Exodus Study

1. What was the purpose of the tabernacle? Why did Moses build it?

2. List the furniture of the tabernacle and explain the purpose of each.

3. List the designated location of each piece of furniture of the tabernacle and the significance of that location.

4. What is the difference between the holy and the most holy place of the tabernacle? Who could enter each? Who could serve behind the bronze altar? What area of the tabernacle could the common man (Jews) enter?

5. Who could enter the holy place? What was the minimum times a day that they were to enter? What were their duties each day in the holy place?

6. Who could enter the most holy place? On what day? Explain what that person did in the most holy place?

7. What was the significance of the “ark of the covenant”? What was the lid of the ark called? What did God tell Moses that would take place there? What did God tell Moses to put inside the ark?

8. What does the New Testament say about the location of the temple today? What did Jesus do to the cover of the “true mercy seat” after His crucifixion? Give two New Testament illustrations about what is the New Testament tabernacle is today in regard to the individual Christian and the church.

9. What separated the holy place from the most holy place in the tabernacle? What happened to that item on the day of Christ’s crucifixion? What is the significance of that event?

10. What is the significance of question #9 in relationship with Hebrews 4:16? Meditate upon how we can function as a priest and have access to the throne of grace (mercy seat), the place where God told Moses He would meet with Him and comment on the rsults of your meditation.

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