thanks john for asking... beat me to it!  *smile*
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "John Schwery" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Thursday, August 24, 2006 9:06 AM
Subject: Re: The Tabernacle Courtyard


> April, where are these from?  These are good.
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> earlier, April Stahl, wrote:
>>The Tabernacle Courtyard
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>>"You shall make the court of the Tabernacle"
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>>(Exodus 27:9a NASB)
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>>Thus we have the Tabernacle in three divisions,
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>>symbolic in itself.
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>>No, not for 'Father, Son, and Holy Ghost'.  But
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>>just because it was divided ...something which
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>>isn't the case in NT churches.
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>>Christ being the Mediator and ecclesiastical Head
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>>in both the New Testament and the Old.
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>>And, He is represented in each of the chambers
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>>of the OT Tabernacle.
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>>Just that the Savior is more directly visible in the
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>>current dispensation than the last dispensation.
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>>The courtyard (and Tabernacle as a whole) was
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>>fenced. We've previously discussed the significance
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>>of this not being un-walled and open.
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>>[ Greek temples as early as the 7th. Century B.C.
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>>had open colonnades for their perimeter.
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>>That would've been a great convenience over a full
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>>fence for the men who had to move the Tabernacle
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>>from place to place.  But the Tabernacle was not
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>>something which could be entered from any direction ! ]
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>>The Tabernacle had only one way to get inside (v. 16).
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>>And you really couldn't even look in from outside.
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>>The fencing was 150-feet long by 75-feet wide. [ We
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>>assume here an ancient cubit equals 18-inches. ]
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>>So, the place wasn't huge.  Out of all the masses of
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>>Israel, it could accommodate only a few.
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>>( Matthew 22:14 comes to mind. )
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>>The fencing and the size bespeak exclusitivity.
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>>Not that the Tabernacle was restricted to ethnic
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>>Jews only.
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>>Leviticus 17:8-9 indicates that geyr (literally "guests";
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>>NASB, NRSV, "aliens"; NKJ, WEB, ESV "strangers";
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>>CSB "foreigners") could also present sacrifices there.
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>>Just not do-yourself-religion.  Numbers 15:14-16
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>>making this very plain: "an alien or anyone else
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>>...must do exactly as you do" (NIV).
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>>"God is still on the throne!"
>>April and Miss Flurrie
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> John
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