The Altar of Incense
- Ex. 30:1-6. Golden altar before the vail.
- Ex. 30:7, 8. Perpetual incense renewed morning
and evening. The high priest was to offer the incense.
- Ex. 30:34-38. Special incense which could not
be used for any other purpose.
- Ex. 30:9. No strange incense could be offered.
- Heb. 8:5. A shadow of heavenly service.
- Rev. 8:2-5. John saw the heavenly altar.
- Rev. 8:3. An angel officiated.
- Jude 9; 1 Thess. 4:16; John 5:28, 29. Michael,
the archangel, is Christ, our High Priest.
- Rev. 8:3, 4, margin. Incense is added to the
prayers.
- John 14:13, 14. The name, or righteous
character, of Christ makes our prayers acceptable.
- 1 John 1:9; Isa. 61:10. Pardoned one clothed
with righteousness.
- Isa. 64:6. Our righteousness is strange
incense.
- Ex. 30:7, 8; Heb. 9:6. Incense was perpetual;
hence, offered on day of atonement.
- Rev. 8:3. Incense added to the prayers of all
saints.
- Rev. 5:8, margin. All prayers not answered at
once. After they are accepted by the incense
being
added, they are put in golden vials to be answered in God’s own time.
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