The Revelation of the Triune God

[traveller]

LOL! Patsy, I guess I expected everyone to just read my mind!

Thank you girlfriend.

[BlindSeeker]

I would like to open a discussion on the revelation of the Triune God in the Scriptures.

[Ovedya]

I guess one of the problems I am having is the water coming from the rock representing the

[traveller]

What is another example God-man?

[JesusisGod2]

Has anyone ever done a study on the tabernacle? the tabernacle is full of symblism of the Trinity especially Jesus Christ.

I am not totally up on all of it but have been in a few discussions with my pastor and find it very interesting. I am going to start reading a book on this very subject and will share what I have learned.

God-man I am in total agreement with you on this and believe that the scriptures are full of them. Jesus said that you search the scriptures for in them you think you have eternal life, and it is these that testify of Me.

Have you ever noticed the picture of the scape goat in leviticus?

in short there were two goats offered for the sins of Israel. Lots were cast for the two goats one for a blood sacrifice and the other the scape goat.

The high priest was to lay his hands on the scape goat and confess the sins of the people. (Lev 16:20-24) and all the sins of Israel were passed onto the scapegoat.

now notice in Matthew 3 the baptism of Jesus, John the baptist representing the high priest, laid his hands on Jesus passing the sins of the world onto Jesus.

back to leviticus 16:22 " And the goat shall bear upon it all thier iniquities unto a land not inhabited, and shall let go the goat in the wilderness"

as you can see the goat was lead to the wilderness and let go, this is symbolic of the Holy Spirit leading Jesus into the wilderness after he had taken the sins of the world upon Himself.

ok back to Matthew 4:1 "Then was Jesus led up by the Spirit into the wilderness.."

now back to leviticus and then Aaron was to offer the blood sacrifice for to (Jesus the high priest offering the blood sacrifice via the cross too the) to make attonement for himself and the people.

I find all this too hard to put in words, but with this in mind I believe you will really be blessed to go and read leviticus 16 and compare it to the Lord Jesus and His ministry on earth. Also you can see the Trinity in perfect unity for the sacrifice and forgiveness of sin.

I wish I was a little more articulate in my writting, but it is not one of my strong points, but maybe one day. but any way I hope you understand what I am trying to get across.

This chapter in lev 16 is very powerful in understanding the attonement for sin when read in harmony with Jesus and what He did for us.

John 1:29 "...Behold the Lamb who takes away the sin of the world"

[IslandRose]

I Love this thread! I'm not much at contributing, but I'm hanging on every word.

I heard a sermon once on how the Tabernacle represented Christ once that was so beautiful. Wish I could remember all the points. One I do remember was how the outside was covered in skins.......Isaiah 53:2 For he shall grow up before him as a tender plant, and as a root out of a dry ground: he hath no form nor comeliness; and when we shall see him, there is no beauty that we should desire him.

Wish I could remember all the points.....

IR

[Ovedya]

REally quick, then I have to go home and take care of the kids. I'll get into detail tomorrow...

The Tabernacle is related to the experience of the Christian life and the triune God can be viewed there also.

The Tabernacle in typology can be a picture of salvation and the church. To enter into the church, the Body of Christ, you must have two things, the blood and the water. To enter into the taberncle you must have the blood offering (the sacrifice) and you must wash your hands in the laver. Once in the holy place there are the furnishings. The showbread table represents Christ as food (John 6), then the lampstand represents the churches individually and corporately (fellowship and light - Rev. 1 - the lampstands), then the incense altar which represents the prayers of the saints (Also in Revelation, I'll have the verses tomorrow).

The Triune God in the Tabernacle: The water and laver - the washing in the water of the Word - a type of the Spirit, for life and for building up. The sacrifice on the altar - Christ as our eternal sacrifice (Hebrews 4, I think, "He entered once..."), and the Father seen in the holiest of holies (Also in Hebrews - Christ as our high priest entering once for all into the holiest of holies and pouring out His blood as an eternal sacrifice upon the altar. The writer of Hebrews uses the altar in the Tabernacle as a metaphore for heaven).

Like I said, I have more to add to this; this is only bare bones 'cause I gotta scoot. It may read kind of funny right now, but I'll expound more later so that it makes more sense.

[JesusisGod2]

Even the color of the threads that were woven on the breast plate, the gate, etc.

Blue = the baptism of Christ that took away the sins of the world

Red = The blood of Christ that was shed for the remission of sin

purple = the royalty of Christ as the King of Kings and Lord of Lords.

I too look forward to your next post God-man

[Ovedya]

The vision of Christ in the tabernacle.

In Exodus 25:8-9 God told His people to make a tabernacle. He gave them specific plans on how to build His future dwelling place in the midst of the children of Israel. In the tabernacle we can see Christ prefigured in each piece of the design. In John 1:14 we read that Christ, the Word become flesh, came and

[Ovedya]

WHEW! I told you it would be long....