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<023001> Exodus 30:1-3 (c) This altar represents the Cross of Christ where the beautiful and perfect life of Christ was offered up to God as a sweet perfume and fragrant incense. The life of Christ which was perfect was offered to God instead of our lives which are so imperfect. It is typical also of the consecrated life of the believer from which there ascends to God as a sweet odor the sacrifices of our lips in thanksgiving, worship and praise.
<111826> 1 Kings 18:26 (c) Here we may think of a false altar which is a type of the religious plans and schemes of men wherein they hope to appease the god of their imagination, and to obtain his favor even though what they are doing is not Scriptural.
<121610> 2 Kings 16:10 (c) Here and elsewhere we find altars built ostensibly for the worship of God, but really for the worship of idols. These false altars are symbolical for the world's religious schemes and plans under the name of Christianity. Worldly men devise worldly plans for the worship of those who live in their sins, and yet seek a religious outlet for their feelings. Every false religion has an "altar" of this kind.