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Insights Into the Tabernacle
PART 1
Three Major Themes
John 1:14 And the Word became flesh and tented among us, and we have seen his glory, glory as of the only Son from the Father, full of grace and truth.
1Corinthians 6:19 Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the holy spirit within you, which you have from God? …
Exodus 25:1-7
Adonai said to Moses, “Speak to the children of Israel, that they take for Me a terumah [תרומה]. From every man whose heart motivates him you shall take My terumah. And this is the terumah that you shall receive from them: gold, silver and bronze, blue and purple and scarlet yarns and fine twined linen, goats’ hair, red-dyed rams’ skins, tachash [תחש]skins, acacia[שטים] wood, oil for the lamps, spices for the anointing oil and for the fragrant incense, shoham [שהם] stones, and stones for setting for the ephod and for the breastplate.”
תרומה (terumah) = “contribution”, “offering”
רום (rum) = “uplift”, “exalt”
15 Raw Materials // 15 = יה = “Yah” = God’s Name
7 Categories of Materials:
“Acacia” = שטים (shi-tim) – 26x in Exodus
ש = שלום (shalom) = “peace”
ט = טובה (tovah) = “goodness”
י = ישועה (yeshuah) = “salvation”
מ = מחילה (m’chilah) = “pardon”
Tachash = תחש
15x in Tanach
13x in regard to the Tabernacle
Ezekiel 16:10 “I clothed you also with embroidered cloth and shod you with tachash skin. I wrapped you in fine linen and covered you with silk.”
Exodus 25:8-9
“Let them make Me a sanctuary that I may dwell among them. According to all that I am going to show you, as the pattern of the Tabernacle and the pattern of its furniture, just so you shall construct it.”
מקדש (mikdash) = “sanctuary”
משכן (mishkan) = “Tabernacle”
“among them” = בתוכם (b’tocham) or “within them”
“pattern” (tav-nit) = תבנית
REFERENCES
1Thessalonians 5:23 Now may the God of peace himself sanctify you completely, and may your whole spiritand soul and body be kept blameless at the coming of our Master Yeshua the Messiah.
ועצי שטים, “and acacia wood.” Actually, the word שטים is a notarikon, an acrostic composed of the respective first letters in the words: שלום, טובה, ישועה, מחילה, “peace, goodness, salvation, and pardon.”
Da’at Zekenim on Exodus 25:5:1 (https://www.sefaria.org/topics/acacia-trees?tab=sources)
Genesis 22:24 [Bethuel’s] concubine, whose name was Reumah, also bore Tebah and Gaham and Tachashand Maacah.