FURTHER NUMERIC DETAILS. HOLY CLOTHS AND GARMENTS. SUMMARY OF THE WORK DONE. SETTING UP THE TABERNACLE. 

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IN THE REST of Ex. 38 some details are added, clarifying various things connected with the tabernacle. As before, in presenting our exposition we will give the antitypes in brief explanations and quote partially as a rule the references on which they are based. A summary of the Church was given in the antitypes presented above, even the Church as God's witness (sum … testimony, Ex. 38:21), and that as described by both antitypical Ithamars, the one who functioned in the Interim, 69-1874 A. D., and the one who functions during the Epiphany, as parallels of each other (Ithamar), at Jesus charge as God's Executive (commandment of Moses) and as the special representatives of Jesus as High Priest (son to Aaron). There is a marked difference between the descriptions made by the two Ithamars, due mainly to the fact that they have ministered to two different sets of the Levites. The Interim's Ithamar gave his descriptions of the Church to the justified as Levites, who, of course, could not see the deep things; hence their Ithamar gave the pertinent truths with more or less of obscurities and imperfections, a thing particularly true in increasing obscurity and imperfection from 69 to 1309 A. D. (John 14:30). Then, during the Sardis Epoch, the light began to increase; and it markedly increased, but still with more or less of obscurity and imperfection, during the Philadelphia Epoch. But in the Epiphany the Great Company and Youthful Worthies are the Levites in the finished picture, who as cleansed can see all the deep things; hence the Epiphany Ithamar 

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gives the due Truth with clarity and ever-increasing fulness, until by the end of the Epiphany, between the Parousia and Epiphany messengers the whole Bible will be clarified for the priests and Levites. 

(2) Our Lord as God's special Representative (Bezaleel, v. 2), with full enlightenment from God as due (Uri, my light), of most noble character (Hur, noble) and the mightiest of the mighty of God's servants (tribe of Judah), made as God's chief Agent everything of the Church and in the Church (made all), according to God's command (Lord commanded) to Him as His Executive (Moses). His special helpers therein (Ahisamach, my brother supports, v. 3) were the 49 brothers in whom God has worked (Aholiab, father's tent), as constituting the 7 angels of the seven churches (tribe of Dan). As such they were able in developing the due Truth (engraver), fashioning character (cunning workman; literally, designer) and in developing new creatures (fine linen) in faithfulness (blue) as to royal matters (purple) and sacrifice (scarlet). As in the case of the fraction of a silver talent beyond the 100 talents being used for special things (vs. 25, 28), so the fractional surplus gold beyond the 29 talents was also used for special things; hence these parts of talents are ignored in the secrets contained in the full gold and silver talents. In value the gold talent (twenty-nine talents, v. 24), as we have seen, was 3,000 shekels; and, as we have seen, these 3,000 shekels contain the name Jehovah twice. Thus a gold half-talent was 1,500 shekels, =10 (Yod) x5 (He) x6 (Vav) x5 (He). Hence the 29 gold talents contain the name Jehovah 58 times. 3,000 shekels contain the idea of the Millennium 3 times: 3,000÷3=1,000. The 100 silver talents contain it 300 times; and the 29 gold talents contain it 87 times. In weight the gold talent was 3,600 shekels. 3,600x10x10x10 ÷ (5x5)=144,000; and the 29 gold talents contain the 144,000, of course, 29 times. The silver talent (silver … talents, v. 25) in value was 3,000 shekels; for the 603,550 men gave 

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603,550 bekahs, or 301,775 shekels (v. 26). And 301,775—1,775 = 300,000, which ÷ 100 (talents) = 3,000 (shekels to the talent). As a silver talent in value contains God's name twice, as we saw above of the gold talent in value, 100 of them contain it 200 times. 3,000 silver shekels contain the idea of the Millennium 3 times, and 100 silver talents contain it 300 times. The name Jehovah appears also in the silver talent in value the same way as in the gold talent. In weight a silver talent was 3,600 shekels. 3,600x10x10x10 ÷ (5x5) = 144,000. 100 of these contain it 100 times. Thus we see that both the full gold and silver talents used for tabernacle purposes give us the three great truths as we saw before in the tabernacle and its appurtenances. The significance of the sockets (sockets … sockets … sockets … socket, v. 27) we saw in the preceding chapter and of the 100 of them, a talent each, we have just seen. We are to remember that the name Jehovah is not simply God's appellation, but is also, and more especially, an expression of His character as being a perfect blending of perfect wisdom, power, justice and love and a perfect domination by this blending of perfect wisdom, power, justice and love over His other attributes of character, and as such is designated by the tabernacle numbers whose letters spell the name Jehovah. Accordingly we find, by the tabernacle's measurements and weights, the three greatest truths of the Bible symbolized: (1) The perfect character of God implied in the name Yod (10) He (5) Vav (6) He (5); (2) the high calling of the Christ during the Gospel Age; and (3) restitution for mankind in the Millennium at the hands of the Christ. This, of course, is what should be expected to be imbedded in the tabernacle, the typical embodiment of the mystery hidden from ages and generations. 

(3) The 1,775 shekels of silver (shekels, v. 28) beyond the even 100 talents, like silver elsewhere in the tabernacle, represents truth. That part that overlaid the chapiters' tops or crowns of the court's 60 posts 

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represents (in the case of each post, type of the justified believers, the 60 typing the 60 kinds of the serving Levites) the special work of truth of each of these 60 Levite groups (see EH, 32-78), and that the 60 groups of justified Levites are truly authorized to do their pertinent work. The hooks (hooks) that held the curtains to the posts and fillets represent the truths that hold Christ's righteousness firmly on the justified and also represent the fact that such are truly justified. The fillets (filleted) were silver rods that joined pillar to pillar and thus steadied and supported them from falling toward or away from one another. They type the truths that support and steady the faithful justified and thus keep them from falling, and truly do such supporting and steadying work. We do not know the weight nor value of a brass talent; yet we can apply our key number, 18, to the number of brass talents and derive the truth that the Christ would be trodden down 1,260 years by the symbolic Gentiles, the faith justified, the brass (copper) symbolizing them as such. Thus: 70x18 = 1,260, which suggests the period (539-1799) during which the symbolic Gentiles would tread the faithful down (v. 29). It will be noted that in all three metals the fractions of a talent are not used to suggest the three symbolizations. The symbolisms of the things of brass mentioned in vs. 30, 31 have already been given, hence will not be repeated here. Several of our calculations show that 2 and 3 (2+3 = 5, a tabernacle key number) are minor tabernacle key numbers. 

(4) Apart from the curtains and veils, most of the cloths used in the tabernacle served to cover the sacred furniture and vessels when carried by the Levites and represent things in the Divine class that hide the pertinent persons in their various capacities and their teachings, etc., from outsiders (1 Cor. 2:6-16; 2 Cor. 3:14, 15; 4:3, 4; 1 John 3:1). The rest of the cloth used in the tabernacle served for the priests' garments, typing certain possessions, ministries, powers, prerogatives, etc., of the priesthood. Not only Jesus and 

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the star-members, but also all other servants of the Truth are privileged to work on the antitypes of these cloths (they made cloths of service, Ex. 39:1), into which antitypes they wove faithfulness (blue), royalty (purple) and sacrifice (scarlet) as related to God's plan. They wrought on the characters, powers, prerogatives, possessions, services, etc., of the World's High Priest (garment for Aaron). Jesus alone worked out those of His garments that represented His character, e.g., His antitypical white linen garments. He and the star-members and their helpers worked on them in a teaching way, as all of these worked upbuildingly and instructionally on the Body's white linen garments. In working on the typical garments of beauty and glory, i.e., in producing them, the workers represent God; so in the antitype, since He furnishes and gives the glorified Priesthood the powers, possessions, services, privileges and prerogatives represented by these garments. However, on whatever in them represents their characters and the Truth Jesus, the star-members and their helpers worked, as the antitypes of the pertinent typical workers. This was all done at God's command to Christ (Lord commanded Moses). The ephod (ephod, v. 2) types in its front part of the Abrahamic Covenant and in its back part the New Covenant. These covenants included their servants, the promises', etc., appliers, who as such are part of the covenants, since these consist of (1) the promises, (2) their arrangements and (3) the servants who apply these. Hence there were woven into these covenants faithfulness (blue), royalty (purple), sacrifice (scarlet) and purity (fine twined linen). Jesus alone as God's special Representative made the ephod (he [not they] made the ephod). This means that God used Him to reveal the contents of these covenants in their promises and arrangements, not to originate them, a thing that God did, though Jesus as God's Agent wrought on the appliers of these promises and arrangements as parts of the covenants. 

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But Jesus, the star-members and their helpers worked on the Divine things of nature, truth, character and service (beat gold into plates … wires, v. 3) connected with the Christ's covenant faithfulness (blue), royalty (purple) and sacrifice (scarlet), all of which required special skillfulness (cunning work) in the servants who wrought on the pertinent matters. 

(5) They also worked on the Scriptural considerations of the doctrine and practice that in service connected the two covenants together in harmony with each other (shoulderpieces for it, to couple, v. 4). They were harmonized (coupled) with each other by the doctrines and practices centering in their relations to each other, e.g., the Abrahamic Covenant furnished the priesthood and enabled it to sacrifice: Jesus' sacrifice to furnish the merit and the Church's sacrifice to make available that merit whereby the New Covenant can and will operate. It also furnished the priesthood, who from the Mediator figure will seal, make operative Godward and manward, the New Covenant. The Abrahamic Covenant guarantees the blessing of the world through the New Covenant. It is these and other points of contact between these two covenants that are typed by the shoulderpieces; and their harmony is typed by the edges of the two parts of the ephod coming together at the shoulders and their connection and harmonious relationship are typed by their being coupled together (two edges … together). Certainly, to minister to these two covenants is a present privilege; and to operate them Millennially will be a power, possession, privilege, service and prerogative of the royal Priesthood. Such a future operation of these two covenants ministerially by the Christ is further symbolized by the curious girdle that fastened the two parts of the ephod to the high priest; for girdles type service (Is. 11:5; Matt. 3:4; Luke 12:35, 37; 17:8; John 13:4, 5; 1 Pet. 1:13; Rev. 1:13; 15:6). Accordingly, this, curious girdle declares symbolically that Jesus and the Church will as God's 

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Agents serve both covenants by fulfilling their Millennial features unto the completion of God's plan as related to these two covenants (curious girdle … upon it, v. 5). Into and by this service will be wrought Divine powers (gold), faithfulness (blue), royalty (purple), sacrifice (scarlet) and righteous qualities (fine twined linen), and that in harmony with the instructions that God will give Jesus, thus giving the race Divine power, faithfulness from the royal Priesthood, sacrificial merit and righteousness. Part of the work of such a service as a preparation is done by the Christ in this life, in studying, practicing and spreading the Truth as to these covenants. In this life Jesus, the star-members and their helpers work on the covenants' truths and will do so unto a completion in the Millennium (wrought onyx stones, v. 6). These truths are secured to the covenants by Divine power exercised by the Word, Spirit and providences of God (ouches of gold) and in these truths are those that include the twelve chief graces (signets) as the main characteristics of God's people (names … Israel). These covenant truths have as their sphere of activity the two covenants in their relations to each other as ministered to by the Christ (on the shoulders of the ephod, v. 7), in order that they may be a perpetual reminder to God's Millennial Israel of their exercising these twelve graces (stones for a memorial … Israel). This was done as a result and in the manner of God's charge to our Lord (Lord commanded Moses). 

(6) Jesus, the star-members and their helpers skillfully (cunning work, v. 8) set forth God's law, both of duty and disinterested love (breastplate), with the same qualities as were in the two great covenants (like … ephod), as matters and in the manner of Divine power (gold), faithfulness (blue), royalty (purple), sacrifice (scarlet) and righteousness (fine twined linen). These materials wherever used in sacred cloth type this: the gold, Divine power exercised pertinently in the hands of the priesthood on 

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behalf of the Lord; the blue, the faithfulness of the priesthood working faithfulness in their subjects; the purple, the priesthood's royalty blessing as Kings the Millennial Israel; and the fine twined linen, the righteousness of the priesthood working righteousness in their subjects. Please read these four things into all our brief comments on these four materials. The four great attributes of God in their individual perfection and in their mutual harmony are typed in the foursquaredness of the breastplate and as being expressed in the Divine Law (four square, v. 9). Its doubledness types: (1) that the Divine Law is of two parts, the hidden part, its *letter [PT '50, 64], and the visible part, its *spirit, (2) that these two parts were of the same quality and quantity and (3) that duty and disinterested love belonged to each. Its being a span square, since a span is the full ability of the hand to reach, types the fact that the Law of God is the measure of the full ability of a perfect man to fulfill, a fact that shows that the Law condemns all imperfect beings, and that Jesus in His human and new-creaturely perfection was able to fulfill and did fulfill perfectly its letter and spirit in duty and disinterested love, and thereby gained a righteousness sufficient to redeem all Adam's fallen race. As underpriests, while unable to fulfill the Law's letter, we, covered with Christ's righteousness, can and do fulfill its spirit, because in faithfulness our faithful intentions are perfect through Christ's merit (Matt. 5:48; Rom. 8:1-4). In a teaching way the Christ, faithful star-members and their helpers set forth the twelve main graces and in a practicing way developed them, and in glory will have these and minister them to the world for it to develop them (stones, v. 10), as they will function with the antitypical breastplate. We reserve the explanation of the four rows of three precious stones each and the typical significance of these twelve stones until we expound in a future work the book of Revelation, particularly Rev. 21:19, 20. These stones represent the twelve graces of the two twelve-tribed

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peoples of God, both in the twelve tribes of spiritual Israel (Rev. 7:4-8) and in the twelve tribes of Millennial Israel (stones … names … Israel, v. 14; Matt. 19:28). Each tribe of the two sets of these twelve tribes will have all twelve of these graces; but additionally each tribe of these two sets of twelve tribes will have its individual one of these twelve graces as its special and outstanding grace; and that special outstanding grace is typed by the individual stone pertinent to that antitypical tribe in the two Israels (according to their names … everyone … according … tribes). In ancient times signet rings were made to symbolize their owners' actual or imagined character, or office, or work, etc. Hence these stones fittingly typify the character expressing itself in the office, work, etc., of the two twelve-tribed sets of Israel (engravings of a signet). These qualities as flowing out of justice are the twelve chief virtues, and as flowing out of love are the twelve chief graces in God's Law (Ps. 40:8). The breastplate being bound to Aaron's heart types the delight of the Christ in the Law of God and its nearness to his heart types their love of all mankind, especially those who will obey the Lord's Word (Ex. 28:29). 

(7) The next line of thought set forth in chapter 39 is that of the connection between the two covenants and the Divine Law. This is set forth in vs. 15-21. This is shown, first, as to both of these covenants, in vs. 15-18, and secondly, as to the Abrahamic Covenant, particularly in vs. 19-21. Jesus and the star-members during this Age set forth the teachings as to the Divine power (made … chains … gold, v. 15) connecting the ministry of the two covenants with the Divine Law. These are made to connect with that ministry at its nearest point of contact with that Law, hence with its every part (at the ends). This was beautifully set forth (wreathen work). This Law is attached firmly (two ouches, v. 16) to the two covenants now by the teaching ministry of the Christ; for the

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antitypical ouches [clasps] were attached to the ministries of the Christ as to the covenants (shoulderpieces of the ephod, v. 18). In all cases the rings in the tabernacle and its appurtenances type the two truths: High Calling and Restitution. These two truths of the Old and New Testaments (two rings, v. 19) are now connected with the Law (breastplate), as the Christ connect their teachings with the Law in its parts related to these two truths of the two Testaments (two ends of the breastplate). In the next Age as God's Agent they will make the actual connection between the Divine power and the Divine Law by these two Testament truths (put … chains … rings … breastplate, v. 17). And in the next Age as God's Agents they will connect the Law through the Divine power (wreathen chains, v. 18) powerfully (fastened … ouches) with the two covenants (ephod) by their related ministries (shoulderpieces). Moreover, they have in this Age been teaching with special emphasis the connection of these two Divinely-originated truths of the two Testaments (two rings of gold, v. 19) with the Divine Law at its pertinent points of contact (two ends of the breastplate), and that in its parts related to the Abrahamic Covenant (on the side [under half] of the ephod inward). They will as God's Agents actualize this in the next Age. 

(8) Furthermore, in this Age in a teaching way they have connected the two great truths of the Old and New Testaments with the Abrahamic Covenant (two other golden rings … ephod underneath … forepart [front part of it], v. 20) in relation to the Divine Law (other coupling thereof), and made the connection immediate between them, and made it dominate the service that the Christ gives to the Abrahamic Covenant (above … girdle of the ephod). In the next Age they will as God's Agent bring these things into actual activity. In this Age they have faithfully taught the relationship of the Abrahamic Covenant to the Divine Law as set forth in the two truths of the two Testaments in their pertinent teachings (breastplate …

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rings … rings … ephod … blue, v. 21), in a way to show the immediate and dominating relationship of that covenant to the Divine Law and to the service that the Christ gives under that covenant (above … girdle … ephod). This immediate and dominating relationship of the Abrahamic Covenant to the Christ's ministry to it in and with the Divine Law makes that Law irremovable from that covenant; for if that covenant were dominated by that Law and by the ministry of Christ it would cease to be an unconditional covenant; for its domination over both makes the Divine Law eternal and indissolvable and makes it inseparable from that covenant (not be loosed from the ephod). In the next Age these things will be realized. And these things are so made, even as God charged our Lord to make them (Lord commanded Moses). Just what the typical Urim and Thummim, which were a feature of the breastplate (Ex. 28:30), were we do not for certain know, apart from the fact that they were something connected with the breastplate and in some way gave the high priest the Divine answer, Yes, or No, to his queries on behalf of Israel. Since the word Urim (lights) is always mentioned first, some suppose that the light on the breastplate shown in an upward direction or to the right, if the answer was Yes, and in a downward direction or to the left if the answer was No; but this is a far-fetched speculation. It is more probable that the breastplate as such, apart from the precious stones, was the Urim and the twelve precious stones were the Thummim. As to the antitype matters are clear; for the Urim, lights, type the doctrinal truths of God's Word and the Thummin, perfections, type the twelve chief graces; for the harmony of these two things, the Word and the Spirit of God, enables the High Priest to solve the questions of God's people as to what they should do. The small antitype of Ezra 2:63 occurred as follows: Anent the numerous speculations that J. found current among the British brethren, in an address against speculation before the London 

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Tabernacle in Dec., 1916, J. counseled the brethren to accept no new views, but to wait for new truths until the Lord made manifest His thought through a new mouthpiece priest. According to this, Jesus has during the Gospel Age been giving His responses to His people's questions by the Word and its Spirit through the star-members. 

(9) Certain phases of the character, fruits and work of the Christ as the World's High Priest are brought out in the types of the upper blue robe of Aaron in vs. 22-26. In Bible symbols, in addition to robes representing authority or authorization, they are used to represent truth and righteousness, regardless of whether the latter is actual or imputed (1 Chro. 15:27; Job 29:14; Is. 22:20, 21, the Christ; 61:10; Luke 15:22; Rev. 6:11; 7:9, 13, 14). This blue robe represents the righteous character (robe, v. 22) of the Christ in faithfulness (blue) fulfilling the whole will of God as expressed in His Word, or Plan. The fruits of His faithful and righteous character expressing itself in His redemption work are typed by the pomegranates (pomegranates of blue, v. 24), and are the restitution blessings, the merit of Jesus' sacrifice, which is made available to the world by the sacrifice of the Church. These blessings produce the image and likeness of God restored to man and imply perfect human bodies and lives, with the right to human life and the pertinent life-rights, which Jesus' sacrifice enabled Him to give up as His own personal possession, to make them available by the Church's sacrifice to Adam's lost race on condition of obedience to the terms of the New Covenant in the Millennium. The work to be performed by the Christ implied in the robe, in announcement, is typed by its bells (bells of pure gold, v. 25). In the type the ringing of the bells heard by the people after the high priest changed from his sacrificial white linen robe to the robes of glory and beauty announced to them his coming forth to do the work of blessing the people. Hence the ringing of these 

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bells represents the Christ's proclaiming His Second Advent and its teachings, the Millennial teachings, with which He will offer to bless the people; for it will be mainly by the Truth that the Christ will bless the people. The alternate and near placing of bells and pomegranates represents the fact that Christ's Millennial proclamations will continually call attention to the fruits of His redemptive work for mankind (a bell and a pomegranate … round about the hem of the robe). The Christ's Gospel-Age work on this antitypical upper robe has been one of teaching and character development, fitting Him to function therewith in the Millennium (woven work, v. 22). The Head and Body of the World's High Priest are properly connected as to cooperation in the things symbolized by the blue robe (hole; literally, opening, in the midst, v. 23). The opening exposed the neck, as well as the head, of the high priest (as the hole [opening] of an habergeon [armor which exposed the head and neck]). As the high priest's head represents Jesus, the Head of the World's High Priest, so the high priest's neck having seven cervicals represents the seven sets of star-members of the seven Church Epochs, who as the Millennial Eleazars and Ithamars will be the connecting points between the Head and the Body, even as they have been such in the Gospel Age. This connection will be an unbreakable one (band … not rend). The colors and materials of the pomegranates have the same significance as is given, to them above in other parts of the high priest's robes of glory and beauty (v. 24), as the gold in the bells has the same significance as was given above to the gold. The pomegranates and bells were put on the hem of the upper robe to type that the antitypical robe will work on things external but close to it, even on the race, and will be close to the High Priest's righteousness and faithfulness in yielding and proclaiming the fruits of the Christ's redemptive work (hem of the robe to minister in, v. 26). Not to make such proclamation would result 

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in cutting off from the Priesthood (28:35). 

(10) The holy garments, which were Aaron's sin-sacrificing garments on the day of atonement and his son's ordinary garments, are mentioned as made, in Ex. 39:27. They represent in Aaron's case Jesus' righteousness actually had by Him in His pre-glory-and-beauty-garment times, and in the case of Aaron's sons, that righteousness imputed to them while in the flesh and actually theirs when in glory (Rom. 3:21-25; 10:4; 1 Cor. 1:30; Phil. 3:9; Rev. 19:8). Their making was Jesus' work; and the Christ teachingly set them forth as related to His making them (coats of fine linen … sons, v. 27). The broidered coat of Ex. 28:4 is not mentioned in Ex. 39. It was the garment worn under the high priest's blue robe and it reached about to the ankles, while the upper coat reached a little below the knees. It was white linen and embroidered. Its linen represents the purity in righteousness of the World's High Priest and the embroidery represents the embellishment of that purity in good works and the graces (Ps. 45:13, 14). The Christ worked on that symbolic robe in this life and will wear it in the Millennium while officiating as the World's High Priest. The mitre (mitre of fine linen, v. 28) with its appurtenances formed a crown. Its white fine linen symbolizes the purity, righteousness, of the authorized royal Priesthood as the World's High Priest. A linen bonnet (bonnets of fine linen) was worn by Aaron while dealing with the atonement-day bullock and two goats and implies his authorization in righteousness as high priest and types the authorization of the World's High Priest while sacrificing the antitypical Bullock and Lord's Goat and in dealing with Azazel's Goat (Heb. 5:4, 5). The bonnets of Aaron's sons type the thought of their authorization in righteousness as underpriests and their subjection to Jesus, the Church's High Priest. The fine twined linen breeches (breeches … linen) seem to represent, since they covered the legs, which with the feet represent conduct (Ps. 56:13; 

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119:105; Luke 1:79; Eph. 6:15; Heb. 12:13; Rev. 1:15; Ex. 29:17; 1 Cor. 9:24, 26; Gal. 5:7; Phil. 2:16; Heb. 12:1; Rom. 6:4; 8:1; 13:13; Gal. 5:16, 25), the righteousness of the conduct of the World's High Priest. Such conduct is expressed in duty love and disinterested love toward God and the neighbor, the right leg representing such love to God, the left leg such love to the neighbor. That their conduct is good is typed by the linen of which the breeches were made. The girdle (girdle, v. 29) represents the service of the royal Priesthood. The righteousness of that service is typed by the linen; and the blue, purple and scarlet have the same typical meanings as in their other uses, as frequently shown above. And all this was made now teachingly by the Christ, and will be actualized in the next Age, according to God's charge to Jesus (Lord commanded Moses). 

(11) The decorations of the mitre are set forth in v. 30. These decorations together with the mitre constituted the high priest's crown. In Bible symbolisms a crown represents Divine authorization to function in one's office (Rev. 4:4; 14:14; 19:12; Esth. 6:8; 8:15). The authorized right to reign as a King-Priest given by God to the Christ is represented by this golden crown (plate … crown … gold, v. 30; Zech. 6:13; Ps. 110:4; Heb. 5:6, 10; 7:17). This authorization is a righteous one and is exercised righteously, represented in the mitre's linen, and is one that makes for, and consists of complete separation and devotion to God, in truth, character and service in the World's High Priest (holiness to the Lord); and this is the character of this Priest-King (engravings of a signet). It will be righteously and faithfully exercised (tied … lace of blue), whereby it will be indissolubly united with righteousness (fasten … mitre), and that in harmony with God's charge to Jesus (Lord commanded Moses). The Christ teachingly set forth these things in this Age, and will as God's Agent make them come to pass in the next Age. Here it will be in place

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to introduce certain features that were charged on the mountain, but that are omitted in the description of the making of the tabernacle and its appurtenances. Some of these having already been discussed, we will discuss briefly the rest of them. Ex. 25:21 contains one of these items, i.e., placing the testimony into the ark. The testimony was the tables of stone that were deposited in the ark (ark … put the testimony, 25:21). Since the ark represents the Christ beyond the veil, the placing of the tables of stone, which type the Law of the New Covenant, in the ark would mean that the Christ Class beyond the veil will forever be the depository of God's Law as expressed in the New Covenant and will forever be in harmony with that Law. In Ex. 26:23, 24 we have another such item. In EH (68-76) we have set forth some details on the Bible's books as typed by the tabernacle's boards, bars and pillars. One of the two corner boards in the west wall of the tabernacle (two boards … corners … two sides, v. 23) types the book of Deuteronomy. It was partly on the side of the tabernacle where was the most holy pillar typing the book of Revelation, fitted flush against the center of the board representing the book of Numbers. The other of these two corner boards in the west wall of the tabernacle types the book of Leviticus. It was partly on the side of the tabernacle where was the most holy pillar typing the book of Hebrews, fitted flush against the center of the board representing the book of Exodus. 

(12) The fact that these four corner boards typing four books of the Pentateuch were partly in the most holy symbolizes their very close relationship to the New Testament books, all of which, except those typed by the five pillars at the entrance to the holy, are typed by the most holy's boards and pillars. As in the type these corner boards were so placed as to make the most holy a perfect cube and thus maintain the symmetry of the most holy, so in the antitype the four Pentateuchal books typed by the most holy's four corner 

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boards go to make the 22 New Testament books symmetrical, since they are the most important books of the Old Testament, and more than all other Old Testament books point out the main New Testament teachings. That each of the west corner boards was sawn so as to make stand ½ of both on the west side and ½ of one of them on the north side and ½ of the other on the south side of the tabernacle is evident from the fact that each was on two sides of the tabernacle (in the two sides); also the most holy's measurements require this. Only ⅓ of each of the most holy's four corner boards was visible in the most holy. Though ⅔ of its two easternmost boards, representing the books of Exodus and Numbers, were in the most holy, yet, like the other two corner boards, those representing Leviticus and Deuteronomy, only ⅓ of them was visible in the most holy; for the adjacent pillars fitted flush against the middle ⅓ of each of them and made ⅓ of each of them invisible. The symmetry of the most holy required this; and this fact proves that these pillars were ⅓ cubit thick. Besides this facts antitype being required to symmetrize the teachings of the 22 antitypical (New Testament) books, there is another good reason for the visibility in the most holy of the ⅓ of each of these four boards. It is as follows: 

There is a threefold set of antitypes of the tabernacle type: (1) the Gospel-Age antitype, (2) the Epiphany antitype and (3) the Millennial-Age antitype. Only one of these three antitypes operates at a time, i.e., only one of them can be visible as working at any one time, and the other two are kept out of sight at such a time. Hence in the ⅓ and in the ⅔ we have the thought of the three sets of antitypes of the tabernacle; and in the visibility in the most holy of the ⅓ we have the thought of only one of the three antityping at one period, each having its separate and distinct time of fulfilling its work. 

(13) The two rings, one at the top and one at the bottom of these sawn boards, type the two great doctrines 

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of the Bible: High Calling and Restitution, as holding together the antitypical teachings of these two books (coupled … beneath … above … ring, v. 74). As in other places, the rings in 26:29, through which the bars passed, represent Biblical truths that keep the main Old Testament historical books in their places as supports of other Biblical books. The position of the table to the north of the lampstand (26:35) types the fact that, as the north side of the tabernacle stands for love and the south side for wisdom, the table, which types the Church strengthening the brethren in every good word and work, giving the graces, is more important than the lampstand, which types the Church as enlightening the brethren, giving knowledge. Their standing beside each other types the brethren's pertinent works as cooperative (table … candlestick … over against … south … north). The horns of the brazen altar (horns of it, 27:2) type the powers of the Christ as Comforters, Exhorters, Encouragers, Correctors and Reprovers of the tried and suffering priesthood amid its sacrificing. These powers are the Truth, the Spirit of the Truth and the arrangements of the Truth, with all powers implied in them as sacrificers and helpers of the sacrificers. Their being at the four corners of the altar types their all-around sufficiency. The same thoughts apply to the horns of the golden altar (horns thereof, 30:2), the difference between the two altars and horns consisting in the difference of the viewpoints of the viewers, the brazen altar representing the Church in sacrifice as the justified view it, and the golden altar representing the Church in sacrifice as viewed by God and the new creatures. It will not be necessary for us to expound the consecration service of the priests and the resultant privileges (29:1-46) here, since our Pastor has well given them in T, and since we can better study their details when studying Lev. 8 and 9. The same remarks apply to certain activities given in 30:7-10, 17-21. 

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(14) We have now finished our study of the production of the various tabernacle features until they were completed (work … finished, Ex. 39:32); for during the Gospel Age God's people have made all these preparations for the antitypical Tabernacle under Christ's lead (Israel … all … commanded). As each did his part, and thus as all did their part thereon, they brought their work as a report and a product to Jesus for inspection (brought … Moses, v. 33). This included the Church as a whole (tent), all its capacities and instrumentalities (furniture), its power connectives (taches), the Bible's books (boards, bars, pillars) and their foundation and supporting truths (sockets), the ransom (rams' skins dyed red, v. 34), their peculiarities repulsive to the world (badger skins) and the death of the human bodies of the Christ (vail of the covering, 35:12; 40:21), the Christ beyond the veil as the depository of God's full arrangement (ark, v. 35), the two Testaments in their application to the Christ beyond the veil (staves), God in His character as the antitypical propitiatory (mercy seat), the Church as feeding the brethren with the graces-strengthening Word (table), its doctrinal, refutative, corrective and ethical teachings (vessels), the Word as the bread of life (shewbread), the Church as the enlightener of the brethren (candlestick, v. 37), with itself as teachers in its seven epochs (lamps) according to dueness of their time order (lamps to be set in order), its doctrinal, refutative, corrective and ethical teachings (vessels), its spirit of understanding to give enlightenment (oil for light), the Church (golden altar, v. 38) in its capacity of comforting, exhorting, encouraging, correcting and rebuking the sacrificers amid their fiery trials as viewed by God and new creatures, the spirit of knowledge, understanding, counsel, might and reverence of the Lord (anointing oil), the Christ's choice powers: Jesus' actually, the Church's reckonedly perfect (sweet incense), the dead human will (hanging … door), the Church in its capacity of encouraging, 

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comforting, exhorting, correcting, reproving the sacrificing and tried priesthood viewed from the standpoint of the justified (brazen altar, v. 39), pertinent Bible passages (grate), both Testaments in their pertinent uses (staves), doctrinal, refutative, corrective and ethical teachings (vessels), the New Testament as the cleanser of God's people (laver), based on the Old Testament (foot), the righteousness of Christ as a wall of faith to the justified and of unbelief to the unjustified (hangings of the court, v. 40), the 60 Levite groups (pillars), Christ as our Justification (court gate), religious (cords in the court) and secular (cords outside of the court) literary, etc., helps supporting the 60 groups of the Levites, and the pertinent teachings (pins), and all the doctrinal, refutative, corrective and ethical teachings of the Church for justification matters, symbolized by the covering of goats' hair (tent of the congregation). Finally they brought all of the teachings of doctrine and practice pertinent to the holy (cloths … holy, v. 41) and the powers, character graces, prerogatives and offices of Jesus and the Church (garments of Aaron … sons) needed for their Gospel-Age and Millennial-Age ministry (minister … office). God's people made and did these things at God's command given to Christ (all … Israel made all the work, v. 42). Our Lord as God's Executive inspected all of these things (did look … work, v. 43) and found them as God had charged (as … commanded), for which Jesus blessed His people (blessed). 

(15) The charge to set up the Church in its varied capacities, powers, instrumentalities, features, etc., started to be given to Jesus first at Jordan and in the wilderness, then was in Him continued during His ministry, took on in Him another stage at Pentecost and in Him progressed throughout the Age and comes to a completion in the Church, first phasedly probationarily from Oct., 1914, to Passover, 1916, finally about Nov., 1956, and for the Levites will be first phasedly probationarily finished from Oct., 1954, to Passover, 

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1956, when the Great Company and Youthful Worthies are first phasedly completed probationarily, but when completed finally in them we do not know (Lord spake unto Moses … set up the tabernacle, 40:1, 2). God then proceeded to give Jesus the details of His setting up the Church and its appurtenances, i.e., bringing it into existence. This charge embraced the things indicated and the pertinent teachings. Thus when it is typed that God charged Jesus to set the ark in the antitypical Tabernacle, this means that God charged Jesus to give the necessary teachings thereon, to fit Himself to be raised from the dead into the Divine nature and to do these things to the Church, as well as through the servants of the Truth to give the pertinent teachings and them in Head and Body to become the antitypical Ark and act as such beyond the veil (put therein the ark, v. 3). God charged Him to give the teachings pertinent to the death of the human bodies of the Little Flock, and to effect this by enabling them to sacrifice unto death, and thus hide from those in the holy the antitypical Ark by putting between it and the holy the second veil as the death of the Church's bodies (cover … vail). God charged Jesus to give the necessary teachings on the Church as the feeder of the brethren with everything pertinent thereto and to set the Church as such at its pertinent work (bring the table … things … upon it, v. 4). These things He was also to do as to the Church as the enlightener of the brethren with everything pertinent thereto (bring in the candlestick), and to give the brethren as such the Truth with which to enlighten one another and to cause them to shed forth this light in the seven epochs (light the lamps thereof). These things He was charged to do as to the Church as the encourager, comforter, etc., of the sacrificing and sorely tried priesthood, together with all its appurtenances as such, as God and new creatures view these things (set the altar … before the ark, v. 5); also to teach matters of deadness to self and the world and aliveness

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to God, and to set it, consecration, into operation for the Church (put … door to the tabernacle). He was charged to do the teaching pertinent to the Church as the encourager, comforter, etc., of the sacrificers and the appurtenances as the justified view them, and to set it and them into operation as such (set the altar … door … tent, v. 6). 

(16) He was charged to teach the things pertinent to the Bible as the cleanser from all filthiness of the flesh and spirit for the Lord's people and make it operate as such (set the laver, v. 7), and make it operate as such between the experiences of justification and gaining increasingly pertinent knowledge and the experiencing of consecration (between the tent … altar), and to cause cleansing truths to be due from and in the Bible (put water therein). He was charged to give the teachings on justification by faith and to make it operate for repentant and believing sinners (set up the court, v. 8), and to give the teachings pertinent to Christ as Justifier, and to justify, i.e., act as the justifier of, the penitent and believing sinner (hang up the hanging … gate). He was charged to give the pertinent teaching and practices on the qualifications for the Divine service (take the anointing oil, v. 9) and with that fit the Church and all its belongings for its tabernacle purposes (anoint the tabernacle therein) and separate them from the polluted and the common things and dedicate them to the Lord's uses (hallow it … vessels thereof) and was charged to keep them in that condition (shall be holy). He was to give the pertinent teachings and to qualify the comforting, encouraging, etc., Church in its office toward the sacrificers, as the justified view these things, for its pertinent work (anoint … burnt offering, v. 10), together with all its doctrinal, refutative, cleansing and ethical teachings (vessels), and to separate it and them from the common and unclean uses and dedicate them to Divine uses (sanctify the altar), in order that it may be very peculiarly the Lord's (altar most holy).

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God charged Jesus to set forth the Divine Truth as to the Bible in its New Testament part (anoint the laver, v. 11) and in its Old Testament part (foot), as the cleanser of God's people, and to separate it from the unholy and dedicate it to God (sanctify it). 

(17) Furthermore, God charged Jesus to cause Himself and the Church, beginning in Him before Jordan and in the Church before Pentecost, and continuing until Oct., 1914, to advance whole-heartedly toward consecration (bring Aaron and his sons unto the door, first veil, of the tabernacle, v. 12), and to show that Jesus was actually sinless, and to make the Church reckonedly clean from sin in justification, and more and more actually to cleanse away their faults by the Word (wash them with water). Clothing Aaron in garments of glory and beauty (put upon Aaron the holy garments, v. 13) while He was progressing toward the ceremony of consecration shows the matter as God reckons the priesthood, as already glorified, as He looked down to the Millennium and reckoned the Christ as having already entered into His royal Priesthood, in view of their going so to do in the Millennium. God therefore charged Jesus as Executive to give the pertinent teaching and to see to it that He receive the necessary qualification in His Holy Spirit by Divine power (Acts 10:38) as the Church's High Priest and the Head of the World's High Priest (anoint him), to set Him apart from the common and unclean, and to dedicate [consecrate] Him to God (sanctify him), and thus to be fit to minister to God as the Church's High Priest and the Head of the World's High Priest. Aaron in the acts of v. 13 also represents the Head and Body as High Priest (minister … priest's office). Then to carry out the separateness of the Head and Body, Aaron's sons are dealt with separately. To do this God charged Jesus as Executive to lead the prospective Body members first to and through justification toward consecration (bring his sons, v. 14) and to cover them with the robe of 

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Christ's righteousness (clothe them with coats), also to qualify them ever increasingly with the Holy Spirit of knowledge and understanding, counsel and might and the spirit of the knowledge and reverence of the Lord (anoint them, v. 15; Is. 11:2; 2 Cor. 1:21; 1 John 2:20, 27), after the example of Jesus' anointing (as … father), thus to qualify them to minister as underpriests to the Lord (minister … priest's office), since those who maintain the anointing faithfully will have an unending priesthood (anointing … everlasting priesthood … generations). Our Lord, charged to do the antitypical things commanded in vs. 1-15, as a faithful Executive for God did perfectly what was committed to him to do (commanded him, so did he, v. 16), a pledge of the plan's success. 

(18) It was throughout the Gospel Age, from Jordan to 1956, that the antitypical Tabernacle was being fixedly erected and its appurtenances so placed, though first phasedly probationarily so conditioned from Oct., 1914, to Passover, 1916 (first month in the second year, on the first day … reared up, v. 17). During this time in ever increasing progress Jesus as Executive brought the Church into existence for High Calling purposes (reared up the tabernacle, v. 18). He firmly and strongly developed the truths basal to the Bible books (fastened his sockets) and firmly fixed the Bible books thereon (set up the boards … bars … pillars). He set forth the doctrine and experience of justification by faith through Christ's merit as a covering properly over the Church (spread … tent … over the tabernacle, v. 19) and set forth the ransom theoretically and experimentally as the covering of that doctrine and experience, as well as made the Church seem uninviting, yea, even repulsive to the nominal church (put the covering … upon it), as God had charged Him (commanded Moses). In Himself from Jordan to Calvary and in the Church from Pentecost onward He has been putting God's Law into the new creatures preparatory to their becoming the

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antitypical Ark (put the testimony into the ark, v. 20), has ministered to it as such with the contents of the Old and New Testaments (set the staves) and has adjusted the antitypical Ark under and as the supporter of Jehovah's justice, power and love (put the mercy seat above upon the ark). He set forth the Truth on the Church as the depository of God's full arrangement, put Himself into a condition to be raised from the dead and become part of that depository, has since Passover, 1878, through the first resurrection, been making the saints part of it, and will make the rest of them the rest of it by about Nov., 1956 (brought the ark into the tabernacle, v. 21). Our Lord gave the pertinent teachings as set the Church in the Holy, in its office work of feeding the brethren with the bread of life for their growth in every good word and work in the graces for their heavenly journey (put the table in the tent, v. 22), so that it could do in the Holy that work which is more important than its work of enlightening the brethren, as love is certainly more important than knowledge (northward). 

(19) He then brought forth from the Word the pertinent meat in due season for such graces-building work, and gave it as due to the Christ in its pertinent capacity to give the brethren (set the bread in order upon it, v. 23), as a service in matters pertaining to the Lord (before the Lord), according to God's charge (commanded Moses). He set the Christ in the Holy in its capacity of enlightening the brethren (put the candlestick in the tent, v. 24), to do its special work in relation to, and in harmony with its work as the antitypical table (over against the table), a work not so important as that of the antitypical table, even as imparting the Truth is not so important as imparting the Spirit of the Truth, or as knowledge is not so important as love (southward; 1 Cor. 13:2). He likewise for each of the Church's seven epochs caused the due Truth to be manifest, and caused the Christ in its capacity of enlightening the brethren to shed it upon 

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them (lighted the lamps, v. 25), as God charged (commanded Moses). He gave the pertinent teachings and put the Christ into the Holy as those who are to sacrifice unto death to enter the Most Holy (before the [second] vail, v. 26), as God and the faithful view it, in its capacity of encouraging, comforting, exhorting, correcting and reproving the brethren as needed in their capacity of sacrificing amid fiery trials (put the golden altar in the tent). Our Lord caused His actually perfect choice human powers, and the Church's reckonedly perfect choice human powers, to come into contact with fiery trials during their sacrificing time, out of which arose the graces as a very acceptable thing to God, which graces became prayers and added efficacy to the Christ's prayers (burnt sweet incense thereon, v. 27), as He was charged (commanded Moses). He also gave the pertinent teachings and caused the brethren to become dead to self and the world, that they might become alive unto God (set up the hanging at the door of the tabernacle v. 28). 

(20) He then gave the pertinent teachings and set up the Christ as viewed by the justified in its capacity of encouraging, comforting, etc., the brethren while sacrificing their human all amid fiery trials in the antitypical Court (put the altar of burnt offering … door … tent, v. 29), and caused the Christ to offer thereon their human all as an evidence of God's acceptance of their sacrifice (burnt offering), in the form of spreading the Truth (meat offering), as He was by God charged (commanded Moses). He gave the pertinent teachings and set up the Bible in its capacity of cleansing from all filthiness of the flesh and spirit (set the laver, v. 30), and used it in this capacity to effect its cleansing work on those already forgiven their sins (between the tent … and altar), and caused cleansing truths to be present for the use of cleansing God's people from filthiness of the flesh and spirit (put water there, to wash). Moses' washing his hands and feet there types Jesus' actual purity as 

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Executive in service and character. Aaron's so doing types Jesus' actual purity as High Priest in service and character. Aaron's sons' so doing types the Church's cleansing away their actual filthiness as priests in service and character (Moses … sons washed their hands and their feet thereat, v. 31). This was always done whenever about to minister in the seven capacities typed in the holy and in the seven capacities typed in the court (went … congregation … altar, they washed, v. 32), according to God's charge to Jesus (commanded Moses). Jesus as God's Executive gave the pertinent teachings on justification and brought brethren within the condition of justification, where they were contained by the wall of justifying faith (reared up the court, v. 33), about the sacrificing Church as viewed by the justified (the altar) and as viewed by God and the priesthood (round about the tabernacle). He also gave the pertinent teaching and set forth Jesus as the righteousness of the repentant and believing sinner (set up the hanging of the court gate). Thus Jesus completed the work on the antitypical Tabernacle (So Moses finished the work). 

(21) The Truth as due (a cloud, v. 34) was over the Church always (covered the tent) and as a result the wisdom, power, justice and love of God filled the Christ as God's Tabernacle (glory … filled the tabernacle). In their humanity the Christ (Moses), and others' humanity, could not enter and be in the antitypical Holy (not able to enter into the tent, v. 35), because this due Truth was upon, and the Spirit of the Truth filled God's Christ as new creatures (cloud abode … glory … filled the tabernacle, Rev. 15:8). As the Truth advanced, unfolded, God's people progressed in knowledge, grace and service (cloud was taken up … Israel went onward … journeys, v. 36). But when the Truth ceased to progress (cloud was not taken up, v. 37) God's people went into testful experiences on their past progress (journeyed not); and this continued until advancing Truth began to be 

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given (till the day … taken up). During the Jewish Harvest and the Gospel Harvest the New Testament Truth was especially operative (cloud … tabernacle by day, v. 38) and in the Interim and the Epiphany the Old Testament Truth was especially operative (fire was on it by night). These two forms of Truth in their special periods of operation were publicly set forth to all God's Gospel-Age people,-nominal and real (in the sight of all … Israel), amid all their experiences of progress and trials as to that progress, from antitypical Egypt to antitypical Canaan (throughout all their journeys). For details on the cloudy, fiery pillar please see EH, 620 (16)-646. Praise God for His Truth hidden in Exodus brought out in these studies, which may He bless to the whole Israel of God! With this we end our study of Exodus. 

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BEREAN QUESTIONS

(1) What is added in the rest of Ex. 38? Why? What procedure will be followed in giving the explanations? What was given in the antitypes given above? In what respect? How typed? As described by whom? Who are the two Ithamars? How related to each other? How typed? Why did they do the antitypical work? How typed? As what have they functioned? How typed? What does a comparison of their pertinent work show? Due mainly to what? For what set of Levites did the Interim's Ithamar give his descriptions? What could they not see? With what result as to their Ithamar's teachings? Of what period was this particularly true? How proved? What did the Sardis and Philadelphia Epochs show on this point? Comparatively? What marked contrast is there between the Gospel-Age and Epiphany Levites? What results from this? Between the Parousia and Epiphany messengers what will be effected? For whom? 

(2) What characteristics did our Lord as God's special Representative have as the antitypical Bezaleel? As such what did He do? How typed? How was all made? How typed? Who were His special helpers therein? How typed? How did God work in them? How typed? As what? How typed? As such what three things have they been able to do? How typed in each case? In what three 

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respects? How typed in each case? What was done with the fractional parts of the gold and silver talents? What follows from this? What in shekels was the value of a gold talent? What is the first secret that a half-talent's shekels contain? How gotten? How many times for the 29 gold talents? The second secret? How many shekels in weight does the gold talent contain? What secret does it contain for both sets of talents? How gotten? How many times given in the 29 talents? How do we arrive at the shekel value of a silver talent? What secrets lie in the silver talent in value? How gotten? As in the gold talent in value, how does the name of God appear in the silver talent in value? In weight how many shekels in a silver talent? What secret does it contain? How reached? 100 of them? What does this study enable us to see? Where was the significance of one and 100 of the sockets given? How typed here? What are we to remember as to the appearance of Jehovah's name in tabernacle symbolizations? What do we find accordingly in its symbolizations? Why so? 

(3) What is the general antitype of the 1,775 shekels of silver? What two things does the silver on the 60 chapiters type? How do we reach this? Where set forth in detail? What two things do the hooks and fillets type? What were the fillets? Their use? Their antitype? What in the brass talent do we not know? Yet what truth was secreted in the 70 talents of brass? How is this done? What in the Christ and the justified does it type? What is noted as to the fractions of a talent in all these metals? What will not be given as to the brazen things of vs. 30, 31? Why? What do several of our calculations show of the numbers 2 and 3? What corroborates this? 

(4) Apart from the curtains and veils, what uses were made of most of the tabernacle cloths? What do these uses type? How proved? For what were the other cloths used? What do these uses type? Who worked on the antitypes of these cloths? How typed? What did they work into these antitypical cloths? How typed? On what in the World's High Priest did they work? How typed? What features in these did Jesus alone work? How did all of the Truth servants work on them? Who worked on the Body's garments? How? Whom did the typical workers on the garments of glory and beauty represent? In the antitype? Why? On what in them did Jesus, the star-members

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and their helpers work? As antitypes of whom? At whose command? How typed? What does the ephod type in its front part? Back part? Who are included in the covenants? As what? Why? What were woven into the covenant? How typed in each case? Who only made the ephod? How typed? What does this mean and not mean? Who originated them? On what did Jesus personally work? On what did He, the star-members and their helpers work? How typed in each case? What did this work require? How typed? 

(5) On what else did they work? How typed? How were they toward each other? How typed? Among others, what three things that the Abrahamic Covenant did related to the New Covenant show this harmony? By what are these and other things typed? By what is their contact typed? Harmony? What is their present ministry? Their future ministry? How is their future operation of this ministry further typed? What do girdles type? How proved? What does the curious girdle symbolically declare? How typed? What will be wrought into and by this service? How typed in each case? In harmony with what? How typed? What will these four inwrought things give the race? As a preparation what work of this service is done in this life? On what do they now work in part? When unto a completion? How typed? How are these truths secured to the covenants? How typed? What truths are included therein? How typed? As what? How typed? What is their sphere of activity? By whom ministered? How are these things typed? Why there placed? How typed? Why and how was this done? How typed? 

(6) What and how did Jesus, the star-members and their helpers next do? How typed? With what qualities? How typed? As matters of what features? How typed? What do these four materials used in sacred cloth always type, in each case? What should be done with these four explanations in connection with our brief comments on them elsewhere? How are God's four great attributes typed? In what two of their features? In what two ways? What three things does its doubledness type? What is typed by its being a span square? What two things does this fact show? How do we not, and how do we fulfill God's Law? How proved? In a teaching way what does the Christ do now as to the twelve chief graces? In a practicing way? What will they do as to them in glory? 

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How are these things typed? In what activity? Until when what is reserved? What do these twelve stones represent? In whom? How typed and proved? What will each of these two sets of twelve tribes have? Additionally what will each tribe of both Israels have? How typed? What were signet rings anciently made to set forth? What, consequently, were these stones here used to type? Flowing out of justice and love what did these qualities respectively become? What did their being bound to, and their nearness to Aaron's heart type? 

(7) What is the next thing set forth in Ex. 39? Where set forth? What is first shown? Where? Secondly? Where? What pertinently had Jesus and the star-members done? How typed? Connecting what? How are they made to connect? How typed? How set forth? How and by what is this Law now made to be attached to the two covenants? How typed? What proves this? How typed? In all cases what two truths do the rings type? With what are these two of the Old and New Testaments now connected? How typed? Under what circumstances? How typed? What two pertinent things will the Christ do as to it in the next Age? How typed in each case? How? How typed? With what? How typed? By what? How typed? What else have they been doing with special emphasis in this Age? How typed? Where? How typed? In what parts? How typed? What will they do pertinently in the next Age? 

(8) What else have they done in this Age? How? How typed? In relation to what? How typed? How have they made this connection? What did they make it dominate? How typed? What will they pertinently do in the next Age? What else have they faithfully taught in this Age? How typed? In a way to show what? How typed? What does this immediate and dominating relationship make the Divine Law? What effect on the Abrahamic Covenant would its domination by the Divine Law and the Christ's ministry have? What effects does its domination over both have on the Divine Law? How typed? What will the Christ do pertinently in the next Age? How were these things made? How typed? What is the character of our knowledge as to what the typical Urim and Thummin were? What facts about them do we know? What do some suppose as to the way their Yes and No answers were given? Of what evil does this view partake? What

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is a more probable view? How do matters stand as to the antitype? Why so? Why is this said? How did the small antitype of Ezra 2:63 occur? According to this how did Jesus answer His Gospel-Age people's questions? 

(9) What in the Christ are brought out in the upper blue robe of Aaron? Where is the type given? What in Bible symbols are robes used to represent? How proved? What does the blue upper robe type? Its blue? Doing what? By what are the fruits of His pertinent character typed? What are they? How related to the two Sin-offerings? Of what do these blessings consist? What do they imply? How were they made available for mankind? On what condition? How is the pertinently implied work in announcement typed? Under what circumstances and how was this announced in the type? What does the ringing of the bells type? Why is this true? What is typed by the near and alternate positions of the pomegranates and bells; What has been the Christ's pertinent Gospel-Age work? How typed? For what did this fit them? What does the opening at the top of the robe type? What did the typical opening expose? What do the high priest's head and neck type? What similarity is there in the office of the Gospel- and Millennial-Age Eleazars and Ithamars? What kind of a connection between Head and Body will this be? How typed? What is the significance of the color and materials of the pomegranates? What is typed by the pomegranates' and bells' being put on the hem of the upper robe? What would result to the Christ, if They did not make this proclamation? How typed? 

(10) Where are the high priest's sin-atonement garments on the day of atonement and his sons' ordinary garments mentioned? What do they represent in Jesus? The Church? How proved? Who made them? Who teachingly set them forth? As what? How typed? Where is no mention of the broidered coat of Ex. 28:4? Where was it worn? How long was it? The upper coat? What was its material and embellishment? What did they type? How proved? What did the mitre and its appurtenances form? What did its fine white linen type? When did Aaron wear the linen bonnet? What did it mean? What is typed by it? How proved? What two things are typed by the bonnets of Aaron's sons? Their breeches? How do we reach this thought? How do the cited Scriptures corroborate it? In what kinds of love does such conduct express 

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itself? Toward whom? What symbolized love to God? To man? What types that this conduct is good? What does the girdle type? How is its righteousness typed? What do its colors type? When set forth teachingly? In realization? According to what? How typed? 

(11) Where are the decorations of the mitre set forth? What do they and the mitre constitute? What in Bible symbols do golden crowns represent? How proved? What does this crown type? What does the mitre's linen as part of the crown type? In what two things does it result? In what three respects? How typed? As what in the King Priest? How typed? How exercised? How typed? With what is it indissolvably united? How typed? In harmony with what? How typed? What is the Christ's twofold activity in this matter? What will be in place here to introduce? What has already been done to some of them? What will now be done with the rest? What does Ex. 25:21 contain? What is it? What was the testimony and what was done to it? How proved? What does the ark type? What does the testimony type? What does placing it into the ark type? What is given in Ex. 26:23, 24? What is set forth in EH, 68-76? What does one of the two corner boards in the west wall of the most holy type? On what side of the most holy was it in part in relation to the symbolizations of two other books? What were these books? What book did the other corner board type? On what side of the most holy was it in part in relation to the types of two other books? What were they? 

(12) What is typed by the four corner boards of the most holy? By their being in the most holy? What do all the rest of the most holy's boards and pillars type? What do those 'four corner boards help to do with the most holy? Their antitypes with 22 books of the New Testament? For what two reasons? By what two things is it proved that each of the west corner boards was sawn in halves? How much of the most holy's corner boards was visible in the most holy? How much of its two easternmost boards was in the most holy? How much of them was visible in the most holy? Why was this? What requires this? What does this fact prove as to the thickness of the most holy's pillars? What two reasons require the antitype of the 1/3 of these corner boards to be antitypically visible? Accordingly, in the boards' 1/3 and 2/3 what two thoughts do we have? 

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(13) What do the two rings of the two west-wall sawn corner boards type? The rings through which the bars passed? The tabernacle's north and south sides? The position of the table to the north? Of the lampstand to the south? Their standing over against each other? The horns of the brazen altar? What are these powers? Their being at the four corners? Horns of the golden altar? What is the difference between the antitypes of the two altars and their respective horns? What will not be necessary to do here as to 29:1-46? Why? As to 30:7-10, 17-21? Why? 

(14) What have we finished? How typed? Why so? How typed? What did they do with their work? In what two ways? How typed? What is the antitype of bringing to Moses the tent, its vessels, taches, boards, bars, pillars, their sockets, rams' skins dyed red, badger skins, second veil, ark, its staves, mercy seat, table, its vessels, shewbread, candlestick, its lamps, and that set in order, its vessels, oil for light, golden altar, anointing oil, sweet incense, first veil, brazen altar, its grate, staves and vessels, laver, its base, court curtains, pillars, sockets, gate, cords, pins, all vessels, cloths, Aaron's garments, his sons' garments? How did God's people make these antitypes? How typed? What did our Lord do with all this work? How typed? How did He find it? How typed? What did He do therefore to the people? How typed? 

(15) When was the charge begun to be given to Jesus to set up the Church in its varied aspects, etc.? Continued in Him? Commenced in the Body? Progressed? First phasedly probationarily finished? Finally finished? For the Great Company and Youthful Worthies first phasedly probationarily finished? Finally finished? How typed? What did God then proceed to do? What did this imply? How typed? What did this charge embrace? What is meant by God's charging Jesus to set up the antitypical Ark? How typed? The antitypical second veil? How typed? The antitypical table and its appurtenances? How typed? The antitypical lampstand and its belongings? How typed? Light its lamps? How typed? The antitypical golden altar? How typed? The first veil? How typed? The brazen altar? Its type?

(16) What is meant by God's charging Jesus to set up the antitypical laver? How typed? Its antitypical position? How typed? Putting the antitypical water therein? How typed? The antitypical Court? How typed? The gate 

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of the antitypical Court? How typed? Antitypical anointing oil? How typed? Anointing the antitypical Tabernacle and its vessels? How typed? Hallowing them? How typed? To keep them in that condition? How typed? The antitypical brazen altar? How typed? Its antitypical vessels? How typed? To hallow it? How typed? Its laver in two parts? How typed? Its sanctifying? How typed? 

(17) What is meant by God's charging Jesus to bring Himself and the Church unto the door of the antitypical Tabernacle? How typed? To show that Jesus was actually sinless? How typed? To make the Church reckonedly sinless and to cleanse itself from sinful services and conduct? How typed? How could the antitypical Aaron stand arrayed in beauty and glory before His consecration? How typed? What is meant by God's charging Jesus as Executive to receive the anointing as the Church's High Priest and receive it in the Head and give it in the Body to the World's High Priest? How typed? To sanctify them as such? How typed? For what would this fit them? What does Aaron also represent in v. 13? Why are Aaron's sons then separately dealt with? What is the antitype? To accomplish this what did God charge Jesus to do? How typed? What second thing did He charge? How typed? Third? How typed and proved? After the example of whose anointing? How typed? For what would this qualify them? How typed? What will the faithful anointed receive? How typed? What was Jesus' response to these charges? How typed? 

(18) When was the antitypical Tabernacle and its appurtenances developed fixedly and first phasedly probationarily? How typed? How did Jesus do this work during this Age? How typed? What did He do with the truths basal to the Bible books? How typed? With the Bible books themselves? How typed? With the doctrine of justification by faith through Christ's merit? How typed? With the ransom? How typed? According to what? How typed? What is meant by His putting the antitypical testimony into the antitypical Ark? His putting the antitypical staves into the antitypical Ark? How typed? Putting the antitypical mercy seat upon the antitypical Ark? How typed? Putting the antitypical Ark into the Tabernacle? How typed? Putting the antitypical table of shewbread into the Holy? How typed? Putting it on the love side of 

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the antitypical Holy, rather than on the knowledge side? How typed? 

(19) What is typed by Moses' setting the bread in order upon the table? Before the Lord? According to God's charge? Putting the candlestick in the tent? Over against the table? How do the works of the antitypical table and lampstand compare with each other? What is typed by Moses' lighting the lamps? At God's charge? Putting the golden altar before the second veil? Putting it in the tent? Burning sweet incense thereon? At God's charge? Setting up the first veil? 

(20) Putting the brazen altar before the door of the tent? Offering thereon the burnt offering? The meat offering? At God's charge? Setting the laver in place? Between the tent and brazen altar? Putting water therein? Moses' washing his hands and feet? Aaron's so doing? Aaron's sons' so doing? Its being always done on their serving in the court and holy? According to God's charge? Rearing up the court? About the altar? Round about the tabernacle? Placing the gate? Moses' finishing the work? 

(21) What is typed by the cloud covering the tabernacle? God's glory filling the tabernacle? Moses' not being able to enter the tent? Why? How proved? What is typed by the cloud's being taken from off the tent and the people's traveling? Its not being taken up and the people's not journeying? The cloud by day? Fire by night? Before all Israel? Throughout all their journeys? Where are details on the cloudy, fiery pillar given? What sentiments should the study of the Gospel-Age Tabernacle arouse?

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