Ex 25:2330

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• Ex 2523-30
• "Make a table of acacia wood two cubits long,
  a cubit wide and a cubit and a half high.
• Overlay it with pure gold and make a gold
  molding around it.
• 25 Also make around it a rim a handbreadth wide
  and put a gold molding on the rim.

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• Ex 2523-30
• 26 Make four gold rings for the table and fasten
  them to the four corners where the four legs are.
• 27 The rings are to be close to the rim to hold
  the poles used in carrying the table.
• 28 Make the poles of acacia wood, overlay them
  with gold and carry the table with them.

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• Ex 2523-30
• 29 And makes its plates and dishes of pure gold,
  as well as its pitchers and bowls for pouring out
  of offerings.
• 30 Put the bread of the presence on this table to
  be before me at all times.

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• ACACIA WOOD
• Very hard and durable wood used in furniture,
  wooden nails, shipbuilding fence posts lasted
  100 years speaks of integrity and strength
  within.

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• Gold
• Beautiful and eyecatching - easily worked and
  molded with heat and hammering. Noble metal it
  will not rust or tarnish.

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• Bread of Presence
• Reminder that God is daily provider and
  sustainer.
• Symbol of His presence with his people.
• Breaking bread symbolizes covenant fellowship

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• Other Tables Do NOT Belong!!
• Jesus entered the temple area and drove out
  all who were buying and selling there. He
  overturned the TABLES of the money changers and
  the benches of those selling doves.

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• Other Tables Do NOT Belong!!
• It is written he said unto them, My house
  will be called a house of prayer, but you are
  making it a den of robbers.
• Matt 2112,13

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• Jesus signalled the end of the tables AND the
  temple
• Do you see all these things?, he asked, I
  tell you the truth , not one stone here will be
  left on another every one will be thrown down!
  
• Matt 242

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• Now What???
• Instead of having tables in the temple

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• we have
• TEMPLES
• at the
• TABLE.