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The Foundation of the Tabernacle consisted of one hundred sockets of silver, two under each of the forty-eight boards, and four under the pillars of the vail.
Each socket weighted a talent. (Nearly 100 lbs.)
And of the hundred talents of silver were cast the sockets of the sanctuary, and the sockets of the vail; an hundred sockets of the hundred talents, a talent for a socket.
The silver was taken from the atonement money which each man above twenty must give as a ransom for his soul.
And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying, When thou takest the sum of the children of Israel after their number, then shall they give every man a ransom for his soul unto the Lord, when thou numberest them; that there be no plague among them, when thou numberest them. This they shall give, every one that passeth among them that are numbered, half a shekel after the shekel of the sanctuary: (a shekel is twenty gerahs:) an half shekel shall be the offering of the Lord. Every one that passeth among them that are numbered, from twenty years old and above, shall give an offering unto the Lord. The rich shall not give more, and the poor shall not give less than half a shekel, when they give an offering unto the Lord, to make an atonement for your souls.
And the silver of them that were numbered of the congregation was an hundred talents, and a thousand seven hundred and threescore and fifteen shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary: A bekah for every man, that is, half a shekel, after the shekel of the sanctuary, for every one that went to be numbered, from twenty years old and upward, for six hundred thousand and three thousand and five hundred and fifty men. And of the hundred talents of silver were cast the sockets of the sanctuary, and the sockets of the vail; an hundred sockets of the hundred talents, a talent for a socket.
The silver money sockets of the Tabernacle are a symbol of the precious price paid by our Lord Jesus Christ for the ransom of those who are His.
For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God’s.
But this redemption price was not paid by either silver or gold, but with His own precious blood!
Forasmuch as ye know that ye were not redeemed with corruptible things, as silver and gold, from your vain conversation received by tradition from your fathers; But with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot:
Notice the word “precious” signifying the cost...
It was costly indeed, this “half shekel of the sanctuary” tolled out drop by drop in the anguish of His cross.
Precious also means “exalted worth”
It was nothing less than the very blood of God! (Startling but the truth!)
Take heed therefore unto yourselves, and to all the flock, over the which the Holy Ghost hath made you overseers, to feed the church of God, which he hath purchased with his own blood.
Again, since Jesus Christ was indeed the “Purchaser” this is another declared statement to the fact that He is God!
Atonement by the blood of God - Is the authoritative word of the Holy Scriptures!
It is the basis on which the Tabernacle was established.
The basis of Redemption by atonement.
The basis on which the Lord Jesus is presented to men, not as a good man, nor as just God manifest in the flesh...
He did not come into the world that He might live in sinless perfection as a man. - Although He did just that!
It was not only to demonstrate Himself as both man and God. - Although He did just that!
If it was only for those purposed mentioned above there would be little hope for you and I...
In fact, the more holiness and divinity, that is revealed the greater and more bridgeless the gulf between Him and the natural man grows.
If He was only an example to men, it would almost be a mockery of the helplessness of man...
He did not come into the world to life a life so perfect and beautiful, that the multitude would fall in love with Him. NO!
In-Fact, He did not come into the world to live at all...
His one great purpose in coming was to die.
To die that by His death, He might provide an atonement for the sinner, a ransom from the guilt, from the penalty and power of sin...
Therefore doth my Father love me, because I lay down my life, that I might take it again. No man taketh it from me, but I lay it down of myself. I have power to lay it down, and I have power to take it again. This commandment have I received of my Father.
This truth was preordained before He ever stepped foot upon this earth as a man…1
But with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot: Who verily was foreordained before the foundation of the world, but was manifest in these last times for you,
A commandment recieved in His pre-incarnate state, while He was in the “form of God.”
Who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God: But made himself of no reputation, and took upon him the form of a servant, and was made in the likeness of men: And being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself, and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross.
As He was God the Lord, coequal, and co eternal with the Father, He could not be “commanded” without His willingness. If He recieved a commandment from the Father to lay down His incarnate life, it was because He had agreed to do so, an d agreement in Godhead between Father and Son is covenant.
And it was in covenant that He was brought again from the dead.
Now the God of peace, that brought again from the dead our Lord Jesus, that great shepherd of the sheep, through the blood of the everlasting covenant,
If He was raised from the dead by and through that everlasting covenant then by that same covenant He entered into death…
Look at His own statement:
Now is my soul troubled; and what shall I say? Father, save me from this hour: but for this cause came I unto this hour.
He is asking Himself whether He shall call upon the Father to save Him from that shameful death of the cross that is already casting its deepening shadows upon Him.
He could have done this...
By His statement at Lazerus’ death.
And I knew that thou hearest me always: but because of the people which stand by I said it, that they may believe that thou hast sent me.
Not only did the Father always hear Him but He also always answered Him...
“…but for this cause...” He came to be rejected of His own people and hung upon a Roman cross, and He speaks of this death before hand.
And I, if I be lifted up from the earth, will draw all men unto me. This he said, signifying what death he should die.
But we see Jesus, who was made a little lower than the angels for the suffering of death, crowned with glory and honour; that he by the grace of God should taste death for every man.
Continually He announced He had come into the world to die.
He was persistent in telling His disciples that He would be crucified.
As the hour drew on we are told.
And it came to pass, when the time was come that he should be received up, he stedfastly set his face to go to Jerusalem,
From all eternity He was ordained to be crucified.
Paul preached this way… He refused to preach Him any other way. Not in one of his discourses does he dwell upon the perfect human life of Christ. He spoke of His deity to draw attention to the immensity of the transaction made on the cross. That it might be seen that He was there in all of His perfect humanity, and all of His spleded deity, perfecdt man for a perfect sacrifice, eternal and very God, that as God His sacrifice might satisfy the being of God that demands justification. God atoning to God on behalf of man that God in all righteousness might save unrighteous and sinful men, and in doing so making them eternally righteous.
Paul’s theme was Christ and Him crucified.
A crucified, a sacrificial, and an atoning Christ, whose shed blood, like the silver base of the Tabernacle, was the only foundation upon which any human being could stand and be accepted of a Holy and Just God.