Tabernacle Lesson 3 The Boards "Our fathers had the
tabernacle of witness in the wilderness, as he had appointed speaking unto
Moses that he should make it according to the fashion that he had seen."
Acts 7:44 This lesson is about the
boards placed under the "Tent" and it's symbolic meaning.
1. The boards
are placed under the Tabernacle in the shape of a rectangle with only three
sides; North side, South Side and West side.
A. How many boards are on the North side?
to question 1A.
B. How many boards are on the South side?
to question 1B.
C. How many boards are on the West side?
to question 1C.
(Exodus 26:23 And two boards shalt thou make for the corners of the
tabernacle in the two sides.)
D. How many corner boards?
to question 1D.
E. What is the total of all boards?
to question 1E.
(Exodus 26:15 And thou shalt make boards for the tabernacle of
shittim wood standing up.)
2. The boards are made of wood.
to question 2.
(Exodus 26:29 And thou
shalt overlay the boards with gold, and make their rings of gold for
places for the bars: and thou shalt overlay the bars with gold.)
3. Each board is overlaid with
.
to question 3.
(Exodus 26:19 And thou shalt make forty sockets of silver under the twenty
boards; two sockets under one board for his two tenons, and two sockets under
another board for his two tenons.)
4. Each board has two tenons
and are set in two sockets of .
to question 4.
(Exodus 26:16 Ten cubits shall be the length of a board, and a
cubit and a half shall be the breadth of one board.)
5. Each board is cubits
long.
to question 5.
(Exodus 26:16 Ten cubits shall be the length of a board, and a
cubit and a half shall be the breadth of one board.)
6. Each board is cubit
wide.
to question 6.
(Exodus 26:16 Ten cubits shall be the length of a board, and a
cubit and a half shall be the breadth of one board.)
7. Each cubit equals 18
inches. Multiply the number of cubits in the length of a board by 18 and
divide by 12 and each board is feet
long.
to question 7.
(Exodus 26:16 Ten cubits shall be the length of a board, and a
cubit and a half shall be the breadth of one board.)
8. Each cubit equals 18
inches. Multiply the number of cubits in the width of a board by 18 and
divide by 12 and each board is feet
and inches wide.
to question 8.
(Exodus 26:26 And thou shalt make bars of shittim wood; five for
the boards of the one side of the tabernacle,)
9. The bars are made of wood.
to question 9.
(Exodus 26:29 And thou shalt overlay the boards with gold, and make their
rings of gold for places for the bars: and thou shalt overlay the
bars with gold.)
10. The bars are overlaid with .
to question 10.
(Exodus 26:29 And thou shalt overlay the boards with gold, and make their
rings of gold for places for the bars: and thou shalt overlay the
bars with gold.)
11. Each board has two rings
made of for the bars to go
through.
to question 11.
(Exodus
26:26-28 And thou shalt make bars of
shittim wood; five for the boards of the one side of the tabernacle, 27 And five bars for the boards of the other
side of the tabernacle, and five bars for the boards of the side of the
tabernacle, for the two sides westward. 28 And
the middle bar in the midst of the boards shall reach from end to end.)
12.
There are bars for each side.
to question 12.
(Exodus 36:33 And he made the middle bar to shoot through the boards from
the one end to the other.)
13. The middle bar on each
side is to through the boards
from one end to the .
to question 13.
14. Since the middle bar goes
through the center of each board, it is hidden, and that leaves bars
on the outside of each side and with three sides that gives a total of bars.
to question 14.
(Revelation 21:14 And the wall of the city had twelve foundations, and in them
the names of the twelve apostles of the Lamb.)
15. The 12 bars on the outside
are symbolic of the 12 of
the Lamb.
to question 15.
(1 Corinthians 6:19 What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy
Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own?)
16. The one bar that goes
through the center of the boards is symbolic of the
.
to question 16.
(Ephesians 2:21 In whom all the building fitly framed together groweth unto
an holy temple in the Lord)
17. The boards and bars under
the Tabernacle are symbolic of the local church which is the building framed
together groweth unto an holy in
the Lord.
to question 17.
Copyright (c) 2013 by Jerry L. Wells
about the Tabernacle
The Tabernacle is a witness of Jesus.
Every thing in the Tabernacle complex centers around the Tabernacle
"Tent", which is symbolic of Jesus. 
(Exodus 26:20 And for the second side of the tabernacle on the north side there
shall be twenty boards:)
