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Sunday, January 17,
2010
God’s Sanctuary; God’s Pattern
Exodus 25:8 And let them make me a
sanctuary; that I may dwell among them. (9) According to all that I shew
thee, after the pattern of the tabernacle, and the pattern of all the
instruments thereof, even so shall ye make it. (KJV)
[Let them make me a sanctuary] miqdaash
(OT:4720), "a holy place," such as God might dwell in; this was
that part of the tabernacle that was called the most holy place, into which
the high priest entered only once a year, on the great day of atonement.
[That I may dwell among them.]
"This," says Mr. Ainsworth, "was the main end of all; and to
this all the particulars are to be referred, and by this they are to be
opened. For this sanctuary, as Solomon's temple afterward, was the place of
prayer, and of the public service of God, Lev 17:4-6; Matt 21:13, and it
signified the church which is the habitation of God through the Spirit, 2
Cor 6:16; Eph 2:19-22; Rev 21:2-3; and was a visible sign of God's presence
and protection, Lev 26:11-12; Ezek 37:27-28; 1 Kings 6:12-13, and of his
leading them to His heavenly glory. For as the high priest entered into the
tabernacle, and through the veil into the most holy place where God dwelt;
so Christ entered into the holy of holies, and we also enter through the
veil, that is to say his flesh. See the use made of this by the apostle,
Heb 9 and 10. Thus, the sanctuary is to be applied as a type:
1. To Christ's person, Heb 8:2; 9:11-12;
John 2:19-21.
2. To every Christian, 1 Cor 6:19.
3. To the church, both particular, Heb
3:6; 1 Tim 3:15; and universal, Heb 10:21: and it was because of the very
extensive signification of this building, that the different things
concerning this sanctuary are particularly set down by Moses, and so
variously applied by the prophets and by the apostles."-See Ainsworth.
As the dwelling in this tabernacle was the highest proof of God's grace and
mercy toward the Israelites, so it typified Christ's dwelling by faith in
the hearts of believers, and thus giving them the highest and surest proof
of their reconciliation to God, and of his love and favour to them; see Eph
1:22; 3:17. (from Adam Clarke's Commentary)
What do you see; what do you hear in
these verses? Ponder this; in the beginning, God laid out the pattern of
the tabernacle and all the instruments thereof. God created us in their
image and after their likeness, His pattern, His tabernacle, His
instruments.
Now with the fall of mankind, God covered
up this pattern to protect it from the muck and mire of our fallen nature,
but in His loving kindness He also made a way for us to clean up the muck
and mire in our lives and have the pattern uncovered so that we could follow
it according to His specifications and not man’s.
Jesus Christ is the only way to see the
true pattern that God intended for us to follow that would reveal a life
eternal in the heavens and create a sanctuary well pleasing in His sight
and fit for Him to continually dwell in.
2 Corinthians 5:1 For we know that if our
earthly house of this tabernacle were dissolved, we have a building of God,
an house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens. (KJV)
So I encourage you, today, continue to be
God’s instrument of righteousness, His pattern of the tabernacle which He
created in the beginning; shewing forth in your own life His grace and
mercy for all mankind, that possibly, one more might seek and desire a new
life in Christ, a new pattern to follow.
Ephesians 2:10 For we are his
workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before
ordained that we should walk in them. (KJV)
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