. 10., which have four faces fronting four different directions; whereas here, the expression "toward the mercy-seat shall the faces of the cherubim be," implies but one face to each. These cherubim of glory represent the fulness of the Spirit, received by the ascended Christ, on the completion of His atoning work. As we read in Psalm 68. 18, "Thou hast on high, Thou hast led captivity captive: hast received gifts for men [Heb. in the man]; for the rebellious also." Acts 2. 33, "Therefore being by the right hand of God exalted, and having received of the Father the promise of the Holy Ghost, He hath shed forth this, which ye now see and hear." And in Eph. 4. 10,6 11, "He that descended, is the same also that ascended up far above all heavens, that He might fill all things. And He gave some, apostles; and some, prophets; and some, evangelists; and some, pastors and teachers." The ascended Son of Man has received the Holy Ghost in His own person, He has given gifts to the Church, and He has also received the Spirit for the rebellious children of Israel, to be communicated in due time, when Jehovah will again dwell among them.\par \par The propitiatory and cherubim were of one solid piece, of wrought or beaten gold. The cherubim formed the extension of the propitiatory from. either end, and represent the provision made by God, through the Spirit, for the extension of divine mercy and grace, founded on the finished work of Christ.\par \par The wings of the cherubim, from the propitiatory on either side, meeting in the centre form a complete circle, and overshadow the mercy-seat. According to Ps. 103. 17, "The mercy [loving kindness] of Jehovah is from everlasting7 to everlasting." The three Persons in the Godhead, in the counsels of eternity, laid the plan of redeeming love; the eternal Spirit from the beginning, in promise, type, and prophecy, foretold and foreshadowed it; the incarnate Son of God, by His atoning death, accomplished the work; and the Holy Spirit is now making it known, and will continue to manifest it, long as eternal ages roll.\par \par Verses 21-22. "And thou shalt put the mercy-seat above upon the ark; and in the ark thou shalt put the testimony that I shall give thee. And there I will meet with thee, and I will commune with thee from above the mercy-seat, from between the two cherubim which are upon the ark of the testimony, of all things which I will give THEE in commandment unto the children of Israel."\par \par The throne of divine grace is founded on the Person and work of the Lord Jesus; and all God\rquote s purposes, promises, and covenant blessings centre in Him. He is the true ark of the covenant, and the ark of the testimony also8. All the lines of divine truth centre in Him, and radiate from Him. This is the meeting-place and place of communion between God and those who, like Moses, receive the word from God\rquote s mouth, and give testimony from Him (Ezek. 3. 17); those who stand in the secret counsel of Jehovah, who perceive and hear His word, who mark His Word and hear it (Jer. 23. 18).\par \par The secret of ministry in the power of the Holy Ghost is communion with God, over His own Word, in spirit in the holiest, God occupying the mercy-seat, Jesus Himself our meeting-place; while from Him who has received the fulness of the Spirit for testimony, gift is not only received at first, but is replenished for constant exercise. the table or Shewbread. (Exodus 25. 23). "Thou shalt also make a table of shittim wood." The table presents Christ as the centre and ground of communion to the Church of God.\par \par \cf2 THE TABLE OF SHEWBREAD\cf1\par Ex.30.23 "Thou shalt make a table of shittim wood"\par \par The table presents 9Christ as the centre and ground of communion to the Church of God. "A table," not tables; for there is but one. Where believers are gathered together unto the Name of Jesus, it is God\rquote s will that His dying love should be commemorated among them.\par \par "Of shittim wood." The incarnation and humanity of the Lord Jesus lies at the foundation, and an incarnate Saviour - God manifest in the flesh - is the centre of our communion in church fellowship.\par \par \cf2 THE DIMENSIONS OF THE TABLE.\cf1\par \par "Two cubits shall be the length thereof, and a cubit the is the breadth thereof, and a cubit and a half the height thereof."\par \par God has fixed the dimensions of His own table, and man is not at liberty to extend or limit it. In length and breadth it extends to all believers, while walking worthily, yet excluding the unconverted, and the defiled. Its height also is of divine appointment.\par \par It is on a level with the propitiatory, for it is for those who through atonement have the:ir iniquities forgiven, their sins covered. The length and breadth of the table is half a cubit less than the ark and propitiatory; for their are more saved by Christ, than actually and worthily sit at His table.\par \par \cf2 THE OVERLAYING.\cf1\par \par Verse 24. "And thou shalt overlay IT with pure gold."\par \par Gold is the emblem of divine excellency, and pure gold of the purity and holiness of the divine nature, That is not the Lord\rquote s table, according to the mind of God, where the divinity of Christ, and His divine excellency and glory, is not held and maintained. The Christ in whose Name we meet is Immanuel - God with us.\par \par \cf2 THE GOLDEN CROWN.\cf1\par \par "And make thereto a crown of gold round about." He who was once made a little lower than the angels for the suffering of death, that He by the grace of God should taste death for every man, is now crowned with glory and honour. While we commemorate therefore His dying and redeeming love, we do it also in the apprehensi;on of His glory where He now is, at God\rquote s right-hand. And we do this "until He come," in the expectation of His return to receive us to Himself.\par \par \cf2 THE BORDER.\cf1\par \par Verse 25. "And thou shalt make unto it a border of a hand-breadth round about." The table which was extended and limited by divine grace and infinite wisdom, was also guarded. There as to be a border to the table of a handbreadth. here are four fingers to a handbreadth, and there are four things indispensable to real and right communion the Lord\rquote s table, according to God and His Word, there is to be real and full blessing. First, saving faith in Christ, which admits into the family of God, are all the children of God by faith in Christ Jesus" (Gal. 3. 26; John 1. 12). Secondly, the HOLINESS and consistency of walk which becomes the confession of the Name of the Lord Jesus (1 Cor. 5.) Thirdly, soundness in holding and maintaining the Person of Christ (1 John 1. 10). Fourth SUBJECTION to the Lordship of Christ the border shall the rings be for places of the staves to bear the table." Thus especially connecting the rings and staves with the border. And are we not thus reminded that our exposed condition in such a wilderness as this, renders the border of great importance and necessary in every? The border was to extend all round the table, from the middle, dividing loaf from loaf.\par "And thou shalt make the staves of shittim wood, and overlay THEM with gold." the human tenderness and sympathy of the Lord Jesus, as shewn by the shittim wood; and His divine grace and all sufficiency, as shewn by the gold, adapt Him to the wilderness need of His people in church communion here.\par \par "That the table may be borne with them."\par Neither the ark nor the table were to be carried, after the example of the Philistines, on a new cart. that is, both testimony to the Person of Christ, and union together in His Name, are to be matters of dual responsibility to God.\par \par THE VESSELS OF THE TABLE.\par \par ?Verse 29. "And thou shalt make the dishes thereof, and spoons thereof, and covers thereof, and bowls thereof, to cover [pour out] withal: of pure gold shalt thou make THEM."\par All that is connected with the communion of saints, on the ground of the Person of the Lord Jesus, is to be of God, and done in the power of divine grace. Human will, human authority, human wisdom, have no place here. "If any man speak, let him speak as Oracles of God; if any man minister, let him do it as of the ability which God giveth: that God in all may be glorified through Jesus Christ" (1 Pet. 4.-11). Let all things be done, not only decently and in order, but also by the grace of God, and to God\rquote s glory. And however important these directions are in all manner of service, they are never more so than. in things connected with the table of the Lord.\par \par \cf2 THE SHEWBREAD.\cf1\par \par Verse 30. "And thou shalt set upon the table shewbread [Heb. bread of faces) before Me alway." Lev. 24. 5-9. "And thou shalt@ take fine flour, and bake twelve cakes [pierced cakes] thereof: two-tenth deals shall be in one cake."\par \par The fine flour is typical of the pure and sinless humanity of Jesus, for it was without leaven. The twelve pierced cakes, for so the Hebrew expresses, foreshadowed Christ as the Man of Sorrows and acquainted with grief, for "His visage was so marred more than any man, and His form more than the sons of men" (Isaiah 52. 14); and likewise His sufferings on the Cross. The Hebrew expression for shewbread is literally "bread of faces," for these twelve cakes were the representation and remembrance of the twelve tribes of Israel before God continually; and they also typify Christ as God\rquote s provision for all His people, the whole Israel of God (John vi.).\par \par Two-tenth deals, or two omers to each cake. A double portion; a portion for time, and for eternity. As the provision of manna made on the sixth day, which was for that day, and also for the Sabbath. (See Ex. 16. 22-26).\par \par AVerse 6. "And thou shalt set them in two rows, six on a row, upon the pure table before Jehovah."\par Christ, the bread of life, set forth a full provision believers. But it must be on a PURE table. A pure and holy Christ the basis of communion; and the Le guarded from defilement. And "before Jehovah," :foe eye of a jealous and holy God is ever resting on the communion of saints.\par \par Verse 7. "And thou shalt put frankincense upon each row, that it may be on the bread for a memorial, even an offering made by fire unto Jehovah."\par The frankincense, which is white and fragrant, is emblematic of the purity and excellency of the Lord Jesus, both in His life and in His death, especially in estimate of God His Father, so that His language the contemplation of Him was, "This is My beloved Son, in Whom I am well pleased." It was to be an offering made by fire." From this we learn that the shewbread was to be unleavened, for in Lev 2. 11, we read, "Ye shall burn no leaven, nor any honey, in any offering Bof Jehovah made by fire."\par \par Verse 8. "Every Sabbath he shall set it in order before Jehovah continually, being taken from the children of Israel by an everlasting covenant."\par Renewed weekly. So on the first day of the week the disciples came together to break bread (Acts 20. 7). And on the day of Christ's resurrection, and the following Lord's Day, Jesus Himself allowed His disciples to handle, in His own precious body, the sacred memorials of His sufferings and death (John 20).\par \par To the Church, the weekly period is not the seventh day, the token of creation rest; but the eighth day, the emblem of resurrection rest, and the rest of completed redemption, being the first day of the week, on which day also the Comforter was given.\par \par "BEFORE JEHOVAH CONTINUALLY."\par \par This is repeated for it is important. The feast is not provided for the guests only, but in honour of the Father and of the Son. The table is not spread for the children alone; the Father takes His seat at thCe head. His language is, "Bring hither the fatted calf, and kill it; and let us eat and be merry." For the full joy of communion is in the Father's presence. We are but partakers at the altar: the first and best portion belongs to God.\par \par Verse 9. "And it shall be Aaron's and his sons'; and they shall eat it in the holy place." "Aaron's and his sons'." The High Priest and His house. That is, to us, "Christ as a Son over His own house, Whose house are we" (Heb. 3. 6). By virtue of the anointing as a holy priesthood, our fellowship is not only with the Father, but also with His Son Jesus Christ. "If any man hear My voice," says Jesus, "and open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with Me" (Rev. 3. 20). At the Lord's table we have fellowship with Jesus, our High Priest above, in the remembrance of His sufferings and death.\par \par "For IT is most holy unto Him of the offerings of Jehovah made by fire."\par How God guards the holiness of this feast of love! The very atmosphere of the place where it is eaten must be holy, for that which is here set forth, and on which the believer feeds, is "most holy."\par \par "A perpetual statute."\par "As often as ye eat this bread, and drink this cup," says the Apostle, "ye do shew the Lord's death till He come." It is of perpetual obligation till then. It is an ordinance peculiar to the present dispensation. After this, Jesus will drink the new wine with us in His Father's kingdom.\par \par In the millennial period, the divinely appointed and restored sacrifices, which till then will never have fully accomplished their original intention, will take the place of the present simpler but grand memorials of a Saviour's sufferings; and then "the mountain of Jehovah's house" will be the centre of communion to the whole earth.\par \par While in heaven the Lamb in the midst of the Throne - "a Lamb as it had been slain, having seven horns and seven eyes"- will be God's memorial for the Universe, and for eternity.\par \par \par } E" says Peter, "let him speak as the oracles of God; if any man minister, let him do it as of the ability which God giveth; that God in all things may be glorified through Jesus Christ" (1 Peter 4. 11). Not cultivated intellect, putting forth its strongest efforts to the credit of the preacher, and to the honour of the ministry, but divine grace, manifested to the glory of God.\par This ministry looks to no earthly source for its authority, but has its sanction and its strength in God. It is GIFT received from the Lord Jesus Christ, risen and glorified; distributed by the Holy Ghost according to His own will, and exercised in subjection to the supreme authority of Christ (1 Cor. 12. 11). There are diversities of gifts, but the same Spirit; differences of administration (or services), but the same Lord; diversities of operations, but it is the same GOD which worketh all in all (1 Cor. 12. 4-6).\par \par THE WORKMANSHIP.\par \par "Of beaten work shall the lampstand be made." "Beaten work" for the lampstFand, and "beaten oil" for the light (Exod. 27. 20). The lampstand was not cast by one simple operation, but wrought. This shews the labour, care, and skill which is required in ministry according to God. It is not simple gift, but gift stirred up, laboriously fulfilled, and strengthened by its exercise. (See 1 Tim. 4. 13-16; and 2 Tim. 1. 6).\par \par THE CENTRE SHAFT AND BRANCH.\par \par His shaft, and his branch (not branches, see chap. 37. 17), "his bowls, his knops, and his flowers, shall be of of the same." This is the centre shaft and branch, which is called, by way of pre-eminence, "the lampstand," in 5. 34, and is typical of the Lord Jesus Christ Himself, the centre and source of testimony in the power of the Spirit, and the great example and pattern of it in His personal ministry on earth. As to fruit bearing, He is the true vine, and His disciples are the branches. As to testimony-bearing, He is the true Lampstand, and His servants are branches of the same. In either case, without Him we canG do nothing.\par \par THE SIX BRANCHES\par \par Verse 32. \ldblquote And six branches shall come out of the sides of it; three branches of the lampstand out of one side and three branches of the lampstand out of the other side.\rdblquote\par \par The apostles and prophets of the present dispensation, having laid the foundation, and all the fundamental points, whether of truth or practice, being settled, and contained in the inspired Scriptures, the three standing branches of ministry in the Church, and for its adding to, and building up, until it is complete, are those of the EVANGELIST, the PASTOR, and the TEACHER (Eph. 4.). The six branches proceed from the main shaft in PAIRS, expressing fellowship and concurrence in testimony. They proceed from the sides, and not the front; for the object of ministry is not to make it or the minister prominent, but for the exhibition of Christ. "We preach not ourselves, but Christ Jesus the Lord, and ourselves your servants for Jesus\rquote sake.\rdblquote StaHnding aside that He may be visible to all, and thus giving Him in testimony His own proper place. "Jesus in the midst"\par \par These branches, as the original implies, are hollow. In Zech. 4 we have a lampstand of gold; the representation of ministry in the power of the Spirit, in the latter day, in connection with Israel. This lampstand had a bowl on the top, and seven pipes leading to the seven lamps. While two olive trees supply the oil to the bowl - and thence to the seven branches and lamps. The two Olive trees are representations of Zerubbabel and Joshua; but these are typical of the Lord Jesus in his Melchisedek character as priest and king. The great lesson is -"Not by might, nor by power, but by my Holy Spirit, saith Jehovah of hosts." "Branches," hollow , thus adapted to receive and convey the oil. The import is expressed by the apostle, "Not that we are sufficient of ourselves to think anything of ourselves; but our sufficiency is of God." "We have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the Iexcellency of the power may be of God, and not of us."\par \par The SOURCE of supply for ministry is in Christ, the POWER for all testimony is the Spirit of God. Three branches on either side. The EVANGELIST begins the work , and lays the foundation, which is Christ Jesus; his sphere is the widest, his parish is the world. The PASTOR carries on the work in caring for the blood-bought flock of God. The TEACHER leads the soul yet higher into the truth of God, and the apprehension of the divine glories of the person of Christ.\par \par THE BOWLS\par \par Verse 33 "Three bowls made like unto almonds, with a knop and a flower in one branch, and three bowls made like unto almonds in the other branch, with a knop and a flower; so in the six branches that come out of the lampstand"\par The oval form "made like unto almonds" is significant. The root of the Hebrew word for "Almond" signifies to WATCH, also TO BE EARLY, READY or PREPARED. The almond tree was noted for its early blossoming. See Jer. 1. 11, 12,J "Moreover, the word of Jehovah came unto me, saying, Jeremiah, what seest thou? And I said, I see a rod of an almond tree. Then said Jehovah unto me, Thou hast well seen: for I will hasten [am watching over] My word to perform it."\par \par So also 2 Tim. 2. 21, "If a man, therefore, purge himself for these, he shall be a vessel unto honour, sanctified, and meet for the Master\rquote s use, prepared unto every good work." And 2 Tim. 4. 5, "But watch thou in all things, . . . do the work of an evangelist, make full proof of thy ministry." These bowls, therefore, made like almonds, express watchfulness, readiness, and preparedness for the Christian ministry. But this preparedness consists in an acquaintance with divine truth; the Word of Christ dwelling richly in the heart, in all wisdom.\par \par Like the scribe instructed unto the kingdom of heaven, bringing forth out of His treasure things new and old (Matt. 13. 52).\par \par So Paul wrote to Timothy, "Meditate upon these things; give thyself wholKly to them; that thy profiting may appear to all" (1 Tim. 4. 15). "Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth" (2 Tim. 2. 15).\par \par THE KNOPS AND FLOWERS.\par \par "Knop." Round, the original word signifies, and smaller in size than the bowls. These knops I understand to be typical of GIFT, such as that of the evangelist, pastor, or teacher.\par \par "AND A FLOWER." The Septuagint says, a lily. As the bowls express PREPAREDNESS for ministry, through a deep acquaintance with the Word of God; and the knops, distinct GIFT for its ministration; so by the flower is expressed the FULL UNFOLDING of divine truth -. in actual testimony.\par \par This suggests an instructive lesson, that God would have His truth presented in attractive form. "The preacher sought to find out acceptable words," or words of delight (Eccles. 12. 10). "The sweetness of the lips increaseth learning" (Prov. 16. 21). On the lips of the great Teacher, theL people hung, and marvelled at the gracious words that proceeded from Him; and no wonder, for "never man spake like this Man."\par \par Three bowls, one knop, and one flower in each branch. Significant of a threefold capacity or preparedness, a general acquaintance with each branch of divine truth -"three bowls." One distinct gift, as that of evangelist, pastor, or teacher -"a knop." And one manifestation of gift - "a flower." Every EVANGELIST should not only be acquainted with the truth of the gospel, but with other truths of God\rquote s Word, so as to be prepared to give the word of exhortation and instruction as needed, though his distinct work be that of preaching the gospel.\par \par So the PASTOR'S especial call may be, to deal with souls experimentally, "To reprove, rebuke, exhort with all long-suffering and doctrine," but he should be ready also to present the gospel of the grace of God to perishing sinners, and to instruct the souls he deals with. And while the TEACHER makes full proof of hiMs own ministry, he will find it profitable to "do the work of an evangelist" as God gives him opportunity (2 Tim. 4. 5). Experimental dealings with souls in secret, will tend to increase the richness and value of his ministry in teaching.\par \par THE CENTRE SHAFT.\par \par Verse 34. "And in the candlestick four bowls made like unto almonds, with their knops and their flowers."\par \par "The Lampstand." This is the centre shaft and branch, the type of the Lord Jesus, the great Pattern, Centre, and Source of ministry in the Spirit. "Four bowls." All treasures of wisdom and know-ledge are in Him. "Four knops." He was the great Evangelist, the Good Shepherd, and the perfect Teacher, and the great Apostle and Prophet of our profession.\par \par "And their four flowers." The very perfection of beauty and excellency shone out in His ministry. When He PREACHED THE GOSPEL, all the publicans and the sinners drew near unto Him for to hear Him. And what can equal the rich unfoldings of grace contained in theN fifteenth of Luke? When He FEEDS HIS SHEEP, what green pastures and still waters do His cheering words provide! When He INSTRUCTS HIS DISCIPLES, what rich unfoldings of divine truth! what revelations of a Father's love! And when He UNFOLDS THE FUTURE, how distinct the prophetic visions stand before the eye! How vivid the brightness of His coming! How gorgeous the mansions of His Father's House appear! and that ONE place which He is gone to prepare for us!\par \par In verse 31 we have noticed "His BRANCH," for He too was the empty and dependent One in ministry on earth. His language was, "I can of Mine own self do nothing. As I hear I judge," and "My doctrine is not Mine, but His that sent Me." And when, from the height of His glory, He gives the revelation to His servant John, He writes upon it the title, "The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave unto Him." What an example for us!\par \par THE KNOPS UNDER THE BRANCHES.\par \par Verse 35. "And there shall be a knop under two branches of the saOme, and a knop under two branches of the same, and a knop under two branches of the same, according to the six branches that proceed out of the lampstand."\par \par The word "AND" shews that this is additional. There are four knops in the centre BRANCH above, and three in the SHAFT below the six branches, making seven in all, the perfect number; for the PERFECTION OF GIFT IS IN CHRIST; He has received gifts, all gifts for men And it is beautiful to see how each several branch of ministry is sustained, as it were, by the corresponding office and grace of the Lord Jesus, as we read, "A knop under two branches of the same," &c. The evangelist, the pastor, and the teacher all fall back on Him, that, out of His fulness, they may receive grace for grace in the exercise of their several gifts.\par \par THE ONENESS OF THE LAMPSTAND.\par \par Verse 36. "Their knops and their branches shall be of the same: all of it shall be one beaten work of pure gold."\par \par How beautifully expressive of the oneness oPf His ministry, and labour, and patience! "He that planteth, and he that watereth are one," and one in Christ. Howsoever diversified the gift, the labour, the characters, and service of each; and though each one will receive his own reward according to his own labour; yet, in the end, he that soweth and he that reapeth will rejoice together. By the grace of God they are one in the service, and, when the whole shall result in the glory of God, they shall share in the joy. "There are diversities of gifts, but the same Spirit; differences of administrations, but the same Lord; diversities of operations, but it is the same God which worketh all in all" (1 Cor. 12. 4-6).\par \par THE LAMPS.\par \par Verse 37. "And thou shalt make the seven lamps thereof: and they shall light the lamps thereof, that they may give light over against [Heb. the face of] it."\par \par "Seven lamps" - the perfection of testimony to divine truth. Six in the side branches, and one in the centre shaft, making the seven. For all tQestimony is incomplete apart from Christ. He gives it its perfection.\par \par That ministry alone is complete, according to God, which has Christ for its central subject. "And they shall light the lamps thereof." Where God has given the gifts, it is that they may be exercised. "No man lighteth a lamp and putteth it under a bushel, but on a lampstand."\par \par "That they may give light over against it." The design of testimony in the power of the Spirit, is the manifestation of the glory of God in the Person of the Lord Jesus. The whole circle of truth is to be connected with Him, that it may not merely be truth, but "as the truth is in Jesus."\par \par How beautifully the Lord Jesus has taught this in speaking of the Comforter, through whom it is that this ministry is exercised! He shall glorify Me: for He shall receive of Mine, and shall shew it unto you. All things that the Father hath are Mine: therefore said I, that He shall take of Mine, and shall shew it unto you" (John 16. 14, 15).\par \paRr THE OIL.\par \par In Ex. 27. 20, we read, "And thou shalt command the children of Israel, that they bring thee pure oil olive beaten for the light [light-giver] to cause the lamp to burn always."\par \par How this oil - that is, the supply of the Spirit - is to be obtained, we learn from the example of the early disciples, recorded in Acts 4. 23-3 1 : "They lifted up their voice to God with one accord, and said, . . . And now, Lord, . . . grant unto Thy servants, that with all boldness they may speak Thy word. . . . And when they had prayed, the place was shaken where they were assembled together; and they were all filled with the Holy Ghost." Paul says: "Brethren, pray for us," "and for me, that utterance may be given unto me,. that I may open my mouth boldly, to make known the mystery of the gospel . . . that therein I may speak boldly, as I ought to speak" (Eph. 6. 19). "Through your prayer, and the supply of the Spirit of Jesus Christ" (Phil. 1. 19).\par \par If the lamp of testimony should bSurn dim in the sanctuary, the real cause may not be so much on the part of the testimony-bearers, as that those ministered to may have neglected to seek from above, the needful supply of spiritual unction and power, in order that the lamp of God may burn with continual and increasing brightness.\par \par THE VESSELS BELONGING TO THE LAMPSTAND\par \par Verse 38. "And the tongs thereof, and the snuff dishes thereof, shall be of pure gold."\par \par In Rev. 1., 2., 3. we have a beautiful example of the use of these golden instruments by the Lord Jesus, where He is seen in the midst of the seven golden lampstands, trimming the lamps. So also in the ministry of the apostle Paul, as seen in his Epistles to Timothy and Titus. And how, when needed, ministry is to be regulated, not by human authority, nor on human principles, but on those which are of God, and according to God, by godly counsel and admonition, exercised in spiritual wisdom and grace.\par \par A TALENT OF GOLD.\par \par Verse 39. "Of a talent of pure gold shall he make it, with all these vessels."\par \par A talent of gold is computed to be about 114 lbs. in weight, and about \'a35,475 in value.\par \par Ministry according to God, in the exercise of the gifts of His Spirit, and in connection with Christ, is a very Great and VALUABLE thing. That which gave the lampstand its weight and value was the pure gold of which it was composed. The highest order of natural ability, however cultivated, is but as inferior metal. It is the GRACE OF GOD, and the GIFTS OF CHRIST, exercised in the POWER OF THE HOLY GHOST, which gives to ministry its true dignity and real value.\par \par THE EXHORTATION.\par \par Verse 40. "And look that thou make them after their pattern, which was shewed thee in the mount." God has given us a divine and heavenly pattern for the ministration of His own Word; and our true wisdom will be, to seek conformity to this pattern in all the details, and this will secure to us the richest and finest blessing.\par \par } ((3}01.05 The Lampstand{\rtf1\ansi\ansicpg1252\deff0{\fonttbl{\f0\fnil\fcharset0 Georgia;}} {\colortbl ;\red0\green0\blue0;} {\*\generator Riched20 5.40.11.2210;}\viewkind4\uc1\pard\cf1\lang1033\f0\fs22 Thomas Newberry\par TYPES OF THE TABERNACLE\par THE LAMPSTAND\par \par "And thou shalt make a lampstand of pure gold." (Ex. 25. 31).\par THE golden lampstand, with its seven lamps and centre shaft, is the type of ministry according to God in the power of the Holy Ghost, in its various branches of testimony, having Christ for its centre, source, and subject. In the CHERUBIM, on the mercy-seat, we have ministry in its heavenly and divine source; in the LAMPSTAND, ministry in its exercise on earth.\par \par THE MATERIAL\par \par . That which is here signified by the "pure gold" is ministry according to God, and not according to the principles and practices of men - ministry after a divine model, maintained in the power of divine grace. "If any man speak,DV Verse 1 " Moreover thou shalt make the tabernacle with ten curtains of fine twined linen, and blue, and purple, and scarlet: with cherubim of cunning work shalt thou make THEM."\par \par HAVING considered the principal vessels of the sanctuary, we now come to the consideration of the Tabernacle itself. In this Tabernacle of Witness, there are two sets of CURTAINS and two COVERINGS. The ten curtains of fine twined linen, and blue, purple, and scarlet, with cherubim, form the TABERNACLE; and the eleven curtains of goats' hair, form what is called the TENT over the Tabernacle.\par \par Then the COVERING of the TENT was of rams' skins dyed red, and the COVERING above that was of badgers' skins (Ex. 36. 8, 13. 14, 18, 19).\par \par It is of importance to keep the Tabernacle and Tent distinct in our minds, for although the translators often confound the terms "Tabernacle" and "Tent" ("Mishcahn" and "Ohel"), the Holy Ghost employs the most exact and beautiful precision; and it is by attention to it that Wwe may hope, through Divine grace, to ascertain the mind of God.\par \par The TABERNACLE, as the Hebrew word "Mishcahn" signifies (which is from "shahcan" to dwell) is God's DWELLINGPLACE, according to Ex. 25. 8, "Let them make Me a sanctuary, that I may dwell among them," and is more immediately connected with God's abiding presence.\par \par The TENT ("Ohel") is connected with the congregation, because in the open space before the door or entrance of the tent the congregation of Israel assembled therefore the Holy Ghost never uses the expression "tabernacle of the congregation ;" but in the Authorized Version the terms are frequently confounded. In the "Englishman's Bible" the distinction is invariably shown. "THOU SHALT MAKE THE TABERNACLE." A dwelling-place for God with men. Oh, marvellous, condescending grace! "Will God in very deed dwell with men on the earth? Behold, heaven and the heaven of heavens cannot contain Thee" (2 Chr. 6. 18).\par \par Christ Himself, whilst He was on the earth, was XGod's tabernacle, and as such He abode alone (John 1. 14, and 12. 24). "The Word was made flesh, and dwelt (or tabernacled) among us." He was God manifest in flesh: the Godhead and the glory dwelt in Him. But Christ having died, and being by the right hand of God exalted, and having received of the Father the promise of the Holy Ghost, and sent down the Comforter: by that One Spirit all believers are now baptized into one body, in union with their glorified Head. The Church on earth forms the tabernacle or dwelling-place of God, as we read in Eph. 2. 22, "In whom (Christ) YE also are builded together for an habitation of God through the Spirit."\par \par In this sense the Tabernacle represents the whole Church of God, looked at in the Spirit, not in the flesh, composed of all true believers in Jesus throughout the world. I speak not of any manifest oneness, but of that which exists in the Spirit, notwithstanding all the outward failure and division. It was for this spiritual unity the Lord Jesus prayed Yin John 17., and this unity we are exhorted "to keep," that is, to recognize and manifest (see Eph. 4. 3-6).\par \par As to the MATERIALS of which these curtains are composed. "OF FINE TWINED LINEN." Let it be borne in mind, that here the Church is not looked at only as the purchase of the blood of the Lamb - the ram's skins, dyed red, will give us that thought in due time - but as the workmanship of the Eternal Spirit. "The new man, which is renewed in knowledge after the image of Him that created him" (Col. 3. 10). "God's workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works" (Eph. 2. 10). "The new man, which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness" (Eph. 4. 24).\par \par "The fine linen is the righteousness of saints" (Rev. 19. 8), is expressive of conformity, through the Spirit, to the image of Christ as the Holy One. For he that is begotten of God sinneth not (1 John 3. 9). "The righteousness of the law is fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit" (Rom. 8Z. 4).\par \par When the Tabernacle is regarded as a type of the Lord Jesus during His earthly sojourn, the fine linen represents His pure, sinless humanity.\par \par "AND BLUE." Blue is the colour of the heavens, and the root of the Hebrew word rendered "blue" signifies PERFECTION. Therefore BLUE is the emblem of heavenly perfectness. And how beautifully these two thoughts of righteousness and heavenly perfectness are expressed by the Lord Jesus in His sublime prayer in John 17! "I pray not that Thou shouldest take them out of the world, but that Thou shouldest keep them from the evil." "Sanctify them through Thy truth: Thy Word is truth" (v17). Here is the FINE LINEN. And, again: "They are not of the world, even as I am not of the world" (v16). Here is the BLUE. "And for their sakes I sanctify Myself" (set Myself apart from the world to God), "that they also might be sanctified through the truth" (v19). Here is the fine linen and the blue combined. For by the Holy Ghost, sent down from heaven, unitin[g the believer with a glorified Christ at God's right hand, just so far as his soul enters by faith into the truth, is he in heart separated from the world, and brought into fellowship with God. And thus the holiness and the heavenliness of Jesus are wrought by the Holy Ghost into the saint's spiritual being.\par \par When on earth, Christ was the heavenly Man, as He Himself said, "No man hath ascended up to heaven, but He that came down from heaven, even the Son of Man which is in heaven" (John 3.13).\par \par "AND PURPLE." The emblem of earthly and heavenly glory combined. For through the indwelling of the Holy Spirit the believer is identified with the Lord Jesus, in whom the earthly glories of the SON OF DAVID, and the divine and heavenly glories of the SON OF GOD, meet and centre.\par \par "AND SCARLET." The emblem of earthly glory. Jesus as the offspring of David was born King of the Jews, and as King of the Jews He was crucified, witness the title written over Him on the cross. At present Jes\us is rejected as King both by Jew and Gentile, and believers share with Him in that rejection. But "it is a faithful saying, that if we suffer with Him we shall be also glorified together." PURPLE is the combination of scarlet and blue, and Christ in His Melchizedek character unites the earthly glories of the kingdom with the heavenly glory of His eternal priesthood. And "till He comes" believers, like John, share in "the kingdom and patience of Jesus Christ" (Rev. 1. 9).\par \par "WITH CHERUBIM OF CUNNING WORK SHALT THOU MAKE THEM." The Cherubim inwrought with these various materials beautifully express the gifts of the Spirit for service to God, for the building up and knitting together of the Church as the body of Christ in the Spirit. While Jesus was on earth, these various gifts of the Spirit were manifested in His personal ministry.\par \par "TEN CURTAINS." We have hitherto looked at the Church in the Spirit, in its unity; we now contemplate it as composed of various parts or assemblies. Thus, ]in the apostles' time, there were the churches of Galatia, the church in Corinth, Ephesus, etc. And so now believers, though one in the Spirit, are dispersed in various localities. True, in the times of the apostles, there was an outward expression of local oneness which no longer exists. Yet, nevertheless, in Spirit and in truth, all believers in a given place are one as God sees them.\par \par THE TABERNACLE.\par Verse 2. "The length of one curtain shall be eight and twenty cubits, and the breadth of one curtain four cubits; and every one of the curtains shall have one measure."\par \par The length and breadth of every curtain was fixed by God. God's measure of the Church, in Spirit, in any one place, takes in every real believer in that place; but no more. It is inclusive of every quickened soul, but exclusive of every unconverted person. The Church of God, in Spirit, as here represented, in any given place, is composed of every real believer in that place - of every converted sinner, of every tru^e-born child of God. Wherever the Spirit of God has come as a quickening Spirit, there He remains as an indwelling Spirit. And every one in whom He dwells, is, by Him, baptized into the one body, of which Christ is the risen and glorified Head. And God's principles are the same everywhere. He has not one measure for one place and another for another. "Every one of the curtains shall have one measure."\par \par Verse 3. "The five curtains shall be coupled together one to another; and other five curtains shall be coupled one to another."\par When the different local assemblies of believers were outwardly, as well as spiritually one, as in the Church at Ephesus, or at Philippi, composed of all believers in Christ in those cities, how real and sweet the fellowship of churches! How close and intimate the fellowship between Colosse and Laodicea! Hence, writes the Apostle Paul, "When this epistle is read among you, cause that it be read also in the Church of the Laodiceans; and that ye likewise read the epist_le from Laodicea" (Col. 4.16). And so writes the Apostle Peter, to the elect strangers "The church that is at Babylon, elected together with you, saluteth you" (1 Peter 5.13).\par \par But even now, while the outward oneness is gone, the fellowship of God's churches, in the Spirit, remains,- hindered, hampered, and feeble though it be. And where two or three are gathered together unto the Name of Jesus in different localities, a little of the sweet fellowship of the early churches may still be enjoyed. Then, again, the vital interests of believers, though sundered by distance of place, are inseparably connected. One member cannot suffer without all the members with it, little as they may healthfully sympathize the one with another. The membership of the body, in Spirit, is the all-important point. Denominational membership, is a thought entirely unknown to Scripture.\par \par Five of these curtains together covered the outer Sanctuary, the other five the Holiest of all. The saints above, and those bel`ow, But one communion make; All join in Christ, their living Head, And of His grace partake.\par \par They are worshippers in one holy Temple, the rent veil alone being between them, whether they serve here in the shadow, or there in the light Divine.\par \par Verse 4-6. "And thou shalt make loops of blue upon the edge of the one curtain from the selvedge in the coup-ling; and likewise shalt thou make in the uttermost edge of another curtain, in the coupling of the second. Fifty loops shalt thou make in the one curtain, and fifty loops shalt thou make in the edge of the curtain that is in the coupling of the second; that the loops may take hold one of another. And thou shalt make fifty taches of gold, and couple the curtains together with the taches: and it shall be one tabernacle."\par \par The marvellous prayer of the Lord Jesus, recorded in John 17., gives us, I believe, in the Lord's own words, the precious truth set forth by the loops of blue and taches of gold, uniting the whole into one taberanacle, the dwelling-place of God.\par \par This prayer of Jesus is occupied with the Church of God; it takes in neither Israel nor the world (v. 9), neither the Old Testament, nor the millennial saints; but those who were then the disciples of Christ, and those who should believe in Him through their word - the Church, as built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets. Having first reminded His heavenly Father of His earthly obedience, and asked to be glorified, as the obedient God-man, with the glory which, as the Eternal Son, He had with the Father before the world was, He then prays for His disciples. He had given to them eternal life, for they had known both Him and the Father, and now, taking His place in spirit, as no longer in the world, but as ascended to His Father - He at the right hand of God, above, and they still on the earth - He prays that they may be ONE, as the Father and the Son are one, through the one Eternal Spirit who unites the Father and the Son in a divine and eternal Onbeness. And this prayer was accomplished when, being by the right hand of God exalted, having received the. promise of the Father, He sent down the Holy Ghost at Pentecost, who baptized into one body all believers in Jesus, in union with their glorified Head.\par \par Then setting Himself apart to the Father from the world which crucified and rejected Him, thus sanctifying Himself for their sakes, He prays for them, that they, being one with Him risen, and thus no more of the world, than He is of the world, through the knowledge and apprehension of this truth in the power of the Holy Ghost, that they might be practically sanctified, and separated, through the Spirit, from the world to God.\par \par He next proceeds to include all those who should believe on Him, during the present dispensation, through faith in the inspired Word previous to His return to receive the Church' that they ALL, through the Holy Ghost, might be ONE in this divine, perfect, eternal oneness. And so they are. And this oneness isc the proof to the world of the mission and Messiah-ship of Jesus.\par \par He is not here contemplating their outward manifested oneness, but their inward oneness in the Spirit. (v 20, 21). Then, making them the sharers of His given glory, He asks that they might be ONE as the Father and Himself are one, in that glory.\par \par Marvellous grace! Glorious and blissful prospect! And when associated with Him in that resurrection glory, their bodies fashioned into the likeness of His own, they shall be MADE PERFECT IN ONE, and the perfection of the oneness will be manifest. (v. 22, 23).\par \par And when Christ, who is their life, shall appear, and every eye shall see Him, and they also appear with Him in glory, then will the world know that Jesus is the sent One of the Father, and that they also are loved with the same love as that with which the Father loves the Son. (v. 23).\par \par Then, as not having yet exhausted the desires of His loving heart, He asks that they may not only be associated withd Him in His manifested glory to the world, but that they also may be with Him and near Him in His own eternal dwelling-place with the Father, there to gaze on His divine glories, and share His everlasting love (v. 24).\par \par This divine, heavenly, perfect oneness of the Church is beautifully typified by these "taches of gold" and "loops of blue." Gold is the emblem of that which is DIVINE; BLUE of that which is. HEAVENLY, PERFECT. Their oneness is of God. It is even as the Father and the Son are one, effected by the indwelling of the divine Spirit, the Spirit of the Father and the Son.\par \par This oneness is PERFECT, although the glorious perfection of it will only fully appear when the one Church, having no spot, wrinkle, nor any such thing, shall descend out of heaven from God, having the glory of God, and shining with a light clear as crystal (Rev. 21. 10, 11).\par \par And this DIVINE, HEAVENLY, and PERFECT ONENESS still exists, and nothing can touch it. The loops of blue and taches of golde, never let go their holdfast. The prayer of Christ secures it. A prayer heard and answered.\par \par THE TENT.\par Verse 7."And thou shalt make curtains of goats\rquote hair to be a covering [tent] upon the tabernacle: eleven curtains shalt thou make them."\par \par The TEN curtains of fine twined linen formed the TABERNACLE; these ELEVEN curtains of goats\rquote hair composed the TENT. Looking on the tent as typical of the Lord Jesus while on earth, it presents Him as taking upon Him the form of a servant, and made in the likeness of men (Phil. 2.7). Yea, more; Oh marvellous stoop of condescending love, as made in the likeness of sinful flesh (Rom. 8.3). For the goat in Scripture was especially selected for the sin-offering, as typical of Christ; though it was only on the Cross that He was \ldblquote made sin for us.\rdblquote And the parable in Matt. 25. 31 to the end, shews the marked distinction in the figure between the sheep and the goat. We know that He personally "knew no sin ;" yet, in ofutward form and appearance, He was found in fashion as a man. At the same time, like the tent enclosing the tabernacle, He was the habitation of God, the glory of the Godhead dwelt within. In the second place, looking at the tent as typical of the Church of God on earth, it presents the Church as composed of individuals living in the world; not as the Church inwardly in Spirit, but the Church outwardly in the flesh; not as to standing, for in that sense we are not in the flesh but in the Spirit (Rom. 8. 9), but being as yet in the body.\par It is called "the Tent of the CONGREGATION," as representing those who are associated, or gathered together, to the confession of the Name of Jesus - the assembly, or assemblies, of the saints. And the "Tent of WITNESS," as representing them as the witnessing company for Christ in the earth.\par \par "I am black, but comely,\rdblquote said the bride (Song of Sol 1. 5), "as the tents of Kedar,\rdblquote such is the Church\rquote s outward appearance in the flesh; "gas the curtains of Solomon,\rdblquote such she is within, as the workmanship of the Divine and Eternal Spirit.\par \par THE DIMENSIONS OF THE CURTAINS.\par Verse 8. "The length of one curtain shall be thirty cubits and the breadth of one curtain four cubits: and the eleven curtains shall be all of one measure.\rdblquote\par \par The length of the curtains of the TABERNACLE was twenty-eight cubits, the curtains of the tent were thirty cubits long, two cubits extra, and there was one curtain more to the tent, thus entirely covering the tabernacle. "Whosoever shall call upon the Name of the Lord shall be saved." This is true of all who compose the Tabernacle, or Church of God in Spirit. And, "Let every one that nameth the name of Christ depart from iniquity." This is the precept which is imperative on all who form part of the Tent of the congregation - the witness to the Name and truth of Christ on the earth.\par \par THE COUPLING TOGETHER OF THE CURTAINS.\par Verse 9. "And thou shalt couple five cuhrtains by themselves, and six curtains by themselves, and shalt double the sixth curtain in the forefront of the tabernacle [tent]."\par \par How beautifully and expressively this sets forth the happy fellowship of assemblies, where holiness, and truth, and subjection to Jesus has been maintained! And God would have this fellowship experimentally and practically realised. And does not this also express the communion together which God would have enjoyed by assemblies of believers in any particular district, more or less extended?- such as between the Churches of Galatia, or the seven Churches of Asia; while provision is made, as we shall see presently, that ALL may be one.\par \par THE LOOPS AND BRAZEN TACHES.\par Verses 10, 11. "And thou shalt make fifty loops on the edge of the one curtain that is outmost in the coupling, and fifty loops in the edge of the curtain which coupleth the second. And thou shalt make fifty taches of brass, and put the taches [hooks] into the loops, and couple the tent togiether, that it may be one."\par \par The Spirit of God baptizes into one body all believers in Jesus, as the tabernacle or dwelling-place of God; and the apostles and their fellow-labourers, under the direct guidance and control of the Spirit, carried out the Divine thought in the original formation of the outward Church; for it was one, in a manifest and unbroken outward unity, - one tent.\par \par And God had made full provision for the continuance of this oneness, in the one doctrine of His Word, the one teaching of His Spirit, and the supreme Lord ship of His Son. But human traditions having been permitted to mingle with, and to supersede the pure doctrines of the Word; and the teachings of the so called Church to interfere with the teaching of the Spirit; and the authority of man to set aside the SOLE Lordship of Christ in His Church, the outward oneness which once existed, exists no longer. This was wonderfully foreshadowed in the outward garments of the crucified Redeemer, divided among the foujr Roman soldiers that crucified Him, while the inner coat, woven from the top throughout, remained intact.\par \par But God\rquote s principles are unchangeably the same. The Word of God continues to be the depository and criterion of revealed truth; the Comforter remains, and the Lord Jesus retains His supremacy. And the blessing, the privilege, and the profit, are to be realized and enjoyed still, whenever two or three are found to carry into practice God\rquote s original instructions, by meeting on God\rquote s principles. The testimony of the Lord Jesus to the Church in Philadelphia is the witness of this (see Rev. 3. 7-13).\par \par And the five disciples seen at the last, gathered around the Cross of the expiring Redeemer, furnish the standing type of this special and sacred fellowship.\par \par THE TENT COVERING THE TABERNACLE.\par Verses 12, 13. "And the remnant that remaineth, of the curtains of the tent, the half curtain that remaineth, shall hang over the backside of the tabernacle. Andk a cubit on the one side, and a cubit on the other side of that which remaineth in the length of the curtains of the tent, it shall hang over the sides of the tabernacle on this side and on that side, to cover it."\par \par By this arrangement, the beautifully wrought curtains forming the tabernacle were entirely enclosed and hidden by the curtains of the tent; the tabernacle, as we have shewn, representing the Church inwardly in Spirit, and the tent the Church in outward manifestation.\par \par THE RAMS' SKIN COVERING.\par Verse 14. "And thou shalt make a covering for the tent of rams' skins died red. And a covering above of badgers' skins."\par \par It is not called a covering for the TABERNACLE, though, in one sense, that is true, but a covering for the TENT; for it is not the Church in Spirit, but the Church in testimony, that especially needs this covering. The curtains of goats' hair formed a tent upon the Tabernacle. These rams' skins dyed red form a covering for the Tent.\par \par The LAMlB was the type of the Lord Jesus in the meekness, gentleness, and lowliness of His character; the RAM the type of Him in the strength, firmness, and decision of His testimony.\par \par The rams' skins being dyed RED add another thought; that of the atoning death and precious blood of Him who was "The faithful and true Witness." The tent under the covering of the rams' skins dyed red shews the Church as accepted in the Person, and under the cover and shelter of the blood of the Lamb.\par \par When the first intimation of gospel grace was given by God Himself to our first parents in the garden of Eden, in those words, "The seed of the woman shall bruise the serpent's head," Adam, on the part of himself and of his wife, made his confession of faith, by calling his wife's name Eve, the mother of all LIVING, though the sentence of death had just been pronounced an himself and his posterity on account of sin. Yet he calls her not the mother of all dying, but of all living, for faith laid hold on the promisem, and associated in life and victory with the Virgin's Seed who was to come, all who should believe in Him. Thereupon God made, as a substitute for the aprons of fig leaves, which unbelief had sewn together, COATS OF SKIN, and clothed them. Thus Adam and Eve no longer appeared in their nakedness and shame, but clothed and covered by God Himself in the skin of that victim which probably was the first sacrifice, foreshadowing the bruising of the heel, and the atoning death of the woman's promised seed.\par \par In like manner the tent, covered with this covering of rams' skins dyed red, shews the Church in its testimony as seen in Christ, "in Whom we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of His grace." And, as THUS SEEN, notwithstanding all the failure in testimony of those composing it, and their unworthiness in themselves, what was said of Israel may be applied to them, "He hath not beheld iniquity in Jacob, neither hath He seen perverseness in Israel" (Num.n 23. 21). While, at the same time, we know that there was no iniquity nor perverseness that God did not discover and deal with, as walking in their midst.\par \par It is important to remember this, that the Church's completeness in Christ above, does not exempt her from God's fatherly discipline, and the judgment of the Lord Jesus down here. Totally the reverse. We are called to "walk worthy of God unto all well pleasing," and to "adorn the doctrine of God our Saviour in all things." And we are dealt with on the ground of this high responsibility. "You only have I known," said God to Israel, "of all the families of the earth; therefore I will punish you for all your iniquities" (Amos 3. 2). The more God's presence is manifested in the assembly, the more will be felt that He is of purer eyes than to behold iniquity, and cannot look on sin.\par \par THE BADGERS' SKIN COVERING.\par This covering typifies the Church in its outward appearance, as seen by man. "As the tents of Kedar"\par \par I Cor. 6:12o tells us that we are not to "be brought under the power" or to be controlled by anything. The only exception is the Holy Spirit (Eph 5:18) (Song of Solomon, 1. 5). "I clothed thee also with broidered work, and SHOD THEE WITH BADGERS' SKIN" (Ezekiel 16. 10). It is the PILGRIM ASPECT of the church, which is thus presented, in which it is conformed to the lowly appearance of Jesus of Nazareth when on earth. Therefore, whilst walking in conformity with the pattern thus set us by our Lord, "the world knoweth us not, because it knew Him not" (1 John 3.1).\par \par SOLOMON's TEMPLE was "exceeding magnifical," for it was the type of all the redeemed in glory.\par The TABERNACLE, though all glorious within, was covered with a covering of badgers' skins: for it is the figure of the Christ in the wilderness.\par \par SUMMARY OF THE CURTAINS.\par Looking on the Lord Jesus while on earth as typified by the tabernacle (John 1. 14), the inner wrought curtains of Fine Linen, answer to Him as the SON OF God in His pspiritual excellency and beauty. "Declared to be the Son of God with power, according to the Spirit of holiness" (Rom. 1. 4).\par \par The Goats' Hair Curtains, as the SON OF MARY (Luke 1. 35), made in the likeness of sinful flesh (Rom. 8. 3), yet personally "that holy thing" born of the Virgin.\par The Rams' Skins dyed red present Him as the SON of Man in testimony, both in life and in death.\par And the Badgers' Skin covering, as Jesus of Nazareth, the supposed SON OF JOSEPH, the stranger here, to whom the world was a wilderness, and life a pilgrimage from the manger to the Cross.\par \par But regarding the Tabernacle and Tent, with its coverings, as typical of the Church of God, the curtains of Fine Linen represent the Church in Spirit as the workmanship of the Holy Ghost.\par \par The Goats' Hair curtains, the Church in outward responsibility.\par \par The Rams' Skins dyed red, the Church in testimony, as seen of God in Christ, under the shelter of His atoning blood.\par And the Badgers' Skin, the Church as seen by the world in her pilgrimage character, and her outward condition here.\par \par In RESURRECTION GLORY, however, the internal workmanship of the Holy Spirit, as typified by the curtains of the tabernacle, will appear in all its Divine perfection and beauty.\par \par The FLESH, with all its imperfections, will be done away for ever, these vile bodies fashioned like Christ's glorious body, this mortal will have put on immortality, and this corruptible, incorruption. The goats' hair tent will be exchanged for the "building of God, a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens" (2 Cor. 5. 1).\par But the Church will ever appear as accepted in God's Beloved Son, with robes washed and made white in the BLOOD OF THE LAMB.\par \par While the PILGRIM garb will be exchanged for the becoming robes of royalty and triumph, the priestly garments of glory and beauty. No longer the badgers' skin covering externally visible, but "having the glory of God" (Rev. 21. 11).\par \par } U;01.06 The Curtains of the Tabernacle{\rtf1\ansi\ansicpg1252\deff0{\fonttbl{\f0\fnil\fcharset0 Georgia;}} {\colortbl ;\red0\green0\blue0;\red255\green0\blue0;} {\*\generator Riched20 5.40.11.2210;}\viewkind4\uc1\pard\cf1\lang1033\f0\fs22 Thomas Newberry\par \b TYPES OF THE TABERNACLE\b0\par \cf2 CURTAINS OF THE TABERNACLE\cf1\par \par (Exodus 26. 1-6).\parUspar Boards of shittim wood "standing up." This intimates that they had been previously cut down. Believers were once the children of wrath, even as others, growing wild in nature's forest; but they had been selected by divine grace, and had been brought low by the convictions of the Spirit, and they are here seen standing in grace (Rom. v. 2).\par \par THE DESIGN.\par This is stated in Exodus 25. 8, "Let them make Me a sanctuary; that I may dwell among them." These boards represent believers in Christ, builded together for a habitation of God through the Spirit (Eph. 2. 22). This is God's ideal of the Church as a whole, according to the pattern shewn in the Mount (Heb. 8. 5). It is also designed to be a model for believers gathered together in Church fellowship on earth.\par \par THE DIMENSIONS OF THE BOARDS.\par "Ten cubits shall be the length of a board, and a cubit and a half shall be the breadth of one board" (v. 16).\par \par Taking the cubit to be nearly one foot ten inches in length, the hteight of each board would be about eighteen feet three inches, and the breadth two feet nine inches. Thus, ten cubits was the height of the Tabernacle, one third of the height of the holy place in Solomon's Temple, which was thirty cubits, and half the height of the most holy place there, which was twenty cubits.\par \par Though every regenerate soul is born into the family of God, and as such has his place in the Church of God, yet, in order to fill that place profitably in the assembly of believers, three things are requisite - faith, hope, charity. Faith in the atonement, hope of the glory, and love to all saints. Faith, hope, charity, these three-depth, height, and breadth. DEPTH - down to the sockets of silver, FAITH in redemption. HEIGHT-up to the rings of gold, HOPE of coming glory. BREADTH - extending to the other boards on either side. "Love in the truth" to all them that have known the truth, for the truth's sake which dwelleth in us (2 John 1.2).\par \par THE TENONS.\par "Two tenons [handsu] shall there be in one board, set in order one against another [made parallel one to another]; thus shalt thou make for all the boards of the Tabernacle" (v. 17).\par \par According to their Hebrew name, they appear to represent the HANDS of faith, laying hold of the redemption which is in Christ Jesus; and according to their position at the bottom of the boards, they suggest the idea of the FEET of faith, standing firm on redemption, and the redemption price.\par "Set in order." So as to fit exactly into the sockets. No slackness, no wavering, but steadfast and unmovable, stablished, strengthened, settled.\par \par THE BOARDS ON THE SOUTH AND NORTH SIDES\par "And thou shalt make the boards for the Tabernacle, twenty boards on the south side southward. And for the second side of the Tabernacle on the north side there shall be twenty boards" (v.18, 20).\par \par Twenty boards, of a cubit and a half, measure thirty cubits, which would be about fifty-five feet long. The length of the holy place and vof the most holy together, of the Temple, was sixty cubits, or double the length of the Tabernacle.\par \par THE SOCKETS OF SILVER.\par "And thou shalt make forty sockets of silver under the twenty boards; two sockets under one board for his two tenons [hands], and two sockets under another board for his two tenons" (v. 19).\par \par "The comparison of Exodus 30. 11-16 and 38. 25-28, with 1 Peter 1. 18, 19, will give us most clearly and beautifully the spiritual import of these sockets of silver. Every Israelite passing among them that were numbered, whether rich or poor, was required to give a ransom for his soul, of half a shekel, after the shekel of the sanctuary, in value about fifteen pence. Peter explains this, "Forasmuch as ye know that ye were not redeemed with such corruptible things, as silver and gold . . . but with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot."\par \par All God\rquote s people are numbered as a RANSOMED people; to be reckoned among them onw the ground of profession merely, is to come under judgment. This \lquote is illustrated by the numbering of Israel by David, as recorded in 2 Samuel 24., where no mention is made of the redemption price having been paid. In the instance recorded in Matt. 17. 24, the tribute required was not the tribute to Caesar, but the half shekel of the sanctuary; the Son of Man required no ransom for His soul. But from the abundance of the sea, the piece of money, "the stater," value two shillings and sixpence - was provided, double the ransom price, as Christ said to Peter, "For Me and thee." In Exodus 38. 25-27, we read, "And the silver of them that were numbered of the congregation was a hundred talents, and a thousand seven hundred and threescore and fifteen shekels after the shekel of the sanctuary.. And of the hundred talents of silver were cast the sockets of the sanctuary, and the sockets of the vail; a hundred sockets of the hundred talents, a talent for a socket." A talent of silver is computed at \'a3342 3xs 9d; a talent being about 114 lbs. weight.\par \par Each board had two tenons, and under each tenon there was socket of silver, each weighing a talent. What an idea this gives us of the security of every believer as founded on the atoning work of Christ; securing at once a firm foundation for the foot of faith, for it is redemption from the wrath to come; and a firm grasp to the hand of faith in laying hold of eternal life, and hope of everlasting glory.\par \par THE BOARDS FOR THE WEST SIDE.\par "And for the sides of the Tabernacle westward, thou shalt make six boards. And two boards shalt thou make for the corners of the Tabernacle in the two sides. And they shall be coupled [twinned] together beneath, and they shall be coupled together [perfected together] above the head of it unto one ring: thus shall it be for them both; they shall be for the two corners. And they shall be eight boards, and their sockets of silver, sixteen sockets; two sockets under one board, and two sockets under another board" (v22-25).\par \par The corner boards were coupled or twinned beneath. So believers are one in the confidence of FAITH. Each board standing firm in the sockets of silver, and each believer established in the faith of the gospel. The corner boards were also coupled or perfected together to one ring above. Believers are one in the rejoicing of HOPE. We have "ONE FAITH" and "ONE HOPE OF OUR CALLING." Christ crucified is the foundation of our FAITH, and Christ glorified the substance and centre of our HOPE, Christ Himself being "the chief CORNER STONE," uniting the Jew and the Gentile in one, on earth beneath. And He is also the HEAD STONE of the corner, uniting them together in one in heaven above. Thus we read in Hebrews 3. 6, "Christ as a Son over His own house; whose house are we, if we hold fast the confidence and the rejoicing of the hope firm unto the end." And again, v14, "For we have been made partakers of Christ, if we bold the beginning of our confidence steadfast unto the end."\par \par } <<o )E01.08 The Bars{\rtf1\ansi\ansicpg1252\deff0{\fonttbl{\f0\fnil\fcharset0 Georgia;}} {\colortbl ;\rz3-K01.07 The Boards{\rtf1\ansi\ansicpg1252\deff0{\fonttbl{\f0\fnil\fcharset0 Georgia;}} {\colortbl ;\red0\green0\blue0;\red255\green0\blue0;} {\*\generator Riched20 5.40.11.2210;}\viewkind4\uc1\pard\cf1\lang1033\f0\fs22 Thomas Newberry\par \b TYPES OF THE TABERNACLE\b0\par \cf2 THE BOARDS\cf1\par \par "And thou shalt make boards for the tabernacle of shittim wood standing up" (v. 15).\par REGARDING the Tabernacle as typical of Christ, these boards of shittim wood overlaid with gold, the framework of the Tabernacle, represent Him in the combination of the human and divine natures in His blessed Person, the foundation truth of Christianity, "God manifest in flesh." But, taking the Tabernacle as typical of the Church, these boards represent the individual believers of whom the Church of God is composed.\par \par THEIR POSITION.\r{ed0\green0\blue0;\red255\green0\blue0;} {\*\generator Riched20 5.40.11.2210;}\viewkind4\uc1\pard\cf1\lang1033\f0\fs22 Thomas Newberry\par \b TYPES OF THE TABERNACLE\b0\par \cf2 THE BARS\cf1\par \par "And thou shalt make bars of shittim wood; five for the boards of the one side of the Tabernacle, and five bars for the boards of the other side of the Tabernacle, and five bars for the boards of the side of the Tabernacle for the two sides westward. And the middle bar in the midst of the boards shall reach from end to end" (vv. 26-28).\par \par We have considered the BOARDS fitly framed together, firmly fixed in the sockets of silver, as typical of believers standing in redemption. We have now to consider the BARS of shittim wood overlaid with gold - God's provision for compacting together and securing the whole.\par \par In the first six verses of Eph. 4. the sevenfold unity of the Church is mentioned: One body, one Spirit, one hope, one Lord, one faith, one baptism, one God and Father of all. From |verses 7-11, the FIVE gifts given from an ascended and glorified Saviour are noticed; apostles, prophets, evangelists, pastors and teachers.\par \par The object for which they are given is stated from verses 12 to 16 : "For the perfecting of the saints, for the work of the ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ. Till we all come in the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, unto a perfect man, unto the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ. That we henceforth be no more children, tossed to and fro, and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the sleight of men, and cunning craftiness, whereby they lie in wait to deceive; but speaking the truth in love, may grow up into Him in all things, which is the head, even Christ. From whom the whole body fitly joined together and compacted by that which every joint supplieth, according to the effectual working in the measure of every part, maketh increase of the body unto the edifying of itself in love."\par \par Th}e FIVE BARS answer strikingly to these FIVE GIFTS from a risen Christ, and the object and the end is the same, both in the Tabernacle and the Church: the "perfecting," "edifying," and "compacting of the whole together."\par \par THE MATERIAL.\par They were to be of SHITTIM WOOD; reminding us that those who have received gifts for service to the Lord and to His saints, are men of like passions with others. They have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellency of the power may be of God, and not of them. Not sufficient of themselves to think anything as of themselves, their sufficiency is of God.\par \par THE ARRANGEMENT OF THE BARS.\par God's arrangements and provisions for ministry are simple, perfect, and uniform, adapted to the need of the Church of God throughout the whole world. All believers everywhere have need of all the gifts of the Spirit for their compacting and edifying; and according to God's arrangements, whatever gifts there may be, are designed for all.\par \par The leadin~g of the Spirit, or the providence of God, may place some in certain localities; all believers have a title to their service, and they are debtors, according to their ability and opportunity, to all. Two of the bars were placed near the bottom of the boards; one in the centre extending from end to end; and two near the top, thus\par Pastors and Teachers.\par Evangelists.\par Apostles and Prophets.\par \par The two UNDER bars may be taken to represent the gifts of the APOSTLES and PROPHETS. These, as to doctrine and practice, according to the ability given them of God, have laid the foundation. The Church is said to be "built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ Himself being the chief corner stone." They laid the foundation by their labours, example, and teaching in their lifetime; and in the inspired Scriptures in the New Testament which they have left, the Church has still the benefit of their gifts.\par \par The MIDDLE bar in the centre of the boards was entire, extending the whole length of the Tabernacle, from end to end; beautifully suggestive of the widely extended sphere of the labours of the EVANGELIST; whose commission is, "Go ye into all the world, and ,reach the gospel to every creature."\par The two bars near the top, represent the ministry of PASTOR and TEACHER: the PASTOR watching over souls of the converted, feeding the flock of God; the TEACHER leading the children of God onward and upward into further and higher acquaintance with 'divine truth, and of the love, person, and ways of the Lord Jesus.\par \par THE OVERLAYING OF THE BOARDS WITH GOLD.\par "And thou shalt overlay the boards with gold, and make their rings of gold for places for the bars; and thou shalt overlay the bars with gold" (v. 29).\par \par It is remarkable that the direction for OVERLAYING the boards does not occur in the portion which treats of the BOARDS (v15-25), but in connection with the BARS; doubtless, this is significant. The boards were of shittim wood: representing believers, IN THEMSELVES partakers of HUMAN NATURE in its weakness and frailty. But overlaid with gold: signifying that, as one in Spirit with Jesus, believers are also partakers of the DIVINE NATURE (2 Peter 1. 4). As we are by the grace of God - as seen by Him in the Son of His love - such we ought to be practically, experimentally, at all times; especially when gathered in the Name of Jesus, under the searching eye of Him with whom we have to do; that as builded together for a habitation of God through the Spirit, there may be nothing to grieve or quench that Holy Spirit of God, or hinder the full flow of blessing from our God and Father. As the shittim wood in the Tabernacle was nowhere to be seen, so the flesh, or that which is merely natural, should never be manifest in the assembly of God's saints. But putting off the old man, and putting on the new, as the elect of God, holy and beloved, the divine nature should appear, and divine charity be ever in full exercise. The distinctions which cannot be overlooked with impunity in the outward walks of life, would disappear when believers are assembled in the Church; and all as children of God, members of Christ, dwelt in by the Spirit, would hold the faith of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Lord of glory, without respect of persons (James 2. 1). Whilst the gold glittered on the surface, the shittim wood existed within. So it becomes us to remember that, notwithstanding all that divine grace has made us in Christ, in ourselves we are nothing at all. The true circumcision, worshipping God in the Spirit, rejoicing in Christ Jesus, but having no confidence in the flesh. This is no excuse for sin or failure; the grace of God is sufficient; His strength is made perfect in weakness.\par \par But why is this direction inserted here with the instructions respecting the bars? Does it not intimate a connection between the exercising of the gifts for ministry, and the fuller realization and manifestation of the divine nature? Thus holding the Head, "all the body, BY JOINTS AND BANDS, having nourishment ministered, and knit together, increaseth WITH THE INCREASE OF GOD." Whilst God, according to His divine power, has given unto us all things that pertain unto life and godliness, whereby are given unto us exceeding great and precious promises, THAT BY THESE WE MIGHT BE PARTAKERS OF THE DIVINE NATURE - is it not through the exercise of the gifts of the Spirit, in the ministry of the Word, that individually and collectively these great and precious promises are realized and this growth in grace is experienced? (2 Pet. 1. 3, 4).\par \par THE GOLDEN RINGS.\par "Rings of gold for places for the bars." There is a divinely given place for ministry in the exercise of the gifts of the Spirit in the Church of God.\par \par There is a place appointed of God for each kind of ministry. A place for the APOSTLES and PROPHETS, which none else can occupy: a place of authority and power.\par A place for the EVANGELIST, a work of vast importance and responsibility; having to do with souls and eternity.\par A place for the PASTOR and TEACHER, in watching over and instructing the souls of the redeemed, with which the saints' well-being, and the honour of the Lord Jesus is connected.\par \par THE OVERLAYING OF THE BARS.\par Real ministry is the exercise of a gift received from God through Jesus Christ, in the power of the Holy Ghost, according to the ability which God giveth, and for God's glory. "As every man hath received the gift, even so minister the same one to another, as good A stewards of the manifold grace of God. If any man speak, let him speak as the oracles of God; if any man minister, let him do it as of the ability which God giveth: that God in all things may be glorified through Jesus Christ" (1 Peter. 4.10-11). To sum up these various figures of ministry. In the CHERUBIM OF the mercy-seat in the holiest of all, we have set forth MINISTRY IN ITS HEAVENLY ORIGIN AND SOURCE.\par \par In the golden LAMPSTAND in the holy place, over against the Table, by the Altar of incense, MINISTRY IN THE ASSEMBLY, IN CONNECTION WITH COMMUNION AND WORSHIP. In these BARS uniting the BOARDS, we see MINISTRY FOR THE BUILDING UP AND COMPACTING of the Church of God.\par \par THE CHARGE.\par "And thou shalt rear up the Tabernacle according to the fashion thereof, which was showed thee in the Mount" (v30).\par \par Whether as to Church gathering and constitution, or as to ministry, God's pattern, and that alone, is to be followed; a pattern not earthly and human, but heavenly and divine.\par \par God has condescended to arrange everything for us in His Word in type in the Old Testament, in example in the Gospels and the Acts, and in express directions in the inspired Epistles of the apostles. May we esteem all God's commandments concerning all things to be right: and hating every false way, be fully persuaded that His plans are the best, and that in keeping His commandments there is great reward.\par \par } erubim shall IT be made" (v31).\par \par THE spiritual signification of the vail is given us by the apostle in the following words: "Having therefore, brethren, boldness to enter into the holiest by the blood of Jesus, by a new [newly-slain] and living way, which He hath consecrated for us, through the vail, that is to say, His flesh" (Heb. 10.19, 20). This vail represents the flesh of Jesus, and, in connection with His atoning sacrifice, it shows Him as the way of entrance, through the Spirit, by faith, into the holiest of all. Before the death of Jesus, "the priests went always into the first tabernacle, accomplishing the service of God. But into the second went the high priest alone once every year, not without blood, which he offered for himself, and for the errors of the people: the Holy Ghost this signifying, that the way into the holiest of all was not yet made manifest, while as the first tabernacle was yet standing" (Heb. 9. 6-8). But when Jesus expired on the cross at Calvary, "The vail of the temple was rent in twain, from the top to the bottom" (Matt. 27. 51). God by this act distinctly intimating that the way of access was clear - the glory could shine out, and the believer in Jesus could enter in. God could be just, while He justified - and manifest Himself as glorious in holiness, whilst the pardoned sinner was accepted and brought nigh by the blood of Jesus. The Lord Jesus told His disciples, "If I go not away, the Comforter will not come; but if I depart, I will send Him unto you" (John 16. 7). The way was thus opened for the Comforter to come down from the ascended Christ, at Pentecost; and it is through Him, upborne by His eagle wings, we enter the Holiest, and draw near to God.\par \par The word "new" in Heb. 10. 20, is literally in the Greek "newly-slain," a beautiful illustration of which we get in the north gate of the temple of Ezekiel (ch. 40. 35-43), where there were eight stone tables on which the victims were slain, and the instruments were laid, and the flesh hung up on hooks on either side, so that the priests on entering passed through the flesh of the slaughtered victim, which was also the Eastern mode of ratifying a covenant (Gen. 15.).\par \par THE MATERIALS OF THE VAIL.\par We may trace in the materials, the various excellencies combined in the Person of Christ.\par The "BLUE," His perfection as Man, and the heavenly beauty of His character, "the Son of Man which is in heaven."\par \par "And PURPLE." The combination of the heavenly and earthly dignities in Him who was at once, Son of David and Son of God. "And SCARLET." He was born "King of the Jews," and, though rejected of His own, He yet shall reign. The Materials of the Vail. And FINE TWINED LINEN." He was "that holy thing" born of the Virgin, and "separate from sinners" during His whole life and conversation here.\par \par "Of CUNNING" or skilful "WORK." What beauteous blendings, what exquisite harmonies may be discovered in the character of Jesus! How each grace tempers the others, and enhances the glory of the whole.\par \par The "CHERUBIM" on the vail represent the various kinds of service to God, which were seen in perfection in Jesus, who came down from heaven to do the will of the Father, and in whom the apostle and prophet, the evangelist, the pastor, and the teacher were combined and manifested in all their excellency.\par \par THE PILLARS OF THE VAIL\par "And thou shalt hang IT upon four pillars of shittim wood overlaid with gold: their hooks shall be of gold, upon the four sockets of silver" (v32).\par \par This beautiful and significant vail, representing the Incarnate Saviour, Immanuel, God with us, was to be suspended on four pillars of shittim wood, overlaid with gold. Can we be at a loss to ascertain the fact which answers to this foreshadowing? Did not God employ FOUR individuals, men of like passions with ourselves, but divinely qualified by the inspiration of the Holy Ghost, to hold up to view the great mystery of godliness - God manifest in the flesh? In the four inspired records of the life and death of Jesus as given by the FOUR evangelists, the whole truth of His Person is exhibited as the Incarnate One.\par \par Their HOOKS were to be of gold. The capacity to. take hold of, to select, and to arrange, the various incidents in the life and death of the Man of sorrows, His words and teachings, so as to bring out the truth of His Person in all its fulness, was of God. So that those apparent discrepancies between the narratives of the four inspired historians which so puzzle the natural mind, and so often render futile the attempt to form a harmony of the FOUR GOSPELS - these seeming blemishes are, in fact, the marks and proofs of the handiwork of a Divine Editor.\par \par Under His all-wise guidance and control - MATTHEW selects and arranges those materials which present the Lord Jesus especially as Son of David and of Abraham, in connection with the kingdom, and with the promises made of God unto the fathers. This corresponds with the SCARLET.\par MAKE presents Him especially as the Son of God and Son of Man, in His untiring service.\par The PURPLE. LUKE shows Him as the sociable Son of Man, in connection with mankind at large. The FINE TWINED LINEN.\par And JOHN testifies to Him as the Divine and heavenly stranger, in all the perfection of His character and ways. Answering to the BLUE.\par \par The full-length portrait - the perfection of the truth of the Person of our precious Immanuel, is the result of the whole combined. These pillars stood on four SOCKETS OF SILVER.\par For while the four inspired historians were employed and capacitated of God to exhibit the truth of the Person of Jesus, they themselves reposed on His redeeming work, and on His precious and atoning blood.\par \par THE POSITION OF THE VAIL.\par "And thou shalt hang up the vail under the taches [hooks], that thou mayest bring in thither within the vail the ark of the testimony: and the vail shall divide unto you between the holy place and the most holy" (v. 33).\par \par These taches connected together the two larger curtains, composed of five smaller ones each, thus forming one Tabernacle (ch. 26. 3-6).\par \par The vail was to be hung immediately beneath these taches, dividing the Tabernacle into two parts: twenty cubits for the holy place, and ten cubits for the most holy.\par \par Into the first tabernacle, or the holy place, the priests went continually, accomplishing the service of God; setting forth the ordinary privilege of believers in their priestly service and worship.\par \par But into the second, or most holy place, the high priest alone entered once every year. For while the first tabernacle was yet standing, the Holy Ghost signified that the way into the holiest was not made manifest.\par \par The vail DIVIDED UNTO ISRAEL between the holy and most holy place. But the true light now shineth; the vail has been rent; the glory of God\rquote s grace has shone out; and the believer has boldness to enter in through faith in the blood of Jesus (Heb. 10. 19-23).\par \par } 55( )901.09 The Vail{\rtf1\ansi\ansicpg1252\deff0{\fonttbl{\f0\fnil\fcharset0 Georgia;}} {\colortbl ;\red0\green0\blue0;\red255\green0\blue0;} {\*\generator Riched20 5.40.11.2210;}\viewkind4\uc1\pard\cf1\lang1033\f0\fs22 Thomas Newberry\par \b TYPES OF THE TABERNACLE\b0\par \cf2 THE VAIL\cf1\par \par Exodus 26. 31-33.\par "And thou shalt make a vail of blue, and purple, and scarlet [worm scarlet], and fine twined linen of cunning work; with ch savour on the altar of burnt offering by the fire which came originally from God, and which was kept always burning in it.\par In the SIN offering we see Jesus, who knew no sin, made sin for us, suffering without the gate, and putting sin away by the sacrifice of Himself.\par \par In the other, Jesus, the spotless Victim, offering up Himself as a sweet savour unto God, and His acceptance manifested by His resurrection from the dead, and ascension to the right hand of the Father.\par Outside the camp it is wrath CONSUMING, and for ever setting aside the sins which Jesus bore.\par At the brazen altar it is justice and holiness, FEEDING with complacency on the excellency of the victim.\par The altar of burnt offering, cleansed, anointed, sanctified - an altar most holy, on which the fire was always burning, and the sacrifice always consuming, was the place of communion between God and His people, and between the people and their God (see Exodus 29. 36-46) strikingly exemplified. There we see Jesus, the BELOVED SON of the Father, whose dwelling-place eternally was the Father's bosom; that HOLY One, who knew no sin, and that blessed One, "God over all, blessed for ever," drawing hack from, and deprecating the enduring of God's WRATH, the imputation of sin, and the infliction of the CURSE. Yet the cords of love and obedience bound Him - love and obedience to the Father, love and compassion to us. So that, in the end, we see the willing Victim passing through the three long hours of darkness, made SIN for us, and nailed to the accursed tree.\par \par This as to the VICTIM; then as to the SINNER, or the WORSHIPPER. In 1 Kings 1. 50 we read, "And Adonijah feared because of Solomon, and arose, and went, and caught hold on the horns on the Altar." Again, chapter 2. 28, "And Joab fled unto the Tabernacle of Jehovah, and caught hold on the horns of the altar." What strong consolation is provided for the poor sinner who flies for refuge, to lay hold on the hope set before him in the Gospel, founded on the perfect and accepted sacrifice of the sinner's Saviour, and the sinner's Friend ! And the believer, too, finds here a refuge and a rest.\par \par The SHITTIM wood and the BRASS - emblems of the tender SYMPATHY and the Divine Almighty POWER of the Saviour of the lost, and the Sustainer of the saved - give faith its firm holdfast.\par The WOOD and the BRASS - the SYMPATHY and the POWER of Him who is thus set forth, giving faith its grasp of undying tenacity. The sinner and the saint find in Jesus, who is here set forth, one ABLE TO SYMPATHIZE and MIGHTY TO SAVE.\par \par But what a solemn lesson is read out to us from these horns of the brazen altar! In Exodus 21. 14, God says, "But if a man come presumptuously upon his neighbour to slay him with guile, thou shalt take him from mine altar, that he may die." For the PRESUMPTUOUS sinner, and the hypocritical DECEIVER, the atonement of Jesus itself provides no shelter, while he continues such. It is of no avail for a person to say, "I am trusting in the blood of Jesus," while presumptuously continuing in sin, or hypocritically professing repentance. "Thou shalt take him from Mine altar, that he may die," is the stern command of Divine inflexible justice. Solemn thought! How many a soul has gone on for years, clinging with vain hope to a mere profession of faith in Jesus, lulled into a false peace, with a spirit unsanctified and a soul unsaved, to perish at last. Thus was it in type with Adonijah. "And Solomon said, "If he will show himself a worthy man, there shall not a hair of him fall to the earth: but if wickedness shall be found in him, he shall die" (1 Kings 1. 52). So it turned out. "King Solomon sent by the hand of Benaiah the son of Jehoiada: and he fell upon him that he died" (1 Kings 2. 25).\par \par THE STAVES.\par Verses 6, 7. "And thou shalt make staves for the altar, staves of shittim wood, and overlay THEM with brass. And the staves shall be put into the rings, and the staves shall be upon the two sides of the altar, to bear IT."\par \par The staves adapted the brazen altar to the wilderness condition of God's people, so that the altar accompanied them in all their journeyings. Wherever the camp pitched, the altar rested; wherever the court was enclosed, the altar was placed at the entrance; wherever the tent of the congregation was set up, the altar stood at the door. The daily sacrifice on the altar of burnt offering, was the standing link of communion between God and His people typically. The taking away of the daily sacrifice was a national calamity. The fire was always burning in this altar, never permitted to go out. The victim always consuming on it day and night, the sweet savour of it was always ascending. Thus the ground of communion was at all times prepared, the way of communion at all times open. On this perpetual burnt offering, the other special sacrifices (as on the Sabbaths, new moons, etc.) were burnt, and the sin and trespass offerings presented. So now, though our God is a consuming fire (and the apprehension of this is ever to be kept alive in our hearts), the sacrifice of Jesus has met, and for ever satisfies, all the demands of holiness and justice on our behalf. On this account, "If we confess our sins, He (God) is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness."\par \par The ground of communion has been made good, the way of access is ever open, the fragrance of the sacrifice of Jesus is ever before God. Wherever we are, whatever our circumstances, communion with God may be maintained unbroken, our walk down here may be an Enoch walk - a walk with God.\par \par The STAVES of the TABLE of shewbread were connected with the BORDER (chapter 25. 27); for the guarding of COMMUNION is important in connection with our wilderness state. The STAVES of the GOLDEN ALTAR are connected with the GOLDEN CROWN; for it is a GLORIFIED CHRIST through whom we worship. The STAVES of the BRAZEN ALTAR are connected with the GRATE of BRASS; for it is a SUFFERING Saviour who laid the foundations of our constant communion with God.\par \par THE DIVINE PATTERN.\par Verse 8. "Hollow with boards shalt thou make IT: as it was shewed THEE in the mount, so shall they make it."\par \par Jesus, though mighty to suffer, and Almighty to save, was the EMPTY and dependent One. "He was crucified through weakness."\par \par How different is the appearance of Calvary, and of Him who suffered there, when seen on earth's low level, and with human thoughts and feelings, to what it is when looked at in the light of God - as God Himself reveals the marvellous scene! In spirit raised above surrounding things, and upon the MOUNT with God, looking down on Calvary's Cross! Thus are we to form our conceptions of it; thus shall we learn its mysteries and its uses, its value and its power; and thus shall our souls experience the blessing which God has provided. Communion with God on the ground of sacrifice must be according to God's order and thoughts, and not according to the plans and opinions of men.\par \par } ??O?01.13 The Golden Altar of Incense{\rtf1\ansi\ansicpg1252\deff0{\fonttbl{\f0\fnil\fcharset0 Georgia KS01.12 The Hangings of the Court{\rtf1\ansi\ansicpg1252\deff0{\fonttbl{\f0\fnil\fcharset0 Georgia;}} {\colortbl ;\red0\green0\blue0;\red255\green0\blue0;} {\*\generator Rich_ O01.11 The Court of the Tabernacle{\rtf1\ansi\ansicpg1252\deff0{\fonttbl{\f0\fnil\fcharset0 Georgia;}} {\colort$ 9!01.10 The Brazen Altar{\rtf1\ansi\ansicpg1252\deff0{\fonttbl{\f0\fnil\fcharset0 Georgia;}} {\colortbl ;\red0\green0\blue0;\red255\green0\blue0;} {\*\generator Riched20 5.40.11.2210;}\viewkind4\uc1\pard\cf1\lang1033\f0\fs22 Thomas Newberry\par \b TYPES OF THE TABERNACLE\b0\par \cf2 THE BRAZEN ALTAR\cf1\par \par THE BRAZEN ALTAR OR, THE ALTAR OF BURNT OFFERING.\par Exodus 27. 1-8. Verse 1. "And thou shalt make an altar (the altar]."\par \par THE SIN OFFERING was burnt, or consumed, without the camp: the BURNT, or ASCENDING OFFERING, was converted into a sweetbl ;\red0\green0\blue0;\red255\green0\blue0;} {\*\generator Riched20 5.40.11.2210;}\viewkind4\uc1\pard\cf1\lang1033\f0\fs22 Thomas Newberry\par \b TYPES OF THE TABERNACLE\b0\par \cf2 THE COURT OF THE TABERNACLE\cf1\par \par Exodus 27. 9.\par Verse 9. "And thou shalt make the court of the tabernacle."\par \par WHATSOEVER things were written afore - the things which happened unto Israel, time, were written for our learning," and "happened unto them for ensamples: and they are written for our admonition, upon whom the ends of the world are come" (1 Cor. 10. 11). Thus the children of Israel, redeemed out of Egypt, are the types of the redeemed people of God. In the Scriptures we have Israel presented to us, in their history, and in the Divine arrangements respecting them, in various degrees of nearness to God.\par \par First, we see them in Egypt, groaning under the bondage of Pharaoh. This is typical of the experience of the soul, under the first convictions of the Spirit, feeling the evil of sin, its bitter bondage, and heavy guilt, "labouring and heavy laden," from which deliverance is only obtained by taking shelter under the blood of the Lamb. "Christ our Passover sacrificed for us."\par \par Secondly, we see them IN THE WILDERNESS, having crossed the Red Sea, wherein all the power of the oppressor has been overwhelmed. Typical of the soul realising the triumph of the Cross. Principalities and powers spoilt and made a show of; and death, and hell and the power of it, destroyed. And the believer, no longer at home in the world, but become a pilgrim a stranger here.\par \par Thirdly, we see them IN THE CAMP, occupying there - in the various positions assigned them by God. Typical of believers in their different callings, ordinary occupations, and their social relationships. OUTSIDE the camp the sin-offering was consumed. OUTSIDE the camp the lepers and the defiled were obliged to remain.\par WITHIN the camp the people of God were required to be a holy people to the Lord their God, who walked up and clown in their midst - to be holy in all manner of conversation, and in all the callings and relationships of life.\par \par Fourthly, we see them assembled IN THE COURT OF THE TABERNACLE. Here the people of God are represented in their RELIGIOUS character. This is the especial subject of our present consideration.\par \par Fifthly, the PRIESTS are seen entering daily through the door of the tent into the first tabernacle, or holy place, accomplishing the service of God. Typical of BELIEVERS in their PRIESTLY character and Church association, engaged in the worship and service of God.\par \par Sixthly, the HIGH PRIEST is seen entering THROUGH THE VAIL into the Holy of Holies. Typical of JESUS, the HIGH PRIEST of our profession, entered for us into heaven itself; and of the BELIEVER in Him having boldness to enter through the rent vail into the holiest of all (Hebrews x. 19-22).\par \par Seventhly, we see Israel IN THE LAND, having crossed the Jordan. Typical of believers as in spirit raised up together, and made to sit together in Christ Jesus in the heavenly places (Eph. 2. 6).\par \par 1, Egypt; 2, the wilderness; 3, the camp; 4, the court; 5, the holy place; 6, the most holy; 7, the land.\par \par Divided by - 1, the blood of the Paschal Lamb; 2, the Red Sea; 3, the sin-offering; 4, the hanging of the court; 5, the door of the tent; 6, the vail; 7, the Jordan.\par \par This is the Scriptural "Pilgrim's Progress," written "not in the words which man's wisdom teacheth, but which the Holy Ghost teacheth."\par \par But to return to the court of the tabernacle. The children of Israel seen in this court represent the people of God in their RELIGIOUS character. Not as associated in Church fellowship - this is typified by the boards of the tabernacle - but in their general religious aspect. Not only seeking to maintain and to exhibit holiness in the assemblies of God's saints, and in Church relationship, but also in the wider sphere of ordinary and everyday life.\par \par These curtains of fine-twined linen formed a court around the tabernacle, and kept it separate. As the table of shewbread has a border, so the tabernacle of God has a court - a court with hangings of fine-twined linen all around, marking separation to God in righteousness and true holiness. Such is God's plan. As a TABLE without a BORDER is not according to God's pattern so a TABERNACLE without a COURT is contrary to God's order. There must be consistency without, as well as holiness and fellowship within; separation from the world in daily life, as well as in Church fellowship, and in the devotional exercises of the assembly. The COURT contained the ALTAR of burnt offering and the LAVER, and had the tabernacle, or dwelling-place of God in the midst. And the Israelites collected there, and in the open space before it, represents believers, realising atonement and acceptance through the sacrifice of Jesus, sanctification in Christ Jesus, by the Holy Ghost, and walking and acting in the presence of God.\par \par } ed20 5.40.11.2210;}\viewkind4\uc1\pard\cf1\lang1033\f0\fs22 Thomas Newberry\par \b TYPES OF THE TABERNACLE\par \cf2\b0 THE HANGINGS\cf1\par \par Exodus 27. 9.\par Verse 9. "For the south side southward there shall be hangings for the court of fine-twined linen of a hundred cubits long for one side."\par \par THE FINE LINEN IS the righteousness of saints" (Rev. 19. 8). "I counsel thee to buy of Me white raiment, that thou mayest be clothed," says Christ (Rev. 3. 18). "Put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ," is the exhortation of the Apostle (Romans 13.14).\par \par The COURT of the Tabernacle, surrounded by these hangings of fine-twined linen, represents believers in their ordinary Christian character and intercourse, walking in the presence of God in holiness and righteousness before Him, keeping their garments undefiled by sin, putting on and living out Christ, and exhibiting Him before men.\par \par THE PILLARS AND SOCKETS.\par Verse 10. "And the twenty pillars thereof and their twenty sockets shall be of brass."\par \par Or, as expressed in chapter 38.10: "Their pillars were twenty, and their brazen sockets twenty."\par \par The PILLARS fixed in SOCKETS of BRASS, representing individual believers in their religious character, and firm standing. There were twenty pillars on the north and south, corresponding with the twenty boards of the Tabernacle on those sides The BOARDS representing believers associated in Church fellowship, and the PILLARS of the court, believers in their wider and ordinary Christian walk.\par \par Each PILLAR stood firmly fixed in a SOCKET of brass, as expressing the firm and decided stand which is requisite in living out the Christian character. As united in Church fellowship, in the sight of God, we stand in redemption, like the boards of the Tabernacle on the sockets of silver. But as walking before God, and living before men, in our daily course, we need a holy decision of character, standing strong in the Lord, and in the power of His might, as the pillars of the court in their sockets of brass. "Having done all, to stand," says the Apostle. "Stand therefore" (Eph. 6.13,14).\par \par If "the Church of the living God" is to be "the pillar and ground of the truth," individual believers in their Christian character and ordinary conduct should seek, to maintain the truth, by walking in it with firmness and decision, like James, Cephas, and John, who seemed to be pillars in their day, and especially like the Apostle Paul.\par \par THE HOOKS AND FILLETS.\par Verse 10. "The hooks of the pillars and their fillets\par \par CONNECTING-RODS. These silver rods connected the pillars together, and formed the rods on which the linen curtains hung. The hooks and connecting-rods were to be of silver, and SILVER is typical of REDEMPTION; for the Atonement money was in silver (Exodus 30.11-16).\par \par And SILVER is also typical of communion; for it was the ordinary medium for monetary transactions. And the hooks fixed in the pillars were always in readiness to receive the connecting-rods.\par \par Thus these pillars, standing in the brazen sockets, with their hooks and connecting-rods of silver, sustaining the curtains of fine-twined linen, and forming together the COURT of the Tabernacle, most strikingly and beautifully represent the people of God, in their ordinary religious character, established and settled, walking in righteousness and holiness, always prepared for, and constantly maintaining communion together, on the ground of their common redemption by the Blood of the Lamb, in their intercourse one with another, and in the presence of God.\par \par It is a sweet and happy thought, affording some consolation in the present state of things, that even now, in the outwardly divided conditions of the Church of God, when Church FELLOWSHIP with the majority of Christians may be sought in vain, we may still maintain communion and love in our intercourse one with another on the ground of our common redemption, by the same precious Blood, and of our agreement together in the same fundamental truths of salvation, as taught and united by the same Holy Spirit.\par \par THE LENGTH OF THE COURT.\par Verse 11. "And likewise for the north side in length there shall be hangings of a hundred cubits long, and his twenty pillars and their twenty sockets of brass; the hooks of the pillars and their fillets [connecting-rods] of silver."\par \par One hundred cubits NORTH and SOUTH. \ldblquote Awake, 0 north wind, and come, thou south,\rdblquote is the language of the Bride in the Song of Solomon (chap. 4.16). Whether the chill north wind of adversity blows, or the genial south wind of prosperity breathes, there should be the same FIRM STANDING, and decided walk, the same maintenance of RIGHTEOUSNESS and holiness, the same manifestation of Christ, and the same readiness for FELLOWSHIP with all saints, on the ground of our common Christianity.\par \par THE BREADTH OF THE COURT.\par Verses 12-15. "And for the breadth of the court on the west side shall be hangings of fifty cubits: their pillars ten, and their sockets ten. And the breadth of the court on the east side eastward, shall be fifty cubits. The hangings of one side of the gate shall be fifteen cubits: their pillars three, and their sockets three. And on the other side shall be hangings fifteen cubits: their pillars three, and their sockets three."\par \par In LENGTH - namely, one hundred cubits - the court of the TABERNACLE was one HALF the LENGTH of the INNER court of Ezekiel\rquote s TEMPLE, which will be two hundred cubits; and in BREADTH - namely, fifty cubits - HALF the BREADTH of the INNER court of the TEMPLE, which will be one hundred cubits.\par \par THE GATE OF THE COURT.\par \par Verse 16. "And for the gate of the court shall be a hanging of twenty cubits, of blue, and purple, and scarlet [worm scarlet], and fine-twined linen, wrought with needlework."\par \par The hanging for the door of the tent and the vail, were both ten cubits by ten - one hundred cubits square; and the gate of the court twenty cubits by five in height - one hundred cubits square also; each representing CHRIST in different aspects. The GATE OF THE COURT being typical of CHRIST, by the faith of whom alone any really become Christians, and have a title to be regarded as such, and power in the Spirit for true fellowship in the Gospel. THE DOOR OF THE TENT representing CHRIST, through whom alone there is access into the Church of God. And the VAIL representing Him as the way by whom only there is access by faith into the holiest of all.\par \par THE PILLARS OF THE GATE.\par Verse 16. "Their pillars shall be four, and their sockets four."\par \par By these FOUR PILLARS, corresponding with the four pillars which sustain the vail, are represented, I believe, the four divinely inspired historians of the life of Jesus. There are some differences, however, which are significant.\par \par The PILLARS of the VAIL have their HOOKS of Gold, and their SOCKETS of SILVER; while the PILLARS of the GATE have their HOOKS of SILVER, and their SOCKETS of brass. The HOOKS of GOLD being significant of a DIVINELY-given ability for laying HOLD of and exhibiting the perfection of Immanuel, as the way of access faith into the Holiest; and the SOCKETS of SILVER significant of their STANDING in REDEMPTION.\par \par The HOOKS of SILVER, and the silver connecting-rods of the PILLARS of the GATE, expressive of a capacity for communicating the truth of Christ; and the SOCKETS of BRASS, of decision and steadfastness. It is interesting to trace in the four inspired histories of the "Word made flesh," the various beauties and perfections of Immanuel, as signified by the BLUE, PURPLE, SCARLET, and FINE-TWINED LINEN, Composing the GATE OF THE COURT.\par \par In John\rquote s account, the BLUE, or HEAVENLY PERFECTION and glory of the Lord Jesus, is manifest.\par \par In MARK, the PURPLE, or the combination of HEAVENLY PERFECTNESS with the EARTHLY GLORY. And hence it is worthy of notice, that, in Mark 15.17, the robe in which, in mockery, Jesus was arrayed, is by the leading of the Spirit said to be of "PURPLE." In MATTHEW, the EARTHLY DIGNITIES of the Son of David, as typified by the SCARLET, appear; and Matthew says, they "put on Him a scarlet robe" (27.28).\par \par Whereas, in LUKE, the WHITE, or PURE and SPOTLESS, yet exquisitely beautiful humanity of the Son of Man is prominent, as typified by the FINE-TWINED LINEN. And Luke says, they "arrayed Him in a gorgeous robe." Gorgeous, "Lam pros," meaning also, shining, resplendent, dazzling, white. Compare Acts 10.30; -Rev. 15.6; 19.8, in the Greek.\par \par Verses 17-19. "All the pillars round about the court shall be filleted with silver [connected with rods of silver] their hooks shall be of silver, and their sockets of brass. The length of the court shall be a hundred cubits, and the breadth fifty everywhere, and the height five cubits of fine-twined linen, and their sockets of brass. All the vessels of the tabernacle in all the service thereof, and all the pins thereof, and all the pins of the court, shall be of brass."\par \par All the pillars of the court were connected together by the SILVER RODS, and all were furnished with HOOKS for attaching them; teaching us, that all believers should maintain fellowship together in redemption, truth, and brotherly love, and all be prepared for it as occasion presents.\par \par All the PILLARS stood on SOCKETS of BRASS; and all believers have need of enduring strength in Jesus, by the Spirit, to maintain, in such a world as this, their religious character and standing; that strengthened by God\rquote s Spirit in the inner man, Christ dwelling in the heart by faith, they may be rooted and grounded in love. (Eph. 3.16,17).\par \par All the VESSELS of the Tabernacle for all the service of it, and even the PINS of the tabernacle and court, were to be of BRASS; for the same enduring spiritual strength is needed for all manner of service, down to the minutest particulars, in work connected with the Name of Jesus, and the presence of God.\par \par In Exodus 38.17, we read: "The overlaying of their chapiters [tops or heads] of silver; and all the pillars of the court were filleted with silver [connected with rods of silver] ," showing that the chapiters, or heads of the pillars, and the fillets or connecting-rods, axe distinct; though both were of silver, and all formed part of the redemption money. "And of the thousand seven hundred and seventy and five shekels, he made for the pillars, and overlaid their chapiters, and filleted THEM" (Ex. 38.28).\par \par The redemption which is in Christ Jesus, is not only the foundation of the Christian\rquote s FAITH, as shown by the silver sockets of the Tabernacle: it is also the ground of Christian LOVE and communion, as signified by the silver hooks and connecting-rods. And it is also the crown and joy of the Christian\rquote s HOPE, as signified by the silver chapiters, or crowns of the pillars. His faith, his love, and his hope, having each its ground and centre in Jesus, and in His mighty work.\par \par } ;}} {\colortbl ;\red0\green0\blue0;\red255\green0\blue0;} {\*\generator Riched20 5.40.11.2210;}\viewkind4\uc1\pard\cf1\lang1033\f0\fs22 Thomas Newberry\par \b TYPES OF THE TABERNACLE\par \cf2\b0 Altar of Incense\cf1\par \par The Golden Altar of Incense.\par Exodus 30.1-9.\par \par Verse 1. "And thou shalt make an altar to burn [burn as incense] incense upon: of shittim wood shalt thou make IT."\par \par THERE were two altars, the brazen altar of burnt offering and the golden altar of incense. They are both typical of the Person and work of the Lord Jesus Christ, but in distinct aspects. At the BRAZEN altar, we see Christ in death and resurrection, offering Himself without spot to God, and accepted in all the sweet savour of His perfect sacrifice - the ground of the believer\rquote s acceptance and communion with God.\par At the GOLDEN altar, we see Christ in all the excellency of His character and ways before God, through whom the children of God draw near and worship with confidence and joy.\par Both the brazen and the golden altar were made of shittim wood within, as showing that the Incarnation of Christ lies at the foundation of His whole work on behalf of His people; for the children being partakers of flesh and blood, He Himself likewise took part of the same.\par \par THE DIMENSIONS.\par Verse 2. "And a cubit shall be the length thereof, and a cubit the breadth thereof; four square shall it be: and two cubits shall be the height thereof."\par \par The table of shewbread was two cubits in length, and one in breadth, and one cubit and a half in height. This altar was one cubit square, and two in height. The TABLE was on a level with the mercy-seat, and the brazen grate of the altar of burnt offering; for the table sets forth COMMUNION on the ground of atonement made, and in the remembrance of the death of Jesus. The GOLDEN ALTAR was half a cubit higher, because we draw nigh to God in the Name of Him who, though once humbled, is now risen and glorified.\par \par THE HORNS OF THE ALTAR.\par "The horns thereof shall be of the same."\par The HORN IS the emblem of strength; and there is power in Jesus, on which faith can lay hold in drawing nigh to God; while the human tenderness and sympathy of Jesus give sweet encouragement to faith.\par \par THE OVERLAYING.\par Verse 3. " thou shalt overlay IT with pure gold, the top [roof] thereof, and the sides [walls] thereof round about, and the horns thereof."\par The Divine glory and excellency of the Lord Jesus, as well as His humanity, and in combination with it, is thus set forth.\par But in the type before us, the same Saviour is represented as present in Spirit in the midst of His worshipping people on earth, by whom the sacrifice of praise is offered up to God continually. It is the vivid setting forth of those invaluable words in Matt. 18.19,20.\par \par The altar stands before, not within the vail in the holy place; for it tells of Jesus in the assembly, and yet it stands before the ark and propitiatory, from whence God holds fellowship with His servants. And in Jesus who is present in Spirit with us on earth, and present in Person for us above, all the promises of God are yea, and amen, to the glory of God by us.\par All this is true to the believer individually, as well as to the saints collectively.\par \par THE PERPETUAL USE OF THE ALTAR\par Verses 7, 8. "And Aaron shall burn thereon sweet incense every morning: when he dresseth the lamps, he shall burn incense upon it. And when Aaron lighteth the lamps at even [between the two evenings] he shall burn incense upon it, a perpetual incense before Jehovah throughout your generations."\par \par So Christ, the High Priest of our profession, ever liveth to make intercession for us.\par \par In John 17. we have the reality and substance of these Divine foreshadowings. We there see Jesus on earth, surrounded by His disciples; but in Spirit entering into the Holiest, His work finished, and the crown of glory won. In ACT it was the High Priest at the golden altar - IN ANTICIPATION, the High Priest on the day of Atonement entering into the holiest.\par \par Let us look at Him as at the golden altar, and listen to His words, "Father, I glorified Thee on the earth, I finished the work which Thou gavest Me to do." "I manifested Thy Name."\par \par He thus presented before His Father, as sweet and fragrant incense, the memorial of what He had been in His character and life on earth; and then claiming for Himself the just recompense of reward, He obtains on behalf of His disciples, and of believers through their word, the richest, choicest, highest blessings. And these words He spake in the world, that we might have His joy fulfilled in ourselves, in being thus enabled to enter into His thoughts concerning us, through this magnificent specimen of His present and perpetual intercession, in the knowledge of the glory which He has, and which He will share with us.\par \par THE TIME OF INCENSE.\par We have considered the LAMPSTAND with its seven lamps, as the type of ministry or testimony in connection with Christ, and in the power of the Spirit. Christ Himself PREPARES His servants for this ministry in the Word, and He gives grace and power for its EXERCISE. Just as Aaron dressed the lamps in the morning; and caused the flame to ascend at even, or between the two evenings. In Revelation 1, 2, 3, the Lord Jesus is shown as one like unto the Son of Man in the midst of the seven golden lampstands, giving and directing the testimony which was to be borne in His Name.\par \par Testimony to Christ is a sweet savour unto God, as says the Apostle in 2 Cor. 2.15,16, "For we are unto God a sweet savour of Christ, in them that are saved, and in them that perish." This is not all: the type before us beautifully and expressively shows, the connection between the preparation and exercise of ministry, in fellowship with Jesus, and the fragrance of His own intercession. When the servant is preparing, or being prepared for testimony, the intercession of Jesus is ascending on his behalf; and when he is giving his testimony, the sweet savour of the Name of Jesus is going up before God.\par \par Verse 9. "Ye shall offer up no strange incense thereon, nor ascending-offering, nor gift-offering; neither shall ye pour drink-offering thereon."\par Thus the altar of incense was kept perfectly distinct from the altar of burnt or ascending-offering. We do well to remember this in drawing nigh to God.\par No strange incense was permitted, any more than strange fire. Jesus pleads no other excellency than His own, as the ground for the acceptance of our prayers and praises.\par The believer\rquote s priestly access to God is a progressive thing. We go from strength to strength.\par \par In the SIN-OFFERING consumed without the camp, we see Jesus "delivered for our offences," and the question of sin settled. At the BRAZEN ALTAR, we see Jesus "raised again for justification, and realise acceptance in Him, and the joy of God\rquote s salvation."\par \par At the LAVER we recognise Christ as our SANCTIFICATION, through the Holy Ghost the Comforter sent down from heaven.\par \par At the GOLDEN ALTAR He is presented as the High Priest of our profession, appearing in the presence of God for us, in all the value of His living service, personal excellency, and atoning work, which He pleads, and we plead for our acceptance before God. As guilty sinners, we find acceptance at the brazen altar, through the accepted sacrifice of a crucified and risen Saviour.\par At the layer we find provision made for our sanctification in Christ, through the Holy Ghost.\par At the golden altar we have fellowship with God, and nearness of access to Him, in all the preciousness of the life and person of Jesus, as He was, and as He is.\par In the ark of the covenant within the vail we see every promise of God yea and amen, to us in Christ, and full security for every blessing, for time and for eternity.\par \par THE BLOOD ON THE HORNS OF THE ALTAR OF INCENSE.\par Verse 10. "Aaron shall make an atonement upon the horns of it once a year, with the blood of the sin offering of atonements: once in the year shall he make atonement upon it throughout your generations: it is most holy unto Jehovah."\par \par The foundation of our acceptance is laid in atonement, and we know from Hebrews 10 that this yearly act was a type of the one offering of Jesus, whereby He hath perfected for ever them that are sanctified. And this act of atonement was two-fold, for on the tenth day of the seventh month, Aaron entered within the vail; first, with the blood of the bullock for himself and for his house, typical of Christ and the Church (Heb. 3.6); and then with the blood of the goat for all Israel and the sanctuary. At the same time he put the blood on the horns of the golden altar (Lev. 15). And while no burnt sacrifice nor gift-offering was to be offered on this altar, yet the blood of atonement on the horns of it speaks of peace once made, and the remission of sins once for all, through the sacrifice of Christ.\par \par \par } ir value to our souls, as containing God\rquote s testimony concerning His Son.\par \par God\rquote s thoughts about Christ are embodied in type, and given us in the Scriptures, that we might have fellowship with the Father in His own estimate of His Son, through the Spirit.\par In the layer and his foot, we have the divinely given figure or shadow of CHRIST as our SANCTIFICATION. "Who of God is made unto us wisdom, and righteousness, and sanctification, and redemption" (1 Cor. 1.30).\par \par In this chapter in Exodus, typically the believer is regarded, first, REDEEMED BY THE BLOOD (verses 11-16); secondly, SANCTIFIED with the washing of WATER (verses 17-21); thirdly, ANOINTED with the OIL (verses 22-33); fourthly, ACCEPTED in the PERFUME (verses 34- 38). "The Spirit, the water, and the blood" (1 John 5.6-8).\par \par In Solomon\rquote s Temple there were TEN LAVERS, standing on their TEN BASES, and ONE MOLTEN SEA,\par standing on twelve oxen (1 Kings 7.23-26).\par In Ezekiel\rquote s Temple there will be no laver nor sea, but a RIVER, whose waters will issue out from under the threshold of the house eastward, deepening and widening as it flows.\par In Revelation 4.6, we read of a SEA OF GLASS like unto crystal before the throne, emblematical of the fixed purity which becomes the presence of God.\par In Revelation 15.2, of a SEA OF GLASS mingled with FIRE, indicative of the fiery trial through which those who come out of the great tribulation, will have passed.\par In Revelation 22.1, of a PURE RIVER OF WATER OF LIFE, clear as crystal, proceeding out of the throne of God and of the Lamb. All these are figures of Christ, and of the cleansing, sanctifying, life-giving, life-sustaining power of the Spirit of God. The word "laver," in the Hebrew, signifies "like a river." The laver consisted of two parts, "the laver and his foot." The upper part or layer, being a large reservoir of water, from which, when required, the water poured down "like a river" into the foot or basin at its base. The lower part being alone used for bathing or washing, so that the water in the laver remained always pure and undefiled, reminding us of Titus 3.\par \par 5, 6, "The washing [literally layer] of regeneration, and renewing of the Holy Ghost; which He shed on us abundantly through Jesus Christ our Saviour." Also of "the supply of the Spirit of Jesus Christ," given for the ministry of the Word through the evangelist, pastor, and teacher, at the present time.\par \par The laver presents Christ in two aspects; the FOOT, Christ in HUMILIATION on earth; and the upper part, the laver proper, Christ in His exaltation in heaven. In His life on earth, Christ left us an example that we should follow in His steps.\par On the Cross, from His pierced side came forth the water and the blood.\par But it is from Christ crucified, risen, and exalted, that the Holy Ghost, the Comforter, the Spirit of purity and life, is now given. "In the last day, that great day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried, saying, If any man thirst, let him come unto Me and drink. He that believeth on Me, as the Scripture hath said, out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water. But this spake He of the Spirit, which they that believe on Him should receive; for the Holy Ghost was not yet given; because that Jesus was not yet glorified"\par \par (John 7.37-39). We read in Ephesians 5.25,26, "Christ loved the Church, and gave Himself for it, that He might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the Word." This is His present action, "that He might (ultimately) present it to Himself, a glorious Church, not having spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing" (Eph. 5.27).\par \par ITS MATERIAL.\par \par "A laver of brass, and his foot [base] also of brass."\par Brass is the emblem of strength, and Christ, as our sanctification, is the Strong One, mighty to sanctify as well as "mighty to save." Many trust in Christ for their salvation, but have recourse to their own efforts, or to the law, for sanctification. Justification by faith of Christ is the doctrine of the Reformation; but sanctification by the faith of Christ, how little apprehended!\par \par There is POWER in the example of His life; constraining power in His dying and redeeming love; power in looking unto Jesus glorified at God\rquote s right hand above. Stephen found it so (Acts 7). Power in the Spirit sent down from this ascended One. The secret of power in the Christian experience is having Christ "all" as our object, "and in all" as our life.\par \par In Exodus 38.8, we read, "And he made the laver of brass and the foot [base] of it of brass, of the looking-glasses [brazen mirrors], of the women assembling, which assembled at the door of the tent of the congregation." This is significant, and intimates a connection between self-examination and sanctification. The Apostle James wrote, "But be ye doers of the Word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves. For if any be a hearer of the Word, and not a doer, he is like unto a man beholding his natural face in a glass; for he beholdeth himself, and goeth his way, and straightway forgetteth what manner of man he was. But whoso looketh into the perfect law of liberty, and continueth therein, he being not a forgetful bearer, but a doer of the Word, this man shall be blessed, in his deed" (James 1. 22-25). The foot of the laver was made of burnished brass.\par \par Sanctification to the believer is especially and effectually connected with the contemplation of Christ, once crucified, but now risen and glorified, as exhibited in the mirror of the Word, through the power of the Holy Ghost sent down from heaven. This is real and divine photography. "Now the Lord is that Spirit: and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.\par But we all, with open [unvailed] face beholding as in a glass [mirror] the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord."\par \par THE POSITION OF THE LAVER.\par "And thou shalt put IT between the tabernacle [tent] of the congregation and between the altar."\par \par The progress of the soul in drawing near to God is that set forth.\par The soul first realising PARDON at the sin-offering - without the camp.\par Secondly, ACCEPTANCE at the brazen altar within the court.\par Thirdly, SANCTIFICATION at the brazen layer.\par Fourthly, NEARNESS IN WORSHIP at the golden altar.\par Fifthly, ENTRANCE INTO THE HOLIEST through the value of the blood, and of the sweet incense from the golden censer, carried by the High Priest within the vail.\par \par THE WATER.\par Verse 18. "And thou shalt put water therein."\par \par Christ loved the Church, and gave Himself for it, that He might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the Word" (Eph. 5. 26). "Sanctify them through Thy truth; Thy Word is truth," is His prayer to the Father (John 17.17). "It is the Spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing: the words that I speak unto you, they are Spirit and they are life" (John 6.63). Not the Word apart from the Spirit, nor the Spirit apart from the Word. It is the truth that sanctifies, and the Spirit is truth. But it is the truth of Christ, "as the truth is in Jesus."\par \par The water which filled the laver in the wilderness came first from the smitten rock (Ex. 17.); the type of Christ crucified, from whose pierced side flowed forth the water and the blood. For "that rock was Christ" (1 Cor. 10.4).\par \par Secondly, it came from the rock which was to have been spoken to, at the end of the wilderness wanderings, in connection with the blooming, blossoming, and fruit-bearing rod (Numbers 20.). Typical of Christ glorified, and sending down the Spirit in answer to prayer (Acts 2; John 7).\par \par THE USE OF THE LAVER.\par Verse 19. "For Aaron and his sons shall wash their hands and their feet thereat [therefrom]."\par \par The laver sets forth Christ, made of God Unto the believer SANCTIFICATION, practically (1 Cor. 1.30).\par \par It is the action of the Lord Jesus in John 13. embodied in type. The washing of the laver was twofold.\par \par First, of the entire person, as at the consecration of the priests (Ex. 29.4), where it should be translated, "bathe them in water." This washing, or bathing in water, at their consecration was not repeated. To this the Lord refers John 13.10, "He that is washed [bathed] needeth not save to wash his feet, but is clean every whit." The signification of this bathing is given in Romans vi., Colossians 2. etc. It sets forth the death, burial, and resurrection of the believer with Christ, and faith\rquote s apprehension of it.\par \par Secondly, this washing was partial, the washing of the hands and feet; and it is this which is here specially mentioned - its constant use. "Aaron and his sons" typify Christ and the Church in their priestly character (Heb. 3.6). The sanctification is one: "For their sakes I sanctify Myself, that they also might be sanctified through the truth" (John 17.19). He is our sanctification. The HANDS and FEET express the whole character of the believer\rquote s ACTION and CONDUCT. In John 13. the feet only are mentioned, as including the whole course of the believer\rquote s walk. "Thereat," literally, therefrom. It was not sufficient to wash elsewhere. It is the practical, conscious cleansing which flows from faith\rquote s apprehension of Christ, which fits for God\rquote s tent, and God\rquote s altar, and not that which comes from mere moral considerations or precepts.\par \par Verse 20. "When they go into the Tabernacle [tent] of the congregation, they shall wash with water, that they die not; or when they come near to the altar to minister, to burn offering made by fire unto Jehovah."\par \par This cleansing by the faith of Jesus, is essential to living fellowship with the Father and the Son in the Spirit, and to true fellowship with the saints. "Holiness becometh God\rquote s house for ever." "If I wash thee not, thou hast no part with Me." Holiness becomes God\rquote s service, as well as God\rquote s house. "Be ye clean that bear the vessels of the Lord." "I will wash mine hands in innocency; so will I compass Thine altar, O Lord."\par \par "That they die not," is repeated in verse 21. It may be taken as a warning. "If ye live after the flesh ye shall die." Spiritual deadness is the inevitable consequence of the foot defiled, and sanctification through personal intercourse with Christ neglected. Verse 21. "So they shall wash their hands and their feet, that they die not: and it shall be a statute for ever for them, even to him and to his seed throughout their generations."\par \par "It shall be a statute for ever;" a principle from which God never departs. "Without holiness no man shall see the Lord." Christ ever lives, the source of life, holiness, and power, to all who draw nigh to God by Him. Thus full provision is made in Christ, that the blood-bought heirs of glory, and the royal priests of our God, might ever worship Him in the beauties of holiness, as well as in the confidence of faith and love.\par \par \par } 8E;01.14 The Laver and its Foot{\rtf1\ansi\ansicpg1252\deff0{\fonttbl{\f0\fnil\fcharset0 Georgia;}} {\colortbl ;\red0\green0\blue0;\red255\green0\blue0;} {\*\generator Riched20 5.40.11.2210;}\viewkind4\uc1\pard\cf1\lang1033\f0\fs22 Thomas Newberry\par \b TYPES OF THE TABERNACLE\b0\par \cf2 THE LAVER\cf1\par \par The Laver and its Foot.\par Exodus 30.17-21.\par \par Verses 17, 18. "And Jehovah spake unto Moses, saying, Thou shalt also make a layer of brass, and his foot [base] also of brass, to wash withal: and thou shalt put IT between the tabernacle [tent] of the congregation and between the altar, and thou shalt put water therein."\par \par THESE Scriptures are "the Word of God ;" this I gives them their importance and authority. They are also "the testimony of Jesus Christ ;" this gives them their interest to us as redeemed sinners, and thearth with light reflected from the sun: so the Church, during the present night-time of the world, is appointed to shine in the light of an absent Christ. A dispensation altogether new; characterised by Messiah rejected, and the Comforter present, to communicate to the Church the truth of Christ, and to maintain His Lordship.\par \par "The tabernacle of the tent of the congregation."\par Both titles are here combined; the tabernacle being the type of a dwelling-place for God through the Spirit, and the tent of the congregation, typical of believers assembled in the Name of the Lord Jesus.\par \par THE ARK.\par Verse 3. "And thou shalt put therein the ark of the testimony, and cover the ark with the veil."\par \par The ark is first mentioned, for it sets forth Jesus, God\rquote s centre of gathering to His own people, and in whom they are builded together for a habitation of God through the Spirit (Eph. 2.22).\par The veil was to be hung up before the ark, the Holy Ghost thus signifying that the way into the Holiest was not then made manifest; but to us, since Calvary, the veil is rent, and the way into the Holiest is open; for we gather to the name of a risen and glorified Christ.\par It is here called "the Ark of the Testimony," for the purpose for which the Church is gathered is, that it should be a testimony to Him, and especially to the great "mystery of godliness, God manifested in flesh, justified in the Spirit, seen of angels, preached among the nations, believed on in the world, received up into glory."\par \par THE TABLE.\par Verse 4. "And thou shalt bring in the table, and set in order the things that are to be set in order upon it."\par \par Where believers are gathered unto the Name of the Lord Jesus, and builded together for a habitation of God through the Spirit, there in God\rquote s presence, the sweet and sacred memorials of a Saviour\rquote s sufferings and death are to be observed.\par \par It is remarkable that after the ark, the table is first mentioned; and at Troas, on the first day of the week, the disciples came together to break bread (Acts xx. 7).\par \par If the communion of saints in the presence of God, and in the remembrance of the sacrifice of Christ, is to be observed, it must be in God\rquote s order. "God is not the author of confusion." He has His order, and this must be maintained. The table is to be a pure table, and all things which are done in connection with it, must be done decently and in order, as in the presence and fear of God.\par \par THE LAMPSTAND.\par "And thou shalt bring in the lampstand, and light the lamps thereof."\par \par Ministry, according to God, in the exercise of the gifts of the Spirit, and in testimony to the truth of Christ, has its place in connection with God\rquote s dwelling place. It is to be brought in, and its light maintained. Ministry in the power of the Spirit of God, is to be in God\rquote s order, according to His mind and will; and the gifts of an ascended Saviour are "for the perfecting of the saints, for the work of the ministry, for the edifying of the Body of Christ."\par \par THE ALTAR OF GOLD.\par Verse 5. "And thou shalt set the altar of gold for the incense before the ark of the testimony."\par \par Teaching us that the worship of the Father in the Spirit and in truth, is connected with Christ risen and glorified within the veil, through whom the believer has boldness and access with confidence by the faith of Him.\par \par THE HANGING OF THE DOOR.\par "And put the hanging of the door [entrance] to the tabernacle."\par \par Christ said, "I am the door, by Me if any man enter in he shall be saved." Faith in, and confession of the name of Jesus, living, dying, risen and glorified, is the way, no mere ordinance, nor anything else, is to take the place of Christ.\par \par THE ALTAR OF BURNT OFFERING.\par Verse 6. "And thou shalt set the altar of the burnt offering [ascending offering] before the door [entrance] of the tabernacle of the tent of the congregation."\par \par Christ, in death and resurrection, in His atoning and accepted sacrifice, is to be set forth as the only ground of communion and acceptance with God. And only through faith in Him can the communion of saints be enjoyed.\par \par THE LAVER.\par Verse 7. "And thou shalt set the laver between the tent of the congregation and the altar, and shall put water therein."\par \par Christ is also to be set forth as made of God, SANCTIFICATION to the believer, as well as redemption; and the full provision of the Spirit of God for the sanctification of the believer through the truth, is to be testified to.\par \par THE COURT AND THE GATE.\par Verse 8. "And thou shalt set up the court round about, and hang up the hanging at the court gate."\par \par Consistency of character and conduct with the confession of the name of Christ is to be maintained, and the exercise of fervent charity one towards another, with separation from the world, is to be manifested even when not assembled together in Church fellowship.\par \par } iQ01.15 Directions for setting up the Tabernacle{\rtf1\ansi\ansicpg1252\deff0{\fonttbl{\f0\fnil\fcharset0 Georgia;}} {\colortbl ;\red0\green0\blue0;\red255\green0\blue0;} {\*\generator Riched20 5.40.11.2210;}\viewkind4\uc1\pard\cf1\lang1033\f0\fs22 Thomas Newberry\line\b TYPES OF THE TABERNACLE\b0\par \cf2 THE SETTING UP\cf1\par \par Directions for Setting up, in the Tabernacle\par Exodus 40.1-8.\par \par Verses 1, 2. "And Jehovah spake unto Moses, saying, On the first day of the first month shalt thou set up the tabernacle of the tent of the congregation."\par \par THE first day of the first month is significant of a beginning, or beginning anew. A type of the commencement of the Christian dispensation at Pentecost. On the first day of the month the moon began to shine afresh on the ehe SECOND month, in the second year after they were come out of the land of Egypt, the commandment was given for the numbering of the children of Israel from twenty years old and upward; all that were able to go forth to war in Israel (Numbers 1.1, 2).\par \par And on the day that Moses had FULLY SET up the Tabernacle, and anointed it and sanctified it, and all the vessels thereof, the princes of Israel that were over them that were numbered, presented their offering to Jehovah of six covered wagons, twelve oxen, with twelve silver chargers, and spoons of gold full of incense, with the ascending offerings, sin offerings, and peace offerings, and twelve days were occupied with the presentation (Numbers 7.).\par \par During the FIRST year the lessons of the wilderness were learnt: What the wilderness was; what the flesh was, both under grace (Ex. 19.4-6), and under law; and what God was in the various manifestations of His character.\par \par With the SECOND year, Israel's experience in connection with the Tabernacle commences, and to this period the books of Leviticus and Numbers apply.\par \par The FIRST year is typical of the Christian's individual experience; the SECOND, of his experience in connection with the Church of God, and in association with others professing Christianity.\par \par THE TABERNACLE SET UP.\par "And Moses reared up the Tabernacle."\par \par The Tabernacle is first mentioned before the tent of the congregation; for the first thought in the mind of the Spirit is a habitation for God, before that which represents the assembly of God's saints is spoken of.\par "And fastened his sockets." The sockets of silver composed of the redemption money of the children of Israel. Thus, typically, the foundations of God's Tabernacle are laid in redemption.\par "And set up the boards thereof." Typical of those believers who are gathered together to the confession of the name of Jesus, individually, standing firm on redemption, and collectively forming God's Tabernacle or dwelling-place (Eph. 2.22).\par "And put in the bars thereof." For the compacting and establishment of the whole. Like the joints and bands, the gifts of the Spirit for the edifying of the Body of Christ (Eph. 4.).\par \par "And reared up his pillars." The four pillars which held up the vail, corresponding with the four inspired historians of the life and death of Jesus; and the five pillars which supported the hanging of the door; answering to the apostles and prophets, the evangelists, pastors, and teachers, who exhibit Jesus as the way of entrance into the Tabernacle of God. And thus the Church becomes not only the house of God, and Church of the living God, but also the pillar and ground of the truth, for the manifestation and maintenance of the truth of God in the world.\par \par THE TENT OF THE CONGREGATION SPREAD.\par Verse 19. "And he spread abroad the tent over the Tabernacle, and put the covering of the tent above upon it; as Jehovah commanded Moses."\par \par The tent over the Tabernacle, or the tent of the Congregation, represents the assembly of believers, meeting in the Name of Jesus, who, in Spirit also, compose the habitation of God.\par The covering of the tent was twofold. First, the covering of Ram's skins dyed red, typical of the atoning work of the Lord Jesus, under the shelter of which the Church is seen by God.\par Secondly, the covering of badger's skins, above and over all, significant of the external lowly form and pilgrim character of the Church on earth. All done according to the Will and Word of God.\par \par The Overshadowing Cloud and the indwelling Glory.\par Exodus 11. 34, 35.\par \par MOSES having set up the ARK in the most holy place, and brought the ALTAR OF INCENSE, the LAMP-STAND, and the TABLE into the sanctuary or holy place; and having reared up the COURT, and brought in the LAVER, and the BRAZEN ALTAR, "as Jehovah commanded Moses."\par \par Verse 34. "Then the cloud covered the tent of the congregation, and the glory of Jehovah filled the Tabernacle."\par \par The EXTERNAL and INTERNAL manifestation of the Divine presence, protection and glory; Divine and almighty protection above, and Divine glory within. For "he that dwelleth in the secret place of the Most High, shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty." God Himself is "a wall of fire round about His people, and the glory in the midst." "The Spirit of glory and of God resteth upon them." "The eternal God is their refuge, and underneath are the everlasting arms."\par \par This overshadowing cloud and this indwelling glory was a prefiguring of what took place at Pentecost, when the Church of God first commenced its history and its course, and when believers were first builded together for a habitation of God, through the Spirit.\par \par "And when the day of Pentecost was fully come, they were all with one accord in one place. And suddenly there came a sound from heaven as of a rushing mighty wind, and it filled all the house where they were sitting. And there appeared unto them cloven tongues like as of fire, and it sat upon each one of them. And they were all filled with the Holy Ghost, and began to speak with other tongues, as the Spirit gave them utterance." See also the inspired prayer of the Apostle in Eph.3., that being strengthened by God's Spirit in the inner man, Christ dwelling in the heart by faith, believers might be filled into all the fulness of God. Seven times the Word of God testified that Moses had done each particular as Jehovah commanded. Then, and not till then, the cloud covered the tent, and the glory filled the Tabernacle.\par \par There is a principle of the utmost importance which throws a Divine light on many a perplexing question. Jude said unto the Lord, "How is it that Thou wilt manifest Thyself unto us, and not unto the world? Jesus answered and said unto him, If a man love Me he will keep My Words: and My Father will love him, and We will come unto him, and make Our abode with him" (John 14. 22, 23).\par \par So when Solomon had finished the house of Jehovah, according to the Divine will and pattern, then "the cloud filled the house of Jehovah, so that the priests could not stand to minister because of the cloud, for the glory of Jehovah had filled the house of Jehovah" (1 Kings 8.10,11).\par \par Isaiah prophesies of the future blessing to Israel, when "Jehovah will create upon every dwelling-place of Mount Zion, and upon her assemblies, a cloud and smoke by day, and the shining of a flaming fire by night; for upon all the glory shall be a defence" (Isaiah 4.5).\par \par Ezekiel, who saw in a vision the glory taking its gradual departure from the first Temple (Ezek. 10, 11), afterwards also in a vision saw the glory returning to the millennial Temple. "And, behold, the glory of Jehovah filled the house of Jehovah" (Ezekiel 44.4).\par \par John, in the apocalyptic vision of the Church's future blessedness, as the Bride of the Lamb, saw that great city, the holy Jerusalem, but "saw no Temple therein, for Jehovah, God Almighty and the Lamb are the temple of it. And the city had no need of the sun, neither of the moon to shine in it, for the glory of God did lighten it, and the Lamb is the lamp thereof" (Rev. 21.22,23).\par \par There no Temple rose before him,\par There no glory shone above;\par All was Temple, all was glory,\par All in all was God and love.\par \par The saints in glory will dwell in God, and God in them. His glory is their overshadowing cloud; His presence is their indwelling glory.\par \par Verse 35. "And Moses was not able to enter into the tent of the congregation, because the cloud abode thereon, and the glory of Jehovah filled the Tabernacle."\par \par And so on the Mount of Transfiguration, when Moses and Elijah appeared with Jesus in glory, there came a bright cloud and overshadowed them, and the disciples feared as they entered into the cloud. And there came a voice out of the cloud, saying, "This is My beloved Son, hear Him." And when the voice was past, Jesus was found alone (Luke 9.34-36). Thus, whether it be Moses the servant of God, or the priests in Solomon's Temple in their priestly ministry, or the two men on the Mount of Transfiguration, all give place to the glory of God and of the Lamb.\par \par THE GUIDANCE OF THE CLOUD.\par Exodus 40.36-38. "And when the cloud was taken up from over the Tabernacle, the children of Israel went onward in all their journeys; but if the cloud were not taken up, then they journeyed not till the day that it was taken up. For the cloud of Jehovah was upon the Tabernacle by day, and fire was on it by night, in the sight of all the House of Israel throughout all their journeys."\par \par The people of God are a journeying people, yet He will never leave them nor forsake them. The great thing is to walk with God, so as ever to enjoy the light and guidance of His presence. Moses said, "If Thy presence go not with us, carry us not up hence" (Ex. 33.15). Who that values that presence, but will often be presenting the same petition? The PRESENCE OF GOD with us - How seasonable! How suitable! Shade in sunshine! Light in darkness! Abiding with us while we tarry !.. Going before us when we move.\par \par There is one thing of all-importance taught us here. God's guidance of His people, and the manifestation of His presence with them, is connected with the Tabernacle, His dwelling-place among them. It was "when the cloud was taken up FROM OVER THE TABERNACLE, the children of Israel went onward." Their individual movements were controlled by God's acting in connection with the Tabernacle. So with us, if our individual actions are not influenced by the manifestation of God's presence and actings with the assembly, no wonder if we miss His guidance, and walk in darkness.\par \par Not only were the children of Israel to pitch round about the Tabernacle, having it as their centre, the very place of their tents being regulated by the position of the Tabernacle, because it was God's dwelling-place; but their every movement was to harmonise with God's movements in connection with it.\par \par Oh, for grace ever to remember and to act on this! We are so prone to make self our centre, and our individual interests and comforts, temporal or spiritual, the guides of our actions, that we need every now and then to be broken off from them, and to be brought back to God, and to the things of God.\par \par May we value the presence of God with us, and the unclouded sunshine of His smile in our individual pathway. But may we also seek the manifestation of His presence in the assembly of His saints, so as ever to see His power and His glory as we have seen it in the sanctuary.\par \par May the chill and the darkness, occasioned by the loss of His smile, be to us a warning of our wandering, if we turn aside to the right hand or to the left; whether it be in our individual course, or in our Church associations. May we walk, O God, in the light of Thy countenance, the confident language of our hearts being this, "Thou shalt guide us with Thy council, and afterward receive us to glory."\par \par } ((%C01.16 The Tabernacle set up{\rtf1\ansi\ansicpg1252\deff0{\fonttbl{\f0\fnil\fcharset0 Georgia;}} {\colortbl ;\red0\green0\blue0;\red255\green0\blue0;} {\*\generator Riched20 5.40.11.2210;}\viewkind4\uc1\pard\cf1\lang1033\f0\fs22 Thomas Newberry\line\b TYPES OF THE TABERNACLE\par \cf2\b0 THE TABERNACLE REARED UP\cf1\par \par Exodus 40.9-19.\par IN verses 9-16, we have the anointing of the Tabernacle and all therein, its vessels, the altar, and layer. Also the clothing and anointing of Aaron and his sons; but as we have had this subject previously, we now proceed at verse 17.\par \par THE PERIOD WHEN THE TABERNACLE WAS REARED.\par Verse 17. "And it came to pass in the first month in the second year, on the first day of the month, that the tabernacle was reared up."\par \par The first day of the second year of Israel's experience as a redeemed people, was an important period in their history. On this day the Tabernacle was set up.\par On the day of tafraid" (Gen. 3. 10).\par \par Concerning Enoch, the seventh from Adam, it is recorded that "he walked with God" (Gen. 5. 21-24). The word is the same as is used of Jehovah walking in the garden. It is implied that before the Fall, God walked with man and man with God. "Enoch walked with God." When he struck out on that path he was not the inventor of it. God had set the example. He desires companionship with us more than we do with Him. The walk begun in Eden, broken off by sin, was renewed with Enoch, amid the evils of a fallen world, continued with Noah and all the children of faith onward to the Cross. A Sunday-school teacher, explaining the translation of Enoch to her class, thus expressed herself :-"God was in the habit of taking long walks with Enoch, and one evening, when they had gone far and talked so long, it was too late for Enoch to go back to his home, so God took him home with Him." Thus shall it be with all who walk with God. That walk begun in Paradise before the Fall, renewed in grace, taken up in resurrection by the Lord Jesus, will be continued in the Paradise of God through eternity, in that eternal day which knows no shadow and no evening. "In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye " (1 Thess. 4. 16.17) the Lord will come and take His pilgrim people who walk with Him down here to be for ever with Himself at home up there. "The Lamb which is in the midst of the throne shall feed them and shall lead them " (Rev. 7. 17). According to His own words, "I go to prepare a place for you. . . . I come again, and will receive you unto Myself" (John 14. 2, 3).\par God's earthly dwelling-places\par \par THERE are three structures mentioned in the Word of which God was pleased to give patterns and particular instructions:-First, the Tabernacle in the Wilderness; next, the Temple of Solomon, on Mount Moriah; and, thirdly - yet in the future - the Temple spoken of by Ezekiel - the Millennial Temple.\par \par God, in the condescendence of His grace, has caused His Word to be written, so that His children may not be ignorant. He has given His Spirit also to guide them into all the truth. The Word of God is an illustrated Book, full of object-lessons conveying spiritual truths. Of these the chief are the Tabernacle and the Temple. Creation has its voice to man. "The heavens declare the glory of God, and the firmament showeth His handiwork" (Psalm 19. 1), so that men are without excuse (Rom.1. 20) as to the acknowledgment of His eternal power and Godhead. In the two structures of which He is the design er and the architect, " every whit speaks His glory " (Psalm 29. 9). This makes them of eternal interest to us.\par The Tabernacle in the wilderness\par \par When the children of Israel were brought out from Egypt under shelter of the blood of the paschal lamb, on their way to Canaan, God could speak to them, as a redeemed people, concerning a sanctuary for Himself - God's dwelling-place with man on earth. He gave Moses a pattern of the Tabernacle; He revealed to him upon Mount Sinai His own thoughts about it, and directed him to make all things according to the pattern shown him (Ex. 25. 8, 9). The Tabernacle in the wilderness, which was thus made in accordance with God's command, is an appropriate and expressive type of the Church of God in its present wilderness condition during this dispensation - the dwelling-place of God in His redeemed, according to the Word -"I will dwell in them and walk with them; and I will be their God, and they shall be My people" (2 Cor. 6. 16). "But will God in very deed dwell with men on the earth? Behold, the heaven and heaven of heavens cannot contain Him" (2 Chron. 6. 18). What a vivid idea Solomon gives us of the infinitude of God in that expression! All created things are finite, unlimited as the spaces occupied by them may appear to us - heavens stretching beyond heavens in apparently interminable succession, but, in the nature of things, limited. Not so God; He is infinite. The Apostle John writes of the holy Jerusalem:\par \par "I saw no temple therein: for Jehovah God Almighty and the Lamb are the temple of it" (Rev. 21. 22). When the Lord Jesus was on earth, He was God's dwelling-place (John 1. 14). The redeemed are God's temple in which He dwells (Eph. 2. 22); but God Himself is the temple in which they worship. Creation cannot contain His fulness; but those who love Him and abide in Him are filled with all the fulness of God (Eph. 3. 19). God says, "Heaven is My throne, and earth is My footstool." "I dwell in the high and holy place, with him also that is of a contrite and humble spirit" (Isa. 57. 15; 66. 1, 2). Marvellous condescension of Divine and infinite love! God seeking the companionship of men! He desired to renew it with Israel, and, through them, with the rest of mankind. Broken by sin, He longed to renew it. and this He has done through redemption, as is here set forth in type. No sooner was the sanctuary provided, and everything accomplished according to God's word, than "the glory of Jehovah filled the tabernacle" (Ex. 40. 34). \par }   ZoW02.01 Introduction, God's earthly dwelling-places{\rtf1\ansi\ansicpg1252\deff0{\fonttbl{\f0\fnil\fcharset0 Georgia;}} {\colortbl ;\red0\green0\blue0;\red255\green0\blue0;} {\*\generator Riched20 5.40.11.2210;}\viewkind4\uc1\pard\cf1\lang1033\f0\fs22 Thomas Newberry\par \b TYPES OF THE TEMPLE\b0\par \cf2 Introduction\cf1\par \par When the Lord God-Jehovah-Elohim, the Triune God - had planted the garden of Eden, and filled it with everything that could delight the senses, he placed man there. Adam and Eve having sinned, and hearing the voice of God, walking in the garden in the cool of the day, they hid themselves from His presence amongst the trees. God asked, "Adam, where art thou?" And he said, "I heard Thy voice . . . and I was par The SECOND is the Temple of Ezra. When Israel had completed the seventy years of captivity, God in fulfilment of His promise, stirred up Cyrus to give commandment for the rebuilding of the Temple on its ancient site (Ezra 1. 6), God using His prophets Haggai and Zechariah to strengthen the hands of the children of Israel who returned from the Babylonish captivity. Though this temple was inferior to that of Solomon, it was built on the same site, and God was pleased to own it with the manifestations of His presence.\par \par The THIRD Temple was that of Herod the Great, the Idumean king, which was forty-six years in building; and whilst, no doubt, it retained some portions of the original structure, it differed from both Solomon's and Ezra's, especially in the arrangement of the courts. From the account given by Josephus, it seems to have been larger than Solomon's, and was built according to his own taste, much being added. There were added the Court of the Gentiles and the Court of the Women, of which the Word of God says nothing. This is the Temple which was in existence when our Lord was upon earth. There is much confusion in the minds of some as to the place where our Lord and His disciples worshipped. They could not enter the Courts of the Priests or draw near to the altar. When we read of the Lord and His disciples going up to the Temple, we are not to suppose that they entered beyond the exterior courts. The Holy Ghost has employed two distinct words in the original Greek of the New Testament in speaking of the Temple : one is Hieron (from hieros, sacred or priestly), which refers to the whole Temple, its courts and other buildings - the external structure. The other word, Naos (from nais, to dwell) signifies the inner building, embracing the porch, the holy and most holy places - the sanctuary. It was into the external courts our Lord went, for, not being of the tribe of Levi, He could not enter the inner Temple. "Christ is not entered into holy places made with hands" (Heb. 9. 24). Into the holy place the priests entered to trim the lamps in the morning and light them in the evening; to burn incense, morning and evening, on the golden altar; and to arrange, once a week, the shewbread on the tables. Consequently, Zacharias (Luke 1. 8 - 10) was alone in the Temple, while the people prayed without, at time of incense.\par \par This Temple of Herod was destroyed by the Roman army under Titus, Anno Domini 70. The destruction was foretold by our Lord Himself when He said to His disciples that not one stone should be left upon another (Matt. 24. 1, 2). It had also been foretold by the Spirit of God through the prophet Daniel in that wondrous vision of the seventy weeks of years (Dan. 9. 24 - 27). The Jews reckoned years by periods of weeks (from shebang, seven) as well as days. In Dan. 10. 2 it is weeks of days. The angel Gabriel informed Daniel, "Seventy weeks (of years) are determined (cut out) upon thy people and upon thy holy city." These seventy weeks commenced "from the going forth of the commandment to restore and build Jerusalem" (Neh. 2.) - from the date of that commandment from Artaxerxes "unto Messiah the Prince" (not the Sacrifice, thus taking in the whole period) "shall be seven weeks" (that is, forty - nine years), during which the wall and the street shall be built "in troublous times." After the "threescore and two weeks" (making up, with the previous seven weeks, sixty-nine weeks - four hundred and eighty-three years) "shall Messiah be cut off," mark "but not for Himself " - literally, "and nothing to Him," or, as some render it "He shall have nothing." Thus sixty-nine weeks are accounted for. The seventieth week is in abeyance. The present dispensation fills up the gap - that period during which Israel is in rejection because she rejected the Messiah - a time of mercy to the Gentiles, for God is taking out of them a people for His name, and a remnant of Israel according to the election of grace. As Daniel foretold, after the cutting off of Messiah, "the people of the prince that shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary." The "prince that shall come" is Antichrist, the Lawless One, the Man of Sin, the head of the Roman Empire in its final form. The Romans were "the people of the prince." The cutting off of Messiah was to be a preliminary fact to the destruction of the city and Temple. All this has come to pass as God had said.\par \par Now we come to the FOURTH Temple mentioned in the Sacred Scriptures. Read Daniel 9.26,27; 12, 11; Matt. 24. 15 - 22; 2 Thess. 2. 1 - 8; Rev. 11. 1, 2. Our Lord says Jerusalem shall be trodden down of the Gentiles till the times of the Gentiles are fulfilled (Luke 21. 24). Israel has been carried away and scattered among the nations. There is no temple of God, no earthly house in which He has placed His name now, but, in order that the Word of God may be fulfilled, there will be a temple on earth called by His name in which the Antichrist will appear. At the time of the end the prince shall come, of whom our Lord foretells, "Another shall come in his own name; him ye will receive." When he comes he will make a covenant with the Jews of "one week" (seven years). Here we get the missing week of years, thus completing the seventy. The prince, the head of the Roman Empire, in the midst of the week, according to another prophecy, breaks the covenant, and takes away the daily sacrifice. The "abomination of desolation" is to be set up in the Holy Place, as we read in 2 Thessalonians 2. 4, "He as God sitteth in the temple of God, showing himself that he is God." The moment that sign appears, the Lord warns His people to flee, and in His tender grace to pray that their flight may not be in the winter nor on the Sabbath Day. There must be a temple of God (Rev. 11.) in which Antichrist is to show himself thus, an altar recognised as an "altar of God," a daily sacrifice which can be taken away, a Sabbath Day observed. Thus we have the last week of Daniel divided into two portions, three and a half years from the time the covenant begins until the taking away of the daily sacrifice. Then comes the time of great tribulation (Matt. 24. 21).\par \par The Mosque of Omar or "Dome of the Rock" stands on that marble platform which was the firm foundation of the former temples, on the spot which David bought of Araunah the Jebusite, and where Abraham offered up his son Isaac. For centuries it has been kept sacred in the hands of the Mohammedans, and thus preserved from the idolatries of the Romish and the Greek Church.\par \par The FIFTH will be the Millennial Temple, as fully described in the last nine chapters of the Prophet Ezekiel. It will be built in the land of Israel during the millennial period, and will be the centre of worship for Israel and all the inhabitants of the earth. According to Isaiah 66. 23, and 56. 7, "My house shall be called a house of prayer for all nations." "All nations shall flow into it" (Isaiah 2. 2). This temple will be erected in the midst of the priests' portion of the holy oblation (Ezekiel 14. 1 - 5).\par \par } ##:AE02.02 Temples of Scripture{\rtf1\ansi\deff0{\fonttbl{\f0\fnil\fcharset0 Georgia;}} {\colortbl ;\red0\green0\blue0;\red255\green0\blue0;} {\*\generator Riched20 5.40.11.2210;}\viewkind4\uc1\pard\cf1\lang1033\f0\fs22 Thomas Newberry\par \b TYPES OF THE TEMPLE\b0\par \cf2 Temples of Scripture\cf1\par \par There are five temples mentioned in Scripture.\par \par The FIRST is the Temple of Solomon, built on Mount Moriah, connected with Israel in the land, a type of all the redeemed who have part in the first resurrection - not alone the saints of the present dispensation, but including all from Adam and Eve and Abel, on to the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, and our gathering together to Him, the true King of kings. The Temple of Solomon, because of the transgression of the children of Israel, was given over into the hands of their enemies. It was destroyed by the Chaldeans because Israel had defiled it, and the holy vessels were carried away to Babylon.\par \ manifestation of God's presence with Israel. "David said to Nathan the prophet, Lo, I dwell in a house of cedars, but the Ark of the Covenant of Jehovah remaineth under curtains" (1 Chron. 17. 1. See also Psalm 132). But Jehovah told David that Solomon his son was to build the house to His name.\par THE RANSOM MONEY.\par \par We read in Exodus 30. God's commandment concerning the numbering of the children of Israel in the wilderness, that, when the people were taken account of, from twenty years old and upwards, each one numbered among the people of God was to bring a ransom for his soul, a bekah or twenty gerahs, the half shekel of the sanctuary (the didrachma of the New Testament, value about fifteen pence) (see Matt. 17. 24 - 27), "that there might be no plague"; the ransom price being paid into the treasury of God, they were numbered as a ransomed or redeemed people. In Exodus 38. we find it amounted to one hundred talents and one thousand seven hundred and seventy-five shekels of silver, each talent being about 114 lbs. of our weight, or \'a3 343 3s. 9d. in value. Of these, one hundred talents of silver were cast for the sockets of the tabernacle, ninety-six for the sockets of the boards, and four for the pillars of the veil; the remainder of the silver was for the hooks, chapiters, and connecting rods of the pillars. What was all this a type of? The Spirit of God through the Apostle Peter throws the light of Heaven on this subject, in the words, "Ye were not redeemed with corruptible things, as silver or gold, . . . but with the precious blood of Christ" (1 Peter 1. 18, 19). This is "the redemption which is in Christ Jesus." "It is the blood that maketh atonement for the soul" (Romans 3. 21. This typical tabernacle of God in the wilderness, pitched on the sands of the desert, each board of shittim wood fixed in their sockets of silver, was founded on the redemption, foreshadowing the redemption price of God's own spotless Lamb, on which alone our souls can rest, as builded together for a habitation of God through the Spirit.\par DAVID'S TEMPTATION.\par \par Acting under the instigation of the adversary, requested Joab to number the children of Israel, for, it would appear, his own gratification, "that I may know the number of the people." They were not numbered as God's redeemed, but as the people of David, consequently judgment followed. There is no mention of the redemption price having been paid. The angel of God went forth in judgment, and seventy thousand in Israel in three days fell. On David's confession of his sin, God, in His tender mercy and longsuffering, abundant in goodness, as well as in truth, commanded by the prophet Gad that David should build an altar to Jehovah on the threshing-floor of Oman (or Arauna) the Jebusite. David obeyed. He purchased the threshing-floor for fifty shekels of SILVER, with the oxen and implements (2 Samuel 24. 24), paying its full value, the legal price; but he GAVE for the surrounding place, or land, six hundred shekels of GOLD, a place for the courts of Jehovahs's house, a site for the Temple. David there erected an altar, offered sacrifice, a burnt or ascending offering, and a peace offering, and God showed His acceptance by answering David by fire from Heaven, accepting the sacrifice as a savour of rest to Himself. SILVER is the emblem of redemption; therefore for the site on which atonement was made silver was paid. GOLD is the emblem of Divine glory, and gold was given for the site of the Temple. Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law, having been made a curse for us, thus satisfying justice to the full, but He has redeemed us TO everlasting glory; and the glory which the Father gives Him He shares with His people (John 17. 22). The demands of law have been met, and the atonement price fully paid in the blood of the Lamb; but, over and above all this, glory has been GIVEN in the riches of Divine grace. In Matt. 13. the FIELD was purchased for the sake of the TREASURE hid in it; the PEARL for its own preciousness and beauty.\par DAVID'S PROVISION FOR THE TEMPLE.\par \par David, in his trouble, " before his death," prepared abundantly for the house of his God (1 Chron. 22). He considered that the house to be built to Jehovah should be "exceeding magnifical of fame ani of glory throughout all countries," and he made provision accordingly. He provided "a hundred thousand talents of gold." A talent of gold is considered to be of about 114 lb. weight, and is computed to be worth \'a35,475 of English money. Thus a hundred thousand talents would amount to five hundred and forty-seven millions five hundred thousand pounds sterling. And he also provided "a thousand thousand talents of silver." This, at \'a3342 the talent, amounts to three hundred and forty-two millions of pounds. These together, GOLD and SILVER, eight hundred and eighty-nine million five hundred thousand pounds sterling! He provided also of brass and iron without weight, for it was in abundance, and timber and stone also, all manner of precious stones and marble stones! Moreover, "because he had set his affection to the house of his God," he gave of his own proper good, over and above what he had prepared, three thousand talents 5 of gold of the gold of Ophir,\rdblquote amounting in value to \'a316,425,000, \ldblquote and seven thousand talents of refined silver,\rdblquote amounting to \'a32,394,000, \ldblquote to overlay [plaster] the walls of the houses withal\rdblquote (1 Chron. 29. 3, 4). David in the first instance (1 Chron. 22.) provides with all his MIGHT, in the second instance (1 Chron. 29. 1 - 4) because he had set his AFFECTION on the house of his God; the former we may say was a work of faith, the latter a labour of love. Faith works with all its might, Love impoverishes itself to enrich its object, provides its utmost and its best. David, not content with emptying the exchequer of his kingdom, so to speak, throws in his own private property over and above, not only gold, but gold of Ophir; not only silver, but refined silver; reminding us of Him who, though He was rich, yet for our sakes became poor (2 Cor. 8. 9).\par \par In addition to this, the chiefs, princes, and captains of Israel contributed five thousand talents of gold and ten thousand drams, ten thousand talents of silver, eighteen thousand talents of brass, and one hundred thousand talents of iron. "And they with whom precious stones were found gave them to the treasure of the house of Jehovah." "Then the people rejoiced, for that they offered willingly." This was a matter of joy. "David the king also rejoiced with great joy" (1 Chron. 29. 6-22). In noticing the contributions, we may observe that the Spirit of God not only mentions the talents but the drams; so, whatever is done for God in the name of the Lord Jesus, be it ever so little in man\rquote s estimation, has a value set upon it, Even a cup of cold water is not overlooked.\par \par The magnificence of the house consisted, not so much in its size as in its structure and material. God was its architect, so planning it that it might be a pattern of spiritual and heavenly realities; and its materials were designed to be emblematical of excellencies and glories which are spiritual, heavenly, and divine. When we consider the enormous value of the gold and silver contributed for the Temple, unbelieving atheism may ask, "To what purpose was this waste?" But that which was expended on the house of God and devoted to His glory was not wasted. There is such a thing as laying up "treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth corrupt, and where thieves do not break through nor steal."\par SOLOMON'S PREPARATION.\par \par "Solomon determined to build a house for the name of Jehovah" (2 Chron. 2. 1). DAVID may be regarded especially as a type of Jesus in His humiliation and sufferings on earth; SOLOMON of Christ in resurrection and heavenly glory. Solomon sends to Huram or Hiram, king of Tyre, informing him of his design, in these remarkable words, "Behold, I build a house to the name of Jehovah my God, to dedicate it to Him." "And the house which I build is great for great is our God above all gods. But who is able to build Him a house, seeing the heaven and heaven of heavens cannot contain Him? Who am I, then, that should build Him a house, save only to burn sacrifice [incense] before Him?" (2 Chron. 2.). And reminding Hiram that he had sent cedars to David his father, Solomon requests him to send a skilled workman, cedar trees, fir or cypress trees, and algum trees out of Lebanon. To this Hiram consents, promising to send the cedar and fir trees by floats to Jaffa; and Solomon was to give to the workmen wheat and oil (1 Kings 6. 1 - 12; 2 Chron. 2.).\par SOLOMON\rquote S WORKMEN.\par \par He raised a levy out of Israel of thirty thousand, whom he sent to Lebanon: ten thousand a month by courses, so that they were a month in Lebanon and two months at home. Adoniram was over this levy. And of the strangers that were in Israel he sent seventy thousand to be bearers of burdens, eighty thousand to be hewers in the mountains, and three thousand and six hundred officers and overseers (2 Chron. 2. 2, 17, 18). It was under Solomon that we see this remark able combination of JEW and GENTILE in the work; so it is CHRIST JESUS, risen and glorified, of whom Solomon was a type, who builds the Temple of God, and having reconciled both Jew and Gentile unto God in one body by the Cross, employs those who are His own, called out from both, in His service.\par \par Christ incarnate was God\rquote s living Temple while He was on earth. When He spake of the Temple of God, it was "the temple of His body" (John 2. 19 - 21). But Christ, risen and glorified, is the chief cornerstone of the heavenly Temple, uniting JEW AND GENTILE in Himself, "in WHOM all the building, fitly framed together, groweth unto a holy Temple in the Lord" (Eph. 2. 20, 21). When the present dispensation is past, Jew and Gentile will again be recognised and dealt with separately by God; but all such distinctions are unknown in the Church, which is His body and His temple.\par \par } VV{O702.03 Preparations for the temple{\rtf1\ansi\deff0{\fonttbl{\f0\fnil\fcharset0 Georgia;}} {\colortbl ;\red0\green0\blue0;\red255\green0\blue0;} {\*\generator Riched20 5.40.11.2210;}\viewkind4\uc1\pard\cf1\lang1033\f0\fs22 Thomas Newberry\par \b TYPES OF THE TEMPLE\b0\par \cf2 Preparations for the Temple\cf1\par DAVID'S FIRST THOUGHT.\par \par AFTER David had been established on the throne and his kingdom at peace, he set his heart on building a house for Jehovah. That which at first led David to think of building the Temple, doubtless under Divine guidance, was a desire to provide a suitable resting-place for the Ark of the Covenant, as connected with the built. To was to form this foundation platform that the Lord gave commandment, as we read in 1 Kings 5, 17, "And the king commanded, and they brought great stones, costly stones, and hewed stones, to lay the foundation of the house.'' This broad platform level and secure, was for the erection of the Temple, its courts, and other buildings.\par \par And the foundation was of costly stones, even great stones, stones of ten cubits. and stones of eight cubits (1 Kings 7.10 - in plain language, about twenty feet and sixteen feet in length. These firm foundation stones remain intact beneath the surface to the present day. One of the great services which the Palestine Exploration Fund Committee has rendered to the Church of God is the investigation which they have so skilfully carried on in respect to this foundation platform, it is an oblong structure, in round numbers about one thousand five hundred feet long, and about one Thousand feet in breadth it is known as the Haram-ash-Sherreff or Noble Sanctuary of the Mohammedans. The surface is nearly level, carpeted with grass; cypresses are found there, and oratories and mosques. About the centre of the enclosure is a platform nearly square, about sixteen feet in height, formed in part of masonry, in part of the native rock, and paved with stone slabs, on which stands that which is now known as the Mosque of Omar, which the Mohammedans call Kubbet-es-Sakhra, or "Dome of the Rock." Above the surface of this platform time has done its work; siege after siege has committed ravages; but below the surface, to a depth of sixty, seventy, or one hundred and twenty feet, there have been discovered those vast stones of which we read in the Sacred Record, so closely joined that scarcely a pen-knife could be put between the joints; without cement, firm and immovable. On some of them may be seen the marks of the builders, in red vermilion.\par FOUNDATION TRUTHS.\par \par This foundation platform is built upon Mount Moriah-Moriah, the vision or manifestation of Jah or Jehovah; as it was said, "In the mount of Jehovah it shall be seen." In that wondrous twenty-second chapter of Genesis, we have not only foretold God's own Lamb which He has provided, but we have there the mount of Jehovah-JIREH. Solomon as a wise master-builder, went deep, and laid the foundations upon a rock : hence their security. Let us learn from it afresh the lesson of our Lord in the seventh chapter of Matthew, that, however '' well builded," however skilfully erected, our house may be, if built on sand, when the hour of trial comes and the overwhelming scourge passes through, it must come down. When God lays judgment to the line and justice to the plummet, He will sweep away every refuge of lies.\rdblquote It is on GOD that the firm foundations of our faith for time and for eternity must rest. If our faith is in Christ, it must be in THE CHRIST OF GOD, founded upon the character, the perfections, and the attributes of the unchanging, eternal God. "Trust ye in Jehovah for ever: for in Jah (Jehovah) is the Rock of Ages" (Isa. 26.4). Jah\emdash the title of God in the eternity of His existence, "inhabiting eternity," to whom past, present, and to come is one eternal NOW. Jehovah\emdash the title of God as the everlasting one, "that is, and was, and is to come." God\rquote s PURPOSES and PLANS connected with the ransom of man in time, and the monument of His eternal glory to be erected thereupon in eternity, were laid deep in the counsels of eternity; the work was according to the eternal purpose, the purpose of the ages, which He purposed in our Lord Jesus Christ (Eph. 3.11). The FATHER in eternity laid the stupendous plan. The SON laid down His life to accomplish it. The eternal Spirit renders the work effectual in each believing soul. "Other foundation can no man lay than that is laid, which is Jesus Christ " (1 Cor. 3. 9\emdash 11). " This is the stone which was set at nought of [by] you builders, which is become the head of the corner. Neither is there salvation in any other : for there is none other name under heaven given among men whereby we can be saved " (Acts 4.11, 12). If faith is to be steadfast and secure, it is not to be for ever laying and relaying the foundation. "Not laying again the foundation of repentance from dead works, and of faith toward God, of the doctrine of baptisms, and of laying on of hands, and of resurrection of the dead, and of eternal judgment" (Heb. 6.1, 2). Let these vast truths be taught as the rudiments and foundations of our knowledge of Divine things - unchanging, immovable. There can be no glory to God, no salvation to men, where there is no Divine foundation. It is no building of God, no habitation of God through the Spirit, if the DIVINITY of Christ is denied. The rock foundation of our faith must be "God manifest in the flesh." As the Apostle says, "To whom coming, as unto a living stone, disallowed indeed of men, but chosen of God, and precious, ye also as lively [living] stones, are built up a spiritual house.\par \par Wherefore also it is contained in the Scripture, Behold, I lay in Zion a chief corner-stone, elect, precious:\par and he that believeth on Him shall not be confounded [ashamed] " (1 Peter 2. 4-8). Christ Himself, in His person and work, is the chief corner-stone of the whole. The ROCK is the truth of God which He reveals to the soul, as in the case of Peter (see Matt. 16. 15-18), when he confessed, "Thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God." And Jesus answered and said unto him, "Blessed art thou, Simon Bar-jona: for flesh and blood bath not revealed it unto thee, but My Father which is in heaven. And I say unto thee, That THOU art Peter [a stone] and upon this rock I will build My church." Then we also read, "built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ Himself being the chief corner" [foundation corner] (Eph. 2. 20). The apostles and prophets of the New Testament dispensation, through whom the truth of God was revealed and given to us, built upon those great and grand foundation truths contained in the inspired Scriptures of the New Testament in full confirmation, dovetailed in, and builded together with the massive truths of the Old; resting upon the same foundation. Every doctrine of revealed truth is truth as it is in Jesus - all centering in His blessed person, all in harmony with His work, accomplished at no less a cost than the incarnation, sufferings, and death of the Son of God.\par \par Then, again, where there is no DIVINE, ETERNAL SPIRIT, there can be no Christ. Who is the Christ? The Christos in the Greek, which means the ANOINTED - " The Spirit of Jehovah is upon Me, because He hath anointed Me" (see Luke 4. 16-21)----is the answer. You cannot have Christianity without Christ; you cannot have Christ without the Spirit; you cannot have the Son without the Father, nor the Father apart from the Son. To take away or deny one of these foundation truths is to disturb the whole, for these things, like those great massive stones of the Temple foundation, are embedded together.\par \lang1033\par } ,U02.05 The measurements and structure{\rtf1\ansi\deff0{\fonttbl{\f0\fnil\fcharset0 Georgia;}} {\colortbl ;\red0\green0\blue0;\red255\green0\blue0;} {\*\generator Riched20 5.40.11.2210;}\viewkind4\uc1\pard\cf1\lang3082\f0\fs22 Thomas Newberry\par \b TYPES OF THE TEMPLE\par \cf2\b0 The Measurements and Structure.\cf1\par \p>GG02.04 The foundation platform{\rtf1\ansi\deff0{\fonttbl{\f0\fnil\fcharset0 Georgia;}} {\colortbl ;\red0\green0\blue0;\red255\green0\blue0;} {\*\generator Riched20 5.40.11.2210;}\viewkind4\uc1\pard\cf1\lang3082\f0\fs22 Thomas Newberry\par \b TYPES OF THE TEMPLE\par \cf2\b0 The Foundation Platform\cf1\par \par In order to raise the surrounding mount to a level with the floor, the place of the altar on its summit, a foundation platform of stupendous structure wasar IT is by combining the statements in I Kings 6. (2 Chron. 3. and Ezekiel 40. 41., etc.), that we ascertain the dimensions and details of the Temple and its courts; some particulars being given in one place, some in another; but, wherever the measure ments are repeated in the different books, they perfectly coincide, or differ only in a manner which helps to ascertain the truth. In general the INTERNAL. measurements are given rather than the external. The measure generally employed is that of the cubit or forearm, respecting the exact length of which there is diversity of opinion. According to some eighteen inches, to others twenty-one, while others make it 21.888 inches, or nearly one foot ten, and some even twenty-five inches. It will be generally sufficient, in order to form an idea of the various dimensions, to adopt some easy measurement, say one foot ten, or two feet. The cubit of Ezekiel is one-sixth larger, being a cubit and a handbreadth (Ezek. 40. 5), the handbreadth being reckoned as one-sixth of the ordinary cubit.\par \par Ezekiel\rquote s REED of six GREAT cubits is therefore equal to seven ordinary cubits. But when the SCALE is larger, the number of cubits where the measurements coincide is the same. SEVEN being the Scriptural number for completeness or perfection, it is interesting to observe that the measurements of the Temple of Ezekiel, or the MILLENNIAL Temple, are thus brought up to the scale of perfectness.\par THE MEASUREMENTS OF THE HOLY AND MOST HOLY PLACE.\par \par The length (of the house) by cubits, after the first measure (that is, as I understand it, after the ordinary cubit), was threescore cubits, and the breadth twenty cubits (1 Kings 5. 2, 17; 2 Chron. 3. 3). This is internal measurement, and inclusive both of the Holy and Most Holy places. This is distinctly stated in Ezekiel 41. 2, 4. "He measured the length thereof, forty cubits: and the breadth, twenty cubits" (verse 2), that is, of the Holy Place. "So he measured the length thereof, twenty cubits; and the breadth, twenty cubits, before the Temple: and he said unto me \lquote This is the most holy\rquote [holy of the holies]."\par "The height thereof thirty cubits" (1 Kings 6. 2), the internal height of the wall of the Holy Place, while the height of the Oracle, or Most Holy Place, was twenty cubits (1 Kings 6. 20).\par THE PORCH.\par \par The Porch BEFORE THE HOUSE in internal measurement was twenty cubits in length, ten cubits in breadth, twenty cubits in height (1 Kings 6. 3.) It is well to remember that in the Tabernacle in the Wilderness the Holy Place was twenty cubits long by ten cubits broad, but TEN cubits internal HEIGHT. In 2 Chron. 3. 4 the Porch is described as a hundred and twenty cubits HIGH, but this is acknowledged to be a mistake arising from a transposition of letters; the Alexandrian copy of the Septuagint reads "twenty cubits." In Ezek. 40. 49 the breadth is from the door of the Holy Place one cubit deeper, eleven cubits.\par THE WINDOWS.\par \par "Windows of narrow lights" [broad within, narrow without] (see 1 Kings 6. 4, margin).. These appear to be for the Holy Place; whilst in Ezek. 41. 26 we read, "And there were narrow windows and palm trees [artificial palms] on the one side and on the other side, on the sides of the porch, and upon the side-chambers of the house." These were the windows of the porch and of the side- chambers on either side.\par THE FLOORS, CHAMBERS, AND GALLERIES.\par \par "And against the walls of the house he built chambers [floors or stories] round about" [on either side] (1 Kings 6. 5). The Hebrew word sahbib rendered "round about" is to be interpreted according to the connection. Sometimes it means "on either side," as in Ex. 7., 24, where it first occurs; and sometimes "round about." These FLOORS were formed of rafters of cedar, in three storeys, on which the side chambers and galleries were, and they extended the whole length of the house.\par \par "And he made chambers [side-chambers] round about: the nethermost chamber [floor or storey] was five cubits broad." The word is floor, but it is true both of the floors and chambers. Compare Ezek. 41. 7. "The middle was six cubits broad, and the third was seven cubits broad: for without in the wall of the house he made narrowed-rests [narrowings or rebatements] round about [on either side], that the beams should not be fastened in the walls of the house" (1 Kings 6. 6, 10). This is further explained in Ezek. 41. 5-8. The wall of the house, at the foundation of the side-chambers, was six cubits; the thickness of the wall for the LOWER side-chamber was five cubits (verse 9); as the side-chambers of the second and third storeys enlarged one cubit each, the wall decreased in proportion. The side-chambers were in three storeys, fifteen on either side in each storey, making ninety in all, four cubits broad each (Ezek. 41. 5), five cubits high (1 Kings 6. 10). They seem hinted at in 1 Chron. 28. 11. David gave to Solomon the pattern of the TREASURIES, probably the side-chambers on the first floor; and of the UPPER CHAMBERS, or the second and third storeys; and of the INNER PARLOURS, or the innermost side-chambers toward the west.\par \par It appears there was but one door of entrance from the galleries, on each side of the Temple, so that the passage was from one to another into the innermost (1 Kings 6. 8; Ezek. 41. 11). And from the whole building being said to be seventy cubits broad (Ezek. 41. 12), these galleries appear to have extended ten cubits on either side; for the width of the house was fifty cubits. I might suggest that the chambers reached by ascending stairs were for the use of the priests and Levites, who day and night served in the Temple, watch by watch, that they might wait on God continually.\par THE TYPICAL IMPORT.\par \par We read in 2 Cor. 12. 2 of the third heaven, implying a first and second; so the threefold division of the Temple, the Porch, the Holy Place, and the Holiest of all, may be figures of these three heavens; while the side-chambers in three storeys, becoming larger as they ascend, and leading one into another from east to west, and still ascending higher and higher, is strikingly suggestive of thoughts of enlargement and progress in heavenly glory, of higher heights, of fuller conformity to God and fellowship with Him. Not only do these chambers ascend higher and grow larger, but there is a progress from east to west, from one chambers to another, until the innermost chamber is reached, the nearest to "the Holiest of all," the nearest to the manifested glory of God. Thus shall the saints have increasing capacity to enjoy and serve God in the countless ages of eternity to come. Their progress also from the sun-rising towards the Holiest of all is suggestive of thoughts of that eternal day, having a morning without clouds,\par "a sacred, high, eternal noon,"\par without an evening or night, still -\par "Nearer, our God, to Thee, Nearer to Thee."\par \par The variety and number bring forcibly to our remembrance the words of Jesus to His disciples, "In My Father\rquote s house are many mansions" (John 14. 2). The GALLERIES in front of the side-chambers, on their three stories, afford a wider range, an increasingly higher and more extensive prospect. We can scarcely imagine that a million ages spent in the presence and service of God will leave us the same at the end as we were at the beginning. Surely we shall rise higher and higher, and yet higher in our enjoyment, our acquaintance, and communion with God in that eternal day. As we rise in our apprehension of God, our capacities for knowing Him will proportionately expand. What heart can conceive, what tongue can tell, what God and the Lamb have in reserve for the redeemed in glory in the ages to come, which stretch onward before us in ever-widening and brightening anticipation! There to be nearer and yet nearer, to worship, admire, adore. No standing still, but an evergrowing aquaintance with God, and an ever-increasing capacity for the enjoyment of, and communion with, Him whom we adore.\par \lang1033\par } n heard in the house, while it was in building" (1 Kings vi., 7). Stone placed upon stone, each fitted into its appointed place, and all these white marble stones were polished after the similitude of a palace -\par \par "Like some tall palm the noiseless fabric sprung."\par \par In 1 Chron. 29., 2, we read that David provided "marble stones in abundance." The Hebrew word employed shows that the marble was WHITE. These stones were doubtless used for the paving of the court, for the structure of the wall, and for the building of the Temple, "according to the measures of hewed stones" (1 Kings 7., 9, 11). The Spirit of God interprets in one portion of the Scriptures the figures He uses in another. The Apostle Peter says, "Ye also, as living stones, are built up a spiritual house" I Peter 2., 5). Each stone represents the individual believer, once dead in trespasses and sins, but now quickened by the Spirit of the living God; hence we are called upon to "look unto the rock whence ye are hewn " (Isaiah 2., 1).\par The EVANGELIST is God's quarryman, used by Him to detach these stones from the world in which they are embedded according to nature. This is often hard work, requiring great skill.\par Then follows the work of the PASTOR, leading them to a deeper experience of Divine truth, bringing them into the communion of saints below, preparatory to their being built by the true Solomon in resurrection glory into an everlasting habitation for God.\par Then these stones must be "polished after the similitude of a palace." This is the work of the TEACHER, who unfolds the mysteries of God, and leads souls upward, onward, Godward, into closer conformity to Christ. The present world is God's workyard, in which there is fellowship of labour. The Lord Jesus is not only making use of the gifts of the Spirit, but also of the trials and temptations which come upon Christians, for all things are under His skilful hand, therefore "all things work together for good to them that love God."\par Well may the Apostle Paul write that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory that shall be revealed, that "our light affliction, which is but for a moment, worketh for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory" (2 Cor. 4., 17). Being thus polished and MADE READY, the spirits of just men made perfect" (Heb. 12., 23) are waiting for the time when they shall be presented faultless before the presence of His glory." There the sound of the hammer shall no more be heard, for there shall be no sorrow nor sighing, only the sound of thanksgiving and blessing; glory, honour, praise, and power unto Him that sitteth on the throne, and to the Lamb for ever and ever.\par \par THE ROOFS.\par So he built the house and finished it; and covered [cielled] the house with beams [vault-beams] and boards [ceiling boards] of cedar " (1 Kings vi., 9). "And the greater house he ceiled with [covered above with] fir [cypress] tree" (2 Chron. 3., 5). These vault-beams, as the Hebrew word informs us (geibirn. from gab, an arch), were semi-circular, thus forming a DOME for the covering. The vault-beams and the ceiling boards (probably the internal rafters) were of cedar, both for the Holy and Most Holy house; while the greater house, constituting the Holy Place and side-chambers, was covered again externally with fir (or cypress, as Gesenius considers, as being exceedingly firm and durable, and employed where strength and durability were especially required). These domed roofs covered with cedar and cypress, in contrast with the shittim wood and the badgers'-skin covering of the Tabernacle, are in keeping with the heavenly character of the Temple - the Tabernacle in the Wilderness being the type of the Church of God on earth, the Temple the type of the redeemed, as called with a heavenly calling and perfected in heavenly glory.\par \par THE WOODWORK OF THE TEMPLE.\par The whole of the Temple was covered within and without with wood. The walls within were wainscotted with cedar, and all the exterior was covered with cedar or cypress, including the galleries (see 1 Kings vi., 15, 16, 18; Ezek. 41., 16, 17, 25, 26); the floor of the Holy Place with planks of cypress; and cedar covered the whole of the Most HOLY Place.\par \par Four kinds of wood are mentioned in the Word in connection with Jehovah's dwelling-places : - Shittim Wood, of which the Ark of the Covenant was constructed, an emblem of humanity. In the Ark it sets forth the sinless humanity of the Lord Jesus Christ.\par \par CEDAR, being from its incorruptible nature an emblem of the incorruptible resurrection body. A piece of worm-eaten cedar was never seen. The sap of the cedar is death to the worm; so that, instead of the worm destroying the cedar, the cedar destroys the worm.\par \par FIR or CYPRESS, employed where strength and durability were required, typical of resurrection strength.\par \par OLIVE, or oily wood, is emblematic of resurrection spirituality, or the "spiritual body." All these seem to be dealt with in that wonderful passage, 1 Cor. 15., 42, 44, 53, where the resurrection bodies of the saints are so fully described. "it is sown a natural body (the shittim wood), it is raised a spiritual body (the olive or oily wood); it is sown in corruption, it is raised in incorruption (the cedar); it is sown in weakness, it is raised in power" (the cypress). " For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality."\par \par THE CARVINGS.\par The cedar was carved with knops [gourds] and open flowers, cherubim and palm trees, similar to the carving on the doors (1 Kings vi., 18, 29; Ezek. 41., 18-20). Christ says of Himself, "I am the Door." The cedar boards, being carved in conformity with the doors, represents the bodies of saints conformed in resurrection glory to the glorified body of the great Redeemer; for, "as we have borne the image of the earthly, we shall also bear the image of the heavenly" (1 Cor. 15., 49). He shall change the body of our humiliation, that it may be fashioned like unto the body of His glory (Phil. 4., 21). "When He shall appear, we shall be like Him" (1 John 3., 2). As melted wax takes the impress of the seal, so, the moment the saints are caught up to meet the Lord in the air, these bodies will take the impress of His glorious body; thus we shall be conformed to the glorious pattern of the Divine Redeemer. Capacities for service may be typified by the CHERUBIM; dignity, fruitfulness, and triumph by the PALM TREES; the germs and unfoldings of every spiritual grace by the SEED VESSELS and OPEN FLOWERS. All these were seen in their beauty and excellency in Jesus, and the risen saints will be conformed to Him in resurrection glory.\par \par THE OVERLAYING WITH SILVER AND GOLD.\par The reason given for David's contribution of silver, in 1 Chron. 29., 4, was to overlay - literally, to PLASTER - the walls of the house. It would appear that the stone walls were first plastered with SILVER, then covered with CEDAR, and afterwards overlaid with GOLD - the whole house within and without, including the roof, walls, floor, doors (1 Kings vi., 20-22, 30, 32, 35; 2 Chron. 3., 5-9) - not gilded, but covered with gold, fitted upon the carved work, bringing the whole into surpassing splendour. SILVER is the emblem of atonement, for the typical redemption price was paid in silver (Ex. 30., 11-16). Gold, the most precious of metals, appears to be the emblem of that which is Divine - divinely excellent and glorious, a faint foreshadowing of the glory of God which the redeemed will for ever share. So also the Holy City, New Jerusalem, the emblem of the Church as the Bride of the Lamb (Rev. 21., 11, 18), was seen of John in vision as "pure gold," "having the glory of God." "The glory which Thou hast given Me," says Jesus, "I have given them" (John 17., 22). The bodies of the saints, sown in dishonour, will be raised in glory (1 Cor. 15., 43). As the gold fitted on the carved work did not obliterate, but added perfection to the carvings of the cedar, so the Divine glory put upon the redeemed will display more fully those excellencies of the Redeemer which they will reflect, into whose image they will have been transformed. The weight of gold is enormous, reminding us of that expression, our light affliction which is but for a moment," these chisellings and carvings so painful now, "worketh for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory" (2 Cor. 4., 17). Not only will glory given to them press upon the spirits of the redeemed, constraining to gratitude and praise, but redemption wrought for them will press with still heavier burden. Oh, for more of that faith which is the substance of things hoped for in eternity, to bring the pressure of these obligations to bear on our hearts in time! These afflictions will soon be past, these clouds shall give place to one unclouded day, encircling with perpetual spring the everlasting year.\par \par THE PRECIOUS STONES.\par David provided for the house of his God "onyx stones and stones to be set, glistering stones, and of divers colours, and all manner of precious stones" (1 Chron. 29., 2, 8). Solomon "garnished the house with precious stones for beauty" (2 Chron. 3., 6). So also the light of the Holy Jerusalem, seen of John in vision, "was like unto a stone most precious, even like a jasper stone, clear as crystal" [crystallising\} (Rev. 21., 11). Paul appears to have had these things in his mind when he wrote, "If any man build upon this foundation gold, silver, precious stones." For he is speaking of believers as being God's Temple, in which the Spirit of God dwelt (1 Cor. 3., 12, 16, 17). These precious stones aptly set forth those spiritual excellencies and perfections which will be conspicuous in the redeemed in glory, the workmanship of the ETERNAL SPIRIT, those GRACES of the Spirit of God which will be there in full bloom - " open flowers," not simply graces in the bud and embryo, but in growth and perfection, which shall there appear in the clear radiance of the Divine presence in all their spiritual beauty.\par \lang1033\par } gv=?02.08 The doors and vail{\rtf1\ansi\deff0{\fonttbl{\f0\fnil\fcharset0 Georgia;}} {\colortbl ;\redjK02.07 The woodwork and carvings{\rtf1\ansi\deff0{\fonttbl{\f0\fnil\fcharset0 Georgia;}} {\colortbl ;\red0\green0\blue0;\red255\green0\blue0;} {\*\generator Riched20 5.40.11.2210;}\viewkind4\uc1\pard\cf1\lang3082\f0\fs22 Thomas Newberry\par \b TYPES OF THE TEMPLE\par \cf2\b0 The Stones of the Temple.\cf1\par \par "AND Solomon's builders and Hiram's builders did hew [them], and the stonesquarers: so [and] they prepared timber and stones to build the house" (1 Kings 5., 18). "And the house, when it was building, was built of stone made ready [perfect] before it was brought thither: so that there was neither hammer nor axe, nor any tool of iro0\green0\blue0;\red255\green0\blue0;} {\*\generator Riched20 5.40.11.2210;}\viewkind4\uc1\pard\cf1\lang1033\f0\fs22 Thomas Newberry\par \b TYPES OF THE TEMPLE\par \cf2\b0 The Doors and Vail.\cf1\par \par FIRST, of the MOST HOLY PLACE.\emdash\par "For the entering of the oracle [speaking-place] he made doors of olive tree [oil trees] : the lintel and side-posts were a fifth part,"\par That is, of the width of the house. The Most Holy Place, being twenty cubits wide, a fifth part is four cubits. \ldblquote The two doors also were of olive tree [oil trees]; and he carved upon them carvings of cherubim and palm trees and open flowers [openings of flowers], and overlaid them with gold, and spread gold upon the cherubim, and upon the palm trees" (1 Kings vi., 31, 32.; Ezek. 41., 23-25).\par \par Second, of the TEMPLE, or HOLY PLACE. - " So also made he for the door of the Temple side-posts of oil trees, from the fourth part" (1 Kings vi., 33 [Hebrew]). The fourth part of the width of the house is five cubits. The posts of the door of oil tree two cubits, and the door six cubits (Ezek. 41., 3). \ldblquote And the two doors were of fir [cypress] tree: the two leaves of the one door were folding, and the two leaves of the other door were folding. And he carved thereon cherubim and palm trees and open flowers [openings of flowers]: and covered them with gold fitted upon the carved work" (1 Kings vi., 34, 35). The doors were divided in the centre into two folding leaves, reminding us of the rent vail - Christ crucified. They appear to be typical of Christ Jesus, by whom we draw near to God; and through Him, by faith in Him, we have boldness of access, not only into the Holy Place but also into the Holiest of all (Heb. x., 19-22) The one of OIL tree, type of Christ risen in His Spiritual body; the other of fir or CYPRESS, in His resurrection STRENGTH; while the carvings and the gold set forth the various perfections and Divine glory.\par \par THE VAIL.\par There are significant variations in the colour and materials of the vails of the Tabernacle and Temple. In the vail of the Tabernacle it is SCARLET, which means "the splendour of a worm "), typical of the royal dignity of the Son of Man, as born King of the Jews. In the Temple it is CRIMSON (Heb. Carmel), the emblem of fruitfulness and excellency (see Isa. xxxvi., 2), and of the glory of Christ in resurrection, In the vail of the Tabernacle FINE LINEN is Sheesh, white, the emblem of pure human nature; in that of the Temple it is another Hebrew word, But, white and glistening, as the raiment of Christ was on the Transfiguration Mount.\par \par It was the vail of Herod's Temple that was rent in twain at the death of Christ. "Having therefore, brethren, boldness to enter into the holiest by the blood of Jesus, by a new (newly-slain) and living way, which He hath consecrated (or inaugurated) for us, through the vail, that is to say, his flesh" (Heb. X:19)\par \par In the Tabernacle there was only a vail between the Holy and Most Holy Place; in Solomon\rquote s Temple there was a two-leaved, olivewood, gold-covered door as well as a vail. In the Temple of Ezekiel there is no vail, only a turning door, divided in the centre, making manifest the way into the Holiest. The Tabernacle vail is typical of the spotless humanity of the Lord Jesus - "The Word made flesh, who tabernacled among us." The vail of the Temple is the type of the same humanity in resurrection dignity, fruitfulness, and glory. Not only was Jesus the Son of David, but also the Son of God: not only the heir of David\rquote s throne, but the One who has sat down on the right hand of the throne of the Majesty on high.\par \par The Cherubim.\par THE word "cherub" is of doubtful interpretation; it probably signifies \ldblquote like the majesty." The plural is \ldblquote cherubim \ldblquote - I believe emblematic of those whom God employs to communicate His mind or to perform His will. We first read of the cherubim in Gen. 3., 24 - "He placed at the east of the garden of Eden cherubim . . . to keep the way of the tree of life \ldblquote - here evidently emblematic of ANGELIC ministry. Next they are seen on the mercy-seat of the Ark of the Covenant (Ex. 25., 20), of pure GOLD, a continuation of the golden propitiatory, therefore Divine - an emblem of the Eternal Spirit. The Mercy-seat, or Propitiatory, represents the mercy or loving-kindness of God, which is from everlasting to everlasting. The cherubim were beaten out of the two ends of the mercy-seat, and their wings, meeting above, formed a complete circle. Their faces were towards the mercy-seat, setting forth the fact that the atoning work of Christ was the centre purpose of God, the Eternal Spirit foretelling and foreshadowing it before its accomplishment, and keeping up the remembrance of it throughout eternity.\par \par In Incarnation the Spirit of Jehovah rested on the Man Christ Jesus, fitting Him for His earthly service; and \ldblquote through the Eternal Spirit He offered Himself without spot to God" (Heb. 9., 14). Then, as the Priest in resurrection, He received the anointing of the Holy Spirit for His priestly and eternal service in Heaven.\par The various emblems used in Scripture to describe the operations of the Spirit of God are exceedingly beautiful and significant.\par First, there is the overshadowing or fluttering wing - " The Spirit of God moved (or fluttered) upon the face of the waters" (Gen. 1., 2). "As an eagle stirreth up her nest, fluttereth over her young, spreadeth abroad her wings, taketh them, beareth them on her wings" (Deut. 32., 11). When the Spirit descended on Christ at His baptism, it was in the form of a dove (Luke 3., 22). Christ risen and exalted has received the gifts of the Spirit, which He has distributed for the work of the ministry and for the edifying of His body (Eph. 4, 11, 12).\par \par DIVINE AND SPIRITUAL AGENCY.\par The Cherubim again figure largely, and are minutely described, in the prophecy of Ezekiel, as the LIVING CREATURES of the vision. Here they appear to symbolise the various characteristics of PROPHETIC ministry - the face of a MAN, showing sympathy and intelligence; the ox, patient perseverance; the keen eye, lofty flight, strong wing of the EAGLE; the LION emblem of boldness and courage.\par \par The four beasts, or LIVING ONES, in Rev. iv., 6-8, represent the CHURCH in resurrection glory, as God\rquote s agency for earth and Heaven, for time and for Eternity.\par \par When John was caught up into Heaven, in fulfillment of the word of the Lord in John xxi., 22, he saw a throne and One seated on it. Four-and-twenty elders were seated round about the throne, representing those of a former dispensation, who, having died in Christ, rise first when Jesus comes: all who have departed in the faith of Christ from Abel downwards, previous to the Pentecostal dispensation.\par \par Then we read - " In the midst of the throne and round about the throne were four living ones." In chapter five, the Lamb as it had been slain is seen standing in the midst of the throne, and these four living ones are connected with Him. They are symbolic of the Church of the Firstborn, written in Heaven - those who by the Pentecostal Spirit are baptised into one body, one spirit with the Lord. When to these we add the multitude that no man can number, we see the whole of those who share the first resurrection.\par \par The TWO LARGE cherubim in the Holiest of the Temple of Solomon (1 Kings vi., 23-28; 2 Chron. iii., 10-13) represent, I believe, the ministry of ALL THE REDEEMED in its heavenly exercise. They were of olive tree or OILY wood, type of the spiritual body, serving in the power of the SPIRIT of God; of image work, as conformed to the image of the risen CHRIST. Overlaid with GOLD, as partakers of a glory which is Divine; their height, ten cubits; the WINGS reach from wall to wall, meeting in the centre, over the mercy-seat of the Lord. The ministry of the redeemed in glory will be extensive, having the mystery of redeeming love in Christ Jesus for its centre, filling all Heaven, and continuing through all eternity.\par \par THE CHARIOT OF THE CHERUBIM.\par David gave to Solomon "gold for the pattern of the chariot of the cherubim, that spread out their wings, and covered the Ark of the Covenant of Jehovah" (1 Chron. xxviii., 18). Psalm lxviii., 17, appears to throw light on this subject - "The chariot (singular) of God is twenty thousand [two myriads], even thousands of angels [or changed ones]: the Lord [Adonahy] is among them, as in Sinai, in the holy place." We may compare with this Deut. xxxiii., 2 - " Jehovah came from Sinai, and rose up from Seir unto them; He shined forth from Mount Paran, and He came with ten thousands of saints" [holy myriads]. Also in Jude 14, the prophecy of Enoch - " Behold, the Lord cometh with ten thousands [myriads] of His saints" [holy ones].\par \par The CHARIOT OF THE CHERUBIM and the two cherubim in the Most Holy Place appear to be the same, and to represent those holy ones whom God employs as the vehicle of His visitation to His creatures, the m inisters of His will, and the manifesters of His glory. The whole illimitable universe of God will be filled with the manifestation of Divine grace and glory, and God will make His redeemed ones the especial ministers of this manifestation. For God will "head up together all things in Christ, both which are in the heavens and which are on the earth"; and the Church is the fulness of Him that filleth all in all (Eph. i., 9, 10, 21, 22).\par \par The Ark of the Covenant.\par AT the dedication of the Temple it was brought up out of the city of David, and carried into the oracle of the house, the Most Holy Place, even under the wings of the cherubim (2 Chron. v., 7-10). This was the Ark which was in the Tent of the Congregation in the Wilderness (Ex. xxv., 10-17). It is a complete type of the Lord Jesus Christ - a full-length representation of Immanuel - of His INCARNATION, as typified by the shittim wood (John i., 14), of His DIVINE nature by the gold (1 Tim. iii., 16), of His PERFECT OBEDIENCE by the unb roken tables of the law within (Psalm xl., 8), His atoning DEATH, the foundation of God\rquote s merciful actions, by the BL00D-Stained mercy-seat (Ex. xii., 13), His RISEN glory by the crown of gold round about (Heb. ii., 9), and the FULNESS of the SPIRIT received in ascension by the cherubim on the mercy-seat (Acts ii., 33). There were RINGS of GOLD and STAVES of SHITTIM WOOD overlaid with GOLD. These staves were put into the rings, never to be taken out so long as Israel continued a wandering people (Ex. xxv., 12-15), reminding us of the promise, "Lo, I am with you always, even unto the end of the age," never leaving, never forsaking. "Where two or three are gathered together in My name, there am I in the midst of them" (Matt. xviii., 20). There He is, in the tenderness of His humanity and the glorious perfection of His Godhead - shittim wood overlaid with pure gold.\par \par When that Ark was brought to its resting-place under the shadow of the larger cherubim, these staves were drawn out of the rin gs and placed behind the Ark, so that the heads of the staves were seen from before the oracle; the staves were hidden behind the Ark; wilderness wanderings will soon be over, but God will have His abiding presence with His people to be kept in everlasting remembrance. We should look back with thanksgiving and praise to Him who was always with us here below.\par \par THE CROWN OF GOLD.\par "And thou shalt make upon it a CROWN OF GOLD round about." Beautiful type of the exaltation of the Lord Jesus in resurrection and ascension; in the presence of God "crowned with glory and honour," the sufferings of death for ever past.\par \par THE TABLES OF THE LAW.\par In the Ark were placed the two unbroken tables of the law on which God wrote with His own finger when Moses went up to the mount a second time. The first tables were provided by God Himself, but broken by Moses owing to Israel\rquote s transgression. These tables were typical of the covenant of works, by which no man can be justified before God. T he second tables, having been prepared by Moses and written again by God, were deposited in the Ark, and are typical of the New Covenant in Christ Jesus. They also remind us of the words of Him who said, "In the volume of the Book it is written of Me, I delight to do Thy will, 0 My God. Yea, Thy law is within My heart" (Psalm xl., 8). The Lord Jesus, made of a woman, made under the law, in His life of perfect obedience, doing the will of God, magnified the law, and made it honourable.\par \par THE PROPITIATORY.\par Above the two tables was the Propitiatory, upon which the blood of atonement was sprinkled by the high priest once a year, when he entered into the holiest. First, with incense beaten small, which he put on the censer, from which a cloud covered the Propitiatory, a type of Christ entering the Holiest in the memorial of His life and character and walk and work on earth.\par \par Then the high priest dipped his finger in the blood of the bullock, which had been slain without, and sprinkled it on the mercy-seat eastward. Why eastward? Because that was the line in which the worshippers must draw nigh as they entered. When God sees that blood of atonement, the way is clear for the worshippers to draw near. It seems to say, "Though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be white as snow; though they be red like Crimson, they - shall be as wool" (Isa. i., 18). Scarlet seen through crimson appears white to view; so God looks upon the approaching worshipper through the crimson light of Christ\rquote s atoning blood. Having sprinkled the blood ONCE eastward beneath the eye of God, the priest sprinkles it SEVEN TIMES before the mercy-seat, for the eye of the worshipper drawing near. Thus we come right with God in full assurance of faith, knowing that we are welcome through the way of redemption there. The Propitiatory, therefore, sets forth Christ in His atoning death, as the tables in the Ark tell of His perfect life of obedience.\par \par } all receive, that your joy may be full" (John xvi., 24). Not only is He the one Mediator between God and man in time, but He is the One through whom throughout eternity all praise, honour, and glory, in the power of the Holy Ghost, will be given to God the Father. "God also hath highly exalted Him, and given Him a name which is above every name: that at [in] the name of Jesus every knee should bow, ot things in heaven, and things in [on] earth, and things under the earth; and that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father" (Phil. ii., 9-11). Worship in the ages past was paid direct to the Triune God, as in Isa. vi., where the thrice holy, Three in One, Jehovah, is the object of adoration. But now there is One to whom a Name has been given above every name, and IN that Name every knee must bow. From that time a new order of worship has been established in the universe; and throughout the countless ages of eternity the hosts of Heaven will render all thanksgiving, glory, honour, and power to the Triune God in the name of Jesus Christ. This is what the Golden Altar in the sanctuary of God signifies.\par \par All these varied types are shadows, the substance of which is to be found in the Person, Work, and Offices of the Lord Jesus Christ. It was God who gave the commandment, "Thou shalt make." They are the embodiment of Divine thought concerning His beloved Son.\par \par The Tables of Shewbread.\par IN the Tabernacle in the wilderness there was one table of shittim wood overlaid with gold, representing God\rquote s prevision for His ransomed people in this dispensation. The twelve loaves upon that table tell of full provision for the whole family of God throughout all their wilderness days.\par \par The table sets forth the Lord Jesus as the centre and ground of communion with God, in the power of the Spirit, for the redeemed while here on earth.\par \par In the Temple of Solomon there were TEN TABLES OF GOLD, five on the one side and five on the other (1 Kings vii., 48 2 Chron. iv., 8). The TABLE is a type of the Lord Jesus Christ as the centre and ground of COMMUNION in the power of the Holy Ghost. The BREAD thereon is God\rquote s provision in Christ for all His ransomed ones when safely brought home to glory. He is the true bread which endureth unto everlasting life (John vi., 32-58).\par \par THE TABLES OF SILVER.\par Silver for the tables of silver" (1 Chron. xxviii., 16). The silver tables were probably in use in the side-chambers of the Temple and elsewhere. SILVER is not only a type of REDEMPTION, but of COMMUNION on the ground of redemption, for it was the chief circulating medium.\par \par Temple Interior\par The Interior of the temple - Artist's impression (John Ritchie)\par \par The Golden Lampstands.\par "AND the candlesticks [lampstands] of pure gold, five on the right side, and five on the left, before the oracle [speaking-place] with the flowers, and the lamps, and the tongs of gold, and the bowls, and the snuffers, and the basons, and the spoons, and the censers [fire-pans or snuff-dishes] of pure gold" (I Kings vii., 49, 50; 2 Chron. iv., 7, 20-22).\par \par In the Temple there were TEN GOLDEN LAMP-STANDS, with their SEVENTY LAMPS. The word is generally rendered "candlestick," but the word "candle " never occurs in the sacred Scriptures, neither in the Hebrew nor in the Greek; it is always "lamp" and "larnpstand." The LAMPSTAND is a type of the Lord Jesus Christ as the centre, source, and subject of testimony in the power of the Holy Ghost. The CENTRE SHAFT is typical of His own personal ministry; the BRANCHES of ministry in the Church by the evangelist, pastor, teacher. The candle is self-sufficient and self-continuing; you have only to light it, and it burns from beginning to end. Not so the lamp, which is dependent on the OIL, typical of the HOLY SPIRIT. There lies the difference between that ministry which is in the words which the Holy Ghost teacheth, and that ministry which is the result of man\rquote s wisdom and intellect. Real ministry is dependent on the presence and power of the HOLY SPIRIT, who has come to testify of Jesus, to take of the things of Christ in the glory of the Father, and reveal them to us, and to show us things to come. In Rev. xxi., 23, we read, "And the city had no need of the sun, neither of the moon, to shine in it: for the glory of God did lighten it, and the Lamb is the light [lamp] thereof." Christ is not only the centre and source and subject of trutn in the present time, but He will continue to be so throughout eternity; light in the glory tenfold; in beauty, splendour, and truth revealed, there we shall bask in His full light.\par \par THE SILVER LAMPSTANDS.\par "And for the candlesticks [lampstands] of silver by weight" (1 Chron. xxviii., 15). The SILVER lampstands were probably for the use of the priests in me side-chambers of the sanctuary, and express spiritual truth held in the COMMUNION of saints, by the teaching of the Spirit of God.\par The Golden and Silver Vessels.\par "ALSO pure gold for the flesh-hooks, and the bowls, and the cups: and for the golden basons he gave gold by weight for every bason; likewise silver by weight for every bason of silver" (1 Chron. xxviii., 17; 1 Kings vii., 48, 50; 2 Chron. iv., 8, 11, 19). In the flesh-hooks, bowls, and covered bowls, some precious thoughts are suggested by the roots of the Hebrew words. These vessels of gold and silver were probably among the treasures of the House of God, laid up in the lower side-chambers of the Temple. Even so, God\rquote s holy priesthood are stewards of sacred mysteries, the antitypes of these, to be the themes of adoring wonder and grateful praise to countless myriads throughout all eternity above. What more precious to the saints on earth or to the redeemed in glory than thoughts of the sufferings of Christ, His precious blood, His complete atonement! These are some of the things set forth by these instruments and vessels.\par \par The root of the Hebrew word for FLESH-HOOK is "to draw out " - suggestive of the thought of the blood-shedding of Immanuel.\par \par "The very spear that pierced His side, Drew forth the blood to save."\par \par The root of the word for BOWL is "to sprinkle." These bowls or basons were probably employed in carrying the blood into the Holiest when the blood of atonement was SPRINKLED there. . It is the blood of Jesus which gives boldness of access within the vail.\par \par That rich atoning blood\par Which, sprinkled round, we see\par Provides for all who come to God\par An all-prevailing plea."\par \par The root of the word Cup - or, more properly, "cover " - is "to be hard," and, when repeated, is employed to express the scales of a fish and scale armour, giving the thought of security and defence. What a shelter for the soul is the precious blood of Jesus! Over the blood-sprinkled habitations in Egypt the destroying angel passed. What an impenetrable scale armour it affords, combining freedom of action with perfect security.\par \par The word rendered BASONS here properly signfies "covered bowls." The root of the word is "to cover, to expiate, to make atonement." This suggests ATONEMENT fully made. What treasures for the treasuries of God! What memorials for eternity! What things for angels to look into! to be explained and unfolded by those who have been the subjects of redeeming grace in the ages of eternity to come.\par \par The Two Pillars: Jachin and Boaz.\par T HE pillars of brass which stood by the porch of the Temple, one on either side, are mentioned in seven places in the Scriptures - i Kings vii., 13-2!, 41-46; 2 Kings xxv., 16, 17; 2 Chron. iii., 15-17; 2 Chron. iv., 12, 13; Jer. lii., 20-23; Ezekiel xl., 49. On the surface these accounts appear to vary; it requires prayerful waiting upon God, and pondering His Holy Word, to harmonise the whole. It has been found with this as with other apparent discrepancies of Scripture, that they are, in fact, Divine perfections. and the seeming diversities tend to the elucidation of the truth.\par \par "Blind unbelief is sure to err,\par And scan His work in vain;\par God is His own interpreter,\par And He will make it plain."\par \par THE HEIGHT.\par In two or three places the height is given as EIGHTEEN cubits apiece, the chapiter on the top ef each pillar was FIVE cubits, making the entire height twenty-three cuhits. In 2 Chron. iii., 15, we read,\par "He made before the house two pillars of THIRTY and FIVE cubits high." In the margin you will find the Hebrew word rendered "high" should be "long"; the Hebrew word used for "pillar" signifies "round pillar"; the length of the round shaft was seventeen and a half cubits each pillar, the two together making THIRTY-FIVE cubits long; if we add half a cubit for the pedestal we have eighteen as the height of each.\par \par With regard to the POSITION of the pillars, the word which in 1 Kings is rendered "in " signifies "by " - " He set up the pillars by the porch of the Temple"; and this corresponds with 2 Chron. iL, 17, "He reared up the pillars before the Temple. They were cast "in the clay ground between Succoth; and Zarthan (1 Kings vii., 46); they were hollow, and the thickness of the brass was four fingers" (Jer. Iii., 21). BRASS is the emblem of strength; HOLLOW expresses emptiness. Those skilled in these questions say that the proportions of thickness and sze here given are those whereby the greatest amount of strength is secured with the smallest quantity of metal. That is just like God in His perfect wisdom.\par \par THE CHAPITERS, OR CROWNS.\par In 1 Kings vii., 16, the chapiters - .or crowns, as the Hebrew word Cotharoth signifies - are said to be five cubits high; in verse 19 the lily work is said to be four cubits; and in 2 Kings xxv., 17, "the height of the chapiter was three cubits." The truth is, I apprehend, that each of these chapiters consisted of four parts - (l) a square ledge on the top, half a cubit thick, on which were the pomegranates; (2) a similar ledge at the bottom; (3) a bowl of pommel of one cubit deep (1 Kings vii., 41); and (4) a belly of protuberance of three cubits (1 Kings vi, 20); the two last together, covered with LILY WORK, would make the FOUR cubits, and two ledges would complete the height of FIVE cubits. The chapiters also were covered with a NETWORK or CHEQUER work, expressive of TEMPERANCE and SELF-CONTROL (1 Kings vii., 17, 18).\par \par THE POMEGRANATES.\par The number is variously given; the pomegranates were in two rows, TWELVE in a row, TWENTY-FOUR on the upper ledge of each pillar, and TWENTY-FOUR on the lower ledge, fronting the four winds (Jer. lii,, 23) - that is, fronting the east, west, north, and south---- forty-eight on each pillar, ninety-six together, one pomegranate at each corner of the ledges, makng ONE HUNDRED round about on each ledge, two hundred on EACH pillar. The number on the two pillars was four hundred. The pomegranates and lily work speak of the FRUITS and GRACES of the SPIRIT.\par \par THE CHAINS.\par The SEVEN CHAINS of WREATHEN work on each pillar tell of entire subjection, and that which it results in, fulness of honour. In the English translation there is a constant confusion between the network or chequer work and the chain work or wreaths - seven chains suspended on each pillar. The confusion is not in the Hebrew Scriptures, which are perfectly clear and distinct - but in the translation. It is only from the Hebrew originals it is possible to harmonise these various discrepancies.\par \par POSITION AND NAMES.\par Solomon "reared up the pillars before the Temple, one on the right hand, and the other on the left; and called the name of that on the right hind Jachin [\lquote He will establish\rquote ], and the name of that on the left Boaz [\lquote In Him is strength\rquote ] (2 Chron. iii., 17). They are silent but eloquent testimony-bearers of the great truths of ESTABLISHMENT BY GOD and STRENGTH IN CHRIST. The truths thus declared are .expressed by the Holy Ghost in 2 Cor. 1., 21 - " Now He which stablisheth us with you in Christ, and hath anointed us, is God; who hath also sealed us, and given the earnest of the Spirit in our hearts."\par \par We learn from the sacred Scriptures that God foresaw that the creature could not stand in its own strength, could not sustain itself by its own strength, and for this He made provision from all eternity. As He foresaw, so it came to pass. Angels, and one evidently of the mightiest order, fell and kept not their first estate. Man, placed at the head of the lower creation, made in the image of God, tempted by Satan. likewise fell. Thus corruption and defilement entered the creation of God, through angels into its height, and through man into its depth. It is in this sense that, as we read in Job xv., 15, " The heavens are not clean in His sight." The same infinite wisdom which foresaw all this provided a remedy in the Son of God Incarnation, redemption, resurrection, the gift of the Holy Spirit received by Christ in ascension, and bestowed on men, are God\rquote s means. This is a chain linking time with eternity and God with man.\par \par The first wondrous link we find in the INCARNATION, God manifest in flesh. On that emptied and dependent One the Holy Ghost rested, the Spirit of Jehovah was poured without measure.\par \par In Heaven there is a throne set, and One sitteth on the throne. Man lost Paradise by having a will ot his own. In Gethsemane we see the surrender of :he will of the Perfect Man, who said, " Not My will, Lut Thine be done" (Matt. xxvi., 36-44). So, as sin entered by man having a will of his own, God counteracted it by a perfect and surrendered will. "It pleased the Father that in Him should all fulness dwell; and, having made peace through the blood of His cross, by Him to reconcile all things unto Himself; through Him, I say, whether they be things in earth or things in heaven" (Col. i., 19, 20). Thus a link has been formed, by the atoning work of Christ, between the reconciled creature and the Creator. He "became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross; wherefore God also hath highly exalted Hm, and given Him a name above every name; that in the name of Jesus every knee should bow" (Phil. ii., 9-11). Henceforth every ascription of honour and glory and power must be given to the Father through the Sun, IN (Greek) His name must every knee bow. Since Jesus Christ has been constituted the Head of the creation of God, and is the firstborn from among the dead, the security of the universe is headed up in Christ, the second Man, the Lord from Heaven (see Eph. i., 9, 10). Here is at once the foundation Cornerstone and the Head-stone of universal security. It is laid deep, low in Bethlehem\rquote s manger, deeper still at Calvary\rquote s cross and Joseph\rquote s new tomb. In th, finished work of Christ is laid the deep foundation of the security of the creation of God; and in a risen and glorified Christ is seen the keystone of the arch - God the Father establishing in Christ the Son, and crowning the whole with the graces, gifts, and perfection of the Divine Eternal Spirit.\par \par } =m02.09 Plate of the holy place and holiest of all{\rtf1\ansi\deff0{\fonttbl{\f0\fnil\fcharset0 Georgia;}} {\colortbl ;\red0\green0\blue0;\red255\green0\blue0;} {\*\generator Riched20 5.40.11.2210;}\viewkind4\uc1\pard\cf1\lang1033\f0\fs22 Thomas Newberry\par \b TYPES OF THE TEMPLE\b0\par \cf2 The Altar of Incense\par \cf1\par DAVID provided "for the altar of incense refined gold by weight." And with this the whole altar of cedar was overlaid (1 Kings vi., 20, 22; 1 Chron. xxviii., 18). The altar stood before the vail. CEDAR ts the type of the Lord Jesus Christ in resurrection, overlaid with GOLD, setting forth the Divine glory of His person, the One in whose name we worship, who said, "Hitherto have ye asked nothing in My name; ask, and ye sh th Jehovah to Israel (Lev. xxv. 23). "Moreover, when ye shall divide by lot the land for inheritance, ye shall offer an obligation unto Jehovah, a holy portion of the land" (Ezek. xlv. 1). This holy portion is twenty-five thousand reeds square, or about sixty miles; and is divided into THREE parts.\par \par FOR THE PRIESTS AND SANCTUARY.\par The first portion, towards the north, is about sixty miles long and twenty-four miles broad. "It shall be for the priests, the ministers of the sanctuary, which shall come near to minister unto Jehovah: and it shall be a place for their houses, and a holy place for the Sanctuary" (Ezek. xlv. 2-4).\par \par FOR THE LEVITES.\par Adjoining this portion is that of "the Levites, the 1 92 Types of the Temple. ministers of the house," about sixty miles by twenty- four (verse 5).\par \par FOR THE PRINCE.\par On either side of this oblation for the priests, the Levites, and the City, the PRINCE has his portion, east and west, extending as far as the portions for the tribes extend.\par \par THE MILLENNIAL DIVISION OF THE LAND.\par Ezekiel xlvii., xlviii.\par In the division of the land among the twelve tribes, Levi has no part; he has his inheritance in the holy oblation belonging to Jehovah. The Levites are saints, and of the household of God, heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ. Seven of the tribes of Israel - Dan, Asher, Naphtali, Manasseh, Ephraim ("Joseph shall have two portions" [chap.xlvii.13]) Reuben, and Judah - have their portions on the north of the holy oblation; and five tribes on the south - namely, Benjamin, Simeon, Issachar, Zebulon, and Gad. The sanctuary is thus in the very centre of Immanuel\rquote s land. Reckoning from the north seven tribes, the portion for the priests with the SANCTUARY IN THE MIDST is the eighth; reckoning from the south five tribes, which with the City portion and that of the Levites make seven, the priests\rquote portion is again the eighth. In the very centre of the sanctuary portion is the altar of burnt offering. When, in the millennial age, the mountain of Jehovah\rquote s house shall be established upon the top of the mountains (Isa. ii. 2, 3; lxvi. 23; Zech. xiv. 16), and exalted above the hills, and all nations shall flow into it, then the altar in the midst of the land shall not only be God\rquote s centre for Israel, but His centre for worship for the whole earth; THE LAMB ON THE THRONE is, and ever will be, God\rquote s centre for Heaven and the universe.\par \par God will cause the Gentiles to bring from all parts gold, silver, etc., to make the place of His feet glorious (Isa. lx., 9-14).\par \par THE CITY PORTION\par Next to the portion of the Levites towards the south is the possession for the City, about twelve miles in breadth and sixty miles in length; the suburbs enlarge the City to a square of five thousand reeds. In the City of David, where Solomon had his royal palace, will probably be the residence of the prince. who will be the earthly representative of Messiah the King; Mount Zion, in Je!rusalem, the centre of government and rule. "For the law shall go forth of Zion, and the word of Jehovah from Jerusalem" (Micah iv.\par \par The GATES of the City are called after the names of the tribes of Israel - three gates northward, and three at the east, the south, and the west sides (Ezek. xlviii., 30-35) - twelve gates. This city is literal; it may be instructive to compare with the symbolic city of the Revelation, the holy Jerusalem, the emblem of the Church in resurrection glory.\par \par The City of Ezekiel formed a square of four thousand five hundred reeds; the City of Revelation is described as foursquare, the length, breadth, and height equal; it, too, was measured by the reed, but the reed of Revelation is a golden one, the emblem of an estimate which is Divine. Also twelve gates, according to the twelve tribes of Israel (Rev. xxi., 9-22). Concerning the earthly City it is said, "The name of the city from that day shall be "The LORD is there" [Jehovah Shammah] (Ezek. xlviii., 35). So," also, of the holy Jerusalem of Revelation it is said, " The throne of God and of the Lamb shall be in it; and His servants shall serve Him: and they shall see His face; and His name shall be on their foreheads. And they shall reign for ever and ever."\par \par The Temple of Solomon filled with Glory.\par WHEN God had planted Israel in the land which He had promised, and settled them there, David desired to find a Tabernacle for the God of Jacob. But Solomon built Him a house. No sooner was the house built and prepared according to the pattern, than the glory of Jehovah filled the house of God (1 Kings iii. 10-13; 2 Chron. v. 11-14; vii.1-4).\par \par There are three particulars to notice in connection with the glory filling the Temple : - First, the bringing in of the ARK into its place in the Holy of Holies, and under the shadowing wings of the larger cherubim. In the Ark we have seen a beautiful type of the person of our Immanuel. God has given to His beloved Son a central place of authority and g#lory. For Him there was no place in His own world, or on the throne of His father David; but there was a place for him on high. To Him God the Father said, "Sit Thou on My right hand, until I make Thine enemies Thy footstool." When the Ark of the Covenant was brought into its proper place, "the cloud filled the house of Jehovah, so that the priests could not stand to minister because of the cloud: for the glory of Jehovah had filled the house of Jehovah." When the Lord Jesus came, after His resurrection, into the midst of the disciples - the doors being shut for fear of the Jews - He stood in their midst. On the first Lord\rquote s Day evening, and on the second Lord\rquote s Day evening, He takes His own proper place IN THE MIDST. Let us give the Lord Jesus Christ His proper place, gathering unto His name and around Him now. Secondly, when Solomon had prayed, and the sacrifices were offered "the fire came down from heaven, and consumed the burnt offering and the sacrifices; and the glory of Jehovah fille$d the house. And when all the children of Israel saw how the fire came down, and the glory of Jehovah upon the house, they bowed themselves with their faces to the ground upon the pavement, and worshipped, and praised Jehovah, saying, For He is good; for His mercy [loving-kindness] endureth for ever." The value and acceptability of the sacrifice upon the altar was attested by the fire descending and consuming it.\par \par So Christ, having presented Himself as an offering and sacrifice to God, for a sweet-smelling savour, God the Father showed His acceptance thereof by raising Him from the dead and setting Him at His own right hand, and also by the descent of the Holy Spirit, filling the Church of God with the glory of His presence (Acts ii. 1-4).\par \par Thirdly, after the Ark was in its place, and the sacrifices had ascended as a sweet savour unto God, then, when the priests were come out of the Holy Place, " it came even to pass, as the trumpeters and singers were as one, to make one sound to be h%eard in praising and thanking Jehovah . . . the priest could not stand to minister by reason of the cloud for the glory of Jehovah had filled the house of God."\par \par So now, if we would have the house of God filled with the glory of God, we must observe the lessons here taught us; for these things are foundation principles. A crucified, risen, and glorified Christ; a Christ having His own proper place of authority, in gathering and rule; the hearts of His people as one in rendering thanksgiving, praise, and blessing - then shall the glory of the presence of the Lord be known amongst us.\par \par The first disciples (Acts i. 2) had been gathered around His person; they were one in heart and mind, perfectly joined together, determined to give the Lord Jesus Christ His own place (as David\rquote s servants were of one heart to make David king). Then we read, "There came a sound from heaven as of a rushing mighty wind, and it filled all the house where they were sitting." The glory of Jehovah and His &presence was manifested when the Divine Eternal Spirit canie into the midst of the gathered disciples, filling all the house, and resting in tongues of fire upon each of them.\par \par Is not He "the same yesterday, today, and for ever"? Is not He who sought of old the companionship of man still desirous of renewing His Edenic walks with man? Will He not walk with every Enoch who seeks to please God? If we make for Him a sanctuary, a holy habitation, will He not dwell with us? If we are of one mind and one heart to make Jesus King, to accept His authority, and give Him the glory due unto His name, will He not fulfil His own promise, and manifest Himself to us? What we want in our assemblies is the realised presence of God in Christ; the glory of the Father in the person of the Son, manifested by the ungrieved Holy Spirit, as the quickener of dead souls and sanctifier of the believer unto increasing meetness for the glory yet to be revealed. Three things are essential to the manifested presence of God. T'he first is that we are all ready to HEAR and are able to say, "Now, therefore, are we all here present before God, to hear all things that are commanded thee of God" (Acts x. 33), to hear God\rquote s voice speaking to us from off the mercy-seat, out of the Holiest of all. Are we listening for the voice of God, desiring communion with God, who has said to the scattered ones, " I will be to them as a little sanctuary in the countries whither they shall come" (Ezek. xi. 16). We may find the presence of God wherever we are -\par \par "Where\rquote er we seek Him He is found,\par And every place is holy ground."\par \par The next essential is JESUS IN THE MIDST, the supreme authority of the Lord Jesus Christ in His own Church. Do we recognise the Lordship of Christ? Further, there must be the unhindered power of the Holy Ghost. Is our ministry carried on, not in the words which man\rquote s wisdom teacheth, but in the words which the Holy Ghost teacheth? God is waiting to come in; Christ is willing to o(ccupy His proper place. The Spirit of God has not lost His majesty and might; He is as ready as ever to take of the things of Christ, in the glory of the Father, and reveal them unto us.\par \par When the Temple of God shall be erected in the millennial reign; when the mountain of Jehovah\rquote s house shall be established in the top of the mountains, exalted above the hills, and all nations shall flow into it; then shall the glory of God once more fill the house. Jehovah shall be in His holy Temple; His glory shall be revealed: and all flesh shall see it together.\par \par When we, as living stones, are builded together in resurrection perfectness a holy house for God, a habitation of God through the Spirit, then shall the presence of God and of the Lamb and of the Eternal Spirit fill it with everlasting glory. Turn to Rev. xxi., 22, to that wondrous description of the Holy City, the New Jerusalem, the Church, the Bride, the Lamb\rquote s Wife - "I saw no temple therein; for Jehovah God Almighty and) the Lamb are the temple of it. And the city had no need of the sun, neither of the moon, to shine in it for the glory of God did lighten it, and the Lamb is the light [lamp] thereof." LAMP is the word used in the original by the Spirit of God. The word "lamp" reminds us of those lamps which, supplied with oil, illuminated the sanctuary of old with brilliancy and light. So the glory of God will forever be seen in the face of Jesus Christ, manifested and made known by the Eternal Spirit of our God.\par \par The presence of the Holy Ghost here on earth is a constant witness of the exaltation and glory of Jesus Christ at the right hand of the Majesty on high (John xiv. 16-20). By the Pentecostal Spirit were all believers baptised into one body, and made to drink into one Spirit in union with the Head in glory, one Spirit with the risen Lord. 0 to realise this according to the prayer of the Apostle in Eph. iii. 14-19 - "For this cause I bow my knees unto the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, of whom the whole [every] family in heaven and upon earth is named, that He would grant you, according to the riches of His glory, to be strengthened with might by His Spirit in the inner man; that Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith; that ye, being rooted and grounded in love, may he able to comprehend with all saints what is the breadth, and length, and depth, and height; and to know the love of Christ which passeth knowledge, that ye might be filled with [into] all the fulness of God" ! 0 wondrous word! Can we be so filled? Filled INTO all His infinite, eternal, boundless love, like some tiny shell in ocean\rquote s depths, or like a little fish swimming in a boundless ocean. Blessed with all spiritual blessings in heavenly places in Christ; upheld by the power of Omnipotence; supplied by the bounty of Him whose fulness is inexhaustible, and whose love is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost given unto us. "God is love; and he that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God, and God in him."\par \lang1033\par } vlvS# 02.06 The stones of the Temple#Q00.01 Biography of Thomas Newberry{\rtf1\ansi\deff0{\fonttbl{\f0\fnil\fcharset0 Georgia;}} {\color:EAY02.11 Answers to questions{\rtf1\ansi\deff0{\fonttbl{\f0\fnil\fcharset0 Georgia;}} {\colortbl ;\red0\green0\blue0;\red255\green0\blue0;} {\*\generator Riched20 5.40.11.2210;}\viewkind4\uc1\pard\cf1\lang1033\f0\fs22 Thomas Newberry\par \b TYPES OF THE TEMPLE\par \cf2\b0 ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS ON POINTS OF INTEREST CONNECTED WITH\par THE TEMPLES OF SOLOMON AND EZEKIEL.\par \c+YKw02.10 The brazen sea and lavers{\rtf1\ansi\deff0{\fonttbl{\f0\fnil\fcharset0 Georgia;}} {\colortbl ;\red0\green0\blue0;\red255\green0\blue0;} {\*\generator Riched20 5.40.11.2210;}\viewkind4\uc1\pard\cf1\lang3082\f0\fs22 Thomas Newberry\par \b TYPES OF THE TEMPLE\par \cf2\b0 The Holy Portion of the Land.\cf1\par \par "THE land is Mine, and ye are strangers and sojourners with Me," sai,f1 Given by Mr. Newberry in connection with his Lectures.\par \par Is there a difference between the "threshing-floor" (2 Sam. xxiv. 24) and " the place" (1 Chron. xxi. 25)! The price is said to be "fifty shekels of silver" in the one case and "six hundred shekels of gold" in the other!\par \par The threshing-floor and OXEN were BOUGHT for fifty shekels of silver - the ransom-money of a hundred souls (see Exod. xxx. 13) - their full legal value, meeting the requirements of law. This was the place for the altar, according to 2 Sam. xxiv. 25. But we further learn from 1 Chron. xxi. 25 that David GAVE for the whole place or field six hundred talents of gold by weight. This was the site of the Temple. SILVER, the emblem of REDEMPTION, was PAID for the threshing-floor connected with the altar and sacrifice.\par GOLD, the emblem of GLORY, was GIVEN for the field connected with the Temple and the glory.\par \par What would the value in English money be, of "the enormous quantities of gold and silver prepa-red by David"(1 Chron. xxii. 14)?\par One hundred thousand talents of gold at \'a35,475 the talent of 114 lb - \'a3547,500,000; and a thousand thousand talents of silver at \'a3342 the talent equals \'a3342,000,000: together \'a3889,500,000. Part of this silver and gold was used for the gold and silver vessels of the sanctuary; but by far the greater portion was employed, as we are informed in 1 Chron. xxix. 4, to overlay (literally, to plaster) the walls of the houses. the stones being encased in solid silver, then overlaid with cedar or cypress, and afterwards overlaid with gold. The whole building, including the porch, roof (2 Chron. iii. 4), walls, floor, posts, beams, and doors (1 Kings vi. 22, 23, 30), was not gilded, but COVERED with gold, the gold being fitted upon the carved work (1 Kings vi. 35), thus - not obliterating - but setting forth the exquisite carving on the wood in surpassing splendour.\par The silver plastering of the stones tells of REDEMPTION, the living stones of the spiritual h.ouse being redeemed by the blood of the Lamb; while the gold covering all faintly foreshadows the GLORY of God which the redeemed will for ever share. In Rev. xxi. the New Jerusalem is seen in resurrection perfectness and glory, having the GLORY OF GOD: "the city itself was pure gold, like unto transparent glass."\par \par Did the Temple built by Herod stand on the site of Solomon\rquote s Temple?\par When the Idumean king came to the kingdom, he found the Temple erected in Ezra\rquote s time after the fashion and on the site of Solomon\rquote s Temple, but inferior in splendour and glory. This did not meet his taste. He took it down, and on its site erected another Temple, which was forty-six years in building. This was the Temple which was in existence at the time of our Lord. It was made after his own design; and while, no doubt, he retained some parts of the orignal structure, as a whole it was entirely different from the Temple of Solomon. If we are to accept the testimony of Josephus and other wr/iters, the Temple of Herod seems to have been built on a much larger scale and higher than the original. The stones of which it was built were white and wonderfully great: some say twenty-five cubits by twelve cubits. Whether we may take this as correct or not, it is certain, from the expression used by the disciples in Mark xiii., 1, that the stones used were conspicuous for their size.\par \par When it is said that Peter and John went up to the Temple at the hour of prayer (Acts iii.), are we to understand that they entered as worshippers there?\par There is confusion in the minds of some regarding the place where our Lord and His disciples prayed and taught. Not being of the tribe of Levi, they could not enter into the court of the priests, nor draw near to the altar, nor enter the Holy Place. The Holy Ghost, in speaking of the Temple, uses two distinct words in the original Greek. One is Hieron (from hieros, sacred), which refers to the entire Temple, its courts and other buildings, the whole exter0nal structure. The other word is Naos (from naio, to dwell), and signifies the inner building, the Holy and Most Holy Places, the sanctuary. Where our Lord and His apostles prayed and taught was in Hieron, the external courts alone.\par \par What Temple is referred to in 2 Thessalonians ii. 6, and there called the Temple of God?\par The fourth Temple which will be built and in use, according to Dan. ix. 26, 27; xii., 11; Matt. xxiv., 15- 22; 2 Thess. ii., 1-8; Rev. xi., 1, 2. There will be a Temple acknowledged as the Temple of God on earth, and daily sacrifices offered on its altar, during the first three and a half years of Daniel\rquote s seventieth week, The prince who is the head of the Roman Empire of that time will confirm a covenant for one week, or seven years with the people of Israel; but in the midst of the week - at the end of three and a half years - according to the prophecy, he breaks the covenant, takes away the daily sacrifice, and sets up the abomination of desolation in the Holy Pla1ce. There is, therefore, a "temple of God" which is shown in Rev. xi., 1, and measured by John, and also an altar, recognised as the Temple and Altar of God, with a daily sacrifice which can be taken away. The Antichrist occupies the place of God, and "showing himself that he is God," and claiming all worship to himself. Then commences that period of unparalleled woe called "the great tribulation," such as never before has been on earth.\par \par Wherein do the types of the Temple differ from those of the Tabernacle?\par In comparing the Tabernacle with the Temple, we learn from the New lestament application that the Tabernacle in the Wilderness is a type of the Church in the present dispensation. During the period of our Lord\rquote s sojourn on earth, He was the dwelling-place of God with man. "The Word was made flesh, and TABERNACLED among us." But that will not exhaust the full significance of the Tabernacle type. It is further explained to us by that Word - " In whom (Christ) ye also are builded t2ogether an habitation of God through the Spirit" (Eph. ii., 21).\par Thus, the Church on earth, in its wilderness condition, becomes a habitation of God, a sanctuary wherein He may dwell.\par The Temple is another type of God\rquote s presence with His redeemed people. "Ye are the temple of God, and the Spirit of God dwelleth in you" (1 Cor. iii). And again, "In whom all the building fitly framed together groweth into an holy temple in the Lord" (Eph. ii., 20). I take the Temple, therefore, to be a type of the whole of the redeemed going on growing; living stones being added from time to time to the holy temple of the Lord - living stones, built up a spiritual house. And this not only in its present wilderness condition, but of all the redeemed as associated with the risen Christ in resurrection and heavenly glory, clothed upon with their house from Heaven, the eternal glory of the redeemed, monuments erected to the praise of God\rquote s redeeming grace and love.\par The Temple described in Ezekiel wi3ll be an earthly reflection of all the redeemed in heavenly glory. The Holy Jerusalem of Revelation xxi. is an emblem of the Church as the Bride of the Lamb in resurrection and heavenly glory, the earthly reflection of which will be the literal, earthly Jerusalem under the new covenant in the millennial rest.\par \par From whence was the water derived that was used in the Temple?\par The laborious investigations of the persons employed by the Palestine Exploration Committee have discovered many extensive cisterns, series of arches, and watercourses under the vast Temple platform upon which it stood. A special exploration of one about 45 feet deep, 63 feet long, and 57 feet broad, has been made. Full investigation would, doubtless, throw much light on the arrangements for the supply of water for the brazen sea, the layers, and other uses of the Temple.\par \par If the present time is the period of preparation, when will the building of the spiritual temple take place?\par The whole work of preparatio4n belongs to the present time and scene. The time of the erection of the heavenly Temple will be at the first resurrection when the Lord comes, when the dead in Christ, from Abel downward, shall rise first, and the living ones shall be changed and caught up, and all will together be built up as an everlasting monument of redeemthg grace and love.\par \par What was the position of the two Pillars, Jachin and Boaz?\par It is said in 1 Kings vii., 21 - " He set up the pillars in the porch of the temple"; but this should be rendered "BY the porch." In harmony with this we read, in 1 Chron. iii., 17 - "He reared up the pillars before the temple, one on the right hand and the other on the left." In Ezek. xl., 19, we read - "There were pillars by the posts (of the porch), one on this side, and another on that." Thus all these Scriptures are found to be in harmony.\par \par What is the significance of the absence of the Brazen Sea and Lavers in the description of the Temple as given by Ezekiel?\par In conne5ction with the Temple of Ezekiel, neither Brazen Sea nor Brazen Laver are mentioned: the waters that issue from under the threshold take their place. These waters flow eastward from the right side of the house, at the south side of the altar, the exact position occupied by the Brazen Sea in Solomon\rquote s Temple. These waters are emblematical of life in the Spirit, in its origin and progress, deepening and widening as it flows, carrying with it and diffusing healing and life, verdure and fertility. This life, having its source in God, is spiritually and divinely pure, and needs no cleansing such as is typified by the Laver or the Brazen Sea. The pure river of water of life proceeding from the throne of God and the Lamb (Rev. xxii., 1) is a figure corresponding to that of Ezek. xlvii. Its LOWLY and HOLY origin is set forth in its issuing from the THRESHOLD of the SANCTUARY; the SOVEREIGNTY of GOd\rquote s GRACE, founded on the atoning work of Christ, is revealed in its proceeding from the THRONE of God a6nd of the LAMB. Ezekiel xlvii. gives the LITERAL and EARTHLY view of it; Revelation xxii. gives the SPIRITUAL and HEAVENLY; and both are millennial.\par \par What is to be learned from the varied degrees of value of the materials used in making the vessels?\par All the vessels of the Holy Places within were of GOLD. The lampstands and tables for use in the side-chambers were of SILVER. The vessels in the inner and outer courts were of BRASS. The IRON was used to make nails for the doors and for the joinings; and the brazen vessels were cast in CLAY (2 Chron. iv., i7). Thus we see a gradual decrease of value in order from within: gold, silver, brass, iron, clay. With this we may contrast the great image shown to King Nebuchadnezzar (Dan. ii., 31-35) - head of GOLD, breast of SILVER, thighs of BRASS, legs of IRON, feet of iron and clay. In the decreasing value of the materials in the image we see the DECLENSION of authority originally received from God downward; while in the Temple vessels we perceive th7e INCREASE of the value and glory of the worship and service rendered as the worshippers draw nearer and yet nearer into the presence of God.\par \par What is the virtue of the sacrifices to be offered in connection with Ezekiel\rquote s Temple, and of what are the feasts to be kept symbolic?\par As all the sacrifices offered previous to Christ\rquote s offering of Himself were FORESHADOWINGS of the work to be accomplished on the Cross. even so will all the sacrifices to be offered on the millennial altar be COMMEMORATIVE remembrances of His one great sacrifice offered once for all, complete and perfect for eternity. In connection with Ezekiel\rquote s altar there is no mention of the evening sacrifice, that having been accomplished when Christ offered Himself on Calvary; nor is there any mention of the Day of Atonement being observed in the future, that having had ts answer when Christ entered into the Holiest with "His own blood," once for all.\par Likewise are the feasts remembrances of grace and g8lory. The PASSOVER is the memorial of Israels deliverance from Egypt (Exod. xii.); it is also a memo rial remembrance of Christ, our passover sacrifice for us, as the Lord\rquote s Supper is in this dispensation. The FEAST OF TABERNACLES, or booths, was a memorial of Israel\rquote s wilderness wanderings (Lev. xxiii., 39-43); it is also named the "feast of ingathering" at the year\rquote s end (Exod. xxxiv., 22), and was a foreshadowing type of millennial rest and restoration which Israel will be then enjoying.\par It is specially worthy of notice that there is no mention made of Pentecost or the FEAST OF WEEKS, which is typical of the present dispensation and having its fulfilment now.\par \par Who is "the prince" mentioned in Ezekiel xlvi., 11-12, who prepares a voluntary burnt offering?\par The prince is evidently a lineal descendant of the royal house of David, in whom the promises concerning the Kingdom will be literally fulfilled. He is not said to be the King. Messiah is King, and the prince ap9pears to be His earthly representative. He is permitted to sit in the porch of the outer east gate, and to eat bread before Jehovah (Ezek.xliv, 3) The priests prepare His burnt offering and peace offering: he being of the royal and not the priestly line, though he worships at the threshold, does not enter into the court of the priests as a worshipper there.\par \par Is the New Jerusalem as seen by John in Rev. xxi. a figure of Heaven, or of the earthly Jerusalem during the Millennium ?\par It is necessary to a right understanding of Scripture to distinguish between FIGURATIVE and EMBLEMATIC or symbolic language. The language used by the Apostle in Heb. xi., 10; xii., 22, is FIGURATIVE, whereas the structure of the Book of Revelation is EMBLEMATIC. The truth is made known, as we are told in chap. i., 1, by signs or symbols.\par The CITY which Abraham looked for, and which we too are expecting, is a figurative representation fot a fixed HEAVENLY habitation, a contrast to the pilgrim, earthly condition.\par The Holy Jerusalem of Revelation, chap. xxi., is an EMBLEM of the Bride, the Lamb\rquote s wife. The resurrection body of the saint is compared to "a HOUSE not made with hands, eternal in the heavens." A city is a collection of houses; and as the many members of Christ form one body, what more appropriate emblem of the Bride, the Lamb's wife, can we conceive, wtien each individual member will be clothed upon with his house from heaven, than that here employed?\par The city described in Ezekiel is the EARTHLY Jerusalem, the metropolis of the nation of Israel, when brought into possession of the land, during the Millennium. This city is LITERAL, and not SYMBOLIC, as the city of Revelation, xxi.\par The Temple of Ezekiel is situated in the midst of the priests' portion, which is distinct from the city; while of the Holy Jerusalem it is said, "I saw no temple therein, for the Lord God Almighty and he Lamb are the temple of it." The redeemed in glory dwell in God, and God dwells in them.\par \par } ;tbl ;\red0\green0\blue0;\red0\green0\blue255;} {\*\generator Riched20 5.40.11.2210;}\viewkind4\uc1\pard\cf1\lang1033\f0\fs22 From 'Chief Men among the Brethren', a 'series of Brief Records of Brethren Beloved', by Hy. Pickering.\par \par Few brethren were more generally beloved, and few faces more familiar in the assemblies of Christians who gather to the Name of our Lord Jesus Christ than Thomas Newberry.\par \par Referring to his early days, he praised God for the blessing of a Christian mother and a godly elder sister, for through them, like Timothy of old, he knew the Holy Scriptures from a child; and it pleased God to reveal His Son to his soul as Saviour and Lord at an early age, so that he knew the blessed experience of being "born again" (John 3. 3), by the incorruptible Word of God, which "liveth and abideth for ever" (1 Peter 1. 23). And his Christian life commenced with a love and reverence for the Holy Scriptures, which were his food and "the joy and rejoicing of his heart" (Jer. 15. 16) ame of Jesus Christ our Lord."\par \par Great searchings of heart took place about the years 1828-1830, leading godly men to act as those did in Malachi\rquote s day: "Speak often one to another: and the Lord harkened, and heard it, and a book of remembrance was written before Him, for them that feared the Lord, and that thought upon His Name" (Mal. 3. 16). Events of deepest interest resulted from these meetings, for as the conclusion was forced upon their souls that they were not able to preach, teach, and practise all they found written in God\rquote s Word, and as they were in associations where parts of that Word were violated and ignored, they must separate from such surroundings (as taught in 2 Cor. 6. 14-18; Rev. 18. 4; Isa. 1. 16; and Jer. 15. 19), and occupy a position where it was possible for them to "keep the ordinances of the Lord as they were delivered" (1 Cor. 11. 2), and to conform to all things THEY FOUND WRITTEN IN THE LAW OF THE LORD, and where they could exercise those gifts which we?re bestowed upon them by the Lord Jesus Christ for the mutual edification of fellow-saints (see Eph. 4. 11-17; 1 Peter 4.10,11 ; Rom. 12; 1 Cor. 12. 14, &c.) without human appointment, sanction, or restrictions.\par \par Acknowledging the supremacy and authority ot the Holy Scriptures, and setting aside the creeds, rules, and regulations which men had devised, and which had become sectarian barriers to the communion of saints, they regarded it as a cardinal principle of God\rquote s assemblies that the Word of God should be their sole appeal for all matters of doctrine and practice, and its decisions were binding upon all in their fellowship; also that there should be liberty to preach, teach, and obey all that they found in the Bible.\par \par Mr. Newberry\rquote s lectures and writings upon the tabernacle and the temple have been of spiritual profit to thousands. He constructed a model of the temple of exquisite beauty, and quite unique in its design and workmanship, the result of great research in @the original Scriptures, so that it might convey to modern people some idea of that gorgeous temple which Solomon built from the patterns given to his father David by the Spirit of God, as Moses also constructed the tabernacle from the pattern which God gave to him in the holy mount. This model, with various writings in connection with it and bearing upon other subjects, will be lasting memorials to the value of his Bible research. For long years he expounded the Scriptures in many parts of the British Isles, gave numerous lectures on the model of the tabernacle, wrote valuable papers for The Witness and other magazines, conducted an extensive correspondence with Bible students in various parts of the world, and sought to be a helper to the saints in every possible way, falling asleep at Weston-super-Mare on 16th January, 1901, at the ripe age of ninety.\par \par Volumes of "The Englishman\rquote s Bible," "Notes on the Temple," "Notes on the Tabernacle," "The Parables of Our Lord," "The Temples of Solomon and Ezekiel," "Solar Light," and other books have been extensively circulated.\par \par In conclusion we quote the valuable testimony of this departed scholar, written in his old age: "As the result of a careful examination of the entire Scriptures in the originals, noticing and marking where necessary every variation of tense, preposition, and the signification of words, the impression left upon my mind is this, not the difficulty of believing the entire inspiration of the Bible, but the impossibility of doubting it. . . . The godliness of the translators, their reverence, the superiority of their scholarship, and the manifest assistance and control afforded to them by the Holy Spirit in their work, is such that the ordinary reader can rely upon the whole as THE WORD OF GOD." \par \par {\field{\*\fldinst{HYPERLINK "http://www.newblehome.co.uk/newberry/biography.html"}}{\fldrslt{\ul\cf2 http://www.newblehome.co.uk/newberry/biography.html}}}\f0\fs22\par } BCDEFGHIJ was in building" (1 Kings vi., 7). Stone placed upon stone, each fitted into its appointed place, and all these white marble stones were polished after the similitude of a palace -\par \par "Like some tall palm the noiseless fabric sprung."\par \par In 1 Chron. 29., 2, we read that David provided "marble stones in abundance." The Hebrew word employed shows that the marble was WHITE. These stones were doubtless used for the paving of the court, for the structure of the wall, and for the building of the Temple, "according to the measures of hewed stones" (1 Kings 7., 9, 11). The Spirit of God interprets in one portion of the Scriptures the figures He uses in another. The Apostle Peter says, "Ye also, as living stones, are built up a spiritual house" I Peter 2., 5). Each stone represents the individual believer, once dead in trespasses and sins, but now quickened by the Spirit of the living God; hence we are called upon to "look unto the rock whence ye are hewn " C(Isaiah 2., 1).\par The EVANGELIST is God's quarryman, used by Him to detach these stones from the world in which they are embedded according to nature. This is often hard work, requiring great skill.\par Then follows the work of the PASTOR, leading them to a deeper experience of Divine truth, bringing them into the communion of saints below, preparatory to their being built by the true Solomon in resurrection glory into an everlasting habitation for God.\par Then these stones must be "polished after the similitude of a palace." This is the work of the TEACHER, who unfolds the mysteries of God, and leads souls upward, onward, Godward, into closer conformity to Christ. The present world is God's workyard, in which there is fellowship of labour. The Lord Jesus is not only making use of the gifts of the Spirit, but also of the trials and temptations which come upon Christians, for all things are under His skilful hand, therefore "all things work together for good to them that love God."\par Well may the DApostle Paul write that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory that shall be revealed, that "our light affliction, which is but for a moment, worketh for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory" (2 Cor. 4., 17). Being thus polished and MADE READY, the spirits of just men made perfect" (Heb. 12., 23) are waiting for the time when they shall be presented faultless before the presence of His glory." There the sound of the hammer shall no more be heard, for there shall be no sorrow nor sighing, only the sound of thanksgiving and blessing; glory, honour, praise, and power unto Him that sitteth on the throne, and to the Lamb for ever and ever.\par \par THE ROOFS.\par So he built the house and finished it; and covered [cielled] the house with beams [vault-beams] and boards [ceiling boards] of cedar " (1 Kings vi., 9). "And the greater house he ceiled with [covered above with] fir [cypress] tree" (2 Chron. 3., 5). These vault-beams, as the Hebrew word inforEms us (geibirn. from gab, an arch), were semi-circular, thus forming a DOME for the covering. The vault-beams and the ceiling boards (probably the internal rafters) were of cedar, both for the Holy and Most Holy house; while the greater house, constituting the Holy Place and side-chambers, was covered again externally with fir (or cypress, as Gesenius considers, as being exceedingly firm and durable, and employed where strength and durability were especially required). These domed roofs covered with cedar and cypress, in contrast with the shittim wood and the badgers'-skin covering of the Tabernacle, are in keeping with the heavenly character of the Temple - the Tabernacle in the Wilderness being the type of the Church of God on earth, the Temple the type of the redeemed, as called with a heavenly calling and perfected in heavenly glory.\par \par THE WOODWORK OF THE TEMPLE.\par The whole of the Temple was covered within and without with wood. The walls within were wainscotted with cedar, and all the exFterior was covered with cedar or cypress, including the galleries (see 1 Kings vi., 15, 16, 18; Ezek. 41., 16, 17, 25, 26); the floor of the Holy Place with planks of cypress; and cedar covered the whole of the Most HOLY Place.\par \par Four kinds of wood are mentioned in the Word in connection with Jehovah's dwelling-places : - Shittim Wood, of which the Ark of the Covenant was constructed, an emblem of humanity. In the Ark it sets forth the sinless humanity of the Lord Jesus Christ.\par \par CEDAR, being from its incorruptible nature an emblem of the incorruptible resurrection body. A piece of worm-eaten cedar was never seen. The sap of the cedar is death to the worm; so that, instead of the worm destroying the cedar, the cedar destroys the worm.\par \par FIR or CYPRESS, employed where strength and durability were required, typical of resurrection strength.\par \par OLIVE, or oily wood, is emblematic of resurrection spirituality, or the "spiritual body." All these seem to be dealt with in that wGonderful passage, 1 Cor. 15., 42, 44, 53, where the resurrection bodies of the saints are so fully described. "it is sown a natural body (the shittim wood), it is raised a spiritual body (the olive or oily wood); it is sown in corruption, it is raised in incorruption (the cedar); it is sown in weakness, it is raised in power" (the cypress). " For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality."\par \par THE CARVINGS.\par The cedar was carved with knops [gourds] and open flowers, cherubim and palm trees, similar to the carving on the doors (1 Kings vi., 18, 29; Ezek. 41., 18-20). Christ says of Himself, "I am the Door." The cedar boards, being carved in conformity with the doors, represents the bodies of saints conformed in resurrection glory to the glorified body of the great Redeemer; for, "as we have borne the image of the earthly, we shall also bear the image of the heavenly" (1 Cor. 15., 49). He shall change the body of our humiliation, that it may be fashioned lHike unto the body of His glory (Phil. 4., 21). "When He shall appear, we shall be like Him" (1 John 3., 2). As melted wax takes the impress of the seal, so, the moment the saints are caught up to meet the Lord in the air, these bodies will take the impress of His glorious body; thus we shall be conformed to the glorious pattern of the Divine Redeemer. Capacities for service may be typified by the CHERUBIM; dignity, fruitfulness, and triumph by the PALM TREES; the germs and unfoldings of every spiritual grace by the SEED VESSELS and OPEN FLOWERS. All these were seen in their beauty and excellency in Jesus, and the risen saints will be conformed to Him in resurrection glory.\par \par THE OVERLAYING WITH SILVER AND GOLD.\par The reason given for David's contribution of silver, in 1 Chron. 29., 4, was to overlay - literally, to PLASTER - the walls of the house. It would appear that the stone walls were first plastered with SILVER, then covered with CEDAR, and afterwards overlaid with GOLD - the whole houseI within and without, including the roof, walls, floor, doors (1 Kings vi., 20-22, 30, 32, 35; 2 Chron. 3., 5-9) - not gilded, but covered with gold, fitted upon the carved work, bringing the whole into surpassing splendour. SILVER is the emblem of atonement, for the typical redemption price was paid in silver (Ex. 30., 11-16). Gold, the most precious of metals, appears to be the emblem of that which is Divine - divinely excellent and glorious, a faint foreshadowing of the glory of God which the redeemed will for ever share. So also the Holy City, New Jerusalem, the emblem of the Church as the Bride of the Lamb (Rev. 21., 11, 18), was seen of John in vision as "pure gold," "having the glory of God." "The glory which Thou hast given Me," says Jesus, "I have given them" (John 17., 22). The bodies of the saints, sown in dishonour, will be raised in glory (1 Cor. 15., 43). As the gold fitted on the carved work did not obliterate, but added perfection to the carvings of the cedar, so the Divine glory put upon tJhe redeemed will display more fully those excellencies of the Redeemer which they will reflect, into whose image they will have been transformed. The weight of gold is enormous, reminding us of that expression, our light affliction which is but for a moment," these chisellings and carvings so painful now, "worketh for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory" (2 Cor. 4., 17). Not only will glory given to them press upon the spirits of the redeemed, constraining to gratitude and praise, but redemption wrought for them will press with still heavier burden. Oh, for more of that faith which is the substance of things hoped for in eternity, to bring the pressure of these obligations to bear on our hearts in time! These afflictions will soon be past, these clouds shall give place to one unclouded day, encircling with perpetual spring the everlasting year.\par \par THE PRECIOUS STONES.\par David provided for the house of his God "onyx stones and stones to be set, glistering stones, and of divers colours, and all manner of precious stones" (1 Chron. 29., 2, 8). Solomon "garnished the house with precious stones for beauty" (2 Chron. 3., 6). So also the light of the Holy Jerusalem, seen of John in vision, "was like unto a stone most precious, even like a jasper stone, clear as crystal" [crystallising\} (Rev. 21., 11). Paul appears to have had these things in his mind when he wrote, "If any man build upon this foundation gold, silver, precious stones." For he is speaking of believers as being God's Temple, in which the Spirit of God dwelt (1 Cor. 3., 12, 16, 17). These precious stones aptly set forth those spiritual excellencies and perfections which will be conspicuous in the redeemed in glory, the workmanship of the ETERNAL SPIRIT, those GRACES of the Spirit of God which will be there in full bloom - " open flowers," not simply graces in the bud and embryo, but in growth and perfection, which shall there appear in the clear radiance of the Divine presence in all their spiritual beauty.\par \par } aapI'02.06 The stones of the Temple{\rtf1\ansi\ansicpg1252\deff0{\fonttbl{\f0\fnil\fcharset0 Georgia;}} {\colortbl ;\red0\green0\blue0;\red255\green0\blue0;} {\*\generator Riched20 5.40.11.2210;}\viewkind4\uc1\pard\cf1\lang3082\f0\fs22 Thomas Newberry\par \b TYPES OF THE TEMPLE\par \cf2\b0 The Stones of the Temple.\cf1\fs23\par \par "AND Solomon's builders and Hiram's builders did hew [them], and the stonesquarers: so [and] they prepared timber and stones to build the house" (1 Kings 5., 18). "And the house, when it was building, was built of stone made ready [perfect] before it was brought thither: so that there was neither hammer nor axe, nor any tLMool of iron heard in the house, while it was in building" (1 Kings vi., 7). Stone placed upon stone, each fitted into its appointed place, and all these white marble stones were polished after the similitude of a palace -\par \par "Like some tall palm the noiseless fabric sprung."\par \par In 1 Chron. 29., 2, we read that David provided "marble stones in abundance." The Hebrew word employed shows that the marble was WHITE. These stones were doubtless used for the paving of the court, for the structure of the wall, and for the building of the Temple, "according to the measures of hewed stones" (1 Kings 7., 9, 11). The Spirit of God interprets in one portion of the Scriptures the figures He uses in another. The Apostle Peter says, "Ye also, as living stones, are built up a spiritual house" I Peter 2., 5). Each stone represents the individual believer, once dead in trespasses and sins, but now quickened by the Spirit of the living God; hence we are called upon to "look unto the rock whence ye are hewn " N(Isaiah 2., 1).\par The EVANGELIST is God's quarryman, used by Him to detach these stones from the world in which they are embedded according to nature. This is often hard work, requiring great skill.\par Then follows the work of the PASTOR, leading them to a deeper experience of Divine truth, bringing them into the communion of saints below, preparatory to their being built by the true Solomon in resurrection glory into an everlasting habitation for God.\par Then these stones must be "polished after the similitude of a palace." This is the work of the TEACHER, who unfolds the mysteries of God, and leads souls upward, onward, Godward, into closer conformity to Christ. The present world is God's workyard, in which there is fellowship of labour. The Lord Jesus is not only making use of the gifts of the Spirit, but also of the trials and temptations which come upon Christians, for all things are under His skilful hand, therefore "all things work together for good to them that love God."\par Well may the OApostle Paul write that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory that shall be revealed, that "our light affliction, which is but for a moment, worketh for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory" (2 Cor. 4., 17). Being thus polished and MADE READY, the spirits of just men made perfect" (Heb. 12., 23) are waiting for the time when they shall be presented faultless before the presence of His glory." There the sound of the hammer shall no more be heard, for there shall be no sorrow nor sighing, only the sound of thanksgiving and blessing; glory, honour, praise, and power unto Him that sitteth on the throne, and to the Lamb for ever and ever.\par \par THE ROOFS.\par So he built the house and finished it; and covered [cielled] the house with beams [vault-beams] and boards [ceiling boards] of cedar " (1 Kings vi., 9). "And the greater house he ceiled with [covered above with] fir [cypress] tree" (2 Chron. 3., 5). These vault-beams, as the Hebrew word inforPms us (geibirn. from gab, an arch), were semi-circular, thus forming a DOME for the covering. The vault-beams and the ceiling boards (probably the internal rafters) were of cedar, both for the Holy and Most Holy house; while the greater house, constituting the Holy Place and side-chambers, was covered again externally with fir (or cypress, as Gesenius considers, as being exceedingly firm and durable, and employed where strength and durability were especially required). These domed roofs covered with cedar and cypress, in contrast with the shittim wood and the badgers'-skin covering of the Tabernacle, are in keeping with the heavenly character of the Temple - the Tabernacle in the Wilderness being the type of the Church of God on earth, the Temple the type of the redeemed, as called with a heavenly calling and perfected in heavenly glory.\par \par THE WOODWORK OF THE TEMPLE.\par The whole of the Temple was covered within and without with wood. The walls within were wainscotted with cedar, and all the exQterior was covered with cedar or cypress, including the galleries (see 1 Kings vi., 15, 16, 18; Ezek. 41., 16, 17, 25, 26); the floor of the Holy Place with planks of cypress; and cedar covered the whole of the Most HOLY Place.\par \par Four kinds of wood are mentioned in the Word in connection with Jehovah's dwelling-places : - Shittim Wood, of which the Ark of the Covenant was constructed, an emblem of humanity. In the Ark it sets forth the sinless humanity of the Lord Jesus Christ.\par \par CEDAR, being from its incorruptible nature an emblem of the incorruptible resurrection body. A piece of worm-eaten cedar was never seen. The sap of the cedar is death to the worm; so that, instead of the worm destroying the cedar, the cedar destroys the worm.\par \par FIR or CYPRESS, employed where strength and durability were required, typical of resurrection strength.\par \par OLIVE, or oily wood, is emblematic of resurrection spirituality, or the "spiritual body." All these seem to be dealt with in that wRonderful passage, 1 Cor. 15., 42, 44, 53, where the resurrection bodies of the saints are so fully described. "it is sown a natural body (the shittim wood), it is raised a spiritual body (the olive or oily wood); it is sown in corruption, it is raised in incorruption (the cedar); it is sown in weakness, it is raised in power" (the cypress). " For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality."\par \par THE CARVINGS.\par The cedar was carved with knops [gourds] and open flowers, cherubim and palm trees, similar to the carving on the doors (1 Kings vi., 18, 29; Ezek. 41., 18-20). Christ says of Himself, "I am the Door." The cedar boards, being carved in conformity with the doors, represents the bodies of saints conformed in resurrection glory to the glorified body of the great Redeemer; for, "as we have borne the image of the earthly, we shall also bear the image of the heavenly" (1 Cor. 15., 49). He shall change the body of our humiliation, that it may be fashioned lSike unto the body of His glory (Phil. 4., 21). "When He shall appear, we shall be like Him" (1 John 3., 2). As melted wax takes the impress of the seal, so, the moment the saints are caught up to meet the Lord in the air, these bodies will take the impress of His glorious body; thus we shall be conformed to the glorious pattern of the Divine Redeemer. Capacities for service may be typified by the CHERUBIM; dignity, fruitfulness, and triumph by the PALM TREES; the germs and unfoldings of every spiritual grace by the SEED VESSELS and OPEN FLOWERS. All these were seen in their beauty and excellency in Jesus, and the risen saints will be conformed to Him in resurrection glory.\par \par THE OVERLAYING WITH SILVER AND GOLD.\par The reason given for David's contribution of silver, in 1 Chron. 29., 4, was to overlay - literally, to PLASTER - the walls of the house. It would appear that the stone walls were first plastered with SILVER, then covered with CEDAR, and afterwards overlaid with GOLD - the whole houseT within and without, including the roof, walls, floor, doors (1 Kings vi., 20-22, 30, 32, 35; 2 Chron. 3., 5-9) - not gilded, but covered with gold, fitted upon the carved work, bringing the whole into surpassing splendour. SILVER is the emblem of atonement, for the typical redemption price was paid in silver (Ex. 30., 11-16). Gold, the most precious of metals, appears to be the emblem of that which is Divine - divinely excellent and glorious, a faint foreshadowing of the glory of God which the redeemed will for ever share. So also the Holy City, New Jerusalem, the emblem of the Church as the Bride of the Lamb (Rev. 21., 11, 18), was seen of John in vision as "pure gold," "having the glory of God." "The glory which Thou hast given Me," says Jesus, "I have given them" (John 17., 22). The bodies of the saints, sown in dishonour, will be raised in glory (1 Cor. 15., 43). As the gold fitted on the carved work did not obliterate, but added perfection to the carvings of the cedar, so the Divine glory put upon tUhe redeemed will display more fully those excellencies of the Redeemer which they will reflect, into whose image they will have been transformed. The weight of gold is enormous, reminding us of that expression, our light affliction which is but for a moment," these chisellings and carvings so painful now, "worketh for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory" (2 Cor. 4., 17). Not only will glory given to them press upon the spirits of the redeemed, constraining to gratitude and praise, but redemption wrought for them will press with still heavier burden. Oh, for more of that faith which is the substance of things hoped for in eternity, to bring the pressure of these obligations to bear on our hearts in time! These afflictions will soon be past, these clouds shall give place to one unclouded day, encircling with perpetual spring the everlasting year.\par \par THE PRECIOUS STONES.\par David provided for the house of his God "onyx stones and stones to be set, glistering stones, and of divers colours, and all manner of precious stones" (1 Chron. 29., 2, 8). Solomon "garnished the house with precious stones for beauty" (2 Chron. 3., 6). So also the light of the Holy Jerusalem, seen of John in vision, "was like unto a stone most precious, even like a jasper stone, clear as crystal" [crystallising\} (Rev. 21., 11). Paul appears to have had these things in his mind when he wrote, "If any man build upon this foundation gold, silver, precious stones." For he is speaking of believers as being God's Temple, in which the Spirit of God dwelt (1 Cor. 3., 12, 16, 17). These precious stones aptly set forth those spiritual excellencies and perfections which will be conspicuous in the redeemed in glory, the workmanship of the ETERNAL SPIRIT, those GRACES of the Spirit of God which will be there in full bloom - " open flowers," not simply graces in the bud and embryo, but in growth and perfection, which shall there appear in the clear radiance of the Divine presence in all their spiritual beauty.\par \par }