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far greater breadth then, but no such height and depth
as the sovereign grace of God gives in this day for the
praise of His earth-rejected Christ now exalted in
heaven. Hence, as it appears to me, most fittingly,
Pentecost is not found for the day of earth’s blessed­
ness, having found its highest and richest fulfilment
in the church of God united to Christ in heavenly
places.
But the feast of tabernacles will surely be then.
This accordingly is here appointed afresh, and in the
usual time. “ In the seventh month, in the fifteenth
day of the month, shall he do the like in the feast of
the seven days, according to the sin-offering, according
to the burnt-offering, and according to the meat-offer­
ing, and according to the oil.” (Yer. 25.) The sense
of Christ’s work is fully maintained, as in the pass-
over ; but the feast which is most fully expressed then
is clearly the great ingathering to rejoice before
Jehovah, after the harvest and the vintage (cf. Bev. xiv.)
when they look back on pilgrim days past for ever. It
is not a witness now as in the two loaves, but the
blessing of Israel when the glory shines on Zion.