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Tabernacle & Temple

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A Priesthood of Believers

How the tabernacle’s design informs believers about their present priesthood
For all of the anxiety that the Israelites—people and priests alike—must have felt in those moments before the high priest entered the holy place on that day, there was most certainly also a kind of relief to everyone after he reappeared from the tabernacle. After all, it was not by his mere entrance into the second tabernacle that the priest obtained peace, but by the high priest’s reappearance from there.
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A Better Kind of Priest

How the tabernacle's design confirms Christ's superior priesthood
In other words, for all the real anxiety that would have attended the high priest’s entrance into the far end of the tabernacle, it actually predicted a situation in which there would be no anxiety, but joy and glory in the service of God. That was the situation for which man had been first created; but after the Fall, that reality would only be accomplished by the Lord’s death, burial, and resurrection. One important point of the Day of Atonement was to proclaim how that joy and glory would be reclaimed by a death.
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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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