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Welcome...

Introduce Self...

Pray...

Where are we picking up the story?

Recap

This is actually about the 6th time Moses heads up the mountain.

Significance of 40

Trials, testing, judgement

Noah = rained 40 days/nights

Moses = spend 40 years in Midian

Moses = On mount Siani 40 days/nights (testing for Moses and Israel)

Israel = Wondered 40 years

Goliath = Taunted Saul’s army 40 days

Ezekiel and Jonah

Jesus = tempted 40 days/nights

The Bible is not primarily about secret codes...

It’s primarily about the context in which it was written

Also, the context of the entire Bible story narrative.

Not specifically for our church here in 2022.

Now the appearance of the GLORY of the LORD.

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Glory = expression (demonstration) of worth

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Tabernacle means “tent” or “dwelling place”

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Chapter 25

The Ark of the Covenant

The Table for Bread

The Golden Lampstand

Cubit = about 1.5 feet

The Ark of the Covenant

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The Ark was the most holy object in the tabernacle.

It is viewed as a footstool of the heavenly throne.

Cherubs are associated with thrones.

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The Bible Knowledge Commentary (25:17–22)

Of crucial importance is that above the atonement cover between the two cherubim God would meet with His people.

There on the Day of Atonement (Lev.

16:1–20) the high priest sprinkled blood on the lid.

The blood then covered (kāp̱ar, “to cover, make atonement for”; cf.

Ex. 30:10) Israel’s sin.

The atonement cover symbolized for Israel what was later accomplished by Christ, who as the Lamb of God (John 1:29) made atonement for sin (Rom.

3:25; Heb.

9:11–14) by His shed blood (Eph.

1:7; 1 Peter 1:18–19).

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“The real significance of the Ark of the Covenant was what took place involving the lid of the box, known as the "Mercy Seat."

The term ‘mercy seat’ comes from a Hebrew word meaning “to cover, placate, appease, cleanse, cancel or make atonement for.”

It was here that the high priest, only once a year (Leviticus 16), entered the Holy of Holies where the Ark was kept and atoned for his sins and the sins of the Israelites.

The priest sprinkled blood of a sacrificed animal onto the Mercy Seat to appease the wrath and anger of God for past sins committed.

This was the only place in the world where this atonement could take place.”

The Table for Bread

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This table represented fellowship with God.

The Golden Lampstand

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Would have been about 75 pounds of gold.

This really doesn’t mean anything, but a pound of gold today costs about $22,300.

75 pounds would be about $1.7 million

As the lampstand provided light for the priestly functions before God, so Christ today is the Light of the world (John 8:12), who reveals the way to God (John 14:6, 9).

3 items described first because of greater importance.

All gold.

All showing God’s holiness and glory

All showing a glimpse, a picture, of what heaven will be like.

What a sacred experience in the presence of God will be like.

The Tabernacle

The details for the Tabernacle go on for about 30 more verses...

The Tabernacle protected Israel from going into the holy presence of God and being destroyed.

The Tabernacle is a temporary solution for God to dwell among his people.

Temporary and also a picture of something greater.

The Reformation Study Bible: English Standard Version (2015 Edition) (Chapter 26)

God reveals the pattern for the tabernacle proper.

The tabernacle, God’s holy dwelling in the midst of His sinful people, serves a double function.

On the one hand, it protects the people from the dangers of unauthorized intrusion into God’s holy presence—the curtains of the Most Holy Place, of the Holy Place, and even of the courtyard stand between the people and the threat of God’s consuming holy presence.

On the other hand, the tabernacle provides a way of approach to the Lord.

Worshipers enter the outer court to pray and offer sacrifices; the priests carry the people’s petitions into the holy place; and once a year on the Day of Atonement, the high priest enters the Most Holy Place, the very throne-room of the Almighty, with a blood atonement to meet the Lord at the mercy seat.

The Bronze Alter

Bronze was “less holy”

Concentric circles coming into the presence of God

The tabernacle represents God’s dwelling among his people.

The word here is “tabernacled” among us.

Jesus dwelt with the people

Now God dwells with his people through the Holy Spirit

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“And once a year, the high priest would enter the Holy of Holies as part of the ceremony of the Day of Atonement (Leviticus 16).

At no other time was anyone to enter the Holy of Holies, as the presence of God dwelt with the Ark of the Covenant.

When Jesus was crucified, the veil between the Holy Place and the Holy of Holies in the temple ripped from top to bottom (Matthew 27:51).

Just as He fulfilled for all time the sacrificial requirements, He ushered us into the presence of God.”

Jesus death grant’s us, his people, direct access to the holiest place.

Now God dwells in us.

Attitude towards sin...