THE TABERNACLE

ITS TYPES & SHADOWS

What is so important about

the Tabernacle?

The Tabernacle is a copy and shadow of the

heavenly things, even as Moses is warned
(of God) when he is about to make the
tabernacle: for, See, saith he, that thou
make all things according to the pattern
that was showed thee in the
mount. Heb 8:5 ASV

For the law having a shadow of the good

(things) to come, not the very image of the
things, can never with the same sacrifices
year by year, which they offer continually,
make perfect them that draw nigh. Heb
10:1 ASV

But Christ having come a high priest

of the good things to come, through
the greater and more perfect
tabernacle, not made with hands, that
is to say, not of this creation, Heb
9:11 ASV

PEOPLE
AS TYPES

PEOPLE AS TYPES

Aaron / High Priest = Jesus

Aarons Sons = Church
Levitical Priests = Justified Believers
Israel = World of Mankind in Sin

Aaron / High Priest

=
Jesus (the
Mechisedek Priest

Having then a great high priest, who hath passed

through the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let
us hold fast our confession. Heb 4:14 ASV

Royalty

Golden Plate
Mitre

Righteousness

Golden Clasps

Divine Power

Law Covenant Breastplate

12 Tribes

12 Jewels

Righteous
Servitude

White linen coat

Purity

Linen
Girdle

Abrahamic Ephod
Covenant Front

Fringe of golden bells

& pomegranates
Fruit of sacrificial work
proclaimed to world

Ephod New
Back Covenant

Upper robe of blue

Faithfulness

ye are built up a spiritual

house, to be a holy priesthood,
to offer up spiritual sacrifices...
1 Peter 2:5 ASV

madest them (to be)

unto our God a kingdom
and priests; and
they reign upon
earth. Rev 5:10
ASV

Aaronic Priesthood = Church

Camp of Israel = World in Sin

Levites = Justified Believers

Levites around Tabernacle

Tribe of Levi = Justified Believers in Jesus

PLACES
AS TYPES

PLACES AS TYPES

CAMP = WORLD OF MANKIND IN

SIN
COURT = JUSTIFICATION (tentative)
HOLY = CONSECRATION (full
justification)
MOST HOLY = GLORIFICATION
(Divine
Nature)

HOLY
Consecration
Justification By Blood
COURT
Justification to Friendship

CAMP
World of Mankind

MOST HOLY
Glorification
Divine Nature

THE COURT

Tentative Justification
Justification to Friendship (not SONship)
Justification by Faith (not by Christs
blood)
Consecration to Righteousness (not
sacrifice)
Approaching Full Justification

THE HOLY

Vitalized Justification
Justification to SONship
Jusification by Christs blood to Life
Consecration to Sacrifice
Sanctification (set apart for holy
service)
Fully Justified

COURT

HOLY

Tentative Justification

Vitalized Justification

Justification to Friendship
SONship)

Justification to

Justification by Faith
Justification by Christs
blood)
Consecration to Righteousness
Consecration to
Sacrifice
Righteous Living

Sanctified Living

Approaching Full Justification Full Justification

Rom 4:3 For what saith the scripture? And

Abraham believed God, and it was reckoned
unto him for righteousness.
righteousness. ASV
James 2:23-24 Abraham believed God, and
it was accounted to him for righteousness."
righteousness."
And he was called the friend of God. NKJV

Rom 4:21-22 and being fully assured that what he [God]

had promised, he was able also to perform. Wherefore
also it was reckoned unto him for righteousness.
righteousness. ASV

Rom 4:23-24 Now it was not written for

his sake alone, that it was reckoned unto
him; but for our sake also, unto whom it
shall be reckoned, who believe on him that
raised Jesus our Lord from the dead ASV

Rom 5:1 Being therefore

justified by faith, we have peace
with God through our Lord Jesus
Christ; ASV

This is Tentative
Justification in the
Court

JUSTIFIED BY CHRISTS BLOOD

Rom 5:9 Much more then, being now
justified by his blood, shall we be saved
from the wrath (of God) through him. ASV

This is Full Justification in the

Heb 10:19-20 Having therefore, brethren, boldness

to enter into the holy place by the blood of Jesus, by
the way which he dedicated for us, a new and living
way, through the veil, that is to say, his flesh; ASV

Full Justification in the Holy

MOST HOLY
Conditions of
Glorification
Divine Nature

Heb 9:24 For Christ entered not into a holy

place made with hands, like in pattern to the
true; but into heaven itself, now to appear
before the face of God for us: ASV

METALS
&
WOOD

Metals & Wood

Gold
Silver
Copper
Wood

What do these represent?

GOLD & SILVER

Mal 3:3 And he shall sit as a refiner and
purifier of silver: and he shall purify the sons
of Levi, and purge them as gold and silver,
that they may offer unto the LORD an offering
in righteousness. KJV

Reprint 5119:5 This prophecy refers to

the antitypical priesthood The work of
this great Refiner is to purify the members
of the Church class--not only the Little
Flock, but the Great Company as well
Gold represents the Divine or higher order
of spirit nature, and silver, the lower order.

GOLD & SILVER

2 Tim 2:20 But in a great house there are
not only vessels of gold and of silver, but
also of wood and of earth; and some to
honour, and some to dishonour. KJV
HG752:4 In the New Testament this
class is referred to in our text as "vessels of
silver," or less honorable than the vessels
of gold, and they are particularly brought
to our attention in our Lord's last message
to his Church, in which he pictures them as
a "great company" in contrast with the
"little flock."

WOOD
2 Tim 2:20 But in a great house there are
not only vessels of gold and of silver, but
also of wood and of earth; and some to
honour, and some to dishonour. KJV
HG752:6 The vessels of earth and of
wood are specified as indicating those unto
less honor, and to our understanding
represent in the future those who will be
servants of God on the earthly or human
plane.

COPPER (BRONZE)
Num 21:5,6&8 And the people spoke against
God and against Moses: "Why have you brought
us up out of Egypt to die in the wilderness? For
there is no food and no water, and our soul
loathes this worthless bread." So the LORD
sent fiery serpents among the people, and they
bit the people; and many of the people of Israel
died. Then the LORD said to Moses, Make a
fiery serpent, and set it on a pole; and it shall
be that everyone who is bitten, when he looks
at it, shall live." So Moses made a bronze
serpent, and put it on a pole; and so it was, if a
serpent had bitten anyone, when he looked at
the bronze serpent, he lived. - NKJV

Copper Serpent =
Perfect Sinless Jesus

Copper =
Human Perfection

"As Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness even so must

the Son of Man be lifted up: That whosoever believeth in him
should not perish but have everlasting life."--`John 3:14,15`.

Metals & Wood

Gold
Silver
Copper
Wood

corruptible)

Divine Nature
Spirit Nature
Human Perfection
Imperfect Man (wood is

POSTS
&
SOCKETS

Wooden Posts
Copper Sockets

Gold Posts
Silver Sockets

Gold Posts
Copper Sockets

POSTS THROUGHOUT TABERNACLE

COURT

HOLY

MOST HOLY

Wood

Gold

Gold

Copper

Copper

Silver

POSTS IN COURT
Our Justified standing
before God is based
on Faith in Jesus, our
Perfect Ransom.
(Justification to Friendship)

Wooden Post
Corruptible Man

Copper Socket
Human Perfection

POSTS IN HOLY
"we have this treasure
[the divine nature] in
earthen vessels"
(`2 Cor. 4:7`)
(Justification by Christs Blood)

Gold Post
Divine Nature

Our standing is
Reckoned Perfect.
Copper Socket
Human Perfection

POSTS IN
MOST HOLY
Glorification to
Divine Nature
on Spirit Plane
(Treasure no longer in earthen vessels)

Gold Post
Divine Nature

Silver Socket
Spirit Nature

Wooden Posts
Copper Sockets
Justification to Friendship

Gold Posts
Silver Sockets
Divine Nature

Gold Posts
Copper Sockets
Justification by Blood

White
Curtain

CURTAIN
&
HOOKS

WHITE CURTAIN
Tabernacle Shadows, page 18, par 2,
the curtain of white linen, representing
to those within a wall of faith, but to
those without a wall of unbelief

Rev 19:8 And to her was

granted that she should be
arrayed in fine linen, clean and
white: for the fine linen is the
righteousness of saints. KJV

SILVER HOOKS
White curtain held up by silver hooks

Silver
=
Spirit
Nature

Justification
comes from a
spiritual source
from God Himself.

WHITE CURTAIN & SILVER

HOOKS
Rom 4:2 For if Abraham was justified by works,
he hath whereof to glory; but not toward God. ASV
Rom 4:6 Even as David also pronounceth
blessing upon the man, unto whom God reckoneth
righteousness apart from works, ASV
The Righteousness/Justification comes from
a Spiritual Power, God Himself, not from our
own works alone

THE
COURT

Court

Laver

Brazen Altar

Brazen Altar

Rep 3053: The Brazen Altar represented primarily the

perfection of the man Christ Jesus, upon which His
offering was accepted of God, as our sin atonement,
sanctifying in turn any offering of others that might be
TS 22
presented upon it.
The Brazen
T 62: sacrifices
Altar was made of
of the saints,
copper to represent
represented by the fat
the perfect humanity of the
of the Lords goat of
man Christ Jesus, who
the sin-offering on the
gave himself a ransom for all.
Brazen Altar

Heb 13:10 10 We have an altar from which those who

serve the tabernacle have no right to eat. NKJV

The Priests did not eat

meat sacrificed on the Day
of Atonement.

This is the Altar the

Church is Sacrificed on.

Rev 6:9 When He opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the
souls of those who had been slain for the word of God and for the
testimony which they held.. NKJV

Drippings of fat and

ashes of Goats
completed sacrifice are
found beneath the altar.

R1543: The Laver which stood in the Court full of water, at which the priests
washed their hands and feet is a symbol of the cleansing effect of the truth upon
the outward conduct of believers in general.
It symbolizes the
putting aside of
filthy practices
Eph 5:25-26: Husbands,
and
communication
love your wives, just as

Christ also loved

the church and
gave Himself
for her, that
He might sanctify
and cleanse her
with the washing
of water by the
word, NKJV

Aaron had to be
washed in order fitly
to represent the
purity of the
antitype, Jesus, who
knew no sin, T29

THE
HOLY

Most Holy

Ark of the
Covenant

Court

Holy

Incense
Altar

Table of
Shew-bread

VEIL into Most Holy

Glorification
Divine Nature
In Gods Presence

Candlestick
VEIL into Holy
Consecration to Sacrifice
Sanctification
Justified by Christs Blood

Prayer

Furnishings in Holy =
New Creatures Growth Kit

Holy
Spirit

Gods
Word

Table of Shew-bread

Shew-bread =
Gods Word, the Bible

Bread = Gods Word

1 Cor 5:8 Therefore let us keep the feast, not with old
leaven, nor with the leaven of malice and wickedness, but
with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth. NKJV
Matt 16:12 Then they understood that He did not
tell them to beware of the leaven of bread, but of the
doctrine of the Pharisees and Sadducees. NKJV
Luke 4:4 But Jesus answered him, saying, "It is
written, 'Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every
word of God.'" NKJV

Golden
Candlestick

Rev 1:20
the seven
lampstands which you saw
are the seven churches.
NKJV

Ex 27:20 - "And you shall command the children of

Israel that they bring you pure oil of pressed olives for
the light, to cause the lamp to burn continually. NKJV

2 Cor 1:21-22
Now he that
establisheth us with
you in Christ, and anointed
us, is God; who also sealed
us, and gave (us) the
earnest of the Spirit in our
hearts. ASV

1 John 2:27
But the anointing
which you
have received from Him
abides in you, and you do
not need that anyone
teach you; but as the
same anointing teaches
you concerning all things,
NKJV

Incense Alter
Rev 8:3 Then
another angel, having
a golden censer,
came and stood at the
altar. He was given
much incense, that he
should offer it with the
prayers of all the
saints upon the
golden altar which
was before the
throne. NKJV

Rev 5:8
golden
bowls full of
incense,
which are the
prayers of the
saints. NKJV

Jehovah
Christ
And Church
In Glory

Prayer

Furnishings in Holy =
New Creatures Growth Kit

Holy
Spirit

Gods
Word

THE
MOST
HOLY

Two Cherubim

Mercy
Seat
Ark

Jehovah
their head

Christ
and
Church

Light called
Shekinah Glory
Represents
Jehovah God

Isa 37:16 - "O

LORD of hosts,
God of Israel, the
One who dwells
between the
cherubim, NKJV

Gods
Love

Gods
Power

Gods
Justice

Gods Love and Power can be released once Justice is Satisfied

Rom 3:24-25 being justified

freely by His grace through the
redemption that is in Christ
Jesus, 25 whom God set forth
as a propitiation by His blood,
NKJV
STRONGS:2435
hilasterion (hil-as-tay'-reeon) an atoning victim, or
(specially) the lid of the Ark
(in the Temple):

Heb 9:24-25 For Christ

has not entered the holy
places made with hands,
which are copies of the
true, but into heaven itself,
now to appear in the
presence of God for us;
not that He should offer
Himself often, as the high
priest enters the Most
Holy Place every year with
blood of another NKJV

Tables of the Law

Aarons Rod

Golden Pot of Manna

Contents of the Ark of the Covenant

Contents of the Ark

Aarons Rod = Acceptableness of the

Royal Priesthood to Jehovah
(Numbers 17)
Golden Pot of Manna (incorruptible Ex
16:32) = Immortality of Christ & the
Church (Rev 2:17)
Tables of the Law = Christ met the full
requirements of Gods perfect law.

Tabernacle Types

People
Places
Metals & Wood
Curtain & Hooks
Posts & Sockets

Court
Holy
Most Holy
Furnishings

Heb 8:5 a copy and shadow of the heavenly things

Having then a
great high
priest, who hath
passed through
the heavens,
Jesus the Son
of God, let us
hold fast our
confession. Heb
4:14 ASV

Tabernacle Shadows Preface

The first edition of this little
book was published in 1881,
and under the Lords blessing
seems to have been very
helpful to the class for which it
was specially intended the
"royal priesthood." Many of
this class have confessed that
as the finger of the Lord it
pointed out to them meanings
in the Old Testament types
never before appreciated and
that it has thus guided them in
the way of self-sacrifice by
leading them to see the true
significance of the Scriptural
declarations"

Tabernacle Shadows Preface

Present your bodies

living sacrifices," "Fill up
that which is behind of the
afflictions of Christ," "If we
suffer with him we shall also
reign with him," "Let us go
to him outside the camp,
bearing the reproach with
him"; besides many other
Scripture statements which
associate the Lords people
with himself both "in the
sufferings of this present
time and the glory to
follow."

THE TABERNACLE
ITS TYPES & SHADOWS