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Exodus chapter 25 · Scripture Unscripted

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  Exodus chapter 25, verse one and the Lord spoke to Moses saying,
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  well what did he say? Let's go to verse 2.
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  Speak to the children of Israel, that they bring me an offering
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  of every man that gives it willingly with his heart.
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  You shall take my offering. So we could see here that Moses
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  in the previous chapter was invited to come up and to be in
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  the presence of God Almighty, the God of Israel.
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  And you can see that Moses is there on the mountain top
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  receiving and relaying to God. And we see that God was well
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  pleased to invite Moses in that he had the coveted position of
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  actually being in the presence of God for 40 days and for 40
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  nights. And here God is going to give
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  him the blueprints for the Tabernacle so that God can come
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  and be with His people and he can come into the holiest of
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  holy places and that He would be there with them.
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  What an amazing God we serve that He desires to be close to
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  us, sinful humanity. We are his masterpiece.
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  We are made in his image, Imago Dei, friends, and we can barely
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  even scratch the surface. We can scarcely take it in,
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  friends, the importance of what God has for us if we'll get out
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  of our own way and we'll actually step into the reality
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  of the biblical narrative for our lives.
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  Let's move to verse 3. And this is the offering which
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  you shall take of them, gold, silver, brass.
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  So he wants it willingly. God doesn't strong arm us,
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  friends. He wants us to make a decision
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  for him. He's never going to make us do
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  anything, friends. It is free will.
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  But for those of us who were called and predestined and
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  chosen and elected before the foundations of the earth, it is
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  futile to resist a loving and a holy God.
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  So we need to make sure that we willingly bring him the first
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  fruits, willingly give him the first dollar, the first hour,
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  the first of everything. And we give it to him because He
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  is worthy of it. And we don't just say thank you
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  for the 90% that He allows us to keep because it is all his, 100%
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  his. But whenever we give him the
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  first, what it does is it blesses the rest.
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  What it does is it shows us where our allegiance is.
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  It shows us where our heart is, friends.
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  And you cannot serve both God and Mammon.
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  And so the Israelites came out of Egypt rich in the abundance
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  of all the treasures of the people.
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  And God wants to test them and to ask them where their heart is
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  in the matter. And He doesn't just take it from
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  them. He wants them to come with a
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  willing heart. And He says the same thing to
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  you and to me. It's all His.
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  The earth is his. The fullness of it.
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  Your entire bank account, everything in your house, all
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  the material blessings that God has given you, your house and
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  your spouse, your abilities, your ability to walk into
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  talking, to reason, your sight, your hearing, every single thing
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  is God's. But He wants you to bring it and
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  lay it on the altar. And He will decide what is
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  useful and what he can use and what He will give back.
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  And you can out give God. Anything that you give to God
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  will be repaid to you, whether in this life or the life to
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  come. 4IN blue and purple and scarlet fine linen and goat's
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  hair. 5 Rams skins dyed red, badger skins and chitin wood.
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  This is the Acacia wood, friends.
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  He wants us to take the gold and the silver and the brass and all
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  of the fine linen and the scarlet and purple and blue
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  yarn. The goat's hair, the ram skins.
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  He wants them to dye it red. The badger skins.
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  All the Acacia wood. 6 Oil for light and spices, for anointing
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  oil and for sweet incense. 7 Onyx stones and stones to be set
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  in the epod and in the breastplate. 8 And let them make
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  a sanctuary that I'm dwell among them.
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  So all of this is a prototype of the heavenly reality.
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  Friends, these are the things that God is encircled around and
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  about. We see it in Revelation chapter
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  4. We see the sea of glass mingled
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  with fire. We see the living creatures.
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  We see the elders falling down and casting their crowns.
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  And God deserves all of our worship.
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  And here he is telling Moses what is it like in his presence,
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  and he wants them to have some kind of resemblance upon it here
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  on this earth. Aid, and let them make me a
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  sanctuary that I may dwell among them.
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  Nine, according to all that I show you, after the pattern of
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  the Tabernacle and the pattern of all the instruments of it,
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  Even so shall you make it? Look at how wealthy these
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  Israelites are as they're lead, as they're LED out of Egypt and
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  they're in the wilderness, and look at all the things they have
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  access to. Friends, this gold we know that
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  they spoiled the Egyptians on their way out.
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  Look at all of the things that they possess and they have in
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  their hands, and it is one thing to have possessions, but it is a
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  whole nother thing to be possessed by them.
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  Never forget that. We have to give it willingly.
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  Don't be like the monkey who puts his hand in the tree to
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  grab out the food, but he won't let go of it to get his hand
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  unstuck out of the tree. We have to be those who
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  willingly give up all of our possessions unto God and watch
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  how He showers it right back on 8 flings open the windows.
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  He showers all the good things of this life back upon us, but
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  we have to be willing to let it go.
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  Friends, we cannot let those things have a hold on us like
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  they do so many people. We live open handedly.
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  We don't hold anything in a higher regard than our
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  relationship with God Almighty. Verse 10 And they shall make an
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  ark of two wood, 2 cubits, and a half shall be the length of it,
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  and a cubit and a half the breadth of it, and a cubit and a
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  half the height of it. So this ark of the covenant is
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  to be made with this Acacia wood. 11 And you shall overlay
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  it with pure gold within and without you shall overlay it,
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  and shall make upon it a crown of gold rounding about it.
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  So this ark of the covenant was to house the tablets of stone
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  that God's going to write the law upon.
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  It's going to house the jar of manna.
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  It's going to house Aaron's staff that had budded.
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  And we see Jesus Christ types and shadows and all of these
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  things. We see the corruptible body of
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  Jesus as the Acacia would. We see the gold that was
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  overlaid as His deity wrapped around him and in Him.
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  We see that He was fully manned and fully God represented by
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  this ark of the covenant. We see that God told them to
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  overlay it with the gold and in verse 12, and you shall cast
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  four rings of gold for it and put them in the four corners of
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  it, and two rings shall be on one side of it and two rings on
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  the other side of it. So they are to attach poles in
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  it because it is so holy. The presence of God, the
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  manifest presence of God, resting upon this wooden box
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  overlaid with gold that you're going to see later, men who
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  irreverently touch it and they immediately die.
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  So these poles were intended to keep them from rolling it on the
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  cart. It was to be carried, friends,
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  and they were to have reverence for it. 13 And you shall make
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  stays of wood and overlay them with gold.
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  So these were the Staffs, these were the poles that were
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  overlaid with gold. 14 And you shall put the staves into the
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  rings by the sides of the ark, that the ark may be born with
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  them. So these poles, these golden
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  poles were to be slid through the rings, and that was how they
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  are to carry this thing around. 15 The staves shall be in the
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  rings of the ark, and they shall not be taken from it.
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  So that is how it was to be carried.
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  They weren't to be taken in and out of those holes. 16 And you
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  shall put into the ark of the testimony which I shall give
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  you. 17 And you shall make a mercy seat of pure gold. 2
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  cubits and a half shall be the length of it, a cubit and a half
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  the breath of it. So here is the mercy seat.
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  This is the Bema seat of Christ. This is where God decided to
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  make His manifest presence known unto earthly people. 18 And you
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  shall make 2 cherubims of gold of beaten work, and you shall
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  make them in the two ends of the mercy seat.
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  So these were the angels, one at the head and one at the foot.
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  We saw it when Jesus Christ resurrected from the dead.
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  Go back and read it. You're going to see that there
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  were angels, one at the head and one at the foot, and this was
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  the mercy seat of God, and everything points unto Jesus
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  Christ. 19 And you make one cherub on one end, and the other
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  cherub on the other end, even of the mercy seat shall you make
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  the cherubims on the 2 ends of it.
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  So you can see here that it's all pointing towards Jesus and
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  the sacrifice that he would make.
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  And that is why it pleased God to make himself known unto a
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  people who would listen to him and actually build everything
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  out to the most finite detail. And isn't it amazing that the
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  Jewish people had enough wherewithal to attach themselves
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  to Elohim, the Most High God? And he found Abraham out in the
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  land of the Khaldis in Syria, and he called him unto himself
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  and made an entire nation out of him.
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  And he had no children at the time.
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  And now look 2 million deep. And God is finally getting them
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  to this place where He is to be worshipped among them and
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  understood in the physical reality. 20 And the cherubim
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  shall stretch forth their wings on high, covering the mercy seat
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  with their wings, and their faces shall look one to another
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  toward the mercy seat. Shall the faces of the cherubim
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  be. This is the scene at the
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  resurrection of Jesus at the angels.
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  One at the head and one at the foot.
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  This is all pointing towards our Lord and our King. 21 And you
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  shall put the mercy seat above upon the ark, and in the ark you
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  shall put the testimony that I shall give you.
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  So God's going to write on the tablets of stone, and he's
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  telling Moses to put them into this box overlaid with gold,
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  with poles. 22 And there I will meet with you, and I will
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  commune with you from above the mercy seat, from between the two
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  cherubims, which are upon the ark of the testimony, and all
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  things which I will give you in commandment unto the children of
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  Israel. So you can see how this cherubim
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  and this box was to house the law.
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  And we see that the blood of Jesus Christ is above the law,
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  and it covers the law, and it fulfills the law, friends, and
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  everything is covered by the blood of the Lord Jesus Christ.
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  And these two angels are representative of the
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  resurrection. 23 And you shall also make a table of Tim Wood. 2
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  cubits shall be the length of it, and a cubit the breadth of
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  it, and a cubit and a half the height of it.
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  So here we're going to get to see the table of showbread, and
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  we know that Jesus Christ is the bread of life. 24 And you shall
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  overlay it with pure gold, and make there to a crown of gold
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  round and about it. So this table was to house 12
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  loaves of bread representing the 12 tribes of His in God's
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  constant provision for them. And we know that for us that
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  Jesus Christ completely satisfies us but leaves us
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  longing for more. 25 And you shall make unto the border of a
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  handbreadth round and about, and you shall make a golden crown to
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  the border of it round and about. 26 And you shall make for
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  it four rings of gold, and put the rings in the four corners
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  that are on the four feet of it. So they are to do the same with
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  this table of showbread that they did for the Ark of the
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  Covenant, and put these rings so it can be carried 27 over and
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  against the border. Shall the rings be for places of
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  the stage to bear the table? So they're to carry this table
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  for showbread air, to carry it with these poles. 28 And you
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  shall make the stays of Tim Wood and overlay them with gold, that
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  the table may be born with them. 29 And you shall make the dishes
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  of it in the spoons there of it, and the covers of it in the
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  bowls of it, to cover with it with pure gold, and you shall
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  make them. So everything in relation to
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  this table of showbread is to be overlaid with the gold, and they
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  are to bear this table up by thee poles. 30 And you shall set
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  upon the table to show bread before me always.
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  So God desires for them to have the 12 loaves of bread always
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  continuously before him. 31 And you shall make a Candlestick of
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  pure gold. Of beaten work shall the
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  Candlestick be made. His shaft and his branches, his
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  bowls, his knops, and his flowers shall be of the same.
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  So this was a 75 LB solid piece of gold that this Candlestick
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  was to be melted after it was to be beaten into the shape of the
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  Menorah with one of the Candlestick holders straight up
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  and then three on each side with a combination of seven places
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  for them to have light. This was the only light in the
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  entire Tabernacle, friends, and Jesus Christ is the light of the
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  world and his stripes. We are healed and we see this
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  solid piece of gold as representative of Jesus.
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  We see the Holy Spirit in the seven spirits of God represented
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  here, and we see that this is all pointing towards our Lord
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  and our Savior and our King. This is deity, friends, and this
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  is important to God, and He wanted them to understand holy
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  reverence for this heavenly scene. 34 And the Candlestick
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  shall be 4 bowls made like unto almonds, with their knots and
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  their flowers. So it was like the almonds and
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  the leaves and the flowers of that tree. 35 And there shall be
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  a knop under the two branches of the same, and a knot under the
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  two branches of the same, and a knot under the two branches of
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  the same, according to the six branches that proceed out of the
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  Candlestick. So one giant Candlestick, and
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  then three on each side of it, that butted and branched forth
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  from that single tube. 36 Their knobs and their branches shall
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  be of the same, and they shall be beaten work of pure gold. 37
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  And you shall make the seven lamps of it, and they shall
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  light the lamps of it, and they may give light over and against
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  it. We see in Revelation, friends,
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  he's talking about the seven golden candlesticks which are
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  the churches. Friends, you see so much of the
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  types and shadows and this symbolic here, this symbolism
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  here in Exodus. What an amazing God we serve,
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  that He is congruent all the way through His word, from Genesis
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  to Revelation. Nothing added and nothing
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  subtracted. It all points to our Lord, and
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  our King, and our Boss Jesus Christ. 37 And you shall make
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  the seven lamps of it, and they shall light the lamps of it, and
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  they may give light over and against it. 38 In the tongues of
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  it, and the snuff dishes of it there shall be of pure gold. 39
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  Of a talent of pure gold shall he make it with all these
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  vessels will end on. 40 And look that you make them after the
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  pattern which was showed you in the mount.
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  So here Moses is receiving from God all the measurements and the
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  requirements for him to come and to have his Shekinah glory on
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  this earth. And there was coming a time in a
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  day after the second destruction by fire, when the earth is made
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  new, that this cube of God is going to come down.
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  The city of God, New Jerusalem, is going to come down to this
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  earth and touch down, and God will come down with it and
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  forever be here with us. And there's no need for light
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  there because He is there with us.
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  What an amazing God we serve. Hope you've been blessed by this
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  amazing chapter in God's Word. I know I sure have.
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  I'm praying for every single one of you and I love you.
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  Let us pray. We love you, Father.
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  We thank you for these words. We thank you for this time.
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  We thank you that you are good. We thank you, God, for all the
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  many blessings that you've already poured out.
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  Thank you, Lord, for righteous leaders.
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  Thank you, God for Israel. We pray for the peace of
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  Jerusalem, Father. Thank you, Lord, that we can be
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  attached unto you, that we can know you, these unnatural
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  branches grafted into the natural.
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  Thank you Father, and it's saying Jesus Christ, holy and
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  precious and powerful name that I pray, Amen.