DISCOVER BIBLE | THE TABERNACLE (1)

1. Introduction

a) The Bible is full of wonderful stories and special truth. What we want to do is to discover the Bible.  

b) Psalm 119:11 says, "Your word I have hidden in my heart, that I might not sin against You." 

c) Nurture and grow your understanding of the Bible as you read and discover the Bible.  

2. The Institution of the Tabernacle

Exodus 35:5 New International Version (NIV)

⁵ From what you have, take an offering for the Lord. Everyone who is willing is to bring to the Lord an offering of gold, silver and bronze.

a) The "heave" or "wave" offering... Hebrew is tenuphah - used when personal possessions are freely given to God.

b) Note there was something for everyone to bring, and something for all to do. In Exodus 35:29, it was a heart relationship which led them to bring their possessions! 

Exodus 35:29 New International Version (NIV)

²⁹ All the Israelite men and women who were willing brought to the Lord freewill offerings for all the work the Lord through Moses had commanded them to do.

3. The Curtains for the Tabernacle

a) There are 4 layers for the curtains:

i) Layer 1: Fine linen, colors, gold clasps.

ii) Layer 2: Goat's hair, black, brass clasps.

iii) Ram's skins, red, no clasps.

iv) Porpoise skins, grey, no clasps.

b) Standing inside, looking up, you see blue, purple, scarlet, with woven cherubim: Christ's deity pictured. The second layer was Goat's hairs: Christ's humanity pictured. The third layer, red , depicts Christ, our Substitute (see Genesis 22:13-14). See Isaiah 53:2-3 to understand the drab, grey outer covering: what does it represent about Christ? 

Genesis 22:13-14 New International Version (NIV)

¹³ Abraham looked up and there in a thicket he saw a ram caught by its horns. He went over and took the ram and sacrificed it as a burnt offering instead of his son. ¹⁴ So Abraham called that place The Lord Will Provide. And to this day it is said, “On the mountain of the Lord it will be provided.” 

Isaiah 53:2-3 New International Version (NIV) 

² He grew up before him like a tender shoot,
    and like a root out of dry ground.
He had no beauty or majesty to attract us to him,
    nothing in his appearance that we should desire him.
³ He was despised and rejected by mankind,
    a man of suffering, and familiar with pain.
Like one from whom people hide their faces
    he was despised, and we held him in low esteem.