T’RUMAH Offering Exod 25:1-27:19

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Exo 25:1…bring Me an offering.

Terumah or offering that is lifted up – Romans 11:16 and John 12:32. For if the firstfruit is holy, the lump is also holy; and if the root is holy, also the branches….

The holiness of the first fruits in Romans is the first portion of the dough, which is literally lifted up and offered to יהוה as a representation of the rest of the lump. 

…After the pattern showed to Moshe on the Mt. 

The word pattern is translated from the word tav’niyt. This word is translated as pattern, form, likeness, or figure, its root is banah, to build, or a building plan. 

Banah is also the root for son. So the Son is in the pattern or likeness of the father. 

The tabernacle is to be divided into 3 distinct areas. 

1. the Most Holy Place
2. the Holy Place 
3. the court 

The Most Holy Place defines the heart of man, the Holy Place the mind or soulish area, and the court, the body. 

In the Most Holy Place there is only one article – the ark – the heart. Jer 31:31.

Exodus 25:1 And YHVH spoke unto Moses, saying, Speak unto the children of Israel, that they bring me an offering: of every man that gives it willingly with his heart ye shall take my offering. 

To give willingly or nadav means to do it in freedom, to flow from within.

Ephesians 2:19-22 – the Greater Tabernacle, the more perfect tabernacle, cannot be understood outside the first tabernacle. 

Hebrews 8:5 Who serve unto the example and shadow of heavenly things, as Moses was admonished of ’Elohiym when he was about to make the tabernacle; for, See, saith He, that thou make all things according to the pattern shown to thee in the mount.

Exodus 25:8 And let them make me a sanctuary, that I may dwell among them. According to all that I show thee, after the pattern of the tabernacle, and the pattern of all the furnishings thereof, even so shall ye make it.

Two Hebrew words that are translated as tabernacle. These are mishkan (משכן) and ohel (אהל). ohel generally speaks of the overhanging tent apparatus, and the mishkan of all the items that lift it up. The root of this word is ahal, which means to radiate or shine forth.

Genesis chapter 3:24:

So He drove out the man; and He placed at the east of the garden of Eden cherubim, and a flaming sword which turned every way, to keep the way of the tree of life. 

The words He placed is literally translated as “He caused to dwell” or shakan. shakan is also the word for neighbor.

The Ark of the Testimony – 

Exo. 25:10 And they shall make an ark of acacia-wood. Two and a half cubits long and a cubit and a half wide and a cubit and a half high.

The heart. the residence of the power of YAH. 

’Aron. the root is ‘or gathering. The container or gathering place for the BoC covenant Word of יהוה. ‘Aron is in the feminine gender because the bearer of the “Word of Yah” is always in this gender. 

Acacia Wood – 

Ark is overlayed with gold – gold (deity) and the wood (humanity). Gold or zahav means shining, or brightness, and Yahusha is declared to be the brightness of YHWH’s  glory in (Hebrews) 1:3. Gold is the substance of the kingship. 

The ark is the testimony of יהוה. The Hebrew word is ‘edut.  The ark was to be יהוה s witness, a witness of HIS character and nature.

Yochanan 7:38 He that believes on me, as the Scriptures hath said, out of his heart shall flow rivers of living water.

Exo.25:12 Four Gold Rings: two on each side, for which to place the two staves to carry the ark. Perfect balance and guidance for moving the ark.

It takes two to provide balance. Yah and Man in harmony by being a carrier for the Word of Yah. 

Blessings in life flow only through oneness not Man “alone.” Now check this out, staves is the exact same word for “alone” meaning without being in perfect balance and harmony by carrying the Word, man is alone even if he is with another. That’s why unequally yoked unions are lonely and not in harmonious.  

Torah without blood ratification BoC is death. It cannot stand alone, and there is no other helpmate for it. 

Exo. 25:17 Mercy Seat: kapporet – This word is translated as propitiation in Romans 3:25. 

The covenant of YHVH must be ratified by atoning blood, and only after this ratification is placed on the ark, is the heart of the Most Holy Place complete. 

We need to come into blood BOC with Yahusha. The mercy seat is to be the place where the blood is to be sprinkled by the high priest. The mercy seat AND the ark together form one vessel. Our approach to all things bible, all things יהוה , all things Messiah must be superseded by this blood covering. 

Ephesians 2:8 For by grace [kapporet] are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves, it is the gift of yah – not of works, lest any man should boast. For we are his workmanship created in the Messiah Yahusha‘ unto good works [aron] which Yah hath before ordained that we should walk in them.

Exo. 25:18 Cheribum – 

Ruth 2:12 YHVH recompense thy work, and a full reward be given thee by יהוה Elohim of Israel, under whose wings thou are come to trust.

These cherubim picture the act of trusting YHWH.

Next; the Holy Place. The Holy Place to teaches us about the relationship between the heart, mind, and body. So as we move from the heart/the spiritual man to the Holy Place the next place that יהוה begins to change in those who trust in Him. 

Exo. 25:23 Shewbread – which sits upon the table shul’chan (שלחן). Greek is apostello (απόστολοσ), which is in English, apostle. The bread of the word is carried to all twelve tribes by the apostles; carriers and vessels of the Bread of YHVH. And to eat at the King’s table was to share together as one. 

The problem with the church is that their words are leavened and polluted.

Malachi 1:7 Ye offer polluted bread upon mine altar; and ye say, In what way have we polluted thee? In that ye say, The table of יהוה  is contemptible.

Bread of life, new life, or regenerated life. The bread on this table will be the life sustaining bread.

Amos 8:11 Behold the days come, saith יהוה Elohim, that I will send a famine in the land, not a famine of bread, nor a thirst for water, but of the hearing of the words of יהוה.

The dishes and spoons were used to contain the frankincense and spread it over the bread. 

lechem paniym (לחם פנים) literally the bread of His face, or presence. YAH uses bread to symbolize or speak of His presence. YAH’s presence is experienced in obedience to His word,

Matthew 4:4 that “Man shall not live by bread alone but by every word that proceeds out of the mouth of Yah.” 

2 Corinthians 6…Wherefore, come out from among them, and be ye separate, says יהוה , and touch not the unclean thing; and I will receive you, and will be a Father to you, 

The twelve loaves, the frankincense and the eating of the bread by the priests on the sabbath. We eat the word on Shabbat. 

Put pure frankincense upon each row as a memorial. The term “pure frankincense” is levonah (לבונה) is the cognate of the words for “white” and “moon”. The word implies pureness as in the white linen and cycles of renewal like a moon.  

Isaiah 1:18, your sins be as scarlet they shall be as white as snow.

Exo. 25:31 Menorah (מנרה). from the word nur (נור) or light. The nur or light forms the middle of the word menorah. The center shaft called a yarek (ירך). The word yarek is usually translated as thigh, loins, or body – the place of smelting and binding. 

According to the rabbis, the center shaft, or the yarek (ירך), burned continuously and it was the other six branches that needed to be relit in the evening.

The word for almonds is shaqad (שקר). The word shaqad everywhere else is translated as watch, alert, or to be sleepless. These almond-shaped bearers of the oil for the light teach us about the nature of being a light bearer. We’re to be watchful and alert as “sons of the light.”

1Thessalonians 5:2 For yourselves know perfectly that the day of יהוה  so cometh as a thief in the night. For when they shall say, Peace and safety, then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child, and they shall not escape. But ye, brethren, are not in darkness, that that day should overtake you as a thief. Ye are all sons of light, and sons of the day; we are not of the night or of darkness. Therefore, let us not sleep, as do others, but let us watch and be soberminded

Also remember the parable of the ten virgins, five which took oil in their lamps and five which did not. 

Ps. 119:105 It is this light that is to be a lamp unto our feet and a light unto our path.

Proverbs 6:23 For the commandment is a lamp, and the law is light, and the reproofs of instruction are the way of light.

And we are instructed to be His light to the nations.

Isaiah 49:6 I will also give thee for a light to the nations, that thou mayest be my salvation unto the end of the earth.

But we broke the covenant and failed so the light of the world came into the world so He who followed Yahusha would not walk in darkness, but shall have the light of life.

1 Yochanan 1:5-7 This, then, is the message which we have heard of Him, and declare unto you, that Yah is light and in Him is no darkness at all. If we say that we have fellowship with him, and walk in darkness, we lie, and do not the truth; But if we walk in the light, as He is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Yahusha‘ the Messiah, his Son, cleanses us from all sin.

Yochanan goes on to relate sin to darkness, and light to keeping His commandments.

Is. 8:20 To the law and to the testimony; if they speak not according to this word, it is because there is no light in them. 

That’s the light brethren! We’re to illuminate the mind with the word of יהוה – the whole word. Torah, Prophets, Writings and New Covenant.  

Luke 2:30-32 For mine eyes have seen thy salvation, which thou hast prepared before the face of all people; A light to lighten the Gentiles, and the glory of thy people Israel…

The flowers, or perach (פרח), extended downward from the bowls. This word means to blossom, grow, or produce. Are we not to be know by our fruit?

Exo 26:1 Moreover thou shalt make the tabernacle with ten curtains of fine-twined linen, 

The inner covering of the tabernacle. This covering, is unlike the goat’s hair and ram’s skins, which are the outer covering. Think about it the outer covering is our earthly body and we know its temporary…but here we’re gonna deal with our inner covering that which is eternal. 

The fine-twined linen speaks of His righteousness and that is what we are to be built covered inside with. Our inner man. 

His righteousness, as represented by clean garments, as opposed to our righteousness, represented by filthy garments. The distinction between the outer temporal covering and the inner eternal covering which can only be built when we exchange garments. 

Now the the colors in the tabernacle are יהוהs way of showing us the nature of the Messiah and I don’t have time to expand on that today but I have done in my past Terumah parsha’s. 

Exo. 26:3 loops and curtains

Speaks of oneness in fellowship in the set of five curtains and in the ten curtains as a whole. The word “coupled”is the Hebrew word chavar (חבר) companionship, friend. 

 Judges 20:11 So all the men if Israel were gathered against the city, knit together as one man.

“In the Messiah” we are all one according to 1Corinthians 12. by our faith we begin to change our minds and eventually our behavior – His true people are to be one. 

The golden clasps with the blue loops to hang from. The clasps are are fifty in number. Why fifty? the Ruach Ha Kodesh and release from the old selfish nature. This is pictured in the 50 days between Yahusha‘’s resurrection and the indwelling of the Ruach Ha Kodesh in the body of the Messiah on Shavu‘ot. 

Philippians 3:20 For our citizenship is in heaven, from which also we look for the Savior, Master Messiah Yahusha. 

Ephesians 2:6 And hath raised us up together, and made us sit together in heavenly places in Messiah Yahusha.