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25 illustrations — Lessons from history, biography, and world events
The linen material—simple, natural—typifies the human nature Christ wears in His glorified state, in which He executes all services of His exalted Priesthood as our Representative.
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Exell's Victorian homiletical analysis reveals three cardinal parallels between the Jewish Passover and the Lord's Supper.
Wrath was averted only through individual faith and action—the father's hand applying blood to the lintel, the family's obedience to Jehovah's command.
Israel had witnessed Yahweh's deliverance from Egypt—the plagues, the parted sea, manna from heaven—yet within weeks of Moses ascending to receive the Torah, the people demanded Aaron fashion a golden calf for worship.
Exell's Victorian commentary identifies seven principles embedded in this moment.
What man could expect by prayer to make Elohim alter His decree?
Moses' honesty is remarkable—he records the magicians' genuine successes in their experiments, lending credibility to the account.
Yet this concealed garment bore immense significance: it manifested the priest's personal purity before Yahweh, distinct from the outer vestments that bore Israel's names before the Lord (Leviticus viii.
As the burning bush appeared ordinary yet blazed with divine presence, so the Church contains the extraordinary glory of Elohim.
Initially, when God inscribed the law upon man's heart at creation, the preparation and writing belonged exclusively to Elohim.
Scripture tells us that until a priest with Urim and Thummim stands before God (Ezra 2:63, Nehemiah 7:65), this mystery cannot be fully resolved.
"On the seventh day thou shalt rest." The Sabbath law reveals three profound truths about human need and divine care. First, rest is needful. Exhausted faculties require repose after labour. Without it, work becomes irksome and slovenly rather than joyous...
When Yahweh commanded Moses to smite the rock at Horeb, He demonstrated a principle woven throughout human history: His greatest mercies flow from the most unlikely sources. Consider the secular realm. Demosthenes, a stammerer, became Athens' greatest orator. Homer and...
This prohibition teaches three vital truths about worship.
Moses and Pharaoh understood this as warfare between supernatural powers.
In the spring of 1508, Michelangelo Buonarroti stood before Pope Julius II in Rome and protested. He was a sculptor, not a painter. His hands...
Between 1850 and 1860, Harriet Tubman made thirteen trips from freedom back into the slave-holding South — back into the very darkness she had escaped....
On a moonless night in the autumn of 1850, Harriet Tubman crept back across the Maryland border into Dorchester County — the very land she...
Ministerial obstacles arise from three directions: prejudice against the messenger himself, skepticism toward the truth proclaimed, and spiritual lethargy regarding the divine mission.
In the dim light of Charleston's African Church, Denmark Vesey opened his Bible to the Book of Exodus. It was the spring of 1822, and...
Joseph Exell preserved two Victorian illustrations of this principle in action.
The Divine response cut through panic: "Wherefore criest thou unto Me?
First, we must awake fully to the importance of Yahweh's commands: give them intelligent and reverent examination, store them in memory, and study their beneficent operation.
Property exists for four essential purposes: to increase the earth's produce; to preserve that produce to maturity; to cultivate and develop human nature; and to advance intellectual development.