The English word “tabernacle” derives from the Latin word tabernāculum meaning “tent” but yet this same word “Tabernaculum” derived it’s concept from the Hebrew word called; “Mishkan”.

The meaning of the word of Tabernacle:

The Hebrew word Mishkan means tabernacle, sanctuary, a tent of meeting, Shekinah (God’s glory,dew, covering or Talit), “to dwell”, “rest”, “tent” or “to live in, to make a home for God in the earth”, referring to the “[In-dwelling] Presence of God. 

The purpose of the tabernacle;

Moses was commanded by God to build a physical structure (tabernacle, tent or God’s covering) through which God’s presence was drawn from heaven into the physical Earth.

A physical structure of a Tabernacle which reflects God’s home in the earth or being a way of making the earth a home for God.

The Tabernacle was finished and set up in the first month called Nisan on God’s calendar which falls in spring time.

Spring time being the season of budding and blooming. Nisan is also the Hebrew month when the Jewish Passover is celebrated.

The tabernacle design originates from heaven:

The specifications in which the tabernacle was designed were revealed by God (Yahweh) to Moses at Mount Sinai. Revelation 15:5 says;… the temple of the tabernacle of the testimony in heaven was open.

Exodus 28:5 says: make a tabernacle (a tent, a covering), so that My presence may dwell among My people.

Revelation 21:3 says;

And I heard a loud voice from heaven saying, “Behold the tabernacle of God is with men, and He will dwell with them, and they shall be His people. God Himself will be with them and be their God.

The Tabernacle is God’s educational system towards His people:

The Hebrew word “Mishkan” also means; God’s presence (Shekinah) which contains a heavenly imagination, revelation, oral torah teachings and prophetic insight, that has the ability to relate one’s mindset and physical body to God’s heavenly tabernacle,

thus transforming the human body into a physical temple or dwelling place of God. 

next ticle: Read about the purpose of the Laver.

This article was taken from www.ngabo.org/written by Ap Ngabo Alex