The Table of Shewbread
Central Truth: Jesus provides for all our needs
Scripture: EXO 25:23 "You shall also make a table of acacia wood; two cubits shall be its length, a cubit its width, and a cubit and a half its height.
24 "And you shall overlay it with pure gold, and make a molding of gold all around.
25 "You shall make for it a frame of a handbreadth all around, and you shall make a gold molding for the frame all around.
26 "And you shall make for it four rings of gold, and put the rings on the four corners that are at its four legs.
27 "The rings shall be close to the frame, as holders for the poles to bear the table.
28 "And you shall make the poles of acacia wood, and overlay them with gold, that the table may be carried with them.
29 "You shall make its dishes, its pans, its pitchers, and its bowls for pouring. You shall make them of pure gold.
30 "And you shall set the showbread on the table before Me always.
Lesson Points:
1. Location: The table of shewbread is located in the holy place on the north wall across
from the candlestick. The holy place is where we begin to realize true fellowship through
revelation of Jesus Christ.
2. Dimensions: The table of shewbread is three feet long, one and a half feet wide and
two feet three inches high. There were twelve loaves of bread on this table that were
changed out each sabbath.
3. Materials: It is made of acacia wood overlaid with gold.
4. Types: The acacia wood represents the sinless and perfect humanity of Christ. Gold
represents purity and the divine nature of Christ. These two together show the union of the
two natures. JOH 1:14 And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we beheld His
glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father, full of grace and truth.
Dwelt - skenoo {skay-no’-o} from 4636
(1) to fix one’s tabernacle, have one’s tabernacle, abide (or live) in a tabernacle (or tent),
tabernacle
(2) to dwell
LEV 24:7 "And you shall put pure frankincense on each row, that it may be on the bread for
a memorial, an offering made by fire to the LORD.
8 "Every Sabbath he shall set it in order before the LORD continually, being taken from the
children of Israel by an everlasting covenant.
9 "And it shall be for Aaron and his sons, and they shall eat it in a holy place; for it is most
holy to him from the offerings of the LORD made by fire, by a perpetual statute."
The twelve loaves ( one for each tribe ) represent God’s presence and provision in our
daily lives. It was given to the priest.
REV 1:5 and from Jesus Christ, the faithful witness, the firstborn from the dead, and the
ruler over the kings of the earth. To Him who loved us and washed us from our sins in His
own blood,
6 and has made us kings and priests to His God and Father, to Him be glory and dominion
forever and ever. Amen.
Bread speaks of Christ:
JOH 6:48 "I am the bread of life.
JOH 6:51 "I am the living bread which came down from heaven. If anyone eats of this
bread, he will live forever; and the bread that I shall give is My flesh, which I shall give
for the life of the world."
Bread speaks of the word:
MAT 4:4 But He answered and said, "It is written, ’Man shall not live by bread alone, but
by every word that proceeds from the mouth of God.’ "
God’s provision
Gen 22:1-14
GEN 22:1 Now it came to pass after these things that God tested Abraham, and said to him,
"Abraham!" And he said, "Here I am."
2 And He said, "Take now your son, your only son Isaac, whom you love, and go to the
land of Moriah, and offer him there as a burnt offering on one of the mountains of which I
shall tell you."
3 So Abraham rose early in the morning and saddled his donkey, and took two of his young
men with him, and Isaac his son; and he split the wood for the burnt offering, and arose and
went to the place of which God had told him.
4 Then on the third day Abraham lifted his eyes and saw the place afar off.
5 And Abraham said to his young men, "Stay here with the donkey; the lad and I will go
yonder and worship, and we will come back to you."
6 So Abraham took the wood of the burnt offering and laid it on Isaac his son; and he took
the fire in his hand, and a knife, and the two of them went together.
7 But Isaac spoke to Abraham his father and said, "My father!" And he said, "Here I am,
my son." And he said, "Look, the fire and the wood, but where is the lamb for a burnt
offering?"
8 And Abraham said, "My son, God will provide for Himself the lamb for a burnt offering."
And the two of them went together.
9 Then they came to the place of which God had told him. And Abraham built an altar
there and placed the wood in order; and he bound Isaac his son and laid him on the altar,
upon the wood.
10 And Abraham stretched out his hand and took the knife to slay his son.
11 But the Angel of the LORD called to him from heaven and said, "Abraham, Abraham!"
And he said, "Here I am."
12 And He said, "Do not lay your hand on the lad, or do anything to him; for now I know
that you fear God, seeing you have not withheld your son, your only son, from Me."
13 Then Abraham lifted his eyes and looked, and there behind him was a ram caught in a
thicket by its horns. So Abraham went and took the ram, and offered it up for a burnt
offering instead of his son.
14 And Abraham called the name of the place, The-Lord-Will-Provide; as it is said to this
day, "In the Mount of The LORD it shall be provided."
A. God saw Abraham’s need and provided a lamb.
B. God saw our need and provided His lamb, Jesus Christ
Memory verse: JOH 6:48 "I am the bread of life.
