Pure myrrh and cinnamon

Four Kinds of Spices

The materials of the holy anointing oil are of two categories and are five in number. The first category includes the four spices: myrrh, cinnamon, calamus, and cassia. The second category consists of one item—olive oil.

Flowing Myrrh

Flowing myrrh, smelling sweet but tasting bitter, signifies the precious death of Christ. In the Bible myrrh is used mostly for burial. Hence, myrrh is related to death. According to John 19 , when Nicodemus and others were preparing to bury the body of the Lord Jesus, they used myrrh.

Fragrant Cinnamon

Fragrant cinnamon signifies the sweetness and effectiveness of Christ’s death. Cinnamon not only has a distinctive flavor, but it can also be used to stimulate the heart. Cinnamon may be prescribed to stimulate a weak heart.

Myrrh signifies the precious death of Christ, and cinnamon signifies the effectiveness of His death. If we apply the Lord’s death to our situation, it will reduce our pain, correct the wrong secretions, and eventually stimulate us and make us happy and joyful. I can testify of this from my experience. There are times that negative things in my environment would cause me to be low. But when I apply the Lord’s death, I am corrected, adjusted, stimulated, and stirred up.

Fragrant Calamus

The calamus in Exodus 30 is a reed. The Hebrew root of the word myrrh means flowing, and the root for calamus means standing up. Calamus grows in a marsh or muddy place. But even though it grows in a marsh, it is able to shoot up into the air. According to the sequence of the spices, this calamus signifies the rising up of the Lord Jesus from the place of death. The Lord was put into a marsh, into a death situation, but in resurrection He rose up and stood up. Calamus, therefore, signifies the precious resurrection of Christ.

Cassia

The fourth spice, cassia, signifies the power of Christ’s resurrection. Cassia and cinnamon belong to the same family. Cinnamon is from the inner part of the bark, and cassia, from the outer part of the bark. Both cinnamon and cassia are sweet and fragrant. Furthermore, the plants from which they are derived often live and grow in places where other plants cannot grow.

In ancient times cassia was used as a repellent to drive away insects and snakes. Cassia thus signifies the power, the effectiveness, of Christ’s resurrection. Christ’s resurrection can withstand any kind of environment, and His resurrection certainly is a repellent. It repels all evil “insects” and especially the old serpent, the Devil.

Myrrh, cinnamon, calamus, and cassia are all of one category of materials, the category of the spices. Now we come to the olive oil, the only item in the second category.

Olive Oil

In the Bible olive oil signifies the Spirit of God. Olive oil is produced by the pressing of olives. The olive oil signifies the Spirit of God, through the pressure of Christ’s death, flowing out.

The olive oil is the base of the ointment; it is the basic element compounded with the spices. The four spices are compounded into the olive oil to make the ointment. This indicates that the Spirit of God, signified by the olive oil, is no longer merely oil, but now it is oil compounded with certain ingredients. Regarding this, John 7:39 says, “But this He said concerning the Spirit, whom those who believed in Him were about to receive; for the Spirit was not yet, because Jesus was not yet glorified. ” This means that before the Lord’s glorification, the compound Spirit was not yet. It was after Christ’s resurrection that the compounding, or the blending, of such a Spirit was completed.

Life-study of Exodus

Message 158 (LSM)

This ointment is God's economy in liquid form. God's plan was revealed since the first tabernacle in the time of Moses. The high priest was drenched in this anointing carrying this crucified and resurrected Christ mingled God with man in the all inclusive Spirit into the Holy of Holies. Today we have this Christ the all inclusive Spirit in our spirit not just the type but the reality, what a Christ have we!!!

Ex 30:23You also take the finest spices: of flowing myrrh five hundred shekels, and of fragrant cinnamon half as much, two hundred fifty shekels, and of fragrant calamus two hundred fifty shekels,

Ex 30:24And of cassia five hundred shekels, according to the shekel of the sanctuary, and a hin of olive oil.

Ex 30:25And you shall make it a holy anointing oil, a fragrant ointment compounded according to the work of a compounder; it shall be a holy anointing oil.

Life study of Exodus # 167

What a wonderful God we have who just keeps giving and giving all He is and all He has to a people He so dearly loves and treasures!

Now whenever I sing this song my being is full of profound appreciation to the Lord for the progress of His divine revelation concerning His Spirit from typology to reality; and all the processes He went through to accomplish that. These incense are just a typology of the Compound all-inclusive life-giving Spirit we enjoy today.

My experience and enjoyment of the Compound Spirit is deeper, sweeter and higher after the revelation received during the recent Crystallisation Study of Exodus.

Let us praise and thank our God for the Ministry of the Age that opens up the word to us.

This hymn impressed in my heart from the winter training. I cannot believe I am full of tears when I sing it right now. Praise the Lord! I will never leave You. Strengthen me.

Praise the Lord! The compounded Spirit is anointing us! May our prayer and praise be real fragrance to God for His enjoyment!

What a "crystallized" hymn! While singing, it brings me into a richer understanding, deeper realization and application of the rich, blended, compound Spirit! May I experience this more and more!