On the other side of Christ’s fleshly veil, “God was in Christ reconciling the world to Himself.” Have you ever heard of a veiled threat—a thinly disguised warning? What we are about to see now is, at the same time, a veiled warning and a glorious invitation. Here we are introduced to one of the […]
With redemption silver under our feet plus the gold rings of divine care, what else will He do? We mentioned in our last study that there were three rows of rings but five bars that held the tabernacle sides upright. This was because the middle bar extended all the way across each wall; the top […]
Read More… from January 10, 2022 — Our Jesus Looks After Us So Well!
“Blest be the tie that binds Our hearts in Christian love,” wrote John Fawcett. May it ever be! It was not enough for the boards to have solid foundations; they must be linked to one another. “You shall make bars of acacia wood: five for the boards on one side of the tabernacle, five bars […]
Whenever a census was taken, the half shekel reminded them they were “bought with a price.” A piece of timber is very weak by itself, but gains strength by having a good foundation, and by being tied to other pieces. So it was with the tabernacle, and so it is with God’s people. What was […]
The Christian’s progress in the desert may be slow, but our prospects are out of this world! Why are we taking so much time examining the tabernacle? Well, God describes the creation of the whole universe in about 50 verses; for the tabernacle, He takes 50 chapters! You see, this world is simply a temporary […]
Read More… from January 5, 2022 — You’re Not Board Yet, I Hope!
Only priests see the inner beauty; only God sees in the rams’ skin His Son’s consecrated heart. We’ve noticed that only priests saw the tabernacle’s inner beauty; and believers as priests today can “worship the Lord in the beauty of holiness!” (Ps 96:9). Similarly, only God saw the covering of rams’ skin dyed red. The […]
Everywhere we turn, we see new details that ravish our senses. What a display of God’s glory! There are both spiritual and practical reasons for the four different coverings of the ark. The distinctions include the words that describe them, the materials used, and their order of placement. The innermost covering was the mishkan, God’s […]
Mordecai-like, the King has taken us into His palace and dressed us with robes of royalty. I’ve left discussing purple to last, even though it always appears in the middle, as in “curtains of fine woven linen and blue, purple, and scarlet thread” (Ex 26:1). Of course, the colors are that way on a color […]