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round about. From the ground to above the door the*
therubim and the palm-trees were made in the wall of
ihe temple. The temple had four-cornered posts; and
the front of the holy of holies, the appearance [was] as
the appearance.” (Vers. 5—2 1 .) It will be observed
that the symbols used here express judicial power and
victory: how appropriate to the millennial day needs
not to be argued.
In verse 22 we read that “ the altar of wood [was]
three cubits high, and its length two cubits; and its
corners, and its top-piece,and its walls [were] of wood;
and he said to me, This [is] the table that is before-
Jehovah.” This identification of the altar with file­
name of the table on which the shew-bread was set be­
fore the Lord is remarkable ; and the reader can com­
pare Malachi i. 7 , 1 2 .
“ And the temple and the holy of holies had two-
doors. And the doors had two leaves, two turning
leaves, two for the one door, and two leaves for the
other. And [there were] made on them, on the doors
of the temple, cherubim and palm-trees, as [werej
made upon the walls, and a thick plank-wrork [was]1
upon the face of the porch without ; and latticed win­
dows and palm-trees on the one side, and on the other
side, on the sides of the porch, and on the side-
chambers of the house and the thick planks.” (Vers,
23—26.) It is thus a wholly different measure of ac­
cess to God from what we know who estimate the sacri­
fice of Christ according to its value in heaven and thus-
enter through the rent veil. For Israel, though surely
redeemed, the harrier will be set up again.