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Tonight we're going to be taking up the coverings.
The bars.
The boards.
And.
We appreciate feedback as it comes in too, because it kind of helps.
Position so, but let's be very dependent upon the Lord.
I'm very thankful we've gotten this far.
And I give all the honor and glory to Him because I know this can be a big thing with the technology and the Lord has seen fit thus far.
To bring it through and may we pray to that the Lord the Holy Spirit would give us help.
As we take up this particular matter, my prayer is to to make it simple.
Enough.
For children as well, let's pray.
Our Father, our God, we're thankful.
For again this topic in the series Father where we can look at this magnificent structure.
That the Israelite of old had to undertake for and we can look back.
And see our blessed Lord Jesus and all his glory, and we think of the purpose Father, for us to be with him.
Our Lord Jesus.
So we asked for help.
In the time ahead of us here.
For thy undertaking, father, along the way.
Again, we pray for the children to.
They would take away something from these precious truths as we go along, whether new to terms that they would take.
We also to pray for those that would see this recording afterwards as well, Father.
We know we have these truths. 1000 trusted to us.
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Share these truths.
With those that are seeking out there on the Internet as well and for those that we have would come in contact with afterwards.
And so, Lord Jesus, we give you thanks and we pray, and we ask for help. My name we pray. Amen.
Hi, welcome back to another Tabernacle talk around a table with four brothers that are here. And I'd like to swing over to say hi to the guys again. We got Tim. Go ahead and wave. Nate, thanks for coming back. And Josh is there too. Good. And you can see, you'll see yourselves in the monitor there too. So you'll see what I'm trying to get an angle here.
That'll have the three of you in there as well. I would like to go ahead and.
Do a brief little review of what we've had thus far. I also have up on the screen, I have a nice cut out of what we've taken up so far. But I thought what we would do is Nate and I would go ahead and kind of walk through what an Israelite would have to do and what the priest would do real briefly on the Tabernacle shot we have above.
And so there's a Tabernacle shot. So Nate, let's talk. You get your little pointer there. Are you ready? OK.
And then Tim, if I could have you, you can see the on the screen there. Let's get the front gate. Can we slide it, I guess, Tim, to your right, slide the model to your right, just a hair to get a new camera angle there just so we can get them through the front gate here. There we go. Beautiful right there. OK, so Nate, let's walk. Let's walk. This this man comes through the gate here, right? Yeah. So he comes in through the gate.
Then he's in the court.
Then we have the brazen altar, which is next. Yes, get past that and you have the labor.
Then you have the door of the Tabernacle, but the man has to stay behind at the brazen altar, right? Right after here is is the priest. Yes, the priest goes from here. So you're entering the door here. There's some hangings there.
Just move this model.
And now we get to the inside here, the first room we have.
The Candlestick. We have the table of showbread and we have the altar, Vincent.
After that you have the veil, which only the High Priest would pass through.
Once a year, once a year, and on the inside of that you'd have the Ark of the Covenant, sometimes called the Ark of the Testimony or the Ark of God and Mercy Seat on top. Beautiful. What we haven't mentioned is there's a whole set of things on the outside and something going on top, which I think is what we're going to cover today. That's beautiful and we'll just bring it to you just a little bit there.
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There you go. So you have and and. Can you quickly count how many you got there?
1234 beautiful and that's what we're going to take up today in part is is that as well. And then we would also be remiss we would not in the model is a little small. We don't have a camera anger on it, but there are some bars that go down the wall and there's there's wooden wooden boards that are coming directly up and we're going to talk about those as well.
Beautiful and real quick. We talked last time about the the.
Five pieces of furniture inside. We talked about the three that are directly inside there, the the Candlestick, the alternative incense. There you go, Candlestick. And then you have the the 12 loaves on the table of showbread. Now the priest went in there and once it once a week. Was that what we were talking about last time, to eat the showbread?
And, and, and then the priest would trim the lamps every night as well, twice a night, two times a day, two times a day. Thank you. And then, like you said, Nate, once a year the high priest would pass into the holy of holies. That's right, beautiful. Okay, so here we go. So so we're going to talk about Josh. We're going to talk about.
Really, we're going to talk a little, talk a little bit about.
Camera there.
Give me a second.
So we're going to talk about the.
The anti tape of the curtains and coverings, is there something you want to take up before we went into the slide set? Well, that's a good slide to start with Mark. And I think over the last couple nights since we've started in on this subject, I think I speak for us all to.
Only to say that that.
This is a vast subject and you know, we, we, we get in on to holy ground, as we've said.
As we've considered the furniture inside and all of this, as we've said before, but it's good to restate it is that we get something of the glory of Christ pictured in in this whole Tabernacle outlined in discussion. We get his person, his work, his glories and it's something really to to think about and, and, and the deeper we get into the study.
And I'm speaking on a on a personal level.
The more I realize how not only wonderful it is, but just how vast the subject is. So it's, it is quite something. But maybe to bring that slide back up, Mark, if you don't mind. And I think this is a good I I enjoyed this kind of these two statements that kind of give us a general feel for what do the coverings speak to us of and the curtains, which is the first covering which you'll notice in in the.
In your in your Bible it is called the Tabernacle.
In Exodus 26, and by the way, what we're taking up tonight is, is largely all coming from Exodus 26. But you'll notice that the, the, the curtains, which is the first covering is called the Tabernacle itself. The the next covering being the, the goat's hair is called the tent. And then the last two are called the coverings. So just kind of an interesting note as you as you move through it, but all of these sat on top of the structure.
And all of these speak of Christ. Now the curtains, which is the first covering speaks to us of Christ personally. And and then the rest of the curtains or the the rest of the coverings really are his qualities that we will notice. And so going back for those who weren't here for the first meeting, we went through a number of Tabernacle keys, which kind of.
Gave us some general outlines in terms of.
Of interpretation of the types when it relates to the colors and the metals and the fabrics and so on. And we're going to see that coming to life here again. And in this this Tabernacle curtain, it was composed of of as it says in Exodus 26 verse one that there is 10 curtains of and there was there was four things fine twine, linen, blue, purple and scarlet. And I guess there's the fifth thing that cherubims were worked into.
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These coverings and and these ten were all joined together and they formed the first covering again called the Tabernacle so.
Again, this, this speaks of of Christ personally. We we get in the the fine twine linen, His spotless purity, His holy life. We see the blue and that speaks of His heavenly character. We see the purple which speaks to us of his of him as Lord of Lord and King of kings.
Which is his one of his glories, and scarlet, which is his?
Laurie is the king of Israel. So son of man and son of David, son of man being the purple son of David being the scarlet beautiful. So it's it's beautiful to me to see that this overlays the boards and we will get there. But the boards do speak of us and but but all the the beauty of Christ, can I say.
As a man, as a man really, he associates us with himself.
And we are, we are tied together with him in, in so many of these things, which we could speak to later. It's it's really beautiful. And of these four different coverings that we've talked about or that we will talk about, this is the one on the bottom that that you see when you on when you're on the inside, right? Yeah. So this wasn't seen by anybody from the outside. So again, looking at the the typical picture of this, the world is sitting on the outside of the court and they're looking in and and this building is quite high.
15 feet high, right? I mean, it was tall, yeah, and, and but all they saw was the outermost covering which which was the the badger skins. But only those who were priests that went into the sanctuary, the holy place witnessed the beauty of of what this these curtains speak to us of. And we touched in on it the other night. But really.
To me.
The overriding thought here is that for the from the priests perspective, which speaks of you and me as Christians by the way, is that only those who are on the inside can appreciate the person of Christ beautiful. The world looks on and they don't have they don't see any beauty in him. They do not appreciate his person and.
And but and they do not behold what what we behold now in the person of Christ and and and what a privilege place we have as believers now He's opened our eyes to see all.
His beauty and glory.
There was a verse that was there on one of the slides.
In reference to the cherubims, Josh, you mentioned that this first curtain speaks of Christ personally. Maybe we should read that verse in John 5.
John 5 and verse 22 For the Father judgeth no man, but hath committed all judgment unto the Son, until we know that the cherubims were often often representative of the executioners of the judgment of God and the government of God. And what we see in that verse in John is that.
The Lord will be the judge.
Right, that's also brought out Knox. What is it, 17 Yeah, but it says that he, at the point of the day in which he will judge the rule the world in righteousness by that man whom he hath ordained, Speaking of the Lord Jesus Christ.
So Josh, where is the loops of blue and caches the clasp the goal where where we find that in the Tabernacle? Well, these are what joined these curtains together, right? So if you read in verse five, it says 50 loops shall thou make?
In the one curtain in 50 loop shalt thou make in the edge of the curtain that is in the coupling of the 2nd that the loops may take hold one of another. So in other words, the loops brought 5 curtains together OK And then another set of five were brought together were tied together by the loops. And then there was these patches or hooks right that that brought those two sets of curtains together which we read in verse 6. And thou shalt make 50 touches of gold and couple the.
Together with attaches and it shall be one Tabernacle so we have in the slide here it you know just a quick bite size thought that Christ in his heavenly grace and divine energy both united and his person meeting man's fullest responsibility man word and God word. Where do you get that? Well, that's in the five again the numbers have meanings and so five is human responsibility man word 10.
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5 + 5 is 10.
Is human responsibility Godward he is he has met them both in perfection, brought together by his heavenly grace and divine righteousness and and we see it all in in him. And so I think this is kind of a general outline of what we see in the curtains in in picture form. And man, I just want to be clear, man, man's responsibility has to do with the fact he's got five fingers, 5 toes. Is that is that the idea?
Yeah, and you get that in the law, right? The 10 commandments, there's men's and half of which were manward and the other half, if I remember right, were God word. And the combination of the two was a total of 10. So yeah, man is responsible. We can't get away from our responsibility. There's a there's noted last night that we are responsible as human beings, period.
Both to our fellow man, but also ultimately to God.
And we can't get away from it. And where we have failed in that as human beings, being that we are a fallen people, as natural human beings born into this world in sin.
Christ has had to answer for those things in the house and perfection, hasn't he? Where the 1St man failed, the 2nd man triumphed.
Beautiful.
Then Josh, you had that we we went over. So we've already gone over the fine twin, the blue and the purple and scarlet, correct, correct. So we could probably move on to the goats here. OK, that's in verse seven of our chapter and.
Just bring up the next one, why don't you and, and just explain a little bit about the goats here, right? Is it was it just goats that were slain and they were skinned out and this was going to be the top covering? Is that correct? Well, I think so. I, I, I'm not.
Totally not the top. It's, it's right above what we had before. OK. But it's not the the very, it's not the very top. OK, yes, correct. So it's the second covering. Yeah. And really, this, this speaks to us of Christ and his prophetic character. It's his separation from evil. You know, we're all familiar with John the Baptist and, and the severity of his character, the holiness of his character.
In terms of separating himself from sin and, and all of that and acting as a voice piece for God and the Lord Jesus was just that. He was God's voice, if you will, as the word of God and, and he came to reveal the mind of God as as any prophet did in the Old Testament. And the Lord Jesus was referenced as such, I believe in Deuteronomy 18 as quoted in Acts chapter 3.
You know a prophet shall the Lord your God raise up unto you of your brethren like unto me him shall you hear in all things whatsoever he shall say unto you and and and so on the the people knew about this Old Testament Scripture and and you go into the Gospel of John and and they ask is you know John the Baptist says I'm not that prophet. Well, who is he referencing the the prophet promised in the Old Testament.
And the Lord Jesus being that very prophet, is that right, Tim?
Yeah, the interesting thing that sets the load apart from all other profits is not only was he.
The prophet depicted in this in this goat skin covering, but he was the fulfiller of those prophecies, right? He did these things that the scripture might be fulfilled and so.
Sets him apart from all others. Obviously we see that, but it's, it's just a point that none of the other prophets were doing those things, seeking their fulfillment except for the Lord. Very good. So the book of Hebrews has a lot of references to the Tabernacle.
And it starts out verse one God, who has sundry times, and in diverse manner spake and time passed unto the Father's by the prophets, hath in these last days spoken unto us by his Son.
So we should probably move on to the next covering, which would be in verse fourteen of our chapter.
And it's actually there's the two coverings here, but the first one being the ram skins dyed red. And so this verse says and thou shalt make a covering for the 10 of ram skins dyed red, and then the next one and a covering above a badger skins.
So maybe somebody can give us a word on that?
So the Ramskins died, right? If I understand, it have to do with Christ's absolute consecration to God, and the dyed red speaks specifically to his devotedness to God, even unto death. Is that correct? Yeah, Yeah.
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Yeah, it's a, it's a something really to think about because.
Someone has said this and it's it's a powerful statement and it's true that he would rather die than disobey. And he went all the way in full total obedience to his father to accomplish his will. It cost him his life. This is what we see in his consecration to God. And so the the ram right was the consecration sacrifice. We we have that, I think.
In Leviticus 8, also in Is it?
Chapter 29, I believe two is it not of Exodus if I have it right, right. And so that was the the the animal that was used to consecrate the priests and we see the full absolute fulfillment in the Lord himself have these four layers. This is the one that's not visible from any perspective, is that right, right, right. And So what does that mean? Well, I think.
Just a thought, but would it not suggest that?
This consecration could only be appreciated by God and God alone.
This is something you and I cannot enter into at all, but it's only shared between between him and his his father.
So we got the badger skins next.
Yeah. So the badger skins was the outermost covering which was witnessed by the world, which by the way, there is another aspect of the coverings that were that was witnessed by the world, a bit of the goats here, because it was doubled at the front and back. And so that was seen in the front and the back a little bit. But predominantly it was the badger skins that that sat over top.
There's been some question as to whether or not this was actually Badgers.
Right. Some of the writers have pointed out others because apparently, if I understand things right, that's not a common animal in that area of the world, but it could have been seal skins or dolphin skins, which is quite readily available.
Being where it is where where this is stationed so but we don't know but it's called badger skin. So we'll stick to that as the scriptures as we have it here in our version but.
That this covering was something that was obviously very weather resistant. It didn't let the rain in, it kept the heat off and it was able to withstand the elements.
And.
You know, our slide says this Christ in his absolute holiness and his person in life, his holy determination and steadfastness. So there's this holy vigilance that characterized his life. So he was he, he could not be touched by sin.
At all, you know, the Lord said, which of you convinced me of sin? The Lord said, I think in John 14, if I remember right, that the Prince of this world cometh and hath nothing in me. And so the Lord was absolutely perfect, absolutely holy, could not be tainted or touched by sin at all. Nothing could breakthrough that breakthrough his his, the, the holiness of his person.
I think that's the idea here. Is that right? It's resistant to the elements naturally, and would speak of resistant to the temptation from without.
Right. And and what's interesting too is that again, this is what the world would see. And I think of that verse that says that there's no beauty that we should behold him. And Isaiah 53, that's the natural perspective, that's the natural eye looking at the person of Christ. And they don't see anything that would be commendable to them, nothing of attraction. Oh, but you know, we go inside and we see exactly who he is and, and we appreciate his beauty now.
All glorious within, all glorious without the Lord Jesus is, is is just beautiful, isn't he? And and as this is a protective coating, it would show that there's everything inside is worth protecting, right? Yeah, very good. Yeah. It's interesting to consider that like you were talking, Josh, that this covering from the outside perspective, there was no no glory, no beauty from that perspective.
Which is the exact opposite of what this world does right? Everything that they create creates an outward display of glory. The Lord did not do that.
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His his his glory was veiled from all that were without an only witness from those that were with that right and you know, the natural man likes to put himself on display. He likes to display his own glory. That's natural, but the Lord Jesus.
He he was so unassuming.
That even when Judas came to take to lead the soldiers into apprehend our Lord, he said he had to give them a sign so that they might know who he was. Think about that. Here's the one that that healed multitudes of people, never sought the 1St place, never put himself in the open but and never tried to garner attention, but it just followed him because of who he is.
And he never sought the spotlight. But.
But when they came to get him, in fact, it said that Judas smothered him with kisses if I remember right. I think in in I think in another translation. Amazing. Not only is it?
You know, just really heartbreaking to think of of, of Judas's betrayal and, and, and what he would do to the Lord in that respect. But the fact that he smothered him with kisses to just make it very obvious who it was.
I mean, so this is this is the person of Christ. He didn't walk through this world displaying himself. He was the lowly Son of man. Yeah, Philippians 2 verses that we are well familiar with.
Speak to our own hearts about this Christ being this example to us. It says, Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ. She's a souvenir in the form of God. Thought it not robbery to be equal with God, but made of himself, of no reputation, and took upon him the form of the servant, and was made in the likeness of men. And being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross.
Complete humility, right? Yeah.
So we should probably move on then to the the boards, rings and bars. So here now we have the the actual building itself.
Now the boards, I think we touched in on it that the boards would speak to us of believers, right, right. And just just real quick refresher, Josh, let's go over the the scale of the boards. These were how many boards were laid out and I was just kind of snapshot and this is a top down view give it give us some indication there were there were 48 boards. So there's 20 on the North and South side pointing to and then six in the back, OK.
Which you see there on the West, and then two in the corners where the rings are. And they were secured by rings at the top and at the bottom. So there's 48 in total. And they were 15 feet high, 15 feet high. And you can see barely. I don't know if I could zoom in on that a little bit, but there's also a little metal rods that went on the side right there was. Explain that a little bit. Yeah. So there were five metal rods that were secured by rings.
On the outside of the building and there's various interpretations as to how those rods were actually assembled on the outside of the boards. But all through this, I think we see.
This recurring theme of stability and and and strength all the way through.
And you'll notice this is.
A. A man made interpretation of what we have in the scriptures so.
No perfect model, but just to give us an idea at the very least.
Very good. So the boards really bring before us, I think our acceptance in Christ, does it not? So these boards were overlaid with gold and and it really is a picture of us not only as individuals, but also as us being builded together as a habitation of God through the Spirit as we have in Ephesians 2.
And there were silver sockets that were under each of these boards and and again, silver being the, the metal that speaks to us of the, the blessings of atonement or redemption as we commonly know it as. So all our standing is on the basis of what on the redemption of Christ on his blood. And, and that's how we are.
That's what we stand on. That's the basis of our.
On that, you know.
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Often we talk about internal security that's brought out in this. There were a hundred of those sockets. Is that correct? Total. Yeah. And we were looking at the way about 114 lbs apiece. Those things aren't moving, though. They're not going anywhere. What? What? What, what? Weighing 114 lbs apiece. Each silver socket. Each one of. Yeah, each one. And there's two in each port. Wow. The thing is, you, you could blow on this with a Gale. It's not going anywhere. Right. So we were talking the other day about.
Security again, God has gone to great lengths not only in the New Testament to assure his his people of of their not only their standing in Christ, but their eternal security in him. But we also see it very vividly in in the pictures of of the Old Testament here, particularly in the Tabernacle. And it's just wonderful you know, and and also the there were two tenants. It says in verse 17 that.
We're in one board and they were to go down into the sockets right says in verse 17210 and shall there be in one board set in order one against another. Thus shalt thou make for all the boards of the Tabernacle and these tenons. If your Bible is similar to mine. I have a a note in the margin that says in Hebrew that it's translated his hands. And so if we can make an application there again back to our security and standing in Christ. We need to lay hold on.
These things with our hands, if you will.
And and realize what we have in him and, and all the security that we possess in in our Lord Jesus. Just to to add to that too, it makes a point in verse 15.
They also make the boards for the Tabernacle of **** and wood standing up. These boards had no power in themselves to stand up on their own. They needed those sockets.
In fact, those boards, before they were assembled and put there, they were lying flat on the ground.
Picture of being dead in trespasses and sins someone needed to pick them up and put them in that foundation and then were they Josh go back to those those rods that went through is that speak of the Holy Spirit coming in and joining believers in in the early part right. So now there's again various interpretations of this, but I I like the the thought that the the middle bar ran actually directly through the interior of the board so.
It was unseen and and it went right through the middle and and that would be a picture of the Spirit of God uniting his people together.
Right, and and and so the the other bars that sit on the outside. Well, you know, Ephesians 4I I do like this. It's been likened to and I think on one of our slides we indicated that it was the gift, the gifts that the Lord has given to establish his people.
In the House of God, but if we could just.
Ephesians 4 and I I do like this thought.
That in Ephesians 4 verse two it says wherewith or with all loneliness and meekness, lowliness being the lowest bar, meekness being the second highest, with long-suffering being the third bar, and the topmost bar being forbearing one another in love. It's Ephesians 4, he says Ephesians 4 verse two, and then the the bar that goes through the middle is 3.
Endeavoring to keep the unity of the Spirit.
In the in the bond of peace. And then those rings perhaps speak of eternal love. And those are those things that should that that characteristic should be seen in all his Saints, that that love should be something that is.
Obvious and evident and a natural thing if I can use the word natural.
Amongst those of his own.
And and sharing that one with another.
So these are again there, there's a security that that we see in all this in the structure that that it's a solid building, isn't it in the corners, there's the rings on our model that needed pointed out earlier that again that add additional strength to the corners and again using the the figure of of.
Eternal love being in the the the corners of that building.
Something that that holds us all together, isn't it through Christ?
So in this picture, would you say that each board represents individual believers, right. And the fact that there are one building would be the collective aspect? Yep, Yep, that's I think what we see. Beautiful. And this is what I'll throw up the slide here is this the the pillars that would be at the is that the those at the front? Well, the the pillars here, I think are what would be on this slide in particular would be in.
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What's upholding the veil outside, Right. So there are four pillars there. OK. And maybe just go back to that slide mark, if you don't mind. OK, here.
Let's do this.
OK, OK, so we have Christ, both human and divine, and the one upon whom everything depends for the blessings of atonement and access to God. And then there's there's really a dual type in this where we can see a, you know, believers standing on redemption ground upholding Christ. You remember these pillars would would hold up the veil, but also that the they are socketed in silver, right. Again, the thought of redemption.
There once again.
So it's, it's beautiful to see how closely linked we are to the Lord Jesus Christ. And then, and then we have, of course, the veil, which is a paramount importance, isn't it? So maybe somebody could maybe give us a word on that.
You want to point that out there Nate where that I was put that up solo there? Yeah, the veil was right there as you walk as the priest would go in once a year, right. And they would have to pass by the altar of incense to go inside the holy of holies. That's the veil that that that we're referring to and I believe it had in the picture is right. There's cherubims on that and we spoke last night of the.
The Candlestick being the sole light there and I believe it cast a beautiful, beautiful glow upon these cherubims that were embroidered.
On that lid in there.
Yeah. So as the slide said.
The veil speaks of his flesh, the Lord Jesus Christ flesh we we see that very evidently brought out and Hebrews chapter 10. We read this yesterday, but because of the significance of this. Let's read this again Hebrews chapter 10. I think it's verse 19.
Having therefore, brethren, boldness centered it into the holiest by the blood of Jesus, by a new and living way which he hath consecrated for us through the veil, that is to say, His flesh.
So that gives it to us very clearly and.
Again, the veil was made from that same fine twine linen and then embroidered with those same three colors.
And cherubims and.
Those all speak of the various aspects of the glory of of our Lord Jesus Christ. Again, the the fine twine linen Speaking of His perfect righteousness and humanity, His moral glories, the blue, his heavenly glories, the purple speaks of his position as the Son of man, the Lord of Lords, King of kings. Also maybe speaks a little bit as to his suffering.
Talks about the brazen altar being covered with purple over the ashes and and then also the scarlet, which again speaks of the Lord Jesus as the Son of David and and again the King of Kings and Lord of Lords. The interesting thing purple is a combination of blue and scarlet. And so the combination of those two things and then of course the cherubims again is judicial.
Power and they found rest in the Lord Jesus.
Beautiful.
So that verse you referenced in Hebrews would go back to what happened at the cross. Yeah. And we know that we can read in the Gospels the veil of the temple was rent and twain from top to the bottom at that time. And there's significance to that, isn't there? Because.
It's been said that the the veil of this temple of this Tabernacle was designed to be rent from the very inception. It was created with that in mind.
That from the point that we're reading about it here, and it was rent from the top to the bottom, from heaven to earth, from God to man.
And that's what gave entry into that heaven of heavens, the holy, so holiest, the throne room of God.
So just getting back to our slides for a moment. So I understand now, Josh, how how you kind of were working through this is that we're inside, look at the pillars and the veil. But then the very next slide, you speak of the door and the pillars, which would be more on the outside of. So let me just drop that down. So go ahead and move that model up there. There you go. So we're now we're coming through the door.
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And there's.
4/4 pillars there, 55 pillars, five. OK, again, numbers have significance and.
We don't want to be too imaginative in, in the application of them, but there, there is a place for the interpretation of them. And I, I think that there is an aspect here of, of the five pillars which speak to us of man's responsibility and, and again, as we mentioned before.
Or that that responsibility was fully and perfectly picked up and and and satisfied, if you will.
By Christ, he he fully answered to that in perfection, and it's it's not.
It's not on the inside, right? You know, the the veil was upheld by 4 pillars which which tells us of something interesting. That's the universal number. OK, you know, I, I think again you get hints of grace all the way through this.
And that is that God's desire is that he wants to come out to man and reveal himself to him and, and have fellowship with him. And, and for being the universal number is as if God is saying, I want to come out. And this is I want you to come in, but I want to come out to you. And it's available to all, but it has to be done on a righteous basis, right?
And and you can't get in there.
Unless you pass through the brazen altar as we apply to ourselves in typical form. So these are cast in five sockets of brass, exactly which would relate back to the brazen altar. You don't get through that door if you haven't passed the brazen altar, right? And so there's an element, an aspect of these five pillars being socketed in brass of man's responsibility and judgment. And the Lord is reminding us that if you're going to get on the.
Don't forget that it is on the basis and on the ground of judgment that has been accomplished in the person of the Son of God. So as an aspect of remembrance, Yeah, that's good. I like that. Yeah. And what's very interesting too, is that the the door that we read about here in verse 36 and thou shalt make in hanging for the door of the tent.
Of blue and purple and scarlet and fine twine. Linen rot with needlework.
You'll notice something missing.
Cherubims.
They were on the veil inside inside, but that's judgment has passed. They're on the veil and the ceiling. But judgment when you get inside, judgment has passed and now we see who the judge really is. It's the person of of Christ. All judgments been committed under the sun. John 5 tells us, but again, hints of grace that God.
Is presenting Christ to man on the outside, not in in the the spirit of judgment, if you will. He's He's presenting his person, but not him as a judge.
And so God wants again, wants to save sinners, doesn't he? Yeah. Goes back to that verse in John that says that he came not into the world to condemn the world, but that the world to him. I And the Lord leaves us here another night. We will take up the outermost court.
And the vessel, the, the brazen altar and brazen Laver. And we got a beautiful gospel picture in that and speaking to us about that very thing that God is, is wanting to bring man in. He wants to bring men in, but again, only on the grounds of the work and sacrifice of Christ. That's the only way, right? That's the only way.
So here we have the the cut out and just to just to kind of start tying things together here is.
There as you walk past that labor, that the pre, we're going to take that up next time. They walk past labor, then they go into the doors. We just got done Speaking of going from left to right. And then they have that and then the veil is beyond the altar of incense there. And to the right of that is the holy of Holies. And then you can see the fabrics stretched across the top as well.
It's remarkable that as you consider these things, we haven't talked about it yet, but you have the gate into the court and it's made of the same materials, the fine twine linen, and it's seen with those same colors, the blue and the purple and the scarlet. Again, from that point, there's no, there's no cherubims, but they all are in alignment from the gate to the door to the veil. They're all in a perfect line, beautiful and, and they all are made-up of those.
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Things because they all speak of Christ and those various aspects, right?
Well, does that kind of make a wrap for what we have this evening here? I did have we sang a hymn earlier today here at this camp that we're recording this at and I thought this.
Second verse of Little flock #61 was very beautiful. His glory, not only God's Son and manhood. He had his full part and the union of boy both joined in one form of the foundation of love in his heart. And that's really what what we're trying to enjoy around this table is the aspect of having.
Having the beauty of the Lord Jesus Christ.
Brought forth in the pictures, in the types, in the and seeing His glory, and in the expressed in the colors expressed in.
In the numbers, the materials, et cetera, it's just a beautiful thing. And we, if I could just go back to the him we sang tonight together.
And it's #309 in the little flock. And, and this for me is, is, if you haven't noticed, these hymns are kind of tying into the subject matter that we, we've been taking up each evening.
But in particular at the end of verse, well, I'll read verses one and two. Jesus before thy face we fall, our Lord, our life, our hope, our all, for we have nowhere else to flee, no sanctuary, Lord but thee. That's the inside right in thee we every glory view. That's what we see in in what we've been talking about on the inside. All his glory is represented there.
Of safety, strength and beauty too. So we appreciate his beauty.
But again, the security that we have in Christ is is is incredible safety, strength, beauty, all of that is seen in in what we we've considered tonight tis all our rest and peace to see our sanctuary Lord in thee.
So Christ is everything, isn't he?
Well, beautiful. So there we have it, another beautiful session together around the table and.
Again, just so much notes to take and I hope you've enjoyed it by taking notes. And we're going to share in an upcoming episode, we'll share where some additional resources could be found as well for further meditation of these things. But we look forward to next time taking up the two articles, the two pieces of furniture out in the court. And, and so I can't wait for that session as well. So with that, we'll see you next time.
Ourselves.
Our God and Father, we do thank You for this time to consider the beauties of Thy beloved Son, and how humbling it is that Thou has chosen us and has set us in the place of ISON and we stand accepted, fully accepted, and be Lord Jesus we do.
Return and thank you for it. We do ask that we would want in that place.
Saying, Pray this and thy precious name, Lord Jesus, Amen.
Amen.