The Altar of Incense. “You shall make an altar upon which to burn incense; you shall make it of acacia wood. It shall be a cubit long and a cubit wide. It shall be square and it shall be two cubits high. Its horns of one piece with it. Exo 30:1-2
INTRODUCTION TO THE OLD TESTAMENT
The Nation Israel Delivered and Organized
III. ISRAEL AT SINAI, Exodus 19:1-40:38
4. Moses in the Mount; Directions for the Tabernacle, Exodus 24:12-31:18
58. How did the altar of incense represent intercessory prayer?
THE ALTAR OF INCENSE
“You shall make an altar upon which to burn incense; you shall make it of acacia wood.
It shall be a cubit long and a cubit wide. It shall be square and it shall be two cubits high. Its horns of one piece with it.
You shall overlay it with pure gold, its top and its sides all around, and its horns; and you shall make a gold molding all around it.
You shall make two gold rings under its molding, make them on the two side walls–on opposite sides–they shall be holders for the poles with which to carry it.
You shall make the poles of acacia wood overlaid with gold.
You shall put the altar of incense [in the Holy Place] in front and outside of the veil that screens the ark of the Testimony, before the mercy seat that is over the Testimony, where I will meet with you.
Aaron shall burn sweet and fragrant incense on it; he shall burn it every morning when he trims and tends the lamps. [Psa_141:2; Rev_5:8; Rev_8:3-4]
When Aaron sets up the lamps at twilight, he shall burn incense, a perpetual incense before the LORD throughout your generations.
You shall not offer any strange incense on this altar, or burnt offering or meal offering; you shall not pour out a drink offering on it.
Once a year Aaron shall make atonement [for sin] on its horns. He shall make atonement on it with the blood of the sin offering of atonement once a year throughout your generations. It is most holy to the LORD.”
Comments by
F.B.Meyer
On
Exodus 30:1-10
THE ALTAR OF INCENSE
It seems late in the story of the Tabernacle that the incense-altar should be only mentioned now; but it is not unsuitable, because intercessory prayer, which it represents, is the crown and climax of the religious life. When our Lord had finished His sacrificial death, He passed into the heavens to make intercession for us. In Rev_8:3-4, R.V., the veil is lifted, and we are allowed to behold Him, standing by the golden altar in heaven, and adding much incense to the prayers of all saints. What a wealth of prayer is ever passing through those gracious hands and that loving heart! Joh_17:1-26 is the Golden Altar of Scripture; let us often worship there. But, alas, these earthly altars soon get defiled, even by our prayers, and need the blood that speaketh peace. All our prayer requires the blood of at-one-ment.
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