Tabernacle Lesson #4
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Recap:
Recap:
True or false:
True or false:
Q: The priests were required to wear shoes of Lion’s skins. It made them faster in their duties.
A: Nope! The priests did not wear shoes in the Tabernacle.
Comment: Always their feet were in the sand. This reminds us that even though we as God’s people, often deal with glorious and powerful things, we need to stay connected to the reality of here and now! (We cannot afford to be so heavenly minded, that we are no earthly good!)
Wherever you go in God, remember to keep your feet in the sand.
Q:The Tribe of Benjamin was chosen for the Priesthood because they were left handed?
A. Nope! The tribe of Levi was chosen because they stood for righteousness!
Comment: When God is looking for someone to anoint, he chooses from among those who love righteousness and hate iniquity. If this fallen, polluted world grieves your Holy Ghost, don’t feel bad, just keep on trucking! Do what’s right and get ready for anointing!
Q: What color was Aaron’s beard?
A: I don’t know and it’s not important!
Comment: If it was important, if it had some significance that involved us, the Bible would have said so! The lesson then, is this: Don’t overcomplicate the Bible! Don’t try to make the Bible say something it doesn’t! Scripture always tells us what we need to know and tells us at the detail level that God intended.
Q: True or False: The purpose of the Tabernacle is two fold: Firstly, it proves that God desired to dwell among his people, and secondly, it provides types of Christ and the church.
A: True!!
Q: True or False: God the architect, left no room for humans to input their own ideas in the Tabernacle plan.
A: True!
Q: True or false: Badger skins represent that Jesus had a bad temper.
Q: True or false: The Pins were made from Beskar steel. (Nope! Don’t get your forces mixed up! lol)
Okay: Here’s the big one and the first right answer wins you this grade A, number one $10 Starbucks giftcard!
Q: True or false: The True Tabernacle actually exists in heaven, which is why God gave Moses such specific blueprint instructions!
A: True!
Comment: (That’s right! They had to match!) By contrast, God gave Noah a few key design elements and materials specs for the ark and let him go to town! The ark did not have to match a seperate ark template up in heaven.)
I. Introduction
I. Introduction
So we have looked at the outer court. All 150 by 75 feet.
We looked at it’s placement at the center of the camp and who was responsible to move it’s various pieces.
We’ve looked at the construction of the Tabernacle itself.
Now we move to the individual items, commonly referred to as the furniture of the Tabernacle.
As we think of the seperate pieces of furniture in the Tabernacle, there are two important questions to consider:
#1 How was the gospel, as revealed in the Tabernacle, fulfilled in the person of Jesus Christ?
#2 How is the gospel fulfilled in the church?
Well, In first Cor 15:1-4 Paul declared that the gospel is the death, burial and resurrection of Christ.
Moreover, brethren, I declare unto you the gospel which I preached unto you, which also ye have received, and wherein ye stand; By which also ye are saved, if ye keep in memory what I preached unto you, unless ye have believed in vain. For I delivered unto you first of all that which I also received, how that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures; And that he was buried, and that he rose again the third day according to the scriptures:
The Gospel, is a big deal! It’s the plan of salvation!
The Gospel is powerful, but not powerful in the way that a stunning art exhibit is powerful.
One does not interact with an art exhibit. That’s more of an observe and study situation.
The gospel is somthing that you interact with!
How? You obey it!
We are commanded to obey the Gospel:
In flaming fire taking vengeance on them that know not God, and that obey not the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ:
For the time is come that judgment must begin at the house of God: and if it first begin at us, what shall the end be of them that obey not the gospel of God?
Since we are commanded to obey the Gospel, it is clear that the death, burial and resurrection must be fulfilled in us.
How?
Let us begin by considering the Brazen Altar.
The Brazen Altar.
The Brazen Altar.
Description:
Description:
The altar was the first piece of furniture inside the gate.
It was made of wood overlaid with brass.
It was seven and a half feet square and had a horn on each corner.
The priests were to keep fire constantly burning on this altar.
Without this altar, the rest of the worship in the Tabernacle would have been in vain, because the worship of the priests would not have been accepted if they had not come with blood from this altar!
God wouldn’t accept fig leaves as a sin covering.
He didn’t accept Cain’s veggie stand as a sin offering either, always there had to be blood!
Since this altar was the place where the priests offered the sacrifies for the sins of the people, the altar is a symbol of the cross of Chist.
This is where the real offering was made for the sins of the world!
Here we have Christ portrayed in His death, which is the first component of the Gospel message.
According to Lev 1:9, the the burnt offering was a sweet savor!
In the New Testament, we read:
And walk in love, as Christ also hath loved us, and hath given himself for us an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweetsmelling savour.
The next day John seeth Jesus coming unto him, and saith, Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world.
So Christ was once offered to bear the sins of many; and unto them that look for him shall he appear the second time without sin unto salvation.
We have an altar, whereof they have no right to eat which serve the tabernacle. For the bodies of those beasts, whose blood is brought into the sanctuary by the high priest for sin, are burned without the camp. Wherefore Jesus also, that he might sanctify the people with his own blood, suffered without the gate.
Just as people fashoned the altar according to the pattern that God gave, so people also crucified Jesus according to the foreordained plan of God!
It was all part of the plan!!!
The foreknowledge of God!
Him, being delivered by the determinate counsel and foreknowledge of God, ye have taken, and by wicked hands have crucified and slain:
This component of the Gospel, the death of Christ, is fullfilled in the church by our repentence!
In Acts 2:38, Peter named repentance as the first thing that we must do if we wish to find God.
The very first step is repentance!
You’ve gotta fess up!! Come clean!
The brazen altar comes first!!!
See also:
For godly sorrow worketh repentance to salvation not to be repented of: but the sorrow of the world worketh death.
But God forbid that I should glory, save in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom the world is crucified unto me, and I unto the world.
Just as Christ died, so we must also die to the things of the world and to our own desires and ambitions.
Repentence in its fullest sense, then, is not only sorrow for past transgressions but also a complete death to self!
Get over yourself already!
For he that is dead is freed from sin.
Likewise reckon ye also yourselves to be dead indeed unto sin, but alive unto God through Jesus Christ our Lord.
In the sin offering, the priests poured out the blood of the animal at the bottom of the altar.
Christ was the perfect sin offering, for HIs blood was poured out of His body.
Not one could enter the Tabernacle without passing the altar. Not happening!
Likewise, no one can approach God without trusting Christ as the sacrifice for his sins!
It is only after we claim Christ as our substitiute that the power of God can save us, for it was only after the guilty Hebrew claimed the slain lamb as his substitute that the priest could pronounce him ceremonially clean.
The true Tabernacle is now in heaven itself!
And just as one could not enter the Tabenracle without first passing the altar of sacrifice, so no one will ever enter heaven except by way of the cross!
Now I do not wear a big cross around my neck, but I’ll tell you, I am not ashamed of the cross!
I’d have a first class one way ticket to hell without that Old Rugged Cross!
I tell you, the cross is the only way!!!!
You need to know that the altar of sacrifice was open to all classes of people, the poor as well as the rich, the slave as well as his master.
Just so, the blood of Christ is sufficient for the salvation of all classes of people, from the very poorest to the most wealthy!
Those who have high positions must humble themselves and repent as well as those who are nobody’s from nowhere. (That’s me!)
The furniture outside the Tabernacle was overlaid with brass, while the furniture inside was overlaid with gold.
Brass was used in ancient times for weapons and symbolize judgement.
We see in both the altar and the laver of water, God;s judgements falling on Christ in our place!
But Gold symbolizes faith!
That the trial of your faith, being much more precious than of gold that perisheth, though it be tried with fire, might be found unto praise and honour and glory at the appearing of Jesus Christ:
This shows that each part of the gospel is fulfilled in us by faith!
That Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith; that ye, being rooted and grounded in love, May be able to comprehend with all saints what is the breadth, and length, and depth, and height; And to know the love of Christ, which passeth knowledge, that ye might be filled with all the fulness of God.
The altar’s horns symbolize power, as the horns of an animal signify its power.
The horns on the altar show that until one repents and has the blood applied to his heart through faith, he can never have power with God!
All the horns of the wicked also will I cut off;
But the horns of the righteous shall be exalted.
And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb, and by the word of their testimony; and they loved not their lives unto the death.
God substituted His blood for ours!
During the Franco Prussian war, a certain soldier knowingly disobeyed orders and was sentenced to be shot!
Military is pretty serious about stuff like that!
Being in great mental anguish, he talked with the chaplain who asked him: “Are you ready to die?”
“No,” replied the prisoner, “I am not ready, but that isn’t the worst of it, my greatest worry is is for my wife and children.”
“Just thinking of their sorrow and the years of misery they will have to go through, I cannot even think of my own soul.”
A Christian man in the regiment, well advanced in years, heard all of this and stepped forward saying “I have no wife or children and I would be glad to be with my Lord. Let me die in his place.”
The chaplain was greatly affected but, not knowing what to do, referred the man’s offer to the superior officer.
“Do you really mean it?”
“Yes,” He answered. “That poor man is not ready to die. It would mean eternal death to him.”
“I am ready to go. Let me take his place.”
They were greatly touched, but having no authority to make such a substitiution referred the matter ot the crown prince.
The prince answered, “I have no power to take the life on an innocent man, but I do have the power to pardon and for your sake, I will pardon this man, You go back and tell him.”
Christ’s blood has been given on the altar of sacrifice for us, and it pleads for the life of every sinner, We can now ask God for Christ’s sake to forgive us and He pardons us!
II. The Brazen Laver.
II. The Brazen Laver.
Description:
The laver was a basin of brass that sat upon a pedastal, called a “foot.”
It stood between the altar and the door of the Tabernacle.
The second component of the Gospel is the burial of Christ.
The laver is a type of 1, Christ’s burial and 2, our baptism, in which we are buried with Christ and cleansed from our sins.
The underlying thought is that Christ is our cleanser:
The next day John seeth Jesus coming unto him, and saith, Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world.
After HIs suffering on the cross, Jesus descended into the cold waters of death and was buried in the tomb for three days so that we might be cleansed from the record of our sins.
The priests did not dare enter the Tabernacle without first washing in the laver.
Otherwise, they would have died!
When they go into the tabernacle of the congregation, they shall wash with water, that they die not; or when they come near to the altar to minister, to burn offering made by fire unto the Lord:
This type is fulfilled in the church, for unless we are born again of the water and of the Spirit, we can not become one of it’s members.
Jesus answered, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God.
Water baptism in Jesus name has a purpose!
It is for the remission, or the washing away of our sins!
Then Peter said unto them, Repent, and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost.
And now why tarriest thou? arise, and be baptized, and wash away thy sins, calling on the name of the Lord.
Not only is baptism in Jesus name for the remission of our sins, but it symbolizes our burial with him!
Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death: that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life.
Buried with him in baptism, wherein also ye are risen with him through the faith of the operation of God, who hath raised him from the dead.
There is no virtue in the water itself, but the blood of Jesus cleanses our sins because of our faith in Christ and in our obedience to His Word!
The laver was not made of beskar steel either!
It was made with the brass mirrors brought by the women.
Let me show you how significant that truly is:
For if any be a hearer of the word, and not a doer, he is like unto a man beholding his natural face in a glass: For he beholdeth himself, and goeth his way, and straightway forgetteth what manner of man he was.
When the Spirit of God applies the Word to our hearts, we can see what we look like in the sight of God and can see His plan for our cleansing!
Not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to his mercy he saved us, by the washing of regeneration, and renewing of the Holy Ghost;
The laver was for the washing of both the hands and the feet.
It is only by a continual study of the Word that we can keep clean hands before the lord and walk in a way that pleases Him
So they shall wash their hands and their feet, that they die not: and it shall be a statute for ever to them, even to him and to his seed throughout their generations.
Who shall ascend into the hill of the Lord?
Or who shall stand in his holy place?
He that hath clean hands, and a pure heart;
Who hath not lifted up his soul unto vanity,
Nor sworn deceitfully.
NUN.
Thy word is a lamp unto my feet,
And a light unto my path.
Now ye are clean through the word which I have spoken unto you.
Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it; That he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word,