LOOKING UNTO JESUS OR CHRIST IN TYPE AND ANTITYPE. BY ...

23 (plural); 26:2; 27:3, 25; Num. 3:28, 31, 32, 38, 47, 50;
4:12, 15 (twice), 16; 7:9, 13, 19, 25, 31, 37, 43, 49, 55,
61, 67, 73, 79, 85, 86; 8:19; 10:21; 18:1, 3, 5, 16; 19:20.
p. 64, Para. 3, [LOOKING].
It will be of interest to follow briefly the history of
this building in the vicissitudes through which it passed
so long as it constituted the sanctuary, or dwelling-place
of God, on the earth. Long after Israel had entered the
land of Canaan, according to the promise of God; the sanctuary
assumed a new phase, in the form of -- p. 65, Para.
1, [LOOKING].
1. THE TEMPLE p. 65, Para. 2, [LOOKING].
It pleased God at this time that the sanctuary should take
a more permanent form. All necessity for a movable structure,
to be temporarily located in different places, had
ceased to exist. The period of Israel's journeyings had
long gone by. They had become safely established in the
promised land. The period of the judges, during which the
affairs of Israel were often uncertain and the times troublous,
though exceeding in duration more than four hundred
years, was also ended. The tribes of Israel were consolidated
into a new and powerful kingdom. Under David, the Hebrew
scepter established its broadest sway. p. 65, Para.
3, [LOOKING].
At length God gave him rest from all his enemies round
about. 2 Samuel 7 and 8. Then came the house of God into
his mind, and to the prophet Nathan he thus spoke: "See
now, I dwell in an house of cedar, but the ark of God dwelleth
within curtains." This doubtless refers to the tent
which he had pitched for it in the city of David, to which
the words of Uriah the Hittite (2 Sam. 11:11) also probably
referred. p. 65, Para. 4, [LOOKING].
The prophet approved of what was implied in the language
of David, that he purposed to prepare a suitable structure
for the permanent abiding-place of the ark of God, and he
said, "Do all that is in thine heart; for the Lord is with
thee." But the Lord the same night reversed the decision of
the prophet, saying to the king that he could not build a
house for him to dwell in; for he had been a man of war and
had shed much blood. This was an important and a holy work.
In this house the olive-branch of peace was to be held out
by Heaven to a rebellious world, and none but those whose