Adapted from What the Bible Teaches about Mercy by Rex B. Andrews

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Adapted from What the Bible Teaches about
Mercyby Rex B. Andrews

• Part III Mercy in the Law

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Chapter 7 The Giving of the Law

• NKJ Exodus 346 And the LORD passed before him
  and proclaimed, "The LORD, the LORD God, merciful
  and gracious, longsuffering, and abounding in
  goodness and truth, 7 "keeping mercy for
  thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression
  and sin, by no means clearing the guilty,
  visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the
  children and the children's children to the third
  and the fourth generation."
• NKJ Deuteronomy 79 "Therefore know that the LORD
  your God, He is God, the faithful God who keeps
  covenant and mercy for a thousand generations
  with those who love Him and keep His
  commandments
• NKJ Deuteronomy 59 you shall not bow down to
  them nor serve them. For I, the LORD your God, am
  a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the
  fathers upon the children to the third and fourth
  generations of those who hate Me,

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• Here was a startling new view of a supreme
  monarch on the Earth, a king who forgives
  law-breaking, and trespass, and evil, to anyone
  who seeks that forgiveness
• However, He will not clear the guilty as long as
  they remain guilty
• But they need not remain guilty before Him, for
  His law provides a way to His MERCY
• Therefore, the guilty only remain guilty until
  they are willing to meet God on the grounds of
  the MERCY which He initiates for their
  forgiveness
• The Old and New Covenants both describe that
  meeting between God and man

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• On mans part confession of his sin, with a
  repentance that includes making his wrongs right
  as far as it is possible to do so
• On Gods part is the offer to forgive the sin of
  the sinner and to cover him
• In the Old Covenant the covering meant that the
  sinner could remain in the congregation of the
  people of God
• In the New Covenant forgiveness of sins is a
  remission of the sin, and a cleansing of the
  sinner from the sin itself so that they may
  enter the kingdom of God and dwell within the
  spiritual congregation of those who are heirs of
  eternal life

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• NKJ Proverbs 2813 He who covers his sins will
  not prosper, But whoever confesses and forsakes
  them will have mercy.
• Genuine repentance involves not just being sorry
  for being caught but also includes the
  recognition and acknowledgement that God is right
  and we are wrong about the matter and a resolve
  to never do it again with the Lords help
• NKJ 1 John 19 If we confess our sins, He is
  faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to
  cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
• NKJ Psalm 325 I acknowledged my sin to You, And
  my iniquity I have not hidden. I said, "I will
  confess my transgressions to the LORD," And You
  forgave the iniquity of my sin. Selah

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• The Old Covenant was a supreme wonder on the
  Earth, in the world of that time, exactly on that
  account MERCY OFFERED TO ALL
• There never was any law in any other nation like
  it offering MERCY to all!
• It is not true that there were older laws just as
  good, and much older, in other nations
• No other nation had a law that revealed such a
  LORD and such a GOD
• There were laws in other nations that recorded
  some things similar to the Law of Moses
• Some of the Eden-law had filtered down through
  the centuries, in traditions from before the
  flood, by the sons of Noah

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• But, the similarities that are found between
  ancient records of laws of other nations and the
  Law of Moses only increase the vividness of
  things that are dissimilar
• The laws of of the nations were saturated with
  idolatry
• The Law of Moses was a revelation of God Himself
• That revelation of the LORD God in the Law was a
  separation between the Israel of God and The
  Nations of the world

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• The revelation was limited, to a considerable
  degree, to the conditions of life of both the
  people Israel and the instrument Moses
• It had to be a revelation that could be received
  by a people to whom the new birth was not yet
  given, although it was promised
• The people were not capable of receiving the New
  Covenant revelation of what Divine Love is
• Nevertheless, whoever entered into Faith must
  have tasted that Love, for the simple reason that
  Faith, itself, is faith in the truth of the love
  of God

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• NKJ Exodus 346 And the LORD passed before him
  and proclaimed, "The LORD, the LORD God, merciful
  and gracious, longsuffering, and abounding in
  goodness and truth,
• The expression longsuffering, better translated
  slow to anger, is all the more wonderful
  because the Law could not reveal God as a
  LIFE-GIVER in the New Covenant sense
• The Law of Moses was an unveiling of the mystery
  of sin and death
• It described sin within the man himself as the
  cause of death

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• To bring such light (i.e., understanding) into
  the world required the execution of the sentence
  of death that had been pronounced upon sin at the
  beginning
• NKJ Genesis 217 "but of the tree of the
  knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for
  in the day that you eat of it you shall surely
  die.
• NKJ Genesis 36 So when the woman saw that the
  tree was good for food, that it was pleasant to
  the eyes, and a tree desirable to make one wise,
  she took of its fruit and ate. She also gave to
  her husband with her, and he ate. 7 Then the eyes
  of both of them were opened, and they knew that
  they were naked and they sewed fig leaves
  together and made themselves coverings.

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• NKJ 1 Timothy 214 And Adam was not deceived, but
  the woman being deceived, fell into
  transgression.
• Eve was deceived into sin, but Adam chose sin
• NKJ Romans 512 Therefore, just as through one
  man sin entered the world, and death through sin,
  and thus death spread to all men, because all
  sinned -- 13 (For until the law sin was in the
  world, but sin is not imputed when there is no
  law. 14 Nevertheless death reigned from Adam to
  Moses, even over those who had not sinned
  according to the likeness of the transgression of
  Adam, who is a type of Him who was to come.
• NKJ 1 Corinthians 1545 And so it is written,
  "The first man Adam became a living being." The
  last Adam became a life-giving spirit. ... 47 The
  first man was of the earth, made of dust the
  second Man is the Lord from heaven.

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• Thus God had to be known in human terms such as
  pertained to law breaking sinners
• His anger, wrath, and destructiveness, as
  depicted in the Old Covenant, fitted their
  understanding of an all-powerful being
• Nevertheless, to Israel (and to all who would
  enter into a covenant of faith with Him) God did
  give the words that described and conveyed the
  knowledge of what He is in Himself
• The inheritance of that knowledge, as a free
  possession to everyone, came by the shed blood of
  the Lamb of God - Jesus Christ!
• Jesus Christ, who in His own body bore the
  worlds sin

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• NKJ John 129 The next day John saw Jesus coming
  toward him, and said, "Behold! The Lamb of God
  who takes away the sin of the world!
• NKJ Hebrews 926b but now, once at the end of the
  ages, He has appeared to put away sin by the
  sacrifice of Himself.
• NKJ 1 John 22 And He Himself is the propitiation
  i.e., atoning sacrifice for our sins, and not
  for ours only but also for the whole world.
  (words in added by author)
• NKJ Hebrews 922 And according to the law almost
  all things are purified with blood, and without
  shedding of blood there is no remission.
• NKJ 1 Peter 118 knowing that you were not
  redeemed with corruptible things, like silver or
  gold, from your aimless conduct received by
  tradition from your fathers, 19 but with the
  precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without
  blemish and without spot.

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• NKJ Ephesians 17 In Him we have redemption
  through His blood, the forgiveness of sins,
  according to the riches of His grace
• NKJ Ephesians 213 But now in Christ Jesus you
  who once were far off have been brought near by
  the blood of Christ.
• NKJ Revelation 15 and from Jesus Christ, the
  faithful witness, the firstborn from the dead,
  and the ruler over the kings of the earth. To Him
  who loved us and washed us from our sins in His
  own blood, 6 and has made us kings and priests to
  His God and Father, to Him be glory and dominion
  forever and ever. Amen.
• Since that time the way has been open to all into
  the life-giving knowledge of God - what He IS

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• In Exodus 34 we have one of the most unique and
  remarkable happenings in the worlds history
• In some ways it is a part of the same pattern as
  the life and work of Jesus Himself
• That is so because of a single phase of it THE
  QUALITY OF MERCY
• The scripture record shows that in order to make
  mercy understandable to a world with no
  understanding of it, God in dealing with Moses
  placed Himself in an odd position and in an odd
  light

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• It was of one who in a blaze of anger and wrath
  was lunging forth upon the nation to destroy it
  for the idolatry indulged in at the very time
  when He was giving the first tables of the Law to
  Moses
• Moses reaction, of throwing himself as an
  intercessor between the nation and God, was the
  purpose and issue of it all
• For what Moses said and did was what God Himself
  wanted to say and do (Exodus 32)
• It was the truth of God in Moses
• That truth of God in Moses became, then, the
  established relation of God with Israel as the
  LORD God who dwelt among them

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• It is immortalized in the following words we have
  studied before
• NKJ Exodus 346 And the LORD passed before him
  and proclaimed, "The LORD, the LORD God, merciful
  and gracious, longsuffering, and abounding in
  goodness and truth, 7 "keeping mercy for
  thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression
  and sin, by no means clearing the guilty,
  visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the
  children and the children's children to the third
  and the fourth generation.
• The path way by which this truth unfolds leads to
  The Cross
• This is the same grouping of mercy words in
  Psalms 103 and 145, and is the great source from
  which they were quoted

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• The word merciful here is the Hebrew word for
  compassions and mercies
• Gracious is from the root meaning grace,
  Abundant in goodness is much mercy, which in
  Psalm 1038 is translated plenteous in mercy
• The term longsuffering is the identical Hebrew
  phrase otherwise given as slow to anger
• In addition is the word truth (Hebrew word
  emet) an integral part of of this group (i.e.,
  the words are truth, and the truth is in the
  words)
• Keeping mercy for thousands is our hhesed
  word again, and is the same word as is goodness
  that proceeds it

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• GLT Exodus 346b ...Jehovah! Jehovah God!
  Merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and great
  in goodness and truth, 35a Keeping mercy for
  thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression
  and sin...
• Again, what were the circumstances in which these
  MERCY words were given?
• In Exodus chapters 19-23, the LORD had come down
  in a thick cloud to speak with Moses in the sight
  of the people
• There was given to him the substance of the Law
• Then in Exodus chapters 24-31, by the command of
  the LORD Moses went up into the mount INTO the
  cloud, and remained there in the presence of the
  LORD for forty days and forty nights

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• During that time he was given the pattern, the
  plan, and arrangement, of the Tabernacle (the
  Tent-of-meeting) and also the instructions for
  its making, and for the setting in order of the
  priesthood of Aaron and his sons
• At the end of that time of communion, the Lord
  gave Moses two tables of stone upon which was
  written the Testimony by the finger of God
• So, robed in the spiritual splendor of the Holy
  One (i.e., Moses glowed), he returned to the
  people
• In Exodus chapter 32, we read that the people had
  fallen into idolatry during those forty days of
  waiting

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• They had made a golden calf to worship and to
  lead them
• In this was the essence of idolatry - the
  covetousness to establish a power and good of
  ones own choosing to be worshipped as supreme
• They made and worshipped an image of a beast
• God called it corrupting themselves
• It was a falling short of the glory of God and
  was sin
• That is what sin is a vain glory of self, or
  something, anything, in the place of God

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• The Adam race had been created in Gods image,
  to bear His glory, to represent Him as He is, to
  testify the truth of what He is, and to love Him
  with all the powers of the being
• When Moses saw what was taking place, upon his
  return to camp, he threw the two tablets of stone
  down upon the rocks - breaking them into pieces
• The next day he returned to the Lord to make
  atonement for the people if possible
• Atonement means a covering - a protective
  covering
• The Hebrew word for atonement is kaphar one
  from which is kopher

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• This word is translated pitch with which Noah
  was to make the ark watertight
• With only slight changes this word had come down
  to us through the long centuries in the English
  word cover with nearly the same sound
• Kaphar is used in the Old Covenant as the
  distinct word for atonement for sin
• It signifies a protective covering
• Sin is a naked state of the soul, denuded of its
  true robes of light and glory
• Atonement is the COVERING, protective covering of
  the Lords presence upon the repentant soul

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• Moses returned to the Lord in the mount to seek a
  means to atone for, or COVER the people from
  their sin
• That is what is meant in the Bible by forgiveness
• It is the restoration to the protection of the
  Covering Presence of the Lord, as being freed
  from the guilt of the sin that was sinned
• For the sin is no longer in view when it has been
  obliterated and covered
• NAU Micah 719 He will again have compassion on
  us He will tread our iniquities under foot. Yes,
  You will cast all their sins Into the depths of
  the sea.
• NKJ Psalm 10312 As far as the east is from the
  west, So far has He removed our transgressions
  from us.

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• NKJ Exodus 3231 Then Moses returned to the LORD
  and said, "Oh, these people have committed a
  great sin, and have made for themselves a god of
  gold! 32 "Yet now, if You will forgive their sin
  -- but if not, I pray, blot me out of Your book
  which You have written."
• This is the epitome of the love of God (hhesed
  in the Old Covenant and agape in the New)
• To be willing to die spiritually (i.e., to be
  separated or isolated from God) so that another
  might be joined to God!
• The Apostle Paul expressed this same sentiment
• NKJ Romans 93 For I could wish that I myself
  were accursed from Christ for my brethren, my
  countrymen according to the flesh,

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• NKJ John 1513 "Greater love has no one than
  this, than to lay down one's life for his
  friends.
• How many of us are really willing to die
  physically for a friend?
• At most we might take a wound for a friend - if
  complete recovery can be assured!
• NKJ Romans 56 For when we were still without
  strength, in due time Christ died for the
  ungodly. 7 For scarcely for a righteous man will
  one die yet perhaps for a good man someone would
  even dare to die. 8 But God demonstrates His own
  love toward us, in that while we were still
  sinners, Christ died for us.

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• Jesus chose to become our sin on the cross,
  separating Himself from God the Father, in order
  to join us to Himself
• NKJ 2 Corinthians 521 For He made Him who knew
  no sin to be sin for us, that we might become the
  righteousness of God in Him.
• NKJ John 314 "And as Moses lifted up the serpent
  in the wilderness, even so must the Son of Man be
  lifted up, 15 "that whoever believes in Him
  should not perish but have eternal life. 16 "For
  God so loved the world that He gave His only
  begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should
  not perish but have everlasting life. 17 "For God
  did not send His Son into the world to condemn
  the world, but that the world through Him might
  be saved.

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• The serpent represented Satan and Sin
• Jesus had our sin of rebellion against a Holy God
  conferred upon Himself while on the cross
• Thus the serpent (i.e., Sin) was on the cross!
• NKJ Numbers 218 Then the LORD said to Moses,
  "Make a fiery serpent, and set it on a pole and
  it shall be that everyone who is bitten, when he
  looks at it, shall live. 9 So Moses made a
  bronze serpent, and put it on a pole and so it
  was, if a serpent had bitten anyone, when he
  looked at the bronze serpent, he lived.
• NKJ John 168 "And when He the Holy Spirit has
  come, He will convict the world of sin, and of
  righteousness, and of judgment 9 "of sin,
  because they do not believe in Me 10 "of
  righteousness, because I go to My Father and you
  see Me no more 11 "of judgment, because the
  ruler of this world is judged. (words in
  added by author)

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• NKJ 1 Corinthians 27 But we speak the wisdom of
  God in a mystery, the hidden wisdom which God
  ordained before the ages for our glory, 8 which
  none of the rulers Satan and his minions of
  this age knew for had they known, they would not
  have crucified the Lord of glory.
• Yes, the cross was the greatest sting operation
  ever conducted!
• Satan did not realize that by participating in
  the death of the Son of God, Jesus Christ, and
  latter incarcerating Him in the pit of Hades,
  that he was agreeing with Gods judgment upon Sin
  - upon himself!
• NKJ Romans 107 or, " 'Who will descend into the
  abyss the lowest part of Hades?' " (that is, to
  bring Christ up from the dead). (words in
  added by author)

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• NAU Acts 222 " Men of Israel, hear these words
  Jesus of Nazareth, a Man attested by God to you
  by miracles, wonders, and signs which God did
  through Him in your midst, as you yourselves also
  know -- 23 "Him, being delivered by the
  determined purpose and foreknowledge of God, you
  have taken by lawless hands, have crucified, and
  put to death 24 "whom God raised up, having
  loosed the pains of death, because it was not
  possible that He should be held by it... 29 "Men
  and brethren, let me speak freely to you of the
  patriarch David, that he is both dead and buried,
  and his tomb is with us to this day. 30
  "Therefore, being a prophet, and knowing that God
  had sworn with an oath to him that of the fruit
  of his body, according to the flesh, He would
  raise up the Christ to sit on his throne, 31 "he,
  foreseeing this, spoke concerning the
  resurrection of the Christ, that His soul was not
  left in Hades, nor did His flesh see corruption.
  32 "This Jesus God has raised up, of which we are
  all witnesses.

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• Satan was in effect agreeing with God that the
  wages of sin are death (i.e., isolation from God)
• NKJ Romans 623a For the wages of sin is death,
• Satan should have quit while he was ahead!
• Satans plan to steal mankind from God, via
  Adams rebellion, was the perfect crime with no
  way out for man in his ability
• Nevertheless, God knew that one thing was certain
  about the fallen nature - like fire, greed never
  has enough and will not quit while ahead (Prov.
  306)
• Satan could not resist the chance to own the Son
  of God - he just did not realize it was all part
  of the plan and that ownership would be temporary

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• Furthermore, Satan broke the rules in taking the
  life of an innocent man
• He did not realize that the reason God turned His
  back on Jesus was because He became our sin
• Satan saw the withdrawal of Gods presence from
  Jesus as a sign that He had sinned personally
• Realize God withdrew from Jesus at the cross
  because He can not look upon sin and Jesus became
  our sin on the cross
• In his greed, Satan crossed the line and was
  judged guilty of taking the life of the innocent
  God-Man Jesus the Christ the Son of the Living
  God!

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• The ordeal of the cross can be seen in this
  prophetic Psalm
• NKJ Psalm 221b My God, My God, why have You
  forsaken Me? quoted by Jesus on the cross,
  Matthew 2746 Why are You so far from helping
  Me, And from the words of My groaning? 2 O My
  God, I cry in the daytime, but You do not hear
  And in the night season, and am not silent. 3
  But You are holy, Enthroned in the praises of
  Israel. 4 Our fathers trusted in You They
  trusted, and You delivered them. 5 They cried to
  You, and were delivered They trusted in You, and
  were not ashamed. 6 But I am a worm, and no man
  A reproach of men, and despised by the people. 7
  All those who see Me ridicule Me They shoot out
  the lip, they shake the head, saying, 8 "He
  trusted in the LORD, let Him rescue Him Let Him
  deliver Him, since He delights in Him! (words in
  added by author)

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• 9 But You are He who took Me out of the womb You
  made Me trust while on My mother's breasts. 10 I
  was cast upon You from birth. From My mother's
  womb You have been My God. 11 Be not far from
  Me, For trouble is near For there is none to
  help. 12 Many bulls have surrounded Me Strong
  bulls of Bashan have encircled Me. Satans
  demons surrounded Jesus on the cross 13 They
  gape at Me with their mouths, Like a raging and
  roaring lion. 14 I am poured out like water, And
  all My bones are out of joint My heart is like
  wax It has melted within Me. Jesus dies
  physically of a broken heart 15 My strength is
  dried up like a potsherd, And My tongue clings to
  My jaws You have brought Me to the dust of
  death. 16 For dogs have surrounded Me The
  congregation of the wicked has enclosed Me. They
  pierced My hands and My feet 17 I can count all
  My bones. They look and stare at Me. (words in
  added by author)

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• 18 They divide My garments among them, And for My
  clothing they cast lots. 19 But You, O LORD, do
  not be far from Me O My Strength, hasten to help
  Me! 20 Deliver Me from the sword, My precious
  life from the power of the dog. 21 Save Me from
  the lion's mouth And from the horns of the wild
  oxen! You have answered Me. 22 I will declare
  Your name to My brethren In the midst of the
  assembly I will praise You. 23 You who fear the
  LORD, praise Him! All you descendants of Jacob,
  glorify Him, And fear Him, all you offspring of
  Israel! 24 For He has not despised nor abhorred
  the affliction of the afflicted Nor has He
  hidden His face from Him But when He cried to
  Him, He heard. 25 My praise shall be of You in
  the great assembly I will pay My vows before
  those who fear Him. 26 The poor shall eat and be
  satisfied Those who seek Him will praise the
  LORD. Let your heart live forever!

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• 27 All the ends of the world Shall remember and
  turn to the LORD, And all the families of the
  nations Shall worship before You. 28 For the
  kingdom is the LORD's, And He rules over the
  nations. 29 All the prosperous of the earth
  Shall eat and worship All those who go down to
  the dust Shall bow before Him, Even he who cannot
  keep himself alive. 30 A posterity shall serve
  Him. It will be recounted of the Lord to the next
  generation, 31 They will come and declare His
  righteousness to a people who will be born, That
  He has done this. quoted by Jesus on the cross
  in first person voice - It is finished (words
  in added by author)
• NKJ John 1930 So when Jesus had received the
  sour wine, He said, "It is finished!" And bowing
  His head, He gave up His spirit.

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• At our precious Saviors Cross of Calvary
• It was judged that Sin (Satan) and all sinners
  were condemned and must be isolated from God and
  His family forever
• Jesus suffered the penalty for the sin of
  rebellion against a Holy God in our place (i.e.,
  He bore our sin of rebellion and its resulting
  sins, sicknesses, and death)
• All that believe in Jesus as their Savior and
  submit to His Lordship have their sins remitted
  (i.e., eliminated as if they never existed) and
  have the righteousness of Jesus Christ conferred
  upon them
• We are joined to God forever!
• NKJ Romans 623b but the gift of God is eternal
  life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

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• Consequently, Satan has already been judged and
  his fate is sealed
• He will be cast into the Lake of Fire, thus
  isolated from God and all those with God,
  forever!
• NKJ Revelation 2010 The devil, who deceived
  them, was cast into the lake of fire and
  brimstone where the beast and the false prophet
  are. And they will be tormented day and night
  forever and ever.
• NKJ 1 Corinthians 1555 "O Death, where is your
  sting? O Hades, where is your victory?" 56 The
  sting of death is sin, and the strength of sin is
  the law. 57 But thanks be to God, who gives us
  the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.

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• NKJ Ezekiel 2815 You Lucifer who became Satan
  were perfect in your ways from the day you were
  created, Till iniquity was found in you. 16 "By
  the abundance of your trading You became filled
  with violence within, And you sinned Therefore I
  cast you as a profane thing Out of the mountain
  of God And I destroyed you, O covering cherub,
  From the midst of the fiery stones. 17 "Your
  heart was lifted up because of your beauty You
  corrupted your wisdom for the sake of your
  splendor I cast you to the ground, I laid you
  before kings, That they might gaze at you. 18
  "You defiled your sanctuaries By the multitude of
  your iniquities, By the iniquity of your trading
  Therefore I brought fire from your midst greed
  It devoured you, And I turned you to ashes upon
  the earth In the sight of all who saw you. 19
  All who knew you among the peoples are astonished
  at you You have become a horror, And shall be no
  more forever." ' " (words in added by author)

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• NKJ 1 Corinthians 153 For I delivered to you
  first of all that which I also received that
  Christ died for our sins according to the
  Scriptures, 4 and that He was buried, and that He
  rose again the third day according to the
  Scriptures,
• NKJ Romans 13 concerning His Son Jesus Christ
  our Lord, who was born of the seed of David
  according to the flesh, 4 and declared to be the
  Son of God with power according to the Spirit of
  holiness, by the resurrection from the dead.
• NKJ Romans 424b It righteousness shall be
  imputed to us who believe in Him who raised up
  Jesus our Lord from the dead, 25 who was
  delivered up because of our offenses, and was
  raised because of our justification. (words in
  added by author)
• NKJ Romans 109 that if you confess with your
  mouth the Lord Jesus and believe in your heart
  that God has raised Him from the dead, you will
  be saved.

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• Then followed a promise from the Lord to send an
  Angel before them unto the promised land
• In case if His Presence went with them they
  should be consumed on the way when they rebelled
• Because God destroys evil as light blots out
  darkness
• Sin was the motion of the evil spirit in
  opposition to the Word of God
• God is present in His Word and reveals Himself in
  it
• The whole power of evil is to shut God out from
  the heart by deceit and lies that the self
  pleasing heart loves

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• The devil can only oppose God in this world
  through the hearts of those who were created in
  His image
• God COVERS and Protects the repentant in His
  MERCY
• But the rebellious cut themselves off from the
  MERCY and the covering
• Consequently, they are the immediate target and
  prey of the destructive spirits that seek to
  obliterate the goodness of God with evil

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• NKJ 1 Peter 58 Be sober, be vigilant because
  your adversary the devil walks about like a
  roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour.
• NKJ Mark 415 "And these are the ones by the
  wayside where the word is sown. When they hear,
  Satan comes immediately and takes away the word
  that was sown in their hearts.
• They did not guard the word of God by constantly
  giving attention to it therefore, Satan stole it
  from them
• NKJ 2 Corinthians 44 whose minds the god of this
  age has blinded, who do not believe, lest the
  light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who
  is the image of God, should shine on them.
• Without the Word of God we are blind

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• NKJ Exodus 3315 Then he said to Him, "If Your
  Presence does not go with us, do not bring us up
  from here. 16 "For how then will it be known that
  Your people and I have found grace in Your sight,
  except You go with us? So we shall be separate,
  Your people and I, from all the people who are
  upon the face of the earth."
• Moses, as God intended him to do, pled with God
  that His Presence should go with them, or else
  not take them to the Land
• Note that the motive of this prayer request was
  concern for what God would get out of the answer
  and not Moses - this is the secret to answered
  prayer (i.e., seeking only what God gets out of
  it)

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• NKJ James 42 You lust and do not have. You
  murder and covet and cannot obtain. You fight and
  war. Yet you do not have because you do not ask.
  3 You ask and do not receive, because you ask
  amiss, that you may spend it on your pleasures.
• Two questions to diagnose our motives in prayer
• What does God get out of the prayer request?
• What does God want to get out of the prayer
  request?
• NKJ John 171 Jesus spoke these words, lifted up
  His eyes to heaven, and said "Father, the hour
  has come. Glorify Your Son, that Your Son also
  may glorify You,
• Note Jesus motive in prayer was always to bring
  Glory and Honor to His/our Heavenly Father
• You can not improve on Jesus - our Perfection!

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• NKJ Exodus 33 17 So the LORD said to Moses, "I
  will also do this thing that you have spoken for
  you have found grace in My sight, and I know you
  by name.
• God answered Yes to the prayer request with a
  motive concerned about Gods reputation
• NKJ Matthew 77 " Ask, and it will be given to
  you seek, and you will find knock, and it will
  be opened to you.
• We need to take in the whole counsel of God (the
  Bible) to realize that it is not talking about
  just asking for anything in prayer and getting it
• We must abide in God, as Moses did on the
  mountain, so that we learn to ask for the things
  that are in line with Gods will and plan
• NKJ John 157 "If you abide in Me, and My words
  abide in you, you will ask what you desire, and
  it shall be done for you.

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• NKJ Psalm 374 Delight yourself also in the LORD,
  And He shall give you the desires of your heart.
• By spending quantity time with the Lord we will
  have the quality of relationship where our
  selfish desires are replaced with His merciful
  desires
• This is what happened to Moses starting with the
  Burning Bush experience
• God fulfills these desires when we ask in prayer
• NKJ 2 Corinthians 120 For all the promises of
  God in Him are Yes, and in Him Amen, to the glory
  of God through us.
• NKJ 1 John 514 Now this is the confidence that
  we have in Him, that if we ask anything according
  to His will, He hears us. 15 And if we know that
  He hears us, whatever we ask, we know that we
  have the petitions that we have asked of Him.

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• NKJ 1 John 321 Beloved, if our heart does not
  condemn us, we have confidence toward God. 22 And
  whatever we ask we receive from Him, because we
  keep His commandments and do those things that
  are pleasing in His sight.
• Only a heart full of MERCY is not condemned
• Only by spending quality time with the Great
  Mercy-er will we have a heart full of MERCY
• We will only keep His commandments and do those
  things pleasing in His sight as God floods us
  with MERCY while we are spending quality time Him
• Becoming a MERCY-ER is the key to the victorious
  Christian life!

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• NKJ Exodus 3318 And he said, "Please, show me
  Your glory." 19 Then He said, "I will make all
  My goodness pass before you, and I will proclaim
  the name of the LORD before you. I will be
  gracious to whom I will be gracious, and I will
  have compassion on whom I will have compassion.
• The last part in the Hebrew reads, I will grace
  whom I will grace, and I will compassion whom I
  will compassion.
• Moses was not only humble, blindly obedient to
  the commandments of the Law, but he was also
  PARTAKER, in utter lowliness, of the MERCY that
  God associates with his NAME

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• Exodus chapters 32, 33, and 34 depict a mighty
  conflict against the truth of God
• For if it was not wanted, and His Presence was
  spurned, then the evil spirit would win the day,
  and the Word of God would be overthrown
• Everything depended on Moses FAITH and lowliness
• Yet Moses himself was sustained by the Presence
  of the Lord and by the very truth that was in
  contest
• For Moses had found the Lord to be faithful and
  good, and full of mercy and compassion and
  gracious

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• In this terrific pressure, humility alone - as
  some people think of it - was not sufficient to
  make him able to STAND AGAINST THE ADVERSARY
• He had to PARTAKE of the peculiar Something
  which constitutes the WILL of God, in order to be
  able to stand
• Everything depended upon whether he KNEW GOD well
  enough to be able to bear the intercession for
  sin
• Moses STOOD in faith
• He was not repelled from God but drawn more
  closely to Him in his intercessions by which the
  evil spirit was overthrown

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• NKJ Exodus 3320 But He said, "You cannot see My
  face for no man shall see Me, and live. 21 And
  the LORD said, "Here is a place by Me, and you
  shall stand on the rock. 22 "So it shall be,
  while My glory passes by, that I will put you in
  the cleft of the rock, and will cover you with My
  hand while I pass by. 23 "Then I will take away
  My hand, and you shall see My back but My face
  shall not be seen.
• Moses in all, and above all, wanted God - to know
  Him, and love Him, and please Him
• So God made Moses His Intercessor, to stand
  between the people and the evil spirit that was
  bent upon their destruction
• The Intercessor was set to deliver them, for that
  was like God Himself, and it was the working of
  His Spirit

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• NKJ Exodus 345 Now the LORD descended in the
  cloud and stood with him there, and proclaimed
  the name of the LORD. 6 And the LORD passed
  before him and proclaimed, "The LORD, the LORD
  God, merciful and gracious, longsuffering, and
  abounding in goodness and truth, 7 "keeping
  mercy for thousands, forgiving iniquity and
  transgression and sin, by no means clearing the
  guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon
  the children and the children's children to the
  third and the fourth generation." 8 So Moses
  made haste and bowed his head toward the earth,
  and worshiped. 9 Then he said, "If now I have
  found grace in Your sight, O Lord, let my Lord, I
  pray, go among us, even though we are a
  stiff-necked people and pardon our iniquity and
  our sin, and take us as Your inheritance."

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• And Moses request for God, instead of an angel,
  to go with them was granted, because he believed
  what-God-said-about-Himself
• He believed what God IS
• It is important to notice here, that the words
  which God used, in proclaiming His NAME to Moses,
  make up a grouping that describe what He IS
• In this group that describes what-He-is we find
  the very center, and heart of the revelation of
  God to mankind
• In fact, these words can be said to makeup the
  Name of the Lord

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• They made up the flesh and blood life of Jesus
  Christ when He came, centuries later, to make
  cleansing for sin and reveal on earth Gods
  salvation
• The Lord God IS merciful, gracious,
  longsuffering, abundant in goodness (hhesed),
  keeping mercy for thousand, forgiving iniquity,
  and transgression, and sin
• These things are repeated in order to emphasize,
  as the Bible does, that is what He IS

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• Therefore, the institution of the Old Covenant
  Law began in this revelation of God
• In it, and through it, the great-identifying-disti
  nction of the Lord was MERCY - mercy and truth
• Truth has to do with the faithfulness of His Word
  - that He keeps His word
• His Word has to do with the truth of what He is
• And the testimony of His Own Word is that He is
  MERCY
• Mans arguments are meaningless apart from Gods
  own revelation of what He IS

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• We have shown the revelation of what the LOVE of
  the God-of-love IS
• The love of the God-who-is-love has to be
  understood by what the BIBLE teaches about Him,
  and about it
• This grouping of divine words is the very fabric
  of THE WHOLE BIBLE
• Without them there would be no unity in the Bible
• With them, the scriptures stand impregnable
  against all the forces of evil and of the lying
  spirit that corrupts the world

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• Taking LOVE as the all-inclusive term
• GRACE is The FACE of love
• COMPASSION is the MOVING of Love to seek and to
  suffer, and to do good
• MERCY is the ACTION, the deed of Love, or,
  Love-in-action
• These three make a One, called Good, as opposed
  to that which is called evil
• The Love-of-God has to be known as the good love,
  or, the love of good
• For the power of sin and death lies in the
  opposite to divine love the love of evil, or,
  evil love
• The love of evil is coveting-love
• Coveting love is lust

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• We are studying what the BIBLE teaches about
  mercy
• We have seen something of what is taught in the
  Psalms and are now considering what is taught in
  the Law - called the Law of Moses
• The Law includes the first five books of the
  Bible
• We are gaining an insight into the Mind of The
  Spirit
• The Mind of the Spirit is life and peace
• Perfect peace and the REST of God are obtained
  only in this mind, also called the Mind of
  Christ
• The peculiarity of that mind is an utter lowliness

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• NKJ Philippians 21 Therefore if there is any
  consolation in Christ, if any comfort of love, if
  any fellowship of the Spirit, if any affection
  and mercy, 2 fulfill my joy by being
  like-minded, having the same love, being of one
  accord, of one mind. 3 Let nothing be done
  through selfish ambition or conceit, but in
  lowliness of mind let each esteem others better
  than himself. 4 Let each of you look out not
  only for his own interests, but also for the
  interests of others. 5 Let this mind be in you
  which was also in Christ Jesus, 6 who, being in
  the form of God, did not consider it robbery to
  be equal with God, 7 but made Himself of no
  reputation, taking the form of a bondservant, and
  coming in the likeness of men. 8 And being found
  in appearance as a man, He humbled Himself and
  became obedient to the point of death, even the
  death of the cross.

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• What the Bible teaches about MERCY has a very
  large part in the structure of that Lowly Mind of
  peace and rest
• Are you willing for your ideas to be formed from
  GODs WORD?
• Do you want a mind like HIS?
• Do you desire to understand the knowledge of His
  Will?
• Here you should find how to answer all of those
  questions so that a million years from now you
  can thank Him for what happened in you life on
  Earth by an understanding of His MERCY!

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Prayer

• Blessed Father, we thank You. It is beyond our
  reach and beyond our vision to know such things
  as these. But in Your never changing faith and
  truth You have made us near by the blood of
  Christ and given us access by the Holy Spirit, to
  Yourself. Though You are hidden from view in Your
  Love, You have, nevertheless, revealed what Your
  love IS. We come to You under that precious
  blood and ask You to guide us to enter and abide
  as You have commanded us to do. And we ask You
  to guide us into the knowledge which You have so
  freely offered. We would know You. For the glory
  of the King of glory and of Israel. Amen

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• The Law in the Hebrew classification comprises
  the first five Books of the Old Covenant called
  the Torah (the Hebrew word for Law is Torah)
• Torah is from a root that means to teach
  therefore, it means teaching instruction or
  doctrine
• Being the the teaching, or instruction, of GOD it
  is called Law in the English
• The authority of the Torah arises from the one
  whose teaching it is - GOD
• Because it is the teaching from God concerning
  how the Israelites were to live in those days,
  Torah is the law in the highest sense of the
  word

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• Yet it was not altogether a negative teaching on
  what men should NOT do, with various penalties
  attached for disobedience
• In those five books that are included in the
  Torah there is very much about the LORD Himself,
  and includes the history of the world, and of the
  Abrahamic race, and the covenants of God with the
  people of the world and of that race
• There is no other Law like it in the worlds
  history
• In this ancient Torah the Person of the LORD God
  is in every detail of it His Presence, His Word,
  His People, His Tabernacle, His Purposes, His
  Love, His Anger, His Promises, His Glory

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• His Power - everything, in fact, HE is the Source
• He is the Center
• He is the End
• The very language is HIS language
• The meaning of the words in the Hebrew language
  take on a color, significance, illumination,
  depth, foreverness, beauty, intimacy, unity with
  the heavens - a long list
• The Heavens and the Earth are His
• The Land - of Israel - is His
• The sea is His everything in them all is His
• The past, present, and future are HIS

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• A book could be written on the subject of the
  uniqueness of the ancient Hebrew language
• In that unique language there is one term which,
  perhaps, stands out from, or beyond, or above,
  everything else
• It stands out so because it names a Something
  that enters into every life as the very support
  of life
• That term is HHESED translated MERCY
• But the word means vastly more than the average
  person thinks of when they hear or use the word
  MERCY
• The word denotes lovingkindness - a passion of
  love to do good to some one

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• Hhesed, lovingkindness, is to mankind what the
  light and warmth of the suns rays are to the
  earth and its creatures
• Take away the suns RAYS, and everything would
  fade away in death
• Take HHESED-MERCY-LOVINGKINDNESS out of the world
  and the same thing would happen to human life -
  both physically and spiritually
• Hhesed-mercy is to the Creation and to creatures
  what the blood is to the body or oil to an engine
• And much more because MERCY is like the rain, and
  the warmth, and the light, and all provisions for
  all needs

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• Neither the Old Covenant nor the New Covenant
  would be anything or have any meaning apart from
  that MERCY
• In fact human life would have no meaning without
  it
• And that is what is the matter with human beings
  they do not KNOW
• We begin our examination of Mercy-in-the-law in
  the middle of Exodus which is the second book of
  the five in the Torah
• The reason for this is in order to come to the
  GIVING of the Law, directly at the Source

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• There is too much about the subject in the Torah
  for us to take more than a few studies of it
• Consequently, this study will take a sequence in
  the understanding of the word, and words, used
  that name this Personality-of-GOD
• It will greatly assist your study to read Exodus
  Chapters 24 - 27
• A person could read a whole book on gold digging
  and gold washing, with many interesting and
  exciting things connected with the finding of
  gold
• However, no gold would result from the pages
  unless the reader DID something about going and
  digging or washing for the gold

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• The commandment of the Lord to Moses was to take
  an offering from all whose hearts willingly
  offered, and construct a Tabernacle (a
  Tent-of-meeting)
• NKJ Exodus 354 And Moses spoke to all the
  congregation of the children of Israel, saying,
  "This is the thing which the LORD commanded,
  saying 5a 'Take from among you an offering to
  the LORD. Whoever is of a willing heart, let him
  bring it as an offering to the LORD... 20 And all
  the congregation of the children of Israel
  departed from the presence of Moses. 21 Then
  everyone came whose heart was stirred, and
  everyone whose spirit was willing, and they
  brought the LORD's offering for the work of the
  tabernacle of meeting, for all its service, and
  for the holy garments.

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• The Israelites gave so much for the building of
  the Tent-of-Meeting that Moses had to tell them
  to stop bringing offerings for it
• Imagine people stirred to give to the point of
  giving to excess! MERCY!
• NKJ Exodus 364 Then all the craftsmen who were
  doing all the work of the sanctuary came, each
  from the work he was doing, 5 and they spoke to
  Moses, saying, "The people bring much more than
  enough for the service of the work which the LORD
  commanded us to do." 6 So Moses gave a
  commandment, and they caused it to be proclaimed
  throughout the camp, saying, "Let neither man nor
  woman do any more work for the offering of the
  sanctuary." And the people were restrained from
  bringing,

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• It was to be the LORDs Tent in the midst of the
  great encampment of the tents of Israel
• The specifications were exact concerning every
  detail of that Tent, the various instruments of
  service, and the surrounding wall of boards
• Everything was planned to make it possible to
  take it down and re-erect it with speed
• Israel was on the move toward the Promised Land

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• The presence of the LORD was visibly with them in
  a pillar of cloud by day and a pillar of fire by
  night
• The tabernacle, or tent, was to be peculiarly the
  place where the Fire rested
• All this was GODS plan, fitted to the revelation
  He was giving of Himself
• The Tabernacle that Moses constructed contains
  many prophetic pictures of Jesus including how we
  are to approach and relate to God

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• NKJ Hebrews 81 Now this is the main point of the
  things we are saying We have such a High Priest,
  who is seated at the right hand of the throne of
  the Majesty in the heavens, 2 a Minister of the
  sanctuary and of the true tabernacle which the
  Lord erected, and not man. 3 For every high
  priest is appointed to offer both gifts and
  sacrifices. Therefore it is necessary that this
  One also have something to offer. 4 For if He
  were on earth, He would not be a priest, since
  there are priests who offer the gifts according
  to the law 5 who serve the copy and shadow of
  the heavenly things, as Moses was divinely
  instructed when he was about to make the
  tabernacle. For He said, "See that you make all
  things according to the pattern shown you on the
  mountain." (cf. Exodus 2540)

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• The tabernacle was to prophetically point the way
  to Jesus therefore, no error was allowed in its
  construction
• That is why God warned Moses to build the
  Tabernacle exactly as it was shown to him on
  Mount Sinai (Exodus 2415-18)
• To accomplish this perfection the Holy Spirit
  would come upon men to build the tabernacle and
  its furnishings with the result that it was
  constructed without error
• These anointed craftsmen were also given the
  ability to teach others what they were taught by
  the Holy Spirit.

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• NKJ Exodus 311 Then the LORD spoke to Moses,
  saying 2 "See, I have called by name Bezalel the
  son of Uri, the son of Hur, of the tribe of
  Judah. 3 "And I have filled him with the Spirit
  of God, in wisdom, in understanding, in
  knowledge, and in all manner of workmanship, 4
  "to design artistic works, to work in gold, in
  silver, in bronze, 5 "in cutting jewels for
  setting, in carving wood, and to work in all
  manner of workmanship. 6 "And I, indeed I, have
  appointed with him Aholiab the son of Ahisamach,
  of the tribe of Dan and I have put wisdom in the
  hearts of all who are gifted artisans, that they
  may make all that I have commanded you 7 "the
  tabernacle of meeting, the ark of the Testimony
  and the mercy seat that is on it, and all the
  furniture of the tabernacle -- 8 "the table and
  its utensils, the pure gold lampstand with all
  its utensils, the altar of incense, 9 "the altar
  of burnt offering with all its utensils, and the
  laver and its base -- 10 "the garments of
  ministry, the holy garments for Aaron the priest
  and the garments of his sons, to minister as
  priests, 11 "and the anointing oil and sweet
  incense for the holy place. According to all that
  I have commanded you they shall do." (cf. Exodus
  3530-35)

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• Jesus gave witness that even the law pointed to
  His coming.
• NKJ Matthew 1113 "For all the prophets and the
  law prophesied until John. (See Luke 2425-27)
• Furthermore, the building of the tabernacle
  reveals the ultimate desire of God our Father
• NKJ Exodus 258 "And let them make Me a
  sanctuary, that I may dwell among them.
• Imagine the joy of God when He became flesh and
  dwelt amongst His people, Immanuel God with us!
• God for us (The Father), God with us (Jesus), God
  in us (the Holy Spirit)!

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• The tabernacle was constructed by the Israelites
  at the foot of Mount Sinai in 1445 BC just eleven
  months after the Exodus from Egypt
• It was central to Israels worship and
  sacrificial system for 485 years
• After the conquest of Canaan it was set up at
  Shiloh (Joshua 181) and remained there until
  about 1050 BC
• The Tent-of-meeting (the tabernacle) consisted of
  two parts The Holy Place and the Most Holy Place
• It was surrounded by an outer court yard - the
  third part

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• The first area we will begin with is the outer
  court
• It was formed by a 7.5 foot tall fence enclosing
  an area 75 feet wide by 150 feet long
• This is about the same size as an average house
  lot today
• In the center of this court was located the tent
  which containing the Holy Place and the Holy of
  Holies
• The outer court being open to the sky received
  the natural illumination of the Sun and Moon
• Here we learn our first truth - the tabernacle
  shows us that we are separated from a holy God
  however, there is a way into His presence

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• Just as there is only one way into the
  tabernacle, even so Jesus Christ is the only way
  to God our Father
• The Jews referred to the entrance of the outer
  court as "the Way, the entrance to the Holy Place
  as "the Truth" and the entrance to the Holy of
  Holies as the "the Life"
• NKJ John 146 Jesus said to him, "I am the way,
  the truth, and the life. No one comes to the
  Father except through Me.
• NKJ 1 John 223 Whoever denies the Son does not
  have the Father either he who acknowledges the
  Son has the Father also.
• NKJ John 109 "I am the door. If anyone enters by
  Me, he will be saved, and will go in and out and
  find pasture.

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• Note that the entrance is from the East which is
  where the Sun rises the Sun of Righteousness or
  the Daystar (our Sun is a star that shines in the
  day)
• NKJ Malachi 42 But to you who fear My name The
  Sun of Righteousness shall arise With healing in
  His wings And you shall go out And grow fat like
  stall-fed calves.
• NKJ 2 Peter 119 And so we have the prophetic
  word confirmed, which you do well to heed as a
  light that shines in a dark place, until the day
  dawns and the morning star rises in your hearts
• Even though it may seem that your life is in
  spiritual darkness - remember to look to the East
  - as the Son will rise again!

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• In order to reach the Holy Place (the first room
  in the tent) you must pass through the BRAZEN
  ALTAR (Exodus 271-8)
• It is centrally located in the outer court
  standing 4.5 feet high and 7.5 feet square made
  of acacia wood covered in bronze
• Each corner of the square altar has a horn that
  was used as a place to tie down the sacrifice
• The grate (covering) for the altar was made
  latter from the censors used in the rebellion of
  Korah (Numbers 1638,39)
• It was here that lambs were sacrificed to atone
  for the sins of the people
• When a person sinned, they were to bring a lamb
  to the priest who would kill it as a sacrifice
  for their sin(s)

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• The Brazen Altar represents the cross of our Lord
  Jesus
• NKJ John 129 The next day John saw Jesus coming
  toward him, and said, "Behold! The Lamb of God
  who takes away the sin of the world!
• It was at 300 PM that Jesus died on the cross
  which is the same time that the priest in the
  temple offered up the lamb on the Day of
  Atonement
• The lambs blood was then sprinkled by the High
  Priest on the Mercy Seat with the entrails of the
  lamb being burned

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• NKJ Hebrews 1310 We have an altar from which
  those who serve the tabernacle have no right to
  eat. 11 For the bodies of those animals, whose
  blood is brought into the sanctuary by the high
  priest for sin, are burned outside the camp. 12
  Therefore Jesus also, that He might sanctify the
  people with His own blood, suffered outside the
  gate. 13 Therefore let us go forth to Him,
  outside the camp, bearing His reproach. 14 For
  here we have no continuing city, but we seek the
  one to come.
• The altar in the passage above is referring to
  the cross of our Lord Jesus which was physically
  located outside the Gates of Jerusalem
• However, this altar does not just represent the
  one time sacrifice of Jesus

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• It also represents that the way into Gods
  presence is to daily die to self
• NKJ Luke 923 Then He said to them all, "If
  anyone desires to come after Me, let him deny
  himself, and take up his cross daily, and follow
  Me.
• NKJ Romans 121 I beseech you therefore,
  brethren, by the mercies of God, that you present
  your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable
  to God, which is your reasonable service.
• We are to be living sacrifices (i.e., alive to
  God but dead to sin)
• NKJ Romans 611 Likewise you also, reckon
  yourselves to be dead indeed to sin, but alive to
  God in Christ Jesus our Lord.

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• The entrails of the lamb were burned and God said
  that this was a sweet smelling