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What does each piece of sanctuary furniture typify? Trace each item from its OT description through to its NT fulfillment. How does each piece teach a distinct aspect of salvation?

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ALTAR (Nave's Full Entry)

Of Burnt Offerings (Bronze Altar) - Called BRAZEN ALTAR (EXO 39:39; 1KI 8:64), ALTAR OF GOD (PSA 43:4), ALTAR OF THE LORD (MAL 2:13) - Pattern: EXO 27:1-8; Constructed by Bezaleel: EXO 38:1-7 - Location: EXO 40:6,29 (first piece encountered in the courtyard) - Furniture: EXO 27:3-7; 38:3-7 - Horns: EXO 27:2; uses of horns: PSA 118:27 - Sanctified by anointing: EXO 29:36,37,44; 30:26-28; 40:10; LEV 8:10,11; NUM 7 - Sanctified everything that touched it: EXO 29:37; 30:29; MAT 23:18,19 - A place of refuge: EXO 21:14; 1KI 1:50; 2:28

Of Incense (Golden Altar) - Called the GOLDEN ALTAR (EXO 39:38; NUM 4:11), ALTAR OF SWEET INCENSE (LEV 4:7), ALTAR BEFORE THE LORD (LEV 16:18) - Pattern: EXO 30:1-5; Constructed: EXO 37:25-28 - Location: EXO 30:6; 40:5,26 (before the veil, in the Holy Place) - Uses: EXO 30:7-10,26,27; 40:27; LEV 4:7,18; 8:15; 9:9; 16:12,18 - In Solomon's temple: 1KI 6:19,20; 7:48; 1CH 28:18 - Seen in John's vision: REV 8:3; 9:13

CANDLESTICK (Lampstand) (Nave's Full Entry)

Of the Tabernacle - Made after divine pattern: EXO 25:31-40; 37:17-24; NUM 8:4 - Place: EXO 26:35; 40:24,25; HEB 9:2 - Furniture: EXO 25:38; 37:23; NUM 4:9,10 - Burned every night: EXO 27:20,21 - Trimmed every morning: EXO 30:7 - Carried by Kohathites: NUM 4:4,15 - Called THE LAMP OF GOD: 1SA 3:3

Of the Temple - Ten branches: 1KI 7:49,50; Of gold: 1CH 28:15; 2CH 4:20 - Taken to Babylon: JER 52:19

Symbolical: ZEC 4:2,11; REV 1:12,13,20; 2:5; 11:4

SHEWBREAD / SHOWBREAD (Nave's Full Entry)

  • Also called THE BREAD OF THE PRESENCE: HEB 9:2
  • Called HALLOWED BREAD: 1SA 21:6
  • Ordinance: LEV 24:5-9
  • Required before the Lord continually: EXO 25:30; 2CH 2:4
  • Provided by yearly per capita tax: NEH 10:32,33
  • Prepared by the Levites: 1CH 9:32; 23:29
  • Unlawfully eaten by David: 1SA 21:6; MAT 12:3,4; MRK 2:25,26; LUK 6:3,4
  • Placed on the Table: EXO 40:22,23

Table of Showbread: - Ordinances: EXO 25:23-28; 37:10-15 - Position: EXO 26:35; 40:22 - Furniture: EXO 25:29,30; 37:16; NUM 4:7 - Consecration: EXO 30:26,27,29 - For the temple: 1KI 7:48,50; 2CH 4:19,22

INCENSE (Nave's Full Entry)

  • Formula for compounding: EXO 30:34,35
  • Uses: EXO 30:36-38; LEV 16:12; NUM 16:17,40,46; DEU 33:10
  • Compounded by Bezaleel: EXO 37:29; By priests: 1CH 9:30
  • Offered morning and evening: EXO 30:7,8; 2CH 13:11
  • On the golden altar: EXO 30:1-7; 40:5,27; 2CH 2:4; 32:12
  • In making atonement: LEV 16:12,13; NUM 16:46,47; LUK 1:10
  • Unauthorized offering by Nadab and Abihu: LEV 10:1,2
  • Korah, Dathan, and Abiram: NUM 16:16-35
  • By Uzziah: 2CH 26:16-21
  • Presented by the wise men to Jesus: MAT 2:11

Figurative: - Of prayer: PSA 141:2 - Of praise: MAL 1:11 - Of an acceptable sacrifice: EPH 5:2

Symbolical: - Of the prayers of saints: REV 5:8; 8:3,4

MERCY-SEAT (Nave's Full Entry)

  • Description: EXO 25:17-22
  • Placed on the ark: EXO 26:34; 30:6; 31:7; 40:20; HEB 9:5
  • Materials to be a freewill offering: EXO 35:4-12
  • Made by Bezaleel: EXO 37:1,6-9
  • Sprinkled with blood: LEV 16:14,15
  • The shekinah upon: EXO 25:22; 30:6,36; LEV 16:2; NUM 7:89; 17:4; 1SA 4:4; 2SA 6:2; 2KI 19:15; 1CH 13:6; PSA 80:1; 99:1; ISA 37:16; HEB 4:16
  • In Solomon's temple: 1CH 28:11

BLOOD (Nave's Full Entry — Sacrificial)

  • Is the life: GEN 9:4; LEV 17:11,14; DEU 12:23
  • Without shedding of, no remission: HEB 9:22
  • Sprinkled on altar and people: EXO 24:6-8; EZK 43:18,20
  • Sprinkled on door posts: EXO 12:7-23; HEB 11:28
  • Of sin offering: sprinkled seven times before the curtain (LEV 4:5,6,17), on horns of incense altar (EXO 30:10; LEV 4:7,18,25,30; 5:9; 9:9,12)
  • Of atonement: sprinkled on the mercy seat (LEV 16:14,15,18,19,27; 17:11)
  • Of Christ: MAT 26:28; MRK 14:24; LUK 22:20; JHN 6:53-56; ACT 20:28; ROM 3:24,25; 5:9; 1CO 10:16; EPH 1:7; 2:13,16; COL 1:14,20; HEB 9:12-14; 10:19,20,29; 12:24; 13:12,20; 1PE 1:2,18,19; 1JN 1:7; 5:6,8; REV 1:5,6; 5:9; 7:14; 12:11

ATONEMENT (Nave's Full Entry)

  • For tabernacle and furniture: LEV 16:15-20,33
  • Day of Atonement: EXO 30:10; LEV 16:2-34; 23:27-32; NUM 29:7-11; HEB 5:3; 9:7,19,22
  • Made by animal sacrifices: EXO 29:36; LEV 1:4; 4:20-35; 9:7; 16:6-34; 17:11; HEB 9:22
  • Made by Jesus:
  • Divinely ordained: LUK 2:30,31; GAL 4:4,5; EPH 1:3-12; COL 1:19,20; 1PE 1:20; REV 13:8
  • Made once: HEB 7:27; 9:24-28; 10:10,12,14; 1PE 3:18
  • Redemption by: MAT 20:28; ACT 20:28; GAL 3:13; 1TI 2:6; HEB 9:12; REV 5:9
  • Typified: GEN 4:4/HEB 11:4; GEN 22:2/HEB 11:17,19; EXO 12:5,11,14/1CO 5:7; EXO 24:8/HEB 9:20; LEV 16:30,34/HEB 9:7,12,28; LEV 17:11/HEB 9:22

PROPITIATION (Nave's Full Entry)

  • ROM 3:25; 5:1,10,11; 2CO 5:18,19; COL 1:20-22; 1JN 2:2; 4:10
  • HEB 9:5 (R.V. margin: "the propitiatory")

PURIFICATION (Nave's Full Entry)

  • By blood: EXO 24:5-8; LEV 14:6,7; HEB 9:12-14,19-22
  • Water of purification: NUM 19:17-21; 31:23
  • Figurative: PSA 26:6; 51:7; EZK 36:25; HEB 10:22
  • Scriptures: EXO 29:4; 30:18-21; 40:12,30-32; LEV 8:6; HEB 9:10

WASHING (Nave's Full Entry)

  • Of hands, token of innocence: DEU 21:6; PSA 26:6; MAT 27:24
  • Figurative of regeneration: PSA 51:7; PRO 30:12; ISA 1:16; 4:4; ZEC 13:1; 1CO 6:11; EPH 5:26; TIT 3:5

REGENERATION (Nave's Full Entry)

  • Key scriptures: DEU 30:6; PSA 51:2,7,10; ISA 1:16,17; JER 31:33,34; EZK 11:19,20; 36:26,27; MAT 18:3; JHN 1:13; 3:3-8; 5:24; 8:12,32,36; 13:8; ACT 2:38; ROM 6:3-23; 2CO 5:17; GAL 6:15; EPH 2:1,5,8,10; TIT 3:5,6; 1PE 1:2,3,22,23; 1JN 5:1
  • Instances: Jacob (GEN 32:29), Saul (1SA 10:9), Saul of Tarsus (ACT 9:3-18)
  • SANCTUARY (Nave's): EXO 25:8; LEV 19:30; HEB 9:2
  • LAMP: GEN 15:17; EXO 27:20,21; LEV 24:2-4; PSA 119:105
  • BREAD: EZK 4:16; JHN 6:32-35; 1CO 10:17; MAT 26:26
  • BAPTISM: MAT 28:19; ROM 6:3,4; GAL 3:27; COL 2:12; TIT 3:5,6
  • SANCTIFICATION: EXO 31:13; LEV 20:8; JHN 17:17,19; HEB 2:11