Category: Lectures on The Tabernacle by William McClure
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Lectures on The Tabernacle, by William McClure, The Inspection Of The Work By Moses
(Exodus 39:33 and 43). At last the work has been completed and the day of its inspection has come. From every part of the camp men and women come, bringing the work which they had made. All now passes under Moses’ eye, and as he notes that it has been done according…
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Lectures on The Tabernacle, by William McClure, The Workmen Of The Tabernacle
Or Service for the Lord Jesus and its Inspection at the Judgment Seat. (Exodus Chapters 35 to 40). We wish to call attention again to what is rather significant. As an introduction to this section of the book of Exodus we have the Sabbath brought in. It seems wholly unrelated…
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Lectures on The Tabernacle, by William McClure, The Material Used In The Tabernacle And How It Was Obtained
(Exodus 25:1-8; 35:4-39; 2 Corinthians 8:12). When God told Moses about the making of the Tabernacle, and showed him the pattern of it, he would at once see what a great amount of gold, silver, brass, etc., would be required. How is it all to be gotten? It would never occur to…
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Lectures on The Tabernacle, by William McClure, The Old Staves And The New Cart
(Exodus 25:13-14; 1 Samuel 6:7-18; 1 Chronicles 13:7). God was most explicit in His instructions as to the carrying of the Ark. “And thou shalt make staves of shittim wood, and overlay them with gold. And thou shalt put the staves into the rings by the side of the Ark, that it…
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Lectures on The Tabernacle, by William McClure, The Ark And Mercy-Seat
(Exodus 25:10-22). We have now reached the last of the Holy Vessels. It was the first one of which God spoke, but it is the last we meet as we come in. We pointed out before the significance of this. We begin where God ends. He began with the Ark…
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Lectures on The Tabernacle, by William McClure, The Golden Altar Of Incense
Or, Christ’s Present Priestly Service. (Exodus 30:1-10). The Golden Altar stood in the Holy Place before the Veil. It was made of acacia wood, and covered with gold. It was 1 cubit, or 1 foot 9 inches square; and 2 cubits, or 3 feet 6 inches high. Its size was…
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Lectures on The Tabernacle, by William McClure, The Golden Table And The Shewbread
The Believer in Communion with God. (Exodus 25:23-30. Leviticus 24:5-9). The Table and its Loaves bring up some very precious thoughts, which must ever cluster around it. It takes us far beyond mere provision for our need, though there is that in it. The Psalmist could speak of God preparing a…
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Lectures on The Tabernacle, by William McClure, The Seven-Branched Lampstand
Christ and the Church in Life and Testimony. (Exodus 25:31-40). There is a wonderful wealth of teaching in the Lampstand (as it should be translated, not Candlestick). It brings before us—1st, the Holy Spirit; 2nd, the Lord Jesus Christ; 3rd, our Lord Jesus Christ and His people in union with Him; 4th,…
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Lectures on The Tabernacle, by William McClure, The Veil And Its Rending
(Exodus 26:31-32). “And thou shalt make a veil of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen of cunning work; with cherubin shall it be made; and thou shalt hang it upon four pillars of shittim wood, overlaid with gold, upon four sockets of silver” (Exodus 26:31. “Having therefore,…
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Lectures on The Tabernacle, by William McClure, The Boards Of The Tabernacle
“Builded together for an habitation of God”—(Ephesians 2:22). Here we have the framework of the Tabernacle. 48 boards, 10 cubits (17 ½ feet) high, and 1½ cubits (2 feet 7½ inches) broad, 20 on each side, and 8 on the end. The boards were acacia wood, overlaid with gold. Five…
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Lectures on The Tabernacle, by William McClure, The Half Shekel In The New Testament
(Matthew 17:24-27). That the half shekel is in the New Testament is new to many of the Lord’s people. Those who use the Revised Version will most likely have seen it. In this passage, those who gathered the half shekel, came to Peter and asked him, “Doth not your Master…
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Lectures on The Tabernacle, by William McClure, The Silver Sockets: Or The Atonement Money
(Exodus 30:11-16; 38:27). This is one of the plainest types of redemption to be found in the Word of God. The men of Israel from twenty years old and upward were to be numbered, and at their numbering they must give the half shekel as a “ransom for their souls.” There…
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Lectures on The Tabernacle, by William McClure, The Door
(Exodus 26:36, 37; John 10:7, 9). You will notice in John 10 we have two doors named. In verse 9, we have a door of which the Lord says, “I am the Door; by Me if any man enter in he shall be saved.” In verse 7, another door is spoken of, but of…
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Lectures on The Tabernacle, by William McClure, The Coverings And Curtains
(Exodus 26:1-14). What we have read together brings before us what we may speak of as the Sanctification, Consecration, Expiation, and Exaltation of Christ. The first set of Curtains, which is properly called the Tabernacle, was formed of ten curtains, each 28 cubits long and 4 cubits wide. This allowed…
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Lectures on The Tabernacle, by William McClure, The Court Wall And Its 60 Pillars.
The Security, Stability, Unity, and Responsibility of Believers. (Read Exodus 27, verses 9-19). We speak to-night of the Court Wall and its sixty pillars, which surrounded the Tabernacle. It was 100 cubits long and 50 cubits wide. That would be about 175 by 87 feet. Its height was 5 cubits,…
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Lectures on The Tabernacle, by William McClure, The Brazen Laver
or Christ’s Unfinished Work. (Exodus 30:17-21. John 17:17. Ephesians 5:25-26). “For Christ is not entered into the holy places made with hands, which are the figures of the true; but into heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God for us” (Hebrews 9:24). Then as the priest entering the holiest with the…
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Lectures on The Tabernacle, by William McClure, The Brazen Altar
Or, the Finished Work of Christ. (Exodus 27:1-8). Before we speak of the Altar as connected with the Tabernacle, we shall trace its developement in the Word of God. And in the growing clearness in the truth of the Altar, we shall see has its counterpart in the gradual unfoldings…
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Lectures on The Tabernacle, by William McClure, The Gate Of The Court
In giving His instructions regarding the making of the Tabernacle, God began with the Ark and Mercy Seat, His own throne, and ended with the Gate. We shall begin where God ended, which reminds us that as to salvation, we began where Christ ended, with a finished work. As the…
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Lectures on The Tabernacle, by William McClure, Introduction
The days predicted in 1 Timothy 4:1, 2 Timothy 4:3-4 are upon us. The Bible as God’s revelation to man has now a different and much more dangerous class of enemies than the open and avowed infidel of the past. The faith of the masses in the Bible is being undermined by the…
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Lectures on The Tabernacle, by William McClure, Synopsis Of Subjects
I. Introduction Why the Instruction for the Vessels before the Tabernacle? Why Eleven chapters about the making of the Tabernacle, and less than two for creation? The teaching of the Tabernacle, a witness to the inspiration of the Bible. II. The Gate of the Court Man at a distance from…
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