0:02 so in our continuing series in Jesus in
0:04 the Old Testament we were approached the
0:07 topic of Jesus and the tabernacle so
0:08 we're gonna do tonight is talk about how
0:17 when I say tabernacle I'm not talking
0:18 about the Temple in Jerusalem I'm
0:21 talking about the tenth tabernacle that
0:23 was a portable temporary unit that would
0:25 they would construct and then tear down
0:27 and remove and this is like given to
0:29 them in the law of Moses and they
0:30 carried and continued to have it until
0:32 the time of Solomon they continue to
0:35 have this tabernacle setup more often
0:38 than not so this is in Exodus 25 through
0:40 40 you're welcome to read those 16
0:42 chapters really quick right now in
0:44 preparation but I'll give you the
0:47 overview and how it parallels Christ at
0:48 least in my opinion
0:49 I admit some of this stuff is
0:51 conjectured some of this stuff is me
0:53 going I think maybe this I think maybe
0:55 that but we're allowing conjecture and
0:58 our Jesus in the Old Testament search as
1:00 long as we start with New Testament
1:01 theological truths and then we
1:03 conjecture how those are pictured in the
1:04 Old Testament we're not making up new
1:06 stuff we're not here creating new
1:08 theology and we'll talk about that next
1:10 week when we get into bad examples of
1:12 typology and how not to do typology but
1:14 one of the things we get that's
1:15 important to note is that the tabernacle
1:19 was designed by God not man that is it
1:21 wasn't okay the temple Solomon's Temple
1:23 it was patterned after the tabernacle
1:25 but Solomon changed a lot of stuff like
1:26 if there was one of them in the
1:28 tabernacle Solomon made like seven of them
1:28 them
1:30 he's like lampstand good idea let's make
1:32 seven of those you know like he he like
1:35 elevated everything next level but the
1:37 tabernacle was all very specific just to
1:39 God's instructions it was designed by
1:43 God not man so X is 25 nine God says to
1:45 Moses exactly as I show you concerning
1:48 the pattern of the tabernacle and of all
1:51 its furniture so you shall make it it
1:52 really mattered to God that they made it
1:54 just in a specific way and that's why in
1:56 Exodus you got sixteen chapters and it
1:57 kind of goes like this
1:59 make it like this make it like this all
2:01 the instructions and then it's like and
2:03 so-and-so made it like that and
2:04 so-and-so made it like this and it's
2:06 really careful to make us know we
2:09 followed God's given pattern in making
2:10 this tabernacle a great deal of
2:13 scriptures is actually devoted to the
2:15 topic so because of this we have a
2:16 really good idea of what it looked like
2:18 because we just look at the description
2:22 in the text so this is an approximation
2:23 of what it looked like it was about 150
2:26 feet by 75 feet that's the entire area
2:28 the footprint of the whole thing
2:30 including the outer area as well as the
2:33 inner area it had some furniture stuff
2:35 on the outside the bronze the bronze
2:37 offering altar and then of course the
2:39 the bronze Laver or the washing the wash
2:41 basin they had there and then of course
2:45 you had the the enclosure notice it was
2:47 all portable it's all made out of tents
2:50 and skins and like cloth and stuff that
2:52 they could actually pick up pack up and
2:53 move with them as they're wandering
2:55 through the wilderness as they're
2:57 looking for their homeland so it's a
3:00 temporary structure now Solomon of
3:01 course is the one who took this and made
3:03 it into the temple but that was again
3:04 like you know five hundred years after
3:07 Moses when Solomon did that so here's
3:09 here's some aerial footage from the from
3:13 an ancient drone and but it gives you
3:15 the ideas like they would perform these
3:17 sacrifices offerings and sacrifices they
3:18 had to happen at this tabernacle that
3:20 was the one location in Israel where it
3:21 was approved to do these sort of
3:23 offerings and sacrifices you couldn't
3:24 just do it wherever you want they
3:25 rebuked all the time because they had
3:27 sacrifices Oh in the high places here
3:29 and there throughout the Old Testament
3:30 but it was supposed to happen here one
3:32 location for these things to take place
3:34 only the priests are supposed to be in
3:36 there doing that stuff right only the
3:38 ironic priests are supposed to go inside
3:43 the actual temple or tabernacle proper
3:46 so this is you know they offer the
3:47 animals they do the washing the
3:48 cleansing and they have different
3:49 rituals and things that they do there
3:51 even the feast days and things like
3:53 Passover the day of atonement special
3:55 things would happen right there in the
3:56 tabernacle which would sit interestingly
3:58 enough while they're traveling through
3:59 the wilderness it would sit in the
4:01 middle of all the tribes the tribes
4:02 literally encamped around the tabernacle
4:04 so there was at the center of the people
4:06 of Israel so all I'm saying is it was a
4:07 big deal
4:10 inside the tabernacle inside the actual
4:12 tabernacle we have two two separate
4:14 sections what we have is the the holy
4:17 place which is that that large section
4:18 you're looking at then we have the Holy
4:20 of Holies the Holy of Holies was about
4:23 15 feet by 15 feet and it was separated
4:26 from the holy place by this thick veil
4:28 that ran between the two inside the holy
4:30 of Holy's there's only one real piece of
4:31 furniture thing there and that is of
4:33 course the Ark of the Covenant out side
4:36 we have three pieces of furniture we'll
4:38 look at each of those I hate to use the
4:39 word furniture I'm not sure what other
4:41 term to use to describe them but we'll
4:45 look at those individually so let's
4:48 continue why is God so concerned about
4:51 what it looks like now if you don't know
4:53 about Jesus you might just be like he's
4:55 God don't worry about it like do what he
4:58 says and I agree do what he says but now
4:59 that we can look and know that in the
5:01 volume of the book it speaks of him that
5:03 you know all through the Scriptures they
5:05 speak of Christ according to Jesus now I
5:07 can say I think the reason one of the
5:08 reasons why is because it's an amazing
5:11 picture of Christ not only the things
5:12 that happen there but even in the way
5:16 it's built so is that me completely is
5:18 that complete conjecture I don't think
5:19 so I think I can actually tie this to
5:21 New Testament truths as pretty much
5:23 every type we've looked at I've been
5:25 able to say the New Testament gives us
5:27 good reason to look for this typology
5:29 I haven't kind of just gone on my own
5:31 yet I just said it's in the New
5:34 Testament so it is I think with Jesus
5:36 and the tabernacle so in John chapter 2
5:38 you guys know this passage where he's
5:40 overturning the money changers tables
5:42 and he's pretty upset about what's going
5:43 on inside of the temple which became the
5:45 permanent replacement for the tabernacle
5:47 and he's upset there right but then they
5:49 asked him what authority do you have to
5:51 do this overturning the money changers
5:53 tables you know causing this ruckus what
5:55 who gives you authority to tell us what
5:58 happens in the temple and Jesus answers
6:00 them in John 2:19 destroy this temple
6:02 and in three days I will raise it up
6:05 then the Jews then said it has taken us
6:07 46 years to build this temple and will
6:08 you raise it up in three days
6:10 but he was speaking about the temple of
6:13 his body now I'm not gonna hang
6:14 everything on this but here's just a
6:16 passage where Jesus deliberately
6:19 confuses the difference between the
6:22 temple and his body and he refers to his
6:24 body as this temple when he's standing
6:26 at the temple and they're asking him
6:28 about the temple and he refers to his
6:30 body as the temple so that's just really
6:32 interesting now couple this with a
6:34 passage earlier in john john 1:14
6:37 in john 1:14 it says of jesus and the
6:41 word became flesh and dwelt among
6:43 and we have seen his glory glory as of
6:45 the only son from the father full of
6:46 grace and truth now we know this passage
6:48 he might be like okay how does this have
6:50 to do with the tabernacle well that
6:52 we're dwelt there it is in the Greek sky
6:54 now esquina oh excuse me
6:56 sky na o is a Greek word that actually
7:00 can be translated to live or camp in a
7:03 tent in the New Testament this word is
7:05 only used by John like they don't even
7:08 use this term for the most part
7:09 throughout the the rest of the New
7:12 Testament it's just not there John uses
7:14 it and he uses it here in one case it
7:16 could literally mean to pitch a tent and
7:18 dwell that's from the theological
7:20 dictionary of the New Testament so it's
7:22 saying and some translations actually
7:24 put it this way the word became flesh
7:26 and tabernacled amongst us because it
7:29 means to dwell in a tent amongst us so
7:30 that's just an interesting terminology
7:33 there later John uses the same term in
7:34 revelation 21:3
7:36 wryly I'll just read it to you I don't
7:38 have a slide for it but it says and I
7:40 heard a loud voice from the throne here
7:41 at the consummation of all things it
7:45 says behold the dwelling place of God is
7:47 with man with man he will dwell with
7:49 them Tabernacle with them he will dwell
7:50 with them and they will be his people
7:53 and God Himself will be with them as
7:55 their God so here's another use of the
7:57 term so he takes a term that seems to be
8:00 similar to the term Tabernacle it means
8:02 to dwell in a tent he refers it to Jesus
8:04 tabernacling amongst us and then the
8:06 final consummation it's okay now it's
8:07 fully achieved God is with us
8:10 God is with us so very interesting
8:12 interesting stuff but there's another
8:14 connection and that's in John 1:14 when
8:15 it says he dwelt or tabernacled amongst
8:18 us and we saw his glory we've seen his
8:20 glory well that's interesting because it
8:23 reminds me of exodus 40 in that same
8:25 remember the the passage of exodus we're
8:27 talking about right here's Exodus 40
8:29 here is the end after the Tabernacles
8:31 built and after it's all built after
8:33 it's finally been tabernacled amongst
8:38 them it says in Exodus 40 33 and 34 so
8:40 moses finished the work then the cloud
8:42 covered the tent of meeting and the
8:44 glory of the Lord filled the tabernacle
8:47 so once the tabernacle was built they
8:49 saw in some sense the glory of God and
8:52 so Jesus he came in he tabernacled and
8:54 we saw his glory so we see there's these can
8:54 can
8:56 sections these sort of literary
8:57 connections between Jesus and the
8:59 tabernacle I think it's really
9:01 interesting also Hebrews we won't get
9:02 into this for the sake of time but
9:05 Hebrews talks about how the sacrifices
9:07 yet that took place in the temple were
9:09 ultimately all about Christ and all
9:11 pointing to Christ and it talks about
9:13 how the high priest and his function as
9:14 high priest was all about Christ and
9:17 pointed to Christ and so Hebrews talks
9:19 about the functions of the temple we we
9:21 know that the the feasts that took place
9:23 at the tabernacle or temple they also
9:24 pointed to Christ and here we have some
9:26 connections in John as well that's
9:29 pretty interesting to me so let's talk
9:32 about the tabernacle the purpose of the
9:35 tabernacle what was the point what was
9:36 the big idea behind the tabernacle well
9:39 it had one overarching purpose and it
9:41 wasn't primarily just to do sacrifices
9:43 rather the sacrifices were done to
9:45 achieve the purpose and the purpose is
9:48 access 25/8 as he's telling them about
9:49 the tabernacle beginning the
9:51 instructions he says let them make me a
9:54 sanctuary that I may dwell in their midst
9:54 midst
9:57 the reason for the tabernacle in the
9:58 middle of Israel was so God could be
10:01 with his people I want to be with them
10:02 now he couldn't just dwell with them
10:06 without any sort of separations because
10:08 he would destroy them so he was like
10:10 let's deal with the sin problem I can't
10:12 dwell with you but it will require this
10:14 tabernacle and these constant sacrifices
10:17 because of your sin issues but then
10:19 he'll do well with them in Exodus 29 45
10:21 it says I will dwell among the people of
10:23 Israel and will be their God again this
10:26 is the same Exodus passage the section
10:27 we're dealing with how to build the
10:29 tabernacle so he's describing the
10:30 tabernacle when he says I'll dwell with
10:34 them now in Matthew 1:23 how relates to
10:35 Jesus right behold the Virgin shall be
10:37 with child and shall bear a son and they
10:39 shall call his name Emmanuel which is
10:42 translated God with us why did Jesus
10:45 come so God could be with us what wasn't
10:46 it really all about the sacrifice Jesus
10:47 but the sacrifice was all about God
10:50 being with us the goal was to restore
10:53 the relationship of man with God and the
10:54 tabernacle was to allow God to have a
10:56 relationship with his people although it
10:58 was limited and it was lesser because
11:00 the fulfillment is better than the type
11:02 right the the the thing is better than
11:05 the shadow of the thing you may
11:07 recognize this image from Raiders of the
11:08 Lost Ark
11:09 we're gonna talk about the furniture now
11:11 right inside the holy of Holy's there
11:13 was what's called the Ark of the
11:15 Covenant and this Ark is basically it's
11:17 and we're to talk about the lower part
11:18 there was in two pieces there was the
11:20 container portion down below and there
11:22 was the solid gold lid we'll talk about
11:25 later called the mercy seat but the but
11:27 it had these rings gold rings where you
11:28 could actually put poles so they could
11:29 carry it because member had to be
11:32 portable no it probably didn't look at
11:34 quite exactly like this but it's you
11:36 know here's an interesting image that
11:38 might help give you an idea so the ark
11:39 was about two feet high
11:41 the container part not the lid was about
11:43 two feet high and about three feet wide
11:46 and two feet deep so it was two by three
11:47 by two is that I don't know how you're
11:49 supposed to say that and it was made out
11:51 of acacia wood and it was covered in
11:54 solid covered in gold not solid gold I
11:57 guess gold what do you call that inlay
12:00 that's fancy inlay I'll go with that
12:03 acacia wood if you do some research on
12:05 acacia when you find out that it's a
12:06 particular tree that grows in the Negev
12:08 desert which is where they were
12:09 traveling and wandering for their forty
12:10 years in the wilderness
12:13 interestingly enough the the desert
12:14 doesn't have very many thorny trees and
12:15 according to at least according to my
12:18 sources it was the the only thorny tree
12:21 out there was the acacia here's its
12:22 branches here's some examples of the
12:26 thorns most likely most likely this is
12:28 what they used for the crown of thorns
12:29 of Jesus because it's local to the area
12:33 and it would make an appropriate you
12:36 know crown of thorns thorns we know are
12:39 a sign of the curse right the the curse
12:42 of that falls upon Adam and Eve is the
12:45 thorns on the ashes to ashes dust at us
12:46 right to dust you will go and also
12:49 thorns the ground will bear thorns so in
12:51 a sense Jesus has a crown he's wearing
12:53 this thing that is to represent the
12:57 curse how interesting and the Ark is
12:59 made out of that same material in fact
13:00 all the wood for the tabernacle was made
13:02 out of this same material very
13:04 interesting so there's a connection
13:07 there I think it was overlaid in gold so
13:09 it would just look magnificent and in
13:11 fact all the inside was just covered in
13:12 gold you just see gold everywhere if you
13:15 were inside and so I used to say at this
13:17 point I I was look at my old notes I've
13:19 taught this a long time ago and I used
13:20 to say at this point that I'm gold
13:22 represents divinity
13:23 as I was looking at my notes there one
13:24 of those things I do every once in a
13:27 while and I go how do I know that and I
13:28 thought to myself how do I know gold
13:30 represents divinity so I I actually
13:32 started looking and looking for gold in
13:33 scripture where it appears in Scripture
13:35 I tried to and I can't justify that
13:37 claim I don't know why I ever said that
13:38 like it's why those things you hear a
13:39 teacher say it and you figures true and
13:41 you don't realize that you're just kind
13:44 of repeating something one of my goals
13:45 is to stop repeating things that aren't
13:48 the case so I'll just throw it out there
13:50 I don't know that gold represents
13:52 divinity I think it is clear though that
13:54 gold does represent wealth Gold
13:55 definitely represents wealth that seems
13:57 pretty clear in Scripture and in heaven
13:59 the streets are paved with gold to
14:01 represent the immeasurable wealth that
14:03 there is in heaven and so here you go
14:05 inside and it's all covered in gold to
14:08 represent I think heaven the wealth of
14:10 God in heaven you're entering into kind
14:11 of like this the throne room of God is
14:15 the idea so three things were inside
14:17 again I said this is a container there's
14:19 three things in the container inside of
14:22 it one of them is the two tablets of
14:24 stone carrying the ten commandments that
14:27 Moses wrote down after he broke the
14:30 other one's the Ten Commandments now how
14:31 does that represent Jesus well Jesus
14:33 shows up Matthew 5:17 he says do not
14:35 think that I've come to abolish the law
14:37 or the prophets I've not come to abolish
14:41 them but to fulfill them Christ fulfills
14:43 the things that are written here he
14:44 actually does it now they all failed
14:47 but Christ fulfills it they stand there
14:49 forever in the middle of Israel as this
14:50 constant testimony of what the people
14:52 aren't doing you're failing you're sinning
14:53 sinning
14:55 Jesus comes and he actually accomplishes
14:57 it he actually does it so the Ten
14:58 Commandments represent gods righteous
15:00 standards they're kind of picturesque of
15:02 all of God's moral truths you know it's
15:03 kind of like seeing in that
15:04 representative representative place
15:07 Jesus fulfills it he walks the perfect
15:10 life he lived sinlessly he obeys the law
15:12 the second thing that was inside the Ark
15:16 is some of the manna from heaven some of
15:17 the man that the people would gather as
15:18 they traveled through the wilderness
15:20 they grab they took some they put it in
15:21 a gold jar and they place that jar
15:24 inside of the actual tabernacle itself
15:26 now we've already seen how this relates
15:28 to Christ the manna we've already seen
15:29 at least some of it I haven't got into
15:31 great detail we can actually study the
15:32 passage about the man I just Collie
15:34 analyze how it's described and how that
15:35 relates to Jesus but
15:37 let me give you Jesus's words on the
15:41 subject John 632 Jesus then said to them
15:44 truly truly I say to you it was not
15:45 Moses who gave you the bread from heaven
15:47 but my father gives you the true bread
15:50 from heaven for the bread of God is he
15:52 who comes down from heaven and gives
15:53 life to the world
15:56 this is completely typological language
15:57 right Jesus is saying oh yeah you had
15:59 the man up but the fulfillment the real
16:01 bread from heaven was me all along
16:04 and so he gives us this type this is a
16:06 type from the mouth of Jesus in John 6
16:09 49 he says your your father's ate the
16:11 manna in the wilderness and they died
16:14 this is the bread that comes down from
16:16 heaven so that one may eat of it and not
16:19 die I am The Living bread that came down
16:21 from heaven if anyone eats of this bread
16:23 he will live forever and the bread that
16:24 I will give for the life of the world is
16:27 my flesh so here the 10 commandments
16:30 picturing Christ's moral perfection we
16:32 have the manna from heaven presenting by
16:34 picturing him offering of himself for
16:37 our life him giving us life so he deals
16:39 with the thing that gives us a death
16:40 penalty and he gives us life
16:44 the third things really need do anybody
16:45 remember the third thing that's in there
16:48 right here's a photo of it Aaron's rod
16:51 that budded I couldn't find a good
16:53 picture of this but Aaron's rod that
16:56 budded now the event where this happens
16:58 to explain what what this rod is all
16:59 about the rod is the rod Aaron carries
17:01 around with him right it also tends to
17:02 represent your authority and your
17:05 commands and your your power and stuff
17:06 your rod it's symbolic of those things
17:10 well in numbers chapter 17 the leaders
17:12 of Israel gather against Moses and Aaron
17:14 and they're like hey we can do what you
17:17 do you're not so special so they're kind
17:18 of rebelling against him they want the
17:21 authority that Moses and Aaron have in
17:23 number 17 five gods like I'll straighten
17:25 this out for you and he tells each of
17:29 the leaders to take their rods the 12
17:31 rods and then the rods of the rod of
17:33 Aaron so 12 12 rods and Aaron's rod and
17:35 put them all before the Lord and then he
17:37 says in verse 5 and the staff of the man
17:41 whom I choose shall sprout these are
17:43 wood rights Deadwood but the deadwood
17:46 will sprout living produce on that
17:49 Deadwood to show you something I'm
17:51 choosing that guy that's interesting
17:54 number 17 verse 7 it says Moses
17:56 deposited the staffs before the Lord in
17:58 the tent of the testimony what was the
18:00 tenth of the testimony that's the
18:03 tabernacle but what if they hadn't build
18:05 it yet well that's here's the thing
18:07 Moses would go and meet with God he
18:09 would meet with God in a tent and God
18:10 would speak to him there or talk to him
18:12 face to face so to speak and he would
18:14 get instructions from God
18:16 that's the tent that became the
18:18 tabernacle it was moved into the middle
18:20 of Israel it was it was sort of expanded
18:21 but was built based upon that
18:23 so Moses deposit the staffs before the
18:24 Lord and the tent of the testimony on
18:27 the next day Moses went into the tent of
18:29 the testimony and behold the staff of
18:32 Aaron for the house of Levi had sprouted
18:35 and put forth buds and produced blossoms
18:39 and it bore ripe almonds so it's the rod
18:43 that budded the rod that budded I think
18:46 that this is I mean here we have a
18:48 living tree that was killed that was
18:51 placed here in in you know before the
18:53 test before the tenth of the testimony
18:55 and then it buds life out of death this
18:57 is what it represents life out of death
19:00 showing you who God chooses consider
19:03 that consider that chapter 18 of numbers
19:06 tells us why he was chosen in numbers 18
19:08 if you just keep reading I love this is
19:09 why I love typology just keep reading
19:11 what's next well I see next in the text
19:13 well here it is numbers 18 so the Lord
19:15 said to Aaron you and your sons and your
19:17 father's house with you shall bear
19:20 iniquity connected with the sanctuary
19:22 and you and your sons with with you
19:24 shall bear iniquity connected with your
19:26 priesthood now they had an inferior
19:28 priesthood but gods like I'll show you
19:29 who I pick and once he picks Aaron he's
19:31 like Aaron's the guy he's my choice
19:35 choice for what to bear iniquity if you
19:37 don't see the typological connection to
19:39 Jesus you're not paying attention like
19:42 this is Jesus he he dies and he rises
19:44 again to demonstrate that God has chosen
19:46 Jesus as the one who successfully bore
19:49 our iniquity acts 17:31 because he is
19:52 fixed a day on which he will judge the
19:54 world in righteousness by a man whom he
19:58 has appointed or chosen and of this he
19:59 has given assurance to all by raising
20:00 him from the dead
20:02 acts is like saying the same thing about Jesus
20:03 Jesus
20:05 that numbers 18 says about Aaron I'm
20:07 gonna prove to you who I chose because
20:08 I'm gonna bring life out of death over
20:10 here and I'm gonna prove to you have
20:11 chosen Jesus because I've raised him
20:16 super cool stuff I love this this
20:19 typology stuff so wonderful and perhaps
20:20 we'll do more on the high priest
20:22 sometime because you could do a whole
20:24 thing on just him and there's a lot more
20:27 content that's there but here's the idea
20:28 you know you've got you've got the Ark
20:30 of the Covenant inside of it you have
20:32 the commandments representing God's
20:34 holiness that Jesus actually fulfilled
20:37 the the man are representing him giving
20:39 his life or offering him himself to
20:40 death and you have Aaron's rod that
20:42 budded to represent his resurrection and
20:45 life and God's affirmation that Jesus
20:47 really is the one he is the one who bore
20:50 the iniquity for us then you have the
20:52 top the top of the of the Ark of the
20:53 Covenant is the mercy seat and it's not
20:55 wood overlaid with gold is just solid
20:57 gold it's solid gold and it was made in
20:59 a particular way how these two cherubim
21:01 the two cherubim right cherub is
21:04 singular cherubim is plural so you could
21:07 say cherub bim's but that's like adding
21:09 an extra the I am and the in the Hebrew
21:11 is isn't is like an S in English so
21:13 cherubim so there's these two angelic
21:15 type beings we don't know exactly what
21:16 they look like right but they did have
21:18 their wings stretched out forward in
21:21 some sense covering that area but that
21:22 area in the middle of the mercy seat
21:25 that was just a totally empty this is
21:27 where a pagan would have put an idol of
21:30 their God right there on that mercy seat
21:30 right there here's where the idol goes
21:32 like this is the holiest spot in the
21:34 holiest spot on the solid gold like
21:35 mercy seat like that's where the idol
21:37 would go God says don't put anything
21:39 there don't make an image to represent
21:41 me he's not of this creation you there
21:43 is nothing you can make that won't just
21:45 be an offense unto Him to represent him
21:47 in that sense and so there's just an
21:49 open space to represent God's presence
21:51 that's the idea it's an empty space
21:53 Jesus of course the center of it all he
21:55 comes and he says if you've seen me
21:59 you've seen the father and they
22:01 interesting I mean he is God with us
22:02 he's God's presence right there with us
22:05 the mercy seat you wonder why is it
22:07 called mercy seat well its main function
22:11 it seems is that the high priest would
22:12 come into there once a year he would
22:14 come into the Holy of Holies and he
22:15 would offer one
22:16 thing and he would sprinkle it on the
22:17 mercy seat it's the only thing that
22:19 would touch the mercy seat and it was
22:23 blood during the day of atonement he'd
22:25 offer the blood he put the blood on the
22:27 mercy seat and so in a sense it's like
22:30 here's here's the connection God and you
22:33 will connect through the sacrifice you
22:34 know and that's what's gonna happen
22:36 Jesus comes and he there's a meeting
22:37 through a sacrifice a connection between
22:39 humans and God through a sacrifice for a
22:42 home work on this on the mercy seat and
22:44 all that I don't have time for today but
22:45 Hebrews 9
22:48 I recommend verse 6 6 through 14 he was
22:50 9 6 to 14 or if you're watching video
22:53 you just pause it and and and hey you're
22:56 back welcome back okay so that's on the
22:59 mercy seat but let's continue okay so
23:01 now that's that's the holiest place
23:02 right then we'll talk that's the Holy of
23:03 Holies we'll talk now about the holy
23:06 place or the place that is the the
23:09 larger portion of the tabernacle area
23:10 and there's three different pieces of
23:12 furniture in there and one of them this
23:14 unfortunately shoddy pictures I've got
23:17 here is is supposed to be the the table
23:19 of the showbread this is in the holy
23:23 place it's wood overlaid with gold same
23:25 as the other structure it's about 36
23:28 inches long 18 inches wide and about 27
23:29 inches high approximately they measured
23:30 things about cubits so they were like a
23:32 cubit and a half you know that but it's
23:34 about that size it's not super big and
23:36 it has 12 loaves placed on it these
23:38 twelve loaves seem to represent the
23:40 tribes of Israel the 12 tribes of Israel
23:43 there was also wine with it now when you
23:45 read an exodus it's you you hear about
23:47 vessels for pouring and then as you
23:48 connect out with passages and numbers
23:50 you realize okay this had there was wine
23:52 as well and which is really interesting
23:54 because it means there's bread and wine
23:56 there one of the only things that's
23:58 there before before God and the
23:59 tabernacle bread and wine what does that
24:01 make you think of when's the last time
24:02 we saw bread and wine in the scripture
24:05 right Melchizedek and he offers him
24:06 bread and wine and then we see Jesus and
24:08 he offers us the bread and the cup as
24:10 representative of his sacrifice or an
24:13 ark in our church's case of bread and
24:16 grape juice which is entirely fine I'm
24:16 cool with that
24:18 I prefer that actually every little
24:20 probably at this point I probably be
24:22 freaked out if I destroyed what was that
24:26 but yeah but it was but it was wine yes
24:29 now was also offered with frankincense
24:31 so frankincense was mixed in there and
24:34 one of the things that was offered to
24:35 Jesus upon his birth was frankincense
24:37 interestingly just an interesting thing
24:39 to know about so it's the table of the
24:40 showbread I think the connecting the
24:41 closest connection to Jesus here is
24:43 communion and the question I have with
24:45 the Loews is like are they supposed to
24:47 represent Israel are they supposed to be
24:48 an offering from Israel to God or that
24:51 God will offer this to Israel or and I
24:52 don't know the answers to those
24:55 questions I wonder I still ponder one
24:57 day maybe I'll one of you will tell me I
25:00 don't know okay the next piece of
25:03 furniture is the lamp stand the lamp
25:04 stand which I'm showing you this for a
25:06 reason this is the Ark of Titus the arch
25:10 of Titus and it was built about 82 AD
25:12 about 12 years after the destruction of
25:14 Jerusalem when they destroyed Jerusalem
25:16 it was Titus who was the general in
25:19 charge and they plundered the temple or
25:21 so we think well about 12 years later
25:23 when Titus died his brother had this
25:26 built to commemorate him and so he of
25:27 course commemorate him partially by
25:30 showing his his plundering of Jerusalem
25:31 like it's them it's like hell look at
25:33 look how strong we are as Romans and one
25:35 of the things you see in the picture
25:37 there is an implements from inside of
25:39 the temple and that looks like a
25:42 lampstand doesn't it so this may be the
25:44 oldest living image of what the
25:47 lampstand actually looked like inside of
25:48 the temple now is that the same
25:50 lampstand there's a look identical the
25:52 one that we had from Moses this time I
25:54 don't know I don't know all the details
25:56 there maybe perhaps it is is that even
25:59 accurate or the artists just do artsy
26:01 things like they deal with Jesus all the
26:03 time right I don't know I don't know but
26:06 but here's a modern-day reproduction in
26:08 Israel because they're preparing to
26:10 build the temple there's actually a
26:11 place called the temple Institute you
26:13 can look them up online and they're
26:14 actually have built the implements for
26:16 the temple they've gathered high priests
26:18 garments they've done a lot of work to
26:20 try to like prepare for the temple to be
26:21 built and they're hoping it'll happen
26:23 soon so this gold lamp stand may have
26:26 looked something like this solid gold it
26:31 was made of solid gold I think that that
26:32 it probably would have looked really
26:34 pretty it was key was supposed to look
26:36 organic like not just like a lamp stand
26:38 but it was meant to look like like it
26:40 wasn't have elements of nature embed
26:42 into the actual lampstand itself and so
26:46 almond blossoms and leaves and stuff
26:47 like that were actually supposed to be
26:49 designed into it as part of the
26:50 lampstand this is different than a
26:52 menorah you may have seen menorahs
26:54 before a menorah is different in that it
26:57 has more candles and the one in the
26:58 middle is the highest with a menorah and
27:00 that's because they're representing a
27:01 certain number of days as they're
27:06 commemorating the Hanukkah and the the
27:09 cleansing of the temple after Antiochus
27:11 Epiphanes and this is probably too much
27:13 information for you guys but basically
27:14 it's a different event a different thing
27:16 but they do pattern it to make it look a
27:18 lot like this lamp stand which is
27:19 appropriate because it's about the
27:21 cleansing of the temple but anyhow this
27:22 is the lamp stand versus the menorah two
27:25 different kind of things seven lamps
27:27 there's a actually seven lamps
27:29 altogether and we look at seven is kind
27:30 of like a number that tends to represent
27:32 God it seems in the scripture if nothing
27:33 else it's at least a number of
27:37 completion and fullness and an almond
27:39 blossoms again almond blossoms that's
27:40 the second time almonds have come up
27:42 isn't it Aaron's rod that budded abutted
27:46 almonds so I'm like why almonds is I'm
27:48 preparing for tonight you know I'm like
27:49 why almonds I've never looked into that
27:50 I'm just curious what's unique about
27:53 almonds well almond the almond tree is
27:55 the tree that blooms before any of the
27:57 other trees do it actually starts
27:59 putting out as blossoms in the middle of
28:01 winter in January before any of the
28:04 other trees do and so in god god's
28:06 conversation with zechariah there's a
28:07 time where he goes what do you see and
28:10 he goes I see an awl an almond tree and
28:13 it's it's budding and so gods like
28:15 saying though it's the dead of winter
28:18 I'm gonna bring forth life is the idea
28:19 you know it's the one you know you see
28:20 all these dead trees and then there's
28:23 the almond tree it's got life it's like
28:24 the first one to bring life of during
28:27 the year really interesting the almond
28:29 tree is actually in the Hebrew it comes
28:31 from a word that means to watch or to
28:34 wake just the word itself because it
28:36 would blossom early so I think that's
28:37 just that's interesting that's
28:39 interesting I do see a connection to
28:41 that possibly to Jesus there and then
28:43 the lampstand itself not only were to
28:45 produce light in the sanctuary but it
28:47 was the only light in the tabernacle
28:50 there was no light interestingly enough
28:52 there is ZERO light behind the curtain
28:53 behind the veil there's nothing produced
28:55 like there except perhaps the glory of
28:58 God there's nothing but here in the in
28:59 the Tabernacle area where they would
29:01 come more frequently you have the lamp
29:02 stand and they were to never let it go
29:05 out it could never go out it always had
29:07 to have oil from olives constantly
29:11 producing light and in Jesus he says
29:14 John 8:12 I am the light of the world
29:16 whoever follows me will not walk in
29:18 darkness but will have the light of Life
29:20 you know within the in the context of
29:22 the tabernacle that was the light of the
29:24 tabernacle right Jesus comes he says on
29:25 the light of the world and it's maybe
29:28 perhaps in a greater sense he didn't
29:32 calls us to be the light as well the the
29:34 gold itself was of hammered work and
29:35 that's specifically what the text says
29:37 it says it had to be of hammered work
29:39 the hint that the lampstand the other
29:41 items in the tabernacle are not called
29:42 hammered this is called hammered work
29:44 you have to beat it you have to beat it
29:46 into shape that's the idea
29:48 it was hammered or beaten work I think
29:51 isaiah 53:5 seems indicate Jesus was
29:54 beaten he was he wasn't he was crushed
29:57 he was bruised he was pounded for us he
30:00 was beaten for us so there's thorns
30:01 connected to this there's a beating
30:03 connected to this and there's something
30:04 else in the tabernacle that was also beaten
30:05 beaten
30:08 that's Exodus 27 20 you shall command
30:09 the people of Israel that they bring to
30:12 you pure beaten olive oil for the light
30:14 that a lamp may be regularly may
30:16 regularly be set up to burn so they're
30:18 all Avoyelles itself had it was pure
30:20 beaten all of I mean he could have said
30:24 olive oil but he says pure beaten olive
30:29 oil olives show up in the New Testament
30:32 as well in one particular moment when
30:34 Jesus and is in the Garden of Gethsemane
30:36 which someone you know means the garden
30:39 of the Olive Press it was literally an
30:40 olive grove where they were growing
30:44 olives he's in the garden of the Olive
30:46 Press where the olives are pressed where
30:48 they're smashed to produce their oil and
30:51 here Jesus is sweating great drops of
30:54 blood and he's bearing this incredible
30:56 burden of what's about to happen and who
30:57 knows what was going on spiritually with
31:00 him at the time Jesus was crushed for us
31:03 so I think that's really interesting oil
31:05 does represent in Scripture the Holy
31:07 Spirit Zechariah chapter 4
31:09 can read for that in Zechariah 4 we get
31:11 that the oil represents the Holy Spirit
31:13 and so here we've got this idea of he's
31:17 crushed and this is conjecture I admit
31:21 it ok but possibly Jesus being crushed
31:23 to produce this sort of oil for the rest
31:24 of us
31:27 Jesus says unless I go the Holy Spirit
31:29 won't come like I need to go through
31:31 this so that you guys can be vessels of
31:33 the Holy Spirit that he had to be
31:35 crushed pressed so to speak that the oil
31:37 would come to us and then he says you're
31:39 the light of the world
31:41 so as we're filled with the Holy Spirit
31:43 we are the lights I think that's really
31:49 neat so we have the the final furniture
31:50 piece that we've talked about the Ark of
31:52 the Covenant we've talked about the
31:53 table of showbread we've talked about
31:55 the lampstand the golden lampstand now
31:56 we're going to talk about the final
31:58 piece that was right there in front of
32:00 the curtain in front of the veil and
32:03 that is the altar of incense the altar
32:04 of incense and some people think like
32:06 incense is evil like if you burn incense
32:08 for any reason you're part of some sort
32:11 of cult type thing and instance was used
32:12 in the tabernacle and has a wonderful
32:14 purpose and sometimes it has a really
32:15 nice smell also in case you didn't know
32:18 that I don't burn it since but I'm just
32:19 saying don't make it spiritual it's just
32:22 incense anyway so this is this is the
32:24 altar of incense constantly burning
32:26 they're constantly producing these fumes
32:29 that would come up fill the tabernacle
32:30 with a certain odor in fact if you came
32:31 near it you would it would smell nice
32:33 well it smell like incense and barbecues
32:34 what would smell like probably if you
32:38 came near there but here's a possible
32:41 representation of what it looked like
32:43 again it was portable so I had poles you
32:45 could you could take it up and move it
32:48 the altar of incense according to Exodus
32:52 30 constantly always rising before the
32:54 Holy of Holies and probably the the only
32:56 thing that was always coming in through
32:57 the Holy of Holies through that curtain
33:00 would be the smoke of the incense it
33:01 would be the only thing that was able to
33:02 somehow just permeate through the
33:04 curtain and fill the room is incense and
33:07 what does it represent this is easy guys
33:09 instance represents prayer in Scripture
33:12 Psalm 141 to let my prayer be counted as
33:16 incense before you probably the psalmist
33:18 is thinking about the tabernacle
33:20 and the temple and how there was
33:21 literally incense before you and he said
33:23 let my prayer be like incense before you
33:26 coming in to your presence revelation
33:27 eight forest is in the smoke of the
33:30 incense with the prayers of the Saints
33:32 rose before God from the hand of the
33:34 angel so here it's very clear in
33:36 Scripture incense is a picture of prayer
33:38 coming before God a pleasant aroma a
33:39 beautiful thing
33:41 entering a right into his presence and
33:43 of course we pray has this relate to
33:46 Jesus we pray through Christ we pray
33:49 through Jesus it's in Jesus his name
33:50 that I pray now whether you say in Jesus
33:53 name isn't the rule but I don't get it
33:54 come to God at all without Jesus and
33:57 it's in his name that I come to pray
33:59 it's in his name that God receives my
34:03 prayers and hears me and answers so the
34:05 incense I think represents that Christ
34:09 brings our prayers to God it entered
34:12 behind the veil how neat how neat and it
34:14 was always always always burning and
34:16 we're told in first Thessalonians 5:17
34:21 to pray always should pray always pretty
34:22 constantly pray all the time
34:25 and so interesting stuff now you might
34:26 think we're done
34:27 but next we're gonna look at the
34:28 coverings because if you've noticed
34:29 there's actually these layers of
34:32 coverings multiple layers of coverings
34:35 four of them actually on top of the the
34:37 the tabernacle so where I talked about
34:39 that in a second but let me let me show
34:44 you first the veil so this is okay maybe
34:46 not the highest quality reproduction but
34:48 something visual for you to look at so
34:49 you have the veil and there in the veil
34:51 and inside of the temple just or the
34:53 tabernacle just looked beautiful there
34:55 were actually a lot of artwork in there
34:56 now I know there was no images to
34:57 represent God but there were other
35:00 images just to represent that that this
35:02 is a glorious heavenly type of location
35:04 you know and the veils there some say
35:07 the veil may have been about 18 inches thick
35:07 thick
35:09 I don't know how thick it was I'm not
35:11 really sure but it the point is it
35:12 separated you from the Holy of Holies
35:14 you can't go in that's the idea there
35:16 was actually no entrance the veil didn't
35:18 have like like curtains you couldn't
35:20 pull it aside and walk through when the
35:21 high priest came once a year he had to
35:24 crawl under the veil he had to go under
35:32 this veil I think shows our separation
35:34 from God think about this like you see
35:36 the tabernacle there right and and the
35:39 priests they can enter in but you can't
35:40 go inside there right
35:44 only the Aaronic preschool tabernacle
35:46 itself so only one group of within the
35:50 priest can do that and then the veil not
35:51 even the high priest can do that except
35:54 one day of the year and he has to do it
35:54 twice on that day
35:56 first he comes and he offers an offering
35:59 for his own sin then he has to come back
36:02 and he can offer for the people so we're
36:04 saying you are separate God wants to
36:05 dwell amongst you but you're still
36:07 totally separated from him in many ways
36:10 Jesus comes and he fixes this in fact in
36:13 fact in Scripture mark fifteen thirty
36:15 seventh the moment Jesus dies it says
36:16 and Jesus uttered a loud cry and
36:19 breathed his last and the curtain of the
36:22 temple was torn in two from top to
36:27 bottom what do you think that means the
36:29 separation is over guys the price has
36:32 been paid could you imagine being the
36:34 priest who goes in there and they go and
36:36 there you're looking at the Ark and
36:40 you're like I'm gonna die you know and
36:41 you're what does this mean what does
36:43 this mean well I'll tell you what it
36:44 means it means that the price has been
36:45 paid and that's how the Bible interprets
36:48 this he was 1019 therefore brothers
36:50 since we have confidence to enter the
36:53 holy places by the blood of Jesus see
36:55 this is sacrificial language this is
36:56 like how they would enter by the by
36:58 blood into the holy places as priests so
37:00 we have confidence to enter the holy
37:02 places by the blood of Jesus by the new
37:04 and living way that he opened for us
37:06 through the curtain that is through his
37:08 flesh so here we have a new testament
37:10 type connection that the curtain is his
37:13 flesh as Christ was pierced as he died
37:14 as he was broken so the curtain was torn
37:17 open so the way was made there's another
37:20 New Testament type connection to the
37:24 curtain to the tabernacle all right we
37:26 ain't done yet so here's the here's the
37:28 four coverings here's the four coverings
37:29 and we can go on even longer than
37:31 tonight but it's just so much neat stuff
37:34 so the four coverings the tabernacle
37:36 itself again was about 15 feet wide and
37:40 there's about 45 feet long it had four
37:42 layers of coverings and it was in those
37:43 layers we're going to scallop
37:44 would and all that wood was overlaid
37:46 with gold and everything or bronze in
37:49 some cases each of these represents
37:51 potentially different things about Jesus
37:52 so let me walk you through some
37:54 possibilities this is conjecture here
37:56 but I think that it's not without reason
37:59 I don't think I'm fabricating him the
38:01 first layer was linen it was linen linen
38:05 is white right white and linen tends to
38:07 represent holiness in the scripture pure
38:08 clean garments tend to represent good
38:11 good works and righteousness that sort
38:13 of thing whereas dirty garments are
38:14 filthy garments represents sin our sin
38:17 is like filthy rags and things like that
38:19 it was it was not it didn't stay white
38:20 though as you can see it was dyed purple
38:23 blue and red it was dyed all three of
38:24 these different colors and it had all
38:26 sorts of decorations in it as well so
38:28 it's this beautiful thing this is if you
38:30 were inside the tabernacle you'd look
38:32 around you and this might be that this
38:34 stuff that you see you would see this
38:37 beautiful beautiful stuff so purple blue
38:39 and red well purple tends to represent
38:42 royalty Jesus was given a purple robe to
38:44 mock him and call him the King of the
38:46 Jews this was because purple robes were
38:50 generally the Royal and the rich the the
38:53 blue blue I mean perhaps the blue
38:54 represents heaven I mean as you look up
38:57 in the skies blue like perhaps you're
38:58 seeing these different colors the red
39:01 interesting is the word here is Tola and
39:03 those of you who know this Psalm 22 tol
39:05 affirm that's that red that they used to
39:07 dye the temple I don't have enough time
39:08 to get into it today but I think I've
39:09 covered it in this Jesus in the Old
39:12 Testament series today if not then I
39:14 will then I will because it's really
39:16 neat stuff this neat worm that we're I'm
39:18 a worm and no man and how about worm
39:21 itself may may be a picture of Christ
39:26 okay yeah so so we have the blue the
39:28 purple the red may be representing
39:31 Christ's sacrifice inside was amazing if
39:33 you walked in the in the tabernacle I
39:34 feel like you'd think you were like
39:36 entering into heaven it would feel like
39:37 you were entering into God's presence
39:39 and this gold and these beautiful images
39:41 and pictures of like like angels and
39:44 things like that the second layer was
39:47 goat skin okay this kind of takes a step
39:49 down doesn't because goat skin and not
39:50 these beautiful linens and stuff it's
39:53 goat skin that goats look dirty case you
39:53 haven't seen one before
39:56 and goats sometimes may have symbolized sin
39:56 sin
39:59 in the sacrifices not only do you offer
40:01 them sometimes for sin but there's a
40:03 scapegoat that represents the sin of
40:05 Israel coming upon a goat that runs off
40:08 into the wilderness like you don't want
40:09 to see that goat again right it's like
40:12 considering it like it's a sin type of
40:14 sin bearing thing that's the idea that's
40:16 Leviticus chapter 16 you can read about
40:19 that sin separates us from separates man
40:21 from God and here is this beautiful
40:24 heavenly stuff and then the thing laid
40:26 on top of that is this thing that may
40:28 represent like a sin between us and God
40:30 you're never gonna see all this
40:32 beautiful heavenly stuff guys the
40:36 Aaronic priesthood is to see it because
40:38 there's these sin issues sin separates
40:40 us from God but Jesus he bore our sins
40:43 second Corinthians 5:21 for he made him
40:46 who knew no sin to be sin for us that we
40:48 might become the righteousness of God in
40:51 him so upon heaven comes sin that's kind
40:53 of how it seems to me which looks a lot
40:56 like Jesus the third skin was made out
41:00 of a Rams Rams skin Rams skin a ram is
41:01 also a sacrificial animal in fact
41:03 specifically the first time that I can
41:05 that I think is the first time we see a
41:07 ram being used in a sacrificial sense in
41:10 the Bible is Genesis 22 when Abraham
41:13 offers a ram caught in the thicket if
41:15 you read the King James right and cotton
41:17 a bush and he offers this ram instead of
41:19 Isaac his son and that whole thing
41:21 pictures Jesus Christ very in a very
41:22 neat way
41:25 the RAM skin though it was dyed also it
41:27 was dyed red so the goat skin was just
41:29 up there but the RAM skin was dyed red
41:35 it was dyed red so if theoretically this
41:38 goat skin represents sin and the Rams
41:40 skin represents maybe the offering
41:44 foreskin sin blood the blood covering
41:46 the sin possibly
41:48 and then the final the fourth skin was
41:49 badger skin and depending on her
41:51 translation that will translate this
41:53 very differently my research tells me is
41:57 probably seal skin probably seal skin as
41:59 they were traveling along the coast but
42:00 I could be wrong here that they debate
42:02 on what this was but basically it's this
42:05 ugly thick durable skin the kind of
42:07 stuff they would use to make sandals out
42:10 of so we're talking like a leathery tie
42:14 thickness that sort of material used for
42:16 sandals used for things that are meant
42:21 to be beat up and in and work for you
42:23 that kind of thing and Christ came as a
42:25 servant isaiah 53:2 says he has no
42:28 beauty that we should desire him I'll
42:30 tell you what if you came and you saw
42:31 the tabernacle from the outside you
42:33 would not have thought anything special
42:34 about it you have been like you're all
42:37 camping around that Israel this is your
42:39 glorious tabernacle from the outside it
42:42 looks really plain this is a big tent
42:45 ugly but on the inside it looked like
42:50 heaven unimpressive from the outside but
42:51 from the inside it was the presence of God
42:52 God
42:55 I think the tabernacle represents Christ
42:58 even possibly in its very structures and
43:02 designs and its insides to represent the
43:03 things that Jesus did and the things
43:06 that Jesus was for us but there's two
43:08 items on the outside on the outside of
43:09 the tabernacle we have the the the
43:11 bronze altar and this is where they
43:12 would literally do offerings they would
43:14 actually offer animals on this altar and
43:16 it was an altar made out of wood and
43:18 covered in bronze no gold anymore for
43:19 the out so there's no gold on the
43:21 outside of the tabernacle it's gold on
43:21 the inside
43:24 outsides all bronze bronze which some
43:26 would say represents like judgment or
43:28 wrath Jesus's feet are like brass or
43:31 bronze when he in Revelation shows up
43:33 there's a few other verses that may
43:34 support that I'm not a hundred percent
43:38 sure on it to be honest it was about
43:39 this was pretty big it was about seven
43:42 and a half feet wide and long so longer
43:44 and wider than I am tall I'm only about
43:48 seven foot three so it was about four
43:52 foot six inches tall so small about as
43:56 tall as you ring and and and you can see
43:57 there's horns on it this was the horns
43:59 of the altar with it so my go and Ronnie
44:00 be like mercy mercy we want mercy you
44:02 know and they might not try to grab on
44:04 to the horns calling out for mercy upon
44:05 the name of all that sacrifice that took
44:08 place there interestingly enough what
44:11 happened on the inside was totally
44:12 private nobody saw what happened inside
44:14 the tabernacle but what happened on that
44:16 altar was totally public and what was it
44:17 the death and offering of all these
44:19 animals and with Jesus we didn't see
44:21 some of the stuff that he went through
44:22 but we saw his offering
44:23 we saw his
44:25 sacrifice that was quite public
44:27 interestingly too that you might miss
44:28 this if you just read through casually
44:31 the incense that was burned on the
44:33 inside the incense that brought that
44:36 brought prayers to God where did they
44:38 get the fire to burn that incense well
44:40 they got it from the coals from that
44:43 altar so the coals upon which the blood
44:45 of the sacrificial animals had dripped
44:48 those coals would be used to bring the
44:52 incense before God our prayers are
44:54 brought to God through the sacrifice of
44:58 Jesus the coal that touched the lips of
45:00 Isaiah when he said woe is me I'm an
45:02 unclean man of unclean lips represent
45:05 the coals upon which the sacrifice drips
45:06 yet the only sacrifice we know about in
45:08 heaven is the sacrifice and offering of
45:10 Jesus so that's another study but is
45:13 neat the bronze Laver the final piece of
45:15 the puzzle the bronze Laver this was
45:17 literally for washing that's what it's
45:19 for and it was made
45:21 we're told specifically made from the
45:24 mirrors of the Egyptian women remember
45:26 the Israelites they kind of plundered
45:27 the Egyptians they asked for gifts
45:29 before they left hey give us some stuff
45:32 and so then they gave them mirrors and
45:33 they that gathered the mirrors from the
45:34 Egyptian women they made them into this
45:36 bronze labor so it would have been this
45:39 really potentially really pretty looking
45:40 thing but maybe maybe it was highly
45:41 reflective I don't know
45:44 very possibly um it was filled with
45:46 water for ceremonial washing of the
45:49 priests and water has a picture in
45:51 Scripture as well so of the offerings
45:53 but we also have a cleansing that takes
45:56 place there at the tabernacle Ephesians
45:58 5:26 speaking of Jesus in the church it
46:00 says that he may sink might sanctify her
46:03 having cleansed her by the washing of
46:06 water with the word
46:08 with the word the word of God whether
46:09 whether this is talking about salvation
46:12 washing or the gospel you know we hear
46:14 the gospel we receive Christ were washed
46:16 clean of our sins or the sanctification
46:18 cleansing that we need like Jesus says
46:19 you've already been washed you just need
46:21 to wash your hands or your feet rather
46:23 just wash your feet that there's perhaps
46:26 that element there as well the Word of
46:27 God perhaps is like this mirror that
46:29 confronts us and there's some people to
46:31 see a picture there of the scripture as
46:33 we gather near to God and we get in the
46:36 word and we go I need to be changed
46:38 these mirrors were used to turn to this
46:40 washing device that's James 1 it talks
46:42 about the mirror so very interesting
46:45 stuff so finally the last thing I'll say
46:46 about the tabernacle is this and then
46:47 we'll take you any questions you guys
46:49 might have and hear your thoughts and
46:52 maybe something you picked up on the
46:55 Tabernacle again it was the only
46:57 location in Israel where these things
46:59 took place it was the one place where
47:01 offerings and sacrifice were made the
47:02 one way for God to be with his people
47:05 and there was only one way to get into
47:07 it as well there was only one entrance
47:09 into this place
47:12 one doorway that you could use to get in
47:14 it was heaven on the inside not so much
47:16 on the outside and then of course
47:18 scripture says that Jesus himself he
47:21 tabernacled amongst us there's at least
47:23 3 New Testament passages that I think
47:24 really strongly support a connection
47:27 typologically between Jesus and the
47:30 tabernacle there let's pray father we
47:32 thank you for this this time thank you
47:33 for this exciting study in your word
47:35 Jesus in the Old Testament we pray you'd
47:38 help us to just have insights to see the
47:39 fullness of the meaning that you have
47:42 always had in the text let our eyes be
47:44 unveiled that we might see the truth of
47:46 Christ through these things and Jesus we
47:48 are so grateful that your God with us
47:51 that we enter into the presence of God
47:55 freely freely because you have once and
47:57 for all paid the price for sin not like
47:59 them when they had to just always
48:01 continually offering again and again and
48:03 again because the sin was never altom
48:05 utley totally dealt with yes through
48:07 Christ we have the living way offered
48:11 once and for all we're grateful we love
48:12 you Lord we thank you for the excitement
48:14 and joy we have in your word as we study
48:17 in Jesus name Amen [Music]
