Showing man’s helplessness – Read Galatians 3:21c 21Is the law then against the promises of God? God forbid: for if there had been a law given which could have given life, verily righteousness should have been by the law. Driving man to God – Read Galatian 3:24 24Wherefore the law was our schoolmaster to bring us unto Christ, that we might be justified by faith. Read Exodus 25-30 – The Grace of God is pictured. Showing the way to God. Read Hebrews 9:19-28 19For when Moses had spoken every precept to all the people according to the law, he took the blood of calves and of goats, with water, and scarlet wool, and hyssop, and sprinkled both the book, and all the people, 20Saying, This is the blood of the testament which God hath enjoined unto you. 21Moreover he sprinkled with blood both the tabernacle, and all the vessels of the ministry. 22And almost all things are by the law purged with blood; and without shedding of blood is no remission. 23It was therefore necessary that the patterns of things in the heavens should be purified with these; but the heavenly things themselves with better sacrifices than these. 24For Christ is not entered into the holy places made with hands, which are the figures of the true; but into heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God for us: 25Nor yet that he should offer himself often, as the high priest entereth into the holy place every year with blood of others; 26For then must he often have suffered since the foundation of the world: but now once in the end of the world hath he appeared to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself. 27And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment: 28So Christ was once offered to bear the sins of many; and unto them that look for him shall he appear the second time without sin unto salvation.
The Tabernacle Proper Read: Exodus 26:1-30 1Moreover thou shalt make the tabernacle with ten curtains of fine twined linen, and blue, and purple, and scarlet: with cherubims of cunning work shalt thou make them. 2The length of one curtain shall be eight and twenty cubits, and the breadth of one curtain four cubits: and every one of the curtains shall have one measure. 3The five curtains shall be coupled together one to another; and other five curtains shall be coupled one to another. 4And thou shalt make loops of blue upon the edge of the one curtain from the selvedge [cannot unravel] in the coupling; and likewise shalt thou make in the uttermost edge of another curtain, in the coupling of the second. 5Fifty loops shalt thou make in the one curtain, and fifty loops shalt thou make in the edge of the curtain that is in the coupling of the second; that the loops may take hold one of another. 6And thou shalt make fifty taches of gold, and couple the curtains together with the taches: and it shall be one tabernacle. 7And thou shalt make curtains of goats' hair to be a covering upon the tabernacle: eleven curtains shalt thou make. 8The length of one curtain shall be thirty cubits, and the breadth of one curtain four cubits: and the eleven curtains shall be all of one measure. 9And thou shalt couple five curtains by themselves, and six curtains by themselves, and shalt double the sixth curtain in the forefront of the tabernacle. 10And thou shalt make fifty loops on the edge of the one curtain that is outmost in the coupling, and fifty loops in the edge of the curtain which coupleth the second. 11And thou shalt make fifty taches of brass, and put the taches into the loops, and couple the tent together, that it may be one. 12And the remnant that remaineth of the curtains of the tent, the half curtain that remaineth, shall hang over the backside of the tabernacle. 13And a cubit on
Purposeful - John 3:21 21 But he that doeth truth cometh to the light, that his deeds may be made manifest, that they are wrought in God. The Golden Candlestick pictures the Word of God – The Source of Light Read Psalm 119:105 105Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path. God’s Word is a light unto our feet [path]. Read Proverbs 6:23 23For the commandment is a lamp; and the law is light; and reproofs of instruction are the way of life: The commandment is a LAMP; the law is LIGHT. The Word of God is: Perfect – read Psalm 19:7 7The law of the Lord is perfect, converting the soul: the testimony of the Lord is sure, making wise the simple. Pure – Read Psalm 12:6 6The words of the Lord are pure words: as silver tried in a furnace of earth, purified seven times. Perpetual – Read Psalm 12:7 7Thou shalt keep them, O Lord, thou shalt preserve them from this generation for ever. Purposeful – Read II Corinthians 4:4 4In whom the god of this world [Satan] hath blinded the minds of them which believe not, lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine unto them.
in the other side of it. 13And thou shalt make staves of shittim wood, and overlay them with gold. 14And thou shalt put the staves into the rings by the sides of the ark, that the ark may be borne with them. 15The staves shall be in the rings of the ark: they shall not be taken from it. Materials: shittim wood overlaid with gold. Dimensions: 2.5 cubits long, 1.5 cubits width and depth (45 in long X 27 in width X 27 in depth) Borne by two permanent wood/gold staves passing through 4 rings of gold.