The Golden Lampstand Signifies the Triune God and the Church as God’s Expression

Exo. 25:31 And you shall make a lampstand of pure gold. The lampstand with its base and its shaft shall be made of beaten work; its cups, its calyxes, and its blossom buds shall be of one piece with it.

After seeing the significance and application of the ark of the testimony with its propitiation cover and the table of the bread of the presence, this week we are getting into the deeper significance of the golden lampstand. In our … [Continue reading]

Eating Christ and Displaying Him as the Bread of the Presence to God and His People

The table of the bread of the presence - also called "the showbread table" - is literally the "face-bread", the bread of God's face. God wants His people to present to Him fresh bread for Him to feed on and for His people to feed on in His presence. … [Continue reading]

Eating Christ as the Bread of God’s Presence, God’s Face, to Serve God as Priests

All believers are priests to God, and it is our responsibility as priests to both set up and enjoy the bread of the presence before God. As priests to God and members of the Body of Christ, we need to be built up together with the saints, and in this … [Continue reading]

Being Built up in a Practical way to Feast on Christ as the Bread of the Presence

The table of the bread of the presence - the showbread table - in the Holy Place in the tabernacle is a type of Christ as our food in a particular way: He is the bread of God's presence to be our serving supply in the church life. The fact that the … [Continue reading]

Seeing Christ as God’s Testimony issues in Feasting on Christ to become His Testimony

Christ as the embodiment of God issues in our enjoyment of Him and that our enjoyment of Him always brings us back to Him as God’s testimony.

After God revealed the details concerning the ark of the testimony, He went on to speak not of the golden incense altar (which is the closest piece of furniture in the tabernacle to the ark) but of the table of the bread of the presence. This table … [Continue reading]

The Bread of the Presence: Christ is the Food for the Believers as Priests to God

In spiritual experience, when we meet with God upon Christ as the propitiatory cover, enjoying fellowship with God and hearing words from His mouth, the Ark becomes a table where we enjoy a nourishing feast. #ExoCS3, msg. 3

It is vitally important for us to realize that we daily need to eat Christ, feed on Him, take Him in, and enjoy Him as spiritual food. Just as physically we need to eat daily - and even more than one time every day - so spiritually we need to eat … [Continue reading]

We All need to Learn to Feed on Christ: By Eating Jesus we Become His Testimony!

The table of the bread of the presence (also called the showbread table) in the Holy Place in the tabernacle is a very sweet and satisfying place to be, because there's always food there - permanently! In this item of the furnishings of the … [Continue reading]