After seeing the significance and application of the ark of the testimony with its propitiation cover and the table of the bread of the presence, this week we are getting into the deeper significance of the golden lampstand. In our crystallization-study of Exodus we want to see not only the types and meaning of these […]
Eating Christ and Displaying Him as the Bread of the Presence to God and His People
The table of the bread of the presence – also called “the showbread table” – is literally the “face-bread”, the bread of God’s face. God wants His people to present to Him fresh bread for Him to feed on and for His people to feed on in His presence. This is wonderful! On the one […]
Eating Christ as the Bread of God’s Presence, God’s Face, to Serve God as Priests
All believers are priests to God, and it is our responsibility as priests to both set up and enjoy the bread of the presence before God. As priests to God and members of the Body of Christ, we need to be built up together with the saints, and in this built-up situation in the church […]
Being Built up in a Practical way to Feast on Christ as the Bread of the Presence
The table of the bread of the presence – the showbread table – in the Holy Place in the tabernacle is a type of Christ as our food in a particular way: He is the bread of God’s presence to be our serving supply in the church life. The fact that the table of the […]
Seeing Christ as God’s Testimony issues in Feasting on Christ to become His Testimony
After God revealed the details concerning the ark of the testimony, He went on to speak not of the golden incense altar (which is the closest piece of furniture in the tabernacle to the ark) but of the table of the bread of the presence. This table had similar dimensions – and the exact same […]
The Bread of the Presence: Christ is the Food for the Believers as Priests to God
It is vitally important for us to realize that we daily need to eat Christ, feed on Him, take Him in, and enjoy Him as spiritual food. Just as physically we need to eat daily – and even more than one time every day – so spiritually we need to eat Christ, digest Him, and […]
We All need to Learn to Feed on Christ: By Eating Jesus we Become His Testimony!
The table of the bread of the presence (also called the showbread table) in the Holy Place in the tabernacle is a very sweet and satisfying place to be, because there’s always food there – permanently! In this item of the furnishings of the tabernacle we see how God in Christ wants to be enjoyed […]