Thursday, July 08, 2010

The Temple of The Tabernacle of the Testimony

Revelation 15:5
And after that I looked, and, behold, the temple of the tabernacle of the testimony in heaven was opened:
This is quite a descriptive name and takes in everything of the Old Testament types of the tabernacle and later the temple.

A temple is a permanent structure while a tabernacle is a tent. Israel used a tabernacle for four hundred odd years before their temple was constructed.

A tabernacle is mobile, a temple is not.

In heaven the temple reminds us of the tabernacle. It was after the pattern of heaven that the tabernacle was made.

The Old Testament speaks of the Ten Commandments as God's testimony. In heaven this testimony is still remembered. God, in our text, is about to pour out His vials of wrath upon the Tribulation world. It is appropriate that those vials are poured out before the background of that which represents holy worship and His unalterable Word.

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