Symbols and Similitudes: Tabernacle

A Psalm of David. O LORD, who may abide in Your tent? Who may dwell on Your holy mountain?

My dwelling place will be with them; I will be their God, and they will be My people.

…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. …

So it was necessary for the copies of the heavenly things to be purified with these sacrifices, but the heavenly things themselves with better sacrifices than these.

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.