Post by Lee on Feb 18, 2014 3:53:46 GMT
Having prepared the 4-square texture, Moses was commanded to
put into it 'the Urim and the Thummim': that is, the 12 precious
stones. Not that the stones of themselves were the Urim and the Thummim,
but they were indispensable to its manifestation. The Urim were
the glistering of the stones: the 'Lights refracted and reflected from
their cut and polished surfaces, and developing lights of divers colors.
These were styled Urim (Lights). And the 12 stones themselves were
styled Thummim (Fullnesses)—that is, of number and measure: fullness
of number and fullness of measure, or 144,000 and 144 cubits &
furlongs, because these are the perfections, or square, of 12.
The next remarkable place where the Urim and Thummim are named
is Dt.33:8. There Moses speaks of them prophetically.
When Levi, then, is in this purified condition contemporary with the
reign of the Lamb and the 144,000, then Levi's Urim and Thummim
will be, as Moses testifies, 'of the Holy Man,' who will then be their
High Priest after the order of Melchizedek. He will not need to wear
on his breast such Urim and Thummim as Aaron wore. The Lights &
Fullnesses will be of himself, he being Deity Incarnately Manifested, for:
"It pleased the Father that in him all Fullness dwell" (Col. 1:19).
The Ephod was of the same material and workmanship as the Veil,
with the addition of gold. And the Veil we know—from its being rent
when the body of the Spirit was broken on the cross, and from the
teaching of Paul Heb 10:20-represented the flesh, which the Spirit
styles 'My flesh.' The embroidering in of gold thread, in addition to
the 'blue and purple and scarlet and fine twined linen' of the Veil, indicated
purity of the flesh after trial: "When He hath tried me, I shall
come forth as gold" (Job 23:10).
While Jesus, then, was living, and afterwards in death, he was typified
by the Veil: whole, and afterwards rent. But now when he lived again,
and ascended to the Divine Nature, and became 'Son of Deity with
power by Spirit of Holiness' Rml:4, he was typified by the 'curiouslywrought'
Ephod, or Jeweled Over-all and Robe, put on by Aaron when
standing before the Deity. As the living embroidered Ephod, he stands
in the presence of the Father with the names of the 12 Tribes of the
HOLY NATION' engraven on his heart.
When the Ephod is thus assumed, the immersed
and resurrected believer is not only regarded as in it, but as apart
of it, and, consequently, as one of the Urim and Thummim—one of
the Lights—and, therefore, one of the elements of the 12 precious stones
or Thummim. For, as each stone in the type represented a tribe, a multitude
of individuals must have been signified by a separate stone.
It may be remarked here that the Apocalyptic Urim and Thummim,
or 144,000, are presented before us 2 states: the present state, in
which they are being sealed; and the future state, with the Lamb on
Mt. Zion Rv 7 & 14. The 2 states are divided by the resurrection. As the
gold wire has been twined and interwoven with the blue and purple
and scarlet and fine-twined linen of the Veil, as far as the Lord Jesus
is concerned the Ephod is perfected.
But in relation to his brethren, the gold is in their moral texture
only as a principle: a tried faith.
Eureka ii:313-320
put into it 'the Urim and the Thummim': that is, the 12 precious
stones. Not that the stones of themselves were the Urim and the Thummim,
but they were indispensable to its manifestation. The Urim were
the glistering of the stones: the 'Lights refracted and reflected from
their cut and polished surfaces, and developing lights of divers colors.
These were styled Urim (Lights). And the 12 stones themselves were
styled Thummim (Fullnesses)—that is, of number and measure: fullness
of number and fullness of measure, or 144,000 and 144 cubits &
furlongs, because these are the perfections, or square, of 12.
The next remarkable place where the Urim and Thummim are named
is Dt.33:8. There Moses speaks of them prophetically.
When Levi, then, is in this purified condition contemporary with the
reign of the Lamb and the 144,000, then Levi's Urim and Thummim
will be, as Moses testifies, 'of the Holy Man,' who will then be their
High Priest after the order of Melchizedek. He will not need to wear
on his breast such Urim and Thummim as Aaron wore. The Lights &
Fullnesses will be of himself, he being Deity Incarnately Manifested, for:
"It pleased the Father that in him all Fullness dwell" (Col. 1:19).
The Ephod was of the same material and workmanship as the Veil,
with the addition of gold. And the Veil we know—from its being rent
when the body of the Spirit was broken on the cross, and from the
teaching of Paul Heb 10:20-represented the flesh, which the Spirit
styles 'My flesh.' The embroidering in of gold thread, in addition to
the 'blue and purple and scarlet and fine twined linen' of the Veil, indicated
purity of the flesh after trial: "When He hath tried me, I shall
come forth as gold" (Job 23:10).
While Jesus, then, was living, and afterwards in death, he was typified
by the Veil: whole, and afterwards rent. But now when he lived again,
and ascended to the Divine Nature, and became 'Son of Deity with
power by Spirit of Holiness' Rml:4, he was typified by the 'curiouslywrought'
Ephod, or Jeweled Over-all and Robe, put on by Aaron when
standing before the Deity. As the living embroidered Ephod, he stands
in the presence of the Father with the names of the 12 Tribes of the
HOLY NATION' engraven on his heart.
When the Ephod is thus assumed, the immersed
and resurrected believer is not only regarded as in it, but as apart
of it, and, consequently, as one of the Urim and Thummim—one of
the Lights—and, therefore, one of the elements of the 12 precious stones
or Thummim. For, as each stone in the type represented a tribe, a multitude
of individuals must have been signified by a separate stone.
It may be remarked here that the Apocalyptic Urim and Thummim,
or 144,000, are presented before us 2 states: the present state, in
which they are being sealed; and the future state, with the Lamb on
Mt. Zion Rv 7 & 14. The 2 states are divided by the resurrection. As the
gold wire has been twined and interwoven with the blue and purple
and scarlet and fine-twined linen of the Veil, as far as the Lord Jesus
is concerned the Ephod is perfected.
But in relation to his brethren, the gold is in their moral texture
only as a principle: a tried faith.
Eureka ii:313-320