Tabernacles/Temples

Let's look at Jesus being like the almond tree. Awakening to his real calling, Jesus increased in wisdom and stature, and in favour with God and with people ( Luke 2:52, HCSB) throughout his life, which came to a climax at the 14th day of Abib or Nisan, when [...]

Let’s have a closer look at the staff or Almond branch. The Almond tree is known as the first fruit tree to ‘awaken’ from its wintery slumber, a resurrection after the death of winter. The Hebrew word for almond tree is shaw-kade meaning: to be alert, ..sleepless, hence to [...]

Aaron’s staff/rod which budded (the rod of Aaron, of the house of Levi, had sprouted and put forth buds, had produced blossoms and yielded ripe almonds."-Numbers 17:8) was made from the almond tree.  The almond tree is the first to blossom after the winter, a resurrection after the death [...]

Gal. 4:21- Abraham had two sons, one by a slave (Hagar) and the other by a free woman. (Sarah). But the one by the slave was born according to the impulse of the flesh (law) while the one by the free woman was born as the result of a promise [...]

The Ark contained the 2 tablets of stone which Moses received on Mt Sinai (the law), which in Christ is fulfilled. Jesus said in Matthew 5:17:-18, “Do not think that I came to destroy the Law or the Prophets. I did not come to destroy but to fulfil. For assuredly, [...]

  Secondly is that the bowl of manna and Aaron’s staff were not usually inside the ark of the covenant, but rather beside it. God’s command in Exodus 16:33 was for Moses to place the manna “before the LORD” to be kept safe (NASB).  Similarly, the staff was to be [...]

A golden pot with manna (‘to be kept for your generations, that they may see the bread with which I fed you in the wilderness, when I brought you out of the land of Egypt.' -Ex. 16:32).                 Jesus called to be the living bread which came down from heaven: if [...]

The Ark of the Mosaic Tabernacle