ALTAR OF INCENSE

9. THE TABERNACLE. - 45 feet long - 15 - feet wide - 15 feet high - made of boards and curtains - faced East.

The boards, 20 each for the North and South sides and 6 for the West end, each were 15 feet long and 2 feet and 3 inches wide. They were made of hard, close-grained Acacia wood and overlaid with gold. Each board had two tenons at one end to be stood upright on two sockets of silver. The boards were to be held together with five bars on each side run through golden rings on the boards. The curtains, 10 in number - each 42 feet long and 6 feet wide, were made of finest linen and blue and purple and scarlet with cherubs exquisitely worked thereon and were coupled together with clasps of gold in loops of blue to make one whole.

This one whole curtain, thus formed of the Ten Curtains, was 60 feet East and West, 42 feet North and South with the extra 15 feet to hang down by the golden boards, forming the Tabernacle proper. The gold and silver used in the construction of the Tabernacle and its furniture is estimated at about $1,250,000. This was supplied by the treasures given by Egyptians (Exodus 12:35). 10. THE VEIL - Like the curtains of the Tabernacle, it was made of the finest linen blue, purple and scarlet with cherubs exquisitely worked thereon. It separated the Holy from the Most Holy; or so to speak, God’s throne room from man’s waiting outside.

The Veil was Tent in two from top to bottom at the hour of Christ’s death, signifying that at that moment the door of God’s presence was flung wide open to man (Matthew 27:5). 11. THE TABLE OF SHEWBR.EA.D - The Table of Shewbread was 3 feet long, 1-1/2 feet wide, 2-1/4 feet high. It was made of Acacia wood and overlaid with pure gold.

It was to hold twelve loaves of bread perpetually replace each Sabbath with new loaves. A symbol acknowledging the nations gratitude to God for the beauties of life.

Possible a “shadow” of the Lord’s Supper. On the North side of he Holy Place. 12. THE CANDLESTICK OR LAMP-STAND - It was made of pure gold. worth about $30,000, with a central shaft and three branches on each side. It is thought to have been about 5 feet high and 3-1/2 feet across the top.

It was supplied with the purest olive oil and trimmed and lighted daily (Exodus 30:7,8). This candlestick may have been included in the teen which were in Solomon’s Temple, which were patterned after this (11 Chronicles 4:7).

The Candlesticks of Solomon’s Temple were no doubt among the treasures taken to Babylon, and after returned (Ezekiel 1:7). That in Herod’s Temple may have been one of these, or at least patterned after them, which had been patterned after the original. The candlestick from Herod’s Temple was taken to Rome 70 A.D sculptured on the Arch of Titus, deposited in the Temple of Peace, taken to

Constantinople, then “respectfully deposited in the Christian Church at Jerusalem,” 533 A.D. Nothing further is known of it. The sculpture on the Arch of Titus may be a fair representation of the appearance of the original

It may have been a “shadow” of God’s word in the church, though in Revelation 1; 12-20 candlesticks represent the churches themselves. 13. ALTAR OF INCENSE - The Altar of Incense was 3 feet high, 1-1/2 feet square and made of Acacia wood overlaid with pure gold. It was placed in front of the veil.