Christ in all the scriptures
"So Moses finished the work" Exodus 38v21-40v33
All the materials, all the engraving, all the embroidery, all the utensils, all the priestly garments, all the pins and sockets and implements, were finally complete. The say it took approximately 9 months, all done in accordance with the Divine Pattern given to Moses on the mount. The most outstanding feature in these verses is the repetition (some 19 times) of the phrase "As the Lord commanded Moses. This being a similitude of things in the heavens, nothing was left to human imagination or design, it was all of God. The God of perfection, who created and sustains the mathematically precise universe, designed the Tabernacle to represent the Sanctuary in heaven. In the final section, the glory of God descends and rests on the structure, when all was done precisely to His instructions. We can do no better than to mark the record of the detailed construction of the place of His dwelling amongst His people.
"All that the Lord commanded Moses" 38v22
"...of blue, and purple, and scarlet...cloths of service to do service in the holy place, and made the holy garments for Aaron, as the Lord commanded Moses"-39v1
"...fine twined linen; as the Lord commanded Moses-39v5
"...stones for a memorial to the children of Israel; as the Lord commanded Moses-39v7
"And they did bind the breastplate by his rings unto the rings of the ephod...as the Lord commanded Moses"-39v21
"A bell and a pomegranate...as the Lord commanded Moses"-39v26
"And a girdle of fine twined linen...as the Lord commanded Moses"-39v29
"And they tied unto it a lace of blue...as the Lord commanded Moses"-39v31
"Thus was all the work of the tabernacle of the tent of the congregation finished: and the children of Israel did according to all that the Lord commanded Moses, so did they"-39v32
"According to all that the Lord commanded Moses, so the children of Israel made all the work"-39v42
"And Moses did look upon all the work, and behold they had done it as the Lord had commanded, even so had they done it: and Moses blessed them"-39v43
"Thus did Moses: according to all that the Lord commanded him, so did he"-40v16
"And he spread abroad the tent over the tabernacle, and put the covering of the tent above upon it; as the Lord commanded Moses"-40v19
"And set up the vail of the covering, and covered the ark of the testimony; as the Lord commanded Moses"-40v21
"And he set the bread in order upon it before the Lord; as the Lord had commanded Moses"-40v23
"And he lighted the lamps before the Lord; as the Lord had commanded Moses"-40v25
"...and he burnt sweet incense thereon; as the Lord commanded Moses"-40v27
"...and offered upon it the burnt offering and the meat offering; as the Lord commanded Moses"-40v29
"...and when they came near unto the altar they washed; as the Lord commanded Moses"-40v32
Emphatically, the Holy Spirit is declaring that the will of God must be done, (even down to the smallest detail) for Him to dwell with man. In short, the sin of Eden must be reversed, and God must be acknowledged to be God, and His will become paramount.. Sin, in the bible, is characterised as disobedience-Romans 5v15-19, note the words in this section...v15 "through the offence of one, many died..."; v16, "the judgment was by one to condemnation"; v17, "one man's offence..."; v19 "as by one man's disobedience many were made (constituted) sinners. In contrast the way of salvation was through "the OBEDIENCE OF ONE MAN" v19 (Christ). Man, born in sin, born into Adam's fallen race, is incapable of meeting the standards of God's righteousness, but one man did, Jesus Christ. who fulfilled all the will of God in our stead.
At His birth, He came with a vow, according to Hebrews 10v5-14, "Wherefore, when He cometh into the world, He saith..."Lo I come, (in the volume of the book-the whole of holy scripture- it is written of me) to do thy will O God"...by the which will we are sanctified (fitted for God's presence) through the offering of the body of Jesus once for all...for by one offering He hath perfected forever them that are sanctified".
In His teaching He would keep the law of God to the letter-Matthew 5v17/18. "Not one jot (the smallest letter in the Hebrew alphabet) or tittle (the inflection of a letter giving emphasis) shall in no wise fall from the law till all be fulfilled".
At His death, He said, "It is finished"-John 19v30. He said that after all things were accomplished (by that I understand that the demands of God for mankind were fully met- 19v28). It was only after the last prophetic scripture to be fulfilled from Psalm 69 was accomplished that He uttered that glorious word "FINISHED!" Exodus 40 proclaims that Moses finished all the work; John 17v4 and 19v28-30 proclaims that Christ finished the work that God gave Him to do, and now the glory of God is with men!!
Every vestige of the demands of God upon humankind were met in full by Christ. Sin has been fully dealt with, God has been glorified, reconciliation can now be made. God says it, we believe it, and the rest is glory. We are going to live with God, there is now no condemnation to them who are in Christ Jesus, and there is no separation from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord (Romans chapter 8v1 and v39).
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