The Tabernacle Part 5a
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There were actually three sets of pillars.
Sixty Pillars of the Court surrounding the Tabernacle, twenty on each side, and ten at each end.
Five pillars were at the eastern end of the Holy Place.
Four pillars separated between the Holy and Most Holy Place.
THE FOUR PILLARS OF THE EASTERN END OF THE COURT:
They had a hanging of fine linen with blue, purple, and scarlet color wrought in needlework.
This was called “The Gate of the Court.”
Exodus 27:16
Exodus 27:16
And for the gate of the court shall be an hanging of twenty cubits, of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen, wrought with needlework: and their pillars shall be four, and their sockets four.
THE FIVE PILLARS AT THE EASTERN END OF THE TABERNACLE:
They had capitals of gold and sockets, or base, of brass.
On these five pillars there was a hanging similar to the one of the pillars of the gate.
Exodus 36:37-38
Exodus 36:37-38
And he made an hanging for the tabernacle door of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen, of needlework; And the five pillars of it with their hooks: and he overlaid their chapiters and their fillets with gold: but their five sockets were of brass.
THE FOUR PILLARS BETWEEN THE HOLY AND MOST HOLY PLACE:
They had no capitals.
They were cut clean off.
They were covered with gold.
They had sockets of silver.
Exodus 36:35-36
Exodus 36:35-36
And he made a vail of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen: with cherubims made he it of cunning work. And he made thereunto four pillars of shittim wood, and overlaid them with gold: their hooks were of gold; and he cast for them four sockets of silver.
THE GATE OF THE COURT:
This was the way of entrance into the Tabernacle court.
Any approach to the dwelling place of God must begin here.
It was a fitting symbol of our Lord as the door of the sheepfold, the door of the sheep and the door of the Church.
John 10:7,9
Then said Jesus unto them again, Verily, verily, I say unto you, I am the door of the sheep.
I am the door: by me if any man enter in, he shall be saved, and shall go in and out, and find pasture.
And other sheep I have, which are not of this fold: them also I must bring, and they shall hear my voice; and there shall be one fold, and one shepherd.
This gate of the Lord,
Into which the righteous shall enter.
Upon entering the gate you came first to the brazen altar, which was the altar of sacrifice.
All who would pass through that door and draw nigh to the Lord who reveals Himself in the Tabernacle must pass by the blood-stained altar or they are not permitted at all.
But now in Christ Jesus ye who sometimes were far off are made nigh by the blood of Christ.
Christ is indeed the door, a door that he opened upon the cross, by way of His shed blood. Like in the day of Noah, there will be a day when that door is shut and not more may enter in.
Apart from His sacrificial death and outpoured blood Jesus Christ is not the way to God. Meaning, you cannot come to God by or through Him merely because He was a good man, or a righteous example.
John the Baptist declared this:
The next day John seeth Jesus coming unto him, and saith, Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world.
Paul emphasized this when he says:
For I determined not to know any thing among you, save Jesus Christ, and him crucified.
Christ is the way to God and to God the Father only through the blood of His cross.
THE FOUR PILLARS OF THE GATE OF THE COURT:
These four pillars illustrate the fourfold Sonship of our Lord Jesus Christ.
The Son of David.
The Son of Abraham.
The Son of man.
The Son of God.
The book of Matthew opens with the record of His genealogy as the Son of David and the Son of Abraham.
The book of the generation of Jesus Christ, the son of David, the son of Abraham.
As the Son of David, He is the heir of David’s throne and ordained to sit upon it; as it is written:
He shall be great, and shall be called the Son of the Highest: and the Lord God shall give unto him the throne of his father David:
As the Son of Abraham, He is the seed promised to Abraham.
Now to Abraham and his seed were the promises made. He saith not, And to seeds, as of many; but as of one, And to thy seed, which is Christ.
To Abraham was promised and covenanted a land, from the river of Egypt to the Great river Euphrates.
In the same day the Lord made a covenant with Abram, saying, Unto thy seed have I given this land, from the river of Egypt unto the great river, the river Euphrates:
Since our Lord Jesus Christ is the seed of Abraham, and the land was given by a solemn covenant to Abraham, then our Lord Jesus Christ as the official son of Abraham is the heir of Abraham and true owner of that land.
Heir of David’s throne, and heir of Abraham’s land.
No matter what schemes and mandates nations may make among themselves concerning Jerusalem and Palestine, God has ordained that our Lord Jesus Christ shall sit on David’s throne, possess and rule over the land. The land in which it is written:
And he shall pass through Judah;
He shall overflow and go over,
He shall reach even to the neck;
And the stretching out of his wings shall fill the breadth of thy land, O Immanuel.
He will rise up, He will take to Himself His great power, He will come forth in His glory and Jerusalem shall be established and made His throne; as it is written:
At that time they shall call Jerusalem the throne of the Lord; and all the nations shall be gathered unto it, to the name of the Lord, to Jerusalem: neither shall they walk any more after the imagination of their evil heart.
The place of His throne will be in the temple that is to be built after His return, a temple built according to the plan laid down in the book of the prophet Ezekiel;
And the glory of the Lord came into the house by the way of the gate whose prospect is toward the east. So the spirit took me up, and brought me into the inner court; and, behold, the glory of the Lord filled the house. And I heard him speaking unto me out of the house; and the man stood by me. And he said unto me, Son of man, the place of my throne, and the place of the soles of my feet, where I will dwell in the midst of the children of Israel for ever, and my holy name, shall the house of Israel no more defile, neither they, nor their kings, by their whoredom, nor by the carcases of their kings in their high places.
There is coming a day when our Lord Jesus Christ will return to Jerusalem and He will be literal, actual, and bodily present.
The name of the city at that time will be called
It was round about eighteen thousand measures: and the name of the city from that day shall be, The Lord is there.
He will be there in that city and in that temple with “The soles of His feet.”
As Son of man, He is final judge; as it is written:
For as the Father hath life in himself; so hath he given to the Son to have life in himself;
(The Self-Existent One)
Because he hath appointed a day, in the which he will judge the world in righteousness by that man whom he hath ordained; whereof he hath given assurance unto all men, in that he hath raised him from the dead.
As the Son of God:
As the Father is God, He is, and by necessity, not only Son of God, but God the Son.
The Father addresses Him as such,
But unto the Son he saith, Thy throne, O God, is for ever and ever: a sceptre of righteousness is the sceptre of thy kingdom.
THE FOUR GOSPELS LIKE THE FOUR PILLARS OF THE GATE, PROCLAIM HIS FOURFOLD SON-SHIP:
In Matthew, we behold Him as the Son of Abraham coming into the land, into HIs own land, and as the Son of David, riding into Jerusalem at the appointed time and in His four-fold manner to offer Himself as King and to claim His throne.
In Mark, we have vision of Him as Son of Man forgiving sin, and forgiving because as Son of Man He has the authority as final and eternal judge:
But that ye may know that the Son of man hath power on earth to forgive sins, (he saith to the sick of the palsy,)
In Luke as Son of Man we behold Him as man among men, receiving sinners and eating with them, talking to them in speech so that “the common people” heard Him “gladly,” illustrating His mission by such wondrous pictures as the shepherd seeking the lost sheep, the woman seeking the lost piece of money, and the father receiving his returning son.
As the Son of man He is seen executing judgment on the nations, putting an end to the “times of the Gentiles.” and delivering Jerusalem; as it is written:
And they shall fall by the edge of the sword, and shall be led away captive into all nations: and Jerusalem shall be trodden down of the Gentiles, until the times of the Gentiles be fulfilled. And there shall be signs in the sun, and in the moon, and in the stars; and upon the earth distress of nations, with perplexity; the sea and the waves roaring; Men’s hearts failing them for fear, and for looking after those things which are coming on the earth: for the powers of heaven shall be shaken. And then shall they see the Son of man coming in a cloud with power and great glory.
In John, He is set before us as the Son of God, God the Son, God the Word, and God the creator of all things:
And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth.
All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made.
In the Gospel of John we have the confession that He is to be worshipped as God. We are tough on this man but think about this, that statement was made by Thomas...
And Thomas answered and said unto him, My Lord and my God.