The Sunday School Lesson The Holy Place by David McGee
Feb 12, 2023
The Holy Place (39:46)
Referenced Scriptures: Exodus 25:23-40; Exodus 30:1-10; Leviticus 24:1-9; John 1:4-9; John 6:44-51; John 8:12; Revelation 5:6-10; Revelation 8:3-4
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The scriptures below are from the WEB Bible.
Exodus 25:23-40
23) "You shall make a table of acacia wood. Two cubits shall be its length, and a cubit its breadth, and one and a half cubits its height.
24) You shall overlay it with pure gold, and make a gold molding around it.
25) You shall make a rim of a handbreadth around it. You shall make a golden molding on its rim around it.
26) You shall make four rings of gold for it, and put the rings in the four corners that are on its four feet.
27) the rings shall be close to the rim, for places for the poles to carry the table.
28) You shall make the poles of acacia wood, and overlay them with gold, that the table may be carried with them.
29) You shall make its dishes, its spoons, its ladles, and its bowls to pour out offerings with. Of pure gold shall you make them.
30) You shall set bread of the presence on the table before me always.
31) "You shall make a lampstand of pure gold. Of hammered work shall the lampstand be made, even its base, its shaft, its cups, its buds, and its flowers, shall be of one piece with it.
32) There shall be six branches going out of its sides: three branches of the lampstand out of its one side, and three branches of the lampstand out of its other side;
33) three cups made like almond blossoms in one branch, a bud and a flower; and three cups made like almond blossoms in the other branch, a bud and a flower, so for the six branches going out of the lampstand;
34) and in the lampstand four cups made like almond blossoms, its buds and its flowers;
35) and a bud under two branches of one piece with it, and a bud under two branches of one piece with it, and a bud under two branches of one piece with it, for the six branches going out of the lampstand.
36) Their buds and their branches shall be of one piece with it, the whole of it one beaten work of pure gold.
37) You shall make its lamps seven, and they shall light its lamps to give light to the space in front of it.
38) Its snuffers and its snuff dishes shall be of pure gold.
39) It shall be made of a talent of pure gold, with all these accessories.
40) See that you make them after their pattern, which has been shown to you on the mountain.
Exodus 30:1-10
1) "You shall make an altar to burn incense on. You shall make it of acacia wood.
2) Its length shall be a cubit, and its breadth a cubit. It shall be square, and its height shall be two cubits. Its horns shall be of one piece with it.
3) You shall overlay it with pure gold, the top of it, the sides of it around it, and its horns; and you shall make a gold molding around it.
4) You shall make two golden rings for it under its molding; on its two ribs, on its two sides you shall make them; and they shall be for places for poles with which to bear it.
5) You shall make the poles of acacia wood, and overlay them with gold.
6) You shall put it before the veil that is by the ark of the testimony, before the mercy seat that is over the testimony, where I will meet with you.
7) Aaron shall burn incense of sweet spices on it every morning. When he tends the lamps, he shall burn it.
8) When Aaron lights the lamps at evening, he shall burn it, a perpetual incense before Yahweh throughout your generations.
9) You shall offer no strange incense on it, nor burnt offering, nor meal-offering; and you shall pour no drink-offering on it.
10) Aaron shall make atonement on its horns once in the year; with the blood of the sin offering of atonement once in the year he shall make atonement for it throughout your generations. It is most holy to Yahweh."
Leviticus 24:1-9
1) Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
2) Command the children of Israel, that they bring to you pure olive oil beaten for the light, to cause a lamp to burn continually.
3) Outside of the veil of the testimony, in the tent of meeting, shall Aaron keep it in order from evening to morning before Yahweh continually: it shall be a statute forever throughout your generations.
4) He shall keep in order the lamps on the pure lampstand before Yahweh continually.
5) You shall take fine flour, and bake twelve cakes of it: two tenth parts [of an ephah] shall be in one cake.
6) You shall set them in two rows, six on a row, on the pure table before Yahweh.
7) You shall put pure frankincense on each row, that it may be to the bread for a memorial, even an offering made by fire to Yahweh.
8) Every Sabbath day he shall set it in order before Yahweh continually; it is on the behalf of the children of Israel, an everlasting covenant.
9) It shall be for Aaron and his sons; and they shall eat it in a holy place: for it is most holy to him of the offerings of Yahweh made by fire by a perpetual statute.
John 1:4-9
4) In him was life, and the life was the light of men.
5) The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness hasn‘t overcome it.
6) There came a man, sent from God, whose name was John.
7) The same came as a witness, that he might testify about the light, that all might believe through him.
8) He was not the light, but was sent that he might testify about the light.
9) The true light that enlightens everyone was coming into the world.
John 6:44-51
44) No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws him, and I will raise him up in the last day.
45) It is written in the prophets, ‘They will all be taught by God.‘ Everyone who hears from the Father, and has learned, comes to me.
46) Not that any man has seen the Father, except he who is from God. He has seen the Father.
47) Most assuredly, I tell you, he who believes in me has eternal life.
48) I am the bread of life.
49) Your fathers ate the manna in the wilderness, and they died.
50) This is the bread which comes down out of heaven, that a man may eat of it, and not die.
51) I am the living bread which came down out of heaven. If anyone eats of this bread, he will live forever. Yes, the bread which I will give is my flesh, for the life of the world."
John 8:12
12) Again, therefore, Jesus spoke to them, saying, "I am the light of the world. He who follows me will not walk in the darkness, but will have the light of life."
Revelation 5:6-10
6) I saw in the midst of the throne and of the four living creatures, and in the midst of the elders, a Lamb standing, as though it had been slain, having seven horns, and seven eyes, which are the seven Spirits of God, sent forth into all the earth.
7) Then he came, and he took it out of the right hand of him who sat on the throne.
8) Now when he had taken the book, the four living creatures and the twenty-four elders fell down before the Lamb, each one having a harp, and golden bowls full of incense, which are the prayers of the saints.
9) They sang a new song, saying, "You are worthy to take the book, And to open its seals: For you were killed, And bought us for God with your blood, Out of every tribe, language, people, and nation,
10) And made them kings and priests to our God, And they reign on earth."
Revelation 8:3-4
3) Another angel came and stood over the altar, having a golden censer. Much incense was given to him, that he should add it to the prayers of all the saints on the golden altar which was before the throne.
4) The smoke of the incense, with the prayers of the saints, went up before God out of the angel‘s hand.
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