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sinned, and died, and for many of each the Saviour's blood was shed. Here, like Paul at
the end of Rom. 11: (as he goes on to enumerate the multiplied mercy of God), we get out
of our depth--we can only bow our heads and say, "O the depth of the riches and wisdom
and knowledge of God."
This is not all, however, there is still a "much more." At the end of Isaiah 53: 12 we
read of a second meeting place, linked and founded upon the first one in verse 6:--
"He was numbered with the transgressors, and He bare the sin of many, and made a
meeting place for transgressors."
He was first made a meeting place for transgressions, and then, having put away sin
by the sacrifice of Himself, He sat down at the right hand of the Majesty on high, where
He ever liveth to make intercession for us, to whom we can go at all times by a new and
living way. What a glorious meeting place! But even this does not exhaust the depth, nor
scale the height, nor comprehend the love that passeth knowledge. We who by faith look
back to that solemn meeting place of Calvary, look forward in hope to the consummation
of it all, as expressed in the words of the apostle to the Thessalonians. Whether I Thess.
4: is to be interpreted of the church of the mystery is a question with which we must deal
by and by, but one thing we know, that the redeemed of all ages and dispensations,
whether by rapture or resurrection, whether before or after the great tribulation, whether
to inherit the heavenly holiest of all or the earthly paradise, they shall all meet the Lord
(I Thess. 4: 17; I John 3: 1-3; Phil. 3: 20 and 21; Col. 3: 1-4; Titus 2: 13; Rev. 20: 4,
and 22: 4).
Exodus 25:
16. And thou shalt put into the ark the testimony which I shall give thee.
17. And thou shalt make a mercy seat of pure gold: two cubits and a half shall be the
length thereof, and a cubit and a half the breadth thereof.
18. And thou shalt make two cherubims of gold, of beaten work shalt thou make them, in
the two ends of the mercy seat.
19. And make one cherub on the one end, and the other cherub on the other end: even of
the mercy seat shall ye make the cherubims on the two ends thereof.
20. And the cherubims shall stretch forth their wings on high, covering the mercy seat with
their wings, and their faces shall look one to another; toward the mercy seat shall the faces
of the cherubims be.
21. And thou shalt put the mercy seat above upon the ark; and in the ark thou shalt put the
testimony that I shall give thee.
22. And there I will meet with thee, and I will commune with thee from above the mercy
seat, from between the two cherubims which are upon the ark of the testimony, of all things
which I will give thee in commandment unto the children of Israel.