In Chapter 25 of Exodus, Moses starts telling you about the tabernacle and what it’s going to be like. He tells about the mercy seat, the ark, the veils and the shewbread, and then in verse 31, the candlestick.
Jordan explains, “With the candlestick, there’s one branch that goes up and down. Out of each side of the main stick are the branches that go out. There’s three on one side and three on the other. Each branch comes up, and at the top, there’s a little bowl where they put oil for the light.
“You’ve got seven bowls, one stick with the six branches. Notice verse 31: ‘And thou shalt make a candlestick of pure gold: of beaten work shall the candlestick be made: his shaft, and his branches, his bowls, his knops, and his flowers, shall be of the same.’
“You read that and say, ‘What in the tarnation is he talking about?!’ So you got bowls, knops and flowers. What is that? On each one of these branches you’re going to have a set or ornaments. The ornament’s going to have a knop (sort of a base of things). Out of that knop is going to come some flowers and you’re going to have three of them on each one of these branches.
“By the way, you’re going to have the table with the shewbread on it. And one of the things they do is they come in and light the flame in the evening, so at night it lights up the holy place.
“Now, when you read about a candlestick giving light, what do you think we’re talking about? It’s the symbolism of light: ‘the entrance of thy Word giveth light.’ Understanding to the simple.
“Here’s the bread. What’s bread a picture of? ‘Man should not live by bread alone but by every word that proceeds out of the mouth of God.’ Light lights the Word.
“You say, ‘Who designed that sucker?! Whose idea was it to have these flowers and knops and these little bowls that look like almonds. What’s going on here?!’
“Think of what you got here. On each side he’s specific. You’ve got three sets. How many is that total? Nine. So you got nine of them on each side. And then I’ve got four running down the middle. So I’ve got three sets of three ornaments in each of the six branches.
“Well, if I’ve got three sets of the ornaments in each of the branches; three times nine is 27. So I’ve got 27 of these things going out there with the clusters of the three.
“Down the middle I’ve got the four. What’s four times three? Twelve. So I’ve got a total of 27 plus 27 which is 54, plus 12, which is 66. Do you know anything about 66?!
“Isn’t that interesting?! If you count 1-2-3-4. Well, how many was over here? There’s 27. How many is down here? 12. What’s 12 and 27? 39. So the first four, and you notice He divides them in four and three (seven in the bible is almost always divided four and three) . . .
“You take the seven churches in Revelation 2 and 3 there’s 4 in chapter 3. In Matthew 13 Jesus speaks seven parables of the mystery parables of the kingdom. In four of them he speaks and then he goes outside the house and speaks four and goes inside the house and speaks 3. All the way through your Bible, when God creates the heaven and the earth, He goes four days and then He creates life for the last three.
“You got 39 books in the Old Testament and three times nine is 27. That’s a good way to remember that. You’ve got the Word of God written all over this thing! How in the world did Moses know how many books were going to be in your Bible; how many books were going to be in the Old Testament and the New Testament in a Gentile Bible in 2012? Moses couldn’t have known that but the dude that wrote Exodus 25 did!
“When God wrote it, He wrote it in such a way that it’s indisputable that He knew what the end product was going to look like, not just in a Hebrew Bible but a Gentile Bible. How many loaves of bread are on the table? 12. But He specifically tells them to put them in rows of six and six.
“This one blows my mind. Lev. 24:5: ‘And thou shalt take fine flour, and bake twelve cakes thereof: two tenth deals shall be in one cake.’ So what do you have of the shewbread? You got 66. And you just sit and look at that and it don’t mean anything to you?! Well, keep reading, it gets worse! ‘[6] And thou shalt set them in two rows, six on a row, upon the pure table before the LORD.
[7] And thou shalt put pure frankincense upon each row, that it may be on the bread for a memorial, even an offering made by fire unto the LORD.’
“You know what God thinks is on that table right there? The pure bread; the pure Word of God. And that’s just in the typology of the way things are constructed and the little vignettes of what they’re doing!
“They don’t have any idea what they’re doing! But the dude that wrote that, God the Holy Spirit through Moses, He knew what the end was going to be. You go through those things and you say, ‘WOW! That old Book’s something special, isn’t it?!’ ”
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