The Altar of Incense

• Ex. 30:1-6. Golden altar before the vail.
• Ex. 30:7, 8. Perpetual incense renewed morning and evening. The high priest was to offer the incense.
• Ex. 30:34-38. Special incense which could not be used for any other purpose.
• Ex. 30:9. No strange incense could be offered.
• Heb. 8:5. A shadow of heavenly service.
• Rev. 8:2-5. John saw the heavenly altar.
• Rev. 8:3. An angel officiated.
• Jude 9; 1 Thess. 4:16; John 5:28, 29. Michael, the archangel, is Christ, our High Priest.
• Rev. 8:3, 4, margin. Incense is added to the prayers.
• John 14:13, 14. The name, or righteous character, of Christ makes our prayers acceptable.
• 1 John 1:9; Isa. 61:10. Pardoned one clothed with righteousness.
• Isa. 64:6. Our righteousness is strange incense.
• Ex. 30:7, 8; Heb. 9:6. Incense was perpetual; hence, offered on day of atonement.
• Rev. 8:3. Incense added to the prayers of all saints.
• Rev. 5:8, margin. All prayers not answered at once. After they are accepted by the incense being added, they are put in golden vials to be answered in God’s own time.