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Pillars Of The Temple And The Brass Sea

Out the front of the temple, Solomon built two pillars of brass. Whether they are on the porch or immediately in front of it is not clear, an argument can be made for both views. They were 17 ½ cubits tall, 18 counting the base or (roughly…

As near as we can tell, the candlestick looked like the picture at left. It was carved on the arch of Titus in 81 A.D., after it was removed from Jerusalem, by Titus, about a decade earlier. It is the only extant picture of it we have. Granted it…

The golden censer was placed in front of the veil, outside the holy of holies. Every morning and evening Aaron burns incense on it. Nothing else is to be offered on it except incense, and once a year blood from the atonement sacrifice is placed on…

The more I understand the way God does things, the more I find layer upon layer of symbolism that always seems obvious once I understand it. We know that the things in the Old Testament, in particular were “written for our admonition, upon whom…

Most of the information about the showbread is in one place; Leviticus 24:5-9 And thou shalt take fine flour, and bake twelve cakes thereof: two tenth deals shall be in one cake. And thou shalt set them in two rows, six on a row, upon the pure table…

I’ve always heard that oil in the Bible represented the holy spirit. And it has always fit – more or less – and so I’ve used it here and there. But I’ve never trusted it. It always felt like it was close, but… wrong….