The Tabernacle

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

The purpose of the tabernacle;

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

The Tabernacle was finished and set up in the first month called Nissan (passover time) on God’s calendar which falls in spring time. spring time being the season of budding and blooming. 

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 which contains an heavenly imagination, revelation, Hebraic lifestyle, oral torah teachings and a prophetic insight, which 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 Altar of sacrifice.