Shewbread,
The ‘Continual’ Sabbathly Offering Before the Lord
One
‘Shewbread’, from ‘lechem
panim’
Ex25:30,
“And thou
shalt set upon the table shewbread before me continually.”
“Kai epithéhseis epí tehn
trápedzan artóús enohpíous enantíon mou diapantós.”
“enohpíous” (<‘enohpéh’), facing, of presence.
Ex35:5,13,
“Let him
bring an offering unto the LORD, … the table, and his staves, and all his
vessels, and the shewbread.”
Ex39:33,35,
“And they
brought unto Moses … the table, all the vessels thereof, and the shewbread.”
1K7:48, “Solomon took … the
table on which shewbread (was).” “Élabon Salohmóhn … tehn trápedzan eph’ hehs hoi ártoi tehs
prosphoráhs.” (LXX)
“prosphoráhs” (<prosphoréoh), present, offer.
2Chr4:19,
“Solomon
made … the tables and upon them (were to be) the loaves of shewbread.”
“Epóíehse Salohmóhn … tas
trapédzas, kai ep’ autóhn ártoi prothéseohs.”
“prothéseohs” (<protíthehmi), put forward.
Two
The “shewbread of arrangement”, from ‘maareketh’
1Chr28:16,
David gave
Solomon his son the plan of the
temple ... he gave him both of gold and silver the weight ... of the tables
of
shewbread (trapedzóhn tehs prothéseohs) ... David gave all to
Solomon in the Lord’s handwriting according to the knowledge given him of the
work of the pattern.
2Chr2:4, Solomon, saying, I, his
(David’s) son, also am building a house
to the Name of the Lord my God, to consecrate it to Him, to continually
(1)
burn incense before Him (tou (1) thymiáhin apénanti autóú
thymíama),
and
(2)
offer shew-bread always (kai (2) próthesin diapantós); and to offer up
(3)
whole-burnt-offerings continually morning and afternoon (diapantós (3) toprohí kai todéílehs) :–
on
the Sabbaths, at the new moons, and at the feasts of the Lord our God : This is
a perpetual statute for
2Chr29:18,
The
Levites went to king Ezekias, and said, we purified
all the things in the house of the Lord,
(1)
the altar of whole-burnt-offering and its vessels, and
(2)
the table of shew-bread (tehn trápredzan tehs prothéseohs ) and its vessels; and
(3)
all the vessels which king Achaz
polluted in his reign, in his apostasy,
we have prepared and purified: Look,
They are in place before the altar
of the Lord!
We see
that ‘maareketh’, is used when
institutional or when a re-instatement of the ‘arrangement’ or institution. We see the “statute”, “to continually” and “perpetually”, “offer shew-bread always”,
meant to every Sabbath Day, offer
it. It does not mean the shewbread to be offered fresh every day. It means
‘every day’ as little as it means every day ‘mornings and afternoons’; it means
once every day as little as it means twice every day. It means every day as
little as it means only monthly, or only with every yearly feast! The “statute” to “offer shew-bread always”, “continually” and “perpetually”, meant the shewbread to be
offered,
“on the
Sabbaths” every Sabbath Day, and also “on the Sabbaths” every Sabbath Day “at the new moons, and at the feasts of the Lord our God”. For thus it has,
divinely,
been “arranged”. The Shewbread was an offering of
Sabbath days only, and specifically, for its peculiar Sabbath’s-meaning: “… in the Lord’s handwriting according to the
knowledge given …”!
Three
‘Shewbread’, from ‘panim’
The
shewbread “when
the camp moves on”:
Numbers
4:7, “Upon
the table of shewbread (LXX,
“On the table set forth for shewbread”, “epí tehn trápedzan tehn prokeiménehn”) they shall spread a
cloth of blue and put thereon the dishes … and covers to cover withal. The continual
bread shall be (laid) thereon (LXX, “the continual loaves
shall be upon it”, “hoi ártoi hoi diápantos ep’ autéhs ésontai”), and they shall spread
upon them a cloth of scarlet, and shall cover the same with a covering of
badgers’ skins.”
‘prokeiménehn’ (<prókeimai), set before, proposed.
‘diápantos’ (<diá + pántos), throughout.
Four
‘Shewbread’, from ‘lechem’
1Chr23:25-31,
“The LORD
hath given rest … they shall no more carry the tabernacle … by the last words
of David … the Levites were to wait on the sons of Aaron … for the service of
the house of the LORD …
(1)
both for the shewbread (ta érga leitourgéías eis tous ártous tehs
prothéseohs),
(2)
and for the fine flour for meat offering, and for the unleavened cakes, and for
that which is baked in the pan, and for that which is fried, and for all manner
of measure and size;
(3)
And to stand every morning to thank and praise the LORD, and likewise in the
afternoon;
(4)
And to offer all burnt sacrifices unto the LORD :–
In
the Sabbaths, in the new moons, and on the set feasts; By number, according to
the order commanded unto them, continually before the LORD.”
We see:
In a
sense all sacrifices and offerings were ‘perpetual’ or ‘continual’:
(1) The yearly or seasonal, every year every
season and always, without interruption continually, and for ever perpetually;
(2) The monthly, every month and always,
without interruption continually, and for ever perpetually;
(3) The sabbathly, both of:
(3a) the weekly Sabbath and
(3b) the
sabbaths of the Feasts
every
sabbath and always, without interruption continually, and for ever perpetually;
(4) The ‘morning-and-afternoon’ or ‘daily’, every day both morning and afternoon, always, without interruption continually,
and for ever perpetually;
(5) The ‘morning’, every day only in the mornings, always, without
interruption continually, and for ever perpetually.
2Chr13:10-11,
“As for
us, the LORD is our Mighty, God, and we have not forsaken Him: The priests who
minister unto the LORD are the sons of Aaron (and not the priests of Baal), and the Levites wait
upon their business:
(1)
They burn unto the LORD every morning and every evening, burnt sacrifices and
sweet incense;
(2)
They set in order also the Shewbread upon the pure table (not polluted by the sacrifices of
apostasy); and
(3)
They set in order the candlestick of gold with the lamps thereof, (in the afternoons) in order to burn every
night :–
For
we keep the charge of the LORD our Mighty, God;
But
ye, have forsaken Him!”
Neh10:33,
“For the service of the house of our
Mighty, God, we have charged ourselves yearly with the third part of a shekel,
(1)
For the Shewbread, and
(2)
For the continual meat offering; and
(3)
For the continual burnt offering :–
Of
the Sabbaths; of the new moons; for the set Feasts …” all offerings generally.
1Chr9:32,
“The sons
of the Kohathites were over the Shewbread, to
prepare it every Sabbath.”
Conclusion:
Only some
sacrifices, offerings and services of the seasonal Feasts, uniquely belonged to
them only. Sacrifices and other offerings and services generally, were common, whether yearly, monthly,
sabbathly, mornings and afternoons, or mornings only. But only the Shewbread uniquely was a Sabbathly
‘offering’ and ‘service’. Only the Shewbread was ‘prepared’ and ‘offered’ / ‘ministered’
on ‘sabbaths’ only, whether on the weekly
‘Sabbaths’, or on the ‘Feast-sabbaths’; and then lasted for the whole week or seven days, after.
Thus the
Shewbread ‘showed’ the Conqueror
over corruptibility, Jesus Christ;
and it ‘showed’ the perpetuity of
the Sabbath – “a
sign between Me and you, for ever!”
(1) The
Shewbread was the only offering that was not
consumed in it’s preparation, but was perfected
therein.
(2) The
Shewbread was the only offering that applied and lasted after the duration of its preparation.
(3) The
Shewbread was the only offering without ‘remains’. After its continuity ended, the
Shewbread was not disposed of by
burning or other means, but was eaten
wholly by the priests, being
assimilated by them as their very life.
Shewbread – Sabbath’s Offering
Before the LORD
The
Shewbread, as ‘continual
offering before the LORD’,
being the token of the eternal presence of the mercy of God, of Eternal Life,
and of God’s gracious and without failing Sabbath’s
Rest – the Shewbread, most desired by the Lord offering before his Face –
is token of the resurrection of Jesus Christ our Lord from the dead, “in
Sabbath’s-time”, by which the life of the Body
of Christ’s Own is raised from the dead and is being created and brought
together in Him – Lord for ever
inseparably of both the Sabbath and the
People of God. The Shewbread signified
that bond in Eternal Covenant of Grace.
(1) The
Passover was the Sabbath, “the Day the LORD has made”, in the making! The Passover was not finished on
either the day of the sacrifice,
Abib 14, or, the ‘sabbath’ of Abib 15! On the ‘sabbath’ day of Abib 15, the ‘going out’ of the
Passover just started.
(2) On
both ‘sabbaths’ that would occur on every Passover, Shewbread was placed ‘before the face’ of the Lord. The Shewbread of the ‘sabbath’ of
Abib 15 Passover-sabbath, “showed forth” to the fulfilment
of the ‘bringing out from
(3) In
(1) the Shewbread, of both (2) the sabbaths of the beginning and fulfilment
of the ‘bringing-out from Egypt’ on (3) the day and date of First Sheaf Abib
16, is seen: three-fold, the Divine
Antitype and Fulfilment by the Once-for-All ‘Bringing In’, the type and
figure, in:
(1) Shewbread, on
(2) the day and date of Abib 16 First Sheaf, on
(3) the Sabbath Day, “when God raised Christ from the dead
and
set Him at his right hand in heavenly realms” of “the glory of the Father”.
Thus was
‘arranged’ (maareketh), The Shewbread of God, even Jesus Christ, on the pure
and golden altar of
The-Temple-of-His-Offering.
The Shewbread of the Old Testament, derives from its New Testament Institutor.
Which
day, in the ‘calendar’ of God’s predetermination, providence and dispensation,
has this Sabbath’s-event of Shewbread-placement been? “For God thus concerning
the Seventh Day spake”; “He would not concerning another day thereafter
have spoken!” (Hb4:4,8) “Mark the coming in and the going out” of This One the Lord of the
Sabbath!
Continually
and simultaneous has been keeping up with God’s Passover, the Sabbath’s
continual Shewbread, punctually
replaced so that it perpetually could be present, and be ‘presented’, and be ‘shown’,
and ‘offered’, on the altar, before the LORD, in His Glory, through Christ, in
Victory – in Resurrection from the dead! The Shewbread placed “on the Sabbath”
of Abib 16, two sabbaths after each other, and on two of the head-days of the
Passover after each other – ‘showing forth’ witness of the Coming Messiah in
Truth and Light – is Shewbread of our Lord Jesus Christ in glorious perfection
of Life.
“In the fulness of time”, “once for all”, “shon forth” Shewbread, Sabbath Day and Abib 16, ‘arranged’ and ‘placed’ on heavenly altar-seat of pure
glory and omnipotency, ‘hot’, and ‘holy’, in triumphant Glory of Victory
and Lordship: “First
Sheaf Wave Offering Before the LORD”, “Lord
of the Sabbath Day”,
“when by
the exceeding greatness of His Power, God raised Christ from the dead”.
Hot
Shewbread
that (according to 1Sam.21:6) still was ‘hot’ when “replaced
on the Sabbath”, must
have been baked, just before the Sabbath would have started
with sunset. The switch of the old and new Shewbread must
have taken place as soon as the Sabbath had, begun. That means the furnace had been
prepared, also the dough and the utensils, and the baking had been done, on the
late afternoon of the Sixth Day or “Preparation which is the Fore-Sabbath”, before
sunset. The question cannot even be asked, The day begun with sunset, or the day begun with sunrise?
It is a ridiculous question.
Josephus
writes: “The breads) were baked the day before
the Sabbath, but were brought into the holy place on the morning of the Sabbath, and set upon the holy table.” (Antiquities
of the Jews 3, 10, 7 in S.Bacchiocchi, TCR
p. 82) The loaves, if they were baked before sunset on Friday and placed on
Sabbath morning only, when placed, would no
longer have been hot. Josephus obviously
must be wrong! Bacchiocchi remarks, “The
replacement of the shewbread with “hot bread” could hardly have been done on Sabbath morning but
presumably on Friday
afternoon in conjunction with the beginning of the Sabbath. This conclusion is required by two facts. First, it is hard to believe that the
priests would bake bread on Sabbath morning, since, as Josephus points out, all
the baking was done “the day before the Sabbath”. Second, David and his men could hardly have travelled on a
Sabbath day all the way to Nob where Ahimelech lived.” (Ibid
p. 82/83) (Emphasis CGE)
The
inevitable inference of the Bread being changed hot, on the Sabbath
during evening after sunset, is that the mixing of the dough as well as the
baking of the bread, were done on the Sixth Day, just before its sunset-end.
Bacchiocchi,
still insisting, assumes: “The shift
in time from Friday afternoon to Sabbath morning may
reflect the adoption
of a sunrise reckoning in
Further, a
sunrise reckoning of the day would imply the improbable, unnatural and
inhospitable situation for the preparing for and making of the fire and the
dough, and of the baking of the bread in night’s darkness. (“Night when nobody
works” – especially not priests.) A situation without precedent would have doomed,
considering the time all other offerings and sacrifices were prepared and made.
The priests were Commanded to do their work “between the nights”, that is, in
daylight.
Observes
Bacchiocchi, very aptly, that Josephus himself in any case “offers
(‘with remarkable clarity’) an explicit evidence of the prevailing sunset
reckoning in New Testament times. He
describes how one of the priests “gave a signal beforehand with a trumpet, at
the beginning of every seventh day, in the evening twilight, as also at the
evening when the day was finished, as giving notice to the people when they
were to leave off work, and when they were to go to work again.” Ibid p.71b
“And All its Vessels”
2Chr4:19,
“Solomon
made … the tables and upon them
(were to be placed) the loaves of shewbread.” More than one
table; ‘tables’ – not ‘altars’!
1Sam.21:3,
“What is
under your hand? Give me five loaves of bread in my hand, or, as many as you
can give me of what you have!” told David the priest of Nob, Ahimelech.
Ahimelech
was busy to change the Shewbread – those of the last Sabbath with those of the
Sabbath just begun. He needed to bring the loaves from the furnace outside to
the altar inside the temple. For that, the priest needed two tables. The new
Shewbread loaves were taken from the furnace and placed on one table and upon
it, were carried into the Holy to the altar. Another table served to remove the
old loaves with. The new loaves were all brought in together on the first table.
Then, one loaf of the old loaves was taken from the altar in order to create space
for one new loaf, and was put down onto a second table, the ‘out’-table, so as
not to contaminate the new loaves on the ‘in’-table. A hot loaf was then taken
from this ‘in’-table, and put – ‘arranged’
– in the place of an old one on the altar. As long as the loaves remained on
the altar, they were ‘holy’, because the altar ‘sanctified’ them. The old loaves could not all be at once
removed from the altar, nor all the new loaves ‘placed’ on a ‘clear’ altar
together. The continual ‘presence’ and ‘showing’ of the Shewbread should not be
broken.
Just as
Ahimelech was putting down onto the ‘out’-table a next loaf of the remaining Shewbread,
David entered, straight into the lions’ den where Saul detained the Edomite
with hidden sword. But David noticed the old loaves under Ahimelech’s hand on
the ‘out’-table. David asks for five loaves or as many as Ahimelech could give
him. David couldn’t immediately see how many had already been removed from the
altar for a new. There were seven loaves, one for every day of the week. Offerings
were often doubled for the Sabbaths; so there could have been an eighth loaf of
Shewbread. I think eight the likely number, because with eight loaves on the
altar, when changed, they would never be less than seven loaves left on the altar.
“Mark well the entering in of the house.” (Ez44:5)
With most
loaves already changed, David entered and asked for about five. He didn’t ask
any loaves that might still have been on the altar! David did not demand all of
the priests’ food, but was considerate and meek in his request. He respected
the sanctity of the Shewbread that had not yet been removed from the altar,
because it is the altar that sanctifies the bread – as Christ is our Altar of Mercy
in the Sanctuary of Heaven that sanctifies us as well as our burdens, which we
have placed on Him. “Come to Me, all you heavy laden … and I will give you
rest!”
The
priest protested, “There is no common bread under my hand, only holy bread –
you could have had them if your men were holy (separated from their wives) for
at least three days.” Defends David, “They have; the young men are holy. In any
case that bread in a way no longer is holy as if sanctified today!”
Ahimelech
has everything the wrong way round. He thinks the breads are holy in themselves,
on or off the Altar. He thinks a person must sanctify himself; holiness is the
work of one’s own, not a gift of grace; it doesn’t derive from the altar; the
altar’s holiness derives from the bread’s holiness, the holiness of which in
the end is derived from the holiness of the priest who prepares it. But David
the shepherd-boy knows better, because the Lord Himself was David’s Rabbi.
Remember what we read at the beginning of this lecture? “David gave all to
Solomon in the Lord’s handwriting
according to the knowledge given him of the work of the pattern.” David designed the Tabernacle –
he drew its plans and specifications, and patented it; also the duties of the priests, David
commanded! But this priest wants to
teach David,
about the holy things!
Now pay
attention to this priest’s moralising!
How good he was at it! But he considers not the soldier’s deadly dangerous and
self-sacrificing work, in his cosy little sanctuary. O Pharisees, you hypocrites! Generation of
vipers! Woe unto you!
But how
was the Shewbread no longer ‘all that holy’ and ‘not as if sanctified today’?
Its ‘show-time’ has run out! It was evening-start of day and Sabbath now, and time for the old
Shewbread to be replaced with new
Shewbread.
The Sword of Saul
“There was that day a
certain man of the servants of Saul, He was Doeg, an Edomite, the top herdman
of Saul, stationed in the LORD’s sight (in the LORD’s Sanctuary)! David said to Ahimelech, You have a spear or
sword? Right at hand I mean! I didn’t bring sword or weapons with me. Quick!
Haste, it’s royal duty! Ahimelech answered,
The sword of Goliath the Philistine, behind the draped apron – wrapped in a
cloth. Take it if you want; there’s no other. None like this indeed!, said
David. Then David left.”
“There is no sword like
that!” It was the
sword of Goliath whom David slew with a pebble, then decapitated him with – the
sword with which he, David, defied the armies of the Philistines who defied the
armies of the LORD. But Saul unlawfully
took this sword from David for himself, and unlawfully brought his stolen trophy of vainglory into the Holy of
the Tabernacle of God where the Shewbread showed forth the glory of God! It also was unlawful for an unclean sword – or ‘cleansed’ for that matter – to
be brought into the Lord’s House. Saul with collaboration of the priests, unlawfully, hid, the sword while in the
Tabernacle in this place, were supposed to be openly exhibited “before the
LORD” every object of furniture and use. Saul topped his arrogance with the unlawful appointment of a heathen in the Sanctuary of God, to
guard his abomination there! (Ez43:7b-8)
The Sword of David
David
coming into the Holy, although strange and against the stipulations of all
‘Law’ to the priests, hindered David, not the least. To David the sword’s
presence in the Holy of the Tabernacle, was obnoxious, but nothing wrong with
for the priests.
On this
Sabbath Day, the true conqueror would act appointed priest of God, and cleanse the Sanctuary of both the
Edomite and the idol. He will receive ‘this day’, his own and valiantly won spoil,
back, and lawfully, will carry the
pollution out of the House of God! “And David arose and went out.”
“For
the King’s business requires haste and valour!” – God’s warrior
and lion
of
Like
Christ our Lord, David “sprang
out of Juda – of which tribe Moses spake nothing concerning priesthood”. But
Ezekiel
44 records of the east-gate of the sanctuary: “Because the LORD, the Mighty, God of
Israel, hath entered in by it … this gate shall be shut; it shall not be
opened, and no man shall enter into it … It is for the prince; the prince, he,
shall sit in it to eat bread: Bread-Before-the-LORD.”
David the prince, type and figure of Jesus Christ, King, Lord, and, Priest! “The place of my throne, and the place of
the soles of my feet, where I will dwell in the midst of the children of
“entered in” through the east gate, ‘Shewbread’,
into heavenly Sanctuary of Own Holiness and Resurrection-Glory. Entered He in,
the Prince, even the King, Son of David and Son of Man, and on the Day of God’s
Rest, on appointment, ate of the Shewbread of God’s immediate Presence.
Lord of the Sabbath
By what
is the Son of Man, ‘Lord’? By what is the Son of Man, Victor and Triumphator? By
resurrection from the dead; by victory and triumph over death and grave! By which
victory and triumph over death and grave then, the Son of Man, is Lord.
By what “is the Son of Man Lord
of, the Sabbath Day”?
by the Triumph of Victory of His, of, the Sabbath Day! By what then is the Sabbath Day the day, the
Son of Man, is Lord of? by what Triumph of Victory of the Son of Man its was,
even resurrection from the dead! By resurrection from the dead therefore, “the Son of Man, is Lord,
Lord, even of the Sabbath”
and the Sabbath, “the Lord’s Day”.
The lord
if not in the day of battle is lord,
cannot be, ‘lord’. Jesus the Son of Man, Conqueror of death in battle, “Therefore, is Lord, Lord indeed, of the Sabbath!” The Hero of the Day, is Christ; and his
Triumph is that He took up again His
Life; He had the Power in battle
to! Therefore became He, ‘Lord’. The
greatness of the day, is that “this day” and “on” it – the Sabbath Day
–, Christ rose from the dead: ‘Lord’! Otherwise Jesus could not have
claimed that He is ‘Lord’, or, that
He of the Sabbath, is ‘Lord’! The Name, ‘Lord’, is Victor; The LORD is His
Name: Christ Jesus, Hero, Deliverer, Victor
of the Day – Triumphator.
Fourty and Two Days
A giant: “I defy the armies of
A
herdsman:
“Then David said to the Philistine … This
day will the LORD deliver you into my hand … I come to you in the Name of the LORD …”
1Sm17:2,
“
From the first
day when they ‘pitched’, it is six times the week, on the Seventh Day of the week, and Sabbath,
exactly 42 days. So was it the Sabbath Day, when David slew Goliath. “This day … in the Name of the LORD” – Lord of the hosts of
Day of Shewbread
In a
service of the Sabbath Day, came
David into the Holy, and stood, king-priest.
Now mark well, David forced not his way in! “Thus saith the LORD
God, The gate of the inner court that looketh to the east shall be shut the six
working days; but on the Sabbath it
shall be opened … and the prince
shall
enter by the way of the porch of that gate … as he did on the Sabbath Day”, Ez46:1-2,12. “For the prince, the prince, he shall sit in it
to eat: Bread-Before-the-LORD.” That was bread ‘shown’ – ‘Shewbread’! The king, like the priests,
ate of the Shewbread! Jesus said the
priests ‘profaned’ the Sabbath with their work on it; He did not say David profaned,
Sabbath or tabernacle, by eating of the Shewbread. The priests with their works polluted the
temple, but David ‘cleansed the House of the LORD’, for David was a type of Christ.
“Is there
not a cause?”
Revived
When
David “waxed faint” and “got tired” at his near defeat as an older man against
Ishbebénob of “the sons of the giant” Goliath (See 2Sm21:17), “The men of David sware
unto him, Thou shalt go no more out with us to battle, that thou quench not the light of Israel”.
Yea, Sabbath was it indeed on this earlier occasion, and day of renewal of Shewbread and of ‘lighting the light of
Look at Ex23:12
and 31:17, both ‘Sabbath’-Scriptures, with ‘naphash’ < ‘nephesh’, life,
spirit, vigour, strength, for servant, master, and, LORD. LXX translates with
‘anapsyxoh’, ‘refresh / revive / charge’ – from ‘psyxeh’, soul, life, heart.
Compare 2Sm16:14 (king, people came, refreshed); Ex23:12 (stranger refreshed);
8:15, 1Sm16:23 (relieved), Ps66:12 (place of refreshment), 39:13 (spare,
recover), Jr30:9 (I will raise up their king; cf.v.22), Jdg15:19 (water from
jaw, spirit came back, revived), Hos12:8 (refreshment)
Look at
Ruth the third chapter, 4,7,8,14, and Is28:12, “revive” from ‘margea’ /
‘margeloth’ – ‘foot’:- To recuperate (in one’s sleep) one’s vigour; like also in
the Old Testament custom of feet-washing.
Day of Song
These are
the things God’s ‘katapausis’-rest and ‘anapausis’-rest of the Sabbath Day, and
the Shewbread, had in common: “Reviving” – Sabbath’s revival, Ex31:17. “The Sabbath is sign between me and the children
of
“And David spake unto
the LORD the words of this song in the
day that the LORD had delivered
him out of the hand of all
his enemies and out of the hand of Saul: The LORD is my Rock and my Fortress,
my Deliverer, the God of my Rock; in Him will I trust: He is my Shield, and the
Horn of my Salvation, my High Tower and my Refuge – my Saviour! Thou savest me from violence. (Thou givest me rest.) I will call on the LORD who (through victory)
is worthy, to be praised, LORD!” 2Sm22
Further
on, one can read of David’s Jonah’s-anxieties as of Christ’s in his sufferings
of death; and from verse 7 to 21, one can read as of the Resurrection of the
Anointed of the LORD (51); as of the recompense of the Righteous One of God.
The rest of the Song is just the Song of the Lamb, the Song also of Moses, sung
by this king-priest David, of his Saviour Jesus Christ. “Lord”, is Jesus’ Name of praise, Title won
by Victory over sin and death.
Precedent
Although
fugitive and outlaw, this Sabbath Day with enemy’s wrested sword and temple’s
holy bread, David and band shall sing, and celebrate and feast! They “feast” Shewbread of Sabbaths’-Service, Christians,
“eating
and drinking” of The
Shewbread of God, Jesus Christ. “And let not you condemn you anyone!” Col2:12-19!
The
Shewbread, “showing forth”, ‘shon forth’ the triumph of the Lord-Victor, Christ. The Shewbread is Sabbath’s offering of ‘shining forth’ –
figuratively and spiritually –, Jesus’ Triumph
in resurrection, even “resurrection from the dead”; “from”, shame and
corruption, into, Glory and Incorruption. “So also is the resurrection of the Dead – sown
in corruption, Raised in Incorruption; sown in dishonour, Raised in Glory; sown
in weakness, Raised in Power.” “Death is swallowed up
in Victory.” The
Victory is Christ’s; the Victory is
Christ’s of the Sabbath Day.
|
Mark 2:23 to 28 |
At that time On the Sabbath Pluck ears of corn David,
shewbread Not
lawful to eat Made
for man Son
of man Lord of Sabbath |
Math 12:1 to 8 |
On the Sabbath Plucked ears of corn David,
shewbread On the Sabbath days Not
lawful for (them) Greater
than temple Son
of man Lord of Sabbath |
Luke 6:1 24-30 to 12: 1-8 |
On the Sabbath second after first Through
corn fields David,
shewbread Not
lawful for (them) Son
of man Lord of Sabbath |
John |
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Jesus
Christ is Lord, in fact “Lord of the Sabbath”, and the illustration of David
and the Shewbread-incident, of how “the Sabbath was made for man, not man for the
Sabbath Day”,
confirms the very ‘Lawful’ nexus the Word of God creates and makes fast between
Sabbath and Mercy; between Shewbread and Bread of Life – as on this Sabbath,
like David, first hand experienced by Jesus and his disciples.
David on
the Sabbath did nothing ‘unlawful’ – things not stipulated in the Law. But he
‘kept’ the Sabbath the unconventional way; he made the Sabbath a special day –
a Feast! David without even knowing, was doing the Great
Work of
the Law, to love so as to give one’s own life for the life of one’s friends.
Jesus said, no greater love has any! Where is there greater sinner than David?
Where is there a man God loved dearer? Only the Son, whom the Father delights in
above any. God’s Sabbath Day – God’s Day of Rest – for David ‘came’ so
naturally, so without questioning, so without doubt, so without anxiety, he planned
it, lived it, breathed it, sang it, ate it, so without fear as to walk with his
God, as to storm an enemy or scale a wall. David knew no fear, for God first
loved him. David was a Sabbath-keeper after God’s heart.
Fifty and
two times a year and more the LORD God of His People with the Shewbread every
Sabbath Day showed them that when His Christ had come He would raise Him from
the dead on the Sabbath Day.
Gerhard Ebersöhn
Pvt Bag 43
Sunninghill 2157
biblestudents@imaginet.co.za
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