“A pattern” (Heb. 8:5)

1) Throughout the Bible we find God giving a pattern to man and then expecting humanity to follow it.

2) An early example - Gen. 6:14-16.

3) We have the reference to the “tabernacle” pattern in Heb. 8:5.

4) There was also a pattern for the temple (1 Chron. 28).

5) 1 Chron. 28:12, 19.

6) QUESTION: A pattern for ark, tabernacle and temple, but not the New Testament church?!

7) Mal. 3:6

8) Does the “passing of time” change God’s pattern?

9) Num. 4:15 (a “pattern”) – about 450 years pass – 1 Chron. 13:9-10 – anything change?

10) An interesting study in the Bible – “according to.” These two words are used hundreds of times.

11) Gen. 6:22; 7:5.

12) The expression is used of _______and their doing “according to” the word of ______ (Ex. 12:35).

13) The words are applied to ___________ and his sons (Ex. 29:35).

14) The expression is applied to:

a) _____________Moses (Ex. 40:16)

b) The ________________ (Ex. 32:28)

c) __________as he built Jericho (1 Kgs. 16:34)

d) ______________(1 Kgs. 17:1, 5)

e) _______________ (2 Kgs. 5:14)

f) _______________(1 Chron. 11:3)

g) The ___________ of the temple (2 Chron. 29:15)

h) ___________(Ezra 10:2-3)

i) ___________________(Isa. 8:20).

15) Concerning the tabernacle described in Heb. 8:5, we see just how specific God was in Ex. 25.

16) The construction of the tabernacle (Ex. 25:2-7).

17) God gave dimensions (verse 10).

18) God even had instructions about the __________ used to carry the ark (verse 13).

19) Once the poles were installed (verse 15), they were never to be removed.

20) A ____________ was to be made to specific dimensions (verse 23).

21) This was to be overlaid with _____________ (verse 24).

22) More information about this structure is found in verses 26-28.

23) Notice how verse 40 ends the chapter: “And see that thou make them __________, which hath been showed thee in the mount.”

24) Additional instructions are found in Ex. 26-40.

25) Ex. 40:16 - _____________________.

26) Compare 2 Cor. 5:7 (we “walk by _______”) and Rom. 10:17 (faith comes by “_________”).

27) Jude spoke of “______” in Jude 3 (he recognized a body of truth, or a pattern of doctrine)

28) God also says it is possible to not follow the pattern heaven has given (2 Jn. 9; 1 Cor. 4:6).