Category: Study on the Tabernacle

When you go past the outer courts, you come in the Holy Place. There are three pieces of furniture in the Holy Place. There is the lampstand, the table of shewbread and the altar of incense where the priest is standing before in the picture below. the lampstand (Exo 25:31-32 NIV)  "Make a lampstand of pure gold and hammer it out, base and shaft; its flowerlike cups, buds and blossoms shall be of one piece with it. {32} Six branches are to extend from the sides of the lampstand--three on one side and three on the other. The lampstand is another useful piece of household furniture, especially in a place where there are no windows. There were no windows in the tabernacle, denoting the darkness of the world we live.…

the curtain This curtain separated the two sacred rooms in the Tabernacle—the Holy Place and the Most Holy Place. The priest entered the Holy Place each day to commune with God and to tend to the altar of incense, the lampstand, and the table with the Bread of the Presence. The Most Holy Place was where God himself dwelt, his presence resting on the atonement cover, which covered the Ark of the Covenant. Only the high priest could enter the Most Holy Place. Even he could do so only once a year (on the Day of Atonement) to make atonement for the sins of the nation as a whole. When Jesus Christ died on the cross, the curtain in the Temple (which had replaced the Tabernacle) tore from top to…

You cannot miss the entrance of the tabernacle. In the surrounding dull colors of the desert, the entrance of the tabernacle sticks out because of its vibrant colors. (Exo 38:18 NIV)  The curtain for the entrance to the courtyard was of blue, purple and scarlet yarn and finely twisted linen--the work of an embroiderer. It was twenty cubits long and, like the curtains of the courtyard, five cubits high, You cannot miss finding the way to God! No one can say that God cannot be found. The Bible says that you can find the evidence of God even by looking at what has been created. (Rom 1:20 NIV)  For since the creation of the world God's invisible qualities--his eternal power and divine nature--have been clearly seen, being understood from what…

The altar of burnt offering You cannot miss the entrance of the tabernacle. In the surrounding dull colors of the desert, the entrance of the tabernacle sticks out because of its vibrant colors. (Exo 38:18 NIV)  The curtain for the entrance to the courtyard was of blue, purple and scarlet yarn and finely twisted linen--the work of an embroiderer. It was twenty cubits long and, like the curtains of the courtyard, five cubits high, You cannot miss finding the way to God! No one can say that God cannot be found. The Bible says that you can find the evidence of God even by looking at what has been created. (Rom 1:20 NIV)  For since the creation of the world God's invisible qualities--his eternal power and divine nature--have been clearly…