Before the law was written on stone, it had been broken

The children of Israel had told Moses all that the Lord says we will do.  Moses left them and went up the mountain to hear from God.  He delayed in coming back that was all it took for them to go back to Egypt in their hearts. What would it take to cause us to go back?  They proved that their works could never save them. Ours is no better, they won't save us either.


Moses brought back with him the law and the blue print for the Tabernacle.  A picture of things to come.  Jesus would die and shed his blood for the sins of the world.  Jesus answer is to look to the blood.


Their works of righteousness had failed them.  One hand Moses held the law-death in the other hand a picture of the Tabernacle and Jesus blood being shed on the cross-life.  We come as a beggar deserving hell's wrath and ask for mercy.


Romans 4;5 but to him that works not, but believes he is justifier of the ungodly, his faith is counted for righteousness.

Christ is the Tabernacle

The Tabernacle was a type or figure or picture of things to come.  Christ our high priest by a greater and more perfect tabernacle means his body.  He would not be made of hands.  By his own blood he entered in once into the holy place, having obtained eternal redemption for us.  For if the blood of bulls and goats, and the ashes of an heifer sprinkling the unclean, sanctifieth to the purifying of the flesh.

     How much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without spot to God, pure your conscience from dead works to serve the living God.  Hebrews 9:11-14.  Christ became our Tabernacle, when He went to the cross.  The altar speaks of Him on the Cross.  The Laver speaks of Him as the eternal Word.  The Table of Shewbread shows him as the bread of Life.  The Lamp stand picture of Him as the Light of the World.  He came into a dark world of sin and shown so bright that the world noticed.  He was so different.  He gave the world took.  He came to seek  and save what man had lost.  Man came to take all they could get any way they could get it.  He loved, men hated.  The altar of incense pictured Him as the High Priest  and intercessor.  He prayed and interceded for mankind.  The ark  showed He had all authority and His kingly position.

     The Tabernacle was a picture of Jesus He came down from His heavenly throne to walk among men.  He was the door to Heaven.  The altar became his cross that He lay down His life for us.  He was the table of shewbread.  The bread of life.  He became the golden candlestick that shown in a dark world.  He became the great intercessor for us as He sweat drops of blood for us in the garden of Gethsemane.  He became the mercy seat-come to me and find help in time of need.  The blue pictured Heaven, Jesus came down to bring Heaven to earth.  The scarlet a picture of His blood that would be poured out for humanity. Purple was for royalty, He was the King of Kings.