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| [[File:moses.jpg|right|thumb|[[Moses]], [[Jesus]], and [[Elijah]] seem to have been in agreement and there seems to be a commonality or harmony in the [[Song of Moses]] and the [[Song of the Lamb]].<Br>[[Ten Commandments]]<Br> ]]
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| ''thou shalt make an [[altar]]'' 
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|    There are a lot of details in the outward construction of these symbols of their system of [[religion]]. 
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|  Hidden in many of these items and descriptions is also symbols and metaphors of their deeper meanings on a physical level and on a spiritual level.
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|  As we have seen the ''[[altars]]'' were not piles of stones. Those [[altars]] were not a place to burn up sheep and if you think so you have been [[deceived]] by the [[Sophistry]]. But those [[altars]] and the [[Levites]] were instruments of the [[social safety net]] of their society. They were the institutions that provided the [[free bread]] for the [[pure Religion|needy of society the widows and orphans]] who fall on hard times.
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| All the [[city states]] had some sort of [[social safety net]] to ensure the loyalty and [[fealty]] of certain classes of [[citizen]]s or central [[treasury]] to provide [[protection]] with walls and armies. They had courts and a [[hierarchy]] that [[exercised authority]] one over the other. All these institutions like the [[cities of blood]] or the [[dainties]] of rulers and their [[tables]] were a [[snare]].
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| This mobile tent became the pinnacle of  a diversified system that put most of the responsibility for the [[weightier matters]] on a division of power and choice that was spread amongst all the people equally.
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| There was no centralized power, [[no king]], but everyman did what was right in his own eyes. This is what God wants but he does not want you to follow he who has a wicked eye.<Ref name="evileye">Deuteronomy 15:9  Beware that there be not a thought in thy wicked heart, saying, The seventh year, the year of release, is at hand; and thine eye be evil against thy poor brother, and thou givest him nought; and he cry unto the LORD against thee, and it be sin unto thee.
: Deuteronomy 28:54  [So that] the man [that is] tender among you, and very delicate, his eye shall be evil toward his brother, and toward the wife of his bosom, and toward the remnant of his children which he shall leave:
: Mark 7:20  And he said, That which cometh out of the man, that defileth the man. 21  For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders, 22  Thefts, covetousness, wickedness, deceit, lasciviousness, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, foolishness: 23  All these evil things come from within, and defile the man.
: Proverbs 23:6  Eat thou not the bread of [him that hath] an evil eye, neither desire thou his dainty meats:
: Proverbs 28:22  He that hasteth to be rich [hath] an evil eye, and considereth not that poverty shall come upon him.
: Matthew 6:23  But if thine eye be evil, thy whole body shall be full of darkness. If therefore the light that is in thee be darkness, how great [is] that darkness!
: Matthew 20:15  Is it not lawful for me to do what I will with mine own? Is thine eye evil, because I am good?
: Luke 11:34  The light of the body is the eye: therefore when thine eye is single, thy whole body also is full of light; but when [thine eye] is evil, thy body also [is] full of darkness.</Ref>
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| The ''rings'' and ''curtains'' and ''vails'' are about boundaries of our own inner understanding. If you do not [[repent]] and seek the [[kingdom of God]] your eyes will be dimmed. You need to have the lamp of [[righteousness]].
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| These instructions are about far more than aesthetics. They were means of dealing with moral brokenness, they served as reminders, and they and the living altars of Israel were designed to form  the people into perpetual surrender to a responsibility to care for one another through [[freewill offerings]] instead of the [[force]]d offering of [[Egypt]] and most [[city states]] of the past and all nations of the [[world]] today.
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| The [[tabernacle]] was a symbol of [[The Way|that way]] of [[righteousness]] taught by [[Moses]] and again by [[Jesus]]. It was a reminder in its symbolic construction of this moving monument echoed the patterns of the kingdom. It also housed a unique golden box called the "ark of the covenant" and "ark of the testimony" and "ark of the LORD". But with all its mystery it was not the tabernacle, nor its contents that made [[Israel]] a great nation.<Br>What made [[Israel]] great was the willingness of the people to obey the LORD's directions in their [[heart and mind]] in order to  be a ''"[[John Wycliffe|government of the people, by the people, and for the people]]"''. The [[viable republic]] that resulted from this conformity to the righteousness of God, like the [[early Church]], operated within the "[[perfect law of liberty]]" by "[[freewill offerings]]" only, which in the New Testament were called the "[[charity]]" and "[[love]]" of the [[Corban of Christ]] because they had no need for [[force]]d [[taxation]] nor the men who "call themselves [[benefactors]]" but "[[exercise authority]]<Ref name="exauth">{{exauth}}</Ref> one over the other" in order to provide a [[social safety net]] for the [[care]] of the needy through [[pure Religion]].  They [[follow]]ed [[The Way]] of righteousness in fellowship and the righteousness of God with [[no king]] or no [[sanhedrin|legislature]] of the [[world]], and no [[covetous practices]] which makes men [[merchandise]], [[curse children]], and is [[idolatry]].<Ref name="Isidolatry">{{Isidolatry}}</Ref>
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== The Bronze Altar ==

1 And thou shalt make an [[altar]] of shittim wood, five cubits long, and five cubits broad; the altar shall be foursquare: and the height thereof shall be three cubits.

2 And thou shalt make the horns of it upon the four corners thereof: his horns shall be of the same: and thou shalt overlay it with brass.

3 And thou shalt make his pans to receive his ashes, and his shovels, and his basons, and his fleshhooks, and his firepans: all the vessels thereof thou shalt make of brass.

== network of brass ==

4 And thou shalt make for it a grate of network of brass; and upon the net shalt thou make four brasen rings in the four corners thereof.

5 And thou shalt put it under the compass of the altar beneath, that the net may be even to the midst of the altar.

6 And thou shalt make staves for the altar, staves of shittim wood, and overlay them with brass.

7 And the staves shall be put into the rings, and the staves shall be upon the two sides of the altar, to bear it.

8 Hollow with boards shalt thou make it: as it was shewed thee in the mount, so shall they make it.

== The Court of the Tabernacle ==

9 And thou shalt make the court of the tabernacle: for the south side southward there shall be hangings for the court of fine twined linen of an hundred cubits long for one side:

10 And the twenty pillars thereof and their twenty sockets shall be of brass; the hooks of the pillars and their fillets shall be of silver.

11 And likewise for the north side in length there shall be hangings of an hundred cubits long, and his twenty pillars and their twenty sockets of brass; the hooks of the pillars and their fillets of silver.

=== breadth of the court ===

12 And for the breadth of the court on the west side shall be hangings of fifty cubits: their pillars ten, and their sockets ten.

13 And the breadth of the court on the east side eastward shall be fifty cubits.

14 The hangings of one side of the gate shall be fifteen cubits: their pillars three, and their sockets three.

15 And on the other side shall be hangings fifteen cubits: their pillars three, and their sockets three.

=== Gate of the court ===

16 And for the gate of the court shall be an hanging of twenty cubits, of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen, wrought with needlework: and their pillars shall be four, and their sockets four.

17 All the pillars round about the court shall be filleted with silver; their hooks shall be of silver, and their sockets of brass.

18 The length of the court shall be an hundred cubits, and the breadth fifty every where, and the height five cubits of fine twined linen, and their sockets of brass.

19 All the vessels of the tabernacle in all the service thereof, and all the pins thereof, and all the pins of the court, shall be of brass.

== Oil for the Lamp ==

20 And thou shalt command the children of Israel, that they bring thee pure oil olive beaten for the light, to cause the lamp to burn always.

21 In the tabernacle of the congregation without the vail, which is before the testimony, Aaron and his sons shall order it from evening to morning before the LORD: it shall be a [[statute]] for ever unto their generations on the behalf of the children of Israel.
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