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Originally Posted by Chan
Prophecy often contains figurative language. It isn't that God literally covered Israel with jewels, etc., it's that He covered Israel in the beauty of holiness. But Israel, flaunting its special status as God's chosen people, put its trust in that status instead of trusting in God. Because Israel stopped trusting in God, it violated the covenant relationship with God and, in effect, played the harlot and committed adultery against God.
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With that said we can come up with a figurative Analogy for anything in the bible. We sometimes place too much stock in what some 13th century writer told us a passage represents.
The tabernacle in the wilderness has great analogies for us today.
It was also a literal place....
Nathan Eckstadt