THE ULTIMATE REPLACEMENT
EZEKIEL 28:11-15
Moreover the word of the Lord came to me, saying, 12 “Son of man, take up a lamentation for the king of Tyre, and say to him, ‘Thus says the Lord God:
“You were the seal of perfection,
Full of wisdom and perfect in beauty.
13 You were in Eden, the garden of God;
EVERY PRECIOUS STONE WAS YOUR COVERING:
THE SARDIUS, TOPAZ, AND DIAMOND,
BERYL, ONYX, AND JASPER,
SAPPHIRE, TURQUOISE, AND EMERALD WITH GOLD.
The workmanship of your timbrels and pipes
Was prepared for you on the day you were created.
14 “You were THE ANOINTED CHERUB WHO COVERS;
I established you;
You were on the holy mountain of God;
You walked back and forth in the midst of fiery stones.
15 You were perfect in your ways from the day you were created,
Till iniquity was found in you.
EXODUS 28:15-21
15 “You shall make the breastplate of judgment. Artistically woven according to the workmanship of the ephod you shall make it: of gold, blue, purple, and scarlet thread, and fine woven linen, you shall make it. 16 It shall be doubled into a square: a span shall be its length, and a span shall be its width. 17 And you shall put SETTINGS OF STONES IN IT, FOUR ROWS OF STONES: THE FIRST ROW SHALL BE A [D]SARDIUS, A TOPAZ, AND AN EMERALD; THIS SHALL BE THE FIRST ROW; 18 THE SECOND ROW SHALL BE A TURQUOISE, A SAPPHIRE, AND A DIAMOND; 19 THE THIRD ROW, A [E]JACINTH, AN AGATE, AND AN AMETHYST; 20 AND THE FOURTH ROW, A [F]BERYL, AN [G]ONYX, AND A JASPER. They shall be set in gold settings. 21 And THE STONES SHALL HAVE THE NAMES OF THE SONS OF ISRAEL, twelve according to their names, like the engravings of a signet, each one with its own name; they shall be according to the twelve tribes.
EXODUS 25:17-22
17 “You shall make a mercy seat of pure gold; two and a half cubits shall be its length and a cubit and a half its width. 18 And you shall make two cherubim of gold; of hammered work you shall make them at the two ends of the mercy seat. 19 Make one cherub at one end, and the other cherub at the other end; you shall make the cherubim at the two ends of it of one piece with the mercy seat. 20 AND THE CHERUBIM SHALL STRETCH OUT THEIR WINGS ABOVE, COVERING THE MERCY SEAT WITH THEIR WINGS, AND THEY SHALL FACE ONE ANOTHER; the faces of the cherubim shall be toward the mercy seat. 21 You shall put the mercy seat on top of the ark, and in the ark you shall put the Testimony that I will give you. 22 And there I will meet with you, and I will speak with you from above the mercy seat, from between the two cherubim which are on the ark of the Testimony, about everything which I will give you in commandment to THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL.
