The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1877-11-15

ming Nov. 1ItIl, by the Pastor w. MI.
Swartz.
A full house greeted the pastor of
the Baptist church on Sunday morn
ing, on the occasion of his introducto-
ry lecture on the Jewish Tabernacle,
which was illustrated by numerous
diagrams of the ancient structure and
its furniture.
The points dwelt upon were the nat
ural and typical design of the taberna-
Gle building. 1t answered the two
fold purpose Of sanctuary, or place
of worship, and q Royal Palace for the
Divine Presence.
1t did not afford like our churches a
place of shelter to the worshipers; nor
was it a place III which to offer sacra-
fees; these were offered in the Court
without, and the worshipers were
content to bring their offerings to the
| Tabernacle, which were accepted by
/ the priests, and presented to God in
their behalf. The building was re-
garded by the Jews as the dwelling
/ place Of their King. The symbol of
whose presence was the pillar cloud
and the ShecbjnGb which filled the in
ner Court or Most Holy place with his
glory.
In it's typical import, it was preinti-
NATIVE of the future incarnation and
the ultimate manifested glory Of the
j, Messiah. Christ is the greater and
more perfect tabernacle, notmade with
hands, that is to say, not of this build
ing" Heb. 9: II.
destroy this temple and in three
days [ will rear it up again" The
Evangelist John has also employed
language in speaking of the incarua-
ton of Christ which at once Identifies
Christ with the tabernacle "The
word which was with God and was
God was made flesh and dwelt among
us and we beheld his glory, &C." John
ia.
/ The language is so abusive to the
Shechinah and the tabernacle contain
, ing the Shecinah, that it is impossible
not to see that John identifies the
Christ of the New Testament with the
word or Jehovah Of the Old Testament
who "dwelt between the cherubims' in
the tabernacle in the wilderness.
: The Word who directed the building
of temple of Shettim hood boards
0yerlaid with gold, and covered with
curtains of blue and purple, and scar
let, and dwelt in it's Holy of holes,
dwelt in a temple Of flesh constructed
and reared by the Holy Ghost. Mat 1:
} Is, 20. Luke 1:35. AS the glory of
: Jehovah streamed through the crevices
Of the gilded temple in the wilderness,
so John saw it beaming through the hui
man temple on the Mount of Trans
J fguration, for in that tabernacle
IeOezt or Sbecharj2ed the "fulneSs of
the Godhead bodily" Col. 20. But
], the full import Of the ancient visible
: Snechinah and it's material habitatiOn
has never yet, been realized as it is
destined to be in the latter day on
earth; nor do we conceive it possible
to gain full and adequate idea of the
Hjngzy features of this typical estab-
lishment without looking forward to
| the time when the Savior, Ombin-
ing sacerdotal sanctity with royal dig
nifty, shall fit king upon his throne,
in the earthly zion, in accordane
with the entire drift of the Old Tesla
ment prophesies. This is the state to
which the anticipations Of all Chris
i tians are really directed-a state which
is to be ultimately evolved ont of the
present by a stupendous order of
changes, moral, political, and ihysi-
cal.
The New Jerusalem of the Apoca-
:! 1ypse is the grand object of the Chris
tians hope; and it is in that glorious
dispensation, the theatre which is the
earth that we now inhabit, that we
are to look for the substantial reazj-
ties so strikingly figured in the ritual
apparatus of the old economy.
It is the state constituted by the final
development of the Kingdom of Heaven
out of the regenerated and transferred
! d0miniOns and dynasties of earth. over