Lamp and Light Bible Study

With the 'grain offering' there was no blood in this offering. No animal was slain. It was an offering of flour, roasted grain, salt and oil. With the peace offering, the offerer had to bring the animal and lay his hand on its head. Thereby, he was confessing that through the death of that animal, he had come to peace with God.

When we present our bodies to the Lord, it is very easy to say, "Lord, I give my body totally to You." But we don't know whether we have offered it all, until we "cut it up". What does it mean to cut it up and offer it piece by piece, as was done with the burnt offering? It means that we offer our own bodily parts piece by piece to God.

When we look at Jesus life, we don't think only of His death at Calvary, but also of His whole life where He presented Himself to the Father fully saying “a body thou has prepared for Me...and I have come to do Thy will O God. (in that body)"

Leviticus is a book that speaks of the holiness of God. It's a book that has holiness as its main theme throughout. Holiness is a word a lot of Christians are afraid of. But we must boldly proclaim Holiness as the standards of God's Word

The need for the High Priest in the Old Testament illustrated the need for a Mediator. This podcast explains the clothing of the High Priest and illustrates how it points us to Christ.

The most holy place contained the golden ark with the mercy seat as a lid on it. The ark of the covenant, the mercy-seat and the content of the ark were together a picture of God the Father, Christ, and Mary.

The Veil-The Way Into The Most Holy Place The tabernacle (the outer court, the holy place and the most holy place) is a picture of man-body, soul and spirit. When we hear or read God's Word, it enters our soul (mind and emotions) first. It instructs our mind and stirs our emotions. But if it stops there, and does not make us yield our will in obedience to God, the the Word cannot enter through the veil into our spirit-and we will not grow spiritually. The veil is our human will which must submit to God's will.

The altar of incense represents prayer. “Let my prayer be directed as incense in thy sight” (Psalm 141:2) Prayer is an expression of our dependence on God. Prayer (like this incense) must rise from our hearts to God at all times.

With no windows or other means to allow natural light, the only illumination in the Holy Place came from the supremely beautiful Golden Lamp stand. Besides the practical nature of the lamp stand providing light, there are several spiritual lessons that can be learned from its symbolism.

It was at the bronze laver that the priests washed their hands and feet before entering into and coming out of the holy place. Inside the tent, in the holy place, there were three items of furniture. On the northern side was the table of bread.

The tent of the tabernacle had four coverings. The innermost covering was of fine linen with intricate designs woven into it. The second covering was made of goats' skins. The third covering was made of rams skins dyed red.The outermost covering was always covered with the desert sand. But what did all these coverings symbolize?

The tent of the tabernacle is described in Exodus 26:1-27. It was constructed with boards made of acaia wood overlaid with gold. The Acacia not only symbolizes Jesus being both God [gold] and Man [wood]. It also symbolizes the members of the body of Christ today who although human, have been made partakers of the Divine nature.

The wall of fine linen around the tabernacle presented a barrier to those who were not 'righteous before God' making sure that they would not have access to the courtyard. This teaches us that the thing that separates those inside the Church from those outside, is not a higher level of human righteousness, but that those inside are clothed with the righteousness of Christ. When speaking of being "clothed with the righteousness of Christ, the Church teaches that the scriptures say that we are justified by the remission of our sins,and also sanctified and renewed in the inner man.

God's ways are not man's ways. In the Church this is where we must begin: With God. Not with activity but with God in the Most Holy Place. We must begin with the things that are "most holy" not only in the Christian life, but in our Parishes.

A large part of Exodus (Chapters 25 to 31 and 35 to 40) deals with the construction of the Tabernacle of God. In our study of Genesis, we saw the origin of the two streams of false and true religion in Cain and Abel. That finally ends in Revelation as Babylon and Jerusalem. The tabernacle is the seed from which the temple of God came later. It is a picture of the untimate Jerusalem, the Church, the dwelling place of God.

God is looking for men like Moses today who can arrest the decay among his people. God can do more through one man like Moses than through a thousand who compromise like Aaron.

Immediately after giving them the ten commandments, God gave the Israelite's a beautiful parable in Chapter 21 to teach them the spirit in which they were to keep His commandments. There he speaks of a Hebrew slave who is set free by his master because he has finished his six years of compulsory slavery. God's law had stated that in the seventh year all Hebrew slaves must be released. But if in the seventh year this slave comes to his master and says, “I love my master ... I will not go out free”- no longer as a slave in bondage, but now freely out of love," (21:5) he continues to serving his master forever thereafter. It is interesting to note that this comes immediately after the giving of the ten commandments. It was to teach the Israelite's that what God really wanted from them was not slavish, external obedience to the letter of the law, but joyful, loving obedience from the heart to the spirit of the law.

Not only does God already know in advance what problems the devil is preparing for us, He has also made a solution for all of them, in advance! So you can face every problem boldly. You will never face a problem where God did not plan a solution.

After putting the blood on the door, the Israelites were all commanded to eat unleavened bread that night. that is a picture of our feeding on Christ Himself, the Bread of Life. It's not enough that we trust in His blood, we must feed on His life too. "For if, when we were enemies, we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son; much more, being reconciled, shall we be saved by his life." (Romans 5:10)

Do you want to be a choice servant of God? Do you want God to watch over you with such a jealous care? Then you must be willing to be rebuked by Him for small matters.