Tues.’s Devo - The Tabernacle

Read: Exodus 26:1-27:21; Matthew 25:1-30; Psalm 31:1-8; Proverbs 8:1-11
God gave Moses a blueprint for the tabernacle and everything about it was to be a picture of the spiritual man who was to be a tabernacle of the presence of the Lord. Today we read much about the curtain that went around the tabernacle. The number fifty is used over and over. Fifty has to do with release and freedom. We are to walk in freedom from our past and guilt. The tent was covered with rams skins dyed red which was a picture of the blood of Jesus. Over this was the hide of an animal which stands for our flesh. There was framework to hold the curtains up. They had crossbars that represent the cross. The cross is our foundation and what holds our lives together.
Another one of the curtains was suppose to be sewn with blue, purple and scarlet yarn twisted so that his looked like a cherubim. These represents the angels of God that always surround us and watch over us.
All the furniture was made of wood and covered with gold. The altar in the Holy of Holies represents our heart and the presence of the Lord in our heart. Beyond the Holy of Holies was the Holy Place. In that room was the altar of incense, the table of shewbread, the menorah. That room represents our soul. That is where we choose to fellowship with the Lord in reading his Bible (the table of shewbread), prayer (the altar of insence) and receiving revelation (the menorah). Outside the tabernacle was the burnt altar, and the basin. That place represents our body. That is our public ministry. We are to publicly confess Jesus (the burnt offering) and show by our sanctified life that we are saved (the basin). This is our testimony to the church and the world.
Aaron and his sons were to keep the lamps burning before the Lord from evening till morning and forever as a testimony. In Matthew we see that five of the virgins did not keep their lamps burning because they ran out of oil. We have to keep the oil of the Holy Spirit alive in our lives or we will be unfruitful and unprepared when God needs to use us.
Lord, we choose your instruction over gold or silver. We trust in your knowledge and wisdom.