Why The Tabernacle Silver and Gold Must Be Pure
Many thanks to our Father and Christ for your reply, Mike! There are many things I would like to say and ask, but I will refrain for now. It is very refreshing to receive a response from you. As you know, dealing with the topics on your site is a solitary walk… most times. What God has given you to share has me paused. Paused in a good way. I’ve read the story of many that you are assisting and their experiences are very similar to mine. I understand what it means to compare spiritual with spiritual and yes, I am struggling a bit with some scriptures and others are much clearer. I have read that no man is greater than John, but the least in the Kingdom is greater than John the Baptist. To think that I am seeking a calling higher than patriarchs and prophets almost defies belief until I read the scriptures that support it. So yes, some I struggle with, but it’s a good struggle. Before I came to your site, God had given me a desire to understand the meaning behind the symbols in scripture such as those that you write about. It seemed obvious that if one could understand the “code”, one’s understanding would increase exponentially. That desire was placed on the back burner, probably by the Beast. Finally, I was lead to your site and have been more thankful to God since. I have one comment from reading your lesson on metals. I was covering with a friend some of the scriptues you emphasize regarding the difference between base metals and precious and how that can relate to Levites vs Priest; called vs chosen. My friend is stuck on comparing physical with spiritual and rarely if ever will quote scripture in our conversations. Nevertheless, he is someone that will give me the time of day when it comes to God’s word. He pointed out something to me about metals as he at one time was a jeweler. Most metals that are used by us are not 100% pure. Pure metals are typically to soft to be used as building materials and another metal is added for strength. This he pointed out to me as I was trying to relay what I had read of the Copper/ Brass items in the outer court vs the gold and silver in the Holy Place, etc.
I thought about that and I believe that he is right, even though, he may be being to technical as in the case of Copper; only a small amount, comparatively, of another metal is added to any other to make an alloy such as Brass (copper and zinc) or Bronze (copper and tin). What he pointed out does not change the spiritual significance, I don’t think. Then I thought about the Gold and Silver being too soft and that they might need a small amount of a base metal in order to STRENGTHEN the Gold or Silver and make it more suitable for practical use. I wondered about the whole conversation for awhile… Then I thought about this evil experience that we all go through and the purpose and end result of God’s plan. I saw a correlation between having this fleshly/ earthly/ base metal experience as somehow necessary to STRENGTHEN us as we grow to Gold/ Saints or to strengthen our precious metals within us. Maybe I am seeing what I want to see…. stretching? Thanks for listening! D____
Hi D____,
I just read your introduction over on the discussion board. It was very interesting, and it sounded so very familiar. As I have said to our conference attendees on more than one occasion, we all have the same story, just the details vary, but every story is the same “revelation of Jesus Christ” in each of us.
You ask about the need for alloys in gold and silver in order to make them practical for men’s uses. That really is the essence of your question or the question of your jeweler friend. In the court of the tabernacle there may be a need for copper, but not so in the holy place or the holy of holies. By the time we enter into the holy of holies and are in a position to “look behind us to see the seven golden candlesticks” and “the voice that speaks to us,” all we need to be in that position is pure, soft and malleable gold and silver.
All the gold and silver do is to cover wooden boards and wooden furniture. In order to do that, the gold which covers everything must be very easy to work with and beat out and mold around all the furnishings of the tabernacle. That would be impossible if there were any impurities in that gold or that silver. The need in God’s tabernacle is to be easily molded by God, not to have impurities which give us strength within ourselves. Anything that strengthens us makes us useless to God.
I hope this helps you to see why your friend’s reasonings do not serve to make one fit for use in the holy place, nor in the holy of holies.
Psa 12:6 The words of the LORD are pure words: as silver tried in a furnace of earth, purified seven times.
Your brother in the Christ,
Mike
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