7/15/2008 8:31 AM
My Worship Time Focus: God is present to nourish His people
Bible Reading &
Meditation Reference: Exodus 25:23-29; 37:10-16
Message of the verses: “23 ¶
"You shall make a table of acacia wood, two cubits long and one
cubit wide and one and a half cubits high.
24 "You shall overlay it
with pure gold and make a gold border around it. 25
"You shall make for it a rim of a handbreadth around it; and you
shall make a gold border for the rim around it.
26 "You shall make four gold
rings for it and put rings on the four corners which are on its four feet. 27
"The rings shall be close to the rim as holders for the poles to
carry the table. 28 "You shall make the poles of acacia wood
and overlay them with gold, so that with them the table may be carried. 29
"You shall make its dishes and its pans and its jars and its bowls
with which to pour drink offerings; you shall make them of pure gold.”
“10 ¶ Then he made the table of acacia wood, two
cubits long and a cubit wide and one and a half cubits high. 11 He
overlaid it with pure gold, and made a gold molding for it all around. 12 He
made a rim for it of a handbreadth all around, and made a gold molding for its
rim all around. 13 He cast four gold rings for it and put the rings
on the four corners that were on its four feet.
14 Close by the rim were the
rings, the holders for the poles to carry the table. 15 He
made the poles of acacia wood and overlaid them with gold, to carry the
table. 16 He made the utensils which were on the table,
its dishes and its pans and its bowls and its jars, with which to pour out
drink offerings, of pure gold.”
I have
again put a picture of the article that I am studying here in my SD. This is a picture of the table of “Showbread”
and the table was three feet long, a foot and a half wide and twenty-seven
inches tall. It was made of acacia wood
and covered with gold and it also had polls attached to it so that it could be
carried. Again the wood and the gold are
reminders of the humanity and deity of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the bread
also is a reminder of the Lord Jesus Christ, for it is written in the Gospel of
John two times that Jesus is the bread of life:
“Joh 6:35 Jesus said to them,
"I am the bread of life; he who comes to Me will not hunger, and he who
believes in Me will never thirst. Joh
6:48 "I am the bread of life.”
The
communion service is also a reminder that Jesus Christ is the “Bread of life,”
for at the Lord’s last supper with His disciples He made this clear when He
told them that the bread represented His body, while the wine represented His
blood.
There were
twelve loaves of bread that were put on this table, and the bread was made
without yeast, which speaks of no sin for yeast is a picture of sin. There was also incense on the table. The loaves were placed on the table each
Sabbath and the old ones were to be eaten by the priests because this was holy
and therefore they were the only ones to eat it and they could not be unclean
or they could not eat of it.
This loaf
represented the twelve tribes of Israel
“When you
combine the images of the jewels and the loaves, you learn that the Lord feeds
His people, bears them on His shoulders, and carries them over His heart.” (This is a quote from Warren Wiersbe’s book
on Exodus, and the jewels that he is writing about are the ones on the High
Priests vest).
Spiritual meaning for my life today: As I think of bread and it’s different
meaning from the Scriptures the one that I think of most is probably that the
bread is a representation of the Word of God:
“De 8:3 "He humbled you and
let you be hungry, and fed you with manna which you did not know, nor did your
fathers know, that He might make you understand that man does not live by bread
alone, but man lives by everything that proceeds out of the mouth of the LORD.” A portion of this verse is also used in both
Matthew four and Luke four when Jesus spoke this verse against the temptation
of the Devil. Just as I need food each
day to keep my bodies working well I also need the Word of God each day of my
life to make my spiritual life strong.
My Steps of Faith for
Today:
- Continue to read the Bible each day of my life.
- Continue to study the Bible each day of my life.
- Continue to try and memorize the Bible each day of my life. (A tough one)
- Think about what I have memorized, or meditate. (The hardest for me)
Memory verses of the week: Exodus
20:1-3
- Then God spoke all these words, saying,
- I am
the Lord Your God, who brought you out of the
- You shall have no other gods before me.
7/15/2008 9:26 AM
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