CONTENTS This Chapter is but the continuation of the former. Moses receiveth further directions, concerning the furniture of the tabernacle. Particular mention is made of the vail, or hanging, which separated the outer part of the sanctuary from the most Holy Place. Exodus 26:1 I would have the Re... [ Continue Reading ]
No doubt every part and portion of the tabernacle furniture, had a spiritual signification, as we may gather from the caution the Lord gave to Moses concerning it: but the dullness of our capacities prevents the discovery of what they are, in every particular. See Exodus 25:40, compared with Hebrews... [ Continue Reading ]
Song of Solomon 1:5.... [ Continue Reading ]
The costliness of those coverings were, perhaps, intended to represent the preciousness of the Church in the eyes of the Lord Jesus. Son_1:9-11; Son_1:15-16. Was not the coupling together of the curtains, by means of the taches, or buttons, meant to show the rarity of believers in the one body of Ch... [ Continue Reading ]
Was not the roughness of the covering intended to show, that the Church, like her beloved, hath no outward attractions, though all lovely within? Psalms 45:13. And was not this covering designed also to intimate, that upon all the assemblies of God's people there is a defense? Isaiah 4:5.... [ Continue Reading ]
Is not the wonderful exactness here shown to those minute circumstances, intended to manifest how, even to the smallest matters, the Lord regards his Church and people: Matthew 6:25.... [ Continue Reading ]
It is remarkable that, nothing is said of the flooring of the tabernacle. Perhaps to intimate the spiritual worship intended, Ecclesiastes 5:1.... [ Continue Reading ]
The costly furniture reminds us of what is said of the New Jerusalem, Revelation 21:18. But is not the whole intended to lead to Jesus? Revelation 21:22.... [ Continue Reading ]
There is a great deal of spiritual signification in this vail, as we learn from the gospel, and the apostle to the Hebrews more particularly explains it. Matthew 27:51; Hebrews 9:3. The Jews saw no further than to the outward letter of the ordinance, as we find, 2 Corinthians 3:14. Reader! think wel... [ Continue Reading ]
Numbers 7:89.... [ Continue Reading ]
Hath not the candlestick a reference to the steady light of the gospel! Revelation 2:5.... [ Continue Reading ]
Doth not this remind us of the ever-blessed Jesus, who is both the ark, and the mercy-seat, and the door and the temple! Hebrews 8:2; Psalms 80:1; John 2:19; John 2:19.... [ Continue Reading ]
Some have supposed that the manhood of Christ is hereby represented, Hebrews 10:19, others have taken it for the ceremonial law: Ephesians 2:14. And others have thought it means the visible heaven. Acts 3:21 REFLECTIONS May it be my happiness never to read or hear of this Jewish tabernacle, without... [ Continue Reading ]