Lesson of the Strictness of Guarding
The Sanctuary
"....the Ark of the Covenant containing the ten original commandments, of which Moses received a copy, pattern or type, and placed it in the typical sanctuary here on earth.
The Ark of the Testimony from which comes the Sabbath commandment.....
*See with what sacred strictness and attention He required it to be guarded, --- sanctified Levites to pitch around about and guard it "But the Levites shall pitch round about the tabernacle of testimony, that there be no wrath upon the congregation of the children of Israel: and the Levites shall keep the charge of the tabernacle of testimony.....But those that encamp before the tabernacle toward the east, even before the tabernacle of the congregation eastward, shall be Moses, and Aaron and his sons, keeping the charge of the sanctuary for the charge of the children of Israel; and the stranger that cometh nigh shall be put to death." Num. 1:53; 3:38:
Q: Is there any less attention in guarding the original Covenant in heaven?
A: No. There it is deposited in the Ark, covered with the Mercy Seat. ---A Cherubim on each end covering it with their wings; ...our great High Priest stands before it, and God between the Cherub Wings above, with his all-seeing eye upon it.
---Ten thousand times ten thousand angels for an outside guard.
Now we are told by one class of people
--that the 4th commandment in this Covenant was changed or altered at the resurrection of Jesus,
--while another in all their zeal declare they were all abolished at the crucifixion of Jesus.
*Neither of these two classes of people can produce one single text from Genesis to Revelation to prove their assertion.
God says, "My covenant will I not break, nor alter the thing that is gone out of my lips." (Psalm 89:34).
He has said he will not BREAK NOR ALTER! God cannot lie! Why continue to charge him with folly! His commandments are as holy, pure and binding to-day, as ever they were."
Joseph Bates
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