What The Tabernacle Foreshadows

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Hello D____
Yes, the tabernacle does typify our flesh, soul and spirit.
But as we now are, we have a spirit but we are dust:

Gen 3:17  And unto Adam he said, Because thou hast hearkened unto the voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree, of which I commanded thee, saying, Thou shalt not eat of it: cursed [ is] the ground for thy sake; in sorrow shalt thou eat [ of] it all the days of thy life;
Gen 3:18  Thorns also and thistles shall it bring forth to thee; and thou shalt eat the herb of the field;
Gen 3:19  In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: f or dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return.
Job 32:8  But [ there is] a spirit in man: and the inspiration of the Almighty giveth them understanding.

Job does not say ‘man is a spirit” but “there is a spirit in man.” And that spirit is “the inspiration of the Almighty.”
When man dies that spirit returns to God, and the soul dies:

Eze 18:4  Behold, all souls are mine; as the soul of the father, so also the soul of the son is mine: the soul that sinneth, it shall die.
Eze 18:20 The soul that sinneth, it shall die. The son shall not bear the iniquity of the father, neither shall the father bear the iniquity of the son: the righteousness of the righteous shall be upon him, and the wickedness of the wicked shall be upon him.

So the spirit in man just like the spirit in a beast, it returns to God who gave it.

Ecc 12:7  Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was: and the spirit shall return unto God who gave it.

  It is not a spiritual body until it is resurrected:

1Co 15:44  It is sown a natural body; it is raised a spiritual body. There is a natural body, and there is a spiritual body.

So the outer court, the holy place and the holy of holies, are also typical of the three- step process of coming to God, waiting as an uncalled man in the camp, then as a called yet carnal Levite who cannot eat with the priests or enter the tabernacle and finally a called and chosen priest who can go into the holy of holies and commune with God.
Types and shadows many times foreshadow more then just one thing.
Thanks for sharing this with me. The Lord is giving you eyes to see and ears to hear.
Mike>

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