The Tabernacle Tour #4
Anchor scripture: Hebrews 9:1-10
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Hebrews%209%3A1-10&version=ESV
“You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies; you anoint my head with oil; my cup overflows.” (Psalm 23:5)
To the right, on the North side of the Holy Place is…
Lesson 4: The Table of Shewbread
Or
The Bread of The Presence
Exodus 25:23-30
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Exodus%2025%3A23-30&version=ESV
Situated on the North side - as Jesus was supposedly crucified on a hill, to the North of the city…Who is this pointing to?
Read John ch. 6…https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=John%206&version=ESV
The place where we not only eat of him but we eat (sup) WITH him!
***The bread would be made without yeast…
{yeast - or leaven - is typically used to be a symbol of sin…so unleavened bread symbolizes our sanctification through Jesus}
***And changed every Sabbath…
{signifying the finished work of the cross, by Jesus, who is our Sabbath Rest - Hebrews 4:1-11}
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Hebrews%204%3A1-11&version=ESV
~~A note on the Passover:
At this table we also see a type and shadow of the final Passover meal, eaten by The Passover Lamb with His disciples.
{Hear the Words of Jesus in Matthew 26:26: Now as they were eating, Jesus took bread, and after blessing it broke it and gave it to the disciples, and said, “Take, eat; this is my body.”}
Now let’s look at the elements:
Unleavened bread = sinlessness
would be taken with bitter herbs = when we taste…and are convicted of…the Truth of our own sin (John 16:8-11; Acts 2:37)…(also Matthew 26:38)
and wine - always symbolic of blood = Life (Lev17:10-12)
No leaven could be eaten with this meal;
in the same way that no sacrificial blood (life) could be offered to the Lord with bread containing leaven (sin and death). Because Jesus would be the Sacrifice without sin…and Death would therefore not be able to hold him (Acts 2:24): Life and Death can never mix.
“You shall not offer the blood of my sacrifice with anything leavened, or let the sacrifice of the Feast of the Passover remain until the morning.” See Exodus 34:25)***
“Supping with The Lord”
So what happened to the bread after 7 days?
Leviticus 24:5-9…https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Leviticus%2024%3A5-9&version=ESV
The priests who made the bread would then be invited to eat of it, in the Lord’s presence on the Sabbath day…again symbolizing our receiving…partaking of:
Jesus the Sabbath Rest…
Jesus the Bread of Life.
The finished work of the Cross…by which we can have unhindered fellowship with God, and enter His Rest…
(Remember also John ch.6)
***Remember It’s not blood that God wants…it is the life - our lives. So He made provision…first through animals…then through His own Son.***
And with that in mind…See Revelation 3:20 “Behold, I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, I will come in to him and eat with him, and he with me.”
Because God desires fellowship with us…He has made the Way, through the broken body and shed blood of His Son.
Now read Exodus 24:8-11…https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Exodus%2024%3A8-11&version=ESV
You may have heard it said that Jesus was a prophet like unto Moses (Deuteronomy 18:15)…
Here we see that they actually fellowshipped with God!…through the mediation of Moses and the blood that he offered:
And now, we too have fellowship with God, through the mediation of Jesus Christ and the Blood that HE offered.
“Mercy”
Read 1Samuel 21:1-6
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1%20Samuel%2021%3A1-6&version=ESV
David was not a priest, so it was technically unlawful for him to eat the showbread. Yet this is an incredible picture of the mercy that is in available to us through Christ … and a foreshadowing of the new covenant.
David may have been meditating on this mercy when he wrote Psalm 23:5… “You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies; you anoint my head with oil; my cup overflows…”
And Jesus affirms this mercy in Luke 6:3-5…And Jesus answered them, “Have you not read what David did when he was hungry, he and those who were with him: how he entered the house of God and took and ate the bread of the Presence, which is not lawful for any but the priests to eat, and also gave it to those with him?” And he said to them, “The Son of Man is lord of the Sabbath.”
Because the heart of God’s Law is not to bring judgment…although judgment will surely come;
it is to bring us to a state of repentance, so He can bring mercy!
A “Way” of escape
Deuteronomy 16:3 “You shall eat no leavened bread with it. Seven days you shall eat it with unleavened bread, the bread of affliction—for you came out of the land of Egypt in haste—that all the days of your life you may remember the day when you came out of the land of Egypt.”
The Israelites ate unleavened bread as part of the Passover celebration. It was symbolic of the haste with which the Israelites fled Egypt during the Exodus—they left so quickly that the bread did not have time to rise. A picture of how in repenting…turning to God and running from sin, we must do so without hesitation.
See Genesis 19; https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Genesis%2019&version=ESV
Revelation 18:4 Then I heard another voice from heaven saying,“Come out of her, my people, lest you take part in her sins, lest you share in her plagues;
The Bread of The Presence
Leviticus 24:5-9 https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Leviticus%2024%3A5-9&version=ESV
The loaves were on the gold table in 2 piles of 6,
with the memorial cup of frankincense atop of each pile.
After 7 days the frankincense would be replaced, and the old would be burned on the altar of incense . (Which we’re about to come to)
Exodus 30:34, tells us that when pure frankincense (Jesus the Great High Priest)…was mixed with other spices (the redeemed; a royal priesthood -1Peter2:9)…and burned before the Lord…
it became a pleasing aroma to him.
See:
Ephesians 5:2 (Jesus) And walk in love, as Christ loved us and gave himself up for us, a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God.
2Corinthians 2:15. (His Church) For we are the aroma of Christ to God among those who are being saved and among those who are perishing,
Like the altar of incense, and the ark of the covenant, the Table is made from a sturdy, resilient wood called acacia, and overlaid entirely with pure gold…
See 1Peter 1:3-7…https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1%20Peter%201%3A3-7&version=ESV
Implying not only the refining of our faith, but the pressure that Jesus Christ Himself has gone through to bring us to this place: Of reconciliation.
See Lesson 5 @
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