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International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Apr 1, 1889

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 15, No. 13.

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The Sabbath-School.

Old Testament History.

THE TABERNACLE.

(Lesson 15, April 13, 1889.)
1. WHAT was the object of the sanctuary which the Lord told the children of Israel to build?
"And let them make me a sanctuary; that I may dwell among them." Ex. 25:8.
2. Was this an entirely new thought to them?
"Then sang Moses and the children of Israel this song unto the Lord, and spake, saying, I will sing unto the Lord, for he hath triumphed gloriously; the horse and his rider hath he thrown into the sea. The Lord is my strength and song, and he is become my salvation; he is my God, and I will prepare him a habitation; my father's God, and I will exalt him." Ex. 15:1, 2.
3. Of what was the frame-work of the tabernacle made?
"And thou shalt make boards for the tabernacle of shittim wood standing up." Ex. 26:15.
4. How many boards were there on each side?
"And thou shalt make the boards for the tabernacle, twenty boards on the south side southward." "And for the second side of the tabernacle on the north side there shall be twenty boards." Verses 18, 20.
5. What were the dimensions of each board?
"Ten cubits shall be the length of a board, and a cubit and a half shall be the breadth of one board." Verse 16.
6. Then what was the length and the height of the tabernacle?
7. How were these boards kept in an upright position? Verses 17, 19, 26-28.
8. Describe the west end of the tabernacle.
"And for the sides of the tabernacle westward thou shalt make six boards. And two boards shalt thou make for the corners of the tabernacle in the two sides. And they shall be coupled together beneath, and they shall be coupled together above the head of it unto one ring; thus shall it be for them both; they shall be for the two corners. And they shall be eight boards, and their sockets of silver, sixteen sockets; two sockets under one board, and two sockets under another board." Verses 22-25.
9. With what was all the wood-work covered?
"And thou shalt overlay the boards with gold, and make their rings of gold for places for the bars; and thou shalt overlay the bars with gold." Verse 29.
10. How was the east end inclosed?
"And thou shalt make a hanging for the door of the tent, of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen, wrought with needlework. And thou shalt make for the hanging five pillars of shittim wood, and overlay them with gold, and their hooks shall be of gold; and thou shalt cast five sockets of brass for them." Verses 36, 37.
11. What formed the ceiling of the tabernacle?
"Moreover thou shalt make the tabernacle with ten curtains of fine twined linen, and blue, and purple, and scarlet; with cherubim of cunning work shalt thou make them." Verse 1; see also verses 2-6.
12. What covering was above this?
"And thou shalt make curtains of goats' hair to be a covering upon the tabernacle; eleven curtains shalt thou make." Verse 7; see also verses 8-13.
13. What further protection did the tabernacle have above?
"And thou shalt make a covering for the tent of rams' skins dyed red, and a covering above of badgers' skins." Verse 14.
14. How many apartments were there in the tabernacle? what were they called? and how were they separated?
"And thou shalt make a vail of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen of cunning work; with cherubim shall it be made. And thou shalt hang it upon four pillars of shittim wood overlaid with gold; their hooks shall be of gold, upon the four sockets of silver. And thou shalt hang up the vail under the taches, that thou mayest bring in thither within the vail the ark of the testimony; and the vail shall divide unto you between the holy place and the most holy." Verses 31-33.
15. How was Moses guided in building this tabernacle?
"And let them make me a sanctuary; that I may dwell among them. According to all that I show thee, after the pattern of the tabernacle, and the pattern of all the instruments thereof, even so shall ye make it." Ex. 25:8, 9.
16. Was this tabernacle the real dwelling-place of God? 1 Kings 8:27; Acts 7:48, 49; Isa. 66:1, 2.
17. What were these "holy places" which Moses made?
"It was therefore necessary that the patterns of things in the heavens should be purified with these; but the heavenly things themselves with better sacrifices than these. For Christ is not entered into the holy places made with hands, which are the figures of the true; but into Heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God for us." Heb. 9:23, 24.
18. Then where are the true holy places?
19. Is there a real sanctuary, a special dwelling-place, for God in Heaven? Heb. 8:1, 2; Ps. 11:4; 1 Kings 8:30.
20. In the type, what were pictured on all the curtains within? Ex. 26:1, 31.
21. What were these to represent in the reality?
"And I beheld, and I heard the voice of many angels round about the throne, and the beasts, and the elders; and the number of them was ten thousand times ten thousand, and thousands of thousands." Rev. 5:11.
22. For what purpose are these angels round about the throne of God in the heavenly sanctuary? Ps. 103:19, 20; Heb. 1:14; Dan. 7:9, 10.