The Pattern the Tabernacle the Christ
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THE THEME OF THE TABERNACLE
The theme of the tabernacle is CHRIST. He is the central figure in all Scripture. He said to the Jews, "Search the scriptures; for in them ye think ye have eternal life: and they are they which testify of me." (John 5:39). In the afternoon of the day of our Lord’s resurrection, two of his disciples were journeying from Jerusalem to the village of Emmaus. As they journeyed they talked together about all that had recently taken place. While they walked and reasoned, Jesus drew near as a stranger and asked them what manner of communications they were having with one another and why they were so sad. They asked him if he were a stranger and had not known the things that had come to pass in these days.
He asked them, "What things?" And they said, Concerning Jesus of Nazareth who was a prophet, mighty in deed and word, and how the chief priests and rulers had delivered him to be condemned to death. And they had heard that certain women of their company had seen a vision of angels which said that he was alive and some of them had found the grave empty, but him they had not seen. Then Jesus said unto them, "O fools, and slow of heart to believe all that the prophets have spoken: Ought not Christ to have suffered these things, and to enter into his glory?" (Luke 24:25-26). "And beginning at Moses and all the prophets, he expounded unto them in all the scriptures the things concerning himself." Later, when their eyes were opened to know him they said one to another, "Did not our heart burn within us, while he talked with us by the way…?" (Luke 24:13-32).
Even so were our hearts made to burn within us as the Holy Spirit opened unto us the glorious truths concerning Christ in the tabernacle...
It is only as we see Christ in the Scriptures that they cause our hearts to rejoice. It is only as we approach the Word of God with an open mind to receive its message that the Spirit of God will lead us into a joyful understanding of the same. It is the presence of Christ in the Scriptures which makes its pages to shine with glory and joy and peace. It is his presence in the Scriptures which makes them the living word. If we do not see Christ, embrace him, worship and adore him, then our worship and service becomes an empty form, and devoid of all power. When we are led by the Spirit to see him then our very inner beings are transformed, and we are made to become like him in character and action. "But we all, with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from GLORY to GLORY, even as by the Spirit of the LORD." (2 Corinthians 3:18)...
Bowed down with grief and sorrow and hindered by their unbelief in his resurrection, his disciples had not recognized in this mysterious stranger their risen Lord and Savior. But when he had expounded the Scriptures that which had been dark to them before was now as clear as the noonday sun.
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When God gave us the Holy Scriptures He concealed beneath the surface a vast wealth of spiritual truths for His people. In the tabernacle, it’s furniture, and its service, God has hidden an inexhaustible mine of precious spiritual truths. For years many of us have passed over this hidden wealth, unconscious of its existence. But all the time it has been there awaiting our discovery. Elder Jones has listed the significance of 17 Bible numbers and gives us the meanings of the materials of the tabernacle, such as gold, silver, brass, blue, purple, scarlet, fine linen, shittim wood, oil, salt, leaven and much more. Learn about the furniture of the tabernacle - the ark, the golden cherubim above the mercy seat, the table of shewbread, the candlestick, the altar of incense, and the duties of the priests. As we attempt to walk in the midst of the truths of this ancient sanctuary may the Spirit of our God open our eyes and hearts to see Christ revealed therein. May we behold His divine perfection, His glorious attributes, His divine love, and the all-sufficiency of His matchless grace. From the author of: That Ye May Marvel or The Significance of Bible Numbers and A Verse by Verse Commentary on Revelation. ******* "It was therefore necessary that the patterns of things in the heavens should be purified with these; but the heavenly things themselves with better sacrifices than these. For Christ is not entered into the holy places made with hands, which are the figures of the true; but into heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God for us…" (Hebrews 9:23-24).
About the Author
George Elliott Jones was born in 1889, the second son of Dr. W. A. Jones and his wife Etta. Elliott’s mother died in childbirth when he was four years old and until their father’s remarriage the five young children were cared for by their maternal grandparents. J.R.G.W.N. Adams, a retired schoolteacher and preacher, took an active interest in his grandchildren’s education and Elliott learned to read before entering public school. His grandmother, Sarah, managed the doctor’s home. She prayed that one of Etta’s four boys would become a preacher. Elliott was the answer to that prayer.