The Heavenly Tabernacle

The tabernacle built in the days of Moses was the center of divine worship in Israel. It was a figure for the time then present, indicating that the gifts and sacrifices being offered at that time — while good and righteous and from God — were not yet the perfect sacrifice, which was yet to come (Hebrews 9:9).

Nevertheless, that tabernacle was glorious: its plans were divinely revealed, its workmen specially endowed, and all its materials were brought “out of Egypt” It was built, as God told Moses, on the “patterns of things in the heavens” (Hebrews 9:23). As there was an earthly tabernacle, so there had been before — and still is — a heavenly tabernacle.

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Author: George Booker

Keywords: Heavenly tabernacle, Tabernacle, Revelation, Lampstand, Candlestick, Molten sea, Tent of meeting, Candle stick, Isle of Patmos, Patmos, Revelation of John, John's Apocalypse

Bible reference(s): Revelation 1:12-13, Revelation 1:20, Revelation 2:1, Revelation 2:5, Revelation 4:5-7, Revelation 5:8, Revelation 8:3-4, Revelation 11:2

Source: “Tabernacle,” The Agora.

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