The three-fold Tabernacle in the Wilderness of Sinai with the twelve tribes surrounding it, three tribes on each of the four sides and the Aaronite Priesthood officiating therein was a "FIGURE or TYPE" of the Greater and More Perfect Tabernacle-the Heaven and Earth, with God manifested on Earth in the Flesh in Jesus Christ, the One and Only High Priest after the order of Melchisedec (not Aaron) officiating in the Holy Place, not made with hands (see Heb, 9:11), and entered through the Vail into Heaven, itself, now to appear in the presence of God for us (see Heb. 9:24). | The three-fold Tabernacle in the Wilderness of Sinai with the twelve tribes surrounding it, three tribes on each of the four sides and the Aaronite Priesthood officiating therein was a "FIGURE or TYPE" of the Greater and More Perfect Tabernacle-the Heaven and Earth, with God manifested on Earth in the Flesh in Jesus Christ, the One and Only High Priest after the order of Melchisedec (not Aaron) officiating in the Holy Place, not made with hands (see Heb, 9:11), and entered through the Vail into Heaven, itself, now to appear in the presence of God for us (see Heb. 9:24). |