April, where are these from?  These are good.

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