The Old Testament Witness to Christ and His Kingdom, Student Workbook, SW09

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T H E O L D T E S T A M E N T W I T N E S S T O C H R I S T A N D H I S K I N G D O M

Matt. 28.20 - . . . teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you. And behold, I am with you always, to the end of the age. Rev. 1.13 - . . . and in the midst of the lampstands one like a son of man, clothed with a long robe and with a golden sash around his chest.

3. The Tabernacle is a way for God to reveal through type the one true way of salvation.

a. Approach to God through atonement by blood sacrifice, Lev. 17.11 cf. Heb. 9.21-22

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b. Christ’s sacrifice is based on the pattern of the type prefigured in the sacrificial system of Israel and the Tabernacle, Heb. 9.23-24.

B. Description of the Tabernacle’s dimensions (God himself was the architect, who gave the specifications directly to Moses, Exod. 25.9.)

1. Three compartments, the Outer Court, the Holy Place, and the Holy of Holies

2. The entire Outer Court (which surrounded the Holy Place and the Holy of holies) was 150 feet by 75 feet.

3. Curtains formed a fence around the courtyard of the Tabernacle, made of “fine linen” (cf. Exod. 27.9) about five cubits high (approx. 7.5 feet), supported by 60 pillars of brass, resting on sockets of brass with connected rods made of silver.