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somewhat strange passage quoted from Ezekiel 31 suggests that it was the scene
of a rebellion and judgment anterior to the sin of Adam.
Spurrell translates 28:13, `Thy covering veil was adorned with every
precious stone', and the list of precious stones there given calls to mind the
breastplate of Aaron, the foundations of the New Jerusalem, and of the vision
already described in Ezekiel 1:26-28, and that seen by John in Revelation 4:3-6.
This `covering' or `veil' is the Hebrew mesukkah.  The masculine form masak is
used in twenty-two out of twenty-five occurrences of the `hanging', `covering',
or `curtain' of the Tabernacle (Exod. 26:36; 35:12; Num. 3:26).
All the hangings of the Tabernacle were associated with approach.  This
`anointed cherub' appears to have held a holy office, and we read that he was
upon the holy mountain of God, yet by reason of iniquity, his heart being lifted
up because of his beauty, he was cast out as profane, and finally will be
brought to ashes and never be any more.  A fuller exposition with much more
attention to detail is found in The Berean Expositor, Vol. 15, pp. 113-128, 130-
133, which should be consulted if available.  We feel sufficient has been
brought forward to justify the teaching that:
Satan, now fallen, and yet to be destroyed, once held a high position
before the overthrow of Genesis 1:2.
He aspired to be like God, and was cast out as profane.
He was the anointed cherub, and so the connection between the serpent of
Genesis 3 and the cherubim of the same chapter is intentional.
The fall took place before the present firmament existed, and hence the
sphere from which he fell, namely Heaven, as distinct from the firmament,
must be referred to as `far above all heavens' or the `heavenly places' of
Ephesians 1:3.
The Mystery was never a subject of Old Testament teaching, neither was it
revealed until Israel were dismissed in Acts 28.  It links the original heavens
with the future, when God will be all in all, and the Church of the One Body is
seen to be the only company of the redeemed whose sphere of blessing is directly
connected with the heavens of Genesis 1:1 which never pass away.  For similar
reasons `principality and power' rather than `angels' are named in association
with this church.
The Threefold Charter
`Before the foundation of the world'
Part IV.
In which the objection that `the world' cannot refer to Genesis 1:2 is
refuted, and the opposite demonstrated and proved
We have already given evidence that the unanimous testimony of the
Septuagint version is that kataballo always means throw down, never lay or build
or found in any sense whatsoever.  We were at some pains to make the evidence
complete, omitting no reference and adding a list of the Hebrew words thus
translated, because we had in mind an objection which had been made upon the
translation `overthrow' in Ephesians 1:4.  It has been expressed as follows:
`The "Disruption" theory, so far as related to the New Testament is
another optical illusion, a mirage, which disappears the closer we look at
it.  Yet the theory has been greedily ingurgitated by many ignorant souls
who have been unable to refute the specious arguments put forward.  Every
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