QUEST TO UNDERSTAND ELEMENTARY SCRIPTURAL TRUTH

Sinai instructions – Tabernacle Furnishings II

Exodus 25-27 · Pastor Craig R. Jarvis

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1Review: The Laws of the Sanctuary

These 7 chapters contain the details for the construction of the tabernacle. Why do you think this takes up so much space?
The construction of the tabernacle was to be specific and detailed.

The curtains were to be layered with portraits stitched on them. Exodus 26:1
- What picture was stitched on the curtains?
- The sewing was to be elaborate and detailed.
The tent curtains were specific in detail as well. Exodus 26:2-6
- feet by feet
- Curtains would cover the ark.
3 additional layers are then added to the inner covering. Exodus 26:7-14
- 1st Layer – fine twisted curtains
- 2nd Layer – – presumably for protection.
- 3rd Layer – tanned
- 4th Layer – “ ”
- The beauty of the Tabernacle had to be amazing!
- “Thus everything in the tabernacle was very splendid, agreeable to that infant state of the church, when such things were proper enough to please children, to possess the minds of the worshippers with a reverence of the divine glory…”

The 2 Veils
One veil was to divide the Holy of Holies from the rest of the interior.
It was entered only .
It was entered only by .
The second veil divided the Tent of the Meeting interior from the outside courtyard.
The ceiling and the interior veil were similar. Exodus 26:31-33
- The veil was also different in some ways. (Word meaning: )

The outer altar was normal for any temple to have. Exodus 27:1-2
- feet, inches by feet, inches by feet, inches
- A horn was to be at the top of each corner.
- This item was to be overlaid with bronze (Why not gold?)
The altar had its own utensils (like the tables). Exodus 27:3-5
- Set of pots – large jars to .
- Shovels – altar of refuse and ashes.
- Bowls – for holding that was tossed on the altar and people?
- Forks – to the sacrifice and maneuver it on the fire.
- Fire-pans – for picking up the .
- The altar is the first item seen when entering the tabernacle. Why?
- "…remember that at that time you were separate from Christ, excluded from citizenship in Israel and foreigners to the covenants of the promise, without hope and without God in the world. But now in Christ Jesus you who once were far away have been brought near through the blood of Christ. For he himself is our peace, who has made the two one and has destroyed the barrier, the dividing wall of hostility, by abolishing in his flesh the law with its commandments and regulations…to reconcile…to God through the cross, by which he put to death their hostility." (Ephesians 2:12-16, NIV)