Description of the Tabernacle of the Congregation
1. What were the dimensions of the Tabernacle building?
2. From what was the building constructed?
3. Of what material was the outside covering of the Tabernacle?
4. On what was the Veil hung?
5. What were the dimensions of the linen fence?
6. On what side of the linen fence was the gate of the Courtyard, when the Mercy Seat was facing east?
7. What were the dimensions of the curtain that formed the gate?
8. Of what material were the gate to the Courtyard and the door of the Holy Place made?
9. On what did the gate hang?
10. On what did the door hang?
11. What two furnishings were outside of the building?
12. What was the purpose of the Altar of Burnt Offering?
13. What was on the right of the priest as he stepped into the Holy Place?
14. What was on the left of the priest?
15. What was directly in front of the priest?
16. What was located in the center of the Most Holy Place?
17. What served as a lid on the Ark of the Covenant?
18. Where was the Ark of the Covenant placed in the line of march?
19. What was the Covenant, for which the Ark was named?
20. Where did the pattern for the Tabernacle come from?
21. What purpose did the Tabernacle serve?
22. Of what was the Tabernacle of the Congregation a reflection?
23. By what was the Courtyard lighted?
24. What four layers of material covered the wooden building?
25. Who were the only persons allowed to see the inside of the Holy Place and the Most Holy Place?
26. What does the ripping open of the Veil signify?
27. By what was the Holy Place lighted?
28. What three items were placed inside the Ark of the Covenant?
29. What was hammered into shape from each end of the Mercy Seat?
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About forty-five feet long by fifteen feet wide by fifteen feet tall.
Gold-covered boards.
"Badgers’ skins"—probably dolphins’ or porpoises’ skins.
Four gold-covered wooden posts standing on bases of silver.
About one hundred fifty feet long by seventy-five feet across by seven and one-half feet high.
The eastern side.
About thirty feet wide and seven and one-half feet tall—the same height as the rest of the fence.
Blue, purple, scarlet, and fine twisted (white) linen.
Four pillars.
Five posts of acacia wood overlaid with gold and topped with gold capitals.
The Altar of Burnt Offering and the Laver.
Here the lambs, goats, bullocks, rams, and birds were sacrificed.
The Table of Showbread.
The Lampstand.
The Altar of Incense.
The Ark of the Covenant.
The solid-gold Mercy Seat.
In the center.
The Ten Commandments.
The Lord showed it to Moses.
It was the dwelling place of God in a human neighborhood.
The Temple of God in Heaven.
The sun.
The linen curtain, the goats’ hair curtain, the rams’ skins dyed red, and the badgers’ skins.
Those persons set apart for the priestly work associated with the Tabernacle.
Christians, through the atoning blood of Jesus, now have access to the very Presence of the Father in Heaven.
The golden Lampstand.
The Table of Showbread, the memorial Jar of Manna, and the Altar of Incense.
A golden cherub.