The Tabernacle - Its Structure and Symbolism by Walter Scott and published by Classics.
The Tabernacle was an object lesson to Israel for nearly five hundred years, from Moses to David. It then gave place to the Temple, the more permanent structure. But the continuity of the great and blessed fact for Israel, namely the presence of Jehovah in the midst, is witnessed in the interesting circumstance that the only Tabernacle vessel transferred from the Tabernacle to the Temple was the Ark of the Covenant and its blood-sprinkled Mercy-seat. The Law was the Jewish schoolmaster. The faith of the Christian rests on a fuller revelation and on the descent of the Holy Ghost, the Teacher and Guide of the Church. Our horizon is heaven and earth, and our faith comprehends the past and future, or from eternity to eternity, and thus exceeds by far that of the most advanced believer of Old Testament times.
The Tabernacle and all pertaining to it had a Divine meaning. The terms, “patterns” and “shadows,” find their substance. Type,shadow, prediction, and prophecy converge in Christ. One Name, one Sacrifice, one Altar, one Sanctuary, and one High Priest in the heavens is God’s answer and explanation of the Levitical system of old. Christ is all to God and all to us. What a galaxy of office and glory centres in Him! The earnest prayer of the author is that every reader of the following pages may find therein abundant refreshment which may promote communion with God and His beloved Son to whom be eternal glory!
