The Tabernacle and its furnishings were simply figures---
The Tabernacle and everything in the Tabernacle was a figure or a symbolic representation of ultimate reality--Christ. Jesus is the Word--the law and commandments of God symbolized on the tables of stone. Jesus is the loving supernatural provider for all His creation as symbolized in the manna. Jesus is the eternal regenerative power who gives life as represented in Aarons' rod.
Those who continue to follow and preach the efficacy of the figure have not yet experienced the reality.
An illustration might help. Those who have a bank book with figures showing they have $1, 000,000 in the bank hold tightly to their bank book. After the million dollars has been withdrawn for the purchase of material goods, the figures in the bank book become wothless. So it is with the figures in the Old Covenant. The Church--the true Israel of God has retained them because they are a Holy record of Gods' dealing with mankind.
Chapter: Heb.9
1: Then verily the first covenant had also ordinances of divine service, and a worldly sanctuary.
2: For there was a tabernacle made; the first, wherein was the candlestick, and the table, and the
shewbread; which is called the sanctuary.
3: And after the second veil, the tabernacle which is called the Holiest of all;
4: Which had the golden censer, and the ark of the covenant overlaid round about with gold, wherein was the golden pot that had manna, and Aaron's rod that budded, and the tables of the
covenant;
5: And over it the cherubims of glory shadowing the mercyseat; of which we cannot now speak
particularly.
6: Now when these things were thus ordained, the priests went always into the first tabernacle, accomplishing the service of God.
7: But into the second went the high priest alone once every year, not without blood, which he
offered for himself, and for the errors of the people:
8: The Holy Ghost this signifying, that the way into the holiest of all was not yet made manifest,
while as the first tabernacle was yet standing:
9: Which was a figure for the time then present, in which were offered both gifts and sacrifices, that could not make him that did the service perfect, as pertaining to the conscience; |
