Tabernacle Overview of the Tabernacle / OT Overview: Slide #1 1. Delivered from Egypt --------------- Picture, marshal array Why did God deliver them out of Egypt God desired to gather them all together! Meet with them! He would call this gathering place, the Tabernacle or The Meeting Place! Slide #2 2. Moses goes up Mount Sinai ----------------- Picture of Mount Sinai 40 days and 40 nights Instructions on how to build the Tabernacle See to it that you make it exactly as I instruct Reality is in heaven (Relationship) Slide #3 3. God desired a Relationship with His People a. Text: Exodus 25:8 Let them make Me a sanctuary that I may dwell among them b. Text: Exodus 25:22 There I will meet with you. I will speak intimately with you
Slide #4 4. Instructions to build a Tabernacle / Meeting Place 26 chapters of minute detail on constructing the Tabernacle Text: Exodus 25:9 AMP And you shall make it according to all that I show you Text: Exodus 25: 40 AMP And see to it that you copy exactly their pattern which was shown you on the mountain Text: Hebrew 8:5 AMP. For when Moses was about to erect the tabernacle, he was warned by God, saying, See to it that you make all (exactly) according to the copy (the model) which was shown to you on the mountain. Picture of Heaven Slide #5 5. Location of Tabernacle: --------------- Picture of location Located in the center of all the people Slide #6 6. Approach to the Tabernacle: --------------- Picture of Tabernacle Cloth fence o 450 ft long o 7.5 ft high o White linen is a type of the righteousness of God Requirement if you are going to have a relationship with God Gate or opening, 30 ft. wide, narrow Matthew 7:14
Jesus said, I am the Way, the Truth and the Life Jesus said, I am the Gate Sacrifice, offering Slide #7 Text: Revelation 19:7-8 AMP Let us rejoice and shout for joy (exulting and triumphant)! Let us celebrate and ascribe to Him glory and honor, for the marriage of the Lamb (at last) has come, and His bride has prepared herself. She has been permitted to dress in fine (radiant) linen, dazzling and white for the fine linen is (signifies, represents) the righteousness (the upright, just and godly living, deeds, and conduct, and right standing with God) of the saints. Slide #8 7. The Outer Court a. Brazen or Bronze Altar The Blood is first, must come with an offering of blood Made of acacia wood overlaid with bronze Acacia wood is a type of our humanity Bronze is a type of God s righteous judgment against sin Burn continually, it must not go out (Lev. 6:12-13 Burnt offering Slide #9 Text: Exodus 29:42-44 NASU "It shall be a continual burnt offering throughout your generations at the doorway of the tent of meeting before the Lord, where I will meet with you, to speak to you there. "I will meet there with the sons of Israel, and it shall be consecrated by My glory.
Spotless lamb Lay your hands on it, symbolizing a substitution Slide #10 b. Golden Laver Made of bronze, Filled with water Aaron, sons to wash, lest they die Ex. 30:18-21 Pure, clean to meet God Slide #11 Text: Hebrews 10:22 NASU. Let us draw near with a sincere heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled clean from an evil conscience and our bodies washed with pure water. Text: Ephesians 5:26 NASU.that He might sanctify her, having cleansed her by the washing of water with the word, Slide #12 8. The Inner Court or Holy Place ----------- activity all the time! a. Lampstand Text: Exodus 25:31 NASU "Then you shall make a lampstand of pure gold. The lampstand and its base and its shaft are to be made of hammered work; Pure Gold, 1,000,000.00 Hammered Gold Jesus was bruised, beaten for our iniquity, (Isaiah 53) Oil in the lamps, beaten from olives
Only light in the Inner Court or Holy Place 21 Times Jesus is called the Light of the world in the Gospels Slide #13 b. Table of Shewbread Construction Acacia wood, symbol of humanity Overlaid with pure gold, symbol of divinity Two Rims on the top o Crowned with Glory o Crowned with Honor o Held Bread in place, 12 loaves, 12 tribes Slide #14 Text: Jude 24-25 NASU Now to Him who is able to keep you from stumbling, and to make you stand in the presence of His glory blameless with great joy, to the only God our Savior, through Jesus Christ our Lord, be glory, majesty, dominion and authority, before all time and now and forever. Amen. Slide #15 Two poles- symbolic of God saying I am going to carry you into the Promise Land Text: Ezekiel 36:27-28 KJV 27 And I will put my spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes, and ye shall keep my judgments, and do them. 28 And ye shall dwell in the land that I gave to your fathers; and ye shall be my people, and I will be your God.
Slide #16 c. Altar of Incense Construction, Acacia wood, symbol of humanity Pure Gold, overlaid, Symbol of Divinity Incense, symbolizes the ministry of the Priest o Prayer o Praise Horns, type of sacrifice, which prayer is many times Slide #17 Text: Hebrews 13:15 KJV By him therefore let us offer the sacrifice of praise to God continually, that is, the fruit of our lips giving thanks to his name. Slide #18 The Most Holy Place of All a. God s Presence Dwelt in the Most Holy Place Text: Exodus 25:22 KJV And there I will meet with thee, and I will commune with thee from above the Mercy Seat, from between the two cherubims which are upon the ark of the testimony. Slide #19 b. Curtain surrounding the Most Holy Place Perfect Cube No one could enter in Once a year- only the the high priest Sacrifice of blood, Day of Atonement
Slide #20 c. Ark of the Covenant in the Most Holy Place Construction of Acacia Wood Pure Gold overlay, inside and out Ten Commandments- symbolic of God s unbroken law, kept only by Jesus Jar of Manna- symbolizes Jesus being the Bread of life Aaron s Rod- rod budded is symbolic of Christ s resurrection Slide #21 d. Mercy Seat upon the Ark of the Covenant Text: Exodus 25:22 KJV And there I will meet with thee, and I will commune with thee from above the mercy seat, from between the two cherubims which are upon the ark of the testimony Pure Gold Two Cherubim Cherubim were looking at the Covenant Agreement Only the blood of bulls and goats would stop the wrath of God