Q: "No tool was to be used for making an altar. Why was such an injunction given to Moses?"
A: The emblem of the slain Lamb before the foundation made any other altar unnecessary so God commanded Moses,"And if thou wilt make me an altar of stone, thou shalt not build it of hewn stone: for if thou lift up thy tool upon it, thou hast polluted it."(Ex.20:24-25) . The earth and the fulness thereof belongs to Him. So for Moses it had limited application. "In all places where I record my name I will come unto thee, and I will bless thee," in the case of Abraham we read that he had built altars at Shechem and Hebron. The covenant between God and the Son commemorates the stone not cut with hands which shall sweep away all other kingdoms," that a stone was cut out without hands, which smote the image."(Dan.2:34)
Old testament symbolized by stone tables as St Paul would say, "the ministration of death, written and engraven in stones," reminded the nation 'letter kills.' Symptomatic of the law of sin is the set that Mose broke. So what does God says,"Hew thee two tables of stone like unto the first: and I will write upon these tables the words that were in the first tables, which thou brakest."(Ex.34:1) It entailed Moses lifting up the chisel upon the stone.' The Spirit uses it to indicate the Law of Moses was of limited application.
"How shall not the ministration of the spirit be rather glorious?"(2 Co.3:8)
Q: "No tool was to be used for making an altar. Why was such an injunction given to Moses?"
A: The emblem of the slain Lamb before the foundation made any other altar unnecessary so God commanded Moses,"And if thou wilt make me an altar of stone, thou shalt not build it of hewn stone: for if thou lift up thy tool upon it, thou hast polluted it."(Ex.20:24-25) . The earth and the fulness thereof belongs to Him. So for Moses it had limited application. "In all places where I record my name I will come unto thee, and I will bless thee," in the case of Abraham we read that he had built altars at Shechem and Hebron. The covenant between God and the Son commemorates the stone not cut with hands which shall sweep away all other kingdoms," that a stone was cut out without hands, which smote the image."(Dan.2:34)
Old testament symbolized by stone tables as St Paul would say, "the ministration of death, written and engraven in stones," reminded the nation 'letter kills.' Symptomatic of the law of sin is the set that Mose broke. So what does God says,"Hew thee two tables of stone like unto the first: and I will write upon these tables the words that were in the first tables, which thou brakest."(Ex.34:1) It entailed Moses lifting up the chisel upon the stone.' The Spirit uses it to indicate the Law of Moses was of limited application.
"How shall not the ministration of the spirit be rather glorious?"(2 Co.3:8)
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