The Beatitudes Through The Sanctuary

The Beatitudes Through The Sanctuary

And seeing the multitudes, He went up into a mountain:
and when He was set, Hhis disciples came unto Him:
And He opened His mouth, and taught them, saying,
Matthew 5:1,2

Altar of Sacrifice: 1st Beatitude-Blessed are the poor in spirit: {acknowledging you need Christ & come to accept His sacrifice for you}
Laver: 3rd Beatitude-Blessed are the meek: {Humbling yourself in the water of Baptism as a public confession of Faith}
Table of Bread: 4th Beatitude-Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness: {The Bread & Drink offering - also symbolized in the Communion Service}
Altar of Incense: 2nd Beatitude-Blessed are they that mourn: {Pouring your heart out to God-soul searching}
Candlestick: 7th Beatitude-Blessed are the peacemakers: {Bringing the Peace of God to the World & to their souls}
Ark of the Covenant: 5 th & 6th Beatitudes-Blessed are the pure in heart:/Blessed are the merciful: {The Pure in Heart because they have been Sanctified represented by the Law in the Ark of the Covenant--The Merciful has to do with the Judgment/Mercy Seat of God}

Q: What about the 8th Beatitude??? Blessed are they which are persecuted for righteousness' sake: 

A: It is a Summary of the Need for the Plan of Redemption laid out in the Sanctuary....Not only are God's people persecuted from the Fall to the 2nd Advent, but in their Judgment they contend with the charges of the ACCUSER OF THE BRETHERN (satan) .... for the accuser of our brethren is cast down, which accused them before our God day and night. Revelation 12:10

God's Mercy on Display in the Flour Offering

 God's Mercy on Display in the Flour Offering

And if he be not able to bring a lamb, then he shall bring for his trespass, which he hath committed, two turtledoves, or two young pigeons, unto the LORD; one for a sin offering, and the other for a burnt offering.
But if he be not able to bring two turtledoves, or two young pigeons, then he that sinned shall bring for his offering the tenth part of an ephah of fine flour for a sin offering; 

Leviticus 5:7,11

"Christ died for the most worthless, for the veriest outcast. from sin; 

Q: Who can gaze on that picture without having his heart filled with love for such a compassionate Redeemer? 

--Again he views a picture of the destitute sinner, longing to be free

--and beholding his wealthy brethren pass with their lambs for sin-offerings, the poor ones with their pigeons and doves, he sinks back into despondency, for he has no living thing to offer. 

--Then the light of hope springs into his face as one tells him, "Only a handful of flour will answer." 

And as the sinner watches the priest offer the crushed wheat as an emblem of the blessed body to be broken for him, and hears him say, "Thy sin is forgiven," his heart leaps for joy, as did the heart of the poor man by the pool of Siloam, who had no one to help him, when the blessed Master told him to take up his bed and walk." 

Stephen Haskell

Symbolic

Symbolic

 It was symbolic for the present time in which both gifts and sacrifices are offered.... 

Hebrews 9:9

"At the present day the person who comes to the study of the New Testament through the interpreting lights of the types and symbols of the Levitical services, finds a depth and richness in the study that are found in no other way. 

It is impossible to have exalted views of Christ's atoning work if the New Testament is studied without a previous knowledge of the deep, bloodstained foundations in the Old Testament gospels of Moses and the prophets. 

In every sacrifice, Christ's death was shown. 

In every cloud of incense His righteousness ascended. 

By every jubilee trumpet His name was sounded. 

In the awful mystery of the holy of holies His glory dwelt." 

Stephen Haskell

Mystery of the Shewbread

Mystery of the Shewbread

You shall set upon the table shewbread before Me always.  

Exodus 25:30 

"Shewbread is literally “bread of the Presence.” 

Twelve loaves were placed upon the table before the Lord each Sabbath. 

The bread indicated, first of all, Christ, who is the Presence of God,

and second, all the people who by partaking of Him, become “one bread;” for the twelve tribes were represented in the twelve loaves. 

It was before the Lord continually, for new bread was placed upon the table when the old was eaten; so we, when we present our bodies “a living sacrifice,” are continually renewed. 

---The bread of the Presence repeats the mystery of the burning bush; though eaten, it is not consumed, because God’s presence it in it. 

The bread was renewed on the Sabbath day, showing that the Sabbath is to give us fresh life for service." 

E.J. Waggoner