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The number 10 in the Bible | February 25

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February 25
“Be thou faithful unto death and I will give thee a crown of Life” (Rev. 2:10).
We have now to say a word more about our earthly vocation. We have seen that each board was 10 cubits long.

The number 10 in the Bible is the number of maturity—spiritual maturity and responsibility attained through testing and trial. Spiritual maturity does not come by head-knowledge. You may have much true knowledge, but it is only after hardships, trials and tribulations that you become spiritually mature, and your life here on earth is your training ground.

Now those wooden boards, the were 10 cubits high and 1 ½ cubits wide, each had two sockets underneath, sockets of silver for their support. God could have used gold for the sockets but He chose to use silver. Why? Because silver is, as we saw, a symbol of redemption in the Bible.

It is a symbol of the price our Lord Jesus paid to redeem us to Himself.
The number two in the Bible is a symbol of unity in fellowship (Matt. 18:19). Each board had to rest upon two sockets; otherwise it would not be steady. The two tenons resting on the sockets of silver tell us that we have all been bought by the same redemption price, and are all equally precious to the Lord.

Come, Lord Jesus Christ | February 17

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February 17
“Spices for anointing oil” (Exodus 25:6).


Special spices were required by God, to be used in making the anointing oil. Read Exodus
30:22-33. That oil could only be used in the temple and in the Sanctuary, and upon those
who were serving in the Sanctuary; it could not be used for any other purpose.

The spices called myrrh, cinnamon, calamus, and cassia were used, along with olive oil.


In Song of Solomon 4:12-16, the Church is compared to a garden where those spices grow. Imagine a garden where frankincense, myrrh, aloes, cassia and calamus are all growing together. After much careful cultivation the bushes begin to blossom. Then the North and the South winds begin to blow, and the sweet fragrance of mingled spices flows out, giving great joy to the one who walks in the garden.

Can you sing to the Lord Jesus Christ! ‘Come, Lord Jesus Christ, into my heart, Thy garden of spices’. If you are not living a life to the glory of God, the Lord can smell no spices. But if you are living a life pleasing to Him, then that garden of spices, your heart can give joy to Him. We read in 1 Corinthians 3:9 that “We are God’s husbandry”, God’s garden, and in 2 Corinthians 2:14-16, that “We are unto God a sweet savour of Christ”.

That is how our lives ought to be, so that, when our Lord Jesus Christ walks in His gardens, He may smell their fragrance.

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