Tanak Foundations-Concepts in Exodus-Chapter 27

Exo 27.1-21 tells us about the bronze altar; the court of the Mishkan; oil for the Menorah.

v 1…And you shall make an altar (Hebrew “mizbeach” which is related to the word “zevach” or offerings) of acacia wood five cubits long and five cubits wide; the altar shall be square and its height shall be three cubits.

v 2…And you shall make its horns on its four corners (speaks of power unto salvation for all people-John 5.22-23), its horns shall be of one piece with it (not removable), and you shall overlay it with bronze (the metal of judgment).

v 3…And you shall make its pails for removing its ashes, and its shovels and its basins (“mizrak” for removing the blood) and its forks (flesh hooks) and its firepans (for carrying coals from this altar to the altar of incense); you shall make all its utensils of bronze.

v 4…And you shall make for it a grating of network of bronze (like a sieve) and on the net you shall make four bronze rings at its four corners (to let it down and hang it in the middle of the altar).

v 5…And you shall put it beneath, under the the ledge of the altar (the square of the altar), that the net may reach halfway up the altar.

v 6…And you shall make poles for the altar, poles of acacia wood, and overlay them with bronze.

v 7…And its poles shall be inserted into the rings, so that the poles shall be on two sides of the altar when it is carried (alluding to the carrying of the doctrine of the sacrifice of the cross).

v 8…You shall make it hollow (Yeshua emptied himself) with planks, as it was shown to you (what everything looked like) in the mountain (Yeshua’s becoming man was foretold in the Scriptures).

v 9…And you shall make the court of the Mishkan. On the south side hangings for the court of fine twisted linen one hundred cubits long (about 150 feet) for one side (the court separates the Mishkan from the rest of the world, like Eden from Nod; it had natural light, and the holy place had the light of the Menorah, and the holy of holies had only God’s light);

v 10…and its pillars shall be twenty; with their twenty sockets of bronze; the hooks of the pillars and their bands will be of silver (redemption).

v 11…And likewise for the north side in length there will be hangings one hundred cubits long, and its twenty pillars with their twenty sockets of bronze; the hooks of the pillars and their bands shall be of silver.

v 12…And for the width of the court on the west side shall be hangings of fifty cubits with their ten pillars and their ten sockets (you approach God from the east, which is away from God).

v 13…And the width of the court on the east side shall be fifty cubits (half as long).

v 14…The hangings for the one side of the gate shall be fifteen cubits with their three pillars and their three sockets.

v 15…And for the other side hangings of fifteen cubits with their three pillars and their three sockets.

v 16…And for the gate of the court there shall be a screen of twenty cubits (entrances will get narrower as you approach the holy of holies), of blue (techelet) and purple (argamon) and scarlet (tola shanni) and fine twisted linen (shesh), the work of a weaver, with their four pillars and their four sockets.

v 17…All the pillars around the court (believers) shall be furnished with silver bands (stand on redemption ground) with their hooks of silver and their sockets of bronze.

v 18…The length of the court shall be one hundred cubits, and the width fifty throughout, and the height five cubits of fine twisted linen, and the sockets of bronze.

v 19…All the utensils of the tabernacle used in all its service (avodahti), and all its pegs (yotaid and a term for the Messiah-Isa 22.23-24), and all the pegs of the court shall be of bronze.

v 20…And you shall charge (command) the sons of Israel that they bring you pure olive oil for the light, to make a lamp burn continually (Hebrew “ner tamid”; oil is a picture of the Ruach Ha Kodesh-Psa 119.105).

v 21…In the tent of meeting (“ohel moed” or the holy place) outside the veil which is before the testimony, Aaron and his sons shall set it in order (by removing the burnt wicks and replacing it, fill up the Menorah with oil, etc) from evening to morning before the Lord; it shall be a perpetual statute throughout their generations for the sons of Israel.

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