As we mentioned before, the Lampstand of the Tabernacle of the Congregation corresponds to the Levitical feast of Pentecost. The second work is the result of the first work. It may be difficult for us to conceive of something that exists for God’s purposes and not just for us. The Laver signifies the cleansing of the believer that he may minister as a priest before God. But now that our old life has been assigned to the cross with Christ we are free to choose to serve God. The laver was fashioned from the mirrors of the women who served at the doorway of the tent of meeting (Exodus 38:8). It is the power of eternal life that proves the saints are chosen of God. Some will not accept the redemption offered freely by Christ. The work of the Kingdom has been performed by the wisdom and strength of human beings. Description of the Tabernacle of the Congregation. Also, each one must come to experience the fellowship of His sufferings. Indeed, in spite of America’s “Christian” self description, there is a growing sense among churchgoers that our nation’s culture is changing so fast that young people in particular are uncertain as to how to express their faith. The wicks symbolize people—the channels through which the oil of the Holy Spirit flows. The day will come when we shall see Him face to face, shall be with Him for ever, and shall have a glorious body that no longer is subject to “thorns in the flesh.”. All the needs of the redeemed are illustrated by the various types of sacrifices. Abraham became the father of all who are of the promised Seed. Because we no longer are “alive in the world” the law of Moses no longer has dominion over us. The best way to serve and bless mankind is to seek God with the whole heart as did Abraham. The four horns of the Altar of Incense reveal the fact that this altar, as well as the Altar of Burnt Offering, contains the power of God to overcome the world, our fleshly nature, and the accuser. The smaller book, The Seven Furnishings of the Tabernacle, has to do only with the seven holy furnishings: the Altar of Burnt Offering, the Laver, the Table of Showbread, the Lampstand, the Altar of Incense, the Ark of the Covenant, and the Mercy Seat. The holy incense that was burned on the Altar of Incense was compounded from stacte, onycha, galbanum, and frankincense, seasoned with salt (King James—“tempered together”). In the Day of the Lord, resurrection life will clothe our mortal body. Human nature (wood) cannot be “hammered” into shape. We wash our robes by continual repentance, confession, and resistance to sin. Based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2021, Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition “Known unto God are all his works from the creation of the world” (Acts 15:18). We Christians must use our will and judgment to ensure that we keep ourselves in the place where our Beloved can come to us and feed us with the Living Bread from Heaven. The Lampstand is the Body of Christ, the Wife of the Lamb, the Light of the world. Is the fruit—Christ—being formed in you? He is the Divine Nature, the Substance of the Godhead. It was dark in the Holy of Holies except when God chose to brighten it with His Glory. What becomes important to us is God Himself and the eternal plan of God to rid the creation of evil. Holiness is one of several principal messages of the Tabernacle. The seven lights of the Lampstand represent the gifts given by the ascended Christ during the “evening of the Day of the Lord,” that is, during the two thousand years of the Church Age. The cup represents the death that results from a pouring out. If we cooperate, the power of the Holy Spirit will increase in our lives until our whole personality, spirit, soul and body, is crying to God night and day. During the Kingdom Age we will pass from the light of the ministries and gifts of the Spirit to the light of Christ Himself, to that which is perfect. It would not be true that this person had come to a midpoint place in Christian development even though he had been baptized with the Spirit of God. If any person will receive Him and eat His flesh and drink His blood he shall live forever. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Chief among these promises is that we are being made a royal priesthood to God and that we shall serve God throughout His creation forever. The scales of Divine equity must be balanced. The Mercy Seat (Atonement Cover) is the Glory of God. This reminds us of the words of Paul concerning the Church: “That he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word” (Ephesians 5:26). The life of the flesh of Christ is the blood of Christ. Then God’s love and blessing pour from the throne and the result is the fullness of fruitfulness, of dominion, of blessing. The Christian is to be a branch of the Lampstand, a member of Christ who is the light of the world. The new Jerusalem is associated with barrenness because God’s most glorious and eternal works are brought forth when every ability and opportunity has been reduced to ashes. The Altar of Incense had four horns, similar to the Altar of Burnt Offering, showing that the power of the prayer and praise offered by those who have bowed in death before the Lord shall overcome the enemy throughout the whole earth. Just as the Jews ate manna each day, we each day must keep ourselves in the place where the living Lord Jesus Christ can come to us and feed us with His body and give us to drink of His blood. The second death is death to sin. That much we understand mentally from studying the sixth chapter of Romans. Meanwhile, the Kingdom of God—that in which he could have had eternal treasure—is approaching in unrivaled glory and splendor. The three deaths are portrayed by the three cups in each of the six side-branches of the Lampstand. The Altar of Burnt Offering represents the blood of the cross of Christ, called to remembrance in the sacrament of Communion. Time is not the consideration. Sometimes God has good reasons for accomplishing His purposes in a difficult, painful manner. Our lives must be brought into harmony with God’s Holy Spirit. to place or dwell in, or as if in, a tabernacle. There is a major problem with going forward and occupying the land of promise. If our “waiting on the Lord” is passive with no time being given each day to prayer and meditation in God’s Word, nothing of eternal value will spring forth in our life. So when we are associating the Lampstand with a halfway experience in Christ we mean after the believer has had the opportunity to live for a while on the Pentecostal level of Christian growth. The transition means death to the “old man.” Death is not a condition into which a healthy person rushes with joy. In the second death the bondage of Satan is poured out of the cup of the Christian and righteous and holy freedom in the Spirit of Christ is poured back into his cup. God begins to rouse Himself to the great purposes yet ahead. We may be as a beautiful flower blooming before the Lord. When we go into spiritual battle we must commit our safety and well-being into the hands of God. But there are transitional pangs as one is crossing from the life of the soul to the life lived in the Spirit of God. Our original personality by faith is assigned to the cross with Christ so that the Holy Spirit may render powerless our sinful nature. But Christ is beautiful in the sight of God, the Father. The Scriptures have quite a bit to say about barrenness and fruitbearing. Yet, He is the embodiment of holiness and total consecration to God. The Tabernacle was an earthly figure of the Temple of God in Heaven (Hebrews (9:23,24). The same indestructible, irresistible force is at work in you now if you are a Christian. There are no familiar faces, no friends, no relatives. The Israelites pitched their tents outside the linen fence. Eating Christ means eating Christ. The fullness will come to us when the Lord Jesus returns to earth from Heaven, bringing with Him our eternal house. It is the image and likeness of Christ. the human body as the temporary abode of the soul. We are as an organ pipe that sounds appropriately as Jesus plays the music God has composed. If we will allow Christ to work fully in our lives, the fullness of the Glory of God will come to us and we will find our rest in the rest of God. The scholars are not certain. The first death is instantaneous. These two works constitute the testimony being wrought in each member of the Body of Christ. The life of Christ that is being formed in us must have continual contact with Christ who is at the right hand of God in Heaven. Christ alone can give eternal life to the eater. The Ark contained also a memorial jar of manna and Aaron’s rod that budded. The second death requires a long period of time—perhaps our whole lifetime. We must keep our experience fresh by maintaining contact with the Life of the Spirit of God. The word “altar” has the root meaning of slaying for sacrifice; and the term “burnt offering” has the root meaning of ascending toward God what is acceptable and pleasing to Him. Human character is transformed by continued exposure to the Glory of God in the face of Christ until the believer can claim: “I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me.”. Such holiness requires constant prayer, constant vigilance and continuing sensitivity to the rebuke and approval of the Holy Spirit. The Altar of Incense Receiving the blood atonement brings us into the area of redemption, into the Kingdom of God. The cup, the fruit, the flower: here is the true Christian life. That tabernacle he had never seen; that ark he knew had long vanished out of sight. It was covered inside and outside with refined gold. The testimony about which God is concerned is the moral law. In addition, every vestige of Satan’s authority over the Christian was stripped from him on the cross of Calvary. Such is the meaning of several passages of the new-covenant writings, both in the Gospels and the Epistles. Since each of us Christians is to be a minister to the Lord, we need to keep in mind that our thoughts, words and actions must be holy at all times. We look up at this Sinai and wonder if we will be able to live with the dread Lawgiver who rumbles and thunders in His holiness until “we be all dead men.”. The Courtyard was dominated by the Altar of Burnt Offering, signifying that the death and resurrection of Christ must always be the first consideration when a person approaches the Kingdom of God. It may be strength for someone in despair or wisdom for a perplexed soul. Eating Christ means eating the living, Divine Nature. Meanwhile, Christ is resting in God, waiting patiently until every one of His enemies becomes His footstool. Then I went to Tabernacle and learned that he had bought a ticket for Boston, and that he had left on a morning train. The Spirit points out our envying of others. As soon as an Israelite came through the colorful gate of the Court he was faced with the bronze Altar. There are three deaths the Christian dies in the process of bringing forth the fruit—Christ. When God deals with the “I” He is not emphasizing sin; the issue is that of stern obedience to the Father. Christ became perfect by the things He suffered. It reveals that we start out as individuals “without form and void.” We are out of harmony with God, with other people, and with ourselves. There must be a transformation of moral character. Being born again of the Spirit of God brings us into the Holy Place of the Tabernacle. Their communication with God should become stronger each day as the substance of Christ is being ground uniformly throughout their personality. The beautiful gate to the Courtyard and the higher door to the Tabernacle building gave the Israelite who came with his offering some idea of the magnificence of the gold-covered interior of the wooden Tabernacle building—the Holy Place and the Most Holy Place. We trust that God will move on many of His people in these days to keep seeking the Lord until He makes His Church a praise in the earth and sends the Lord Jesus Christ to earth as King of all kings and Lord of all lords (Isaiah 62:1). We talk about God’s presence being inescapable and that he is “everywhere present” (Ps 139:5-12; 1 Kings 8:27). The Ark of the Covenant was a wooden chest. A person can accept Christ, be covered with the Passover blood by faith, be healed in his body, be baptized in water, be born again, be baptized in the Holy Spirit, prophesy, share in the Lord’s Supper—all in one evening. Aaron’s rod that budded shows that the Christian has learned to flow with the resurrection life that proceeds from the Father—the Life of the Holy Spirit of God. The memorial jar of manna—daily strength from Christ; the body and blood of Christ, our daily Bread from Heaven; the trait of depending continually on Christ each moment of the day for all matters great and small. The saints who are pressing forward in the overcoming life should attend to the leading of the Holy Spirit in the matter of prayer, intercession, supplication, petition, breaking of bondages, adoration, praise, and thanksgiving. When the prayer ascends to the Father He sends the Son in the power of the Holy Spirit. We have seen then that the Tabernacle of the Congregation was a rather large structure consisting of a gold-covered wooden building in a fenced-in area, set up by the Hebrews in the Sinai wilderness during their journey from Egypt to the land of promise. Perhaps washing is an appropriate concept for us Christians to consider today. The Ten Commandments were the testimony that God gave concerning His requirements for the conduct of the people of Israel and, in fact, for the conduct of all mankind. We as humans are not able to cope with such supernatural wisdom and power. God presses us on the hot mold of circumstances until the crucifixion with Christ and the resulting resurrection with Christ are of substance in us. Christ destroys the works of the devil. Our “wilderness wanderings” produce eternal virtue in us. The growth of the believer from the time he receives the blood atonement by faith until he is in Christ’s image and is in perfect, restful union with God through Christ. Clearly, Christianity—as it is taught and practiced today—is rapidly declining. When we give ourselves to God without reservation we will be heard! Now it is time for the Church of Christ to give back to the Holy Spirit the responsibility that is His—that of perfecting and empowering the testimony of Christ in the earth. The third death (death to self) is accomplished by self-denial as we become willing to make Christ the absolute Lord of our life. It was a curtain that hung from four pillars. The only neighbors here are the wild animals. He is the tree of life. We Christians refer often to our testimony. Out in the Courtyard, directly in line with and just before the door of the Tabernacle building, were placed the Altar of Burnt Offering and the bronze Laver. He takes of His own body and blood, blesses it, and nourishes the incorruptible Seed that is in us. If we are walking in the light of God’s will the blood of Christ is cleansing us from all sin. The holy angels of God ascend and descend on Him. As the lamb was being burned on the Altar of Burnt Offering at the opening and closing of each day, the wine was being poured out in the Holy Place by the priest. Then, as the anointed priest went into the Holy of Holies of Solomon’s Temple on the Day of Atonement, the extended poles would guide him to the Mercy Seat. Critical biblical scholars have regarded it as a distinct unit and have noted that the style is noticeably different from the main body of Leviticus. Dathan and Abiram of the tribe of Reuben also participated in the rebellion against Moses and Aaron. He is torn between the world and the fullness of resurrection life in Christ. We are to love not our life. Christ is the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world. It is the resurrection life that proves Jesus to be the Son of God. The Altar of Burnt Offering was made of the same acacia wood found throughout the construction of the Tabernacle. It was an oblong wooden building, covered with gold, and roofed over with cloth covered by animal skins. We have been crucified with Christ, and our new life is His resurrection life. The colors of the gate leading into the Courtyard of the Tabernacle were blue, purple, scarlet, and fine twisted linen (white). It is important to note that the carrying poles always remained in the receptacles on the sides of the Ark. The separating partition was the ornate Veil. Man passing through the Veil and being fashioned into the Ark of the Covenant, into the throne of the almighty God, becomes at that time the image of God. It is the marriage of the Lamb. Every Christian is called to be a priest of the Lord. Jesus declared, “Except you eat the flesh of the Son of man, and drink his blood, you have no life in you” (John 6:53). The inheritance of fruitfulness and dominion you desire is possible only as you are willing to become a cup that the Lord Jesus, the High Priest of God, pours on the fire of the Altar of Incense. There are many such passages in the Song of Solomon. When an obedient group of people call on God in this manner, giving thanks for all things and letting their requests be made known to God, we have the formula for earth-shaking revival. The Lampstand was by far the most ornate of the furnishings of the Tabernacle of the Congregation. Will we do this? The righteous nature of the Christian is a true testimony of the Lord to the heavens and to the earth. The number one difference was what the centurion said, “But speak the word only, and my servant shall be healed. In God’s perfect timing, not one second too soon or too late, the wisdom He has chosen for you will bloom with His Life. Those who believe that Jesus was a righteous teacher who offered his life rather than sacrifice his principles, or who offered his life to emphasize his sincerity and prove his love, are making a dreadful mistake. They may then be in line for the abundance of God: As we study the fifty-fourth chapter of Isaiah, which is written to those whom God draws aside to Himself so their fruit-bearing may be exclusively of Him, we find that we soon get into the description of the holy city, the new Jerusalem. When the promise was fulfilled, the gift of God far exceeded in glory and abundance anything Abraham and Sarah possibly could have imagined. By means of sharing the common body and blood the believers are made one by Him and in Him. He who possesses the Person of the Lord Jesus possesses everything of value in Heaven and on the earth. Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012. any place or house of worship, especially one designed for a large congregation. He who does not possess the Lord Jesus is bankrupt—deprived of everything of worth. Twice each day a cup was taken from its place on the Table of Showbread, filled with the holy incense, and poured on the coals of the Altar of Incense. The Divine Substance in us has to be beaten into shape. It is good, however, to keep our eyes fastened on the goal, which is the fullness of God’s Glory through the Lord Jesus Christ. In terms of the need of the moment, Christ looks about for a believer, a member of His Body, through whom He can meet the specific need. The youthful stages of both the physical and the spiritual life are essential to further development. We are “born again” by receiving into ourselves the Word of God. The “continual bread” remained on the table even when the children of Israel were on the march. We are God’s own people, down here at Sinai, but it is no place to stay after God moves on. 10 And they shall make an ark of shittim wood: two cubits and a half shall be the length thereof, and a cubit and a half the breadth thereof, and a cubit and a half the height thereof. It is time now for the Christian believers to exclaim from the heart: That I may know Him! Only the priests were allowed into the Holy Place where the Table of Showbread was. The golden Lampstand represents the baptism with the Holy Spirit into the Body of Christ; the various ministries and gifts of the Holy Spirit; anointing for Christian ministry and service; the law of the Spirit of Life; Pentecost; the Head and Body of Christ, who is the Anointed Deliverer, the Servant of the Lord. The Laver, then, portrays the cleansing of the Christian in preparation for priestly service. The inside of the building was ornate and beautiful. All persons are spiritually dead until Jesus comes. The Person and work of the Lord Jesus Christ. The Body of Christ always must point to Christ on the cross for the world to see, and for itself to see. The soul that sins must die, and each one of us has committed many sins during his or her lifetime. Christ, the fruit, is born in us and grows in us. When the Ark was placed in Solomon’s Temple (II Chronicles 5:9) it seems that the poles were partially drawn out so the little Ark of the Covenant could be noticed in the midst of the elaborate cherubim that Solomon made. If you stood back at a distance you would gain the impression of a large fenced-off area, the fence being pure white linen. The way of God is a supernatural way. But the Divine testimony, the testimony that is all important for the world to see and hear, is not only what we say about Christ and His love but also what we ourselves have become—the transformed moral nature. We need help from the prayers, counsel and ministry of other Christians. We must learn to live by Him as He lives by the Father. The building was twice as high as the fence and its appearance was plain and rough on the two sides and rear. If you find yourself at this time in a place of indecision, and it seems impossible to find the right way to walk in God, ask the Lord Jesus to place all your alternatives in the Presence of His holiness. Leviticus teaches us that the life of the flesh is in the blood. The Holy Spirit assigns the gifts and ministries of supernatural wisdom and power and then directs their use. All persons have sinned and all must come to God by the blood of the righteous Jesus. He is the living fulfillment of the Holy Place and the Most Holy Place. Less is said, as far as details of construction are concerned, about the bronze Laver than any of the other seven pieces of furniture. The fullness of the experience may be ahead for most of us. The Altar of Burnt Offering was placed before the door of the Tabernacle. God is good to those who wait only on Him. Each of the elements of the Tabernacle of the Congregation (and of the Levitical feasts) and their counterparts in our Christian life may be thought of as being a concept on a particular level on an ascending spiral. God moves in the past, present, and future. Our marriage to Christ brings forth “fruit unto God.” The fruit is Christ in us and the righteous behavior that results from our having Christ in us. But, as seems more likely, it probably was placed on the purple cloth with the bronze utensils of the Altar of Burnt Offering and carried along with that altar. But then the Lord requires of us that we be poured out to death. What matters is this: is resurrection life present in the area of immediate concern? It is not a struggle of power against power, for God has all power. The flower is the beauty of the Bride of Christ. We have spoken of Abraham, of Joseph, of Job. The Altar of Incense was the fifth furnishing, and it typifies our entrance into the rest of God. It is not merely that we become righteous people. Given in the presence of the sheriff, of Ba'tiste Renaud, of myself, and the various citizens of Tabernacle that you see here? The first work is the assigning, directing, and empowering of gifts and ministries. It must be fresh. The “flowers” may have been like the lily in appearance. Divine Nature (gold) can be “hammered” into shape. The second and third areas were inside the wooden structure, which was covered by the linen curtain, the goats’ hair curtain, the rams’ skins dyed red, and the badgers’ skins—four layers of material. The Communion service represents and calls attention to the fact that the Christian believer must partake of the body and blood of Christ. We will have that which is perfect. It is the placing of the Mercy Seat on the Ark. Let us worship Him. Christ, the incorruptible Seed in us, must be renewed continually by contact with the external Christ—with Him who is at the right hand of the Father. Our “old man,” our first personality, is crucified with Christ. The Ark was wood (humanity) covered with gold (Divinity). The ornamentation suggests to us that the manifestation of the Holy Spirit is attractive whereas the cross of Christ is a reproach. If we would have the buds, blossoms and almonds of resurrection life appear on our personality we must allow God to place us as He will “before the Ark of the Covenant,” before His Presence. The bronze Altar of Burnt Offering was five cubits square and typifies our entrance into the plan of redemption in Christ. It is suitable for cabinet work in that it can be polished. The Sinai desert is a frightening wilderness. We commence in total chaos of sin and finish on the Throne of Glory—so great is the atonement (reconciliation) made by Christ. The Spirit assigns and empowers the gifts of I Corinthians, Chapter 12, and brings forth the moral fruit described in Galatians, Chapter Five. “The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much.”. The courtyard was not covered over. In the Holy Place, the larger room of the wooden building (about fifteen feet wide, fifteen feet high, and thirty feet long), were placed the table that held the consecrated loaves of Showbread; the golden Lampstand, which is an important symbol of Judaism to this day; and the Altar of Incense. The Veil was placed two-thirds of the way toward the far end of the building, partitioning off a room cubical in proportion, fifteen feet on a side. Also, Christ is greatly concerned with the beauty of His Bride. The Altar of Burnt Offering brings to our mind the Lord Jesus who was slain for us. The coming of the Father and the Son to abide eternally in us is the capstone of salvation. The cup corresponds to the Altar of Incense.

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