With careful enumeration each item of the Tabernacle furniture is specified, because of each there is a spiritual equivalent in the unseen, spiritual Temple to which we belong. The veil that screened the Most Holy Place and forbade entrance, save once a year, taught that fellowship with God was not fully open. Ignorance, unbelief, unpreparedness of heart still weave a heavy veil which screens God from the soul’s gaze.

The altar of incense is here associated with the inner shrine, because it stood so near the veil. Its analogue is Rey. 8:4. The Ark was an emblem of Christ: the wood, of his humanity; the gold, of his deity. He holds the manna of the world, and is the ever-budding plant