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its name to the fact that the tables of the law were
therein. Had it not contained the tables, it never would
have been called the ark of the testament; and whenever and
wherever it is called "the ark of the testament," it is
proof that the law of God is therein. p. 227, Para. 1,
[LOOKING].
With these remarks, we ask the reader to mark well the
fact that the ark as seen in heaven by John, shown under
the sounding of the seventh trumpet, is still called "the
ark of his testament." What does this prove? -- It proves
that that ark in heaven contains the law. What law? -- The
same law that gave it that name in the days of Moses;
namely, the tables of the testimony, the ten commandments.
And how may we suppose that those commandments read in the
ark in heaven? -- Just the same, of course, as they read in
the ark on earth. Of this there can be no question. This
forever precludes the idea of any change in the law. Talk
about changing or abolishing the law? Not until we can
change or abolish those tables in heaven. O, what a vain
and futile work are they engaged in, who are laboring to
show that the law of God as a whole, or even the fourth
commandment alone, has been in the least respect altered,
much less done away! How vain to try to show that that law
has been changed even in the slightest jot or tittle! p.
227, Para. 2, [LOOKING].
The conclusion is, therefore, not only plain and Scriptural,
but beautiful as well, that as the ark in heaven is
the great original, after which the ark on earth was
formed, so the law in the ark above is the great original,
of which the law given on earth was but a transcript or
copy. The great truth has been well embalmed by the poet,
in the following language:-- p. 228, Para. 1, [LOOKING].
"For God well knew perdition's son Would ne'er his precepts
love; He gave a duplicate alone, He kept his own
above." p. 228, Para. 2, [LOOKING].
Having now found a sanctuary, an ark, and a law in heaven,
where Christ is ministering, another thought is at once
suggested in relation to the object to which the earthly
and heavenly ministrations have reference. p. 228, Para.
3, [LOOKING].
We have seen the relation which these two ministrations
sustain to each other; namely, that of type and antitype.