I agree with this (is also on my 360 blog):
By Dale Thompson of Bride
The Laver, or the Molten Sea
The laver of the temple was a place of cleansing and purification for the
priest as they washed themselves (baptism), the vessels, and the sacrifices.
This "water baptism" set up in the days of Moses, was itself only an earthly
manifestation of the heavenly baptism, the baptism of fire.
John in the book of Revelation points to the temple laver and calls it the
Lake of Fire because it portrays a Refiners Fire.
Both the tabernacle of Moses and the temple of Solomon used water in their
lavers, rather than molten gold. Yet the water was to portray the molten
gold. Gold is the divine nature, and so the laver itself would portray God's
refining process. In our fleshly state we could not survive a baptism of
fiery gold, and so water baptism became the substitute and type of the true
baptism of fire.
2007-07-15
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