When most people think of the Old Testament tabernacle, they picture an ancient tent,

distant and unfamiliar, something that feels far removed from everyday life.

But what if that sacred structure was actually designed by God to point us

directly to everything we have in Jesus Christ? In this study, fully furnished, finding all you need in Christ,

Scott invites us to step inside the tabernacle and discover that every detail from the altar to the

mercy seat was a divine preview of the Savior to come. Let's join Scott now.

Israel and the church are not the same thing. Israel of course God's chosen nation, the people that the Lord made covenant with,

set in motion with Abraham to bring the Messiah into the world. And God is not finished with Israel.

God is still at work. And when you study prophetic things in scripture,

we know that God will continue to work in that land and in that nation at the end of the age.

But Israel had its season. And what was its role? Israel was to be God's candlestand.

Israel was to be God's lamp post in a dark world to point people to the true God,

to draw people to Jehovah, to represent him in this world.

Now, when you come to the New Testament age, the age of grace that we're living in,

this is the church

age. The church is made up of saved Jews and saved Gentiles. So there are Jews, there are

Gentiles, and then there's the church, and the church is made up of both Jews and Gentiles

who've come to believe on Messiah, the Lord Jesus Christ. I say again that Israel as a nation and the church as the body of Christ are not the same thing.

But, and this is very important, they do have something in common.

What do they have in common?

They are seen in Scripture as the people of God, and at their respective times and in the

respective places, they have one role.

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