Reformed Covenanter
Cancelled Commissioner
BY comparing these two places [Romans 3:25; Hebrews 9:5] together, we will easily perceive, that the Apostle means to tell us, that what the mercy-seat was in the tabernacle and temple, that Jesus Christ is in the true and heavenly temple. Jehovah Elahim dwelt between, or inhabited, the cherubims of glory, Which shadowed the mercy-seat; for so they did with their wings touching one another.
And thus our Lord tells us, that he is in the Father, and the Father in him; and that in Christ, as his rest, the Father is well pleased. His dwelling in the cherubims was the sensible sign of his dwelling among the Israelites, and being their Elahim. His dwelling in Christ is incomparably more so to us, when he hath given his only begotten Son, and by him united himself to this order of creatures. They who receive him as he is given, can have no doubt of God’s dwelling with men upon earth, and that Jehovah is their Elahim.
For the reference, see:
And thus our Lord tells us, that he is in the Father, and the Father in him; and that in Christ, as his rest, the Father is well pleased. His dwelling in the cherubims was the sensible sign of his dwelling among the Israelites, and being their Elahim. His dwelling in Christ is incomparably more so to us, when he hath given his only begotten Son, and by him united himself to this order of creatures. They who receive him as he is given, can have no doubt of God’s dwelling with men upon earth, and that Jehovah is their Elahim.
For the reference, see:
https://reformedcovenanter.wordpress.com/2023/10/08/robert-riccaltoun-on-Christ-as-the-true-temple/
