And it came to pass, that, when the sun went down, and it was dark, behold a smoking furnace, and a burning lamp that passed between those pieces./In the same day the Lord made a covenant with Abram"
Notice 'when the sun went down' or the evening has spiritual significance. God set evening as the time He set his will into motion to which the Spirit begins at the end of the first day,"And the evening and the morning were the first day. (Gen.1.5) Next the Spirit sets the evening when the dove presents the proof of a new earth: "And the dove came in to him in the evening; and, lo, in her mouth was an olive leaf pluckt off: so Noah knew that the waters were abated from off the earth."(8.11)/ In renewing the everlastiing Covenant with Abraham, the Spirit points out the burning lamp in token of confirmation while the smoking furnace for the first time, the consequence of breaking the covenant. The same smoking furnace we find when God gave the Decalogue to Moses. "And mount Sinai was altogether on a smoke, because the Lord descended upon it in fire: and the smoke thereof ascended as the smoke of a furnace."(Exod.19.18) "As the smoke of a furnace' and Abraham sees the cities of the plains as God has warned. "and beheld, and, lo, the smoke of the country went up as the smoke of a furnace."(Gen.19.28) The Spirit uses the tag,'behold' in order to emphasise the word of God.
Finally we have this passage, "and to him was given the key of the bottomless pit./And he opened the bottomless pit; and there arose a smoke out of the pit, as the smoke of a great furnace; and the sun and the air were darkened by reason of the smoke of the pit./And there came out of the smoke locusts upon the earth: and unto them was given power." Rev.9.1-3. With God rests the power to cast souls into hell. "But I will forewarn you whom ye shall fear: Fear him, which after he hath killed hath power to cast into hell; yea, I say unto you, fear him." (Lk.12.5)
And it came to pass, that, when the sun went down, and it was dark, behold a smoking furnace, and a burning lamp that passed between those pieces./In the same day the Lord made a covenant with Abram"
Notice 'when the sun went down' or the evening has spiritual significance. God set evening as the time He set his will into motion to which the Spirit begins at the end of the first day,"And the evening and the morning were the first day. (Gen.1.5) Next the Spirit sets the evening when the dove presents the proof of a new earth: "And the dove came in to him in the evening; and, lo, in her mouth was an olive leaf pluckt off: so Noah knew that the waters were abated from off the earth."(8.11)/ In renewing the everlastiing Covenant with Abraham, the Spirit points out the burning lamp in token of confirmation while the smoking furnace for the first time, the consequence of breaking the covenant. The same smoking furnace we find when God gave the Decalogue to Moses. "And mount Sinai was altogether on a smoke, because the Lord descended upon it in fire: and the smoke thereof ascended as the smoke of a furnace."(Exod.19.18) "As the smoke of a furnace' and Abraham sees the cities of the plains as God has warned. "and beheld, and, lo, the smoke of the country went up as the smoke of a furnace."(Gen.19.28) The Spirit uses the tag,'behold' in order to emphasise the word of God.
Finally we have this passage, "and to him was given the key of the bottomless pit./And he opened the bottomless pit; and there arose a smoke out of the pit, as the smoke of a great furnace; and the sun and the air were darkened by reason of the smoke of the pit./And there came out of the smoke locusts upon the earth: and unto them was given power." Rev.9.1-3. With God rests the power to cast souls into hell. "But I will forewarn you whom ye shall fear: Fear him, which after he hath killed hath power to cast into hell; yea, I say unto you, fear him." (Lk.12.5)
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