Typology – Page 2

April 6, 2022April 24, 2022

THE BRAZEN LAVER

The brazen laver was like a wash basin at which the priests used to wash before entering the tabernacle or presenting a sacrifice. It can be found in Exodus 30:18-21:

“Make a bronze basin, with its bronze stand, for washing. Place it between the tent of meeting and the altar and put water in it. Aaron and his sons are to wash their hands and feet with water from it. Whenever they enter the tent of meeting, they shall wash with water so that they will not die. Also when they approach the altar to minister by presenting a food offering to the Lord, they shall wash their hands and feet so that they will not die. This is to be a lasting ordinance for Aaron and his descendants for the generations to come.”

And in Exodus 38:8:

“They made the bronze basin and its bronze stand from the mirrors of the women who served at the entrance to the tent of meeting.”

April 4, 2022April 24, 2022

THE BRAZEN ALTAR

The first piece of furniture we come to in the Old Testament tabernacle is the brazen altar. This was the altar at which sacrifices were made and it is described in Ex 27:1-8.

“Build an altar of acacia wood, three cubits high; it is to be square, five cubits long and five cubits wide. Make a horn at each of the four corners, so that the horns and the altar are of one piece, and overlay the altar with bronze. Make all its utensils of bronze – its pots to remove the ashes, and its shovels, sprinkling bowls, meat forks and firepans. Make a grating for it, a bronze network, and make a bronze ring at each of the four corners. Put it under the ledge of the altar so that it is halfway up the altar. Make poles of acacia wood for the altar and overlay them with bronze. The poles are to be inserted into the rings so they will be on two sides of the altar when it is carried. Make the altar hollow, out of boards, it is to be made just as you were shown on the mountain.”

March 19, 2022April 24, 2022

THE OUTER COURT AND THE GATE

This is the second post in our series on Old Testament typology, and more specifically on Old Testament Typology with relation to the Old Testament tabernacle. When God gave Moses instructions for the construction of the tabernacle He was very specific and Moses had to follow those instructions to the letter because there was a much deeper meaning behind the tabernacle than simply its construction and Jewish worship, this tabernacle would be a prophetic picture of Jesus Christ and what was to come in the New Testament.

For starters the outer court in the Old Testament tabernacle was made from an outer covering of badgers’ skins and then inside this was rams’ skins died red. The badgers’ skins would have been quite plain and their nature protective in order to protect the tabernacle from the elements. This reminds us of Isaiah 53:2 “He grew up before him like a tender shoot, and like a root out of the dry ground. He had no beauty or majesty to attract us to Him, nothing in His appearance that we should desire Him.”

March 14, 2022March 14, 2022

TYPOLOGY IN THE OLD TESTAMENT

One of my favourite studies in the Bible is that of typology, how the Old Testament is really a shadow of the New Testament. There are many stories in the Old Testament that are not only true in themselves but are also meant to teach us something about the New Testament. One of these is the Old Testament tabernacle.