Tape 6 - Divine Ordinances

Leviticus 23 and the Divine Ordinances as a Picture of Christ

Open your Bibles please to Leviticus 23rd chapter. We've been thinking about the tabernacle in Christ and we're drawing to a close. We have two more things tomorrow. Last evening we spoke about the offerings.

Tonight we want to look at our sixth part, part six, the divine ordinances. We're going to look at three passages of Scripture in Leviticus 23 and there are probably no, there is probably no more important chapter in the Bible than Leviticus 23 and that includes John 3, that includes John 1, that includes Revelation 20, that includes any chapter you want to go to.

There is no chapter in the Bible that is more important to Christianity than Leviticus 23. We're going to look at verses 4 through 6 and we'll look at 9 through 12. We'll look at 15 through 18. The feasts, that's what we're going to look at, the divine ordinances, the different feasts that they had and some people accuse us, we who believe in the Holy Bible and we say that we believe that the Bible is the revelation of God and we exalt the Bible and people tell us we worship the Bible and people tell us that we've limited God to a book and I perfectly agree with them.

We have limited him to a book, he's limited himself to a book and the reason is because the book is unlimited. The book is unlimited. It has no limits upon the Bible. I mean it has a front cover and a back cover you can't add to it nor can you take away but what it says itself is unlimited and God himself has done it but now when you come to telling the gospel story God hasn't done it that way.

God hasn't limited the telling of the gospel to necessarily putting it down in words as such because in telling the gospel he uses divine institutions and ordinances to do so. Now every institution in the Bible has the mark of divinity on it.

If you didn't know anything about the Bible but you just saw it and heard someone go through it such as the Lord's Supper that you'll have Sunday night, a person can come under that without having any knowledge of the Bible, not even being a Christian and God can marvelously and wonderfully speak to that heart through that as the pastor will go through what it really means.

Now every divine institution of God has two things that it does. We usually miss one of them. First of all it teaches everything. You know the Lord's Supper teaches. Every institution teaches but it also does something else.

It proves. It teaches and it proves. It has a didactic property meaning it teaches some truth or an apologetic property. It teaches something that is defense of Christianity or it proves something about Christianity.

Now the tabernacle is exactly what we have read on about three different occasions in Hebrews 9. The tabernacle in the wilderness is a figure. It is a pattern. It is a type. It is a divinely purposed illustration or symbol of Jesus Christ.

That is why the furniture was placed as we've said in the form of a cross. That is why we've said five pieces of furniture are there. Five being the Bible number for grace. That is why the golden candlestick looked forward to the coming of Christ as the light of the world and why the table of showbread looked forward to him coming as the bread of life.

Everything in that tabernacle including, we didn't have time to go into it, the sockets and the pillows and the silver hooks and everything in there speaks of something about the person and the work of Jesus Christ.

Now the bread on the table of showbread we said was a type of Christ because it was unleavened bread because leaven is evil and there was no evil in the bread of life. But my question is this, now we've talked about this on several occasions but I just have different questions.

How do you get bread? How is bread obtained? Well Jesus told us didn't he? He said except a grain of wheat fall into the ground and die it bides alone but if it die it bringeth forth much fruit. Now that's where we get bread.

But what else happens? I mean what else happens before bread can sustain life so to speak? Well in the olden days wheat had to be ground between an upper and a lower millstone. You've seen them in the pictures.

So the Lord Jesus Christ before he could become bread for us the bread of life and that we could feed upon him had to be ground between the upper and the lower millstone just like the Old Testament said.

Furthermore the wheat had to be roasted in the ovens. I believe the demons of hell itself and the earth realm resemble the lower millstone and the wrath of God like in the upper millstone ground and descended upon the precious head of the Lord Jesus Christ and the Lord Jesus Christ endured the heat of the wrath of men and even the iniquity that God allowed to be poured upon him as God unleashed his wrath for you and me upon his precious son which would be symbolized by being thrown into the oven.

Christ is a part of everything in the wilderness tabernacle. Now the wilderness tabernacle was placed where? It was placed at the western end of that great court. This court consisted of white linen curtains eight feet high.

There was only one way to approach that tabernacle. There was just one entrance, one gate, one door and that was where? At the eastern end. Just one way to get in to where the presence of God was. Is it any wonder that Acts 4 12 says neither is there salvation in the other for there's none other name unto heaven given amongst men whereby we must be saved.

Is it any wonder that Jesus said I am the door by me if any man enter in he shall be saved. Friends don't ever forget what's the primary context of those scriptures. Who was Jesus talking to? He was speaking to Jews.

As I've said to you and you know well the Gentiles didn't even get the gospel as a group of people until Acts the 10th chapter. Matthew, Mark, Luke and John and the first nine chapters of the book of Acts God is dealing with Jews and in Acts 8 it's Jews and Assyrians or Samaritans.

So the Gentiles did. Who was Jesus talking to? When he said I am the door by me if any man their minds went back to their teaching about the tabernacle. They knew there was just one way to get in that tabernacle and Jesus says I'm that way you trying to go in another way and there's just one way.

Now not only does the tabernacle teach the only approach to God is and that Jesus Christ is the greater and more perfect tabernacle it proves it. It will prove it to you. You know here's what you need to establish.

You'll need to establish two things for it to prove to you that Jesus Christ is who he says he is. First of all all you have to establish is that the tabernacle existed before Christ did and the second thing you must establish is look at the pages of history and prove that Christ existed and if you prove those two things my friends it'll prove it.

It will prove it to you. The tabernacle whoever wrote it I don't know you know what if God just sat down and sent an angel down there and spoke to I don't have God communicated to them but I know that those who wrote the many chapters in Exodus and Leviticus concerning the tabernacle I believe that they knew all about the atonement of the Messiah and I believe they knew about the blood of the Lamb 1 ,500 years before John the Baptist cried out behold the Lamb of God which takes away the sin of the world.

We want these people in the Old Testament to be ignorant because our egos wants us to have all the information but my friends we'll have to go a long way to understand things like Isaiah did. We'll have to go a long way to see with the mind of Ezekiel and Daniel.

We'll have to go a long way to walk with God like Moses. I haven't met anybody in any church anywhere there was a man like Moses. I've never met one like Abraham and I've been around this world three and a half times.

Maybe you know one maybe you think you are one but my friends I never met one and yet our egos are so inflated all the time we feel we must have all the information and the people back there well I'll grant you they didn't see the cross as clearly as you and I but they saw it.

Jesus said what Abraham rejoiced to see my day and he saw it and he was glad. Jesus said Abraham knew about it. I like to drop that one out especially people who question all this stuff. I know that you don't but that is one just solves the problem.

That just solves the problem. He said Abraham knew about me and they just don't know what to do about it. Well all of God's Old Testament institutions and ceremonies have this didactic, this teaching quality and this apologetic value or this defense or proving of that which is by faith.

Now God's New Testament institutions also have these two values in them baptism and the Lord's Supper, Holy Communion. Holy Communion proves the central fact of the universe. Do you know that? You have thought about it?

Holy Communion proves the central fact of the universe. What is the central fact? That the body of the Lord Jesus Christ was broken for us and his blood shed for many for the remission of sins. Now the Lord's Supper proves that conclusively.

If you want to prove that Jesus died on the cross and if you want to prove his body was broken for the forgiveness of sin just show somebody the Lord's Supper. It teaches it and at the same moment it proves it.

Now here's how it proves the death of Christ for the world. The communion service as we know it is universal dear people. It isn't just celebrated in Texas. Everywhere you go in this world you can find people.

For years you can find people doing it. They celebrate the Lord's Supper. Now it is practiced all over the world and has been for some 2 ,000 years. It is a universal effect. Now when there is an effect there must be a cause.

If there is no cause there cannot be an effect. Wherever there is the effect there first of all has to be a cause and what is the adequate cause of this effect? It was the death of Jesus Christ on the cross.

So by reasoning from the effect to the cause you can prove that the atonement really happened in history and not only does communion service prove the great fact of the atonement it performs the function common to every one of God's institutions.

It teaches it. Now God knew that there would be wolves clothed in sheepskins who would find their ways into the pulpits of Christianity and they would corrupt the flock but he placed the central fact of the gospel in an institution called the Lord's Supper in such a way as to force everyone who preaches the gospel in any way whether he's false or true he has to tell the gospel in objective form whether he wants to or not and any child can see the broken bread symbolizes the broken body of Christ and the poured out wine represents the poured out blood of the Savior because God will communicate it to him.

That's why it's extremely important to have a holy time when you have the Lord's Supper because my friends God will use it like he won't use anything else. But what do we do? Well we come in you know it's just another it doesn't mean anything.

We're so used to it. We're so used to it. Now when you enter the realm of Christian apologetics that means a defense of Christianity. We're talking about the tabernacle. Let's look at seven institutions in the Old Testament.

Seven sacraments, seven feasts that God ordained and they are recorded in Leviticus 23 and they will prove Christianity. In the Old Testament we're going to prove Christianity. This chapter Leviticus 23 contains seven monuments which are a complete story of the death, the burial, and the resurrection of Jesus Christ and the founding of the church on the day of Pentecost.

All of this is found in this ancient book that was written about 1490 BC, about 1500 years before Christ. Now Leviticus 23 contains a list of the seven feasts of Jehovah. They are almost identical to the seven holidays on the Jewish calendar.

Now we humans establish a holy day or a holiday to celebrate something that has occurred in our history. Our holidays celebrate something that has already happened. Memorial Day, July the 4th, Labor Day, any holiday we have in our human history that's what it has.

But God being God makes his holidays symbolize something that did happen and something that is going to happen in the future. God does it differently and he begins the calendar of the Jewish year with the Passover.

So let's look at the Passover, verse 5. Leviticus 23, verse 5, in the fourteenth day of the first month at evening is the Lord's Passover. And you know as I know, it's old story to you, but let me just quickly go through it.

They were to take a spotless lamb which met all the specifications of the book. They shed its blood, now watch it carefully, they put the blood on the top and on the sides of the doorpost and then they put the basin of the blood on the threshold.

Most forget that. We know about the cross, oh yeah we got all that, but they put the blood of the basin on the threshold. Of course the sign of the cross and the blood at the bottom. Christ is specifically called by Paul, Christ our Passover is sacrificed for us.

Now the Hebrew word for basin and for threshold is identically the same Hebrew word. It's the same word. Now I know you knew that, but I just thought again from my own edification, I thought I would just relate that to you.

Now God said on the first night, you're looking at me strangely, we're not going to sing Rock of Ages, let me go on. You're so excited and enthralled and elated. God said on that first terrible night of the Passover, when I see the blood I will pass over you and you know it well and we'll see it again tomorrow in both services so clearly they'll fit even more into it.

But let me hasten along lest you become impatient with me. The next feast is found in Leviticus 23 verse 6. It is called the Feast of Unleavened Bread. And on the fifteenth day of the same month is the Feast of Unleavened Bread unto the Lord.

Seven days you must eat unleavened bread. Of course let's look forward to Christ as the bread of life who had no leaven, leaven, no evil in him. There was no evil in him. Leaven is always as we said the picture of evil in the Bible.

Somebody tells you, you say go on act like leaven in the world, don't you do it. Because leaven is a picture of evil, a picture of evil. Alright what's the next one quickly? It's Leviticus 23 9 through 12.

And this is called the Feast of the Firstfruits. And the Lord spoke unto Moses saying, speak unto the children of Israel and say unto them, when you are come into the land which I give unto you and shall reap the harvest thereof, then you shall bring a sheep of the firstfruits of your harvest unto the priest.

And he shall wave the sheep before the Lord to be accepted for you. On the next day or the morrow, tomorrow, on the next day after the Sabbath, the priest shall wave it. And you shall offer that day when you wave the sheep and he lamb without blemish of the first year for burnt offering unto the Lord.

A male lamb with all again the specific qualifications was killed. And the priest lifted it as an offering unto the Lord. And of course this foreshadowed the death of the Lamb of God. That lamb was killed and it was lifted up.

What's that song we sung Sunday night? If I be lifted up I will draw all men unto myself. But something else happened on that day. The priest waved what is called you see a wave sheaf offering of wheat before the Lord.

Now what they did was they'd go through the harvest was ready to come. And they would go through and they'd pick a little bit. And they'd form it. You know in the old days you used to have brooms. You know how the brooms they'd get a bunch of straw and tie it around a stick.

And that was a sheaf. Well that's what a sheaf looked like. And all the people would get a little bit of theirs and they'd put it together and they'd bring it in. And the priest would wave that before the Lord.

Now the sheaf of wheat has always been a picture of the resurrection. Why was he waving it before the Lord? Because it was an indication of the harvest that was to come. It wasn't the harvest. It was the representation of the harvest that was come.

And when Jesus came out of the grave what happened? Have you ever asked yourself the question when the Bible says when Jesus was raised from the dead that the graves of many were open and the saints came out and went around town visiting people?

Why do you think that happened? My friends it was the wave sheaf offering. God was indicating to the people because they come out you can be sure one day you coming out. And it says that Jesus led captivity captive being the first fruits of them that slept.

And because Jesus came out of the grave. But not only that, that's what we preach and teach. But not only that dear people but because he took some others out with him at the same time. Because of that also you can be assured of your resurrection one day if you go through what the world calls death.

And that was pictured in the wave sheaf offering. Now again he took what is called the heave offering. The heave offering. And he moved the offering as far as he could from the left to the right. The left to the right and the vertical.

Again the priests would do it making the sign of the cross. Now in Leviticus 23 11 what did it say? When were they to do it? On the morrow after the sabbath. What's the sabbath? That is Friday at six o 'clock to Saturday at six o 'clock.

Now what is the sabbath? It says sabbath Saturday? No. It says the day afterwards. On the next day after the sabbath. On the morrow after the sabbath. And you can look back and you plainly see that God was thinking about Sunday.

He was thinking about the Lord's Day. That's the day that commemorates what? The resurrection. So the feast looked forward to Easter. I was in Mississippi. I just read an article by a Baptist pastor. Retired pastor and adopted somebody.

And he put an article and I brought it back with me. A lady gave it to me in the Mobile Alabama newspaper. And he says that we ought to be worshipping on Sabbath because the Bible never teaches that we're to worship on the first day of the week.

And he goes on and plays around. But he starts out with the wrong date and then he gets back in the right scheme of things. And then he goes off on the wrong date. And this big problem is he doesn't understand his Old Testament.

If he just understood Leviticus 23 he'd be in good shape. But he misquotes and misuses dates because he doesn't know the Old Testament. And he's sitting over there trying to keep the Sabbath. My friends if you just read Exodus 31 that'd solve your problem wouldn't it?

Wouldn't it? Now you're shaking your head up and down. What's Exodus 31 say? Well it says God says the Sabbath is a covenant between me and Israel. It is a perpetual covenant between me and the Jew forever.

It has nothing to do with the church whatsoever. And again you've heard me say and I hasten to say it again quickly lest I take up too much time with it. On Sunday when you pray don't say Lord thank you for this beautiful Sabbath day because Sunday isn't Sabbath.

Sunday is the Lord's Day and it commemorates the resurrection and you know that well. And it was on the day after the Sabbath. Now to instruct the Jewish people to observe a holy day on Sunday is the equivalent of trying to get you and me to change our worship to Monday or Tuesday.

There just doesn't seem to be any sense to it. God did not select Sunday arbitrarily. The Jew had to celebrate the firstfruits on Sunday even though his own inclination would be to celebrate it on the Sabbath day Saturday.

Now it is true that blindness in part has happened to Israel until the fullness of the Gentiles become in. It's amazing how the Jew could have all this at his hand isn't it? And still not see? The Jew could see the golden candlestick in the tabernacle and he could never see the light of the world.

He could see the golden table of showbread and never see Christ the bread of life. He can see the precious blood and the bleeding lamb and never see the lamb slain from the foundation of the world. He can see all the detailed instructions and instructions regarding the Passover lamb and never see Christ our Passover sacrificed for us.

He could observe all the instructions to keep the feast of the firstfruits on Sunday and never see Christ as the firstfruits who rose on Sunday. At Passover time you know well how the Jewish father leads in the celebration in his home.

The father takes three pieces of unleavened bread basically and we ask him the question why unleavened bread? He'll say I don't know. Why couldn't it be any kind of bread? He says I don't know. I say it looks forward to the bread with no evil Jesus Christ.

I said why do you take three pieces? He says I don't know. I say it represents the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. I said wait why are you breaking that second wafer? He says I don't know why I break the second one.

I said why didn't you break the first one or third one? He says I don't know. Why are you breaking that second one? He says I don't know. I said because it was the second person of the Godhead whose body was broken for you and the Jewish father takes that second broken piece and hides it out of sight and the children are allowed to come and slip it out and take it off and the father opens it up later on and says he's gone.

It's not there. What happened to that wafer? I said why do you do that? He says I don't know. He doesn't have any idea why he does these things but my friends I know why. What's he talking about? The feast of the first fruits is a dramatization of the death, the burial, the resurrection and that little wafer broken and hidden from sight opened up gone.

Jesus put in a tomb opened up gone. He doesn't know why he does that. Like a bunch of Baptists they don't know why they're here either most of the time. They don't understand all and if you think so my friends you grab hold of a Jehovah's Witness and he'll make a theological pretzel out of you.

He'll wrap you into more corners. That's why Baptists don't talk to them. I had a lady she said I got the greatest answer in the world in dealing with those people. When I see him coming I turn the lights out pull the shades down and I don't answer the door.

I said what a witness. What a witness. We don't know what we believe but they're wrong but they know what they believe. You gotta admire them for that. Well we can move on. Let's move to the next one.

The first fruits on the day after the Sabbath. Leviticus 23 15 17 and he shall count unto you from the morrow after the Sabbath from that Sunday from the day that you brought the sheaf of the wave offering seven Sabbaths shall be complete even unto the next day after the seventh Sabbath which will be another Sunday shall you number 50 days and you shall offer a new meal offering unto the Lord.

You shall bring out of your habitations two wave loaves of two tenth parts they shall be a fine flour they shall be baked with leaven they are the first fruits unto the Lord. Now why again the phrase the morrow after the Sabbath and then that phrase 50 days this period of course terminated on another Sunday.

Well what happened 50 days after Easter Sunday after the resurrection. What happened. The Church of Jesus Christ was born on the day of Pentecost. Moses wrote about it way back yonder. Oh Moses Paul revealed it.

No Paul was a Jew studying under Moses. How'd Paul know about it? He'd been reading Leviticus. Paul knew about it. Of course God took him out into Arabia and explained it to him for about three years.

Wouldn't that be wonderful just to get alone in the desert with God and let God teach you from the Scripture. Isn't that marvelous. Wouldn't you just love that? I got news for you if you'll just get with your Bible God will teach you in your house.

You don't have to go to Arabia like our brother had to go to Saudi Arabia down there for six months. He'll teach you at home. You don't have to go out in the desert. Moses went out there 40 years without any food or water.

You don't have to do that. You can sit with a sandwich and a glass of milk with the Word of God and God teach you what marvelous provisions God has made for us. Now no leaven is mentioned in this passage.

Is it because it's a symbol of Israel of evil and no Israelite would ever eat leaven. He hated it and he was taught to hate it at the Passover season when he got ready the wife of an Israelite ransacked her house from top to bottom cellar to attic to make sure there was no leaven in her house.

Her home was purified or cleansed and purged. The housewife reported back to her husband that there is no leaven in the house but nevertheless the head of the house he lit a candle. A practice. That's continuous day.

What do you think Roman Catholics got the idea from you think they figured that one out too? Now I've been kind of hard on this week but friends they didn't figure it out. Jews been lighting candles long before there was ever a Roman Catholic Church.

They lighted a candle. Why. Because my friends they weren't sure where there was one. But what was that lighted candle for it was indicate to them light that would guide their path as they went from room to room looking for evil.

They searched out for that leaven in there and it came to the front door of the house. And the father would hold that light out to shine so people could see the light of his testimony. And he would say there is no leaven in my house.

And if there's one bit of leaven in my house it is here against my will. That's the light of his testimony. I want to be right with God. And if there's anything here that I don't know about it is not because I want here.

It is against my will. I will to serve God is what he's saying. And here's the light of my testimony. That's what he's talking about. And all of that now that's how he regarded leaven everywhere always and continually.

Jesus said what. Beware of the leaven of the Sadducees. Watch them beware of them. Why. Evil evil watch out it'll take hold of you. Well just a little bit of gossip staying in your mind will contaminate it.

You know how they kill a rabid wolf or wild lion. That's rabid. They take a bunch of fresh meat 98 good meat and 2 poison meat. And he eats it all what killed him. 98 good meat. Uh-uh 2 poison.

My friends whatever you put in your mind stays locked in there stays locked. If you put good stuff in your mind is fine. If you put that junk that the world offers you in your mind when it comes time to make a decision you got that poison lurking around in there and it'll do you in.

That's why Jesus said beware the leaven of the Sadducees. Now why did God say in Leviticus to celebrate a certain day 50 50 days after the feast of the firstfruits. And on the morrow after the Sabbath.

And why celebrate it with loaves of bread baked with leaven. Baked with leaven. Why would he say that take it and bake it with leaven. That seems to be contradictory. Because God was looking to head to what was going to happen on Easter Sunday when the Lord Jesus was going to rise from the dead.

And he was also showing his church which was going to be born 50 days after Easter. But leaven the sign of evil. Yes. Because he knew the church would have evil in it from the beginning to the end. He knew it was going to be that way.

And if you don't think so just be in here on Sunday. Be in any church on Sunday. Satan works harder in church and anywhere else. And I know what this is where he works. He's already got everybody else.

They belong to him. So he's got to come and try to disrupt the worship of the Lord. Well what are the remaining face quickly. The feast of trumpets in Leviticus 23 24. Leviticus 23 24 speak unto the children of Israel saying in the seventh month and the first day of the month shall you have a Sabbath a memorial of blowing of trumpets and holy convocation.

So they had the feast of the trumpets. All right. What's the next one. Quickly. Verse 27. And also on the tenth day of the seventh month there shall be a day of atonement. It shall be in a holy convocation unto you.

And you shall afflict your souls and offer an offering made by fire unto the Lord. So we have the day of atonement. It actually should read day of atonements. It ought to be plural. It ought to be plural when the high priest entered the Holy of Holies with the blood of atonements which looked forward to our high priest who entered heaven for us with his precious blood.

All right. What's the last feast. The last feast of course ends in verse 33. It's the feast of the tabernacles. What's it looking forward to. And the Lord spoke unto Moses saying speak unto the children of Israel saying the 15th day of the seventh month shall be the feast of tabernacles for seven days unto the Lord.

And on the first day shall be a holy convocation. You shall do no servile work. Therein seven days you shall offer an offering made by fire unto the Lord. On the eighth day eight being the number of new beginning in the Bible shall be an holy convocation unto you and you shall offer an offering.

And then he goes on these are the feasts of the Lord. The feast of the tabernacles. It looks forward to the arrival of the church at his final dwelling place in heaven with the Lord. Now I've made several statements to you about the tabernacle proving the Bible.

Friends if you just got a good grasp of the tabernacle you can prove anything you want the Bible I mean you prove it's true all good things. It is very plain that in the Old Testament the New Testament lies in folded.

In the Old Testament the New Testament lies in folded. And in the New Testament the Old Testament is unfolded unfolded now this being true. Then as far as I'm concerned the case for the authenticity and the genuineness of Scripture is closed.

There needs be no more argument. But the Communist Party of the world stemming from Russia has boldly stated that they are going to control the world. And in order to do it they plainly state for you and me to read and in their verbal statements that they must control not only bodies but they must control the minds and the very souls of men.

And so they say quote God must be banished from the skies as well as capitalism from the earth. And this is what they're setting out to do now in order to blast God from the skies and the minds of people it is necessary to blast his book and my friends that is the core and thrust of that theological thing called higher criticism that is taught in every seminary and every College of America.

Except of just about three that I'm aware of maybe four our Southern Baptist seminaries are corrupted with higher critical thought. And yet it is attacking and it is the one school that attacks the veracity the infallibility the pureness the genuineness and the authenticity of the Holy Bible the Holy Scriptures.

And the greatest book on higher criticism is Brett Schneider's Probabilia. And this book is a scholarly discussion attacking the authenticity and the genuineness of the fourth gospel John. It says it is in history as myth Jewish legends etc.

However in later volumes on John Brett Schneider plainly admitted that he wrote Probabilia for academic reasons and to provide thought and that he never doubted for a single moment the authenticity and genuineness of the gospel of John.

And yet I've had professor stand in front of me and said John is not true history. And you can't find a dime's worth of them that believe that the gospel of John is true word for word. My friends they are at a minimum.

But yet why they use this man. But you see they don't read what else he wrote. They don't read what else he wrote. Now how does the Bible prove itself if it is every color every position every object every dimension every sacrifice every ceremony.

And the tabernacle points forward to Jesus Christ. He is the tabernacle. He is the lamb. He's the high priest. He's the door. He's the bread of life. He's the light of the world. Even the things God left out of the tabernacle pointed to Christ.