A large, movable tent structure used by the Jews as a place of worship before the Temple was built.
About Tabernacle
Place of worship during the earliest years of the history of Israel.
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Key References
You must make the tabernacle and design all its furnishings according to the pattern I show you.
For the generations to come, this burnt offering shall be made regularly at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting before the LORD, where I will meet you to speak with you.
On the day that the tabernacle, the Tent of the Testimony, was set up, the cloud covered it and appeared like fire above the tabernacle from evening until morning.
A tabernacle was prepared. In its first room were the lampstand, the table, and the consecrated bread. This was called the Holy Place.
All Scripture References (19)
Matthew (1)
So when you see standing in the holy place ‘the abomination of desolation,’ spoken of by the prophet Daniel (let the reader understand),
Acts (4)
where they presented false witnesses who said, “This man never stops speaking against this holy place and against the law.
Our fathers had the tabernacle of the Testimony with them in the wilderness. It was constructed exactly as God had directed Moses, according to the pattern he had seen.
‘After this I will return and rebuild the fallen tent of David. Its ruins I will rebuild, and I will restore it,
crying out, “Men of Israel, help us! This is the man who teaches everyone everywhere against our people and against our law and against this place. Furthermore, he has brought Greeks into the temple and defiled this holy place.”
Hebrews (11)
and who ministers in the sanctuary and true tabernacle set up by the Lord, not by man.
The place where they serve is a copy and shadow of what is in heaven. This is why Moses was warned when he was about to build the tabernacle: “See to it that you make everything according to the pattern shown you on the mountain.”
Now the first covenant had regulations for worship and also an earthly sanctuary.
A tabernacle was prepared. In its first room were the lampstand, the table, and the consecrated bread. This was called the Holy Place.
Behind the second curtain was a room called the Most Holy Place,
When everything had been prepared in this way, the priests entered regularly into the first room to perform their sacred duties.
By this arrangement the Holy Spirit was showing that the way into the Most Holy Place had not yet been disclosed as long as the first tabernacle was still standing.
But when Christ came as high priest of the good things that have come, He went through the greater and more perfect tabernacle that is not made by hands and is not a part of this creation.
In the same way, he sprinkled with blood the tabernacle and all the vessels used in worship.
For Christ did not enter a man-made copy of the true sanctuary, but He entered heaven itself, now to appear on our behalf in the presence of God.
We have an altar from which those who serve at the tabernacle have no right to eat.
Revelation (3)
And the beast opened its mouth to speak blasphemies against God and to slander His name and His tabernacle—those who dwell in heaven.
After this I looked, and the temple—the tabernacle of the Testimony—was opened in heaven.
And I heard a loud voice from the throne saying: “Behold, the dwelling place of God is with man, and He will dwell with them. They will be His people, and God Himself will be with them as their God.