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HEBREWS 9:1-5
LESSON #12
AN INTRODUCTION TO THE TABERNACLE

MEMORY VERSE: 1JOHN 2:2

• READ HEB 9:1-5 THE HEAVENLY SANCTUARY
• THE AUTHOR TELLS US THAT THE HEAVENLY TABERNACLE WAS A PATTERN FOR THE TABERNACLE MOSES BUILT IN THE WILDERNESS (HEB 8:5 HEB 9:9).
• WHAT DOES THAT MEAN?
• IT MEANS THAT ALL THE OLD TESTAMENT WORSHIP WAS NOT THE REAL THING JUST AS SHADOW IS NOT THE REAL OBJECT.
• THEREFORE, IF WE STUDY THE TABERNACLE MOSES BUILT, WE WILL LEARN MUCH ABOUT JESUS CHRIST, OUR HIGH PRIEST AND THE HEAVENLY SANCTUARY IN WHICH HE NOW MINISTERS. THOSE THINGS IN HEAVEN ARE THE REAL THING!
• IN OUR STUDY, WE WILL NOT ONLY SEE THE PERSON AND WORK OF CHRIST, BUT WE WILL ALSO SEE THE WHOLE PLAN OF GOD INCLUDING THE CHURCH AND THE INDIVIDUAL CHRISTIAN.
• ALL THESE OLD TESTAMENT THINGS ARE PICTURES THAT GOD PLACED THERE IN HISTORY SO WE WOULD KNOW HIS SON AND HIS PLAN FOR THE AGES.
• WE WILL STUDY EACH PART OF THE TABERNACLE IN GREAT DETAIL OVER THE NEXT FEW LESSONS AND SEEK ITS MEANING.AND SIGNIFICANCE.

• INTRODUCTION
• THE TABERNACLE WAS PART OF THE MOSAIC COVENANT
• 50 CHAPTERS OF THE OLD TESTAMENT AND PART OF HEBREWS DESCRIBES THE TABERNACLE PLUS NUMEROUS IMPLICATIONS AND REFERENCES TO IT THROUGHOUT THE OLD AND NEW TESTAMENTS..
• THE MORE YOU GRASP OF THE MEANING, THE MORE YOU PENETRATE THE SECRETS OF GOD.
• FOR EXAMPLE: THE ORDER OF TRUTH PRESENTED IN THE GOSPEL OF JOHN FOLLOWS THE ORDER OF THE TABERNACLE (MORE LATER).
• THERE'S NO EXPLICIT NEW TESTAMENT REFERENCE FOR THE MEANING OF EVERYTHING IN THE TABERNACLE SO IN THOSE CASES, THE MEANING IS BASED ON SPIRITUAL ANALOGY.
• IN SOME CASES, REFERENCES ARE GIVEN SPECIFICALLY.
• FOR EXAMPLE: HEB 10:20 EQUATES THE VEIL WITH JESUS' FLESH
• FOR EXAMPLE: JOHN 2:18-21 EQUATES THE TEMPLE TO HIS BODY
• THE TABERNACLE IN TYPE
• THE TABERNACLE = THE PERSON OF CHRIST IN THE FLESH
• HOW DO WE KNOW THE TABERNACLE REPRESENTS CHRIST?
• JOH 1:14 SAYS CHRIST "DWELT" AMONG US
• THE WORD "DWELT" IS THE SAME WORD FOR TABERNACLE.
• HE WAS THE TABERNACLE AMONG US
• THE TABERNACLE PRESENTS THE CHURCH EPH 2:20-21
• PAUL TALKS ABOUT THE CHURCH AS THE BODY OF CHRIST, HE ALSO REFERS TO THE CHURCH AS A TEMPLE, FITLY FRAMED TOGETHER
• THE TABERNACLE PRESENTS THE INDIVIDUAL CHRSITIAN 2CO 6:16
• GOD IN US MAKES US THE TEMPLE OF THE HOLY SPIRIT

• READ EXO 35:4-5,20-29,35 36:5-6
• THE HEAVE OFFERING WAS A FREE-WILL OFFERING TO GATHER THE MATERIALS FOR MAKING THE TABERNACLE.
• SOME GENERAL SYMBOLIC MEANINGS:
• 14 COMPONENTS EXO 35:20-29
• GOLD - ABOUT 1.65 TONSEXO 38:24
• SIGNIFIES KING, MAJESTY, GLORY
• THE DIVINITY OF CHRIST
• SILVER - ABOUT 4.85 TONSEXO 30:11-16 38:25-28
• SIGNIFIES REDEMPTION
• BRASS/BRONZE - ABOUT 3.3 TONS
• SIGNIFIES SUFFERING, TESTING, JUDGMENT ISA 53:3
• BLUE (DEEP COLOR)
• SIGNIFIES HEAVENLY CHARACTER - THE SON OF GOD
• THIS IS THE VIEW OF CHRIST IN THE BOOK OF JOHN
• PURPLE (DARK REDDISH)
• FROM SECRETION OF A GLAND OF A PURPLE SNAIL
• SIGNIFIES KING - KING OF KINGS
• THE ROYALTY OF CHRIST
• THIS IS THE VIEW OF CHRIST IN THE BOOK OF MATTHEW
• SCARLET (ARTERIAL BLOOD COLOR)
• MADE FROM A WORM, KERMES SHIELD LOUSE
• (COCCINOS) FIXES ITSELF TO LEAVES OF HOLLY.
• THEIR MAGGOTS ARE COLLECTED TO MAKE THIS RED COLOR.
• . JESUS REFERS TO HIMSELF AS A WORM IN PSA 22:6
• SIGNIFIES SACRIFICE - SERVANT OF GOD UNTO DEATH
• THIS IS THE VIEW OF CHRIST IN THE BOOK OF MARK
• BYSSUS (WHITE LINEN)
• SIGNIFIES PURITY, SINLESSNESS - THE SON OF MAN
• THIS IS THE VIEW OF CHRIST IN THE BOOK OF LUKE (1JO 3:5 2CO 5:21 1PE 2:22)
• GOAT'S HAIR (WHITE SKINS)
• LONG HAIRED GOATS FORAGE AMONG THORN BUSHES. THE HAIR THAT IS CAUGHT IN BUSHES IS COLLECTED BY CHILDREN.
• THE GOAT WAS THE SIN OFFERING FOR ISRAEL INDICATING THAT CHRIST IS OUR SUBSTITUTION PURCHASING FORGIVENESS FROM SIN FOR US.
• SIGNIFIES FAITHFUL AND TRUE WITNESS - CHRIST, THE PROPHET OF GOD.
• RAM'S SKINS DYED RED GEN 22:13 EXO 29:1-35 1PE 1:18-19
• SIGNIFIES CHRIST, OUR LEADER AND PROTECTOR DEDICATED AND SUBMITTED EVEN UNTO DEATH
• BADGER'S SKINS
• THESE SKINS OF BLUE LEATHER WERE ROUGH AND ALMOST BLACK IN COLOR GIVING NO HINT TO THE BEAUTY OR GRANDEUR WITHIN = INDICATES CHRIST WHO EMPTIED HIMSELF (PHI 2:7) HAVING "NO BEAUTY THAT WE SHOULD DESIRE HIM" (ISA 53:2).
• SIGNIFIES THE SEPARATED AND LONELY ONE WHO GUARDS THE HONOR OF GOD
• ACACIA WOOD
• A SPECIES OF MIMOSA, DARKER AND HARDER THAN OAK, AVOIDED BY INSECTS WHO EAT WOOD
• SIGNIFIES HUMANITY - HE IS THE SHOOT FROM THE STUMP OF JESSE, ROOT OUT OF DRY GROUND. ISA 53:2 ISA 11:10
• OIL
• OIL CAME FROM RIPE OLIVES CRUSHED IN A MORTAR USED AS FUEL FOR THE LAMPSTAND
• IT SIGNIFIES THE ANOINTING OF THE HOLY SPIRIT
• CHRIST WAS FULL OF THE HOLY SPIRIT AND POWER.

• SPICES
• SPICES SIGNIFY FRAGRANT PERFUME FOR GOD, THE JOY OF THE HEART OF GOD
• FOUR OILS ARE BEST FOR ANOINTING OIL EXO 30:22-25
• MYRRH - SAP OF ALSAM BUSH
• IT WAS USED FOR HEALING, FOR ANOINTING THE DEAD, AND FOR KILLING PAIN (MAR 15:23 MAT 2:11 JOH 19:39) AND REFERS TO CHRIST OUR SACRIFICE,
• CINNAMON - BARK OF A SPECIES OF LAUREL BUSH
• CASSIA - COMES FROM DRIED FLOWERS OF CINNAMON TREE
• SWEET CALAMUS - PINK COLORED PITH FROM THE ROOT OF A REED PLANT FROM WHICH PERFUME IS PRODUCED
• FOUR SWEET SMELLING SPICES FOR INCENSE EXO 30:34-38
• STACTE - POWDER FROM MIDDLE OF HARDENED DROPS OF MYRRH BUSH, RARE
• ONYCHA - FROM SHELL OF A CLAM FROM DEEP PART OF THE RED SEA
• GALBANUM - RUBBERY RESIN FROM THICKENED MILKY JUICE FROM ROOTS OF FLOWERING PLANT WHICH IS SWEET SMELLING ONLY WHEN MIXED WITH OTHER SPICES
• FRANKINCENSE - TRANSPARENT OR WHITE RESIN FROM BARK OF BUSH OR TREE – THE RESIN IS PULVERIZED AND PLACED ON SHEWBREAD AND BURNED THERE.
• PRECIOUS STONES
• THESE WERE USED FOR THE BREASTPLATE OF THE HIGH PRIEST
• THEY SIGNIFY GOD'S SELECTED ONES VALUED OF GOD BECAUSE HE BOUGHT THEM AT GREAT COST.

• THE SIGNIFICANCE OF THE TABERNACLE FLOOR PLAN
• OUTER COURT = THE BODY = CARNAL CHRISTIANS
• THE HOLY PLACE = THE SOUL = SPIRITUAL CHRISTIANS
• HOLY OF HOLIES = THE SPIRIT = CHRIST AT THE CENTER
• WE MUST COME TO GOD HIS WAY EITHER FOR SALVATION OR FOR A CLOSER WALK WITH HIM.
• THE OUTER COURT = THE CHURCH, THE BODY OF CHRIST
• 60 PILLARS (20 EACH ON N. & S., 10 EACH ON E. & W.)
• WOOD PILLARS CAPPED WITH SILVER BANDS EACH WITH 2 SILVER HOOKS.
• THERE WAS A ROPE TIED TO THE SILVER HOOKS AND ATTACHED TO THE GROUND BY BRASS PINS.
• WOOD PILLARS ARE SET IN BRASS SOCKETS.
• THE PILLARS ARE ATTACHED ONE TO ANOTHER BY SILVER RODS FROM WHICH HUNG THE WHITE LINEN CURTAINS.
• THE SIGNIFICANCE OF THE OUTER COURT HANGINGS:
• EXO 27:9-19
• WE ARE THE WOOD PILLARS (HUMANITY..PSA 144:12 GAL 2:9) CAPPED WITH REDEMPTION (1TI 2:5-6 HELMET OF SALVATION EPH 6:17). WE EACH HAVE 2 HOOKS AND ROPE (THE WORD AND PRAYER COL 3:16 4:2) WHEREBY WE ARE GROUNDED AND MADE TO STAND UPRIGHT WHICH LEADS TO 2 BRASS PINS (SELF-JUDGMENT). WE ARE SET IN A BRASS SOCKET (MADE PERFECT BY SUFFERING AND TESTING). WE ARE JOINED ONE PILLAR TO THE NEXT IN PERFECT ORDER BY SILVER RODS (FAMILY OF GOD THROUGH REDEMPTION..JOH 17:21) FROM WHICH HANG WHITE CURTAINS (RIGHTEOUSNESS OF CHRIST THAT GOD SEES FROM THE INSIDE AND A PURE LIFE THAT THE WORLD SEES FROM THE OUTSIDE). WE STAND ALL PERFECTLY LINED UP TO BE SEPARATE FROM THE WORLD AND A UNIFORM WITNESS TO THE WORLD.

• MEMORY VERSE: EPH 2:22