The Menorah Lampstand Of Pure Gold
The middle light of the Menorah points to the
Feast of Tabernacles.
The Menorah was God’s road map to the
Christ. It laid out his birth, death, burial, resurrection, and eventual return.
Christmas is the promise that God tabernacled with us on the great Feast Day of
celebration.
The designs for the Menorah were given to Moses by God in Exodus 25
instructing them to make a seven stick golden candle that looked like a bush.
When it was lit in the tabernacle, it would be a constant reminder of the
burning bush and of his presence.
After his resurrection, Jesus tells his disciples that everything in the
Bible was actually pointing to Him. In Luke 24:27 it states:
…and beginning at Moses and all the Prophets, He expounded to them in all
the Scriptures the things concerning Himself.
Christ taught that all things written by Moses, including the instruction for
the Menorah, were sign pointing to His coming to earth.
God gave His people very specific instructions for hammering out a lampstand
of pure gold. He goes into great detail explaining that six branches are to
extend from the lampstand outward, three on each side of the center trunk.
The Menorah has seven lights which remind us that seven is the number of God
- He made the world in seven days. God also set up seven feasts for His people
to celebrate through the year.
The eight day Jewish Festival of Lights Hanukkah will start on Dec. 8.
The seven candles represent the seven feasts. The seven feasts each point
specifically to the birth, life, death, and final resurrection of Christ.
The first candle is Passover. Passover is when God brought deliverance to His
people from the bondage of Egypt by sacrificing a perfect lamb. Jesus said that
He was the Passover lamb that would be sacrificed for us to be delivered from
spiritual bondage. Jesus died on the cross on the actual Passover date to bring
us spiritual freedom.
The second candle is Unleavened Bread. This was a feast day requiring you
were to eat bread that didn’t rise while you prayed for God to “bring fruit out
of the ground that you most needed” for the next day of First fruits. This
festival occurred on the actual day that Jesus was in the ground. All of
Jerusalem was praying that night that God would “bring out of the ground that
which they most needed.” Jesus’s death and resurrection was the answer to the
prayers of Unleaven Bread.
The third candle is First Fruits, which occurred three days after Passover.
On this festival, God’s people were to bring to God the first thing out of the
ground from the spring harvest. Jesus is called the First Fruit of resurrection.
He was raised from the dead on the actual date of First Fruits because He was
the “first thing out of the ground” at His resurrection.
The fourth candle points to the Feast of Pentecost. Fifty days after First
fruits, Pentecost celebrated the “50 days after Passover” when Moses came down
and gave God’s Word to the People. Fifty days after Jesus death, His spirit came
down and gave God’s Word to the People in the Book Of Acts at the Festival of
Pentecost.
The fifth Menorah candle points to the Feast of Trumpets. This was a time of
blowing the Shofar. Trumpets were often used as a celebration of the returning
king. Jesus said that He will one day return to earth as a king with the sounds
of trumpets.
The sixth feast is the Day of Atonement. This was the day the priest went
into the Holiest place and put his hands on a “scapegoat” to take the
consequences of our wrong doing. You would place your hands on the goat
symbolizing the blame-transfer from us to the goat. The goat would then be
released into the wilderness as a symbol that you had escaped punishment.
Jesus
claims to be our scapegoat and great High Priest. He goes into the presence of
God, places all our wrong doing on Himself, and the curtain of the temple is
torn upon his death.
Now we come to the middle candle.
This light of the Menorah points to the
Feast of Tabernacles. This feast actually featured a Menorah.
It was a longing
for God’s light to come and dwell (or tabernacle) among his people. God said it
was to be a day of rejoicing and celebration among the people. This feast was in
the fall, a time when “Shepherds are out in their fields by night.” Herod
created giant 70-feet tall Menorah’s to light up the temple on this day.
Tabernacles was a celebration of God’s light coming to the world. It was
celebrated with giant candles symbolic of a modern day birthday cake. It was a
time when God’s people were commanded to rejoice. It was a time when God
promised to Tabernacle with His people.
John 8:1-59
John 8:12 Then spake
Jesus again unto them, saying, I am the light of the world: he that followeth me
shall not walk in darkness, but shall have the light of life.
Jesus was born on the date of the Feast of Tabernacle.
The Angels reference
this festival when they tell the shepherds that this is a time of great joy for
all people. John tells us that "Jesus was the Word made flesh" that came to
dwell or tabernacle among us. (John 1:14)
The Menorah was God’s road map to the Christ.
It laid out his birth, death,
burial, resurrection, and eventual return.
The Tabernacle Lamp called the Menorah
Exodus 25:1-40
25:31 And thou shalt make a candlestick of pure gold: of beaten work shall the
candlestick be made: his shaft, and his branches, his bowls, his knops, and his
flowers, shall be of the same.
25:32 And six branches shall come out of the sides of it; three branches of the
candlestick out of the one side, and three branches of the candlestick out of
the other side:
25:33 Three bowls made like unto almonds, with a knop and a flower in one
branch; and three bowls made like almonds in the other branch, with a knop and a
flower: so in the six branches that come out of the candlestick.
25:34 And in the candlesticks shall be four bowls made like unto almonds, with
their knops and their flowers.
25:35 And there shall be a knop under two branches of the same, and a knop under
two branches of the same, and a knop under two branches of the same, according
to the six branches that proceed out of the candlestick.
25:36 Their knops and their branches shall be of the same: all it shall be one
beaten work of pure gold.
25:37 And thou shalt make the seven lamps thereof: and they shall light the
lamps thereof, that they may give light over against it.
25:38 And the tongs thereof, and the snuffdishes thereof, shall be of pure gold.
25:39 Of a talent of pure gold shall he make it, with all these vessels.
25:40 And look that thou make them after their pattern, which was showed thee in
the mount.
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BC. Showing how it and all of it's properties foreshadow Yeshua the Messiah.
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Henry M. Morris, Ph.D.
"According to all that I show thee, after the pattern of the tabernacle,
and the pattern of all the instruments thereof, even so shall ye make it" (Exodus
25:9).
This is the first mention of the tabernacle wherein the religious life of
Israel was centered during their time of wandering in the desert. The details of
its design, construction, and service occupy thirteen chapters in Exodus--more
than for any other single item in the Bible. These details provide a wealth of
typological intimations of the person and work of Jesus Christ.
This tabernacle, however, was based on the pattern of "the true tabernacle,
which the Lord pitched, and not man" (
Hebrews
8:2). There is a heavenly tabernacle where Christ now dwells, and the
furnishings and service of the earthly tabernacle were mere "patterns of things
in the heavens" (
Hebrews
9:23). "For Christ is not entered into the holy places made with hands,
which are the figures of the true; but into heaven itself, now to appear in the
presence of God for us" (
Hebrews
9:24).
Christ also entered yet a third tabernacle. "The Word was made flesh, and
dwelt among us" (
John
1:14). In this key verse, the Greek word translated "dwelt" is actually
"tabernacled"--thus His human body became God's tabernacle, and He will dwell
there forever. Even though that body died, it was raised immortal, still a
physical body, but one that will never die again.
Finally we have His wonderful assurance in the Bible's last chapter, that in
this tabernacle, He will dwell among us eternally. "And I heard a great voice
out of heaven saying, Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men, and He will
dwell with them, and they shall be His people, and God Himself shall be with
them, and be their God" (
Revelation
21:3). HMM
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The Menorah was God’s road map to the Christ.
It laid out his birth, death,
burial, resurrection, and eventual return.
The
Feast of Tabernacles was a longing
for God’s light to come and dwell (or tabernacle) among his people.
Jesus has came and dwelled, tabernacled with his people.
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