The Tabernacle

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The Tabernacle
Part III
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The Tabernacle
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Parts of the Tabernacle

• Holy of Holies (Most Holy)
• Separated by a veil
• Holy
• Outer Court

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Structure and Dimensions
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Holy of Holies

• Holy of Holies
• Exo 2633, Heb 92
• Ark of Covenant
• Exo 2510-16
• Mercy Seat
• Exo 2517-22
• Golden Censer
• Lev 1613

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The Holy

• The Table of Showbread
• The Golden Lamp Stand
• Altar of Incense

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The Outer Court

• The Altar of Sacrifices
• The Bronze Laver
• The Gate

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The Altar of Sacrifices

• Characteristics Exo 271-8

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Bronze

• Symbol of Humanity
• Bronze (Humanity) is able to withstand fire
  (Divinity)
• Symbolizes the legs of Christ
• which always works and searches for the lost
  sheep.
• Lk 154 - What man of you, having a hundred
  sheep, if he loses one of them, does not leave
  the ninety-nine in the wilderness, and go after
  the one which is lost until he finds it?

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It Was Great (Big)

• Dim. 5 X 5 X 3
• Everyone can see it(Heb 922)
• without shedding of blood there is no remission

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First Thing To Be Seen
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Reminder of the Sacrifice
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Fire All the Time (Lev 69)

• Command Aaron and his sons, saying, This is the
  law of the burnt offering The burnt offering
  shall be on the hearth upon the altar all night
  until morning, and the fire of the altar shall be
  kept burning on it.
• Work of the Holy Spirit (Fire) is all the time
• Acts 1038 (all the time)
• John 46 (mid-day)
• Rev 320 (evening)
• Matt 1425 (4th watch)

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The Bronze Laver

• Characteristics
• Exo 3017-21

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Symbol of Repentance

• No measurements
• Repentance will be different every time

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A Pre-requisite

• John 135-10
• If I do not wash you, you have no part with Me.
  
• Christ washed his disciples' feet BEFORE the
  Eucharist.
• Repentance, confession and the absolution must be
  BEFORE Communion.

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Blood and Water

• After the (Altar of Sacrifice), they washed their
  hands and feet (in the Laver)
• Blood and Water Symbolized the pierced side of
  Christ (John 1934)

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The Gate

• Characteristics
• Exo 2716-18

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Dimensions

• Height 5 Cu.
• symbolizes man 5 senses, 5 fingers, 5 toes, etc.
• Hung on 4 pillars
• the four corners of the earth

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A Screen

• Those outside (the church) can not see what's
  inside, unless they enter
• Psa 4513 - The royal daughter is all glorious
  within the palace
• Gate was a screen
• Not a door (wood, bronze, etc.) always open
• Not secure God is the protector
• Psa 1271 - Unless the LORD guards the city,
           The watchman stays awake in vain.

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Christ is the Gate

• Jn 107-10
• Then Jesus said to them again, Most assuredly, I
  say to you, I am the door of the sheep. All who
  ever came before Me are thieves and robbers, but
  the sheep did not hear them. I am the door. If
  anyone enters by Me, he will be saved, and will
  go in and out and find pasture
• Symbolizes the feet of the Lord
• To offer sacrifices and enter into the Holy, one
  must enter at the feet
• With tears Lk 738 She began to wash His feet
  with her tears, and wiped them with the hair of
  her head
• With Love Jn 123 Then Mary took a pound of
  very costly oil of spikenard, anointed the feet
  of Jesus, and wiped His feet with her hair.
• When you start with the feet you receive the good
  part Luk 1039-42

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The Tent Represents Christ

• Exo 261 - Moreover you shall make the
  tabernacle with ten curtains of fine woven linen
  and blue, purple, and scarlet thread with
  artistic designs of cherubim you shall weave
  them.
• 10 curtains of
• Blue Heaven
• Purple Royalty
• Scarlet (red) - Blood, Salvation
• Linen (white) Purity
• Christ our pure King brought us into Heaven
  through His Blood

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The Coverings

• Three coverings
• Goats hair (Exo 267)
• Rams skin dyed red (Exo 2614)
• Badger skin (Exo 2614)

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Goats Skin

• Ugly, unattractive
• The beauty is from within, not without (Psa
  4513)
• Christs sufferings unattractive! (Isa 531-3)
• He was rejected by God and man (or so it seems)
• His Commandments are difficult narrow gate (Mt
  713-14) but lead to life.
• Christians must also endure sufferings (from the
  outside) (Lk 1427) to gain joy on the inside.

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Who Built the Tabernacle?

• The people prepared all the articles of the
  Tabernacle
• Exo 3510 362-7 3932
• The believer must be an active member of the
  church and work in abundance

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Which Direction Did it Face?

• West (Exo 2713, Num 338)
• Man was cast out of the Garden - Gen 324
• Solomons Temple also faced the west
• Churches face the East
• After Christs Sacrifice, we are worthy to look
  again towards the East.

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Building The Tabernacle

• The Tabernacle was raised up in the First month
  of the Second year of the Exodus (Exo 4017)
• It took nine month to finish it.
• It was set in the middle of the camp
• Surrounded by the tents of the Priests and
  Levites
• Then the 12 tribes 3 on each side
• (Num 22-24)

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God Dwells Among His People

• Exo 258
• Exo 2945-46
• 2Cor 616

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The Glory of God

• When it was set up, the glory of God filled it
• Exo 4033-35
• And he raised up the court all around the
  tabernacle and the altar, and hung up the screen
  of the court gate. So Moses finished the work.
  Then the cloud covered the tabernacle of meeting,
  and the glory of the LORD filled the tabernacle.
  And Moses was not able to enter the tabernacle of
  meeting, because the cloud rested above it, and
  the glory of the LORD filled the tabernacle.
• 2Ch 71-2 Also in the Temple
• When Solomon had finished praying, fire came
  down from heaven and consumed the burnt offering
  and the sacrifices and the glory of the LORD
  filled the temple. And the priests could not
  enter the house of the LORD, because the glory of
  the LORD had filled the LORDs house.

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The Glory of God

• The cloud and pillar was leading them on their
  journey Exo 4036-38, Num 915-23
• Whenever the cloud was taken up from above the
  tabernacle, the children of Israel would go
  onward in all their journeys. But if the cloud
  was not taken up, then they did not journey till
  the day that it was taken up. For the cloud of
  the LORD was above the tabernacle by day, and
  fire was over it by night, in the sight of all
  the house of Israel, throughout all their
  journeys.
• They kept the charge of the Lord complete
  Obedience

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Where is the Tabernacle?

• When they completed their journey, it was taken
  to Gilgal (Jos 419)
• Then to Shiloh (Jos 191)
• It remained there 300-400 years
• Nob - at the time of King Saul (1Sam 211-6)
• Gibeon - at the time of King David (1Chr 2129)
• It remained there until King Solomon build the
  Temple in Jerusalem on Mt. Moriah (2Chr 31)

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Holy of Holies and Holy