Words in italic type have been added for clarity. They are not found in the original Hebrew or Aramaic.

Exodus 27

• About the title:
  Four is the number for stability. Each “Four” has its own focus. (Four Winds, Four Faces, Four Horses, etc.)

The Altar of Burnt Offering

Exodus 27:¹ “You shall make an altar of acacia (shittim: Deuteronomy 10:3) wood, five cubits long and five cubits wide—the altar shall be square—and its height shall be three cubits.

• Acacia Wood: “A hard and durable but light wood; at first yellowish, but gradually turning very dark, like ebony . . . It is a large, spreading, thorny* tree with many branches, found in Africa and Arabia” ~1906 Jewish Encyclopedia
  Thorns: Symbolic of curses, would be an appropriate metaphor for Jesus, who wore a crown of thorns at his execution, taking on the curses of the world.
  
  “The wood is hard, tough, smooth, and without knots (straight), and extremely beautiful . . .”
  ~ Dictionary of the Holy Bible.

Exodus 27:² You shall make its horns on its four corners; its horns shall be of one piece with it. And you shall overlay it with bronze.

• “Horns” signify Power, Leaders, or Nations, in the physical or spiritual worlds.
• THE POWER OF THE SACRIFICE
  
  • Ezekiel 43:20 ‘You shall take some of its (the sacrifice’s ie Jesus’) blood and put it on the four horns (the four powerful roles of Jesus as Son of God, Son of Man, King of kings, and Priest) of the altar, on the four corners (the four directions of the world, global) of the ledge, and on the rim around it; thus you shall cleanse it and make atonement for it.
    
  • The rim makes the sacrifice inclusive. Salvation comes from the sacrifice of Jesus and from no other source.
    
• THE POWER OF THE NATIONS
  
  • Zechariah 1:^18-21 Then I raised my eyes and looked, and there were four horns. And I said to the angel who talked with me, “What are these?”
    So he answered me, “These are the horns that have scattered Judah, Israel, and Jerusalem.”
    Then the Lord showed me four craftsmen. And I said, “What are these coming to do?”
    So he said, “These are the horns that scattered Judah, so that no one could lift up his head; but the craftsmen (to oppose deceitfully) are coming to terrify them, to cast out the horns of the nations that lifted up their horn against the land of Judah to scatter it.”
    
• THE POWER OF SPIRITUAL FORCES
  • The four horses in Zechariah and Revelation:
    See: Revelation 6:2-8 The four horses of the Apocalypse are White, Red, Black, and Green.
    Horses are symbolic of “forces”, in this case, it’s the spirit of the Antichrist, the spirit of War, the spirit of Famine and Suffering, and the spirit of life upon which death and hell ride.

Exodus 27:³ Also you shall make its pans to receive its ashes, and its shovels and its basins and its forks and its firepans; you shall make all its utensils of bronze.

Exodus 27:⁴ You shall make a grate for it, a network of bronze; and on the network you shall make four bronze rings at its four corners.

Exodus 27:⁵ You shall put it under the rim of the altar beneath, that the network may be midway up the altar.

Exodus 27:⁶ And you shall make poles for the altar, poles of acacia wood, and overlay them with bronze.

Exodus 27:⁷ The poles shall be put in the rings, and the poles shall be on the two sides of the altar to bear it.

Exodus 27:⁸ You shall make it hollow with boards; as it was shown you on the mountain, so shall they make it.

The Court of the Tabernacle

Exodus 27:⁹ “You shall also make the court of the tabernacle. For the south side there shall be hangings for the court made of fine woven linen, one hundred cubits long for one side.

Exodus 27:¹⁰ And its twenty pillars and their twenty sockets shall be bronze. The hooks of the pillars and their bands shall be silver. ¹¹ Likewise along the length of the north side there shall be hangings one hundred cubits long, with its twenty pillars and their twenty sockets of bronze, and the hooks of the pillars and their bands of silver.

Exodus 27:¹² “And along the width of the court on the west side shall be hangings of fifty cubits, with their ten pillars and their ten sockets. ¹³ The width of the court on the east side shall be fifty cubits.

Exodus 27:¹⁴ The hangings on one side of the gate shall be fifteen cubits, with their three pillars and their three sockets. ¹⁵ And on the other side shall be hangings of fifteen cubits, with their three pillars and their three sockets.

Exodus 27:¹⁶ “For the gate of the court there shall be a screen twenty cubits long, woven of blue, purple, and scarlet thread, and fine woven linen, made by a weaver. It shall have four pillars and four sockets. ¹⁷ All the pillars around the court shall have bands of silver; their hooks shall be of silver and their sockets of bronze.

Exodus 27:¹⁸ The length of the court shall be one hundred cubits, the width fifty throughout, and the height five cubits, made of fine woven linen, and its sockets of bronze. ¹⁹ All the utensils of the tabernacle for all its service, all its pegs, and all the pegs of the court-, shall be of bronze.

The Care of the Lampstand

Exodus 27:²⁰ “And you shall command the children of Israel that they bring you pure (clear) oil of beaten (crushed) olives for the light, to cause the lamp to burn continually.

Exodus 27:²¹ In the tabernacle of meeting, outside the veil which is before the Testimony, Aaron and his sons shall tend it from evening until morning before the Lord (Yᵊhōvâ). It shall be a statute forever to their generations on behalf of the children of Israel.

• In The Garden of Gethsemane (olive orchard) Jesus poured out His soul even unto death. He was the beaten olive, anointed in clear olive oil (sinless and righteous), then beaten before being crucified. It takes a “week” to make this holy oil, It is beaten, and then rests (like Jesus in the grave) in a cool, dark place.
• Jesus underwent one “week” of affliction before His resurrection.
  
• Clear, pure olive oil is used for lighting the Menorah.

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