The Tabernacle
The tabernacle, as described in the next five entries, was the sacred house where God met with his people. It was a place of dwelling for God, a place for meeting, a place for revelation, and a place for sacrifice and atonement. The tabernacle is a symbol of God's dwelling with the people of the covenant and is the basis for the New Testament understanding of the incarnation of the Word in Jesus Christ (John 1:14) and of the presence of the Lord in the midst of the church.…
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Chapters & Articles in The Tabernacle (5)
The central theme of the Mosaic tabernacle is the dwelling of God in the midst of Israel. The actualization of God'…
The legislation in the Pentateuch assigned numerous duties to the Hebrew priests and Levites. Chief among them were…
The procedural order of sacrificial worship outlined in the following paragraphs is a reconstruction based on the p…
During the Davidic era the tabernacle of Moses and its worship were moved to Gibeon. In addition, David set up a wo…
During the period of the tabernacle of David, regular psalmic worship was offered at the tent on Zion that housed t…