THE LIVES OF THE PATRIARCHS #213 | THE LIFE OF MOSES #194
Pastor Christopher Choo
Lesson 3899
THE LIVES OF THE PATRIARCHS #213
THE LIFE OF MOSES #194
MOSES AT MT.SINAI#93
THE TABERNACLE OF MOSES ( Part 52)
THE TABLE OF SHOWBREAD IN THE TABERNACLE OF MOSES #6
THE TABLE OF SHOWBREAD IS A TYPE THAT POINTS TO JESUS
The Table of Showbread was referred to as the table of the Presence.
God's Light forever shines on His people - in type this is revealed by the proximity of the lamp lights of the Menorah shining on the 12 loaves ( the 12 tribes of Israel ).
The 12 baked cakes of bread spoke of God's people who were one with Him as the priests joined together for the fellowship of eating the bread and becoming one. (N.B. the priests ate standing up as there were no chairs in the Holy Place ).
Jesus referred to Himself as the Bread of Life and said if we eat this bread we will live forever.
The very nature of bread is to provide physical sustenance and as you eat the bread and digest it, it becomes part of you.
The very nature of the Word of God is to provide spiritual sustenance and as it is received it becomes part of our very nature.
Just as the table always speaks of fellowship and communion, so the Table of the Showbread points to Jesus who has made a covenant built on better promises and provided a blood covenant meal for us to partake that we might all be one in the Spirit.
John 6:35 And Jesus said to them, "I am the bread of life. He who comes to Me shall never hunger, and he who believes in Me shall never thirst."
Jn 6:51-58 "I am the living bread which came down from heaven. If anyone eats of this bread, he will live forever; and the bread that I shall give is My flesh, which I shall give for the life of the world. As the living Father sent Me, and I live because of the Father, so he who feeds on Me will live because of Me. This is the bread which came down from heaven-- not as your fathers ate the manna, and are dead. He who eats this bread will live forever."
Jn 6:63 "It is the Spirit who gives life; the flesh profits nothing. The words that I speak to you are spirit, and they are life."
Only in the work of Christ as our great high priest on behalf of His people was the work ever finished.
His sacrifice was fully effective and was a completed work. No priest could ever be seated but after his great cry, 'It is finished', Jesus Christ left the altar of Calvary and sat down at the right hand of God.
This is significant as it does not mean a lower chair of a prince but on par with God - Jesus was thus enthroned on the throne of God.
This is significant when we study the Book of Revelation as the vision of Jesus enthroned is described thus in John's figurative words ( Rev.5:11-14 )
11Then I looked, and I heard the voice of many angels surrounding the throne and the living creatures and the elders; they numbered myriads of myriads and thousands of thousands, 12singing with full voice, “Worthy is the Lamb that was slaughtered to receive power and wealth and wisdom and might and honor and glory and blessing!” 13Then I heard every creature in heaven and on earth and under the earth and in the sea, and all that is in them, singing, “To the one seated on the throne and to the Lamb be blessing and honor and glory and might forever and ever!”14And the four living creatures said, “Amen!” And the elders fell down and worshiped.Then I looked, and I heard the voice of many angels surrounding the throne and the living creatures and the elders; they numbered myriads of myriads and thousands of thousands, singing with full voice, “Worthy is the Lamb that was slaughtered to receive power and wealth and wisdom and might and honor and glory and blessing!” Then I heard every creature in heaven and on earth and under the earth and in the sea, and all that is in them, singing, “To the one seated on the throne and to the Lamb be blessing and honor and glory and might forever and ever!” And the four living creatures said, “Amen!” And the elders fell down and worshiped.
Praise God it is the Lamb and not the Lion of Judah which is enthroned. For His throne in Heaven echoes the Mercy Seat on earth in the Tabernacle of Moses and the Temple of Solomon though both are no more.
The symbolic Lamb is a picture of mercy. In His judgment therefore we can expect mercy.
Christ sits on a throne, but it is not a worldly one. Christ’s throne is the true throne of God, which renders all other thrones secondary. Christ’s throne is the only throne that should be worshipped, and Christ the Lamb the only ruler that is worthy of our devotion.
