Come and study the Holy Scriptures with us as Father Stephen DeYoung teaches verse by verse on the podcast, The Whole Council of God.

Father Stephen holds a Ph.D. in biblical studies, and it's an Orthodox priest serving at Archangel Gabriel Orthodox Church in Lafayette, Louisiana.

Chapter 9, verse 1.

Then indeed, even the first covenant had ordinances of divine service and the earthly sanctuary.

Right.

So in the, in the tabernacle, right? So in the, in the, uh, tabernacle, right, they had ordinances, rules, right?

Liturgics, right, for how they celebrated. Verse two, for a tabernacle was prepared.

The first part in which was the lampstand the table and the showbread

which is called the sanctuary the holy place right so you have that outer area right which is now

what would be correspond to the main part of our church, right, where folks are

for services, but which only priests could go into in the tabernacle.

And there, there was a table with the showbread, and we'll go more into detail on these things when we loop back around

and go through Exodus and go through all the details.

But those are the things that are there.

And then behind the, verse three, behind the second veil, the part of the tabernacle,

which is called the holiest of all, right?

The holy of holies

verse four which had the golden censor and the ark of the covenant overlaid on all sides with gold

in which that in which is uh but anyway um okay, so I'm going to pause a second. Pet peeve, urban legend, okay.

The pot with the manna and Aaron's rod that budded were not in the arc.

People think they were in the ark.

They're not in the ark, if you read clearfully.

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