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of Holies. This last tabernacle is expressly 

 stated in Scripture to be a figure of heaven. 

 " For Christ is not entered into the holy 

 places made with hands, which are the figures 

 of the true, but into Heaven itself, now to 

 appear in the presence of God for us" ] 

 Where allusion is evidently made to the 

 annual entry of the Jewish high priest into 

 the second tabernacle, as representing Christ's 

 entry into heaven itself, where the presence 

 of God was manifested. Now if the second 

 tabernacle represented the Heaven of Heavens, 

 the first we may conclude, in which the 

 ordinary service and worship of God were 

 transacted, was a symbol of this world or our 

 solar system. 2 



If we consider the furniture of the two 

 tabernacles, we gain further instruction on the 

 subject we are considering. In the first was 

 the golden candlestick with its seven lights, 

 the table, and the shew-bread. Amongst the 

 Jews, the candlestick seems to have been 

 regarded as a kind of planetarium, repre- 

 senting the solar system, at least those parts 

 of it that were visible to the unassisted 



1 Heb. ix. 24. 2 ' Aytov x 



