Ch 27 / 40~3 min
ShemotChapter 27
The Altar Where the Offering Is Consumed
The bronze altar where all sacrifices are offered foreshadows Yeshua as the altar, the sacrifice, and the priest — the complete provision for humanity's approach to Elohim.
- The Bronze Altar of Sacrifice
The first thing you encounter entering Elohim's courts is the altar. Before anything else — sacrifice. The way into Elohim's presence begins at the cross.
- 1You shall make the altar of acacia wood, five cubits long, and five cubits wide. The altar shall be square. Its height shall be three cubits.
- 2You shall make its horns on its four corners. Its horns shall be of one piece with it. You shall overlay it with bronze.
- 3You shall make its pots to take away its ashes; and its shovels, its basins, its meat hooks, and its fire pans. You shall make all its vessels of bronze.
- 4You shall make a grating for it of network of bronze. On the net you shall make four bronze rings in its four corners.
- 5You shall put it under the ledge around the altar beneath, that the net may reach halfway up the altar.
- 6You shall make poles for the altar, poles of acacia wood, and overlay them with bronze.
- 7Its poles shall be put into the rings, and the poles shall be on the two sides of the altar when carrying it.
- 8You shall make it hollow with planks. They shall make it as it has been shown you on the mountain.
- The Courtyard of the Mishkan
White linen walls surround the courtyard — a picture of holiness and purity. The boundary tells you this is sacred space where Elohim meets His people.
- 9You shall make the court of the Mishkan: for the south side southward there shall be hangings for the court of fine twined linen one hundred cubits long for one side.
- 10Its pillars shall be twenty, and their sockets twenty, of bronze. The hooks of the pillars and their fillets shall be of silver.
- 11Likewise for the length of the north side, there shall be hangings one hundred cubits long, and its pillars twenty, and their sockets twenty, of bronze; the hooks of the pillars, and their fillets, of silver.
- 12For the width of the court on the west side shall be hangings of fifty cubits; their pillars ten, and their sockets ten.
- 13The width of the court on the east side eastward shall be fifty cubits.
- 14The hangings for the one side of the gate shall be fifteen cubits; their pillars three, and their sockets three.
- 15For the other side shall be hangings of fifteen cubits; their pillars three, and their sockets three.
- 16For the gate of the court shall be a screen of twenty cubits, of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen, the work of the embroiderer; their pillars four, and their sockets four.
- 17All the pillars of the court around shall be filleted with silver; their hooks of silver, and their sockets of bronze.
- 18The length of the court shall be one hundred cubits, and the width fifty throughout, and the height five cubits, of fine twined linen, and their sockets of bronze.
- 19All the instruments of the Mishkan in all its service, and all its pins, and all the pins of the court, shall be of bronze.
- Oil for the Eternal Light
The lamp must burn continually — never go out. Elohim's light is unceasing. The Ruach, like oil, keeps the flame burning in Elohim's house and in your heart.
- 20You shall command the children of Israel, that they bring to you pure olive oil beaten for the light, to cause a lamp to burn continually.
- 21In the Tent of Meeting, outside the veil which is before the covenant, Aaron and his sons shall keep it in order from evening to morning before YHWH: it shall be a statute forever throughout their generations on the behalf of the children of Israel.