E26–4: If I Wanted To, I Could Find Yeshua in My Ice Coffee

I wanted to share some thoughts concerning the “spiritualizing” or “typifying” of the many aspects of the Wilderness Tabernacle.

I do believe the Lord wants us to recognize patterns and pictures in Scripture, but I think unless the Bible specifically calls something a “type” or “pattern”, we have no business saying that it is.

I believe there is plenty to learn from what the Bible teaches plainly without having to nit-pick what the Bible “implies” or “may say.”

And I’m sure you’re all very well aware of the lengths some people will go to in twisting the plain meaning of Scripture to fit one’s predetermined doctrinal assumptions.

I’ve been there myself, so I’m not pointing my finger at anybody.

While doing some research, I was amazed at the variety of interpretations out there that are applied to the colors and covering of the Tabernacle’s tent sanctuary.

For example, I heard one teacher say that the outer covering was plain in appearance and therefore pointed to Yeshua’s common appearance as prophesied in Isaiah 53 that “He was not well-formed or especially handsome; we saw him, but his appearance did not attract us.”