{"id":22286,"date":"2025-03-15T09:39:07","date_gmt":"2025-03-15T16:39:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hoshanarabbah.org\/blog\/?p=22286"},"modified":"2025-03-15T13:04:32","modified_gmt":"2025-03-15T20:04:32","slug":"how-the-tabernacle-of-moses-of-moses-relates-to-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hoshanarabbah.org\/blog\/2025\/03\/15\/how-the-tabernacle-of-moses-of-moses-relates-to-you\/","title":{"rendered":"How the Tabernacle of Moses Relates to YOU!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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And let them make me a sanctuary; that I may dwell among them. (Exodus 25:8)<\/strong><\/p>

Thy way, O Elohim, is<\/em> in the sanctuary: who is so<\/em> great a El as our<\/em> Elohim? (Psalm 77:13)<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

It is the heart of Elohim\u2014to dwell with his people<\/strong> that he has made in his image. He wanted to dwell with Adam and Eve in the garden until their sin cut them off from fellowship with him. The tabernacle contain the means by which sinful humans could have their sins atoned and come back into a right relationship with their holy Creator, so that he might again dwell with them. Of course, everything in the Tabernacle of Moses pointed forward to Yeshua the Messiah through whose atoning death repentant and believing humans could come into relationship with Elohim that he might once again dwell with them. Those who have made this spiritual transaction are now the spiritual temple or dwelling place of Elohim as Paul states in 1 Corinthians 3:16 and 2 Corinthians 6:16.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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When teaching our little children and the things of life,<\/strong> do we hand them the multi-volumed set of Encyclopedia Britannicas? Of course not. They wouldn\u2019t get past page one. We give simple story books with big print and a plethora of pictures that help them to understand what we are trying teach them. YHVH Elohim, our Father in heaven, did the same thing when teaching his children<\/em> of Israel\u2014and us too\u2014about his plan of salvation. Instead of a storybook, he had them build the Tabernacle of Moses, which reads like simple gospel tract.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Here is another way to look at the Infinite (Elohim) trying to communicate with the finite (humans): If you were the Creator of the universe, what means would you use to communicate with those that you had created through love in your likeness and image? In a remote way, it\u2019s like a human standing over an anthill trying to communicate with the ants. How do you do it? Similarly, how does an all powerful, Spirit Being, loving Father in heaven relate to his mortal children who are but mere specks of dust without vaporizing them with his raw power? The difficulty is compounded when fearful humans don\u2019t want to hear the voice of Elohim, which is what happened when YHVH Elohim\u2019s voice thundered from Mount Sinai. The children of Israel begged him not to talk to them, lest they die. They asked the Almighty One to speak to them instead through Moses (Exod 20:19). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

When man sinned at the tree of knowledge, he was cut off from a spiritual relationship with their holy and sinless Creator. The Garden of Eden pictured of this halcyon state between YHVH and man. This relationship ruined, YHVH expelled the first humans from Eden, and direct communications between man and his Maker were hampered if not largely cut off. However, Elohim had a plan to restore the loving relationship he had with man before the rebellion. But if men refuse to hear you when you speak, what are you do?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For certain, the Almighty doesn\u2019t lack for ways to communicate with men. Man is without excuse when it comes to hearing Elohim, for even the heaven\u2019s declare the glory of the Creator and the plans he has for mankind. The visible things of this creation shout loudly about the spiritual mysteries heaven desires to reveal to its earthly subjects. Furthermore, from time to time over the millennia, Elohim has chosen to speak directly to some select servants through dreams, visions, signs, wonders, angels, and even once through a donkey! But how does he speak to a whole nation, if that nation is plugging its ears and refusing to hear its Master\u2019s voice?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Enter into the picture the Tabernacle of Moses or mishkan <\/em>was constructed circa 1450 b.c. at the foot of Mount Sinai. It took about a year to build. It was the first job assignment that YHVH gave to the children of Israel after their Exodus from Egypt. The tabernacle was literally a three-dimensional gospel message tract. It is the visual demonstration of the whole salvation message of the Bible in a building\u2014the blueprint of the plan of redemption of wayward, sinful man. It was a functioning masterpiece of artwork demonstrating the Father\u2019s love for his people, and of his desire to commune and to communicate with Israel\u2014his treasured possession, those he had hand picked and called out from the 70 nations of the world. Not only did the tabernacle involve the sense of sight, but the other four senses as well: sound, smell, touch, and taste. It also engaged and even challenged the heart, emotions, mind and spirit of man to focus on his need to be spiritually reconciled to his Creator. The Tabernacle of Moses was a vehicle for the Creator of the universe to communicate with man using a panoply of communication devices all of which pointed to the coming Messiah, the Redeemer of mankind who would die for the sins of the world to restore man into a loving relationship with his ever-loving, gracious, and longsuffering Father in heaven.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is the story of the tabernacle, which, in every way, resembles a theatrical play, even a pageant, containing costumed actors each performing his carefully choreographed role on cue. Even a child can comprehend the message of this play, yet it contains mysteries and truths so deep that only in eternity itself will they be revealed to those who have been initiated into higher spiritual levels through the tabernacle\u2019s spiritual paradigms of which its rites and ceremonies were mere prophetic shadows of things to come. To understand it, is to understand the message of the whole Bible from Genesis to Revelation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Let\u2019s now enter into the world of the Tabernacle of Moses. Welcome! (Please note, over the next several parshiot<\/em>, we will be discussing the tabernacle in great detail. Later, when we get into Leviticus, we will explore the sacrificial system as well as the other tabernacle rites and ceremonies, and we will learn how they all pointed to Yeshua and how it relates to us.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Why Study the Tabernacle (or Temple)?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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