01 Introduction

The tabernacle of Moses or MISHKAN מִשְׁכָּן, as it is called in Hebrew, is not just a structure used for the performing of religious tasks or a simple place of worship. It is a valued tool given to us by God Himself to show us how He wants to live with us. Each color used for materials, each animal skin, each building material, each spice and stone, each hook and every single embroidery as well as every one of the six objects found inside tells a story of a redemption plan for all of mankind and shows us more of how God wants to dwell among us. The tabernacle is extremely important: 50 chapters in the Bible talk about the tabernacle and four books have the tabernacle as main subject, meaning: If we want to interpret the meaning of those books, we need to understand the tabernacle. The books are: Exodus, Ezekiel, Hebrews and Revelation.

To fully understand the Mishkan and the concept of God dwelling with man, we need to use the Hebrew language, where every letter has ascribed to itself a sound, a pictorial and a numerical value. When a number was used in Hebrew, everyone immediately knew the numerical value and had the picture in their mind to go with it. When we look at the measurements, we’ll see that they are not chosen randomly, but rather tell us an extraordinary tale.