Jesus Unmasked: The Truth Will Shock You by Todd Friel
Authors: Todd Friel
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Me ) To do Your will , O God .’ ”
After saying above, “ Sacrifices and offerings and whole burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin You have not desired, nor have You taken pleasure in them” (which are offered according to the Law), then He said, “ Behold , I have come to do Your will .” He takes away the first in order to establish the second . By this will we have been sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all (Heb. 10:1–10).
The Centerpiece
The centerpiece of the Mosaic covenant was the tabernacle. The tabernacle was a traveling tent the Jews would schlep around the wilderness and set up every time God commanded them to camp.
Once the Jews entered the Promised Land, the tabernacle would be replaced by a permanent temple, which was very similar in design. The tabernacle and temple were integral to the Old Mosaic covenant because two major things happened there:
1.The priests would perform their daily duties, especially the blood sacrifices.
2.One day a year, on the Day of Atonement, God’s special presence, His “Shekinah glory” would fall on the Holy of Holies.
A Hebrew Lesson
According to Strong’s Concordance , the Old Testament Hebrew word for tabernacle/tent is Mishkan . It comes from two words:
>The prefix mish : the place where something happens.
>The root shkan : to dwell.
When you put the two words together, you have Mishkan : a place where God dwells. God’s tabernacle was the place where God would dwell with His people when His special presence, His “shekinah glory,” would descend on the tent one day a year on the Day of Atonement.
The word Shekinah has the letters shkn , just like the word Mishkan . God’s Shekinah glory was His “special presence” glory. Note, both words have the root letters shkn .
Greek Lesson
As the New Testament is written in Greek, Strong’s Concordance tells us the Greek word for tabernacle/tent is: skaynay . Note the similarity: the consonants in the Hebrew word for tabernacle and shekinah are s-k-n and the consonants in Greek for tabernacle are s-k-n .
Jesus Is Our Tabernacle
And the Word became flesh, and dwelt among us, and we saw His glory, glory as of the only begotten from the Father, full of grace and truth (John 1:14).
The Greek word for “dwelt” is our Greek word skaynay . In other words, Jesus came and “tabernacled,” or “pitched His tent” among us. This is a clear reference to the Old Testament tabernacle.
Just as God’s shekinah glory tabernacled with His people, Jesus Christ, the second person in the trinitarian Godhead, tabernacled with us when He came to earth. The tabernacle is an Old Testament picture of Jesus. What was once a shadowy picture of God dwelling with His people became a Technicolor reality when Jesus came and tabernacled among His people.
Hebrews Makes This Clear
The theme of the New Testament Book of Hebrews is, “Jesus is better.” Hebrews tells us that Jesus is better than angels. Jesus is a better covenant. Jesus is a better tabernacle. Jesus is the better everything.
God Himself was the architect for the tabernacle and it is reasonable to conclude that not only is the tent itself a type/shadow of Jesus, but so is each and every piece of furniture in the tabernacle.
Some theologians believe we should not assign a type to each object in the tabernacle, but because Hebrews 9 lists every piece of furniture in the tabernacle, it is reasonable to conclude that every item in the tabernacle is a picture of Jesus.
Now even the first covenant had regulations of divine worship and the earthly sanctuary. For there was a tabernacle prepared, the outer one, in which were the lampstand and the table and the sacred bread ; this is called the holy place. Behind the second veil there was a tabernacle which is called the Holy of Holies, having a golden altar of
After saying above, “ Sacrifices and offerings and whole burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin You have not desired, nor have You taken pleasure in them” (which are offered according to the Law), then He said, “ Behold , I have come to do Your will .” He takes away the first in order to establish the second . By this will we have been sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all (Heb. 10:1–10).
The Centerpiece
The centerpiece of the Mosaic covenant was the tabernacle. The tabernacle was a traveling tent the Jews would schlep around the wilderness and set up every time God commanded them to camp.
Once the Jews entered the Promised Land, the tabernacle would be replaced by a permanent temple, which was very similar in design. The tabernacle and temple were integral to the Old Mosaic covenant because two major things happened there:
1.The priests would perform their daily duties, especially the blood sacrifices.
2.One day a year, on the Day of Atonement, God’s special presence, His “Shekinah glory” would fall on the Holy of Holies.
A Hebrew Lesson
According to Strong’s Concordance , the Old Testament Hebrew word for tabernacle/tent is Mishkan . It comes from two words:
>The prefix mish : the place where something happens.
>The root shkan : to dwell.
When you put the two words together, you have Mishkan : a place where God dwells. God’s tabernacle was the place where God would dwell with His people when His special presence, His “shekinah glory,” would descend on the tent one day a year on the Day of Atonement.
The word Shekinah has the letters shkn , just like the word Mishkan . God’s Shekinah glory was His “special presence” glory. Note, both words have the root letters shkn .
Greek Lesson
As the New Testament is written in Greek, Strong’s Concordance tells us the Greek word for tabernacle/tent is: skaynay . Note the similarity: the consonants in the Hebrew word for tabernacle and shekinah are s-k-n and the consonants in Greek for tabernacle are s-k-n .
Jesus Is Our Tabernacle
And the Word became flesh, and dwelt among us, and we saw His glory, glory as of the only begotten from the Father, full of grace and truth (John 1:14).
The Greek word for “dwelt” is our Greek word skaynay . In other words, Jesus came and “tabernacled,” or “pitched His tent” among us. This is a clear reference to the Old Testament tabernacle.
Just as God’s shekinah glory tabernacled with His people, Jesus Christ, the second person in the trinitarian Godhead, tabernacled with us when He came to earth. The tabernacle is an Old Testament picture of Jesus. What was once a shadowy picture of God dwelling with His people became a Technicolor reality when Jesus came and tabernacled among His people.
Hebrews Makes This Clear
The theme of the New Testament Book of Hebrews is, “Jesus is better.” Hebrews tells us that Jesus is better than angels. Jesus is a better covenant. Jesus is a better tabernacle. Jesus is the better everything.
God Himself was the architect for the tabernacle and it is reasonable to conclude that not only is the tent itself a type/shadow of Jesus, but so is each and every piece of furniture in the tabernacle.
Some theologians believe we should not assign a type to each object in the tabernacle, but because Hebrews 9 lists every piece of furniture in the tabernacle, it is reasonable to conclude that every item in the tabernacle is a picture of Jesus.
Now even the first covenant had regulations of divine worship and the earthly sanctuary. For there was a tabernacle prepared, the outer one, in which were the lampstand and the table and the sacred bread ; this is called the holy place. Behind the second veil there was a tabernacle which is called the Holy of Holies, having a golden altar of
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