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 built-up situation in the church […]
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 table of the […]
Seeing Christ as God’s Testimony issues in Feasting on Christ to become His 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 had similar dimensions – and the exact same […]
The Bread of the Presence: Christ is the Food for the Believers as Priests to God
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 Christ, digest Him, and […]
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 tabernacle we see how God in Christ wants to be enjoyed […]
As the Divine Life Grows in us, the Law of Life Shapes us to the Image of Christ
After the second veil in the tabernacle is the Holy of Holies, in which there was the ark of the covenant (covered in gold on the inside and the outside), in which were the golden pot (that had the manna) and Aaron’s rod (that budded) and the tablets of the covenant (see Heb. 9:3-4). The […]
The Budding Rod: We are not Able, but what is Impossible with Man is Possible with God
It is so wonderful to be on a divine and mystical tour of the tabernacle with all its furnishings, especially the ark of the testimony! The ark is not merely something that God ordained to be made and put in the Holy of Holies but it is a type of how we can experience Christ […]