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    Andrew Bonar on How our Light Is to Shine Before Men

    ”The priest setting the lamps in order daily represents Christ causing his people daily to receive and give forth light and life. In the midst of a dark world, believers are set up as lights. See Phil. 2:15; Matt. 5:16. They should be as the Baptist, "burning and shining lights." They should be...
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    Should We believe the Account of Heliodorus's Failed Roberry of the Temple?

    In Second Macabees, the writer reckunts how soon before the persecutions preceding the Macabean revolt accoured, word came to the governor that the temple had much money within it, and he sent his treasurer Heliodorus with guards to take it. After demanding to be given it, the high priest...
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    Drinking the Blood

    Under the Mosaic Covenant it was forbidden to drink any blood. A sacrificer could not drink the offering's blood, nor a Levite, nor a Priest, nor the High Priest himself. The blood was sprinkled on the altar, and on people, and applied to their ears, thumbs and toes, but never did anyone drink...
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    The Proper Interpretation of the Perpetual Statute (חֻקַּת עוֹלָם Chuqqath 'olam)

    This phrase has been used recently in a discussion offline on whether or not the biblical feasts need to be observed, from the side of the man who tried to argue passover should be kept today. This post will not contain any conclusions on the meaning of the term and it's proper interpretation -...
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    When the Scriptures Describe Sacred Furniture

    Do you have any brief expositions or meditations to recommend, to guide me as my bible reading get's to that part of Exodus where you are reading for a long while about the details of the tabernacle? Particularly for today, this chapter:
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