The Tabernacle & History

Above is a depiction of Moses' Tabernacle from http://www.tabernacleofmoses.org/ .

I was considering this in relation to the last blog about the 4K years of biblical history, and realized there are essentially 3 departments in this tabernacle: the Outer Court, the Inner Court, and the Holy Place, which moves to the Most Holy Place.

With regard to the reasoning of the Rabbis about 3 ages of history, these seem to correspond to the sections of the Tabernacle. The Outer Court would be synonymous with the first "age" or 2K years of biblical history, the one the rabbis called the "Age of Chaos" or "Void."

The Inner Court would then point to the second age, the "Age of the Law", or the age of the Jews. And, of course, their third "Messianic Age" would be represented then by the Holy Place.

This leaves, in my mind, the Most Holy Place as being the same as the Sabbath (or some might call the "Sabbath Millennium", which is not 2K but 1K.

This is a blog, so I won't try to go into detail here, but I may consider it in the future.

The Tabernacle of Moses was given to him as a copy of "the pattern in the heavens."

Exodus 25:
9 Make the holy tent and everything that belongs to it. Make them exactly like the pattern I will show you.

Hebrews 9: 8 The Holy Spirit was showing by this that the way into the Most Holy Place had not yet been disclosed as long as the first tabernacle was still standing.

9This is an illustration for the present time, indicating that the gifts and sacrifices being offered were not able to clear the conscience of the worshiper.

10They are only a matter of food and drink and various ceremonial washings—external regulations applying until the time of the new order.

The Tabernacle is one of the richest studies in the Bible, as are the feasts (which I am sure I will touch on some other time). The interwoven symbolism of the Bible is actually mind-boggling in its scope, but it always points to Christ.

One way of looking at the "pattern in the heavens" is to see it as God's order. That is, He has expressed His will in the universe and it will proceed the way He set it up. Biblical history fits this pattern, like a code. The Creation Week, The Law, the Tabernacle, the Feasts are all a code, pointing to the full revelation of the mind of God, helping us to understand where we are now and where we are going.