Exodus 25:8 Let them make me a sanctuary; that I may dwell among them.
The Tabernacle and the service thereof, is one of, if not the most important theme of the Old Testament. It covers Exodus chapters 25-40, Plus 18 chapters in Lev., 13 chapters in Numbers, and 2 chapters in Deut.
That is TOO MANY scriptures given unto it to take it lightly. It is full of symbolic furnishings, hangings, hooks, rings, posts, curtains, vails, and furnishings that pointed to the New Testament in which we live. It was a schoolmaster to bring us unto Christ. God's Spirit filled the universe, but was not manifest in any other place as it was in the Tabernacle. The primary purpose of the Tabernacle was, "that I may dwell among them". Hebrews 9:9 a figure for the time then present.It typifies a Tabernacle yet to come where God would also dwell in a "Tabernacle" among men. John 1:14 The Word was made flesh and dwelt among us. The verb there means, "pitched a tent". The "tent" or dwelling place where the Glory of God dwelt was the fleshly body of Jesus The Christ. Jesus alone is The Savior, the revelation of the Glory of God. Col 2:17 Which are a shadow of things to come; but the body is of Christ. The natural is first, then that which is spiritual. 1 Cor. 10:11 Now all these things happened unto them for ensamples: and they were written for our admonition, upon whom the ends of the world are come. The Tabernacle was aforeshadowing that revealed and established a spiritual pattern that reveals New Testament truth. It was a pattern, type, shadow, figure, of the True tabernacle. The Tabernacle of God was with men. God dwelt among men in Christ. The Father in me, He doeth the work. God was in Christ, reconciling the world unto himself. I am in the Father, and The Father in me. I and my Father are one. He that hath seen me hath seen The Father. There is no God before me. There is no God beside me. No God shall be formed after me. I am God alone. Thou shaltknow no God beside me.
There is no pattern, shadow, type, example in the Tabernacle that shows three seperate and distinct persons to support the triune God.
He was in the world, the world was made by him, and the world knew him not.
In the pattern of the true, very few ever saw the glory within the Tabernacle. Of all the seed of Abraham, only the Levites served the Tabernacle, and only a concecrated few of the Levites were permitted within to see the Glory of God.
All thatmost ever saw was the outer covering of skin. They only see the MAN in which the Great God dwelt. They never see God's Glory within. He walked on the water, cleansed the leper, opened the blind eyes, healed the lame, raised the dead, assended up into heaven, yet they can't see God's Glory. The Levites were told about the the beauty within the Tabernacle. They heard about the devine light of the GoldenCandlestick. They were told of the beautiful Table that had the shew bread. They were told of the Altar of incense and all about the curtains, hooks, rings, ect. But they were hid from their eyes. All they could see was the outer covering. On the outward apperance, there isn't anything that men would desire, but Oh the beauty to behold when one gets a glimpse of what lies beyond that outer vail of flesh. Yes Thomas. he is my Lord and my God also.
I agree, God took up residence in that body. His body was total man, but inside dwelled that living breathing Spirit of God....Full of Grace and Truth!
The Tabernacle
