The Construction Of The TabernacleSample

THE FLOOR OF THE TABERNACLE

The floor of the tent was desert sand! Therefore, the priest's feet were always on the desert sand since there is no seat in the tabernacle to sit on. The priest had to do his work standing on the earth, the ground on which he walked. No floor and no seat meant that the priest was in constant contact with the earth, the desert sand. 

The Lord said after the Fall: Cursed is the ground for your sake (Gen. 3:17). 

Regardless of the tabernacle and its glory, redemption, atonement and salvation which it portrayed, man is reminded in his daily wanderings and labour that he was still living in a sinful dirty world. Jesus teaches us in John 13:10: He who is bathed (who is born again) needs only to wash his feet (purging of our daily sins), because we as children of God are still in a sinful world. 

We have a wonderful promise in 1 John 1:7: But if we walk in the light as He is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus Christ His Son cleanses us from all sin.

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