Mike Bull responds to my recent posts and tweets on the tabernacle furniture and the faces of the cherubim with a riff of his own, reflecting themes he develops at more length in volume III of his Bible Matrix , which will be entitled The House of God . The remainder of this post is from Mike:

“If the cruciform shape of the Tabernacle is a Man, then the Incense Altar is the result of the Separation of the Table and Lampstand. Adam is torn open to reveal the fragrant Bride. Humanity is divided into Priesthood and Kingdoms, Jew and Gentile, to bring forth the prophetic Church.

“So, the ascended and worthy Lamb (Table) with seven horns (Incense Altar) and seven eyes (Lampstand) is the flesh closed up and the Bride united to her husband. The horizontal ‘Trinity’ of the cruciform house is three separate elements under the Old Covenant ( stoicheia ) but a three-in-one hybrid under the New. Now, the only three-in-one to be completed is the vertical one: heaven, Church, earth. History is one cosmic genuflection.

“One other factor is that the Tabernacle was a cross laid out upon the ground, horizontal, like Adam formed from the dust. The Old Covenant ‘bestial’ cross was lifted up in Christ, ‘upright,’ to mediate between heaven and earth, in the Church, the Age of Man.”