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| Crown of Glory (Exodus 24:10) |
This truth can be easily understood in the ceremony Jeremiah performed in front of some Jews in Jeremiah 43:9 where while Jews were watching Jeremiah was told to bury some large stones in clay in the brick pavement at the entrance to Pharaoh's palace.
In reading this passage three questions arise:
No. 1: Why large stones?
No. 2: Why bury them in clay in the brick pavement?
No. 3: Why at the entrance to Pharaoh's Palace?
Finding the answers to the questions require some level of understanding of the Scriptures (the Bible). Assuming your familiarity with some of the Scriptures quoted below (if you are not, you may wish to read the Bible passages quoted below, and figure out yourself), let me proceed with answering the questions:
No. 1: the large stones denote the complete deadness of man. It represents the antithesis of life as is written in 1 Samuel 25:37, "[The heart of] Nabal became like a stone" (meaning he is dead for good). Read also Ezekiel 11:19; 36:26. You can be as living as our Lord Jesus. The opposite is also true: you can be as dead as a stone.
No. 2: the brick pavement stands for the life of infinite loss (as seen in Exodus 1:13,14) as opposed to the life of infinite prosperity in blessed freedom symbolized by the pavement made of sapphire in Exodus 24:10. Again it is an antithesis of that which is fully life (or life-giving). Make your own research on the import of the [appearance of the] sapphire of which the pavement was made (as the elders saw). The Israelites were redeemed out of Egypt to reach that state. But since some of them went down to Egypt in disobedience to God's command not to do so, they were now being given the lesson on what they were condemned to be subjected to, that is, going back to the old way of life in slavery to making bricks in Egypt, only to perish.
No. 3: entrance to Pharaoh's Palace refers to the antithesis of the blessed kingdom (in the blessed presence of the only Blessed God - the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob). All that are going on in this physical realm (of the world) have its root in the spiritual world either good or bad. The Pharaoh's Palace houses the gods of Egypt in vast arrays. It denotes the world of demonic influence under which unbelievers are condemned to suffer from infinite loss.
Who then can rescue man from the kingdom of infinite loss?
We find the answer to this question in Jeremiah 43:9-13 where "I will" is repeated twice, and "He will" seven times. I (The LORD Almighty) will repeated twice indicates the Lord means business to undo the work of the devil, and "He will" appearing seven times denotes the completeness of the work of Salvation to be done. He (King Nebu) is a type of the Savior to come. Speaking of this prophecy, as promised God sent Jesus Christ the Savior just as is said: The reason the Son of God appeared is to destroy the work of the devil. 1Jo 3:8
When Jesus comes back, he will not come as a tiny baby, but as a mighty king. He will then:
- spread his royal canopy above them [i.e., the very places of failure where the dead are buried].
- come and attack Egypt, bringing death to those destined for death, captivity to those destined for captivity, and the sword to those destined for the sword.
- set fire to the temples of the gods of Egypt;
- burn their temples and take their gods captive. As a shepherd picks his garment clean of lice, so
- pick Egypt clean and depart.There in the temple of the sun in Egypt
- demolish the sacred pillars and
- burn down the temples of the gods of Egypt.
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