February 18
“Spices… for sweet incense” (Exodus 25:6).
Spices were also used to make the incense for burning! Read the instructions for preparing
them in Exodus 30:34-38. The anointing oil speaks of service which we should render in the
House of God, and the incense speaks of the intercession which ascends from the hearts of
believers before God’s throne.
In God’s Sanctuary the incense burned day and night on the golden altar in the Holy Place,
the whole day and the whole night. “Let my prayer be set forth before thee as incense; and
the lifting up of my hands as the evening sacrifice” (Psa. 141:2).
We are God’s co-workers; that is why we have to pray. And even though we may never
receive an answer to our prayer upon this earth, when we reach heaven we shall know God’s
answer to every one. No prayer ever goes unanswered. The High Priest had to first burn
incense before the Mercy Seat (Lev. 16:12-13). Then only was the blood sprinkled on the
Mercy Seat (Lev. 16:6, 15-16). All this was a type or shadow of the sacrifice of the Lord Jesus
Christ Himself. He brought His own Blood inside the Most Holy Place, thereby wholly satisfying
God (Heb. 9:11-12).
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What is Tabernacle? | February 6
February 6
“Moreover thou shalt make the tabernacle with ten curtains of fine twined linen, and blue,
and purple, and scarlet with cherubims of cunning work shalt thou make them” (Exodus 26:1).
Now mark carefully the coverings of the Tabernacle. In the Tabernacle the walls were boards of shittim wood covered with gold, but the ceiling was made of curtains (Exodus 26:1). Therewere four coverings. The first layer, was made of ten curtains of fine twined linen joined to one another by 50 blue loops and 50 gold taches. Together they formed “one tabernacle” over the sanctuary.
The linen was interwoven with blue, purple, and scarlet thread, and cherubim were
embroidered upon it. The same materials were also used for the veil and for the hangings at the door of the Tabernacle and at the gate of the court. Every small detail has something to teach us about the Lord Jesus Christ.
The second set of curtains, was woven of goats’ hair, (Exodus 26:7-13). In this case there
were not ten curtains, but eleven. Together they formed the “tent” of the Tabernacle. Over
this was a third covering of rams’ skins dyed red, and on top of this again, was the last
covering of badgers’ skins (Exodus 26:14).