The Mighty Tabernacle
Introduction
In the desert wilderness on Mt. Sinai God gave Moses two things for us. He gave Moses the ten commandments including judgments and ordinances: the law. He also gave Moses the pattern of the tabernacle. Tabernacle means “tent,” “place of dwelling” or “sanctuary.” It was a sacred place where God chose to meet His people, the Israelites, during the 40 years they wandered in the desert under Moses’ leadership. It was the place where the leaders and people came together to worship and offer sacrifices. The Tabernacle was the finest establishment built because of the structure, the preparation, the history, and the important people of the tabernacle.
About the Tabernacle
The Tabernacle A few key elements about the making of the Tabernacle are that God was the architect of the sanctuary. It was made from offerings brought by the people, which indicates that God was concerned about the heart of the giver just like he is today. It was to be a place of consecration and structure as well as a repository for the law (Ten Commandments). Most importantly, it was a replica of heavenly things or the worship experience in heaven. As Moses instructed the people on how to construct the Tabernacle, he did it according to how God instructed him on the mountain which was based on his heavenly experience. The construction of the Tabernacle and Moses’ experience on Mount Sinai where he was given the Ten Commandments go hand in hand. In addition to the Ten Commandments, he was given very detailed and specific instructions on how to construct the Tabernacle or “place of worship” where God dwelled among the people. The Ten Commandments represented the moral law and the Tabernacle represented the spiritual law They both go...
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... the structure is separate from that of the Ark of the Covenant. After the Ark was captured by the Philistiness, King Saul moved the Tabernacle to Nob, near his home town of Gibeah, but after he massacred the priests there (1 Samuel 21-22) it was moved to Gibeon. (1 Chronicles 16:39, 2 Chronicles 1:2-6, 13)
The Ark was eventually brought to Jerusalem, where it was placed "inside the tent David had pitched for it" (2 Samuel 6:17, and 1 Chronicles 15:1 not in the Tabernacle, which remained at Gibeon. The altar of the Tabernacle at Gibeon was used for sacrificial worship (1 Chronicles 16:39. 21:29, until Solomon finally brought the structure and its furnishings to Jerusalem to furnish and dedicate the Temple. (1 Kings 8:4)
There is no mention of the Tabernacle in the Tanakh after the Desturction of Jerusalem of Jerusalem and the Temple by the Babylonians in c. 587 BCE.
“The altar in an open precinct preceded the temple as a place of worship and later remained an essential adjunct of the temple, being placed either inside it, or more commonly outside, facing the entrance. Generally it was ...
However, while Jesus was roaming the Earth, many of the Jews began to worship the Temple complex rather than worship God, and Jesus was not pleased. “Jesus left the temple and was going away, when his disciples came to point out to him the buildings of the temple. But he answered them, ‘You see all these, do you not? Truly, I say to you, there will not be left here one stone upon another that will not be thrown down’” (Matthew 24:1-2).
as a shelter or home for the cult statue and as a storehouse for offerings.
During the rule of King Solomon, the first Holy Temple was built on the top of Mount Moriah. King David had chosen
Following the creation story of the book of Genesis is the book of Exodus. In Genesis, God promised Abraham a “great nation from which all nations of the earth will be blessed (Gen 12:1-3)” and in Exodus God completes this promise through the creation of the holy nation, Israel. Exodus tells the story of the God who rescued his people out of Egypt because of the promise he had made to Abraham. God calls to Moses to complete his promise. God’s call to Moses is not only important because he liberates the Israelites but also because God reveals His name(s) along with His true Nature. God calls upon Moses and tells him that He’s back to help the Israelites out of slavery in Egypt and that Moses is to lead them. God then gives him full instructions on what to tell the Pharaoh and, more importantly, the Israelites, who are promised, land “flowing with milk and honey”.
Moses had the duty of not only leading these people into a new land, but guiding them as well, teaching them the things G-d told him to. Moses would meet with G-d in private and relay the messages to the Hebrews or sometimes “tuning” in his people to the words of G-d that described what they were and were not to do, them not being able to hear G-d by themselves, since their spiritual height wasn’t as large as his. The merging of all these tenets became the Torah, “traditionally translated as 'law '.” (BBC, “Moses”), which was authoritative in nature. He was responsible for “bringing the Torah to Israel and in interpreting the Torah for them.” (Rabbi Louis Jacobs, Moses: In the Bible & Beyond).The Torah encompassed every facet of life, it being an instructional guide on how live righteously, these rules reaching 613 commandments. 603 of the commandments all fall in categories under the Aseret ha-D 'varim or the Ten Commandments. (Judaism101, “Aseret ha-Dibrot: The "Ten Commandments"”) It was Moses who brought the two tablets, on which these regulations were inscribed on, down from Mount. Sinai and he was the one who explained these laws for the Israelites. He even was charged with “hearing cases and judging them for the people” (Judaism 101, “Moses, Aaron and Miriam”) By establishing these laws in G-d’s favor and facilitating them to teach and discipline his people, Moses put himself up for being one of the greatest
...alem during a time of crisis and keep it from the destruction during Scennacherib's siege. Although initially disguised as a religious reform, one can argue that Hezekiah's reinstatement of the tithe described in the Book of Chronicles (i.e., 2 Chronicles 31: 4-12) was actually Hezekiah's ploy to accumulate a stock pile of supplies to ensure that Jerusalem would withstand a potential siege. Although tithes of resources were also seen in ancient times, the biblical tradition states that the accumulated resources given by the people of Jerusalem were not sacrificed for to Yahweh but instead stored within the temple's store houses (2 Chronicles 31: 9-12). For this reason, it is possible that the nature of this reform was in fact secular in nature instead of a purely religious reforms because Hezekiah may have been planning to use these resources in a time of need.
The word tabernacle, which originated from the Hebrew word Mishkan, means “to dwell”. “In Exodus 25:8-9, God instructs Moses to tell the Israelites to build a mikdash (sanctuary) where God may dwell, specifying exactly how the tabernacle should be designed” (Ratzabi 1). God said to Moses, “Then have them make a sanctuary for me, and I will dwell among them. Make this tabernacle and all its furnishings exactly like the pattern I will show you”. (New International Version, Exodus 25:8-9). This portable place of worship, if you will, which was built after Moses rescued them from slavery in Egypt, was used after a year they crossed the Red Sea (while they wandered through the desert), up until King Solomon built the first Holy Temple in Jerusalem,
The earlier temple had three rooms, a large courtyard with an altar, an indoor room where only the priest could enter after washing and a holy room where only the high priest could enter for the atonement of sins on behalf of God’s people. The Holy room was separated by a very thick curtain that is described in Exodus 26:31-33. The purple curtain may have been up to one hundred feet wide and one hundred and fifty feet tall Only the high priest could enter once a year into the holy room that was separated by this curtain, and any other who entered would die.
But all the silver, and gold, and vessels of brass and iron, are holy unto Jehovah: they shall come into the treasury of Jehovah. So the people shouted, and the priests blew the trumpets: and it came to pass, when the people heard the sound of the trumpet, that the people shouted with a great shout, and the wall fell down flat, so that the people went up into the city, every man straight before him, and they took the city. And they utterly destroyed all that was in the city, both man and woman, both young and old, and ox, and sheep, and ass, with the edge of the sword. And Joshua said unto the two men that had spied out the land, Go into the harlot's house, and bring out thence the woman, and all that she hath, as ye sware unto her. And the young men the spies went in, and brought out Rahab, and her father, and her mother, and her brethren, and all that she had; all her kindred also they brought out; and they set them without the camp of Israel. And they burnt the city with fire, and all that was therein; only the silver, and the gold, and the vessels of brass and of iron, they put into the treasury of the house of Jehovah. But Rahab the harlot, and her father's household, and all that she had, did Joshua save alive; and she dwelt in the midst of Israel unto this day, because she hid the messengers, whom Joshua sent to
Jericho was an important city in the Old Testament. The city was overtaken and devastated several times. However, it was always reoccupied -- sometimes quickly and other times very slowly. Herod the Great, Cleopatra, and Augustus are some of the mighty rulers that once took claim of some or all of Jericho. Many Galileans would travel through the Jordan valley and go by Jericho on their route to Jerusalem. By taking this course, they could avoid passing through Samaritan territory (Metzger and Coogan, 1993).
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