EXODUS 25:33 — KING JAMES VERSION 0 0
“Three bowls made like unto almonds, with a knop and a flower in one branch; and three bowls made like almonds in the other branch, with a knop and a flower: so in the six branches that come out of the candlestick.”
Three cups shaped like almond flowers with buds and blossoms are to be on one branch, three on the next branch, and the same for all six branches extending from the lampstand. The almond blossom design of the lampstand cups is rich with significance. The almond tree is the first tree to bloom in Israel, signaling the end of winter and the beginning of spring. Numbers 17:8 records Aaron's staff — a dead almond rod — blossoming overnight as proof of divine choice. The lampstand designed in almond-blossom form is the standing blossom of the priestly vocation: the light that blooms in the sanctuary is the light of life emerging from what appeared dead. The resurrection imagery embedded in the almond-blossom lampstand is the type of the resurrection light that Christ, the true light, brings into the world.
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