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  1. Genesis 15:17. ESV When the sun had gone down and it was dark, behold, a smoking fire pot and a flaming torch passed between these pieces. NIV When the sun had set and darkness had fallen, a smoking firepot with a blazing torch appeared and passed between the pieces.

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      This is more than assumption: the Hebrew word used in this...

  2. —The word really means the circular firepot which Orientals use in their houses to sit round for purposes of warmth. This one was wreathed in smoke, out of which shot “a burning lamp” (Heb., a torch of flame). For not two symbols, but only one, passed between the divided carcases.

  3. the lamp or torch is obviously the outward life of holiness by which the disciple of Christ lets his light shine before men (Matthew 5:16), and the “oil” is the divine grace, or more definitely, the gift of the Holy Spirit, without which the torch first burns dimly and then expires.

  4. ἐκεῖνος ἦν ὁ λύχνος ὁ καιόμενος καὶ φαίνων, “He was (suggesting that now the Baptist was dead) the lamp that burneth and shineth”.— ὁ λύχνος; for the difference between λύχνος a lamp and λαμπάς a torch, see Trench, Synonyms, p. 154, and cf. λαμπαδηδρομία the ...

  5. Torch-Lady” provides a significant wordplay, for it is Deborah, not her husband, who is the torch that sets the general Barak (whose name means “lightning”) on fire. Moreover, in Mesopotamian mythology, the torch and the lightning ( tsullat and hanish ) are the heralds of the storm god.

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  6. Genesis 15:17-21 is a very unique passage in the Bible because it refers to a “smoking oven and a flaming torch which passed between two pieces.” There are many views as to the meaning of the symbolism. Here is the passage.

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  8. Feb 11, 2016 · The smoking oven represents Jesus Christ and the burning torch is the Holy Spirit. Both parties taking part n the covenant had to walk between the cut animals. Jesus walked on behalf of Abraham, as one day He would be Abraham's SEED.

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