The Tabernacle of Moses and Your Body Part2

The Inner Man

So the bible has told us that we have the inner man who does not perish and the outer man who perishes. Obviously, the inner man is housed inside the outward man. This inner Man is also metaphorically called the heart. And is reflective of the Inner Court of the temple where God’s presence was enthroned.

Look at these scriptures…

Ephesians 3:16 (NET) I pray that according to the wealth of his glory he may grant you to be strengthened with power through his Spirit in the inner person,

Proverbs 20:27 (NET) The human spirit is like the lamp of the Lord, searching all his innermost parts.

Now let’s look at the items in the tabernacle and see how they relate to us.

 Inside the Ark

Hebrews 9:3-4 (NET)
3 And after the second curtain there was a tent called the holy of holies.

4 It contained the golden altar of incense and the ark of the covenant covered entirely with gold. In this ark were the golden urn containing the manna, Aaron’s rod that budded, and the stone tablets of the covenant.

God commanded that certain things be placed in the ark. These things symbolised the very things that a born again christian must have in the inner most part of his Spirit.

Aaron’s Rod That Budded

Aaron was declared High Priest by God. However, the Israelites disputed God’s decision. God then asked all the contenders to place their staffs in the tabernacle and the next day, Aaron’s rod brought forth leaves, flowers and yielded actual fruits.

Numbers 17:7-8 (NET)
7 Then Moses placed the staffs before the Lord in the tent of the testimony.
8 On the next day Moses went into the tent of the testimony – and the staff of Aaron for the house of Levi had sprouted, and brought forth buds, and produced blossoms, and yielded almonds!

A staff is made from the dead branch of a tree. For the staff to yield leaves, flowers and fruits means it had to have new life injected into it. Aaron prefigured Jesus Christ who is our high priest. The budding of the staff was symbolic of Jesus Christ’s resurrection from the dead. The almond fruits that came out is us, who received supernatural life as a result of his resurrection.

So Aaron’s budded Rod which was to be kept in the ark, shows us that in the heart of a believer must be carried, faith in the resurrection of Our High Priest Jesus from the dead. We are born again by believing with our hearts that Jesus was raised from the dead.

Romans 10:9 (NET) because if you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.

1 Peter 1:3 (NET) Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! By his great mercy he gave us new birth into a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,

Romans 1:4 (NET)
who was appointed the Son-of-God-in-power according to the Holy Spirit by the resurrection from the dead, Jesus Christ our Lord.

Romans 6:4 (NET) Therefore we have been buried with him through baptism into death, in order that just as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, so we too may live a new life.

The Golden Pot of Manna

The things carried in the ark are the things that are carried in the heart, in the inner man of a believer. At the centre of your temple.

Manna, is supernatural bread that fell from heaven. This Manna represents the Rhema word of God. I will explain. Manna fell everyday. And each day there was new manna for you to pick. Yesterday’s Manna could not be eaten today, except on a Sabbath.

John 6:49, 51, 57, 61, 63 (WEB)
49 Your fathers ate the manna in the wilderness and they died. 51 I am the living bread which came down out of heaven. If anyone eats of this bread, he will live forever. Yes, the bread which I will give for the life of the world is my flesh.” 57 As the living Father sent me, and I live because of the Father; so he who feeds on me, he will also live because of me. 61 But Jesus knowing in himself that his disciples murmured at this, said to them, “Does this cause you to stumble? 63 It is the spirit who gives life. The flesh profits nothing. The words that I speak to you are spirit, and are life.

When Jesus finally explains how we are to feed off his flesh, he says it is not the actual flesh but his words (Rhema) that are life. In the same sentence he says, it is the Spirit that gives life. meaning it is the Holy Spirit that gives us the Rhema word of God. The Rhema is the spoken word of God which comes every day from the leading ministry of the Holy Spirit.

There’s manna for us to pick from God every day. Yesterday’s manna would not be edible today. Meaning we must always be hearing where the Holy Spirit is guiding us each day. Today The Holy Spirit may say, Go and preach in Mozambique. Tomorrow he may say don’t go. And the day after that, he may say go to Harare.

Jesus quoted a verse to Satan when he had been asked to perform a miracle inorder to prove that he was the Son of God.

Deuteronomy 8:3 (WEB)
He humbled you, allowed you to be hungry, and fed you with manna, which you didn’t know, neither did your fathers know, that he might teach you that man does not live by bread only, but man lives by every word that proceeds out of Yahweh’s mouth.

When Jesus quotes this verse, he also uses the word Rhema. Man shall not live by bread alone but by every Rhema that proceeds from the mouth of the Lord. It was the Holy Spirit that had led Jesus into the wilderness. And Jesus would not perform a sign simply to prove a point or because he was hungry. He needed a Rhema for that moment from his Father through the Spirit.

In the same way, Inside your heart, inside your ark of the covenant in Christ, you must have the Rhema of God, freshly gathered each day.

Romans 8:14 (BBE) And all those who are guided by the Spirit of God are sons of God.

 The Tablets of The Testimony

Inside the ark was placed the words of the covenant. The 10 commandments. These are the words that God had spoken directly to the people when he descended on to the mountain.

Deuteronomy 10:4 (KJV)
And he wrote on the tables, according to the first writing, the ten commandments, which the LORD spake unto you in the mount out of the midst of the fire in the day of the assembly: and the LORD gave them unto me.

Deuteronomy 10:4 (DARBY)
And he wrote on the tables, as the first writing, the ten words which Jehovah spoke unto you on the mountain, from the midst of the fire, on the day of the assembly, and Jehovah gave them unto me.

NOTE
The normal Hebrew word for commandment is Mitzvah. However in this verse Moses uses Dabar. In English its word. But in greek it is Logos.So when you read this verse in the Septuagint, which is the Greek version of the Old Testament.

It says… the Deca Logue which the LORD spake

Deca meaning Ten. And Logue is plural for Logos.

That’s why the Ten Commandments are called the Decalogue. The words which were engraved in stones by the finger of God, were referred to as the logos. They were first written by the Finger of God on stones and then Written by Moses the servant of God in a book.

So what does this mean for us now.
The finger of God represents the Spirit of God.

In the same way that Jehovah came down and spoke the words of his covenant in the hearing of all people and these words were written down by his finger and by his servant so that they would be a seal of his covenant with them, Jesus came down and spoke words of his testimony directly to the people. These words were written down by the finger of the Holy Spirit and also by his servants the apostles for the church.

This direct testimony of God/Jesus in the hearing of the people is called the Logos word, and is pictured as a rock and is the foundation on which the covenant is established.

Just as in the ark of the covenant was found the recorded and written logos testimony of God, spoken when he had come down to earth.

So in the hearts of the believer, we must find the recorded and written logos testimony of Jesus Christ, engraved by the Spirit of God.

2 Corinthians 3:3 (NET)
revealing that you are a letter of Christ, delivered by us, written not with ink but by the Spirit of the living God, not on stone tablets but on tablets of human hearts.

Ezekiel 36:26-27 (WEB)
26 I will also give you a new heart, and I will put a new spirit within you. I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you a heart of flesh.

27 I will put my Spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes. You will keep my ordinances and do them.

So the words which Jesus spoke, his testimony, which was recorded by the apostles as the scriptures must be engraved in the heart of a born again believer by the Spirit of God.

If you don’t have the Spirit of God, you can read the words but they won’t be etched onto your heart. Those words of our Lord are the basis and foundation of his covenant.

Matthew 7:24 (WEB) “Everyone therefore who hears these words of mine, and does them, I will liken him to a wise man, who built his house on a rock.