April girl, good one.  My wife will like this one.

earlier, April Stahl, wrote:
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>The Altar
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>"Build an altar of acacia wood..."  (Exodus 27:1a NIV)
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>The altar is the same base material as the ark [wood]
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>but overlaid with bronze instead of gold (v. 2b).
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>[ The NASB, NIV, NKJ, NLT, NRSV, ESV, CSB all read
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>"bronze".
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>The KJV, WEB, ASV read "brass".
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>The Hebrew word nechosheth literally means "copper",
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>Whatever the actual material -whether bronze, brass,
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>or copper- the altar would've been much larger any of
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>the other Tabernacle furniture items ...and shiny.
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>Pink has the "symbolic import" of brass/bronze in
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>Scripture as signifying "judgment".  He bases this
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>(Gleanings in Exodus; Ch. 45, Sec. 2; A.W. Pink)
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>As the bronze snake on a pole symbolized the Messiah
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>on the cross (John 3:14), judgment is definitely in view
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>and Pink correct.  [ He also provides three other
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>Scriptural examples of bronze = judgment. ]
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>And where else than on an altar -a place where
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>sacrifices are made- is judgment a more apt topic ?
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>Bronze over wood, then, represents a beautiful
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>If the wood is a figure for Jesus Christ's human nature
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>[SEE; Previous discussion of the Ark], and bronze a
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>figure of judgment...
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>...we know Christ in His divinity could not die, but
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>Jesus in His humanity could !
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>So, God did not die in the atoning sacrifice. God, by
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>When the Lord died on the altar which was the cross,
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>This being the metaphor of the Tabernacle altar:
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>Christ's flesh sacrificed for the judgment against His
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>"God is still on the throne!"
>April and Miss Flurrie
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John