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Tabernacle

The Tabernacle was God's portable dwelling place among His people in the wilderness, serving as the center of worship and sacrifice. It foreshadowed Christ's perfect sacrifice and our access to God through Him.

Overview

The Tabernacle was a tent sanctuary where God met with Israel during their wilderness wanderings. Its design, furnishings, and sacrificial system all pointed forward to Jesus Christ as the ultimate High Priest and final sacrifice. The Tabernacle demonstrated God's desire to dwell among His people and established the pattern for approaching a holy God.

Key Scriptures

"This hope we have as an anchor of the soul, a hope both sure and steadfast and one which enters within the veil" (Hebrews 6:19, NASB). "Therefore, brethren, since we have confidence to enter the holy place by the blood of Jesus, by a new and living way which He inaugurated for us through the veil, that is, His flesh" (Hebrews 10:19-20, NASB). "Now the main point in what has been said is this: we have such a high priest, who has taken His seat at the right hand of the throne of the Majesty in the heavens" (Hebrews 8:1, NASB).

Application

Just as the Tabernacle granted Israel access to God's presence through the high priest, we now approach God directly through faith in Christ's finished work on the cross.

✦ Scripture References 40 references
✦ Topical Scripture Breakdown 589 verses
(The holy of holies,) of heaven
(The vail,) of Christ's body
(The vail,) of the obscurity of the Mosaic age
A permanent house substituted for, when the kingdom was established
All males required to appear before, three times each year
All offerings to be made at
All the pillars of, filleted with silver, &c
All the vessels of, made of brass
Alone could enter
Anointed and consecrated with oil
Anointed with holy oil
Appointed over, and had charge of
At Gilgal
Brought to the temple by Solomon
By Moses at Mount Sinai
Carried
Carried in front of the children of Israel in the line of march
Causes tried at
Completed
Contained the brazen altar and laver of brass
Defilement of, punished
Designed for manifestation of God's presence and for his worship
Did the inferior service of
Divided by a vail of blue, purple, suspended from four pillars of shittim
Divine wisdom given to Bezaleel to make
Filled with the cloud of glory
Finally at Gibeon
First reared, on the first day of the second year after the exodus
Free-will offerings made at the dedication of the altar of
Free-will offerings made at the first rearing of
Had a court round about
Had each two tenons fitted into sockets of silver
Holy place of
House of the Lord
How and by whom carried
How prepared for removal during the journeyings of the Israelites
In Nob
In Shiloh
Israelites worship at
Made of shittim wood
Made of the free-will offerings of the people
Materials for, voluntarily offered
Moses was commanded to make after a divine pattern
Of Christ
Of the body
Of the Church
Offerings brought to
One existed before Moses received the pattern authorized on Mount Sinai
One hundred cubits long and fifty cubits wide
Pattern of, revealed to Moses
Performed all services in
Pitched their tents around
Punishment for defiling
Renewed by David, and pitched on Mount Zion
Sanctified
Sanctified by the glory of the Lord
Six, and two corner boards for west side
Solomon offers sacrifice at
Sprinkled and purified with blood
Sprinkled with blood
Strangers forbidden to enter
Supported by bars of shittim wood resting in rings of gold
Surrounded by curtains of fine line suspended from pillars in sockets of brass
Symbol of spiritual things
Tabernacle of Joseph
Tabernacle of Shiloh
Tabernacle of testimony or witness
Tabernacle of the congregation
Tabernacle of the Lord
Tabernacle tax
Temple of the Lord
Ten cubits high by one and a half broad
The ark and mercy-seat put in the most holy place
The cloud of glory rested on, by night and day during its abode in The wilderness
The door of, a curtain of blue and purple suspended by gold rings from five pillars of shittim wood
The first or inner, ten curtains of blue, purple, &c joined with loops and golden taches
The fourth or outward of badgers' skins
The gate of, a hanging of blue, purple, &c twenty cubits wide, suspended from four pillars, &c
The holy place
The journeys of Israel regulated by the cloud on
The Lord appeared in, over the mercy-seat
The Lord reveals Himself at
The most holy place
The second, eleven curtains of goats' hair
The table of show-bread, the golden candlestick, and the altar of incense were place in the holy place
The third of rams' skins dyed red
Took down, and put up
Twenty on north side
Twenty on south side
Value of the substance contributed for
Was a moveable tent suited to the unsettled condition of Israel
Were the ministers of
With the bars, covered with gold
Workmen who constructed it were inspired