The Symbolic Language of the Bible: Laver - Nurse
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No measurements are given of the laver wherein the priests daily washed their hands and feet. God’s remedy for cleansing the daily defilements of His people is not blood but water— i.e., the constant application of the Word of God to the thoughts, words, and actions of the believer. Christ is the laver; the word of God is the water
Judgment of evil and evil men
Exodus 15:10; Zechariah 5:7, 8
Psalms 1:3; Matthew 21:19
Millennial blessing and healing
Revelation 22:2; Ezekiel 47:12
1 Corinthians 5:5-8; Galatians 5;9; Matthew 16:6
Daniel 2:33; Sol. 5:15; Psalms 147:10
Grecian Empire in its rapid conquests
Uncleanness in heart and life; sin in the flesh
Obedience connected with the judicial power of God
Ezekiel 1:13-14; Nahum 2:4
Loveliness and virgin purity
Matthew 6:28; Sol. 2:1, 2
Personal purity; the fruit of the Spirit in Christian life and ways
Leviticus 16:4; Revelation 15:6; 19:8-14
Genesis 49:9; Revelation 5:5; Ezekiel 1:10
Church presented to God in her actual state at Pentecost, hence the presence of leaven (evil) in these loaves
Utter and widespread destruction
Joel 1:4; 2:25; Psalms 78:46; Revelation 9:3-7
Inward strength; bracing up of the inner man
1 Peter 1:13; Luke 12:35; Ephesians 6:14
A humbled Christ for our wilderness circumstances
Appropriation or possession
Zechariah 2:2; Ezekiel 40:3-5; Revelation 11:1; 21:15
Christ as the nourishment of the new nature
1 Corinthians 10:3; John 6:27, 55
The throne of God, where in righteousness and grace, because of the sprinkled blood, Jehovah could meet His guilty people. Christ is the true mercy-seat
Exodus 25:21, 22; Leviticus 16; Romans 3:25
Elementary truth for babes in Christ
1 Corinthians 3:2; Hebrews 5:12
Derived light and authority
Sol. 6:10; Revelation 8:12; 12:1
New moon—Israel’s reappearance in the latter day
Psalms 81;3; Ezekiel 46:1
Source of religious corruption or blessing
Galatians 4:22-31; Revelation 2:20-23; 17:5
Stability and greatness, political and moral
Daniel 2:35; Jeremiah 51:25; Psalms 125:1, 2
What in itself is small and insignificant
Steadfast; firmly established
Isaiah 22:23-25; Zechariah 10:4; Ezra 9:8
Spiritual destitution; without Christ
Revelation 3:17, 18; 2 Corinthians 5:3
Psalms 9:15; Proverbs 1:17; Hab. 1:15, 17
1 Thessalonians 2:7; Numbers 11:12