Exodus 28:1
.............gives the directions given to Moses concerning the priestly family.

Neither Moses or his sons had any office of priesthood under the Law.

Read Hebrews 8

........................It shows us that the priests who offered gifts, according to the law, served as an example and shadow of heavenly things.

The Tabernacle and its vessels and the priesthood and the ministries connected to it, would have been useless without its vessels.




The Tabernacle with its vessels would have been of no service if not for a living family of priests constantly engaged in activities in the Holy Place.

........................They acted as mediators.

Jesus is the Mercy Seat where spiritually dead man can meet God.

.....................The goat that was "for the Lord" was killed and some of its blood was carried into the Holiest and sprinkled by the priest on the Mercy Seat seven times.

.....................................Just like Jesus passed into the Heavenlies with His own blood on our behalf.

After releasing the scapegoat, which was spoke of as the Substitution, of the two goats presented the day of the atonement; the other goat was "for the Lord."

................The goat for the Lord was spoken of as Propitiation, which was mercy that God dealt toward condemned man.

Leviticus 16 gives the account of the Day of Atonement.

.........................On that day there were two goats brought before the Lord.

..................Lots were cast upon them.

............................One of the goats was a scape goat; having had the sins of the congregation confessed over it by Aaron, was sent away into the wilderness to some uninhabitable place and let go never to return.

In Romans 3:24-25
"Christ Jesus; whom God set forth to be a propitiation."

.................................The word "propitiation" in the Old Testament is "mercy seat".

It could read "Christ Jesus; whom God set forth to be a Mercy Seat."

..............................The throne of a Holy, sin-hating God is a Mercy Seat and not a judgment seat.

The Ark of the Covenant

The Mercy Seat
was the cover of
the Ark.

At each end was
a Cherubim
whose outspread
wings overshadowed
the Mercy Seat.

The materials of the Altar of Incense tells of the truth of Christ as a Person.

................Gold proclaims His Deity.
................Wood of His humanity.

................It bring to us the glorious fact that we have a man at the right hand of God.

................1 Timothy 2:5
"For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus;"

.............He is interceding and maintaining our cause in Heaven.

National Day of Prayer 2012

The Brazen Altar and the Laver
shows Christ's identifying with our spiritual death.

The Table of Shew Bread and Golden Lampstand
shows our identifying with His Resurrection.

The Altar of Incense
shows His Ascension to the Father.

His blood had been scrifices on this Altar and He
entered into the Holy of Holies in Heaven with it
and purchased our Redemption.

In the Holy Place before the veil stood
the Golden Altar of Incense.

The word "Altar"
signified place of
slaughter, but no
sacrifices are to
be offered here.