2Chron 2:4 (full text – 2Chron_2:4
4“Behold, I am about to build a house for the name of the LORD my God, dedicating it to Him, to burn fragrant incense before Him and to set out the showbread continually, and to offer burnt offerings morning and evening, on sabbaths and on new moons and on the appointed feasts of the LORD our God, this being required forever in Israel.
) ▪︎ Available to God’s Chosen One –
1Sam 21:6 (full text – 1Sam_21:1-6
1Then David came to Nob to Ahimelech the priest; and Ahimelech came trembling to meet David and said to him, “Why are you alone and no one with you?” 2David said to Ahimelech the priest, “The king has commissioned me with a matter and has said to me, ‘Let no one know anything about the matter on which I am sending you and with which I have commissioned you; and I have directed the young men to a certain place.’ 3“Now therefore, what do you have on hand? Give me five loaves of bread, or whatever can be found.” 4The priest answered David and said, “There is no ordinary bread on hand, but there is consecrated bread; if only the young men have kept themselves from women.” 5David answered the priest and said to him, “Surely women have been kept from us as previously when I set out and the vessels of the young men were holy, though it was an ordinary journey; how much more then today will their vessels be holy?” 6So the priest gave him consecrated bread; for there was no bread there but the bread of the Presence which was removed from before the LORD, in order to put hot bread in its place when it was taken away.
) Ezek 43:4-5, 44:2, 3 (full text – Ezek_44:1-6
1Then He brought me back by the way of the outer gate of the sanctuary, which faces the east; and it was shut. 2The LORD said to me, “This gate shall be shut; it shall not be opened, and no one shall enter by it, for the LORD God of Israel has entered by it; therefore it shall be shut. 3“As for the prince, he shall sit in it as prince to eat bread before the LORD; he shall enter by way of the porch of the gate and shall go out by the same way.”
4Then He brought me by way of the north gate to the front of the house; and I looked, and behold, the glory of the LORD filled the house of the LORD, and I fell on my face. 5The LORD said to me, “Son of man, mark well, see with your eyes and hear with your ears all that I say to you concerning all the statutes of the house of the LORD and concerning all its laws; and mark well the entrance of the house, with all exits of the sanctuary.
).4Then He brought me by way of the north gate to the front of the house; and I looked, and behold, the glory of the LORD filled the house of the LORD, and I fell on my face. 5The LORD said to me, “Son of man, mark well, see with your eyes and hear with your ears all that I say to you concerning all the statutes of the house of the LORD and concerning all its laws; and mark well the entrance of the house, with all exits of the sanctuary.
▪︎ Used as an example by Jesus against the Pharisees to show that He was Lord of the Sabbath – Mark 2:25, 26, 27; Luke 6:4-5; Matt 12:5-6
(full text – Matt_12:1-7
1At that time Jesus went through the grainfields on the Sabbath, and His disciples became hungry and began to pick the heads of grain and eat. 2But when the Pharisees saw this, they said to Him, “Look, Your disciples do what is not lawful to do on a Sabbath.” 3But He said to them, “Have you not read what David did when he became hungry, he and his companions, 4how he entered the house of God, and they ate the consecrated bread, which was not lawful for him to eat nor for those with him, but for the priests alone? 5“Or have you not read in the Law, that on the Sabbath the priests in the temple break the Sabbath and are innocent? 6“But I say to you that something greater than the temple is here. 7“But if you had known what this means,
‘I DESIRE COMPASSION
AND NOT A SACRIFICE,’
you would not have condemned the innocent.
)‘I DESIRE COMPASSION
AND NOT A SACRIFICE,’
you would not have condemned the innocent.
▪︎ Jesus is the true Bread from Heaven (John 6:32-33, 35).
▪︎ He entered not the Holy of Holies but into heaven itself, into God’s presence to continually represent us before God – Heb 9:2, 24;
▪︎ Showbread was originally a sacrificial meal which was viewed as being shared with God… Bread of Presence…
▪︎ Presence – (פָנִים – Hebrew) – panim ► face, faces –
► Gen 1:1-2 KJV [Gen 1:26, 27];
► Exod 25:30, 27:20, 21;
► Friends – Exod 33:11; John 15:15;
► Messiah brings joy at His presence, before His face – Isa 9:3, 6, 7;
► God jealously [with zeal] desires this relationship – Isa 9:6, 7; James 4:4, 5; John 4:23;
► Redeemed – Isa 63:9; Heb 9:24;
► Transformed – 2Cor 5:17; Col 3:10;
► Know God – Exod 33:13; Phil 3:10;
► His Rest – Exod 33:14, Heb 4:9-10;
► His Glory – Exod 33:18; 2Cor 3:18;
► Likeness – Ps 17:15 KJV; 2Cor 4:6;