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Exodus 39

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1 And from the blue, and the crimson, and the scarlet twice-dyed they made the garments of ministry, for ministering in what is holy; and they made the garments of holiness for Aaron; as Jehovah commanded Moses.

2 And he made the ephod of gold, of blue, and of crimson, and of scarlet twice-dyed, and of fine· twined ·linen.

3 And they spread·​·out the thin·​·plates of gold, and he clipped·​·off strands to work them in the midst of the blue, and in the midst of the crimson, and in the midst of the scarlet twice-dyed, and in the midst of the fine·​·linen, with the work of a thinker.

4 They made shoulders for it, coupled; on its two edges it was coupled.

5 And the girding of its ephod that was upon it, it was out of it, according to its making; of gold, of blue, and of crimson, and of scarlet twice-dyed, and fine· twined ·linen; as Jehovah commanded Moses.

6 And they made the onyx stones, surrounded with bezels* of gold, engraved with the engravings of a signet, on the names of the sons of Israel.

7 And he set them on the shoulders of the ephod, to be stones of remembrance for the sons of Israel; as Jehovah commanded Moses.

8 And he made the breastplate with the work of a thinker according to the work of the ephod; of gold, of blue, and of crimson, and of scarlet twice-dyed, and of fine· twined ·linen.

9 It was foursquare; doubled made they the breastplate; a span its length, and a span its breadth, doubled.

10 And they filled into it four rows of stones; a row, a ruby, a topaz, and a garnet, row one;

11 and the second row, a chrysoprase, a sapphire, and a diamond;

12 and the third row, a cyanus*, an agate and an amethyst;

13 and the fourth row, a tarshish*, an onyx, and a jasper; they were surrounded with bezels of gold in their infillings.

14 And the stones were above the names of the sons of Israel, twelve, above their name, the engravings of a signet, each above his name, for the twelve tribes.

15 And they made upon the breastplate chains of the border, with rope work, of pure gold.

16 And they made two bezels of gold, and two rings of gold; and they put the two rings on the two ends of the breastplate.

17 And they put the two ropes of gold on the two rings upon the ends of the breastplate.

18 And the two ends of the two ropes they put on the two bezels, and they put them on the shoulders of the ephod, next·​·to its faces.

19 And they made two rings of gold, and set them on the two ends of the breastplate, on its lip, which was across the ephod inside.

20 And they made two rings of gold, and put them on the two shoulders of the ephod below, next·​·to its faces, alongside the coupling, above the girding of the ephod.

21 And they attached the breastplate by its rings to the rings of the ephod with a strand of blue, that it might be on the girding of the ephod, and that the breastplate not detach from on the ephod; as Jehovah commanded Moses.

22 And he made the mantle of the ephod as a work of the weaver, all of blue.

23 And the mouth of the mantle in its midst, as the mouth of a corslet, with a lip for its mouth round·​·about, that it should not be rent.

24 And they made on the skirts of the mantle pomegranates of blue, and of crimson, and of scarlet twice-dyed, intertwined.

25 And they made bells of pure gold, and they put the bells in the midst of the pomegranates on the skirts of the mantle all around, in the midst of the pomegranates;

26 a bell and a pomegranate, a bell and a pomegranate, on the skirts of the mantle all around, to minister; as Jehovah commanded Moses.

27 And they made the tunics of fine·​·linen with the work of the weaver for Aaron, and for his sons.

28 And the miter of fine·​·linen, and the headdresses of turbans of fine·​·linen, and the linen breeches of fine· twined ·linen;

29 and the belt of fine· twined ·linen, and of blue, and of crimson, and of scarlet twice-dyed, with the work of an embroiderer; as Jehovah commanded Moses.

30 And they made the plate of the crown of holiness of pure gold, and they wrote upon it the writing, with the engravings of a signet, holiness to Jehovah.

31 And they put on it a strand of blue, to put it on the miter from above; as Jehovah commanded Moses.

32 And all the service of the Habitation of the Tabernacle of the congregation was completed, and the sons of Israel did according·​·to all that Jehovah commanded Moses, so they did.

33 And they brought the Habitation to Moses, the Tabernacle, and all its vessels, its clasps, its planks, its bars, and its pillars, and its bases;

34 and the covering of skins of red rams, and the covering of the skins of badgers, and the veil of the sheltering;

35 the ark of the Testimony, and its poles, and the place of atonement;

36 the table, all its vessels, and the bread of faces;

37 the pure* lampstand, its lamps, the lamps of the array, and all its vessels, and the oil for the light;

38 and the altar of gold, and the oil of anointing, and the fragrant incense, and the sheltering for the entrance of the Tabernacle;

39 the altar of bronze, and the grate of bronze which is for it, its poles, and all its vessels; the laver and its base;

40 the hangings of the court, its pillars, and its bases, and the sheltering for the gate of the court, its cords, and its pegs, and all the vessels of the service of the Habitation, for the Tabernacle of the congregation;

41 the garments of ministry for ministering in what is holy, the garments of holiness for Aaron the priest, and the garments of his sons, to be·​·priests.

42 According·​·to all that Jehovah commanded Moses, so did the sons of Israel all the service.

43 And Moses saw all the work*, and behold they had done it as Jehovah commanded, so they had done; and Moses blessed them.

   


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Apocalypse Revealed # 468

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468. And his feet like pillars of fire. This symbolizes the Lord's Divinity on the natural plane in respect to His Divine love, which sustains all things.

This, too, is apparent, from the explanation in no. 49 above, where it is said of the Son of Man that "His feet were like fine brass, as though fired in a furnace."

The angel's feet looked like pillars of fire because the Lord's Divinity on the natural plane - which fundamentally is the Divine humanity that He took on in the world - supports His Divinity from eternity, as the body does the soul, and likewise as the Word's natural meaning supports its spiritual and celestial meanings, on which subject see The Doctrine of the New Jerusalem Regarding the Sacred Scripture, nos. 27-49. To be shown that feet symbolize something natural, see no. 49, and a pillar something that supports, no. 191.

Fire symbolizes love because spiritual fire is nothing else. Therefore it is customary in worship to pray that heavenly fire, that is to say, heavenly love, may kindle the worshipers' hearts. People know that there is a correspondence between fire and love from the fact that a person grows warm with love, and cold with its loss. Nothing else produces vital warmth but love, in both senses. The origin of these correspondences is owing to the existence of two suns, one in the heavens, which is pure love, and the other in the world, which is nothing but fire. This, too, is the reason for the correspondence between all spiritual and natural things.

[2] Since fire symbolizes Divine love, therefore on Mount Horeb Jehovah appeared to Moses in a bush on fire (Exodus 3:1-3). Moreover He descended upon Mount Sinai in fire (Deuteronomy 4:36). For this reason, too, the seven lamps of the lampstand in the Tabernacle were lit every evening, so as to burn before Jehovah (Leviticus 24:2-4). For the same reason fire burned continually on the altar and was not extinguished (Leviticus 6:13), and the priests took fire from the altar in their censers and burned incense (Leviticus 16:12-13).

Therefore Jehovah went before the children of Israel by night in a pillar of fire (Exodus 13:21-22). Fire from heaven consumed the burnt offerings on the altar, as a sign of His being well pleased (Leviticus 9:24, 1 Kings 18:38). The burnt offerings were called offerings by fire to Jehovah, and offerings by fire for a restful aroma to Jehovah (Exodus 29:18; Leviticus 1:9, 13, 17; 2:2, 9-11; 3:5, 16; 4:35; 5:12; 7:30; 21:6; Numbers 28:2; Deuteronomy 18:1).

Therefore in the book of Revelation the Lord's eyes looked like a flame of fire (Revelation 1:14; 2:18; 19:12, cf. Daniel 10:5-6). And seven lamps of fire burned before the throne (Revelation 4:5).

It is apparent from this what lamps containing oil and lamps without oil symbolize (Matthew 25:1-11). The oil means fire, and thus love.

And so on in many other places.

In an opposite sense fire symbolizes hellish love, and this is plain from so many passages in the Word that it would be impossible to cite them all because of their number. See something on the subject in the book Heaven and Hell, published in London, nos. 566-575.

  
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Revelation 4:5

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5 Out of the throne proceed lightnings, sounds, and thunders. There were seven lamps of fire burning before his throne, which are the seven Spirits of God.