Gloria Phifer
I know this is a long list...but each material is a type and shadow of Jesus Christ and our salvation...There is so much information here...I hope you will read through it and find it a blessing...
I know this is a long list...but each material is a type and shadow of Jesus Christ and our salvation...There is so much information here...I hope you will read through it and find it a blessing...
Where I have put a *** is from a site I found “Bible
History.”
Exodus 25:1-9. vs. 8 “And let them make Me a sanctuary; that
I may dwell among them. As we talked
last week The Lord is always wanting to dwell with us. He wants to be with us. How
does that make you feel, knowing He wants to be with you? Matthew 1:23…they shall call His Name
Emmanuel, which interpreted is “God with us.”
LAB footnotes: The portable nature of the Tabernacle shows
God’s desire to be with His people as they traveled. The Tabernacle, it’s furnishing,
and the service performed there provide a picture of the atonement that would
one day come through Jesus Christ.
LAB footnotes: Much of the Tabernacle and its furniture was
made of acacia wood. Acacia trees flourished in barren regions and were fairly
common in OT times. The wood was brownish-orange and very hard, making it an
excellent material for furniture. Acacia wood is still used in furniture making
today.
Acacia (shittim) wood was the wood used for construction. In
Hebrew it is “Shittah.” “The acacia from its scourging thorns. It comes from another word “Shotet”. “To
pierce, to flog, a goad, scourge. A lash, scourge, whip.
This wood is a picture of Jesus suffering for us. Ps. 22:16, John 19:34-37, Revelation 1:7. He
was pierced for us. Matthew 27:26 Pilot scourged Jesus (to whip, lash as a
public punishment.) Isaiah 53:5 “With His stripes we are healed.” What
are your thoughts that the Hebrew word for acacia (shittim) word is a picture
of Jesus suffering for us? All the furniture for the Tabernacle except
for the Golden Candlestick, were made of this wood.
*** 'Acacia Wood' (Incorruptible humanity)
also called Shittim Wood
Ps 16:10 For You will
not leave my soul in Sheol, nor will You allow Your Holy One to see corruption.
He was the truly human
One, "the man Christ Jesus". The Bible calls Him, "the son of
Mary", and the "son of man". A body was prepared for Him:
Heb 10:5 Therefore, when
He came into the world, He said: "Sacrifice and offering You did not
desire, but a body You have prepared for Me.
And that body He still
possesses in a glorified form. "This same Jesus" is in heaven right
now and one day will return for us and glorify us also.”
Gold…for Deity. Gold in Hebrew is “Zahab.” “To shimmer; gold, as oil, a clear sky, gold
(en). As precious metal. As a measure of weight. Of brilliance, splendor” .
When the Wise men brought gifts to The new born King they brought
“gold,” a symbol of Kingship. Matthew 2:11.
Gold is also a symbol of faith. 1 Peter 1:7. We talked last week how
gold is tried in the fire. As the heat is put under the gold, the dross comes
to the top and it is skimmed off, until the Maker can see His reflection in
that gold. Jesus is the Author and finisher of our faith. Hebrews 12:2.
As we are looking at this gold in the Tabernacle it is the
Deity of Jesus Christ, He is God.
***Gold' (Diety)
According to Ex 38 they gave 2,800 lbs. of
gold. Pure Gold throughout the scriptures speaks of divinity, that which cannot
be reproduced by man. Gold is made by God and comes down from God. Gold speaks
of the deity of Jesus Christ. It typifies the divine glory of the Lord Jesus as
"the Son of God" and "God the Son". According to Ex 38 they
gave 2,800 lbs. of gold.
Jesus was none other than Jehovah in the
flesh. He is "Malach Yaweh," Jehovah the King. When Isaiah saw the
Lord high and lifted up as the King in all His glory John in the New Testament
tell us that it was Jesus that he saw:” John 12:41 These things Isaiah
said when he saw His glory and spoke of Him.”
Silver…for Redemption.
Redeemed means “To be bought back.” To
buy back what had belonged to you. Jesus was betrayed for 30 pieces of silver.
Matt. 27:3-10. Silver is a symbol of redemption. Exodus 30:14-16. This shekel
was used for atonement. We were redeemed
by The Blood of The Lamb. 1 Peter 1:18-21. Jesus is our atonement. Romans 5:11
Greek for atonement “katallage”. “Restoration to The Divine favor. Atonement,
reconciliation.” 1 John 2:2 He is The propitiation for our sins… Propitiation
means atonement.
***“The
tabernacle stood upon sockets of silver. Both
Joseph and Jesus were sold for silver. Judas was paid off in silver as the
Scriptures said. Silver is redemption money. Silver is symbolic of the
redemption that comes through Jesus Christ and Him alone. It prefigures the
preciousness of Christ as the ransom for sinners. Notice also that there is no
silver mentioned in heaven. The people will already have been redeemed.”
Brass…For Judgement John 3:14.21. Numbers 21:4-9 just as the
brass serpent took the judgement of the people…Jesus hung on the cross and took
our judgement as we look to Him as our Savior. Revelation. 1:15 “And His feet
like unto fine brass, as if they burned in a furnace; and His voice as the
sound of many waters.”
***“Bronze
typifies the divine character of Christ who took upon Himself the fire of God's
wrath, holiness and justice by becoming a sin offering.”
Onyx stones…to carry the names of the tribes of Israel on the
High Priests shoulders. Hebrew for onyx is “shoham.” “From an unused root
probably mean to blanch; a gem, probably the beryl (from its pale green color):
onyx. A precious stone or gem.” (All of the Hebrew and Greek are from Strong’s
Concordance.)
Gem stones for the High Priests chest piece. These stones
represented the twelve tribes of Israel. They were placed on his chest piece
that he wore. Carrying them over his heart. Malachi 3:16-18. Vs. 17 “They shall
be mine, says The Lord of Hosts, in that day when I make up My jewels;
and I will spare them, as a man spares his own son that serves him.” Jewel here
in Hebrew means “wealth, jewel, peculiar treasure, proper, good special. Valued
property.”
Fine twined linen…for Righteousness. Hebrew “shesh.” “Bleached
stuff. White linen. Something bleached white, byssus, linen, fine linen.
Alabaster, similar stone, marble. “Revelation 19:8 “arrayed in fine linen,
clean and white: for the fine linen is the righteousness of saints.” Romans
14:17. 2 Cor. 5:21.
***Fine Twisted Linen
'Fine Linen' (Purity)
The linen was most
interesting. Made from Egyptian flax, it was finely woven, brilliantly white,
and bore a special name, "byssus". This material was used for
garments for royalty and persons of rank and has been found in the tombs of the
Pharaohs. Linen in one tomb was found to have 152 threads per inch in the warp
and 72 threads per inch in the woof. White linen always speaks of purity and
righteousness:
Rev 15:6 And out of the
temple came the seven angels having the seven plagues, clothed in pure bright
linen, and having their chests girded with golden bands.
Rev 3:5 "He who
overcomes shall be clothed in white garments, and I will not blot out his name
from the Book of Life; but I will confess his name before My Father and before
His angels."
Rev 19:14 And the armies
in heaven, clothed in fine linen, white and clean, followed Him on white
horses.
The fine-twined, white
linen speaks of righteousness and typifies Jesus, the Son of Man, spotless,
pure, and sinless.
I Jn 3:3-5 And everyone
who has this hope in Him purifies himself, just as He is pure...and you know
that He was manifested to take away our sins, and in Him there is no sin.
***'Goats Hair' (Cursed sin offering)
Goats were common in
those days for their milk, their meat, their skin which was used for many
things such as water bottles, etc., and their hair, which was very long, dark
and course, was spun and woven into cloth. The goat was a sacrificial
animal. The Goat's Hair covering was the first above the tabernacle curtain.
This drab color tells us of Jesus in His humility and poverty. Goatskins were
worn by the poor and throughout the Bible represented extreme poverty.
And the hair speaks of
Christ as the separated One, just as the hair must be separated from the goat,
so Christ had to sacrifice His own covering in order to provide a covering for
others.
Another interesting
point about the goat is that it was used on the Day of Atonement. After the high priest completed the
blood sprinkling in the holy of holies he would go into the court of the
tabernacle and lay his hands on the head of the scapegoat, confessing over it
all the sins of the people. The goat was then led away, by a man standing
ready, into the wilderness, and there let free, to signify the carrying away of
Israel's sins which God had forgiven. This reminds us of Jesus, humble and poor,
becoming a curse for us, that we might have our sins carried away into the land
of forgetfulness.
2 Cor 5:21 For He made
Him who knew no sin to be sin for us, that we might become the righteousness of
God in Him.
***'Rams skins dyed red' (Substitutionary sacrifice)
A ram is a grown
male sheep and the head of
the flock. A shepherd may have one or two rams in a flock of ewes to promote
uniformity. The ram is forever in the eyes of the Jew as the substitute animal,
faithful unto death. This is of course because God provided a ram as a
substitute for Isaac on that day when Abraham's faith was revealed.
Gen 22:12-13 And He
said, "Do not lay your hand on the lad, or do anything to him; for now I
know that you fear God, since you have not withheld your son, your only son,
from Me." Then Abraham lifted his eyes and looked, and there behind him
was a ram caught in a thicket by its horns. So Abraham went and
took the ram, and offered it up for a burnt offering instead of his
son.
The ram's skins were
dyed red to represent the sacrifice of a substitute. So Jesus as the head of
the human race, the last Adam, sacrificed His own life as a substitute for all
who would put their trust in Him.
Heb 2:9 But we see
Jesus, who was made a little lower than the angels, for the suffering of death
crowned with glory and honor, that He, by the grace of God, might taste death
for everyone.
Heb 2:17 Therefore, in
all things He had to be made like His brethren, that He might be a merciful and
faithful High Priest in things pertaining to God, to make propitiation for the
sins of the people.
Jn 1:29 The next day
John saw Jesus coming toward him, and said, "Behold! The Lamb of God who
takes away the sin of the world!
***'Badger skins' (Outward appearance-unattractive)
Badger skins were the
final covering, the outer covering that everyone saw. They were tough and
course and very plain in their appearance. But how does this speak of Christ?
It speaks of what Christ was to man. There was no outward beauty to the
tabernacle proper, so it was with Christ when He came to earth when He pitched
His tabernacle among men. As the prophet foretold:
Is 53:1-2 Who has
believed our report? And to whom has the arm of the LORD been revealed? For He
shall grow up before Him as a tender plant, and as a root out of dry ground. He
has no form or comeliness; and when we see Him, there is no beauty that we
should desire Him.
What was Jesus to the
Jews? nothing but a course, hard badger skin. What is Jesus to the world today?
nothing but a course, hard badger skin. But to those of us who have opened up
our hearts to Him He is much much more. He is the "altogether lovely
One", He is the "Rose of Sharon", the "Lily of the
Valley", and the "Fairest among 10,000" to our souls. If anyone
desired to look beyond the outer flesh covering they would see the
transfiguration of Christ's glory. "Can any good thing come out of
Nazareth?" Jesus says, "Come and see".
Jn 1:10-14 He was in the
world, and the world was made through Him, and the world did not know Him. He
came to His own, and His own did not receive Him. But as many as received Him,
to them He gave the right to become children of God, to those who believe in
His name: who were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the
will of man, but of God. And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we
beheld His glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father, full of
grace and truth.
Ps 16:10 For You will not leave my soul in Sheol, nor will You allow Your Holy One to see corruption.
He was the truly human
One, "the man Christ Jesus". The Bible calls Him, "the son of
Mary", and the "son of man". A body was prepared for Him:
Heb 10:5 Therefore, when
He came into the world, He said: "Sacrifice and offering You did not desire,
but a body You have prepared for Me.
And that body He still
possesses in a glorified form. "This same Jesus" is in heaven right
now and one day will return for us and glorify us also:
1 Jn 3:2 Beloved, now we
are children of God; and it has not yet been revealed what we shall be, but we
know that when He is revealed, we shall be like Him, for we shall see Him as He
is.
Rom 8:18-21 For I
consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared
with the glory which shall be revealed in us. For the earnest expectation of
the creation eagerly waits for the revealing of the sons of God. For the
creation was subjected to futility, not willingly, but because of Him who
subjected it in hope; because the creation itself also will be delivered from
the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of God.
***'Oil' (The Spirits anointing)
The oil was obtained by
crushing the olive berries of the land. Oil, as we know, was the liquid used
when the prophet, priest, and king were anointed in Old Testament times. And
because of passages like:
1 Jn 2:20-21 20 But you
have an anointing from the Holy One, and you know all things.
1 Sam 16:13 Then Samuel
took the horn of oil and
anointed him in the midst of his brothers; and the Spirit of the LORD came upon
David from that day forward. So Samuel arose and went to Ramah.
Is 32:15 Until the
Spirit is poured upon us from on high, and the wilderness becomes a fruitful
field, and the fruitful field is counted as a forest.
We have scriptural
authority for seeing the oil as a type of the Holy Spirit. In the Bible the
olive tree is symbolic of many things:
a) Beauty
Hos 14:6 His branches shall spread; his beauty shall be like an olive tree,
and his fragrance like Lebanon.
b) Fertility
Ps 52:8 But I am like a
green olive tree in the house of God; I trust in the mercy of God forever and
ever.
c) Richness
Judg 9:9 But the olive
tree said unto them, Should I leave my fatness, wherewith by me they honour God and man,
and go to be promoted over the trees?
The Holy Spirit, then,
as olive oil, is the One who possesses all that man needs for life and
godliness. Richness, fertility, and beauty are all His in an abundant measure.
Jesus was anointed by God as prophet, priest, and king. Everything Christ did
was filled with richness, fertility, and beauty because He was the temple of
the Holy Spirit and filled with all fulness:
Jn 3:34 "For He
whom God has sent speaks the words of God, for God does not give the Spirit by
measure.
It is interesting that
the olives weren't beaten or pressed but crushed. So Jesus was crushed in the
Garden of Gethsemane (Heb. Oil Press) and then by the very wrath of God on a
Roman cross, as the Scriptures say:
Is 53:10 Yet it pleased
the LORD to crush him; he hath put him to grief: when thou shalt make his soul
an offering for sin, he shall see his seed, he shall prolong his days, and the
pleasure of the LORD shall prosper in his hand.
The anointing oil was
restricted for tabernacle use only, anyone violating the command was put to
death. The olive oil was to be pure and nothing but pure because it represents
the HOLY Spirit of Christ. The word "Christ" is the Greek word for the
Hebrew "Mashiach" (Messiah) which means "the anointed One".
It literally means "to smear" as with oil. The oil was also used to
anoint the Holy Tabernacle and its furniture, and to light the golden
lampstand.
'Spices for the oil and incense' (Sweet smelling fragrance to God)
There were three spices
to be added to the frankincense and oil:
Ex 30:34 And the LORD
said to Moses: "Take sweet spices, stacte and onycha and galbanum, and pure frankincense
with these sweet spices; there shall be equal amounts of each.
a) Stacte
A powder from the
hardened drops of the fragrant resin found in the bark of the Myrrh bush. The
word means "a drop".
b) Onycha
A powder from the horny
shell cover of a clam-like mollusk found in the Red Sea. When burnt, this
powder emits a penetrating aroma. The Hebrew word means- "aromatic
shell". The Red Sea is an isolated warm water pocket of the Indian ocean
and is known for its peculiar subspecies of mollusks.
c) Galbanum
A brownish pungent resin
that exudes from the lower part of the stem of a Ferula plant. This herb plant
is found at the Mediterranean Sea and has thick stalks, yellow flowers, and
fern-like green foliage. It has a musky, pungent smell and is valuable because
it preserves the scent of a mixed perfume, and allows of its distribution over
a long period of time.
In these spices or
perfumes we see Jesus as the sweet smelling aroma bringing joy to the Father's
heart. When mixed with the olive oil we see the sweet illuminating work of the
Spirit of Christ, and when mixed with frank-incense we see the sweetness of
prayer as a "sweet smelling aroma in God's nostrils". How fitting
that these perfumes would point to Christ.
Jn 8:29 "And He who
sent Me is with Me. The Father has not left Me alone, for I always do those
things that please Him."
Eph 5:2 And walk in
love, as Christ also has loved us and given Himself for us, an offering and a
sacrifice to God for a sweet-smelling aroma.
2 Cor 2:15-16 15 For we
are to God the fragrance of Christ among those who are being saved and among
those who are perishing. 16 To the one we are the aroma of death leading to
death, and to the other the aroma of life leading to life. And who is
sufficient for these things?
These were the materials used for the Tabernacle…a picture of Jesus
Christ and the salvation He paid for us.
The materials used for The Tabernacle or a type and shadow of Jesus Christ and our salvation. It is a precious jewel hidden in Exodus.
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