A Tabernacle View of Thanksgiving, Christmas, and Easter

Joseph Clark

“Should Christians celebrate these holidays?

Thanksgiving and the Outer Court

The Outer Court

Brazen Altar for sacrificesBrazen Laver for cleansing

Thanksgiving

The Pilgrims where looking to purify their religion and were willing to make any sacrifice necessary.

For Christians, Thanksgiving should be a time of not only being thankful for everything God has done for us, but it should also be a time for us to examine our “religion” to see how pure it is.

James 1:27 Pure and undefiled religion before God and the Father is this: to visit orphans and widows in their trouble, and to keep oneself unspotted from the world.

Ask yourself two questions

How much time and effort do I spend helping others?

How much of the world has started creating spots on me?

Christ is coming back for a bride without spot or blemish.

Inner Court and Christmas

Inner Court

Everything in the Inner Court speaks on Jesus being the Word of God.

Table of Shew bread which is a picture of Jesus as our bread of life.

The Menorah that gave off light which is a picture of Jesus being the great light of the world.

The Altar of Incense which is a picture of Prayer.

Christmas

For Christians, Christmas should be a time to praise God for who he is as revealed trough his son which was called Emanuel (God with us).

As we read the word of God, the father becomes more and more real to us.

the light (Jesus) that was put in us at salvation begins to shine brighter.

Jesus is at the right hand of the father making intercessory prayer for us.

After spending time thanking God for the blessings in our life and examining our self to make sure we are using those God given blessings to honor God, we must spend time praising him for who he is. Only then do we position ourselves to worship God with all that we are.

The Holy of Holies and Easter

The Holy of Holies

In The Holy of Holies we find The Ark of the Covenant.

This Ark of the Covenant was a box like object made of a special wood over laid with Gold.

It represented the covenant made by God to always be with his people.

In the New Testament we know that Jesus Christ is the representation of the new covenant made by God to never leave those that trust in him.

In the Bible wood speaks of the works of the flesh and gold speaks of kingship.

Just as the Ark of the Covenant was wood with gold covering it, Jesus was flesh covered by his eternal God given kingship.

Easter

Looking at Easter we can see how to truly worship God.

Easter is a time we celebrate the King of Kings and Lord of Lords laying down his life for the ones he loves.

John 15:13 Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.

To worship someone is to want to be just like them. On Easter, Christians should not only take time to honor God for the sacrifices made for them, but they should also take time to consider what they are doing for others.

The Bible tells us that just as we have been freely given a gift we should freely give it to others. You may never be asked to physically die for someone, but to truly worship God a Christian must be willing to die to their own desires in order to help others.

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