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< Exodus 26 >

Plan of the tabernacle

Plan of the tabernacle

Verse 1

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The original word for fine twined linen indicates that it was white, symbolising righteousness (Revelation 19:8)Waiting for response for Revelation 19:8

Verse 33

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The design of the tabernacle, like the temple, consisted of a Most Holy Place, a Holy Place, and a Court, and these represent the three stages through which people pass to attain to eternal life, with the tabernacle’s furniture indicating the requirements necessary for individuals to gain immortality.

By believing God’s truth in his word and ending his old life by being buried in the water of baptism, the believer begins a new life in which he “presents his body a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is his reasonable service” Romans 12:1.Waiting for response for Romans 12:1 He has, as it were, entered into the Holy Place hoping in due time to enter the Most Holy and enjoy eternal life.

The Holy Place and its furniture represents the probation state and the provisions which God supplies to enable the believer to remain faithful.

When Jesus died, the veil of the Most Holy was rent in two because it represented his flesh. It was necessary that the body of Jesus be broken in sacrifice to open up the way to immortality, and when he rose from the dead his body was changed so that he became incorruptible and entered, as it were, into the Most Holy. When he returns he will “change our vile body, that it may be fashioned like unto his glorious body” Philemon 3:20-22Waiting for response for Philemon 3:20-22 so that all his faithful disciples will enter into the immortal state.