It must be remembered
that the majority of the Israelites were illiterate:
Writing was the area of expertise for a class called
Scribes. Further, the full meaning of the Tabernacle
requires the New Testament for its interpretation. This
is because the types of the Tabernacle were only
fulfilled in the life and ministry of Jesus.
The
ALTAR
Ex
27:1 - 8 was just
inside the entrance to the Tabernacle. The man who was
the head of the household brought a lamb to be
sacrificed. He laid his hand on the lamb and confessed
the sins of his household: The sins of the man, his wife,
his children and his servants. The lamb is then killed by
the Levites and burnt on the altar of brass, symbolizing
that the sins of the household are taken away. Jesus
became our
sacrificial Lamb when
he went to the cross.
The
LAVER Ex 30:17 -
21(or storage tank for water) was the next step. It
represented the Word of God which today cleanses us from
our wrong thinking and wrong actions as we study and obey
the Bible.
THE
HOLY PLACE
THE
HOLY PLACE is a room
with no natural light. It contains three Supernatural
Mysteries whose meaning is revealed to us by the Holy
Spirit. These mysteries symbolize three spiritual
provisions available to any one who has been to the
ALTAR
and to the LAVER.
The seven - branched Lampstand
Ex 25: 31 - 40
represents Supernatural
Guidance from the
Holy Spirit. The Table
of Bread Ex 25: 23 -
30 or Bread of Life gives us
Supernatural
strength to carry out
God's will, The Altar
of Incense Ex 27: 1 -
8 represents Supernatural
Prayer or praying in
the Holy Spirit.
THE
HOLY OF HOLIES
The centerpiece of the
Tabernacle was the Ark
of the Covenant, Ex
25: 8 - 22 a small gold plated wooden box, approximately
four feet long, and two feet high and two feet wide, with
a lid mde of solid gold. Inside of this box were the
Ten
Commandments engraved
on two stones--the second set which was given to Moses.
Ex 34: 1 - 27 On each end of the lid of the box was a
carved wooden cherubim, gold-plated. The cherubim faced
each other forming an empty triangular space above the
Ark. Inside this triangle was the space in which God was
understood to dwell. Despite all this material
representation of the truth, Moses and the Jewish
spiritual leaders knew that God was a Spirit, and not to
be represented in any material form.
The entire
Tabernacle was based on the realization that the people
were sinners, and needed an atonement for their sins.
When God looked down on the Ten
Commandments, the
physical stones were intact, but their teachings had been
broken over and over again by the people. This fact must
be hidden from the view of God. On the Annual great
Day
of Atonement, the
high priest went alone into the Holy of Holies, carrying
in a basin the blood of a sacrificial bullock, which the
priest splattered onto the Lid of the Ark. Now, God sees
the blood, but not the broken law inside the
Ark.
Shiloh - setting of the
Tabernacle
After entering the
Promised Land the Tabernacle was set up with permanent
features on a beautiful valley in Shiloh, 20 miles north
of Jerusalem. It remained the center of Worship for 400
years until destroyed by the Philistines
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This is the meaning John
the Baptist cried out to the people at the Jordan River,
"Behold the Lamb
of God, which taketh
away the sin of the world." On the Cross, the sacrificial
Blood
of Jesus was shed
making an Atonement for the sins of believers in all time
and all places. The symbolism of the Tabernacle was
fulfilled at Calvary when Jesus cried, "It is
finished".
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