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God.
46 And they shall know that I am the Lord their God, that brought
them forth out of the land of Egypt, that I may dwell among them: I am the Lord their God.
That he would reside among them as God in covenant with them, and would give them sure and comfortable tokens of his peculiar favour to them, and his special presence with them (Ex 29:45,46): I will dwell among the children of Israel. Note, Where God sets up the tabernacle of his ordinances he will himself dwell. Lo, I am with you always, Mt 28:20. Those that abide in God's house shall have God to abide with them. I will be their God, and they shall know that I am so. Note, Those are truly happy that have a covenant-interest in God as theirs and the comfortable evidence of that interest. If we have this, we have enough, and need no more to make us happy.
Exodus-30
The Altar of Incense
1 And thou shalt make an altar to burn incense upon: of shittim
wood shalt thou make it.
Generally, this incense-altar typifies, The devotions of the saints, whose prayers are said to be set forth before God as incense, Ps 141:2. As the smoke of the incense ascended, so much our desires towards God rise in prayer, being kindled with the fire of holy love and other pious affections. When the priest was burning incense the people were praying (Lu 1:10), to signify that prayer is the true incense. This incense was offered daily, it was a perpetual incense (Ex 30:8); for we must pray always, that is, we must keep up stated times for prayer every day, morning and evening, at least, and never omit it, but thus pray without ceasing. The lamps were dressed or lighted at the same time that the incense was