The Altar of Incense
1. Read Exodus 30:1.
2. What separated the Altar of Incense from the Mercy Seat?
3. What were the four ingredients of the holy incense?
4. What were the dimensions of the Altar of Incense?
5. What do the four horns of the Altar of Incense portray?
6. Of what is the Altar of Incense a type?
7. What does the number five symbolize?
8. What was the fifth Levitical feast?
9. What does the Blowing of Trumpets signify?
10. What happens at the fifth stage of the plan of redemption?
11. What mental adjustment do we begin to make as we press forward past Pentecost?
12. Read Revelation 4:11.
13. As we move past the golden Lampstand, what transition do we make?
14. What is the eternal plan of God?
15. What is the desire of the overcomer?
16. Why did the Presence of God leave the earth?
17. Into what place does the saint arrive?
18. What is the formula for earthshaking revival?
19. What will move God to command the seven angels to commence blowing their trumpets?
20. What will take place at the sounding of the seventh angel?
21. What should be taking place in us as the Substance of Christ is being ground uniformly throughout our personality?
22. What is one of the major aspects of the working of God after Pentecost?
23. What will be the end result of such communication?
24. What is the fulfillment of the "two witnesses" of Revelation, Chapter Eleven?
25. What must take place in the Christian Church before Christ can return?
26. What behaviors characterize the churches of Christ in the present hour?
27. When will the Lord return?
28. Who will return with Christ?
29. What do horns typify?
30. As our prayer and praise become stronger, what happens to our testimony?
31. How do we overcome the devil?
32. What is the "incense" that pleases the Father?
33. What "death" does the Veil portray?
34. Read Exodus 26:33; Hebrews 10:19,20; Matthew 27:51.
35. What is impossible to us when we still are being led about by our own will and fleshly nature?
36. What is our task?
37. What do we learn during our "wilderness wanderings"?
38. What is the "sentence of death" that must be in us?
39. What is our necessary preparation for entrance into spiritual battle?
40. Does Satan possess any wisdom, authority, or power, other than that which God assigns to him on specific occasions in order to fulfill God's own purposes in Christ?
41. When was every particle of Satan's authority over the Christian stripped from him?
42. What is the Lord God of Heaven demonstrating vividly to the heavens and the earth?
43. For what is Christ waiting patiently?
44. What is true of spiritual warfare?
45. Of what does our actual transition from self-life to Christ-life consist?
46. What part of our personality is sorely tried?
47. What will take place if we are willing to remain under the hand of God during seasons of trial and suffering?
48. What will take place if we return to our own wisdom and desires?
49. What two things must take place in us if we are to enter our inheritance in the Lord?
50. Of what does our inheritance consist?
51. What will Christ receive from the Father?
52. What shall we, if we truly are Christ's disciples, receive from the Father?
Read Exodus 30:1.
2. What separated the Altar of Incense from the Mercy Seat?The Veil.
3. What were the four ingredients of the holy incense?Stacte, onycha, galbanum, and frankincense.
4. What were the dimensions of the Altar of Incense?Eighteen inches square, and three feet high.
5. What do the four horns of the Altar of Incense portray?That the power of the prayer and praise offered by those who have bowed in death before the Lord shall overcome the enemy throughout the whole earth.
6. Of what is the Altar of Incense a type?The aspect of redemption that follows the Pentecostal expression of speaking in tongues and other manifestations of the Holy Spirit.
7. What does the number five symbolize?Entrance into the program of God.
8. What was the fifth Levitical feast?The Blowing of Trumpets.
9. What does the Blowing of Trumpets signify?The establishing of the rule of God on the earth.
10. What happens at the fifth stage of the plan of redemption?The Christian matures past the place of being a saved human being waiting to go to Heaven, and is formed into the Servant of the Lord.
11. What mental adjustment do we begin to make as we press forward past Pentecost?Prior to this, the grace of God toward us is perceived by us as being primarily for our benefit. From the Lampstand forward we understand that we are being prepared for the war of God against the Kingdom of darkness, against the fallen lords of the heavenlies who have set their will against the will of the Father.
12. Read Revelation 4:11. 13. As we move past the golden Lampstand, what transition do we make?We pass from self-centeredness to God-centeredness.
14. What is the eternal plan of God?To rid the creation of evil.
15. What is the desire of the overcomer?The fullness of victory, the redemption of our body, that we may be able to move ahead with Christ in the conquest of the earth.
16. Why did the Presence of God leave the earth?Because of man’s disobedience.
17. Into what place does the saint arrive?He comes into the place of effective communication with God.
18. What is the formula for earth-shaking revival?A group of obedient, anointed, suffering people calling mightily on God, giving thanks for all things and letting their requests be made known to God.
19. What will move God to command the seven angels to commence blowing their trumpets?The prayers of the saints mingled with the fragrance of Christ.
20. What will take place at the sounding of the seventh angel?The kingdoms of this world will become the Kingdom of our Lord and of His Christ.
21. What should be taking place in us as the Substance of Christ is being ground uniformly throughout our personality?Our communication with God should become stronger each day.
22. What is one of the major aspects of the working of God after Pentecost?The Spirit-empowered, holy communication with God that will bring down from Heaven an earthwide revival of the preaching of the Word of God—the Gospel of the Kingdom—with unprecedented authority, power, and glory.
23. What will be the end result of such communication?The return to earth of our Lord Jesus.
24. What may be the fulfillment of the "two witnesses" of Revelation, Chapter 11?The end-time revival.
25. What must take place in the Christian Church before Christ can return?Every valley (depressed person) shall be exalted (brought up to spiritual victory), and every high place (a person who has exalted himself) shall be brought down (to the place where God can commune with his spirit). The crooked places (realms of deception) shall be made straight. The rough places (areas of sin and rebellion in God’s people) shall be smoothed out, and the hearts of the parents reconciled with the children and the children with the parents (family relationships established firmly).
26. What behaviors characterize the churches of Christ in the present hour?Self-exaltation, deception, sin, rebellion, self-seeking stubbornness, and every other evil work.
27. When will the Lord return?When our lives have been brought into harmony with God’s Holy Spirit.
28. Who will return with Christ?His saints.
29. What do horns typify?The power to overcome resistance.
30. As our prayer and praise become stronger, what happens to our testimony?Our testimony becomes more effective.
31. How do we overcome the devil?By the blood of the Lamb (the Altar of Burnt Offering); by the word of our testimony (the Lampstand); and by loving not our lives to the death (the Altar of Incense).
32. What is the "incense" that pleases the Father?The pouring out of our life in total consecration to His will.
33. What "death" does the Veil portray?The third death—death to self.
34. Read Exodus 26:33; Hebrews 10:19,20; Matthew 27:51.
35. What is impossible to us when we still are being led about by our own will and fleshly nature?It is impossible to enter successfully into the battles of the Lord.
36. What is our task?To be patient with God until we find rest in Him.
37. What do we learn during our "wilderness wanderings"?We learn how to bring ourselves under the discipline of the Holy Spirit.
38. What is the "sentence of death" that must be in us?That we should not trust in ourselves but in God who raises the dead.
39. What is our necessary preparation for entrance into spiritual battle?We must commit our safety and well-being into the hands of God.
40. Does Satan possess any wisdom, authority, or power, other than that which God assigns to him on specific occasions in order to fulfill God’s own purposes in Christ?No.
41. When was every particle of Satan’s authority over the Christian stripped from him?When the Lord Jesus died on the cross of Calvary.
42. What is the Lord God of Heaven demonstrating vividly to the heavens and the earth?The awful consequences of rebellion against the Most High, and also that the Seed, Christ, growing in a human being, will enable him or her to overcome sin and rebellion under the most difficult circumstances.
43. For what is Christ waiting patiently?For every one of His enemies to become His footstool.
44. What is true of spiritual warfare?When we enter spiritual combat, if there is any sin on our part, any weakness, any fear, any timidity, any lust, any saving of our life, then we falter and God has to stop and deal with our problems so we will not be destroyed. If we are to see the battle through to glorious victory we must do so by abiding in absolute trust, as the Holy Spirit assumes control and conquers self-love in us.
45. Of what does our actual transition from self-life to Christ-life consist?A prolonged series of trials.
46. What part of our personality is severely tested?Our patience and faith.
47. What will take place if we are willing to remain under the hand of God during seasons of trial and suffering?God’s wisdom and power will be revealed in our life and the complete victory will come in precise timing.
48. What will take place if we return to our own wisdom and desires?God may draw back for a season and teach us the same lessons in a different situation.
49. What two things must take place in us if we are to enter our inheritance in the Lord?Self must wither and die, and Christ must be formed in us.
50. Of what does our inheritance consist?All the promises of God to us.
51. What will Christ receive from the Father?The nations for His inheritance and the farthest reaches of the earth for His possession.
52. What shall we, if we truly are Christ’s disciples, receive from the Father?The nations for our inheritance and the farthest reaches of the earth for our possession.