Just a thought by coppi

Years ago I took a course at Christian Word Ministries on the Tabernacle.  That little Tabernacle housed the Holies of Holies/Ark of the Covenant where once a year the High Priest would enter with blood from animal sacrifices for the people.  The blood had to be from unblemished animals. The plan of the tabernacle was given to Moses by God & he was directed to build the tabernacle according to the exact plan in heaven.  I spent a year studying how it was built & each piece of furniture it housed.  First, the gate, brazen alter & the tabernacle sacrifices, laver (basin), menorah (lamp stand), table of show bread, golden altar of incense, Holy of Holies & the veil, & the ark of the Covenant.  Each year the people would have to come & offer their sacrifice & each year the high priest would have to take the blood sacrifice as he made his way from each piece of furniture until he came to the the entry of the veil which behind was the Ark of the Covenant where the sacrifice of blood was offered.  And, each year the people waited in fear to see if God accepted their sacrifice.  I was intrigued with the Tabernacle & what it represented that I did a painting of it.  Jesus was the center of focus because He became our redeemer& the perfect sacrifice; then I painted all the pieces of furniture leading up to the Holy of Holies, I painted a white curtain around the tabernacle & tents surrounded it where the 12 tribes of Israel lived.  I was impressed to do an image of the Holy Spirit reaching out into world bidding all to come freely today – no sacrifice- because the blood of Jesus was our redemption & became our way back to God.  It was a big painting & I would do teachings on the Tabernacle from it.  However, when my life fell apart, in all the movings, the painting was lost.  The painting was gone – it was material – but the significance of the Tabernacle & what it represented stayed in my heart.  The Apostles & prophets of the New Covenant only had the Old Covenant as their Bible.  They were waiting for the Messiah to come & through prophets, signs, wonders, they heard the sound “He is Coming”.    Even in the Tabernacle they saw it, too,  pointed to His coming……& He did come just as the predictions in the Old Covenant said He would.  Mt 5:17. Don’t misunderstand why I have come. I did not come to abolish the law of Moses or the writings of the prophets.  No I came to accomplish their purpose.

” So near, so very near to God, more near I cannot be, for in the person of His Son, I am as near as He”. Andrew Murray