BRAGADAYJAH 139

Monday, May 26, 2014

BRAGADAYJAH 254


BRAGADAYJAH 254
The Cleansed
The second precondition for worship at the tabernacle, the first being the redeemed, were the cleansed.
            For this purpose, the Lord instructed Moses to make a laver of bronze, the foot of which was also to be made of bronze with which to wash.   It was to be placed between the tabernacle of the congregation and the altar, and kept filled with water, so that Aaron and his sons could wash their hands and their feet there.
            They were to wash when they went into the tabernacle of the congregation, or when they went near to the altar to minister, in order that they may not die.  This practice said the Lord was to be taken as a statute forever.
            But there was a third precondition, namely, the anointed.  The Lord told Moses to get sweet spices, namely, stacte, onycha, and galbanum,  together with frankincense of equal weight, and make them into a perfume, by a perfumer and the, so that the mixture is pure and holy. 
            The stacte was the sweet smelling gum of the storax tree; the onycha, was derived from the shell of a mollusk when burnt, and the galbanum, gum from the milky sap of the Syrian Fennel.
            Of this mixture a small portion was to be taken and beaten together and placed before the testimony of the tabernacle of the congregation, where said the Lord, He
 would meet with Moses and sanctify it by His presence.

            And to this end, God warned Moses that this combination or formula for making the holy perfume was not to be used to make similar perfume for himself or anyone else for none temple use, warning him that anyone who did so would be cut of from the children of Israel. More   

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