Shadow Of Jesus In The Tabernacle: Christ As He Is Revealed In The Taberncale

Shadow Of Jesus In The Tabernacle: Christ As He Is Revealed In The Taberncale

The Tabernacle in The Wilderness, which became the center of all the worship for the children of Israel during their journeyings, was designed by God Himself in Heaven. Repeatedly, Moses is admonished to follow the exact pattern. (Exodus 25:40) (Hebrews 8:5) It was, therefore, a perfect replica of something which already existed before in Heaven. The Tabernacle was a type and a shadow of something with real substance. Whether there is, in Heaven, an actual building after which the Tabernacle of God on earth was patterned is a debatable subject: but of one thing we are sure, the Tabernacle is a picture, a type and a shadow of the Lord Jesus Christ, where God meets man and where deity and humanity meet in one person. (Hebrews 8:1-2) In Christ therefore, we find the complete answer to the spiritual significance of this Tabernacle. In John 1:14 it is said, “And the Word was made flesh and dwelt among us and we beheld His Glory, The Glory as of The Only Begotten of The Father, full of Grace and Truth.” Every detail of the Tabernacle points to some aspect of the person and work of our Savior. It is the primary purpose of this writing to set forth the all-sufficient and perfect provision for redemption in Jesus Christ. In addition to being a picture of the Lord, Jesus Christ, the Tabernacle becomes, secondarily, a picture of the believer. Jesus was the Tabernacle in whom all the fullness of the Godhead dwelt bodily, the believer “In Christ” is also the dwelling of God. We are in Christ as believers.