98 - Les Feldick Bible Study Lesson 1 - Part 2 - Book 9 - Christ; High Priestly Work

https://lesfeldickbiblestudy.com Through the Bible with Les Feldick LESSON 1 * PART 2 * BOOK 8 TABERNACLE SET-UP; DESCRIPTION OF MATERIALS: CHRIST; HIGH PRIESTLY WORK: KADESH-BARNEA Exodus - Deuteronomy Let's get back to The Book now. By the time the tribes get stationed around the Tabernacle, you have the two sons of Joseph, and they are called the two half-tribes, Manasseh and Ephraim. And they take the place of Joseph. In other words Manasseh and Ephraim take the place of Joseph and Levi. We left off at the laver of cleansing, and remember that all the materials and aspects of the Tabernacle, are a picture of Christ in His finished work of the Cross. When Christ finished His work, what did He do? Because His work was finished. How about the work of these priests? It was never finished. God himself, or Christ again, as the light of the world. Now this little tent (Holy of Holies) was constructed with the wood frame to hold all the cloth (made of Acacia wood, which spoke of Christ's humanity in his flesh). Then, after the inside linen had been hung, and that was hung on golden hooks where the outer fence was hung on silver, the wood frame was set in blocks of silver. Huge blocks of silver. Then, as you began to cover this framework, right next to the wood frame itself was the covering of goat's hair. The vail depicted the very body of Christ himself. This vail kept even the priest from any approach to the Holy God who is back behind it. Then over on the south side of the Tabernacle next to the wall and fairly close to the curtain was the golden candlestick, and as John's Gospel says, "Christ is the light of the world."In the center was another little altar, constructed of wood, covered with pure gold, and it had a grate. Incense. The smoke of that incense would literally obliterate the presence of God from that High Priest. The smoke would just cover this little room. Then after you go behind the vail, we have the Ark of the Covenant. The Ark of the Covenant was, again, wood covered with pure gold. It was just a little box (in Hebrew means coffin). Manna. But, a little later in Israel's history, it's as plain as day that the only things in the Ark of the Covenant were the tables of stone. This Ark of the Covenant, as we begin, contained the three items we mentioned. And then above that little hollow box was the Mercy Seat. The Mercy Seat was pure beaten gold. Because this is strictly the area of the Holy God Himself. Not Christ in His humanity, but God in His Holiness. Two angelic like beings, and their wings literally met over the middle of that little box. And those cherubim of course indicated a covering of God's mercy. Romans 3:23 We have all sinned - Jew and Gentile. Romans 3:24 "Being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus: Now verse 25, here is the verse I want: Romans 3:25 "Whom God hath set forth (watch your grammar here. Christ Jesus in verse 24. So it's Christ Jesus that God hath set forth) to be a propitiation(propitiation is a great big word that people just stumble over and hope they don't have to deal with it again. Christ is our propitiation. By Faith! Romans 3:26 "To declare, I say, at this time his righteousness: (Who's righteousness? Christ the propitiator) that he (Christ) might be just (what does just mean in plain English? It says) which believeth in Jesus." Faith. The word propitiation is used one more time, and we might as well look at it. It is in I John Chapter 2. I John 2:1 "My little children, these things write I unto you, that ye sin not. (naturally God doesn't want us to sin, but He knows we are going to) And if any man sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous:" The word righteous popped up over here in Romans and here it is again. Christ is the righteous. I John 2:2 "And he is the propitiation (Who is the propitiation? Christ.) Propitiation, What is it? This whole Tabernacle and the elements in it, from the gold and silver and all the beautiful materials, to the wood, brass, and everything you can think of within the confines of the Tabernacle and it's court; from behind the vail to the very presence of God, resting in mercy above the Law; every jot and tittle of it is a picture of Christ's finished work. That's propitiation! Let me do a little more construction. The blood upon the mercy seat in the very presence of God. Then in Verse 9, John 20:9 Starting at verse 14: John 20:14,15a Jesus saith unto her, `Woman, why weepest thou? Here Jesus is appearing to her and she thinks He's the gardener. No, a gardener looks how? Very human. Again I must point out that the last view Mary had of Jesus was on the Cross, remember? No man has ever been so disfigured as Jesus was. Now naturally, that was the last view that Mary remembered of Christ. In that pre-dawn darkness she sees a very normal human being, thinking it's the gardener. Witness the people on the road to Emmaus. #LesFeldick #BibleStudy #Bible