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Amazing! How Jesus is Like the Tabernacle of Moses: How to find Jesus in the OT pt14 | Mike Winger | YouTubeToText
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The Tabernacle, a portable sanctuary described in the Old Testament, is presented as a profound prefiguration of Jesus Christ, with its structure, furnishings, and rituals symbolizing key aspects of his life, ministry, and redemptive work.
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so in our continuing series in Jesus in
the Old Testament we were approached the
topic of Jesus and the tabernacle so
we're gonna do tonight is talk about how
when I say tabernacle I'm not talking
about the Temple in Jerusalem I'm
talking about the tenth tabernacle that
was a portable temporary unit that would
they would construct and then tear down
and remove and this is like given to
them in the law of Moses and they
carried and continued to have it until
the time of Solomon they continue to
have this tabernacle setup more often
than not so this is in Exodus 25 through
40 you're welcome to read those 16
chapters really quick right now in
preparation but I'll give you the
overview and how it parallels Christ at
least in my opinion
I admit some of this stuff is
conjectured some of this stuff is me
going I think maybe this I think maybe
that but we're allowing conjecture and
our Jesus in the Old Testament search as
long as we start with New Testament
theological truths and then we
conjecture how those are pictured in the
Old Testament we're not making up new
stuff we're not here creating new
theology and we'll talk about that next
week when we get into bad examples of
typology and how not to do typology but
one of the things we get that's
important to note is that the tabernacle
was designed by God not man that is it
wasn't okay the temple Solomon's Temple
it was patterned after the tabernacle
but Solomon changed a lot of stuff like
if there was one of them in the
tabernacle Solomon made like seven of them
them
he's like lampstand good idea let's make
seven of those you know like he he like
elevated everything next level but the
tabernacle was all very specific just to
God's instructions it was designed by
God not man so X is 25 nine God says to
Moses exactly as I show you concerning
the pattern of the tabernacle and of all
its furniture so you shall make it it
really mattered to God that they made it
just in a specific way and that's why in
Exodus you got sixteen chapters and it
kind of goes like this
make it like this make it like this all
the instructions and then it's like and
so-and-so made it like that and
so-and-so made it like this and it's
really careful to make us know we
followed God's given pattern in making
this tabernacle a great deal of
scriptures is actually devoted to the
topic so because of this we have a
really good idea of what it looked like
because we just look at the description
in the text so this is an approximation
of what it looked like it was about 150
feet by 75 feet that's the entire area
the footprint of the whole thing
including the outer area as well as the
inner area it had some furniture stuff
on the outside the bronze the bronze
offering altar and then of course the
the bronze Laver or the washing the wash
basin they had there and then of course
you had the the enclosure notice it was
all portable it's all made out of tents
and skins and like cloth and stuff that
they could actually pick up pack up and
move with them as they're wandering
through the wilderness as they're
looking for their homeland so it's a
temporary structure now Solomon of
course is the one who took this and made
it into the temple but that was again
like you know five hundred years after
Moses when Solomon did that so here's
here's some aerial footage from the from
an ancient drone and but it gives you
the ideas like they would perform these
sacrifices offerings and sacrifices they
had to happen at this tabernacle that
was the one location in Israel where it
was approved to do these sort of
offerings and sacrifices you couldn't
just do it wherever you want they
rebuked all the time because they had
sacrifices Oh in the high places here
and there throughout the Old Testament
but it was supposed to happen here one
location for these things to take place
only the priests are supposed to be in
there doing that stuff right only the
ironic priests are supposed to go inside
the actual temple or tabernacle proper
so this is you know they offer the
animals they do the washing the
cleansing and they have different
rituals and things that they do there
even the feast days and things like
Passover the day of atonement special
things would happen right there in the
tabernacle which would sit interestingly
enough while they're traveling through
the wilderness it would sit in the
middle of all the tribes the tribes
literally encamped around the tabernacle
so there was at the center of the people
of Israel so all I'm saying is it was a
big deal
inside the tabernacle inside the actual
tabernacle we have two two separate
sections what we have is the the holy
place which is that that large section
you're looking at then we have the Holy
of Holies the Holy of Holies was about
15 feet by 15 feet and it was separated
from the holy place by this thick veil
that ran between the two inside the holy
of Holy's there's only one real piece of
furniture thing there and that is of
course the Ark of the Covenant out side
we have three pieces of furniture we'll
look at each of those I hate to use the
word furniture I'm not sure what other
term to use to describe them but we'll
look at those individually so let's
continue why is God so concerned about
what it looks like now if you don't know
about Jesus you might just be like he's
God don't worry about it like do what he
says and I agree do what he says but now
that we can look and know that in the
volume of the book it speaks of him that
you know all through the Scriptures they
speak of Christ according to Jesus now I
can say I think the reason one of the
reasons why is because it's an amazing
picture of Christ not only the things
that happen there but even in the way
it's built so is that me completely is
that complete conjecture I don't think
so I think I can actually tie this to
New Testament truths as pretty much
every type we've looked at I've been
able to say the New Testament gives us
good reason to look for this typology
I haven't kind of just gone on my own
yet I just said it's in the New
Testament so it is I think with Jesus
and the tabernacle so in John chapter 2
you guys know this passage where he's
overturning the money changers tables
and he's pretty upset about what's going
on inside of the temple which became the
permanent replacement for the tabernacle
and he's upset there right but then they
asked him what authority do you have to
do this overturning the money changers
tables you know causing this ruckus what
who gives you authority to tell us what
happens in the temple and Jesus answers
them in John 2:19 destroy this temple
and in three days I will raise it up
then the Jews then said it has taken us
46 years to build this temple and will
you raise it up in three days
but he was speaking about the temple of
his body now I'm not gonna hang
everything on this but here's just a
passage where Jesus deliberately
confuses the difference between the
temple and his body and he refers to his
body as this temple when he's standing
at the temple and they're asking him
about the temple and he refers to his
body as the temple so that's just really
interesting now couple this with a
passage earlier in john john 1:14
in john 1:14 it says of jesus and the
word became flesh and dwelt among
and we have seen his glory glory as of
the only son from the father full of
grace and truth now we know this passage
he might be like okay how does this have
to do with the tabernacle well that
we're dwelt there it is in the Greek sky
now esquina oh excuse me
sky na o is a Greek word that actually
can be translated to live or camp in a
tent in the New Testament this word is
only used by John like they don't even
use this term for the most part
throughout the the rest of the New
Testament it's just not there John uses
it and he uses it here in one case it
could literally mean to pitch a tent and
dwell that's from the theological
dictionary of the New Testament so it's
saying and some translations actually
put it this way the word became flesh
and tabernacled amongst us because it
means to dwell in a tent amongst us so
that's just an interesting terminology
there later John uses the same term in
revelation 21:3
wryly I'll just read it to you I don't
have a slide for it but it says and I
heard a loud voice from the throne here
at the consummation of all things it
says behold the dwelling place of God is
with man with man he will dwell with
them Tabernacle with them he will dwell
with them and they will be his people
and God Himself will be with them as
their God so here's another use of the
term so he takes a term that seems to be
similar to the term Tabernacle it means
to dwell in a tent he refers it to Jesus
tabernacling amongst us and then the
final consummation it's okay now it's
fully achieved God is with us
God is with us so very interesting
interesting stuff but there's another
connection and that's in John 1:14 when
it says he dwelt or tabernacled amongst
us and we saw his glory we've seen his
glory well that's interesting because it
reminds me of exodus 40 in that same
remember the the passage of exodus we're
talking about right here's Exodus 40
here is the end after the Tabernacles
built and after it's all built after
it's finally been tabernacled amongst
them it says in Exodus 40 33 and 34 so
moses finished the work then the cloud
covered the tent of meeting and the
glory of the Lord filled the tabernacle
so once the tabernacle was built they
saw in some sense the glory of God and
so Jesus he came in he tabernacled and
we saw his glory so we see there's these can
can
sections these sort of literary
connections between Jesus and the
tabernacle I think it's really
interesting also Hebrews we won't get
into this for the sake of time but
Hebrews talks about how the sacrifices
yet that took place in the temple were
ultimately all about Christ and all
pointing to Christ and it talks about
how the high priest and his function as
high priest was all about Christ and
pointed to Christ and so Hebrews talks
about the functions of the temple we we
know that the the feasts that took place
at the tabernacle or temple they also
pointed to Christ and here we have some
connections in John as well that's
pretty interesting to me so let's talk
about the tabernacle the purpose of the
tabernacle what was the point what was
the big idea behind the tabernacle well
it had one overarching purpose and it
wasn't primarily just to do sacrifices
rather the sacrifices were done to
achieve the purpose and the purpose is
access 25/8 as he's telling them about
the tabernacle beginning the
instructions he says let them make me a
sanctuary that I may dwell in their midst
midst
the reason for the tabernacle in the
middle of Israel was so God could be
with his people I want to be with them
now he couldn't just dwell with them
without any sort of separations because
he would destroy them so he was like
let's deal with the sin problem I can't
dwell with you but it will require this
tabernacle and these constant sacrifices
because of your sin issues but then
he'll do well with them in Exodus 29 45
it says I will dwell among the people of
Israel and will be their God again this
is the same Exodus passage the section
we're dealing with how to build the
tabernacle so he's describing the
tabernacle when he says I'll dwell with
them now in Matthew 1:23 how relates to
Jesus right behold the Virgin shall be
with child and shall bear a son and they
shall call his name Emmanuel which is
translated God with us why did Jesus
come so God could be with us what wasn't
it really all about the sacrifice Jesus
but the sacrifice was all about God
being with us the goal was to restore
the relationship of man with God and the
tabernacle was to allow God to have a
relationship with his people although it
was limited and it was lesser because
the fulfillment is better than the type
right the the the thing is better than
the shadow of the thing you may
recognize this image from Raiders of the
Lost Ark
we're gonna talk about the furniture now
right inside the holy of Holy's there
was what's called the Ark of the
Covenant and this Ark is basically it's
and we're to talk about the lower part
there was in two pieces there was the
container portion down below and there
was the solid gold lid we'll talk about
later called the mercy seat but the but
it had these rings gold rings where you
could actually put poles so they could
carry it because member had to be
portable no it probably didn't look at
quite exactly like this but it's you
know here's an interesting image that
might help give you an idea so the ark
was about two feet high
the container part not the lid was about
two feet high and about three feet wide
and two feet deep so it was two by three
by two is that I don't know how you're
supposed to say that and it was made out
of acacia wood and it was covered in
solid covered in gold not solid gold I
guess gold what do you call that inlay
that's fancy inlay I'll go with that
acacia wood if you do some research on
acacia when you find out that it's a
particular tree that grows in the Negev
desert which is where they were
traveling and wandering for their forty
years in the wilderness
interestingly enough the the desert
doesn't have very many thorny trees and
according to at least according to my
sources it was the the only thorny tree
out there was the acacia here's its
branches here's some examples of the
thorns most likely most likely this is
what they used for the crown of thorns
of Jesus because it's local to the area
and it would make an appropriate you
know crown of thorns thorns we know are
a sign of the curse right the the curse
of that falls upon Adam and Eve is the
thorns on the ashes to ashes dust at us
right to dust you will go and also
thorns the ground will bear thorns so in
a sense Jesus has a crown he's wearing
this thing that is to represent the
curse how interesting and the Ark is
made out of that same material in fact
all the wood for the tabernacle was made
out of this same material very
interesting so there's a connection
there I think it was overlaid in gold so
it would just look magnificent and in
fact all the inside was just covered in
gold you just see gold everywhere if you
were inside and so I used to say at this
point I I was look at my old notes I've
taught this a long time ago and I used
to say at this point that I'm gold
represents divinity
as I was looking at my notes there one
of those things I do every once in a
while and I go how do I know that and I
thought to myself how do I know gold
represents divinity so I I actually
started looking and looking for gold in
scripture where it appears in Scripture
I tried to and I can't justify that
claim I don't know why I ever said that
like it's why those things you hear a
teacher say it and you figures true and
you don't realize that you're just kind
of repeating something one of my goals
is to stop repeating things that aren't
the case so I'll just throw it out there
I don't know that gold represents
divinity I think it is clear though that
gold does represent wealth Gold
definitely represents wealth that seems
pretty clear in Scripture and in heaven
the streets are paved with gold to
represent the immeasurable wealth that
there is in heaven and so here you go
inside and it's all covered in gold to
represent I think heaven the wealth of
God in heaven you're entering into kind
of like this the throne room of God is
the idea so three things were inside
again I said this is a container there's
three things in the container inside of
it one of them is the two tablets of
stone carrying the ten commandments that
Moses wrote down after he broke the
other one's the Ten Commandments now how
does that represent Jesus well Jesus
shows up Matthew 5:17 he says do not
think that I've come to abolish the law
or the prophets I've not come to abolish
them but to fulfill them Christ fulfills
the things that are written here he
actually does it now they all failed
but Christ fulfills it they stand there
forever in the middle of Israel as this
constant testimony of what the people
aren't doing you're failing you're sinning
sinning
Jesus comes and he actually accomplishes
it he actually does it so the Ten
Commandments represent gods righteous
standards they're kind of picturesque of
all of God's moral truths you know it's
kind of like seeing in that
representative representative place
Jesus fulfills it he walks the perfect
life he lived sinlessly he obeys the law
the second thing that was inside the Ark
is some of the manna from heaven some of
the man that the people would gather as
they traveled through the wilderness
they grab they took some they put it in
a gold jar and they place that jar
inside of the actual tabernacle itself
now we've already seen how this relates
to Christ the manna we've already seen
at least some of it I haven't got into
great detail we can actually study the
passage about the man I just Collie
analyze how it's described and how that
relates to Jesus but
let me give you Jesus's words on the
subject John 632 Jesus then said to them
truly truly I say to you it was not
Moses who gave you the bread from heaven
but my father gives you the true bread
from heaven for the bread of God is he
who comes down from heaven and gives
life to the world
this is completely typological language
right Jesus is saying oh yeah you had
the man up but the fulfillment the real
bread from heaven was me all along
and so he gives us this type this is a
type from the mouth of Jesus in John 6
49 he says your your father's ate the
manna in the wilderness and they died
this is the bread that comes down from
heaven so that one may eat of it and not
die I am The Living bread that came down
from heaven if anyone eats of this bread
he will live forever and the bread that
I will give for the life of the world is
my flesh so here the 10 commandments
picturing Christ's moral perfection we
have the manna from heaven presenting by
picturing him offering of himself for
our life him giving us life so he deals
with the thing that gives us a death
penalty and he gives us life
the third things really need do anybody
remember the third thing that's in there
right here's a photo of it Aaron's rod
that budded I couldn't find a good
picture of this but Aaron's rod that
budded now the event where this happens
to explain what what this rod is all
about the rod is the rod Aaron carries
around with him right it also tends to
represent your authority and your
commands and your your power and stuff
your rod it's symbolic of those things
well in numbers chapter 17 the leaders
of Israel gather against Moses and Aaron
and they're like hey we can do what you
do you're not so special so they're kind
of rebelling against him they want the
authority that Moses and Aaron have in
number 17 five gods like I'll straighten
this out for you and he tells each of
the leaders to take their rods the 12
rods and then the rods of the rod of
Aaron so 12 12 rods and Aaron's rod and
put them all before the Lord and then he
says in verse 5 and the staff of the man
whom I choose shall sprout these are
wood rights Deadwood but the deadwood
will sprout living produce on that
Deadwood to show you something I'm
choosing that guy that's interesting
number 17 verse 7 it says Moses
deposited the staffs before the Lord in
the tent of the testimony what was the
tenth of the testimony that's the
tabernacle but what if they hadn't build
it yet well that's here's the thing
Moses would go and meet with God he
would meet with God in a tent and God
would speak to him there or talk to him
face to face so to speak and he would
get instructions from God
that's the tent that became the
tabernacle it was moved into the middle
of Israel it was it was sort of expanded
but was built based upon that
so Moses deposit the staffs before the
Lord and the tent of the testimony on
the next day Moses went into the tent of
the testimony and behold the staff of
Aaron for the house of Levi had sprouted
and put forth buds and produced blossoms
and it bore ripe almonds so it's the rod
that budded the rod that budded I think
that this is I mean here we have a
living tree that was killed that was
placed here in in you know before the
test before the tenth of the testimony
and then it buds life out of death this
is what it represents life out of death
showing you who God chooses consider
that consider that chapter 18 of numbers
tells us why he was chosen in numbers 18
if you just keep reading I love this is
why I love typology just keep reading
what's next well I see next in the text
well here it is numbers 18 so the Lord
said to Aaron you and your sons and your
father's house with you shall bear
iniquity connected with the sanctuary
and you and your sons with with you
shall bear iniquity connected with your
priesthood now they had an inferior
priesthood but gods like I'll show you
who I pick and once he picks Aaron he's
like Aaron's the guy he's my choice
choice for what to bear iniquity if you
don't see the typological connection to
Jesus you're not paying attention like
this is Jesus he he dies and he rises
again to demonstrate that God has chosen
Jesus as the one who successfully bore
our iniquity acts 17:31 because he is
fixed a day on which he will judge the
world in righteousness by a man whom he
has appointed or chosen and of this he
has given assurance to all by raising
him from the dead
acts is like saying the same thing about Jesus
Jesus
that numbers 18 says about Aaron I'm
gonna prove to you who I chose because
I'm gonna bring life out of death over
here and I'm gonna prove to you have
chosen Jesus because I've raised him
super cool stuff I love this this
typology stuff so wonderful and perhaps
we'll do more on the high priest
sometime because you could do a whole
thing on just him and there's a lot more
content that's there but here's the idea
you know you've got you've got the Ark
of the Covenant inside of it you have
the commandments representing God's
holiness that Jesus actually fulfilled
the the man are representing him giving
his life or offering him himself to
death and you have Aaron's rod that
budded to represent his resurrection and
life and God's affirmation that Jesus
really is the one he is the one who bore
the iniquity for us then you have the
top the top of the of the Ark of the
Covenant is the mercy seat and it's not
wood overlaid with gold is just solid
gold it's solid gold and it was made in
a particular way how these two cherubim
the two cherubim right cherub is
singular cherubim is plural so you could
say cherub bim's but that's like adding
an extra the I am and the in the Hebrew
is isn't is like an S in English so
cherubim so there's these two angelic
type beings we don't know exactly what
they look like right but they did have
their wings stretched out forward in
some sense covering that area but that
area in the middle of the mercy seat
that was just a totally empty this is
where a pagan would have put an idol of
their God right there on that mercy seat
right there here's where the idol goes
like this is the holiest spot in the
holiest spot on the solid gold like
mercy seat like that's where the idol
would go God says don't put anything
there don't make an image to represent
me he's not of this creation you there
is nothing you can make that won't just
be an offense unto Him to represent him
in that sense and so there's just an
open space to represent God's presence
that's the idea it's an empty space
Jesus of course the center of it all he
comes and he says if you've seen me
you've seen the father and they
interesting I mean he is God with us
he's God's presence right there with us
the mercy seat you wonder why is it
called mercy seat well its main function
it seems is that the high priest would
come into there once a year he would
come into the Holy of Holies and he
would offer one
thing and he would sprinkle it on the
mercy seat it's the only thing that
would touch the mercy seat and it was
blood during the day of atonement he'd
offer the blood he put the blood on the
mercy seat and so in a sense it's like
here's here's the connection God and you
will connect through the sacrifice you
know and that's what's gonna happen
Jesus comes and he there's a meeting
through a sacrifice a connection between
humans and God through a sacrifice for a
home work on this on the mercy seat and
all that I don't have time for today but
Hebrews 9
I recommend verse 6 6 through 14 he was
9 6 to 14 or if you're watching video
you just pause it and and and hey you're
back welcome back okay so that's on the
mercy seat but let's continue okay so
now that's that's the holiest place
right then we'll talk that's the Holy of
Holies we'll talk now about the holy
place or the place that is the the
larger portion of the tabernacle area
and there's three different pieces of
furniture in there and one of them this
unfortunately shoddy pictures I've got
here is is supposed to be the the table
of the showbread this is in the holy
place it's wood overlaid with gold same
as the other structure it's about 36
inches long 18 inches wide and about 27
inches high approximately they measured
things about cubits so they were like a
cubit and a half you know that but it's
about that size it's not super big and
it has 12 loaves placed on it these
twelve loaves seem to represent the
tribes of Israel the 12 tribes of Israel
there was also wine with it now when you
read an exodus it's you you hear about
vessels for pouring and then as you
connect out with passages and numbers
you realize okay this had there was wine
as well and which is really interesting
because it means there's bread and wine
there one of the only things that's
there before before God and the
tabernacle bread and wine what does that
make you think of when's the last time
we saw bread and wine in the scripture
right Melchizedek and he offers him
bread and wine and then we see Jesus and
he offers us the bread and the cup as
representative of his sacrifice or an
ark in our church's case of bread and
grape juice which is entirely fine I'm
cool with that
I prefer that actually every little
probably at this point I probably be
freaked out if I destroyed what was that
but yeah but it was but it was wine yes
now was also offered with frankincense
so frankincense was mixed in there and
one of the things that was offered to
Jesus upon his birth was frankincense
interestingly just an interesting thing
to know about so it's the table of the
showbread I think the connecting the
closest connection to Jesus here is
communion and the question I have with
the Loews is like are they supposed to
represent Israel are they supposed to be
an offering from Israel to God or that
God will offer this to Israel or and I
don't know the answers to those
questions I wonder I still ponder one
day maybe I'll one of you will tell me I
don't know okay the next piece of
furniture is the lamp stand the lamp
stand which I'm showing you this for a
reason this is the Ark of Titus the arch
of Titus and it was built about 82 AD
about 12 years after the destruction of
Jerusalem when they destroyed Jerusalem
it was Titus who was the general in
charge and they plundered the temple or
so we think well about 12 years later
when Titus died his brother had this
built to commemorate him and so he of
course commemorate him partially by
showing his his plundering of Jerusalem
like it's them it's like hell look at
look how strong we are as Romans and one
of the things you see in the picture
there is an implements from inside of
the temple and that looks like a
lampstand doesn't it so this may be the
oldest living image of what the
lampstand actually looked like inside of
the temple now is that the same
lampstand there's a look identical the
one that we had from Moses this time I
don't know I don't know all the details
there maybe perhaps it is is that even
accurate or the artists just do artsy
things like they deal with Jesus all the
time right I don't know I don't know but
but here's a modern-day reproduction in
Israel because they're preparing to
build the temple there's actually a
place called the temple Institute you
can look them up online and they're
actually have built the implements for
the temple they've gathered high priests
garments they've done a lot of work to
try to like prepare for the temple to be
built and they're hoping it'll happen
soon so this gold lamp stand may have
looked something like this solid gold it
was made of solid gold I think that that
it probably would have looked really
pretty it was key was supposed to look
organic like not just like a lamp stand
but it was meant to look like like it
wasn't have elements of nature embed
into the actual lampstand itself and so
almond blossoms and leaves and stuff
like that were actually supposed to be
designed into it as part of the
lampstand this is different than a
menorah you may have seen menorahs
before a menorah is different in that it
has more candles and the one in the
middle is the highest with a menorah and
that's because they're representing a
certain number of days as they're
commemorating the Hanukkah and the the
cleansing of the temple after Antiochus
Epiphanes and this is probably too much
information for you guys but basically
it's a different event a different thing
but they do pattern it to make it look a
lot like this lamp stand which is
appropriate because it's about the
cleansing of the temple but anyhow this
is the lamp stand versus the menorah two
different kind of things seven lamps
there's a actually seven lamps
altogether and we look at seven is kind
of like a number that tends to represent
God it seems in the scripture if nothing
else it's at least a number of
completion and fullness and an almond
blossoms again almond blossoms that's
the second time almonds have come up
isn't it Aaron's rod that budded abutted
almonds so I'm like why almonds is I'm
preparing for tonight you know I'm like
why almonds I've never looked into that
I'm just curious what's unique about
almonds well almond the almond tree is
the tree that blooms before any of the
other trees do it actually starts
putting out as blossoms in the middle of
winter in January before any of the
other trees do and so in god god's
conversation with zechariah there's a
time where he goes what do you see and
he goes I see an awl an almond tree and
it's it's budding and so gods like
saying though it's the dead of winter
I'm gonna bring forth life is the idea
you know it's the one you know you see
all these dead trees and then there's
the almond tree it's got life it's like
the first one to bring life of during
the year really interesting the almond
tree is actually in the Hebrew it comes
from a word that means to watch or to
wake just the word itself because it
would blossom early so I think that's
just that's interesting that's
interesting I do see a connection to
that possibly to Jesus there and then
the lampstand itself not only were to
produce light in the sanctuary but it
was the only light in the tabernacle
there was no light interestingly enough
there is ZERO light behind the curtain
behind the veil there's nothing produced
like there except perhaps the glory of
God there's nothing but here in the in
the Tabernacle area where they would
come more frequently you have the lamp
stand and they were to never let it go
out it could never go out it always had
to have oil from olives constantly
producing light and in Jesus he says
John 8:12 I am the light of the world
whoever follows me will not walk in
darkness but will have the light of Life
you know within the in the context of
the tabernacle that was the light of the
tabernacle right Jesus comes he says on
the light of the world and it's maybe
perhaps in a greater sense he didn't
calls us to be the light as well the the
gold itself was of hammered work and
that's specifically what the text says
it says it had to be of hammered work
the hint that the lampstand the other
items in the tabernacle are not called
hammered this is called hammered work
you have to beat it you have to beat it
into shape that's the idea
it was hammered or beaten work I think
isaiah 53:5 seems indicate Jesus was
beaten he was he wasn't he was crushed
he was bruised he was pounded for us he
was beaten for us so there's thorns
connected to this there's a beating
connected to this and there's something
else in the tabernacle that was also beaten
beaten
that's Exodus 27 20 you shall command
the people of Israel that they bring to
you pure beaten olive oil for the light
that a lamp may be regularly may
regularly be set up to burn so they're
all Avoyelles itself had it was pure
beaten all of I mean he could have said
olive oil but he says pure beaten olive
oil olives show up in the New Testament
as well in one particular moment when
Jesus and is in the Garden of Gethsemane
which someone you know means the garden
of the Olive Press it was literally an
olive grove where they were growing
olives he's in the garden of the Olive
Press where the olives are pressed where
they're smashed to produce their oil and
here Jesus is sweating great drops of
blood and he's bearing this incredible
burden of what's about to happen and who
knows what was going on spiritually with
him at the time Jesus was crushed for us
so I think that's really interesting oil
does represent in Scripture the Holy
Spirit Zechariah chapter 4
can read for that in Zechariah 4 we get
that the oil represents the Holy Spirit
and so here we've got this idea of he's
crushed and this is conjecture I admit
it ok but possibly Jesus being crushed
to produce this sort of oil for the rest
of us
Jesus says unless I go the Holy Spirit
won't come like I need to go through
this so that you guys can be vessels of
the Holy Spirit that he had to be
crushed pressed so to speak that the oil
would come to us and then he says you're
the light of the world
so as we're filled with the Holy Spirit
we are the lights I think that's really
neat so we have the the final furniture
piece that we've talked about the Ark of
the Covenant we've talked about the
table of showbread we've talked about
the lampstand the golden lampstand now
we're going to talk about the final
piece that was right there in front of
the curtain in front of the veil and
that is the altar of incense the altar
of incense and some people think like
incense is evil like if you burn incense
for any reason you're part of some sort
of cult type thing and instance was used
in the tabernacle and has a wonderful
purpose and sometimes it has a really
nice smell also in case you didn't know
that I don't burn it since but I'm just
saying don't make it spiritual it's just
incense anyway so this is this is the
altar of incense constantly burning
they're constantly producing these fumes
that would come up fill the tabernacle
with a certain odor in fact if you came
near it you would it would smell nice
well it smell like incense and barbecues
what would smell like probably if you
came near there but here's a possible
representation of what it looked like
again it was portable so I had poles you
could you could take it up and move it
the altar of incense according to Exodus
30 constantly always rising before the
Holy of Holies and probably the the only
thing that was always coming in through
the Holy of Holies through that curtain
would be the smoke of the incense it
would be the only thing that was able to
somehow just permeate through the
curtain and fill the room is incense and
what does it represent this is easy guys
instance represents prayer in Scripture
Psalm 141 to let my prayer be counted as
incense before you probably the psalmist
is thinking about the tabernacle
and the temple and how there was
literally incense before you and he said
let my prayer be like incense before you
coming in to your presence revelation
eight forest is in the smoke of the
incense with the prayers of the Saints
rose before God from the hand of the
angel so here it's very clear in
Scripture incense is a picture of prayer
coming before God a pleasant aroma a
beautiful thing
entering a right into his presence and
of course we pray has this relate to
Jesus we pray through Christ we pray
through Jesus it's in Jesus his name
that I pray now whether you say in Jesus
name isn't the rule but I don't get it
come to God at all without Jesus and
it's in his name that I come to pray
it's in his name that God receives my
prayers and hears me and answers so the
incense I think represents that Christ
brings our prayers to God it entered
behind the veil how neat how neat and it
was always always always burning and
we're told in first Thessalonians 5:17
to pray always should pray always pretty
constantly pray all the time
and so interesting stuff now you might
think we're done
but next we're gonna look at the
coverings because if you've noticed
there's actually these layers of
coverings multiple layers of coverings
four of them actually on top of the the
the tabernacle so where I talked about
that in a second but let me let me show
you first the veil so this is okay maybe
not the highest quality reproduction but
something visual for you to look at so
you have the veil and there in the veil
and inside of the temple just or the
tabernacle just looked beautiful there
were actually a lot of artwork in there
now I know there was no images to
represent God but there were other
images just to represent that that this
is a glorious heavenly type of location
you know and the veils there some say
the veil may have been about 18 inches thick
thick
I don't know how thick it was I'm not
really sure but it the point is it
separated you from the Holy of Holies
you can't go in that's the idea there
was actually no entrance the veil didn't
have like like curtains you couldn't
pull it aside and walk through when the
high priest came once a year he had to
crawl under the veil he had to go under
this veil I think shows our separation
from God think about this like you see
the tabernacle there right and and the
priests they can enter in but you can't
go inside there right
only the Aaronic preschool tabernacle
itself so only one group of within the
priest can do that and then the veil not
even the high priest can do that except
one day of the year and he has to do it
twice on that day
first he comes and he offers an offering
for his own sin then he has to come back
and he can offer for the people so we're
saying you are separate God wants to
dwell amongst you but you're still
totally separated from him in many ways
Jesus comes and he fixes this in fact in
fact in Scripture mark fifteen thirty
seventh the moment Jesus dies it says
and Jesus uttered a loud cry and
breathed his last and the curtain of the
temple was torn in two from top to
bottom what do you think that means the
separation is over guys the price has
been paid could you imagine being the
priest who goes in there and they go and
there you're looking at the Ark and
you're like I'm gonna die you know and
you're what does this mean what does
this mean well I'll tell you what it
means it means that the price has been
paid and that's how the Bible interprets
this he was 1019 therefore brothers
since we have confidence to enter the
holy places by the blood of Jesus see
this is sacrificial language this is
like how they would enter by the by
blood into the holy places as priests so
we have confidence to enter the holy
places by the blood of Jesus by the new
and living way that he opened for us
through the curtain that is through his
flesh so here we have a new testament
type connection that the curtain is his
flesh as Christ was pierced as he died
as he was broken so the curtain was torn
open so the way was made there's another
New Testament type connection to the
curtain to the tabernacle all right we
ain't done yet so here's the here's the
four coverings here's the four coverings
and we can go on even longer than
tonight but it's just so much neat stuff
so the four coverings the tabernacle
itself again was about 15 feet wide and
there's about 45 feet long it had four
layers of coverings and it was in those
layers we're going to scallop
would and all that wood was overlaid
with gold and everything or bronze in
some cases each of these represents
potentially different things about Jesus
so let me walk you through some
possibilities this is conjecture here
but I think that it's not without reason
I don't think I'm fabricating him the
first layer was linen it was linen linen
is white right white and linen tends to
represent holiness in the scripture pure
clean garments tend to represent good
good works and righteousness that sort
of thing whereas dirty garments are
filthy garments represents sin our sin
is like filthy rags and things like that
it was it was not it didn't stay white
though as you can see it was dyed purple
blue and red it was dyed all three of
these different colors and it had all
sorts of decorations in it as well so
it's this beautiful thing this is if you
were inside the tabernacle you'd look
around you and this might be that this
stuff that you see you would see this
beautiful beautiful stuff so purple blue
and red well purple tends to represent
royalty Jesus was given a purple robe to
mock him and call him the King of the
Jews this was because purple robes were
generally the Royal and the rich the the
blue blue I mean perhaps the blue
represents heaven I mean as you look up
in the skies blue like perhaps you're
seeing these different colors the red
interesting is the word here is Tola and
those of you who know this Psalm 22 tol
affirm that's that red that they used to
dye the temple I don't have enough time
to get into it today but I think I've
covered it in this Jesus in the Old
Testament series today if not then I
will then I will because it's really
neat stuff this neat worm that we're I'm
a worm and no man and how about worm
itself may may be a picture of Christ
okay yeah so so we have the blue the
purple the red may be representing
Christ's sacrifice inside was amazing if
you walked in the in the tabernacle I
feel like you'd think you were like
entering into heaven it would feel like
you were entering into God's presence
and this gold and these beautiful images
and pictures of like like angels and
things like that the second layer was
goat skin okay this kind of takes a step
down doesn't because goat skin and not
these beautiful linens and stuff it's
goat skin that goats look dirty case you
haven't seen one before
and goats sometimes may have symbolized sin
sin
in the sacrifices not only do you offer
them sometimes for sin but there's a
scapegoat that represents the sin of
Israel coming upon a goat that runs off
into the wilderness like you don't want
to see that goat again right it's like
considering it like it's a sin type of
sin bearing thing that's the idea that's
Leviticus chapter 16 you can read about
that sin separates us from separates man
from God and here is this beautiful
heavenly stuff and then the thing laid
on top of that is this thing that may
represent like a sin between us and God
you're never gonna see all this
beautiful heavenly stuff guys the
Aaronic priesthood is to see it because
there's these sin issues sin separates
us from God but Jesus he bore our sins
second Corinthians 5:21 for he made him
who knew no sin to be sin for us that we
might become the righteousness of God in
him so upon heaven comes sin that's kind
of how it seems to me which looks a lot
like Jesus the third skin was made out
of a Rams Rams skin Rams skin a ram is
also a sacrificial animal in fact
specifically the first time that I can
that I think is the first time we see a
ram being used in a sacrificial sense in
the Bible is Genesis 22 when Abraham
offers a ram caught in the thicket if
you read the King James right and cotton
a bush and he offers this ram instead of
Isaac his son and that whole thing
pictures Jesus Christ very in a very
neat way
the RAM skin though it was dyed also it
was dyed red so the goat skin was just
up there but the RAM skin was dyed red
it was dyed red so if theoretically this
goat skin represents sin and the Rams
skin represents maybe the offering
foreskin sin blood the blood covering
the sin possibly
and then the final the fourth skin was
badger skin and depending on her
translation that will translate this
very differently my research tells me is
probably seal skin probably seal skin as
they were traveling along the coast but
I could be wrong here that they debate
on what this was but basically it's this
ugly thick durable skin the kind of
stuff they would use to make sandals out
of so we're talking like a leathery tie
thickness that sort of material used for
sandals used for things that are meant
to be beat up and in and work for you
that kind of thing and Christ came as a
servant isaiah 53:2 says he has no
beauty that we should desire him I'll
tell you what if you came and you saw
the tabernacle from the outside you
would not have thought anything special
about it you have been like you're all
camping around that Israel this is your
glorious tabernacle from the outside it
looks really plain this is a big tent
ugly but on the inside it looked like
heaven unimpressive from the outside but
from the inside it was the presence of God
God
I think the tabernacle represents Christ
even possibly in its very structures and
designs and its insides to represent the
things that Jesus did and the things
that Jesus was for us but there's two
items on the outside on the outside of
the tabernacle we have the the the
bronze altar and this is where they
would literally do offerings they would
actually offer animals on this altar and
it was an altar made out of wood and
covered in bronze no gold anymore for
the out so there's no gold on the
outside of the tabernacle it's gold on
the inside
outsides all bronze bronze which some
would say represents like judgment or
wrath Jesus's feet are like brass or
bronze when he in Revelation shows up
there's a few other verses that may
support that I'm not a hundred percent
sure on it to be honest it was about
this was pretty big it was about seven
and a half feet wide and long so longer
and wider than I am tall I'm only about
seven foot three so it was about four
foot six inches tall so small about as
tall as you ring and and and you can see
there's horns on it this was the horns
of the altar with it so my go and Ronnie
be like mercy mercy we want mercy you
know and they might not try to grab on
to the horns calling out for mercy upon
the name of all that sacrifice that took
place there interestingly enough what
happened on the inside was totally
private nobody saw what happened inside
the tabernacle but what happened on that
altar was totally public and what was it
the death and offering of all these
animals and with Jesus we didn't see
some of the stuff that he went through
but we saw his offering
we saw his
sacrifice that was quite public
interestingly too that you might miss
this if you just read through casually
the incense that was burned on the
inside the incense that brought that
brought prayers to God where did they
get the fire to burn that incense well
they got it from the coals from that
altar so the coals upon which the blood
of the sacrificial animals had dripped
those coals would be used to bring the
incense before God our prayers are
brought to God through the sacrifice of
Jesus the coal that touched the lips of
Isaiah when he said woe is me I'm an
unclean man of unclean lips represent
the coals upon which the sacrifice drips
yet the only sacrifice we know about in
heaven is the sacrifice and offering of
Jesus so that's another study but is
neat the bronze Laver the final piece of
the puzzle the bronze Laver this was
literally for washing that's what it's
for and it was made
we're told specifically made from the
mirrors of the Egyptian women remember
the Israelites they kind of plundered
the Egyptians they asked for gifts
before they left hey give us some stuff
and so then they gave them mirrors and
they that gathered the mirrors from the
Egyptian women they made them into this
bronze labor so it would have been this
really potentially really pretty looking
thing but maybe maybe it was highly
reflective I don't know
very possibly um it was filled with
water for ceremonial washing of the
priests and water has a picture in
Scripture as well so of the offerings
but we also have a cleansing that takes
place there at the tabernacle Ephesians
5:26 speaking of Jesus in the church it
says that he may sink might sanctify her
having cleansed her by the washing of
water with the word
with the word the word of God whether
whether this is talking about salvation
washing or the gospel you know we hear
the gospel we receive Christ were washed
clean of our sins or the sanctification
cleansing that we need like Jesus says
you've already been washed you just need
to wash your hands or your feet rather
just wash your feet that there's perhaps
that element there as well the Word of
God perhaps is like this mirror that
confronts us and there's some people to
see a picture there of the scripture as
we gather near to God and we get in the
word and we go I need to be changed
these mirrors were used to turn to this
washing device that's James 1 it talks
about the mirror so very interesting
stuff so finally the last thing I'll say
about the tabernacle is this and then
we'll take you any questions you guys
might have and hear your thoughts and
maybe something you picked up on the
Tabernacle again it was the only
location in Israel where these things
took place it was the one place where
offerings and sacrifice were made the
one way for God to be with his people
and there was only one way to get into
it as well there was only one entrance
into this place
one doorway that you could use to get in
it was heaven on the inside not so much
on the outside and then of course
scripture says that Jesus himself he
tabernacled amongst us there's at least
3 New Testament passages that I think
really strongly support a connection
typologically between Jesus and the
tabernacle there let's pray father we
thank you for this this time thank you
for this exciting study in your word
Jesus in the Old Testament we pray you'd
help us to just have insights to see the
fullness of the meaning that you have
always had in the text let our eyes be
unveiled that we might see the truth of
Christ through these things and Jesus we
are so grateful that your God with us
that we enter into the presence of God
freely freely because you have once and
for all paid the price for sin not like
them when they had to just always
continually offering again and again and
again because the sin was never altom
utley totally dealt with yes through
Christ we have the living way offered
once and for all we're grateful we love
you Lord we thank you for the excitement
and joy we have in your word as we study
in Jesus name Amen [Music]
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