Bible Study on Exodus 26, verses 1 to 6, cherubims of cunning work

 

Exodus 26:1 ¶  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. 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. 3  The five curtains shall be coupled together one to another; and other five curtains shall be coupled one to another. 4  And thou shalt make loops of blue upon the edge of the one curtain from the selvedge in the coupling; and likewise shalt thou make in the uttermost edge of another curtain, in the coupling of the second. 5  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. 6  And thou shalt make fifty taches of gold, and couple the curtains together with the taches: and it shall be one tabernacle.

What follows are detailed instructions for putting together the tabernacle. Something interesting here to begin with are the cherubims. There is a description of them in Ezekiel, chapter one, and another in Ezekiel, chapter ten, where a cherub is called a living creature.

Ezekiel 10:20  This is the living creature that I saw under the God of Israel by the river of Chebar; and I knew that they were the cherubims.

Note that as cherubims are called living creatures an angel is a presence so they are not the same in that regard either. Cherubims are not angels and angels are never said to have wings. Angels are typically the appearance of God, men, children in heaven, or churches in the context they are written.

Isaiah 63:9  In all their affliction he was afflicted, and the angel of his presence saved them: in his love and in his pity he redeemed them; and he bare them, and carried them all the days of old.

It appears that, from reading Ezekiel, chapter one, and Revelation, chapter four, that they have the appearance of living creatures representing everything from man, to domestic animals, to wild animals, to birds. Does the difference in the number of wings between the four beasts around the throne in Revelation, who, like the seraphims in Isaiah, chapter six, have six wings while the beasts in Ezekiel have four, have any significance?

Whether they are represented as having two wings as in 1Kings 8:7 or four or six wings we must consider the obvious. They appear at different times slightly different. Six wings in Isaiah for seraphims, four in Ezekiel, and then six in Revelation although depicted over the mercy seat, two, means only that they can be depicted differently in different contexts. Ezekiel, Isaiah, and John were three different men of God who saw things that were given to them and recorded them for our learning. Do not make the mistake of reading the Bible like your car-owner’s manual. There is, however, significance in each description and numbers are interesting.

Numbers in the Bible are very significant. There are ten curtains of fine twined linen that make up the tabernacle. Ten is very significant in the Bible. Noah was the tenth generation from Creation. Of course, you’ve seen the Ten Commandments given. There were ten plagues given to Egypt. There are ten days of tribulation for saints in Revelation 2:10. There are ten kingdoms run by the Beast in Revelation with ten kings in Revelation 17:12 as symbolized in Daniel, chapter two, by the toes of the image.

There are so many tens in the Bible that you would find it a very interesting study. The number clearly represents some kind of divine order put in place by God and which man is unable to get away from in his dealings.

The length of a curtain is twenty eight cubits, or four times seven. Twenty eight or eight and twenty has its place in other contexts. Seven is significant as God’s number of completion, of perfecting or finishing a thing as in the six days of creation and the day of rest. Seven is a number that appears like no other number in the Bible. Much has been written about it.

When we think of four we think of the four gospels automatically.

Five can represent the wounds in Christ; the side pierced by a spear, the hands, and the feet. As you can see if you look at numbers there is a huge about of information that can be gleaned from their study. However, you can wind up lost in an occultic numerology that takes you away from the literal words in the text as you become obsessed with the symbolic that is very subjective. When something has to be interpreted for you beware of the interpreter. Satan loves to deceive.

While there are a great many other and, perhaps, more important observations one could make on this passage I want to try to keep the digressions to a minimum to keep the narrative moving.

Bible Study on Acts 27, verses 12 to 44, the angel of God, whose I am, and whom I serve

 

Acts 27:12 ¶  And because the haven was not commodious to winter in, the more part advised to depart thence also, if by any means they might attain to Phenice, and there to winter; which is an haven of Crete, and lieth toward the south west and north west. 13  And when the south wind blew softly, supposing that they had obtained their purpose, loosing thence, they sailed close by Crete. 14  But not long after there arose against it a tempestuous wind, called Euroclydon. 15  And when the ship was caught, and could not bear up into the wind, we let her drive. 16  And running under a certain island which is called Clauda, we had much work to come by the boat: 17  Which when they had taken up, they used helps, undergirding the ship; and, fearing lest they should fall into the quicksands, strake sail, and so were driven. 18  And we being exceedingly tossed with a tempest, the next day they lightened the ship; 19  And the third day we cast out with our own hands the tackling of the ship. 20  And when neither sun nor stars in many days appeared, and no small tempest lay on us, all hope that we should be saved was then taken away.

 

This confirms what I said in Acts 11 that this Phenice was located on the island of Crete. It is not Phoenicia located in the vicinity of modern-day Lebanon. The name for the wind, Euroclydon, contains the first part of the word Euro as in Europe although they have different root words in Greek and Hebrew. Commentators note that the modern name for this tempestuous wind in autumn and winter is Gregale or Levanter.

 

Clauda is called Gavdo today.

 

Acts 27:21 ¶  But after long abstinence Paul stood forth in the midst of them, and said, Sirs, ye should have hearkened unto me, and not have loosed from Crete, and to have gained this harm and loss. 22  And now I exhort you to be of good cheer: for there shall be no loss of any man’s life among you, but of the ship. 23  For there stood by me this night the angel of God, whose I am, and whom I serve, 24  Saying, Fear not, Paul; thou must be brought before Caesar: and, lo, God hath given thee all them that sail with thee. 25  Wherefore, sirs, be of good cheer: for I believe God, that it shall be even as it was told me. 26  Howbeit we must be cast upon a certain island. 27  But when the fourteenth night was come, as we were driven up and down in Adria, about midnight the shipmen deemed that they drew near to some country; 28  And sounded, and found it twenty fathoms: and when they had gone a little further, they sounded again, and found it fifteen fathoms. 29  Then fearing lest we should have fallen upon rocks, they cast four anchors out of the stern, and wished for the day. 30  And as the shipmen were about to flee out of the ship, when they had let down the boat into the sea, under colour as though they would have cast anchors out of the foreship, 31  Paul said to the centurion and to the soldiers, Except these abide in the ship, ye cannot be saved. 32  Then the soldiers cut off the ropes of the boat, and let her fall off. 33  And while the day was coming on, Paul besought them all to take meat, saying, This day is the fourteenth day that ye have tarried and continued fasting, having taken nothing. 34  Wherefore I pray you to take some meat: for this is for your health: for there shall not an hair fall from the head of any of you. 35  And when he had thus spoken, he took bread, and gave thanks to God in presence of them all: and when he had broken it, he began to eat. 36  Then were they all of good cheer, and they also took some meat. 37  And we were in all in the ship two hundred threescore and sixteen souls. 38  And when they had eaten enough, they lightened the ship, and cast out the wheat into the sea. 39  And when it was day, they knew not the land: but they discovered a certain creek with a shore, into the which they were minded, if it were possible, to thrust in the ship. 40  And when they had taken up the anchors, they committed themselves unto the sea, and loosed the rudder bands, and hoised up the mainsail to the wind, and made toward shore. 41  And falling into a place where two seas met, they ran the ship aground; and the forepart stuck fast, and remained unmoveable, but the hinder part was broken with the violence of the waves. 42  And the soldiers’ counsel was to kill the prisoners, lest any of them should swim out, and escape. 43  But the centurion, willing to save Paul, kept them from their purpose; and commanded that they which could swim should cast themselves first into the sea, and get to land: 44  And the rest, some on boards, and some on broken pieces of the ship. And so it came to pass, that they escaped all safe to land.

 

Paul gets an “I told you so” moment but was told by the Lord, as the angel, or appearance, of  God told him that he would get to Rome. Christ has made Himself known to mankind by His appearance or angel on several occasions.

 

The angel that was with Moses was the preincarnate Christ.

 

Judges 2:1 ¶  And an angel of the LORD came up from Gilgal to Bochim, and said, I made you to go up out of Egypt, and have brought you unto the land which I sware unto your fathers; and I said, I will never break my covenant with you.

 

Exodus 3:2  And the angel of the LORD appeared unto him in a flame of fire out of the midst of a bush: and he looked, and, behold, the bush burned with fire, and the bush was not consumed.

 

An angel is the presence of someone or something that is somewhere else but which can act on reality.

 

Isaiah 63:9  In all their affliction he was afflicted, and the angel of his presence saved them: in his love and in his pity he redeemed them; and he bare them, and carried them all the days of old.

 

Examples also include;

 

Matthew 18:10  Take heed that ye despise not one of these little ones; for I say unto you, That in heaven their angels do always behold the face of my Father which is in heaven.

 

Revelation 1:20  The mystery of the seven stars which thou sawest in my right hand, and the seven golden candlesticks. The seven stars are the angels of the seven churches: and the seven candlesticks which thou sawest are the seven churches.

 

The narrative is pretty clear here regarding the peril that Paul and his companions faced. I will save my comment on verse 27 for the next passage’s comments.

A Psalm for Sunday, Psalm 80, verses 8 to 19, Turn us again, O LORD God of hosts

 

Psalm 80:8 ¶  Thou hast brought a vine out of Egypt: thou hast cast out the heathen, and planted it. 9  Thou preparedst room before it, and didst cause it to take deep root, and it filled the land. 10  The hills were covered with the shadow of it, and the boughs thereof were like the goodly cedars. 11  She sent out her boughs unto the sea, and her branches unto the river. 12  Why hast thou then broken down her hedges, so that all they which pass by the way do pluck her? 13  The boar out of the wood doth waste it, and the wild beast of the field doth devour it. 14  Return, we beseech thee, O God of hosts: look down from heaven, and behold, and visit this vine; 15  And the vineyard which thy right hand hath planted, and the branch that thou madest strong for thyself. 16  It is burned with fire, it is cut down: they perish at the rebuke of thy countenance. 17  Let thy hand be upon the man of thy right hand, upon the son of man whom thou madest strong for thyself. 18  So will not we go back from thee: quicken us, and we will call upon thy name. 19  Turn us again, O LORD God of hosts, cause thy face to shine; and we shall be saved.

 

Israel is likened to a vine and a vineyard.

 

Isaiah 5:1 ¶  Now will I sing to my wellbeloved a song of my beloved touching his vineyard. My wellbeloved hath a vineyard in a very fruitful hill:…7  For the vineyard of the LORD of hosts is the house of Israel, and the men of Judah his pleasant plant: and he looked for judgment, but behold oppression; for righteousness, but behold a cry.

 

Isaiah 27:2  In that day sing ye unto her, A vineyard of red wine. 3  I the LORD do keep it; I will water it every moment: lest any hurt it, I will keep it night and day.

 

Jeremiah 2:21  Yet I had planted thee a noble vine, wholly a right seed: how then art thou turned into the degenerate plant of a strange vine unto me?

 

Hosea 10:1 ¶  Israel is an empty vine, he bringeth forth fruit unto himself: according to the multitude of his fruit he hath increased the altars; according to the goodness of his land they have made goodly images.

 

This speaks about the Exodus and driving out of the idol and devil worshipping, child sacrificing Canaanites. This talks about God’s planting of Israel in the land promised to them and about the judgment that He inflicted on them for their apostasy through agents such as the Assyrians and the Babylonians, metaphorically, with types such as the boar and the wild beast.

See the reference to the Messiah to come from the people of Israel in verse 17. While speaking directly about God’s faithful man it alludes to Christ.

 

Daniel 7:13  I saw in the night visions, and, behold, one like the Son of man came with the clouds of heaven, and came to the Ancient of days, and they brought him near before him.

 

Matthew 9:6  But that ye may know that the Son of man hath power on earth to forgive sins, (then saith he to the sick of the palsy,) Arise, take up thy bed, and go unto thine house.

 

Consider for us how God delivered the Christian from the clutches of Satan and his or her own sin nature and then an eternity of unquenchable suffering. Then, if we turned our back on God and walked in the way of the heathen world He allowed us to suffer and see the hedges He had placed around us be broken down. When we repent we plead for God to turn back to us and deliver us from our self-inflicted sorrows. We are always saved but He will deliver us out of our temporal distresses in many cases as we repent of our preferred wickedness. This is a great prayer and contemplation for a Christian who realizes how far they have strayed from the fold of God and yearns for His sweet mercy.

Bible Study on Acts 27, verses 1 to 11, a perilous journey on the sea

 

Acts 27:1 ¶  And when it was determined that we should sail into Italy, they delivered Paul and certain other prisoners unto one named Julius, a centurion of Augustus’ band. 2  And entering into a ship of Adramyttium, we launched, meaning to sail by the coasts of Asia; one Aristarchus, a Macedonian of Thessalonica, being with us. 3  And the next day we touched at Sidon. And Julius courteously entreated Paul, and gave him liberty to go unto his friends to refresh himself. 4  And when we had launched from thence, we sailed under Cyprus, because the winds were contrary. 5  And when we had sailed over the sea of Cilicia and Pamphylia, we came to Myra, a city of Lycia. 6  And there the centurion found a ship of Alexandria sailing into Italy; and he put us therein. 7  And when we had sailed slowly many days, and scarce were come over against Cnidus, the wind not suffering  us, we sailed under Crete, over against Salmone; 8  And, hardly passing it, came unto a place which is called The fair havens; nigh whereunto was the city of Lasea. 9  Now when much time was spent, and when sailing was now dangerous, because the fast was now already past, Paul admonished them, 10  And said unto them, Sirs, I perceive that this voyage will be with hurt and much damage, not only of the lading and ship, but also of our lives. 11  Nevertheless the centurion believed the master and the owner of the ship, more than those things which were spoken by Paul.

 

We saw mention of the Italian Band in Acts 10. I read that the Augustus Band referred to a bodyguard formed by the Emperor Nero to accompany him to games and other events. If this is so they were returning to Rome and Paul would accompany them under guard, which seems only fitting, as he has appealed directly to the emperor.

 

Adramyttium was a port city on the west coast of what would be Turkey today. There was a famous school of oratory there. They entered a ship registered in that city and sailed to Sidon in modern-day Lebanon.

 

Paul’s status as a Roman citizen is evident here as he is permitted to visit friends upon his honor.

 

They intended to sail by Cyprus but weather difficulties brought them back to the mainland and Myra. They then changed ships to one registered in Alexandria. These geographical locations are interesting, but they also show the perilousness of Paul’s journey. Paul tries to warn those people in charge to no avail.

 

It is interesting to me that the two main schools of Bible interpretation are Antioch and Alexandria, the literal and the figurative. Paul is being taken to Rome, which will be home to the Roman Catholic Church which embraces the Alexandrian manuscripts of the Bible, and to shipwreck. So, leaving Antioch is not a favorable thing to do. Plus, I am compelled to acknowledge that most modern Bible versions with their dynamic equivalence method of translating and their reliance on a handful of Alexandrian manuscripts are a far cry from the literal formal equivalence of the King James Bible and its reliance on the Byzantine and Antiochan manuscripts. Which ship are you on?

Bible Study on Isaiah 7, verses 10 to 16, a virgin shall conceive, and bear a son

 

Isaiah 7:10 ¶  Moreover the LORD spake again unto Ahaz, saying, 11  Ask thee a sign of the LORD thy God; ask it either in the depth, or in the height above. 12  But Ahaz said, I will not ask, neither will I tempt the LORD. 13  And he said, Hear ye now, O house of David; Is it a small thing for you to weary men, but will ye weary my God also? 14  Therefore the Lord himself shall give you a sign; Behold, a virgin shall conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel. 15  Butter and honey shall he eat, that he may know to refuse the evil, and choose the good. 16  For before the child shall know to refuse the evil, and choose the good, the land that thou abhorrest shall be forsaken of both her kings.

 

God, speaking through Isaiah, tells Ahaz to ask for a sign of God’s promise to confirm it. Ahaz, rather impertinently probably references;

 

Deuteronomy 6:16  Ye shall not tempt the LORD your God, as ye tempted him in Massah.

 

Which references this;

 

Exodus 17:1 ¶  And all the congregation of the children of Israel journeyed from the wilderness of Sin, after their journeys, according to the commandment of the LORD, and pitched in Rephidim: and there was no water for the people to drink. 2  Wherefore the people did chide with Moses, and said, Give us water that we may drink. And Moses said unto them, Why chide ye with me? wherefore do ye tempt the LORD? 3  And the people thirsted there for water; and the people murmured against Moses, and said, Wherefore is this that thou hast brought us up out of Egypt, to kill us and our children and our cattle with thirst? 4  And Moses cried unto the LORD, saying, What shall I do unto this people? they be almost ready to stone me. 5  And the LORD said unto Moses, Go on before the people, and take with thee of the elders of Israel; and thy rod, wherewith thou smotest the river, take in thine hand, and go. 6  Behold, I will stand before thee there upon the rock in Horeb; and thou shalt smite the rock, and there shall come water out of it, that the people may drink. And Moses did so in the sight of the elders of Israel. 7  And he called the name of the place Massah, and Meribah, because of the chiding of the children of Israel, and because they tempted the LORD, saying, Is the LORD among us, or not?

 

This double-minded king who we noted obeys God and disobeys Him at the same time, inspires God’s disgust.

 

James 1:8  A double minded man is unstable in all his ways.

 

James 4:8  Draw nigh to God, and he will draw nigh to you. Cleanse your hands, ye sinners; and purify your hearts, ye double minded.

 

God’s going to give him a sign anyway. A child will be born and is able to eat the common food of infants in those days, as per John Gill, milk and honey, before he is weaned so to speak, but before he is of the age of knowing the difference between good and evil both the kings of Israel and Syria, because of their confederacy against Judah, will be dealt with.

 

2Kings 15:30  And Hoshea the son of Elah made a conspiracy against Pekah the son of Remaliah, and smote him, and slew him, and reigned in his stead, in the twentieth year of Jotham the son of Uzziah.

 

2Kings 16:9  And the king of Assyria hearkened unto him: for the king of Assyria went up against Damascus, and took it, and carried the people of it captive to Kir, and slew Rezin.

 

The child will be conceived of someone who is here called a virgin and his name, Immanuel, will mean, according to Strong’s, “God with us”, or, “with us is God.” This woman had been a virgin, not knowing a man. In the immediate context, some commentators say, this is a reference to simply a young woman, who had been a virgin, who will bear a child in the correct manner of the Law. But this is one of the many Messianic prophecies even the Jews understood as referring to the Messiah to come.

 

This is a future prophecy of Christ in the double-meaning that much of prophesy has where a woman who was actually a virgin, having not known a man, would conceive the Messiah.

 

Matthew 1:22  Now all this was done, that it might be fulfilled which was spoken of the Lord by the prophet, saying,23  Behold, a virgin shall be with child, and shall bring forth a son, and they shall call his name Emmanuel, which being interpreted is, God with us.

 

The prophetic interpretation that this is a reference to the Messiah to come will also be confirmed later in Isaiah.

 

Isaiah 9:6  For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace. 7  Of the increase of his government and peace there shall be no end, upon the throne of David, and upon his kingdom, to order it, and to establish it with judgment and with justice from henceforth even for ever. The zeal of the LORD of hosts will perform this.

Bible Study on Acts 26, verses 24 to 32, almost thou persuadest me to be a Christian

 

Acts 26:24 ¶  And as he thus spake for himself, Festus said with a loud voice, Paul, thou art beside thyself; much learning doth make thee mad. 25  But he said, I am not mad, most noble Festus; but speak forth the words of truth and soberness. 26  For the king knoweth of these things, before whom also I speak freely: for I am persuaded that none of these things are hidden from him; for this thing was not done in a corner. 27  King Agrippa, believest thou the prophets? I know that thou believest. 28  Then Agrippa said unto Paul, Almost thou persuadest me to be a Christian. 29  And Paul said, I would to God, that not only thou, but also all that hear me this day, were both almost, and altogether such as I am, except these bonds. 30  And when he had thus spoken, the king rose up, and the governor, and Bernice, and they that sat with them: 31  And when they were gone aside, they talked between themselves, saying, This man doeth nothing worthy of death or of bonds. 32  Then said Agrippa unto Festus, This man might have been set at liberty, if he had not appealed unto Caesar.

 

Agrippa notes to Festus the irony of Paul’s innocence and yet the danger he put himself into by appealing to Caesar. Still, this is all part of God’s plan to get Paul to Rome in spite of himself.

 

Notice here how Agrippa makes the important statement;

 

Almost thou persuadest me to be a Christian.

 

Many people who acknowledge the moral teachings of Jesus consider Him a great teacher of morality but deny any possibility of the resurrection and therefore miss the mark of salvation. They would say almost thou persuadeth me to be a Christian and never be one. In our culture many people who are engaged in good works such as Masons will acknowledge all that Jesus said except they will argue that all religions are a way to God, thereby calling Jesus a liar and missing the mark set by God for salvation.

Bible Study on Exodus 25, verses 31 to 40, a candlestick of pure gold

 

Exodus 25:31 ¶  And thou shalt make a candlestick of pure gold: of beaten work shall the candlestick be made: his shaft, and his branches, his bowls, his knops, and his flowers, shall be of the same. 32  And six branches shall come out of the sides of it; three branches of the candlestick out of the one side, and three branches of the candlestick out of the other side: 33  Three bowls made like unto almonds, with a knop and a flower in one branch; and three bowls made like almonds in the other branch, with a knop and a flower: so in the six branches that come out of the candlestick. 34  And in the candlestick shall be four bowls made like unto almonds, with their knops and their flowers. 35  And there shall be a knop under two branches of the same, 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 candlestick. 36  Their knops and their branches shall be of the same: all it shall be one beaten work of pure gold. 37  And thou shalt make the seven lamps thereof: and they shall light the lamps thereof, that they may give light over against it. 38  And the tongs thereof, and the snuffdishes thereof, shall be of pure gold. 39  Of a talent of pure gold shall he make it, with all these vessels. 40  And look that thou make them after their pattern, which was shewed thee in the mount.

Much is made of the word candlestick by skeptics. Modern Bible translators choose to translate the word as lampstand. This is the definition Strong gave it. In the era of the translation of the King James Bible, the Authorized Version, on which we rely, a candlestick was simply, “an instrument to bear a candle,” as in Thomas Wilson’s 1612 A Christian Dictionary.[1] A candle was merely something that burning gives light, in this case using olive oil.

Exodus 27:20  And 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.

 Some sources state that the word, lampstand, came in use in English around the mid-1800s. So, it would not have been available to the translators. Candlestick is entirely appropriate if you regard the cross-references and review the Hebrew word, which is in use today, the menorah.

Knop is another word over which people stumble. A knop is a decorative knob at the top of something. It can be the ornamental top or capital of a pillar designed to distribute the weight placed directly on the pillar. Think of the opening at the top of a candle holder where the candle fits in and the part of the menorah just under that cup. If I’m not mistaken this would be the meaning of the knop.

There are six branches from the centerpiece and seven lamps. Candlesticks play an important part in prophecy as this candlestick will represent actual historical churches and types of churches in Christianity.

Zechariah 4:1 ¶  And the angel that talked with me came again, and waked me, as a man that is wakened out of his sleep, 2  And said unto me, What seest thou? And I said, I have looked, and behold a candlestick all of gold, with a bowl upon the top of it, and his seven lamps thereon, and seven pipes to the seven lamps, which are upon the top thereof: 3  And two olive trees by it, one

upon the right side of the bowl, and the other upon the left side thereof. 4  So I answered and spake to the angel that talked with me, saying, What are these, my lord? 5  Then the angel that talked with me answered and said unto me, Knowest thou not what these be? And I said, No, my lord. 6  Then he answered and spake unto me, saying, This is the word of the LORD unto

Zerubbabel, saying, Not by might, nor by power, but by my spirit, saith the LORD of hosts. 7  Who art thou, O great mountain? before Zerubbabel thou shalt become a plain: and he shall bring forth the headstone thereof with shoutings, crying, Grace, grace unto it. 8  Moreover the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, 9  The hands of Zerubbabel have laid the foundation of

this house; his hands shall also finish it; and thou shalt know that the LORD of hosts hath sent me unto you. 10  For who hath despised the day of small things? for they shall rejoice, and shall see the plummet in the hand of Zerubbabel with those seven; they are the eyes of the LORD, which run to and fro through the whole earth.

 

    11 ¶  Then answered I, and said unto him, What are these two olive trees upon the right side of the candlestick and upon the left side thereof? 12  And I answered again, and said unto him, What be these two olive branches which through the two golden pipes empty the golden oil out of themselves? 13  And he answered me and said, Knowest thou not what these be? And I said,

No, my lord. 14  Then said he, These are the two anointed ones, that stand by the Lord of the whole earth.

 

Revelation 1:9 ¶  I John, who also am your brother, and companion in tribulation, and in the kingdom and patience of Jesus Christ, was in the isle that is called Patmos, for the word of God, and for the testimony of Jesus Christ. 10  I was in the Spirit on the Lord’s day, and heard behind me a great voice, as of a trumpet, 11  Saying, I am Alpha and Omega, the first and the last: and, What thou seest, write in a book, and send it unto the seven churches which are in Asia; unto Ephesus, and unto Smyrna, and unto Pergamos, and unto Thyatira, and unto Sardis, and unto Philadelphia, and unto Laodicea. 12  And I turned to see the voice that spake with me. And being turned, I saw seven golden candlesticks; 13  And in the midst of the seven candlesticks

one like unto the Son of man, clothed with a garment down to the foot, and girt about the paps with a golden girdle. 14  His head and his hairs were white like wool, as white as snow; and his eyes were as a flame of fire; 15  And his feet like unto fine brass, as if they burned in a furnace; and his voice as the sound of many waters. 16  And he had in his right hand seven stars: and out of his mouth went a sharp twoedged sword: and his countenance was as the sun shineth in his strength. 17  And when I saw him, I fell at his feet as dead. And he laid his right hand upon me, saying unto me, Fear not; I am the first and the last: 18  I am he that liveth, and was dead; and, behold, I am alive for evermore, Amen; and have the keys of hell and of death. 19  Write the things which thou hast seen, and the things which are, and the things which shall be hereafter; 20  The mystery of the seven stars which thou sawest in my right hand, and the seven golden candlesticks. The seven stars are the angels of the seven churches: and the seven candlesticks which thou sawest are the seven churches.

 

God has shown Moses, visibly, how these things are to be made. He has shown him the pattern.

Hebrews 8:5  Who serve unto the example and shadow of heavenly things, as Moses was admonished of God when he was about to make the tabernacle: for, See, saith he, that thou make all things according to the pattern shewed to thee in the mount.

 

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[1] Ian Lancashire, ed., Lexicons of Early Modern English (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2017), http://leme.library.utoronto.ca/.