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The Holy Of Holies

/Text: Exodus 25:10-22/

 

Place Preached - (Mississauga International Baptist Church)

Date Preached - (08~/02~/98)

 

 

Introduction:   

 

Review of Furnishings -

 

Three Compartments of Tabernacle -

·         Outer Court - Sacrifice

·         Holy Place - Worship & Fellowship

·         Holy of Holies - Surrender & Victory

 

Don’t get God’s order confused!!  Ecumenical movement has taken the table of shewbread and altar of incense and placed them in the outer court next to the brasen altar!!

 

! I. Two Furnishings In The Holy of Holies

 

!! A. The ark of the Covenant

 

The most important piece of furniture in all the tabernacle.

!!! 1.

It is one of three Bible arks

 

All Three are types of the believer’s security from judgement

 

 

a.

The ark of Noah

 

b.

The ark of Moses

 

Both of these arks were lined with pitch to keep the water out.

The word translated pitch is /Kaphar/ - the OT word for atonement.

c.

The ark of the Tabernacle.

This is the ultimate of types both of the Lord Jesus Christ and of our security as believers in Him.

 

!!! 2. It’s description

 

a.

Materials used

(constructed by Bezaleel)  Exodus 37:1-5

 

b.

Measurements

 

c.

It’s crown

 

The  crown speaks of Christ’s divine right to reign.

While here His lovely brow was platted with a crown of thorns.

Phil 2:9-11  Wherefore God also hath highly exalted him, and given him a name which is above every name:

10 That at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of things in heaven, and things in earth, and things under the earth;

11 And that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.

READ REV.

19:11-16!!!

 

(KING OF KINGS & LORD OF LORDS)

 

!!! 3. It’s contents

 

a.

The golden pot of manna

 

(Exo 16:33 KJV)  And Moses said unto Aaron, Take a pot, and put an omer full of manna therein, and lay it up before the LORD, to be kept for your generations.

Signifying Christ as the Bread of Life

 

(John 6:51 KJV)  I am the living bread which came down from heaven: if any man eat of this bread, he shall live for ever: and the bread that I will give is my flesh, which I will give for the life of the world.

Our supply and sufficiency in this life, all we need from the new birth till we are ushered into God’s presence, we find in Christ.

b.

Aaron’s Rod that budded (See Numbers 17)

 

A symbol of resurrection (Life out of death).

c.

The (broken) Law of God

 

The law demanded the death of the sinner.

The Ark is a seat of Judgement.

!!! 4. It’s Holiness

 

a.

No one allowed to touch or to look upon or look within.

READ Numbers 4:4-15

 

b.

The consequences of approaching ark w~/o blood (Bethshemesh)

 

(1 Sam 6:19 KJV)  And he smote the men of Bethshemesh, because they had looked into the ark of the LORD, even he smote of the people fifty thousand and threescore and ten men: and the people lamented, because the LORD had smitten many of the people with a great slaughter.

!! B. The Mercy Seat (Exodus 25:17-22)

 

Jesus Christ is our “Mercy Seat”.

(Rom 3:25 KJV)  Whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation (/hilasterion/ - mercy seat) through faith in his blood, to declare his righteousness for the remission of sins that are past, through the forbearance of God;

 

!!! 1. It’s description

 

a.

Pure Gold (beaten)

 

Jesus was beaten at Gethsemane and Golgotha.

b.

A covering for the ark.

c.

The two cherubims of Gold

 

Facing each other and looking upon mercy seat.

Symbols of the holiness of God.

 

(Isa 6:3 KJV)  And one cried unto another, and said, Holy, holy, holy, is the LORD of hosts: the whole earth is full of his glory.

~*~*~*No angels at the brasen altar or brasen laver.

Angels may worship but not preach the Gospel!!

 

1 Pet 1:10-12  Of which salvation the prophets have inquired and searched diligently, who prophesied of the grace that should come unto you:

11 Searching what, or what manner of time the Spirit of Christ which was in them did signify, when it testified beforehand the sufferings of Christ, and the glory that should follow.

12  Unto whom it was revealed, that not unto themselves, but unto us they did minister the things, which are now reported unto you by them that have preached the gospel unto you with the Holy Ghost sent down from heaven; */which things the angels desire to look into./*

(Heb 1:6 KJV)  And again, when he bringeth in the firstbegotten into the world, he saith, */And let all the angels of God worship him./*

!!! 2. It’s Function

 

a.

Blood to be spilled

 

(Exo 12:13 KJV)  And the blood shall be to you for a token upon the houses where ye are: and when I see the blood, I will pass over you, and the plague shall not be upon you to destroy you, when I smite the land of Egypt.

b.

Mercy covering judgement

 

The ark a seat of judgement, but covering it a seat of mercy!!!

 

c.

The Shekinah Glory

 

 

 

 

!

II.

The Day of Atonement (Lev.

16:1-34)

 

The sixth of seven annual Jewish feasts

 

Each of the feasts was a rich representation of the glories of redemption through the Lord Jesus Christ.

1.

The Passover - Christ on the Cross (I Cor.

5:7).

2.     Feast of Unleavened Bread - Christ Putting away our sins (Hebrews 9:26).

3.     Feast of the Firstfruits - Christ’s Resurrection (I Cor.

15:20).

4.     Pentecost - The gift of the Holy Spirit (Acts 2:1).

5.     Feast of Trumpets - His second coming (I Corinthians 15:22;    I Thess.

4:16).

6.

The Day of Atonement - The substitutionary character and sacrificial death of Christ.