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Furniture | Chapter | Character |
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Menorah | Leviticus 24:2-4 | … to cause the lamps to burn continually … |
Altar of Incense | Exodus 30:8 | … a perpetual incense … |
Table of Shewbread | Leviticus 24:9 | … a perpetual statute … |
Revelation Chapter Four to Eleven (including the intermezzos described in the 144.000 of Israel, the filling of the Golden Censer, the Little Scroll and the Two Witnesses) are projections of the Tabernacle services. The language and symbolism used, clearly alludes to this. A good understanding of the tabernacle services is therefor required to interpret how the symbolism used, applies to historic events of the times represented. See Tabernacle Overview for details of the Old Testament tabernacle. The churches are explained to be seen as lamp stands (Revelation 1) and are unfolding at the Menorah. The Seals are opened in front of the Throne (Revelation 5:7), the Sides of the North (Psalm 48:2): where the Table of Shewbread was located. Finally the Trumpets unfold around the Table of Incense (Revelation 8:3).
The Tabernacle furniture in the Holy Place was in operation continually/perpetually. The Lamps burnt all the time, the Altar of Incense burnt frankincense all the time and the Table of Shewbread had bread on the table all the time. Only at night, the priest provided enough oil and frankincense so that the furniture could keep in operation during the night. But the fact that the operations of the furniture were working all the time, means that the furniture is attended to ‘all the time’. In other words, the priests worked on the tabernacle furniture in parallel, simultaneously. The Churches, Seals and Trumpets in Revelation, unfolding at resp. the Menorah, the Table of Shewbread and the Altar of Incense are also unfolding in parallel, simultaneously. The historic setting of these three prophesies in Revelation must therefor be seen unfolding at the same time, in parallel. The first church, the first seal and the first trumpet are set in history at the same time, etc etc, until the seventh church, the seventh seal and the seventh trumpet, when the climax of each historic sequence ends at the same time: the return of Yeshua.