PART #7: CANDLESTICK, ETERNAL FLAME?

Oh, and it must be mentioned that the candlestick was NOT a candle that burned perpetually; it had to be renewed and trimmed daily, and it was only to burn during the dark. But if it was never extinguished, why have “snuffers” for the lamp?

Exodus 37:23 And he made his seven lamps, and his snuffers, and his snuffdishes, of pure gold.

Many people will tell you that the candlestick burned constantly, to try and draw a connection between it and the thoroughly pagan “eternal flame”; and there isn't one. It was extinguished every morning and lit every night.

1 Samuel 3:3 And ere the lamp of God WENT OUT in the temple of the LORD, where the ark of God was, and Samuel was laid down to sleep;

This shows beyond question that this lamp (The only lamp in the temple) was to be allowed to go OUT in the temple (the one that had the Ark in it, in case anyone wondered).