Exodus 39:6-7 They mounted the onyx stones in gold filigree settings and engraved them like a seal with the names of the sons of Israel. (As the Lord directs the clothiers to engrave the names of each of Jacob's sons on two onyx stones and to place the stones in finely crafted filigree settings on the shoulder fastenings of the priest's ephod,
He is portraying a powerful truth for the Israelites and for us,
that He knows them by name and that each tribe of His people is so highly valued that He engraves their names on a precious stone where their names are sealed and cannot be erased and places their names in a gold setting, finely crafted in beautiful filigree.
Today, His message to us is that He knows us by name, as well, that our names are sealed and cannot be erased from relationship with Him, that He places high value on us, and that He sets us in the fine gold setting of His Own righteousness.) Then they fastened them on the shoulder pieces of the ephod as memorial stones for the sons of Israel, as the Lord commanded Moses.
(The high priest now carries on his shoulders the names of God's people . In an even more powerful way, the Lord carries each of us on His shoulders today. We rest in the power of His Name and in the strength in which He walks. God shows us in this early symbolic depiction that Jesus has sealed us to Him, that He carries us, and that we can rest in His strength as He lifts us and carries us through today's difficult places.
