The Tabernacle, Pt. 2 (11/14/1999)

You're Outlined there.

We look at the tabernacle its meaning and its construction.

We'll start getting into some of the more fascinating details.

The tabernacle, of course was ordered by God.

To be set up in the wilderness.

Its plan of this construction was giving in the very minute detail to Moses.

It was attended of course to be the official dwelling place of God in the midst of the nation of Israel.

It was a symbol we say a picture a type a Foreshadowing.

It also was a prophecy of the work of Jesus Christ on the cross of man's redemption.

The subject of the Bible is what the subject of the Bible is God man and

redemption.

I mean generally speaking many other aspects of that.

The object of the Bible is where God comes to redeem sinful man.

From his sin to redeem fallen man through the blood of his son.

The purpose of the Bible the written word is to what?

Revealed to us the living word that we might see God's Son understand God's Son and to know

God's Son.

2nd Corinthians 521 for he has made him to be sin for us who knew no sin that we might

be made the righteousness of God in First Peter 318 for Christ also has once suffered for

sins the just for the unjust that he might bring us to God.

Being put to death in the flesh.

But quickened by the Spirit as we've said the tabernacle was God's visual aid to salvation.

What God was doing he gave them a picture of it in the tabernacle.

Hebrews 8 5 says this who serve unto the example and shadow of

heavenly things as Moses was admonished of God when he was about to make the

tabernacle for See say of he that thou make all things according to the pattern

show to thee in the mouth.

So the writer of Hebrews tells us That Moses was going to do this and it was a shadow

based upon God's divine pattern as I've said.

It's called the temp of the testimony.

It stood in the midst of the children of Israel to reveal to them God's plan and God's purpose.

For them in Numbers chapter 9 verse 15.

It says this.

And on the day that the tabernacle was raised up reared up the cloud.

Covered the tabernacle namely the tent of the testimony and at even there was

upon the tabernacle as it were the appearance of fire.

Until morning so at dusk every evening until morning.

There was the appearance of fire over the tabernacle as God's

presence Indicated itself to these people.

As I said, the key to the tabernacle is Christ.

The key to the tabernacle is the Messiah.

Remember, he came unto his own his own received him not.

But Romans 1 16 is still applicable.

For I'm not ashamed of the gospel of Christ.

It's the power of God and salvation to everyone who believes to the Jew first and also to the Gentile is for the Gentile.

But it's to the Jew first.

Everything went to the Jew first and God has him.

I'm sorry to say for you if you have otherwise and you're thinking but God had them in his mind first and God has a

Plan for them on this earth that has really nothing to do with you and me.

God has a plan for these people and he will deal with them according to that plan.

Now the tabernacle was their gospel that occurred 1 ,500 years before it was ever done on the cross

1 ,500 years prior to that they had this picture now.

We talk a lot about creation and creation is extremely important to us.

Isn't it that God created everything in the beginning.

God created the heavens and the earth?

But there are only two chapters in the Bible devoted to creation and yet you can't go to any school.

Christian school, especially.

I mean, they spend weeks studying Christian and that's fine.

We need to understand creation.

But in the book of Exodus and the book of Leviticus alone, there are 43 chapters devoted to the tabernacle.

43 chapters devoted to that.

Exodus 25 to 28 God tells the people how it should be built.

He tells about should be built and in Exodus 35 to 40 He tells them how to build it tells him,

you know.

That should be he won't you.

I want you to do it and then tells him how to do it.

Now in your Bible 17 times the tabernacle is mentioned in saying that God told him to do it

17 times it said the Lord told him to build.

The Lord told him to build it.

Now you and I who studied biblical numerology.

We know something about 17.

Don't let me give you a little fascinating fact.

17 is the number for eternal security.

Eternal security wherever you find 17 in the scripture.

It'll always have a connotation of security.

Now if I would ask you you could probably give me but what would be the Old Testament?

Passage that deals with eternal security.

There are probably several but let me just give you one that's best known Psalm 23.

Psalm 23.

Now, there are 17 references the pronoun in there 17

and we know that what?

That God is the one that overlooks us and God is the one that takes care of us.

And it was the Lord doing all those things in Psalm 23.

The Lord is my shepherd.

Yeah, all these things we talk about.

Well, let me ask you a question what is the New Testament passage on eternal security.

Romans chapter 8 verses 37.

Specifically 30 39 and there are 17 entities that says that can't affect you as a child of God.

Neither height nor depth or width or breadth or limit.

Nothing can.

Why.

Because you're in Christ Jesus.

Eternal security and I'm not surprised when I come to the Bible that 17 times.

The Bible says that Moses made that according to the way God commanded.

Because that was their security with God it is constantly referred to in the New Testament and yet I'm

astounded at how many people don't know much about this and many preachers don't see any significance in it.

The book of Hebrews is not understandable without an understanding of the tabernacle.

You cannot understand the book of Hebrews without understanding the tabernacle.

It just doesn't mean anything.

It is the New Testament Commentary on what was going on in the tabernacle and yet if you and I can understand the tabernacle a

lot of people are Taught Hebrews as some of you have and I it's amazing.

He said I won't stand it I I read the book.

I can't I can't understand the book of Hebrews.

Hebrews.

That's because you don't have a foundation the tabernacle is the foundation.

So we're going to look at several things.

Concerning the tabernacle.

First of all, let's look at the meaning of it again.

It is the place where God met the sinners.

X is 25.

You have those scriptures in your outline.

X is 25 22 29 42 to 43, but where does he meet us now?

He meets us now in Christ doesn't.

Second Corinthians chapter 919 he meets us now, but he met them there.

It is the place where God revealed himself to sinners, but how does God reveal himself today?

Obviously he reveals himself to Christ in him dwells the fullness of the Godhead Bodily and it's the

place where God dwelt with sinners.

I mean those people were sinners and yet God chose to come down there and dwell with them.

And now what I mean God speaks to us in Christ.

It is Christ through him that God speaks there.

God spoke to them personally.

God dealt with him on a personal level.

But today God doesn't deal with you basically as he did then he deals with us through his son the Lord

Jesus Christ.

It's a place where God accepted the sinners.

Leviticus chapter 1 verse 4.

Now we are accepted in the beloved.

The book of Ephesians tells us we're accepted in Christ.

We know we are if we're a child of God, we don't have fear about that.

We know with all of our failings and with all of our faults.

We are accepted by the beloved and then it's the place where God forgives the sinner and now he

forgives us in Christ.

I wish people could understand.

And I'll not go into all the details but it is just really astounding to me of how so many people are trying to turn us back to Rome and

back to the Roman Church and how people I met a lady called me the other day and talked to me about Counseling and about

her family and all these things like this and her husband is a practicing Roman Catholic.

And she says well, don't you believe that the Roman Catholic people are born again?

I said I believe that a Roman Catholic person get born again.

Sure, but they won't stay in the Roman Catholic Church because the Holy Spirit leads into light not darkness.

He won't keep you in darkness.

He won't let you stay in darkness.

And they said well, we know a priest that's born again.

I said well if he's still a priest and back to the mass he's not because he's violating the Word of God.

There is no way and yet I can tell you today the whole movement is to move towards it.

But if people understood the tabernacle and just understood what God had told these people and then follow that through the scripture.

There's no way they could hold to such a thing and yet they do.

It's the place where God receives sinners.

There is no salvation outside of Christ.

And if you add anything to Christ, then it's not Christ.

There are many people teach the blood is not sufficient.

I mean the blood of Christ is fine.

But you got to have something else in there and you got to add this to it and there are people who devoted to that.

We know that we are totally received in Jesus Christ.

Now.

Here's the question.

Let me just go over it with you briefly.

Why I studied the tabernacle.

What difference does it make.

And I'll promise you that if we're taking a survey in any church in town and said Would you like to study these

subjects and listed?

Prophecy.

Self -esteem.

Being a good mom and dad.

Divorce sex.

Drinking murder violence.

Columbine.

And stuck the tabernacle in there.

I will guarantee you never would have checked the tabernacle.

Most of you would not have checked it.

Maybe one day but most would not and that's true anywhere.

Why we don't understand the significance of the tabernacle.

First of all, it's part of the Bible.

My Bible says all scripture is given by inspiration of God man shall not live by bread alone.

But by what.

By every word that proceeds from the mouth of God away.

Minute.

Does that mean just the Gospels?

Is that just Corinthians?

No, it's from Genesis to Revelation.

And yet most people you can't get them out of the New Testament get them in the Old Testament.

Understanding that the Old Testament is the foundation for the new not being critical.

That's just the way it is.

So if it's a part of the Bible, I want to study it, don't you?

We want to study if it's part of the Bible.

Also as I've said it's one of the major themes of the Bible and it pictures the major theme of the Bible the work of Christ for

man's redemption.

Here it is.

What did I say earlier?

What does the Bible spend more chapters talking about than anything else right here.

50 chapters?

There was no subject in the Bible that has 50 chapters.

50 chapters in the Bible that are devoted to the tabernacle.

You got whole books of the Bible that aren't 50 chapters.

You got a lot of books in the New Testament that aren't 50 chapters and yet God spends 50 chapters of

dealing with this thing called the tabernacle.

We know that it speaks of the Lord Jesus Hebrews 10 20 by a new now watch this by a new and

living way.

Which he has consecrated for us through the veil that is to say his flesh now.

If you just read that and never heard of the tabernacle through the veil would mean nothing to you would it?

I mean through the veil.

What does that mean?

Where's the veil?

You got to go back to the tabernacle.

You gotta go back to the tabernacle and then the temple to understand something about the veil.

So that scripture has meaning for us if we have a concept of the tabernacle.

It was designed by the Holy Spirit.

Hebrews 9 8 it was a made according to the heavenly divine pattern.

Hebrews 9 23 and 24 says it was therefore necessary.

That the patterns of the things and the heavens should be purified with these but the heavenly things

themselves with better sacrifices than these for Christ has not entered into the Holy place that

means nothing if you don't understand the tabernacle does.

We don't understand the tabernacle in the temple.

We have no that verse means nothing.

Christ is not entered into the holy places made with hands.

Which are figures of the truth, that's what we say.

It's a picture of the real that's coming.

It's real, but it's a picture of a really real when it comes and it says which are figures of the true.

But into heaven itself now appear in the presence of God for us.

He doesn't go in there.

He doesn't go in the temple anymore didn't go in the tabernacle.

He's in the very presence of God.

On our behalf now you and I as I said could not understand the book of Hebrews without the tabernacle.

You have to understand the tabernacle and the book of Hebrews will explain the tabernacle.

They one are tied in with the other and the tabernacle completely portrays all the work of Christ.

His dealing with sin atonement fellowship with God and man's final destiny.

And I'll promise you that a complete study you get any person that will study the tabernacle in depth as

we're doing here.

And hopefully you'll take the notes and go back and study on your own.

It is a complete antidote to the poison of unsound teaching of the new morality and the

new theology and All of those things.

I promise you if you study the tabernacle, you'll never get caught up in this.

No liberal Theologian can accept the teachings of the tabernacle.

He cannot do it.

It is an antidote to liberalism and that's why you don't find it taught.

You don't find it preached.

You don't find books on it.

You've got a hunt for them.

That's not what's selling today.

It's not what's on the market.

That's not what they advertise on TV.

They advertise all sorts of things and yet it magnifies the inspiration of Scripture.

It magnifies that God wrote the scriptures.

God controlled the writing of the scriptures.

So let's look at the construction.

And I'm not going to refer to this.

I just let you look at now remember this right here is the tabernacle.

That's the tabernacle and this is the temple built around it.

I had a young lady.

I didn't draw these.

I have no gifts or villages but I had a young lady who did this and wanted to give them to me and So sent

them to me.

The general appearance of that tabernacle was an oblong box.

As you see it there's an oblong box 45 feet long 15 feet wide

and 15 feet high so 45 long 15 high and 15 wide

and that of course is not an exact replica of this.

She was not up into blueprints and planning or anything.

She just drew this because she had some abilities.

Now the tabernacle was divided into two sections.

What's not inside there?

I didn't call the holy place and Then there was a veil and behind there was called the Holy of Holies that we

hear so much about.

The outside section was 30 by 15 feet and inside was 15 by 15 feet

30 feet by 15 and 15 by 15 now.

It was constructed of 48 boards of what the King James called steam wood.

Which actually was an acacia wood.

We believe it was an acacia wood, which is an incorruptible wood.

We are told that two things about wood.

One is we're told that the olive tree and the acacia tree will not die.

You can't kill one of them.

You can burn it.

You can burn it to the ground and it'll sprout back up again.

It just sprouts back up again, and there were 48 of those boards that were used to make this

20 on each side.

Six on the western end and two on the eastern end and they lapped over one with another.

Now each board was covered with pure gold.

Pure gold and it had two tenons.

Which were mortised into two sockets of silver and those sockets of silver each one weighed 90

pounds.

So we're not talking about a flimsy little structure here.

90 pounds.

There were 100 of those sockets 100 of them.

Vases of silver.

96 for the boards and four under the pillar of the veil and those boards were held in

place by 15 wooden bars.

Covered with gold five on the north side and five on the south side and five on the west side

and it was covered by gold.

Three long bars went the whole length of the construction on.

Three sides twelve small bars four on each side.

Reinforce the wall.

The Holy of Holies and the holy place were divided by four pillars of wood.

And they were covered with gold and on that one divider hung that beautiful tapestry that you

see that's called the veil.

It hung on those four and the entrance to the holy place was basically called a door.

The scripture refers to it as a door.

It was a linen curtain that had blue Scarlet and purple and it hung on

five pillars of wood and they were all covered with gold.

They were all covered with gold.

Now the Holy of Holies in there We said was what only the Ark of the Covenant.

We'll see it in a moment.

The Ark of the Covenant was the item that was in the Holy of Holies and you remember only the high priest will talk about him Later, but the

high priest alone could go in there.

No one could go in there at the point of death.

Anybody went in there would die instantly and He never went in there without what?

Blood.

He better take some blood of the sacrifice with him if he went in there or he would have been killed.

Instantly according to the dictates of God now in the holy place.

We say that what there's no light.

There are no windows and in the holy place.

There was the table of showbread or the bread of faces as it's translated the table of showbread and

also the golden menorah the Golden candlestick and then there was the altar of incense

the altar of incense.

And those three things were there now for an outer covering and it's interesting to me that when you go to Israel today.

Some of you've been with us.

Is when you go to the Bedouin Society down the Negev desert a friend of mine?

Introduced us and we happen to have met a sheik Abu Hassan Roger who's over 36 ,000 Bedouins.

He's the chief sheik that is over the Bedouins of the Negev desert.

And when you go down there where they live and most of them still live and travel around like they did.

They cover their tents just like they did in the tabernacle.

It's interesting how they did it for an outer covering.

They use badger skins.

They had badger skins and under that was a covering of ram skin and those ram skins were dyed red.

They were dyed red and that was significant to me.

That they had to be dyed red and beneath the covering of those were goat skins.

Now when you go to a Bedouin tent.

They'll fold that thing back up if it's in the heat of the day and you'll see all those layers that they have

now surrounding this building was a court and this court

Surrounded the tabernacle as such and it was a hundred and fifty by seventy five feet.

So it's a hundred and fifty feet by seventy five feet.

It was enclosed by fine twined linen.

Pure white linen and the fence was seven and a half feet high too high to climb over

they came down too low for you to go underneath it and Too low to crawl under and the

hangings were supported by sixty.

And if you want to use the word brazen some people use the word brass pots and they had hooks and fillets

That hooked with and they were all pure silver.

All pure silver now if you just turn your mind the gold that we've just talked about and the silver that we talked about the wealth.

That was in the structure.

It was again not a cheap flimsy little structure hastily thrown together out in the wilderness.

The gate was on the east side and the gate was 30 feet wide.

The gate was 30 feet wide and the hangings were made of fine linen again, but it also

had Scarlet it also had blue and it also had purple and it was home for

post.

Now we know the tribes of Israel were gathered around there and there's some contention by some but I think the scripture

tells us.

They were in a divinely arranged order.

God told him exactly how he wanted those tribes to be and we know that the tribes of Judah

Issachar and Zebulon were on the east.

We know that Dan and Asher and Naphtali was on the north.

We know that Gad Simeon and Reuben on the south and Ephraim Manasseh and Benjamin were on the west

and in a moment, you'll look at a Picture that I put in your outline there and the tribes of

Levi Will camp adjacent to that and we'll look at that in a moment.

The tribes of Levi were on each side.

Where the tabernacle would be Moses Aaron and the priest and they were out just behind the leading group

and so Adjacent to the tabernacle on all four sides and Aaron and Moses and their families.

They were in there now on the Mount.

God told Moses what materials he wanted to use.

Moses just didn't figure this out.

Moses thought none of this out.

God told him what materials he wanted him to use in Exodus 25 verses 3 to 7.

He specifically told him now, where was he going to get the materials?

He said you get the materials from the children of Israel who came out of Egypt.

So they brought this material with them as they came out.

Here's what it says in Exodus 25 to speak unto the children of Israel that they bring me an offering of every man

that gives it willingly with his heart you shall take my offering and Probably that's where

Christians got they by taking up offerings somewhere.

They took up offerings and so they brought those now.

Here's what it said.

Here's how these people did and the children of Israel did according to the Word of Moses.

Well, it was Moses, but Moses got it from God.

So it's actually the Word of the Lord wasn't the spokesman and they borrowed of the Egyptians jewels of

silver jewels of gold and Raymond.

Exodus chapter 12 35 now, we don't know for sure if they're very estimate.

But it is estimated by some of the best authorities that as it was constructed back then.

It was valued about two million dollars back then.

Now what's a new imagine what inflation has done to something like that?

It's estimated that there were two thousand four hundred pounds of gold 8400 pounds of silver

8400 pounds of brazen material.

There were great quantities of fabrics great quantities of wood stone.

Spices oil and all of that and they brought more than enough the scripture says Exodus 36 5

and they spoke unto Moses saying the people bring much more than enough for the service of the Lord which

the Lord commanded to make.

You have never ever been in a religious meeting where they took offerings where anybody said that.

Where they said don't bring any more.

Don't give any more.

We've got plenty.

We've got plenty.

There is no such animal in human nature that I know anything about.

The more you give the more they want.

Now as we look at this, let me just give you a glossary of terms.

Some of the words that we're going to be used first of all the metal.

Gold always and ever in Scripture symbolically is a picture of deity.

It is always a picture of God always a picture of the deity of Christ if we use him the

Messiah.

Silver is always a picture of redemption.

You know The Bible talks about whenever we stand the judgment seat of Christ.

1st Corinthians chapter 3 it talks about what some people's lives.

Be wood hay and stubble, but others be gold and silver and precious stones.

Well, what are those you and I know gold?

God anything I do to glorify God silver is always redemption.

Anything I do to redeem people and get people to come to the Lord precious stones.

Peter said in first Peter He said that you are a holy habitation being built up as precious stones.

So anything I do to enhance the body of Christ anything I do to build a brother sister up in Christ I get

rewards for that anything other than that is wood hay and stubble no matter what it is.

I don't care what it is selling light bulbs.

Planting flowers on the streets.

So girl Scott cookies.

It doesn't matter.

It is wood.

Hay and stubble as far as God is concerned.

It has to fit one of those three category.

And so what I'm saying is gold and silver and then the brazen some people call it Brad some people call it copper.

It is always typical of judgment wherever it's mentioned the brazen serpent that God told him to build out there and if people

look up the serpents that bit them then there's fine twine linen.

We know pure white would indicate to us the righteousness of Christ.

Revelation chapter 19 verse 8 says the bride has made herself ready and says that what the garments that she had

is what they are.

The righteous acts of the same.

So if you're gonna have a garment then you got to do righteous acts and talks about that.

And then blue Christ comes down from heaven.

We'll talk about that later.

Scarlet represents Christ dead his blood shed on the cross and in purple a

combination of scarlet and blue is always required.

And God's Son from heaven shed his blood that he might be our Lord and then I talked about this wood this

a case.

Is it should be?

It's called incorruptible because you can cut it down to the ground and a sprout will come out now.

What is the Messiah.

Christ is called what a root out of the dry ground.

He just came up out of deadness.

He came up out of nothing and wherever you cut one of those trees down it will come back.

It would sprout up olive tree do the same thing.

It just comes back and so consequently we have that picture of incorruptibility in the wood.

Then we have the gate to the door.

We'll talk about that.

Then we have the door.

It's called the door to the holy place.

The veil is the door to the Holy of Holies and all of these would say Pointed to Christ all of these pointed the

way into God's presence always and ever.

God came from here first.

But man's gonna get to God.

He's gotta walk this path and we said they were in the shape of a cross inside here.

There would be three across here there and it would be the shape of a cross.

Six pieces of furniture.

We're in this place six pieces of furniture now six you and I know is the number of man.

Six in the Bible is always a number of man and it shows that man has to come to God.

If man's gonna get blessed he's got to come to God.

He's got to get to God and then we know there were four horns of the altar.

Four is the number of the world.

The number of the world so what for God to love the world that he gave his only begotten son.

So salvation goes out into the whole world.

But they all no matter who they are have to come by the brazen altar.

But I was in one of the seminaries that I attended and I've shared this with you before but I was in the seminary.

We were studying the book of Romans and I'll never forget it as long as I live.

There were some 40 50 people in this class and they were all going to be pastors.

They were all going to be ministers of education ministers of music and the professor said how many of you and we were talking about

Romans 1 and you know how God had turned some people over reprobate mine, etc, etc.

But I'll never forget he asked the question How many of you believe that you can be saved even though you've not heard the gospel preach

that you can be saved.

Although no one's actually presented you to Christ.

I'll never forget it.

People raise their hand.

Now those 32 people don't go out in the ministry.

They're going to go out into churches and they're going to multiply themselves.

They're going to multiply they're going to duplicate themselves here people there is no two or three ways you can say one comes

God's way or doesn't come and Jesus Christ is the only way for a person to come into the

presence of the Lord.

There's a teaching today about my people Israel and there are quite a few people who hold to it.

That they're saved under the Abrahamic Covenant.

It's all Israel going to be saved.

Yes, one day they will be all that's left, but they will be according to Romans chapter 11.

But this I know they're going to be saved by faith in the Messiah.

They're going to be saved because of the Lord Jesus Christ because there is no salvation any other way.

That just isn't and yet there are those who believe that because of the Abrahamic Covenant.

They are saved under there now olive oil in the scripture.

Usually this typical or picture of a shadow of the Holy Spirit.

The Holy Spirit the badger skins.

This was the love of that they brought with them.

They evidently were gonna make some clothes and shoes, but we know that God set it up.

So the shoes wouldn't wear out so they didn't have to use the badger skins.

They were therefore able to use the badger skins for the covering of the tabernacle.

Now the altar of the altar is nothing more than a place of killing.

That's essentially what it is.

It's a place of dying it's a place of death and the brazen altar was where the animal

was killed and the blood was shed and.

That's where judgment occurred.

The altar of incense inside here always as ever.

It was continually burning.

Is that picture as I said of the intercessory of intercessory prayer always ascending to the father.

But it's always based upon the blood you don't get here without here.

So there has to be blood and then we talked about a half a shekel of silver as we go through this.

We'll talk about that and that is the atonement price and that had to be paid by every Israelite male.

I have shekel of silver had to be paid its redemption money.

You find that in Exodus 30 verse 16 and other passages of Scripture.

The labor was God's washbasin.

Wasn't it's worth cleansing.

John 13 said.

John 13 said it's by the washing of the water of the word.

There has to be cleansing even though my sins are forgiven I still cannot approach the holiness and the righteous

God without cleansing.

That's why it says if we confess our sins He's faithful just to forgive you but also to cleanse you because

uncleanliness cannot approach into the presence of God and then that altar of course was

followed by the labor so sin judge and then there's cleansing and It was there and then

going to the holy place and there would be the showbread.

And then also there would be the altar of incense.

Now the tabernacle was in the wilderness.

But when they got to the Holy Land, what did God give them the temple the temple?

So the tabernacle in the wilderness and then we had the temple in the land and the tabernacle was in the wilderness.

Why.

Because again, it's temporary.

They were not going to stay there.

God was moving them.

But once they got into the Holy Land, they got a temple which is permanency.

God permanently going to dwell with his people.

Now I said, I'm gonna be showing you some things and tell you some things that that perhaps you've not heard before.

We know that in the scripture.

Also one of the sacrifices was a goat.

They take goods and a goat was part of the sacrifice in Leviticus 16 verses 19 to 22.

We have an episode that's called and you need to study that about the scapegoat.

Remember that you remember the scapegoat you've studied that I know you have and there'll be two goats.

Now isn't it let me let me just pause and insert something here for you.

Where does the word love first appear in the Bible just guess?

Where would the word love?

What would you where would you think?

I mean you would think you'd think you you would think Adam and Eve.

I mean you think something occurred.

Where does the love first appear in?

The Old Testament or in the entire Bible.

Well, we're talking about a goat in Genesis chapter 22.

Genesis chapter 22.

I'll just kind of give it to you.

You can look it up.

It's a story of Abraham and he had a son named Isaac and God told

him to do something didn't.

Now here's what he said now watch this carefully.

God said Abraham.

He said here am I?

In time God spoke to Abraham.

He listened.

He said here am I he said now take your son.

Your only son.

Whom thou lovest that's the first time the word love appears in the Bible and it appears how

a father Loving his son now watch this loving his son three

times.

God said Abraham take your son your only son whom thou lovest.

I think when he said take your son I think he's implying son you love.

I mean love was always in it, man.

So take your son your only son whom thou lovest and go offer him up now, you know the story.

Well, but you know how Abraham went with the man and that young boy is really inquisitive as Jewish people are he said, you know

Father, I see the wood and I see the knife and you got the fire, but I I don't see any animal.

What's going on?

And I've always said if my dad told me well, I'm gonna offer you up.

God told me too I said no, there's no way I'd go with you.

But that boys, you know, what did Abraham say?

Abraham says Son, God will provide and most people say himself a

lamb for the offer.

But when you read that in Hebrew, that isn't what it says.

What it says is God will provide himself.

The emphasis is on himself not lamb.

God will provide himself as the lamb for the offer and wait a minute, but it wasn't a lamb that he saw

it was a ram.

A ram is not lamb.

A Ram is the strong one of the sheep family.

The ram is the male figure and it was a substitute and he was caught around his head.

Now when you say well.

Well, what there was a mate?

Let me take you to the New Testament.

Where does the word love first appear in the New Testament?

This will be on the test.

What did they.

God say Abraham take your son your only son whom thy love is three times.

God told him about that son when you come to Matthew Mark and Luke three times.

God said this is my beloved son.

This is my beloved son.

Now, where does the word love first appear in John in John's gospel you can get it John 3

16.

Three times in the New Testament God said this is my beloved son.

But the fourth time God said but I will offer him for the sins of the world.

Now when Jesus stood in John the eighth chapter and he said Abraham rejoiced to see my day and he saw it and he was

glad.

What's he talking about?

These things.

Abraham was not a dunce.

Abraham knew these things and God revealed those things to him and then God gave them manna.

We understand that that Christ is our bread from heaven the bread of life on our earthly pilgrimage as we go through

the tables of the law law demanded death for sin and God was preparing a way for man to come back

and then Aaron's rod that budded Significant speaks of resurrection and we understand

that so when God would take these people out They had a certain way that they would always go.

There would be Judah Issachar and Zebulon.

They would be the the pillar of cloud would be in the front if you want to say the pillar of cloud a cloud or the fire not but the pillar

of cloud and God will lead the way.

The Judah is corn Zebulon.

And then there would be Gershon the Gershon ites who are Levites and then they would have two wagons and

those two wagons Would carry curtains and coverings and hangings and gate and the door.

And then there would be the mirror ites who also were Levites and they had four wagons and they would

carry the sockets and they would carry the boards and the bars and the pillows and the court pillows and the pins and the cords and all those.

And then following them would be Reuben Simeon Gad and the Koa thites who also were Levites and they

would then be bearing the ark and the ark be right in the middle of them as They moved about and

traveled the ark would be right in the middle of them.

God in the midst that table the candlestick the altar of the labor and so forth.

And then they would follow up Ephraim Manasseh Benjamin Dan Asher and Naphtali.

Now

As we said the tabernacle and furnishings exodus 25 1 through 9 Hebrews 9 from the

ark to the gate is God's approach to man as God would move and come forward from the

gate to the ark is man's approach to God and that's man's Responsibility.

Man had to enter through the gate in order to make his offering at the brazen altar.

God from the mercy seat then moved to save man who was alienated from him now in

redemption of mankind.

We have to keep remembering that God always starts with himself.

God always begins with himself.

As I said the tabernacle of 45 by 15 by 15 foot had the appearance of an oblong box.

Had this seven and a half foot high wall of curtain around it.

And it had to be approached through a gate that was 30 feet wide and it was made of pure white linen with blue

purple Scarlet and white which hung on four pillows, which basically tip a fat as we say a

picture the four Gospels now.

As I said, there are six pieces of furniture and two doors in the tabernacle now again.

When you start with God the Ark of the Covenant is where the scripture starts when you go in the Bible.

It doesn't start with the gate.

It starts with God and that's where the scripture starts.

X is 25 1 through 22.

It was a chest that was three and three -quarter feet long.

Three and three -quarter feet long.

Two and a quarter feet wide two and a quarter feet high.

It was made again of casea wood and it was overlaid with pure pure gold.

It contained two tablets of the Ten Commandments.

It contained a pot of manna that they had had and also Aaron's rod that buddy it was

covered with a mercy seat.

Which was again a pure pure gold.

It was the principal piece of furniture.

It's the main piece of furniture in the entire tabernacle.

Without this nothing else really matters.

Because this is where the presence of God was and it represented God's presence in the midst of his people.

Now God gave Moses the details for it and God made these things.

Exactly to the details.

I've heard professors in seminary I've heard preachers talk about the insignificance of in a bunch of Jews

wandering around out there.

Built him something because they wanted something where they could worship God and all these things as if they did it on their own.

Everything they did they did according to the commandment of God and God detailed to them.

Exactly three and three -quarter feet.

God wanted three and three -quarter feet and they did exactly what God told him to do and Moses built it according

to God's plan.

It will again was built by the freewill offerings of the people.

It was the people.

It was known.

I mean, you know God just said this is the way it's going to be done and then it was covered and it's the only piece of furniture

in the Holy of Holies.

Again, it was made of a case or shoot them would typical of a perfect incorruptible humanity of Christ.

The would be in humanity and in the gold in reference to deity.

So here we have the God man.

It's a picture of the dual nature of Christ the Messiah man and God would

humanity and gold glorified his humanity.

The humanity became more valuable if you covered it with Deity and so we have that

and then we talk about the ark.

It had two tables of the law part of manna and Aaron's rod.

But it the two tables of stone had the Ten Commandments.

They were evidence of what God's covenant with the people.

God's covenant with the people.

The law is first.

Always remember that law is first and mercy is next not mercy first.

Law is always first.

Law always precedes grace.

Grace does not come first.

Law comes first and Because of God's law he activated his grace and the

law.

The two Tables of law stood for the righteousness of God.

Christ was made under the law.

He had the law written in his heart.

The scripture says he lived according to the law.

He fulfilled perfectly all the requirements of the law.

He bore the penalty of the broken law of all believers in all ages.

And he is the end of the law to every believer and you know.

We had this pot of manna.

People became dissatisfied with it and I understand the story.

But it was a memorial to them.

They kept a pot of it.

It was a memorial of them and to the coming generations of how God fed their

fathers in the wilderness.

With food from heaven.

Don't make the mistake and I know you won't don't make the mistake of thinking all the Israelites Rebelled and complained they didn't.

There's always been a godly faithful remnant.

There always has been and they kept that as a Reminder that God provided.

And we also know that the Messiah Jesus is the bread of life in John chapter 6 and then we have Aaron's

rod that budded numbers chapter 17.

You remember the sons of Korah.

They rebelled they didn't like Aaron.

They didn't like the fact that he was going to be the high priest.

Maybe one of their groups should have been selected and they complained and they griped and they murmured and so God dealt

with that Rebellious band of people by letting Aaron take his rod and his

rod not only budded.

It bloomed and it bore almonds.

Now you and I know something about that don't we.

Because we know when you go to the Holy Land.

The first tree to bud every year is the almond tree in the Holy Land.

It's the first tree every year and it always is the first one to blossom and therefore doing what?

Announcing that the dead winter is past and the new life of spring is gone.

And so every time they would see that rod and remember that it was Aaron's.

The deadness of the wilderness the deadness of Egypt and new life has begun.

Resurrection life and that's why Jesus said I am the resurrection and the life in John chapter 9.

Now the crown of the Ark of the Covenant.

We didn't close that down.

The crown was the mercy seat.

The mercy seat is here and the angelic creatures are overlooking it.

They're looking down facing each other and it is the supreme feature.

It was 27 inches by 45 inches 27 inches by 45 inches

and it was made of pure gold which speaks of the deity of our Lord.

A cherub stood at each end as you see stood each end looking down at the Mercy

seat and also facing each other with their wings overshadowing as they faced each

other it rested upon and completely covered the Ark.

God's promise concerning the mercy.

God said three things one is he said I will meet with you.

I Will meet with you at the mercy seat.

God also said I not only meet with you I will commune with you communicate with you.

You can have communication with me and then God also said I will give you commandments for Israel.

God always dealt with them in such a manner.

Now the meaning of the mercy seat was what it's a symbol of the throne of God it is a symbol

of the throne of God.

The gold is the symbol of deity and the cherubim's righteousness and justice.

Righteousness and justice at the throne of God.

There is righteousness and there is pure justice at the throne of God.

Nothing that you and I would see down here.

It is there and so.

The resting upon that Ark that contained the law Suggests that the throne of God and God's dealings of man

are based upon the law.

The scripture says to declare I say at this time his righteousness that he might be just and the justifier of him

which believeth in Jesus justice and righteousness are met in God and if you come to him in

Christ.

Then God considers you just.

God considers you righteous and he puts that to your account.

And so, how does Christ fulfill that?

Well, we know he was divine.

That's gold.

Christ was divine.

Isn't it interesting that they've got a whole new group of theologians now that they've come out and they're rethinking

Jesus now and and now they're not too sure that he was divine.

Some of them don't know when he became divine.

Some think he became divine in the River Jordan.

Some think he became divine here.

He assumed and now there are those who also have told us through the years that he's not the only son.

They're probably other sons.

He's just one of the sons and then there are others who try to tell us that Lucifer and Jesus are brothers.

They they were brothers and and so all of these things go on.

But we know that he embraced both righteousness and justice pictured by the two cherubim.

He contained the law in his heart.

He lived the law.

He paid the exactions of the law in every detail and it's through his shed blood that God can be the

just.

He also can be the justifier of those that he would justify.

You need to read sometime at your leisure Hebrews chapter 4 verses 14 to 16.

Salvation again is through the death not the life.

Almost every sermon that I have heard preached in the last month as I surf through television of all of

them I don't care which ones you watch where you watch TV and where I don't care which ones you watch.

Almost their whole emphasis is on the life of Christ and that's wonderful.

But dear people you are saved by the death of Christ not the life of Christ.

It is through the shedding of his blood.

That you and I have Salvation and it is veiled in human flesh and the

hanging veil was a barrier to me.

And there was a veil that prevented people from coming into this that we'll see in a moment.

So, how would we get there?

Well that veil has to be dealt with and we know that we today meet God through him Hebrews 9 and other

places.

And his blood is sprinkled there.

We are told every law is satisfied and every penalty has been paid.

And so you can draw close to God and thanksgiving and confidence and assurance.

But just remember when this part of the covenant was there.

There was a veil that you could not see this when you stood out in the holy place.

The only person that ever saw that was the high priest when he went alone in there once a year.

And he took blood in there that veil was there the veil and let me just Let's cover this

and then we'll quit and I know you can eat this beautiful curtain hung between the holy place and the holy of holies.

I don't give you something.

It was made of fine linen blue purple and scarlet.

It had cherubs angelic beings.

Exquisitely worked within the embroidery into the thread work up.

It was hung on four pillows of a case of wood.

It was covered with gold and it was set in sockets of silver.

The veil shut God in and kept man out.

Shut God in kept man out.

And of course as I said gold is deity silver redemption blue heavenly scarlet

sacrifice and purple Kingship fine linen his spotless

perfect humanity and then it uses the work their cunning work.

Talks about the cunning work that they did.

Would you be a picture to me of the work of the Holy Spirit that you don't see necessarily?

But he is doing those things and the beautiful veil pictured his flesh and Remember that it was torn in two

from the top to the bottom when he died on Calvary.

It happened simultaneously when he died.

Signifying that now a believer could come directly into the presence of the Lord.

And you have the scriptures there and your outline as I said, his life does not give you access to God his

death does.

His death gives you access to God now.

Remember the veil was rented to how it was hanging between heaven and earth.

It was hanging picture in your mind.

It was hanging between heaven and earth.

It was rent from top to bottom by who by the hand of God.

By the hand of God that he rented not the hand of man.

This veil was four inches thick.

I measured it and that from there to there on my hand is about four inches that is thicker than a

phone book and It was four inches thick and we are told that two teams of oxen

could not split that day.

Two teams of oxen would not have been able to do so now it was not torn down.

It was split.

From the top to the bottom, but it wasn't torn down still there.

It would just split now the death of Christ was the act of God from what from above he was slain from

the foundations.

World actually 223 said this Jesus by the hands of.

To bruise him.

Now, when was the veil of the temple rented to?

We know the time of the evening sacrifice was three o 'clock in the afternoon.

Three o 'clock in the afternoon that lamb had to be killed.

We also know that three o 'clock in the afternoon the fathers would also kill their lamb

at three o 'clock in the afternoon.

It had to be done.

We believe that Jesus died at three o 'clock in the afternoon.

And when he said it is finished he said it is finished at the very moment those lambs would bleep their last and

That veil would be rent from top to bottom when he said it was finished because anything else he couldn't say was finished.

The typology the picture the foreshadow would have been broken down and yet he fulfilled everything perfectly

perfectly.

And so it was rented three o 'clock in the afternoon Jesus our lamb was dying and he says

it is finished the price is paid the barrier of sin is Removed and the veil rent

changed from a barrier to an open doorway to the presence of God.

No longer a barrier to shut God in keep man out split.

He's still there, but he's opened an access.

He's opened a doorway whereby you and I have open free access into the presence of God.

You need no priest other than he.

No human priest.

No rabbi.

No preacher.

No, you don't need anything like that.

No ceremony need any longer the end of the law for righteousness but Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to

everyone that believed the Jewish ordinances as far as.

Everyone keeping them has been abolished.

You don't have to worry about that that is fulfilled and it's a foretaste of entrance into heaven itself now in.

Just our closing time.

Let me give you some information that you don't have about the veil.

Purple is the color of Kings and I know you know that purple is the color of Kings.

The Hebrew word is Akhavah and It is a word that is a different word than we normally use

for purple because we talk about purple.

We usually talk about a bluish purple.

But this word means a fiery reddish purple a fiery reddish purple.

It was very costly and extremely Distinctive and you could only get it one place

in all of the world.

You could only find it in the Mediterranean Sea and the little creature from which you got

it would only secrete one drop.

Never anymore.

Never two.

Never three.

Always and ever it would only give one little drop and that little shellfish is called a Murex

trunculus.

And it's only found the Mediterranean Seas never found anywhere else in the world.

And whenever you found that shellfish, you could only get one drop.

Now you just tie that in with Christ.

Tie that in with Christ.

I heard a young man up in Oklahoma I was up there for a meeting and I know I'm not a very corrective person.

I don't like to correct people unless it's just a gross error.

But I do get corrected when people stand in the pulpit and start saying things to people I know aren't true.

And he was talking about how it took every he says it took every ounce every drop every iota

of the blood of Christ.

To wipe away your sins, but see that's not true.

He didn't shed all of his blood.

One drop of his blood is holy.

One drop of his blood is all you would ever need and that's what I picture here in the

Murex trunculus.

When Jacob went down to Egypt He saw his son Joseph clad in royal robes and a crown upon his head

and he had a purple mantle on his shoulders.

Made from the same identical thing then scarlet.

That's interesting because the word scarlet is not sometimes like we think but it has more of a

crimson color to it as more of a crimson color to it and the Hebrew word is Torah shiny and

It is a word.

It's very interesting because it indicates Brilliancy of color.

The scarlet is brilliant.

It's not a dull red and Torah is the Hebrew word for worm.

Now when you go to psalm 22 verse 1, it says my God my God.

Why hast thou forsaken me?

And then you go right on down into the middle of that particular psalm and you go down to 22 7 and he says but I am a

Worm and no man and that's the word he uses.

That's the word that he uses that particular word and so the scarlet when he says

I am a worm and no man.

You know, there's a hymn in the hymnal.

It used to read such a worm as I.

But they took it out.

They made it such a sinner's eye because he could be a worm but not us.

I mean, you know.

We we can't we can't handle that in our cultured society and then blue.

Blue is similar to the color of the celestial throne.

The Ark of the Covenant went on the move was completely covered.

That whole Ark of the Covenant was covered with blue it was totally colored blue whenever they began to move it now.

Josephus the Jewish historian and Philo the famous Roman historian both say that the ancient

symbol of the sky was always blue.

Always blue.

And then we have white of course, which is righteousness and which is perfection and these threads go into the New

Testament.

As I said, you know, the New Testament gives us so much insight in so much light.

If you could see the purple dripping from the brush that Matthew Used whenever he was divinely

commissioned to paint the portrait of the king.

That's what Matthew does is Matthew shows us that Jesus is the rightful heir to the

throne of David.

Isn't it interesting when he talks about these are the generations of what?

He talks about the generations of and you would think that he would put Abraham first, but he doesn't does he puts David.

Because it's upon David's throne that Jesus will sit one day in the thousand -year reign.

And so that's what Matthew did when he said behold the king.

Then you follow the scarlet crimson trail and you see the portrait of the suffering Messiah the suffering Redeemer.

The suffering Savior that's painted in scarlet by Mark and that's what Mark talks about as a servant.

Now Mark's record has no genealogy.

It doesn't tell you where he came from or anything.

Why.

Because the servant who cares a Servant doesn't deserve a genealogy in those times I'm going to serve and had

no gene then nobody worried anything about he doesn't need any an.

Action is the characteristic as evidenced by the occurrence of the Greek word euthos or euthales.

It is constantly used through Mark's gospel and it means straightforward.

It'll be translated sometimes immediately sometimes anon.

Any time you read the same straightforward or immediately it's always euthos or euthales.

Action and that's what Mark talks about and he simply declares not my king.

But he says behold my servant so he talks about a servant now according to an esophagus.

Who was another historian?

He says that Luke not only was a doctor, but Luke was a painter.

The sulfur says that Luke was a famous painter.

Well, whenever I look and see what Luke whose name was Lucilius when I see what he did his name

means born.

His name means daylight.

He was selected to paint the portrait of what the man from heaven because Luke talks about that.

He started he wrote that he gives his genealogy and he goes all the way back to Adam.

He'd take you all back.

He takes Jesus all the way back.

Luke says what behold the man, you know the famous painting Eke homo.

You see him standing out and Pontius Pilate pointing his finger that very famous paintings in the Louvre.

He says behold The man and that's what he talked about the

ancient greeting in Hebrew was and still is shalom peace now

on the cross.

There were three languages up.

There was a Hebrew Latin

Shalom is peace.

The ancient Roman greeting was safety and the ancient Greek greeting when they would greet each other.

They would say grace.

Rome didn't have a word for the hand.

Grace now when I take that and tie that in with my New Testament when I hear behold the man I

Gaze into the face of him who is the Prince of Peace?

Who is the very embodiment of God's grace who is the only one that can give you eternal

safety.

Why do those three languages up there on the cross?

Well, I'm sure you know, there are many reasons.

But whenever I bring everything into eternity and put the stamp of eternity on it.

Can you not see all of these things in him who loved you and gave himself for you?

And when I go to the Bible and I go to the scriptures.

We'll talk about this a little more as we go through.

When I talk about this a case he would talking about humanity.

I talk about being overlaid with pure gold showing his divine character.

And then I see the man of sorrows, but it's not a man of sorrows now.

He's glorified in heaven.

He's not there with that crown of thorns.

He's not there to be received or rejected.

He is King of Kings and Lord of Lords.

Where the one recognizes is not he is he doesn't become one because I make him one he is and

When I look at the altar of incense that was continually always and ever burning and as we look at those things

always look at your Lord and Dear people just think what an amazing and astounding thing

that God did.

With the children of Israel that he told Moses to build that and then they record.

Recorded it for your and my learning and these things helped me appreciate him

More and more and more and more and if all I had as much as I love the gospel if all I

had was the Gospels.

Knowing how I am I'd get bored.

I Shouldn't but I would.

Because she's read it over and over and don't you go in there and you say already read that and you just flip that page.

I already read that that's human nature.

It isn't correct, but it is human nature.

But to go back into all of those beautiful areas and find him where the average Christian never finds him

Will strengthen your life and it'll give you confidence and it'll give you boldness In

him who loved you and gave himself for you and then we remember if he did all that for you.

Do you think he's just gonna let this world do what it wants and forget you?

He's not gonna forget you.

He's never forgotten you and one of these days.

He's coming back to me.

One of these days he'll come back and get us and it'll all be over.

Until then there's much to be done.

I understand that but dear people.

Do you have confidence in your Lord this morning?

Do you know you're his and if you know you're here's do you know his presence and if you know his

presence?

How does that affect your everyday life.

How does that affect the way you think and the way you act the things you do the places you go?

The friends that you have and that you converse with who dominates the conversation who controls the conversation

is it you and I?

Can we control that conversation to the point not being obnoxious but drawing their minds around to the Savior

would to God.

Would to God that even we could be as faithful as many as these Israelites were In the

wilderness, they didn't have near as much to go on as you have.

They didn't have all these thousand years of history they didn't have a New Testament.

They didn't have the Holy Spirit dwelling within them.

God said I'll meet you over the mercy seat and they trusted that he would.

God said I'll do this.

They trusted that he would.

You and I have been born again, and we have trouble trusting that God would.

But God's not gonna forgive you dear people.

God says he will and he will.

Will he not amen he will.

God will.

What a wonderful wonderful Lord.

We have and it's all wrapped up in the person of the Lord Jesus.

Let's pray father so much material and so

Much information Lord to look at and still to look at but I thank you again for your gracious people.

Lord what a wonder you are.

What a marvelous thing you have done for us that recorded in your word from

beginning to end all sorts of glimpses and shadows and types and promises and prophecies

foreshadowings of The real reality the Lord Jesus how we thank you for give us

discernment.

Give us wisdom.

Give us understanding God give us a learning heart.

Give us an open mind and Father as we go back and forth through your word.

We thank you that it'll always reveal to us the living word and father that there's a plan and a purpose for

everything.

You've put in there help us to see it help us to learn it help us to know it.

Then help us to use it in our everyday life.

And we just thank you for your goodness to us because of Jesus whose name we pray.

Amen.