Exodus Notes Week 10
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“Tabernacles” - God’s dwelling place
John 1 — the Word became flesh and ‘tabernacled’ amongst us
the Holy Spirit empowered the people to build the church (same in our day)
Peter Enns takes the approach the building of the tabernacle is an act of re-creation
Or a new creation, in a sense, a way for the people of God to be in the presence of God
Statements:
Statements:
God uses the ordinary to do the extraordinary
Text
Text
Offering
Offering
Take an offering for me
Take (receive)
Offering - sacrifice, money, material possession
For Me - for God’s purposes (tithe)
From everyone who is willing (ESV: From every man whose heart moves him you shall receive the contribution for me.)
Why?
To build the ‘tabernacle’ and ‘worship system’
Why?
So the Lord can dwell with his people and they will know that “I am the Lord”
8 “They are to make a sanctuary for me so that I may dwell among them.
45 I will dwell among the Israelites and be their God. 46 And they will know that I am the Lord their God, who brought them out of the land of Egypt, so that I might dwell among them. I am the Lord their God.
22 I will meet with you there above the mercy seat, between the two cherubim that are over the ark of the testimony; I will speak with you from there about all that I command you regarding the Israelites.
why?
6 Carefully follow them, for this will show your wisdom and understanding in the eyes of the peoples. When they hear about all these statutes, they will say, ‘This great nation is indeed a wise and understanding people.’ 7 For what great nation is there that has a god near to it as the Lord our God is to us whenever we call to him? 8 And what great nation has righteous statutes and ordinances like this entire law I set before you today?
5 Now if you will carefully listen to me and keep my covenant, you will be my own possession out of all the peoples, although the whole earth is mine, 6 and you will be my kingdom of priests and my holy nation.’ These are the words that you are to say to the Israelites.”
For Us:
What we give to indicates what we worship
They were giving (as they felt led) to rightly worship God
so that the nations would see
Today we give in accordance to what we value, to what we worship
do we value God’s mission?
The Kingdom of God coming here and now
The call to disciple the nations.
Christ’s Symbolized
The Mercy seat: this is where we receive mercy. It’s the same word for propitiation.
The bread of the presence: Jesus was God in the flesh, the presence of God on earth.
The Church: now is the presence of God on earth. Take communion regularly as the bread of life = union with Christ
Lamp stand: Jesus is the light of the world. Seven lamps indicates fullness, completeness.
The Church: now is the light of the world, shining into darkness
The Tabernacle: The dwelling place of God. John 1:4 Jesus tabernacled amongst us. The embodiment of God.
The Church: now is being guilt up as a temple of God, God’s presence on earth.
The Lampstand Oil: The fuel that kept the light burning. Jesus was filled with the Holy Spirit as a source of strength and power.
The Church: now is indwelt by the Holy Spirit as it’s source of power (Acts 1:8)
The Priestly Garments: Christ fulfilled the role of High Priest, as priest forever.
He carries the names of the 12 tribes (ephod)
He perfectly carried out the Lord’s decisions (breastplate) from the heart
Christ bore the guilt of the people that they would be accepted by God (the turban)
Worn so that the priest may not incur guilt and die (Exod 28:43) yet Christ incured the guilt of the world and died for the world.
The Church: is now covered by the priestly garments of christ. We are to ‘put on Christ’
The Consecration:
The Sacrifices of the bulls & rams foreshadowed Christ’s ultimate sacrifice to take away sin
Jesus was the lamb of God sacrificed in morning and night to cover sin for all time
The Altar: Jesus was the altar made holy upon which the ultimate sacrifice woudl happen
The incense and anointing Oil: was exclusively used for certain purposes, but Christ has now made them available for all. That prayers would be heard and anointing would be available.
Sabbath: Jesus makes possible the true sabbath rest for all who rest in his finished work.
Commentary:
Commentary:
Exodus Exodus 25:1–31:18; 35:1–40:33
Exodus 25:1–31:18; 35:1–40:33
The Tabernacle
As I hope to make clear, the building of the tabernacle is more than simply a matter of building a worship site in the desert. It is a piece of heaven on earth
it is precisely the mass of this material that alerts us that we have arrived at the heart of the matter from the ancient point of view
This is not just a story of any sort of rebellion, but of the Israelites attempting to set up an alternate cultic system to the one given in chapters 25–40, a point to which we will return
Building the tabernacle, in other words, is an act of re-creation, culminating in the Sabbath command—a new seventh day, as it were
The question for us to ask, then, is not, “What do I do with it?” but, “What does this tell me about God and how he deals with his people?”
Commentators for centuries have noticed that the phrase “the Lord said to Moses” occurs seven times in chapters 25–31. The first six concern the building of the tabernacle and its furnishings (25:1; 30:11, 17, 22, 34; 31:1), while the final introduces the Sabbath command (31:12). It seems clear that the purpose of this arrangement is to aid the reader in making the connection between the building of the tabernacle and the seven days of creation, both of which involve six creative acts culminating in a seventh-day rest.
The Ark:
The ark is the focus of God’s presence with his people, the central point of contact between heaven and the tabernacle, the earthly symbol of heaven.
Cherubim appear not only over the cover but throughout the design of the tabernacle, a sign that the tabernacle is a symbolic representation of God’s heavenly dwelling.
the “atonement cover,” so called because the Hebrew word kapporet derives from the root kpr, which often refers to atonement in the Old Testament
It is God’s location above the cover and between the cherubim that has led some scholars to regard the cover as God’s throne and the ark itself his footstool
Perhaps the most we can say is that they are angelic, heavenly beings who live in God’s presence (much like the seraphs of Isa. 6:1–7)
Moreover, the fact that the law, God’s supreme self-revelation to his people, is kept inside the ark also indicates that the ark is the “center of gravity” of God’s presence with his people.
The Bread
Sabbath
Exodus The Sabbath (31:12–18; 35:1–3)
The tabernacle is like no other place on earth. It is built according to a divine plan to reflect a heavenly reality. It is a piece of holy ground.
To put it another way, the tabernacle is holy space. The Sabbath, by contrast, is holy time. By building the tabernacle and setting apart one day in seven, God is truly recreating heaven in space and time