part three of lesson one

The tabernacle typifies the Lord Jesus Christ in every detail and we will see this as we go along. Now I understand that most teachings and I would say that it is so, most of the teaching regarding the tabernacle starts with man coming to God and really that is true with the messages preached on salvation, man coming to God. And that is alright but first and foremost God came to us did He not? He planned our salvation from before the foundations of the earth, the Bible says.
From the beginning in the Garden of Eden, before the fall, in the cool of the day, God would come down to man to fellowship with him. Have you ever pictured what that must have been like? God coming down and walking with man in the garden? Telling him His plans? Gracing the garden with His very presence?
(What was life like in God’s garden? Let’s read it in GEN 2:8 THROUGH 24 AND THEN VERSE 8 OF CHAPTER 3.)
8 The LORD God planted a garden eastward in Eden, and there He put the man whom He had formed. 9 And out of the ground the LORD God made every tree grow that is pleasant to the sight and good for food. The tree of life was also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. 10 Now a river went out of Eden to water the garden, and from there it parted and became four riverheads. 11 The name of the first is Pishon; it is the one which skirts the whole land of Havilah, where there is gold. 12 And the gold of that land is good. Bdellium and the onyx stone are there. 13 The name of the second river is Gihon; it is the one which goes around the whole land of Cush. 14 The name of the third river is Hiddekel;[a] it is the one which goes toward the east of Assyria. The fourth river is the Euphrates. 15 Then the LORD God took the man and put him in the garden of Eden to tend and keep it. 16 And the LORD God commanded the man, saying, “Of every tree of the garden you may freely eat; 17 but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat of it you shall surely die.” 18 And the LORD God said, “It is not good that man should be alone; I will make him a helper comparable to him.” 19 Out of the ground the LORD God formed every beast of the field and every bird of the air, and brought them to Adam to see what he would call them. And whatever Adam called each living creature, that was its name. 20 So Adam gave names to all cattle, to the birds of the air, and to every beast of the field. But for Adam there was not found a helper comparable to him. 21 And the LORD God caused a deep sleep to fall on Adam, and he slept; and He took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh in its place. 22 Then the rib which the LORD God had taken from man He made into a woman, and He brought her to the man. 23 And Adam said: “This is now bone of my bones And flesh of my flesh; She shall be called Woman, Because she was taken out of Man.”
24 Therefore a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and they shall become one flesh.
And they heard the sound of the LORD God walking in the garden in the cool of the day, and Adam and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the LORD God among the trees of the garden.
Sin brings shame and we try to hide. But you can’t hide from God. You cannot hide from God. I cannot hide from God. No one can. Be sure your sin will find you out.

Proverbs 28:13 says “Whoso covers his sin will not prosper, but he who confesses and forsakes it will have mercy” That may not be the exact quotation but that is what it says. But look at this life in the Garden that Adam and Eve enjoyed. God said “It is not good for man to be alone; I will
make him a wife comparable to him.” NKJV. Thank God He made woman for man. Can you husbands say amen? He did not make her for another woman nor did He make another man for man. He made a woman for a man. And He said therefore a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and they shall be one flesh.” Hallelujah! Of all that God graced the Garden with, beside His Own Presence was this surgery he performed on man so that He could produce a woman for him. And in this union, we see a picture of Christ and the church. Man and Woman, Husband and Wife. A man should love His wife as Christ loved the church Eph. 5:28,29. We are members of His body! If that be the case why do we treat each other the way we do? Why do we backbite and murmur and complain against one another? If we are all members of His body it is high time we began to act like it and I think that deserves an amen! And especially so when it comes to loving our wives. Have you told her today that you love her? Then do it now. And it works the other way too. Backing up a few verses here in Eph. 5, verses 1 and 2 “Therefore be imitators of God as dear children. And walk in love, as Christ also has loved us and given Himself for us, an offering, and a sacrifice to God for a sweet smelling aroma.”
And here we are talking about the offerings for the tabernacle. These offerings are fulfilled here in Eph. This is what they are pointing to….CHRIST and His eternal, once for all eternity sacrifice because “He ever lives to make intercession for them” and here we are back in Hebrews 7:25 Let’s read it from the NKJV “Therefore He is able to save to the uttermost those who come to God through Him, since He always lives to make intercession for them”
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Looking again at Exodus ch. 25 beginning at verse 1, God says “ Then the Lord spoke to Moses saying: Speak to the children of Israel, that they bring me an offering, from everyone who gives it willingly with his heart you shall take My offering; vs. 3”And this is the offering which you shall take from them: gold, silver, and bronze,” The first piece of the furniture that God gives Moses the pattern for is the Ark and the Mercy Seat. A picture of God coming to us…