The Tabernacle H redemption for all who will put their trust in His beloved Son. From the Red Sea on, the story is one of wilderness wandering for forty years; and in Exodus we read of how God fed His people with the manna and gave them drink from the smitten rock. Christ said that the bread from heaven was but a type of Him who came down from the Father, the Bread of Life for a heart-hungry world. (See John 6:27-63.) And Paul wrote to the Cor- inthian Christians, saying that the smitten rock was a type of Christ-"That Rock was Christ" (I Cor. 10:4). He was "smitten of God, and afflicted" (Isaiah 53 :4), that the thirsty soul might drink the Living Water that gives everlasting life. In order to show His redeemed people how helpless they were in their own strength, how necessary it was for the sinless Son of God to keep His holy law, God gave to Israel the ten commandments and the detailed explana- tion of their meaning-in the book of Exodus. Israel pre- sumptuously said that she would obey God's law; but how little did she know her own frailty; for not long after- wards she had broken that holy law and was dancing, naked, around a golden calf! Idolatry, linked with heathen evils! "By the law is the knowledge of sin" (Rom. 3:20). And a people, redeemed by faith in the shed blood of Calvary's Lamb who was to come, learned that they could never, never measure up to God's perfect standard of holiness; that they needed a Saviour who could and would keep that law for them as none other could ever do. That is the story of Exodus up to the part which tells of the tabernacle, in which God was to dwell among His redeemed people. Beginning with chapter twenty-five, we have the description of the pattern of this sanctuary,
14 The Tabernacle one of the most perfect types of Jesus, "the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world" (John 1:29). We can not go into this beautiful lesson just here; but the sprinkled blood on the lintel and door posts, suggestive of the cross of Jesus; the eating of the lamb roast with fire; the safety of those sheltered behind the sprinkled blood- these are but a few of the lessons given to us in this first passover kept in Egypt. Did not the Lord Himself say unto Moses "When I see the blood, I will pass over you" (Exod. 12: 13)? And did not the inspired apostle say, many centuries later, "Even Christ our passover is sacri- ficed for us" (I Cor. 5:7)? It was not by accident or mere chance that the Lord Jesus was crucified on the feast of the passover, as all four of the evangelists plainly tell us. It was not by chance that He kept the last passover, the last supper, with His disciples just before He went to the cross. He came to die at His own appointed time-- the Passover Lamb! Redemption? What book in all the W otd of God tells a more heart-searching story of God's redemption in Christ Jesus than does this second book of Moses? Exodus is a continued story of God's redemption; for immediately after that first passover, Israel was delivered from the hosts of the Egyptians as she passed through the Red Sea on dry ground. The enemy pursued from behind; in front of her were the waters that spoke of death through drowning. On each side the mountains and the wilderness closed in around fleeing Israel. But God was the Guide. In the pillar of cloud by day and fire by night He led His people, standing between her and the enemy all night, causing the Red Sea to stand up like a wall on both sides, delivering His otherwise helpless, yet redeemed nation. It is another beautiful picture of God's
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