Reformed Churchmen

We are Confessional Calvinists and a Prayer Book Church-people. In 2012, we remembered the 350th anniversary of the 1662 Book of Common Prayer; also, we remembered the 450th anniversary of John Jewel's sober, scholarly, and Reformed "An Apology of the Church of England." In 2013, we remembered the publication of the "Heidelberg Catechism" and the influence of Reformed theologians in England, including Heinrich Bullinger's Decades. For 2014: Tyndale's NT translation. For 2015, John Roger, Rowland Taylor and Bishop John Hooper's martyrdom, burned at the stakes. Books of the month. December 2014: Alan Jacob's "Book of Common Prayer" at: http://www.amazon.com/Book-Common-Prayer-Biography-Religious/dp/0691154813/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1417814005&sr=8-1&keywords=jacobs+book+of+common+prayer. January 2015: A.F. Pollard's "Thomas Cranmer and the English Reformation: 1489-1556" at: http://www.amazon.com/Thomas-Cranmer-English-Reformation-1489-1556/dp/1592448658/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1420055574&sr=8-1&keywords=A.F.+Pollard+Cranmer. February 2015: Jaspar Ridley's "Thomas Cranmer" at: http://www.amazon.com/Thomas-Cranmer-Jasper-Ridley/dp/0198212879/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1422892154&sr=8-1&keywords=jasper+ridley+cranmer&pebp=1422892151110&peasin=198212879

Monday, October 7, 2013

Mr. Paul Kiene: Inventory & "Working Definition" of Tabernacle in Sinatic Wilderness

Kiene, Paul F. The Tabernacle of God in the Wilderness of Sinai (trans. John S. Crandall). Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan Publishing House, 1976.
http://www.amazon.com/The-tabernacle-God-wilderness-Sinai/dp/0310362008/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1381115911&sr=8-1&keywords=paul+kiene+the+tabernacle+of+god

A lot is going on with the issue of the Tabernacle in Exodus and Leviticus--a lot.

As a working definition, we put this forward: the Tabernacle “might be” defined as the concrete space, sign, seal, symbol and instrument of grace—as the Word—where the realities of Divine justice, direction, grace, and mercy meet with the Divine dwelling in concrete time in history amongst a depraved, wicked, and fallen, but chosen and redeemed community, the covenanted objects and recipients of lovingkindnesses.

“And let them make me a sanctuary that I may dwell with them” (Ex. 25.8.)

Makeup of the Tabernacle, or, the materials:

Gold, silver, brass, blue, purple, byssus, goats’ hair, rams’ skins, dyed red, badgers’ skins, acacia wood, oil, spices, precious stones. Ex.25.1-9; 30.13-15; 35.3-29; 36.2-7

Holy Place:

• Gold table with 12 loaves of “showbread”
• Gold candlestick—6 branches with 7 lamps
• God altar of incense with 4 horns
• Gold instruments and vessels for service
• Ex. 25.23-40; 30.1-10; 37.10-28; 39.36-37; Lev. 24.1-9; Num.4.7, 11-12

Holies of holies:

• 4 gold pillars with silver bases
• 4-colored veil with cherubim
• Gold ark of covenant with staves (for transport)
• Gold mercy seat with cherubim
• Ex. 25.10-22; 26.31-33; 36.35-36; 37.1-9; Num. 4.5, 31; Heb. 9.5

Priest in holy garments: Ex. 28.1-40; 39.1-31; Lev. 8.1-9

Completed: Ex. 39.32-43; 40.17-38; Num. 9.15-16

Names (the names "talk," but not Pentecostalist babbeling):

1. Tent of meeting—Ex. 27.21
2. Tabernacle of Jehovah—Lev. 17.4
3. Tabernacle of testimony—Num. 1.50
4. Tent of testimony—Num. 9.15
5. Sanctuary of Jehovah—Num. 19.20
6. House of God—Jud. 18.31
7. House of Jehovah—1 Sam. 1.7
8. Temple of Jehovah—1 Sam. 1.9
9. Tabernacle of the testimony—Acts 7.44
10. Sanctuary of world—Heb. 9.1

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