New Course on the Tabernacle

Taught by Michael Hays. Starts this September and will run Thursday evenings in the Sunday School classroom from 6:00 to 7:30. Pastor Hays has a scale model of the Tabernacle so students can visualize how it was set up, what materials were used for it, and all the furniture that was used in it. The course not only will explain what everything stood for and how it was used, but it will explain the sacrifices used by Israel, all the religious holidays that were celebrated and how the priests and Levites participated in the worship process. Generally speaking, what is said about the Tabernacle will apply equally to the temples used later by Israel. Many, if not most, Christians know very little about Israel’s Tabernacle and Temple systems and sacrifices and are tempted to gloss over the topics. When was the last time you read the book of Leviticus, for example. Many of us pass over these studies, thinking they are just relics from the past and a Jewish religion that have no relevance for us now that Christ has come. But we cannot understand the Old Testament without having a basic understanding of this worship system and see how very important it is even for our understanding of Christianity. Did you know, for example, that the entire Tabernacle system was a model of Jesus Christ and the gospel? That God Himself Literally dwelt in it? The Tabernacle was essentially God’s blueprint for salvation! In many respects it was to the Old Testament Jew what Jesus is to the Christian today. Yes, Jesus and the gospel were being preached every day to Israel when they took their sacrifices to the Tabernacle and later to the Temple. Jesus does for us today what the Tabernacle and Temple modeled for Old Testament Israel. This course is designed for anyone, regardless of his or her knowledge of the Bible. Notes, including charts and diagrams, will be distributed to each student who signs up for the class. Take this course and your knowledge of God’s plan of salvation, both for Israel in the Old Testament and for Christians today, will grow in leaps and bounds.

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