Title: The Lampstand

Topic: Salvation

Summary: The lampstand in the tabernacle is an image of a permanent capacity in our minds to see God.

Use the reference links below to follow along in the Bible as you watch.

References:
Exodus 25:31-40; 26:35; 27:20-21; 35:10-14; 37:17-22; 39:37; 40:3-4, 24-25
Leviticus 24:1-4
Numbers 8:1-4
1 Kings 7:48-49
2 Kings 4:9-11
2 Chronicles 4:6-8, 19-22
Psalms 119:104-105
2 Chronicles 13:11
Zechariah 4
Matthew 5:8, 14-16; 25:1-12
Mark 4:21-23
Luke 11:33-36
Ephesians 1:17-18
Revelation 1:12-174, 20; 2:1-5; 11:4
Matthew 18:10
Acts of the Apostles 2:25

649. But here the numbers, or the measurements of the ark, mean nothing other than the remnants that existed with the member of this Church when he was being reformed, and in particular that they were few. This is clear from the fact that among those numbers five is predominant, which in the Word means some, or a little, as in Isaiah,

Gleanings will be left in it, as the shaking of an olive tree, two or three berries on the top of the highest branch, four or five on the branches of a fruitful tree. Isaiah 17:6.

Here 'two or three' and 'five' stands for a few. In the same prophet,

One thousand at the rebuke of one, at the rebuke of five will you flee, until you are left like a flagstaff on top of a mountain. Isaiah 30:17.

This also stands for a few. The minimum penalty when making restitution was a fifth part, Leviticus 5:16; 6:5; 22:14; Numbers 5:7, and the minimum increase when they redeemed an animal, a house, a field, or tithes, was a fifth part, Leviticus 27:13, 15, 19, 31.