Open—Paul Hadley
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Look in Exodus chapter 16.
This is the occasion when manna was given.
And at the end of the chapter.
Verse 32 And Moses said, This is the thing which the Lord commandeth, Fill an Omer of it to be kept for your generations.
They may see the bread wherewith I fed you in the wilderness, when I brought you forth from the land of Egypt. Moses said unto Aaron, Take a pop, put an Omer full of manager, and lay it up before the Lord to be kept for your generations. Lord commanded Moses, so Aaron laid it up before the testimony to be kept.
The children of Israel did eat better and so on.
We have a pot of manna laid up before the testimony.
What was that testimony?
Wasn't the Ark?
The Ark wasn't built yet.
The law.
You don't get that until much later.
What could possibly be this testimony?
I don't know.
I suspect myself.
That it was the rod that Moses had.
Alright, I'd like to bring out here.
Is that there was something that Moses had that God used?
And Moses was not to forget that.
He laid it up.
He might be used of God for something some time.
It's easy to forget that.
You're not to forget it.
You might have some answer to prayer in your life. It's easy to forget it.
You are not to forget that. Lay it up. Moses had a little spot. I suspect it was a box. I have no idea what it was. It might have been a tent.
I just know what it wasn't.
Those things weren't there yet.
But every answer to your prayers is something precious for you to lay up, and it'll strengthen you for.
That which comes next.
So we have this testimony here.
Turnover.
Two Exodus 33.
This is after the law is broken.
That's chapter 32, where the law is broken.
And.
Reread.
That.
Verse seven. And Moses took the Tabernacle, and pinched and pitched it without the camp, afar off from the camp, and called it the Tabernacle of the congregation came to pass, that everyone which sought the Lord went out under the Tabernacle of the congregation, which was without the camp.
What was this Tabernacle?
It wasn't what we find set up in uh, in chapter 40.
Haven't been set up yet.
Might have been a little tense.
I suspect it had that rod in it, but it doesn't say what it was. Maybe it had that rod in it?
And perhaps it had a pot of manna in it.
Everybody wanted to seek. The Lord went to that place.
But then we find in Numbers chapter one that.
That's the Tabernacle after it's set up, well, that's chapter 40 we read about the Tabernacle being set up. Chapter 39 I think it is as we read about the priesthood being set up.
Because she and uh, in chapter 33, there was no priesthood yet.
There were no singers yet that were waited for David's time.
No singers, no priesthood.
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It was a Tabernacle though.
No royal garments. I mean no priestly garments.
None of that.
But it was a spot.
Where the Lord is recognized as.
Being there.
That's that spot that I recommend that you and I treasure in our hearts, where the Lord is recognized, where He has been there in your life, however that might be.
Then to go on as I said in Numbers chapter one, at the end of the chapter we find.
We find that the children, it says, uh, towards the end of the chapter, it speaks of the children of Israel. That's verse 52, pitch their tents. Every man buys on camp and every man by his own standard throughout their host, the Levite shall pitch around about the Tabernacle of testimony that there be no wrath upon.
A congregation of the Children of Israel.
So there was a time when this when this tent was outside the camp.
But then we find that it's inside the camp, just as it's meant to be.
What changed?
I would suggest this.
When Moses had to take that.
Tentative testimony outside the camp.
There was no sacrifice for sin.
There was law that was broken and no sacrifice for it. It had to be taken outside the camp.
There was no bloodshed.
And there was no mercy seat.
And so in chapter 40 of Exodus, there's the in chapter 39 of Exodus, the priesthood, chapter 40 of Exodus, the mercy seat in its proper place.
And you and I have a mercy seat and.
You and I have access to that.
So it's a beautiful thing to think of a time when that.
Testimony of the Lord's presence could be brought back into the congregation because now.
There was a mercy seat. Now it doesn't say that I'm.
I'm just trying to explain why it would be that it had to be outside the camp at one time, then it was brought inside the camp and another time I believe it's because there was a mercy seat and bloodshed and a priesthood. So that being said, what do we think of Hebrews 13?
There's a beautiful thought about that.
Hebrews 13.
Verse 10.
We have an altar where they have no right to eat, which serves the Tabernacle. Notice it doesn't say the temple, it says the Tabernacle.
The Tabernacle.
Was a picture, as we've often enjoyed.
That which we have now with the.
Uh, foreshadows what we have now, enjoyment of Christ.
And all being the boards and so on. Silver sockets of silver and things covered with gold. All those things that have different thoughts to them.
Umm, Temple really is more of a picture of that which is ahead in the Millennium.
So it's very appropriate that it speaks here of the Tabernacle, verse 11, for the bodies of those beasts whose blood is brought into the sanctuary by the high priest for sin are burned without the camp.
Wherefore Jesus also, that He might sanctify the people with His own blood, suffered without the gate. Let us go forth therefore unto Him, without the camp, burying His reproach.
Now, if you think of Exodus 33, where that little tent with whatever was in it was outside the camp.
The reproach was not on the tent, it was on the camp because of their scent.
So what's the approach that we're talking about here? Well, it explains in the passage what it is, and if we were looking, well, I guess I'll have to read it. The end of Leviticus 6 speaks of the sin offering.
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Political 6 and.
Verse 30 And no sin offering whereof any of the blood is brought into the Tabernacle, the congregation to reconcile withholding the holy place shall be eaten. It shall be burnt in the fire. It wasn't for a priest to enjoy anything about a sin offering. That sin offering the blood was shed, but the priest wasn't to enjoy that. Would it be right for the priest to enjoy the fact that somebody else had sinned and had to come and give an offering? That's what.
Yes, in verse. In chapter 13 of Hebrews, the bodies of the verse 11, the bodies of those beasts, his blood is brought into the sanctuary by the high priest are burned. Without the camp, they had no right to eat of it. What we have to enjoy is something entirely different than what they had.
It was a reproach that sin was a reproach that had to be put outside the camp. What is? What is our enjoyment? We have the privilege of bearing his reproach.
Going outside and being occupied with the sacrifice instead of all that other stuff. We have the privilege of being occupied with the sacrifice, Jesus.
In shame.
Is it brought out brought out before in this meeting in shame hung on that cross? I was thinking as our brother Bill is Speaking of that, how that you often see pictures of Jesus on a cross.
You never, never see the shame.
Every single one of them has some garment hung around them.
You never see the shame of being hung naked on a cross.
But we have the privilege of looking on him as our sacrifice.
And bearing his reproach.
Let us go for forth therefore unto Him without the camp.
Bearing his reproach in our meeting recently in Mount Tabor.
We were reading.
In Second Corinthians and it says chapter 4 verse 10 always bearing about in the body.
The dying of the Lord Jesus, that the life also of Jesus might be made manifest in our body, taking up our cross and following Him, having the privilege to partake a little bit of His reproach.
#252.
Sweet.
Heart.
Yeah, we'll get back and we'll get out of here and there's a lot of.
I don't know how that could be the one that's a little bit.
Yeah, I don't know how to play it.
Could we also sing the third verse of #173?