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Book: Exodus

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Privilege & Purpose in the Service of God

The Jewish tabernacle prefigured the heavenly temple
The idea of temple does not begin with the tabernacle itself; the tabernacle was only one iteration of the heavenly order. Its various figures on the earth—the tabernacles and temples of scripture—are divine patterns that reveal a higher and heavenly order. In this way, the pagan idea is refuted. Heaven is not servant to the affections of earthly men.
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When History Serves Prophecy

The Exodus & Eschatology
This is why it is never sufficient to speak of Egypt in the shallowest aspects of its typology, as if its contrast to Israel were merely ethical—or that ethics can be separated from God’s revelation of himself. If the distinction between Egypt and Canaan were confined to the realm of ethics and culture, Egypt could have sufficed as the resting place of the Hebrews.
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