DAY 36 Read Exodus 26 through 28.
Today's reading has more of the detailed instructions for making the various items for the tabernacle.
Memory gem: "Thou shalt make a plate of pure gold, and grave upon it, like the engravings of a signet, HOLINESS TO THE LORD" (Exodus 28:36).
Thought for today:
What a perfect picture this is of Christ and His work of redemption! No wonder we read in Psalm 77:13: "Thy way, O God, is in the sanctuary."
The central feature of the Christian religion is the mediatorial work of Jesus Christ as our High Priest in the heavenly sanctuary. His sinless life might have been lived. His sacrifice might have been made. He might have risen triumphantly from the tomb. But if it were not for His mediatorial work in the heavenly sanctuary--the sanctuary "which the Lord pitched, and not man" (Hebrews 8:2), which was the original after which the earthly sanctuary was copied--we would not share in the benefits of that redemptive work. It is as a priest that Christ ministers salvation and grace to us. His ability to save to the uttermost is based on the fact that "he ever liveth to make intercession" for us (Hebrews 7:25).
So we see that this tabernacle in the desert carried with it the form of the cross and the teaching of the cross. There were sacrificed the bleeding lambs which pointed to Jesus, the Lamb of God. These animals were brought to the altar of sacrifice, and those who had sinned laid their hands upon them, confessing their sins. They did this to show their faith in the innocent Lamb of God who would someday come to this earth and die for them. By faith they, as we, could say:
Christ has for sin atonement made
What a wonderful Saviour!
We are redeemed! the price is paid!...
What a wonderful Saviour is Jesus my Lord!
--Elisha A. Hoffman.
Today's reading has more of the detailed instructions for making the various items for the tabernacle.
Memory gem: "Thou shalt make a plate of pure gold, and grave upon it, like the engravings of a signet, HOLINESS TO THE LORD" (Exodus 28:36).
Thought for today:
What a perfect picture this is of Christ and His work of redemption! No wonder we read in Psalm 77:13: "Thy way, O God, is in the sanctuary."
The central feature of the Christian religion is the mediatorial work of Jesus Christ as our High Priest in the heavenly sanctuary. His sinless life might have been lived. His sacrifice might have been made. He might have risen triumphantly from the tomb. But if it were not for His mediatorial work in the heavenly sanctuary--the sanctuary "which the Lord pitched, and not man" (Hebrews 8:2), which was the original after which the earthly sanctuary was copied--we would not share in the benefits of that redemptive work. It is as a priest that Christ ministers salvation and grace to us. His ability to save to the uttermost is based on the fact that "he ever liveth to make intercession" for us (Hebrews 7:25).
So we see that this tabernacle in the desert carried with it the form of the cross and the teaching of the cross. There were sacrificed the bleeding lambs which pointed to Jesus, the Lamb of God. These animals were brought to the altar of sacrifice, and those who had sinned laid their hands upon them, confessing their sins. They did this to show their faith in the innocent Lamb of God who would someday come to this earth and die for them. By faith they, as we, could say:
Christ has for sin atonement made
What a wonderful Saviour!
We are redeemed! the price is paid!...
What a wonderful Saviour is Jesus my Lord!
--Elisha A. Hoffman.
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