Now we are ready to turn our attention towards the Golden Altar of Incense before the rent veil of the Holy of Holies.
It is in the consistency of intimacy with the Trinity; deep within the Holy Place, that the Davidic heart is formed. Face to face common-union in the Feast of the Living Word and Wine of the Love of God is the seed-bed of the true Tabernacle of David realities. The holy incense of the golden spoons is found here; it is the righteous fruit of a love-sick heart in Holy Communion with the Bread of Faces and Wine of God!
Exo 30:9a You shall offer no unholy incense on the altar…
Lev 10:1 AND NADAB and Abihu, the sons of Aaron, each took his censer and put fire in it, and put incense on it, and offered strange and unholy fire before the Lord, as He had not commanded them.
:2 And there came forth fire from before the Lord and killed them, and they died before the Lord.
This is wonderful! And, this is terrible! This is serious! Though we are searching out Truth in the Scriptures contained in various types and shadows’, they are all given to bring us progressively closer and closer; ultimately into actual common union with the One True Living God, not just concepts of His Ways!
We are called forward into experiential union with the One Who is wholly Holy; the One Who is wholly Holy Love!
Deu 4:24 For the LORD thy God is a consuming fire, even a jealous God.
The incense of the Table of Shewbread speaks of both worship, and the fervent intercession that is fueled by the fire of Holy Love ascending from the burning hearts of His bond-servants. The authority of King David with God was the fruit of his priestly ministry to Hymn!
The Golden Altar of Incense is centered in the heart of the Tabernacle. Its measurements indicate that it was the highest article of furniture as well. There were four horns on the four corners and a golden crown around the top. Clearly, it was prominent in the mind of God.
Hab 3:4 And his brightness was as the light; he had horns coming out of his hand: and there was the hiding of his power.
Let us never forget, the holy incense of the golden spoons is the righteous fruit of a love-sick heart in Holy Communion with the Bread of Faces and Wine of God! It is the burning heart of the Davidic New Testament king-priest that is the true censer from which the holy incense arises in intercessory worship. The “hiding of His power” is found, as the Hand of God moves in the Earth in response to the prayers of His bond-servants.
It is the Holy Incense from the golden spoons of the Table of Shewbread that is burnt on the Golden Altar night and day. It is also the Holy Incense that is sprinkled upon the coals of the Censer of the High Priest as he stands at the Golden Altar of Incense on the Great Day of Atonement. This then produces an ascending cloud of fragrance that engulfs the High Priest in the smoke of the burning incense. With his flesh now covered, he alone, enters through the veil into the Holy of Holies! Let us enter in by the New and Living Way!
{to be cont.}
brother cliff
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