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出埃及记 27

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1 你要用皂荚。这四方的,长五肘,宽五肘,肘。

2 要在坛的拐角上做个角,与坛接连一块,用铜把坛包裹。

3 要做,收去坛上的灰,又做铲子、盘子、肉锸子、火鼎;坛上一切的器具都用铜做。

4 要为坛做一个铜,在角上做个铜

5 安在四面的围腰板以,使达到的半腰。

6 又要用皂荚做杠,用铜包裹。

7 这杠要穿在两旁的子内,用以抬

8 要用板做坛,坛是空的,都照着在上指示你的样式作。

9 你要做帐幕的院子。院子的面要用捻的细麻做帷子,长肘。

10 帷子的子要二十根,带卯的铜座二十个。子上的钩子和杆子都要用子做。

11 面也当有帷子,长一肘,帷子的二十根,带卯的铜座二十个。子上的钩子和杆子都要用子做。

12 院子的西面当有帷子,宽五十肘,帷子的根,带卯的座个。

13 院子的东面要宽五十肘。

14 门这边的帷子要十五肘,帷子的根,带卯的座个。

15 门那边的帷子也要十五肘,帷子的根,带卯的座个。

16 院子的当有幔子,长二十肘,要拿蓝色紫色、朱红色线,和捻的细麻,用绣花的手工织成,根,带卯的座个。

17 院子四围一切的子都要用杆连络,子上的钩子要用做,带卯的座要用铜做。

18 院子要长一肘,宽五十肘,五肘,帷子要用捻的细麻做,带卯的座要用铜做。

19 帐幕各样用处的器具,并帐幕一切的橛子,和院子里一切的橛子,都要用铜做。

20 你要吩咐以色列人,把那为点捣成的清橄榄拿来给你,使常常点着。

21 会幕中法柜前的幔外,亚伦和他的儿子,从晚上早晨,要在耶和华面前经理这灯。这要作以色列人世代永远的定例。

   

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Apocalypse Revealed # 392

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392. Then another angel came and stood at the altar, having a golden censer. (8:3) This symbolizes spiritual worship, which originates from the goodness of charity expressed through truths of faith.

The altar at which the angel stood, and the golden censer that he had in his hand, symbolize worship of the Lord springing from a spiritual love, which is worship that originates from the goodness of charity expressed through truths of faith.

The children of Israel had two altars, one outside the Tabernacle, the other inside the Tabernacle. The altar outside the Tabernacle was called the altar of burnt offering, because burnt offerings and other sacrifices were presented on it. The altar inside the Tabernacle was called the altar of incense, and also the golden altar.

They had these two altars because worship of the Lord originates from celestial love and from spiritual love - from celestial love in the case of angels in His celestial kingdom, and from spiritual love in the case of angels in His spiritual kingdom. Regarding these two kingdoms, see no. 387 above.

Regarding the two altars, see the following passages in the books of Moses: On the altar of burnt offering, Exodus 20:24-26; 27:1-8; 29:36-43, Leviticus 6:8-12; 8:11; 16:18-19, 33-34. On the altar of incense, Exodus 30:1-10; 31:8; 37:25-29; 40:5, 26, Numbers 7:1.

John saw altars, censers, and the burning of incense, not because things of that kind are found in heaven. They were simply images representative of the worship of the Lord there. John saw them because such things were instituted among the children of Israel, and are often mentioned, therefore, in the Word. Moreover that church was a representational church, for every aspect of their worship was representative, and therefore those things now symbolize the Lord's Divinely given celestial and spiritual elements which are connected with His church in heaven and on earth.

[2] These same things are therefore symbolically meant in the Word by these two altars in the following places:

Send out Your light and Your truth! Let them lead me... to Your habitations. Then I will go to the altar of God, to God... (Psalms 43:3-4)

I wash my hands in innocence, and go around your altar, O Jehovah, and I will make to be heard the voice of confession... (Psalms 26:6-7)

The sin of Judah is written with a pen of iron... on the tablet of their heart, and on the horns of your altars... (Jeremiah 17:1-2)

God is Jehovah, who gives us light; bind the festal sacrifice with cords to the horns of the altar. (Psalms 118:27)

In that day there will be an altar to Jehovah in the midst of the land of Egypt... (Isaiah 19:19)

An altar to Jehovah in the midst of the land of Egypt symbolizes worship of the Lord originating from love in the natural person.

The thistle and thorn shall rise up on their altars. (Hosea 10:8)

These symbolize worship originating from evils and from the falsities accompanying evil.

See also elsewhere, such as Isaiah 27:9; 56:6-7; 60:7.

[3] Since an altar represented and so symbolized worship of the Lord, it is apparent that the altar here in the book of Revelation has no other meaning, and so, too, elsewhere. As for example:

...I saw under the altar the souls of those slain for the Word of God... (Revelation 6:9)

...the angel stood and said, ."..measure the temple of God and the altar, and those who worship in it." (Revelation 11:1)

...I heard another (angel) from the altar saying, ."..true and just are Your judgments." (Revelation 16:7)

Since representative worship was carried out principally upon the two altars, and since it was abolished by the Lord when He came into the world because He laid open the inner qualities of a church, we are accordingly told in Isaiah,

In that day a man will look to his Maker, and his eyes will regard the Holy One of Israel, and... not... to the altars, the work of his hands. (Isaiah 17:7-8)

  
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Many thanks to the General Church of the New Jerusalem, and to Rev. N.B. Rogers, translator, for the permission to use this translation.