The Construction Of The TabernacleSample

CHRIST AND OUR SALVATION

We should carefully take note of the following: In value, God regarded every Israelite man the same, because each had to pay exactly the same atonement money - The rich shall not give more and the poor shall not give less (Exod. 30:15). Silver is here called "atonement money" (Exod. 30:16). God deems and treasures every sinner with the same value, thus the price to pay for everyone is exactly the same for the rich and poor, the king and the beggar, the largest and the smallest. Because God is not a respecter of persons (Rom. 2:11), every soul has the same value before God. Silver is symbolic of atonement money, redemption money and the price for a human soul (Exod. 30:11-16). Slaves were sold for silver (Exod 21:32), Joseph was sold for silver (Gen. 37:28), Jesus was betrayed for silver (Matt. 27:1-9); as was prophesied years earlier by the prophet Zechariah (Zech. 11: 12, 13).

The believer is bought at a price; Jesus Christ paid the price - "atonement money". His own holy, sinless blood. (See also Leviticus 17:11).

• knowing that you were not redeemed with corruptible things, like silver or gold, from your aimless conduct received by tradition from your fathers,  but with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot. (1 Pet. 1:18, 19)
• Therefore take heed to yourselves and to all the flock, among which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers, to shepherd the church of God which He purchased with His own blood. (Acts 20:28).
• For you were bought at a price; therefore glorify God in your body. (1 Cor. 6:20)

The relationship of Christ, the Lamb of God, with man is based on his work of atonement and His redemption of mankind from the curse of sin (Gal. 3:13). Based on the fact that sin is punished in Christ, and God is satisfied (reconciled), God may now receive and pardon the sinner who turns to Him. As a perfect man, Christ came as a propitiation for our sins (1 John 2:2; 4:10). His death in our place, was the fulfilment of the requirements of God's holiness and justice, that the soul that sins (Rom. 3:23) must die. God's wrath is turned away from us and so we are now redeemed and delivered in Christ Jesus (1 Tim. 2: 5, 6).

Christ is the foundation (1 Cor. 3:11) of our eternal salvation (reconciliation). The tabernacle, which is a shadow, rests on the atonement money received from the children of Israel. It was a shadow, an image of the price of redemption and reconciliation, the precious blood of Jesus Christ.