Daily Devotional Day 87

Jesus used the temple or Tabernacle as a way to say, "Look at me. I'm the new Temple. I am the prototype for the people of God, the firstborn of many brethren."

"Whom He did foreknow, He also did predestine to be conformed to the image of His son that He might be the firstborn among many brethren. (Romans 8:29)

The Lord Jesus Christ is the key to understanding the Gospel according to Moses' and David's Tabernacles. When understood and observed in our lives, they are designed to bring us into the complete image of Jesus Christ. Jesus told us that Himself. The Tabernacles were the first visual Jesus gave of Himself. He refers to Himself as God's Temple." Jesus answered and said unto them, "Destroy this Temple, and in three days, I will raise it up. Then said the Jews, '40 and 6 years was the temple in building and wilt thou tear it up in 3 days?' But He spoke of the Temple of His body." (Hebrews 9)

This very statement that He was the new Temple, although twisted in the inquisition of the court at His sentencing, was the reason they crucified the Lord. It was because He claimed to be the new Temple or Tabernacle where God would be worshipped and they considered it blasphemy. He was saying that worship was moving from outside into inside out.

The truth He revealed is the very idea that got Him killed. It threatened the temple structure and the system the Jews had built around worship. It threatened the maintenance and the longevity of their religious systems. It threatened their religion, their pride, and their worth.

Meditate on the truth that you are the temple of the Holy Ghost. How does that affect your life, your worship, and your walk with the Lord?