The Holy Incense
And the LORD said unto Moses, Take unto thee sweet spices, stacte, and onycha, and galbanum; these sweet spices with pure frankincense: of each shall there be a like weight: And thou shalt make it a perfume, a confection after the art of the apothecary, tempered together, pure and holy: And thou shalt beat some of it very small, and put of it before the testimony in the tabernacle of the congregation, where I will meet with thee: it shall be unto you most holy. And as for the perfume which thou shalt make, ye shall not make to yourselves according to the composition thereof: it shall be unto thee holy for the LORD. Whosoever shall make like unto that, to smell thereto, shall even be cut off from his people.-Exodus 30:34-38***Moses and his parents Amram and Jochebed and siblings Miriam and Aaron were Israelites from the tribe of Levi, descended from Abraham (Abram the Hebrew) and Sarah (Sarai), Isaac and Rebekah, Jacob (Israel) and his 1st wife Leah, and Jacob and Leah's 3rd born son Levi. The other Israelite tribes descended from Jacob and Leah's sons Reuben, Simeon, Judah, Issachar, and Zebulun, and sons Dan and Naphtali born to Jacob and maidservant Bilhah, and sons Gad and Asher born to Jacob and maidservant Zilpah, and sons Joseph and Benjamin born to Jacob and his 2nd wife Rachel. The divinely inspired Scriptures of the Holy Bible reveal that the tribe of Joseph became the tribe of Manasseh and the tribe of Ephraim after Jacob proclaimed Manasseh and Ephraim, the sons born to Joseph and his wife Asenath, to be his own sons. Sometime after 147-year-old Jacob died in Egypt and his body was buried in Canaan, and Joseph and his siblings were dead, the Israelites were enslaved in Egypt. Moses lived among the Egyptians as the son of the daughter of Pharaoh, the king of Egypt. After 40-year-old Moses killed an Egyptian, and the murder was mentioned to Moses the next day, and Pharaoh wanted to kill Moses, Moses immediately left Egypt and began living in Midian. Moses married Zipporah, a Midianite woman, and became the shepherd of his father-in-law's sheep. When Moses was 80 years old and herding sheep near Mount Horeb, Moses saw a fiery sight and had a conversation with the Lord God. The Lord God sent Moses and Aaron to speak to the Israelite elders and to Pharaoh. After the Lord God brought the 10th and final plague upon Pharaoh and Egypt, Pharaoh and the Egyptians rushed the Israelites to leave. The Israelites asked for and received an abundance of valuable goods from the Egyptians, fulfilling the words that the Lord God spoke to Abraham over 600 years earlier. Moses and Aaron led the Israelites, and those with them, away from Egypt, across the divinely parted Red Sea, and into the desert wilderness of Shur, according to the commands of the Lord God. In the desert wilderness of Sinai, in the region of Mount Sinai, the Israelites heard the voice of the Lord God proclaim the Ten Commandments to them, and the Lord God began giving Moses judgments, statutes and laws for the Israelites, the treasured and chosen people of the Lord God. When Moses was upon Mount Sinai with the Lord God for 40 days and nights, the Lord God gave Moses commands for receiving offerings from the Israelites. The Lord God described to Moses and showed him the likeness of the items the Israelites were to make, including the gold covered ark of the covenant of the Lord and the solid gold mercy seat, the gold covered table for the showbread, the solid gold lampstand, the transportable tabernacle and the veil, the brass (copper/bronze) covered altar of burnt offering, the gold covered altar of incense, the courtyard, the garments and items for the priests, the brass (copper/bronze) basin, the holy anointing oil, and the holy incense. Everything was made from the abundance of goods that the Israelites carried with them from Egypt. During the 40-year journey to Canaan, the Promised Land, Miriam died and was buried in Kadesh in the desert wilderness of Zin. Upon Mount Hor, 123-year-old Aaron died and was buried. When Moses went upon Mount Nebo, the Lord God showed Moses the Promised Land, and 120-year-old Moses died and was divinely buried. Joshua, Moses' successor from the tribe of Ephraim, led the Israelites across the divinely parted Jordan River and onto the land that the Lord God promised to give to Abraham, and Isaac, and to Jacob, and their descendants. Over 1,300 years after 110-year-old Joshua died and was buried in his tribe's portion of the Promised Land, Jesus the Christ, the Son of God, was born. Jesus was conceived of the Holy Spirit in the womb of Mary, a virgin, and Jesus was born into the tribe of Judah to Mary and her husband Joseph when Mary was a virgin.-Genesis 11:26-50:26, Exodus, Numbers 20:1-29, 27:12-23, Deuteronomy 31:1-30, 32:44-52, 34:1-12, Joshua 1:1-4:24, 23:1-24:33, Judges 1:1-2:23, Ruth, 1 Samuel, 2 Samuel, 1 Kings, 2 Kings, 1 Chronicles 1:1-34, 2:1-17, 3:1-24, 6:1-81, 10:1-29:30, 2 Chronicles, Matthew, Mark, Luke, John, Acts 1:1-26
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