“Without the vail of the testimony, in the tabernacle of the congregation, shall Aaron order it from the evening unto the morning before the Lord continually: it shall be a statute for ever in your generations.”
Outside the curtain that shields the ark of the covenant law in the tent of meeting, Aaron is to tend the lamps before the Lord from evening to morning, continually. This is to be a lasting ordinance for the generations to come. Aaron and his sons tend the lamps from evening to morning — the priestly responsibility for the lampstand's perpetual burning is a lasting ordinance. John 8:12 says I am the light of the world — the lampstand that burns perpetually before the Lord in the covenant sanctuary is the type of the one who is the permanent, unfailing light of the new covenant community.
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