Scripture Reading: Exo. 30:22-33; Phil. 1:19-21a; Psa. 133
Ⅰ
The [compound] Spirit was not yet before the glorification [resurrection] of Christ, that is, from the time of Genesis 1 until the time of John 20:22—John 7:37-39; Exo. 30:23-25; Phil. 1:19-21a.
Ⅱ
We need to see and experience the compounded ingredients of our abundantly rich processed and consummated Triune God—cf. S. S. 1:2-4a:
A
Olive oil (one hin) signifies the Spirit of God with divinity:
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The olive oil is the base of the compound ointment, the holy anointing oil—Isa. 61:1-2; Heb. 1:9.
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Olive oil is produced by the pressing of olives, signifying the Spirit of God flowing out through the pressure of Christ's death—Matt. 26:36.
B
Flowing myrrh (five hundred shekels) signifies the precious death of Christ:
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Myrrh was used to reduce pain and heal the body when it gave off the wrong kind of secretion—Mark 15:23; John 19:39.
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The Spirit was compounded through Christ's sufferings in His living a crucified life, a life of myrrh, from the manger to the cross as the first God-man—Matt. 2:11; John 19:39; Isa. 53:2-3.
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The Spirit leads us to the cross, the cross is applied by the Spirit, and the cross issues in more abundance of the Spirit—Heb. 9:14; Acts 16:6-7; Rom. 8:13-14; Gal. 2:20; John 12:24.
C
Sweet cinnamon (two hundred fifty shekels) signifies the sweetness and effectiveness of Christ's death:
１
Cinnamon has a distinctive, sweet flavor and is also used to stimulate a weak heart—Neh. 8:10; Isa. 42:4a.
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We are conformed to the death of Christ by our outward, consuming environment in cooperation with the indwelling, crucifying Spirit—2 Cor. 4:10-11, 16; Rom. 8:13-14; Gal. 5:24; Col. 3:5; Gal. 6:17.
D
Sweet calamus (two hundred fifty shekels) signifies the precious resurrection of Christ:
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Calamus is a reed standing up (shooting into the air) and growing in a marsh or muddy place—1 Pet. 3:18.
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We need to experience the Spirit as the reality of Christ's resurrection—John 11:25; 20:22; Lam. 3:55-57.
E
Cassia (five hundred shekels) signifies the repelling power of Christ's resurrection:
１
Cinnamon is from the inner part of the bark, and cassia is from the outer part—Rev. 2:7; 1 Pet. 2:24; John 11:25.
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Cassia was used as a repellent to drive away insects and snakes—Eph. 6:10-11, 17b-18.
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We need to know the power of Christ's resurrection in the life-giving Spirit as the all-sufficient grace of the processed and consummated Triune God—Phil. 3:10; 2 Cor. 12:9-10; 1 Cor. 15:10, 45b, 58; Phil. 4:23.
Ⅲ
We need to see and experience the reality of the numbers used in the type of the compound ointment:
A
The only God is signified by the one hin of olive oil—1 Tim. 1:17; Rom. 16:27; Exo. 30:24.
B
The Triune God—the Father, the Son, and the Spirit—is signified by the three units of measure of the four spices—Exo. 30:23-24.
C
Man, the creature of God, is signified by the four spices of the plant life—Exo. 30:23-24; John 19:5; 1 Tim. 2:5.
D
The mingling of divinity with humanity is typified by the blending of the olive oil with four spices—Rom. 8:16; 1 Cor. 6:17.
E
The power for responsibility is signified by the number five—Matt. 25:2, 4, 8.
F
The building element is signified by the numbers three and five—Gen. 6:15-16; Exo. 26:3; 27:13-15.
Ⅳ
The function of the compound Spirit, typified by the compound ointment, is to anoint God's dwelling place and His priesthood with all the elements of the compound God, the processed and consummated Triune God—Exo. 30:26-31; Phil. 1:19; Psa. 133:
A
The anointing is the moving and working of the indwelling compound Spirit to transfuse, infuse, and add the divine and mystical elements of His all-inclusive person into our inner being so that our inner man may grow in the divine life with these elements—1 John 2:20, 27.
B
This anointing sanctifies the things of God and the men of God, separating them from anything common and making them most holy for God's service—Exo. 30:29-30; Rom. 1:1; 2 Cor. 2:14-15.
Ⅴ
We need to see and be warned by the intrinsic significance of the prohibitions concerning the use of the compound ointment:
A
It was not to be poured upon the flesh of man—signifying that whenever we live and walk according to the flesh, we are through with the compound Spirit—Exo. 30:32; cf. Rom. 8:4; Gal. 5:16.
B
It was not to be put upon a stranger—signifying that when we act and behave according to our flesh, we are in the old creation and are regarded as strangers in the sight of God—Exo. 30:33; Gal. 5:24-25.
C
They were not to make anything like it according to its composition—signifying that we should not imitate anything of the compound Spirit, any spiritual virtue, by our own effort—Exo. 30:32; cf. Matt. 15:7-8; Gal. 5:22-23.