The Perpetual Use of the Altar

And Aaron shall burn thereon sweet incense every morning. (Ver. 7) A perpetual incense before the Lord throughout your generations. (Ver. 8.) So Christ, the High Priest of our profession, ever liveth to make intercession for us.
In the seventeenth chapter of the Gospel by John we ‘have the reality’ and substance of these Divine foreshadowings.
We there see Jesus on earth, surrounded by his disciples; but, in Spirit, entering into the holiest, his work finished, and the crown of glory won.
In fact it is the High Priest at the golden altar— in anticipation, the High Priest on the day of atonement entering into the holiest.
Let us look at him as at the golden altar, and listen to his words: “Father, I have glorified thee on the earth; I have finished the work which thou gavest me to do.” “I have manifested thy name.”
He is thus presenting before his Father, as sweet and fragrant incense, the memorial of what he had been in his character and life on earth; and then claiming for himself the just recompense of reward, he obtains on behalf of his disciples, and of believers through their word, the richest, choicest, highest blessings.
And these words he spake in the world, that we might have his joy fulfilled in ourselves, in being thus enabled to enter into his thoughts concerning us, through this magnificent specimen of his present and perpetual intercessions, in the knowledge of the glory which—he has, and which he will share with us.