We are all equal in the sight of the love and grace of God! We are all equally precious and loved by God! But before Jesus, in the mind of God, at the foot of the cross, we are all the same. We are all different, with different skills and ministries, and strengths and incomes and abilities and gifts. Now get this – I love this – all the tribes were different sizes, had different jobs, different skills. There are 12 loaves just like there were 12 tribes. I like that image – what an image – we are kept secure by the hand of Christ and are always secure resting in Him and on His mind. A strange thing here is the insistence that the table has a rim to it – the width of a human hand to keep the bread from falling off the table. But the bread is here – pointing to Jesus, our Bread of Life (John 6.35). There was no wine here, because communion tells us of the blood and body of Christ, but we have already seen the blood at the altar. They were to stay before the Lord for one week, and were replaced every sabbath. This bread was baked into twelve loaves of equal size and put on the table in two piles of six. This bread in the Holy Place was called the Bread of the Presence. This is true in the New Covenant too, where our deepest thoughts about Christ and His crucifixion happens with bread and wine at a table! The table is where we remember Jesus and His work on the cross. A table in Hebrew culture is always a symbol of fellowship, and this table shows how God fellowship with us – by feeding us. The table was the same height as the ark exactly, and was also constructed from wood with gold overlaid it – what a picture of the soul of Jesus, perfectly human but only thinking the thoughts and wisdom of the Father! Two natures in one table – just like Jesus is fully man and fully God in his soul as well as his spirit. The mercy seat is in the spirit, our most holy place, but this bread is for our soul. This is a picture of us as humans – our body on the outside, the holy place – our soul, our mind and emotions, and our most holy place – our spirit on the inside. Notice there were three parts of the tabernacle – the outer court, the holy place and the most holy place. While the Ark was behind the veil in the Most Holy Place, the table was not there, it was in the Holy Place. 30 And you shall set the bread of the Presence on the table before me regularly. 29 And you shall make its plates and dishes for incense, and its flagons and bowls with which to pour drink offerings you shall make them of pure gold. 28 You shall make the poles of acacia wood, and overlay them with gold, and the table shall be carried with these. 27 Close to the frame the rings shall lie, as holders for the poles to carry the table. 26 And you shall make for it four rings of gold, and fasten the rings to the four corners at its four legs. 25 And you shall make a rim around it a handbreadth wide, and a molding of gold around the rim. 24 You shall overlay it with pure gold and make a molding of gold around it. Two cubits shall be its length, a cubit its breadth, and a cubit and a half its height. 23 “You shall make a table of acacia wood.
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