All right, let's open up to the book of Exodus. Tonight we're gonna look at Moses, call it Moses' and David's temple. It's really the transition between the tabernacle to the temple. But as we'll see in a little bit when we go to 1 Samuel, the tabernacle actually was called the temple. And so they're definitely one and the same, although they're different. But we want to understand the significance of the temple. The most important building in the world has been the temple. And when the Jews set up things in Jerusalem, the temple was the center of everything. When the Gentiles came to destroy the Jews and their culture, they destroyed and decimated the temple. When the Jews returned back under Ezra, Nehemiah, and Zerubbabel, the governor, they rebuilt the temple. And of course now, if you look at the landscape of Jerusalem, you'll see the blasphemous Mosque of Omar, the Arab symbol of blasphemy, really, when you study anything about Islam, right in the middle of Jerusalem on the site where the Temple Mount is. And so it's very interesting because when you study Bible prophecy, you find out that the temple will be a very key place in the future. as that the Antichrist will center his worship there, and when he moves to Jerusalem, that whole area is called Sodom in Egypt for some reason. We don't have time to get into that, but the Antichrist will declare himself to be God inside of that temple, and when Jesus Christ returns, he's gonna destroy the Antichrist, and he will set down and set up the throne of David and rebuild that temple And the millennial temple is described in great detail in Ezekiel chapters 40 through 48. And there's no way that's the same temple that you read about in other places. I mean, you're dealing with a whole, I forget how many acres of land that's mentioned there in Ezekiel. It's a totally different dimension. And that temple that will be built during the millennium is where Jesus Christ will rule and reign on the throne inside the Holy of Holies. And so it's a very important place, the most important building ever in the world. So we need to trace the tabernacle from Moses' time up to Solomon's time when he builds the temple. So just a couple things about this. We know from Exodus chapter 25, I don't know if I told you which chapter, but look in 25. Come down, if you will, to verse number 16. Notice the reason for this temple, one of the main reasons. Verse 16, thou shalt put into the ark the testimony which I shall give thee. So everything centers around the Holy of Holies. And then from there it centers around the Ark of the Covenant and from there inside of that Ark are those two tables of stone, the testimony. The Ark is actually called the Ark of His Testament because the Testament, those Ten Commandments are inside of there. That's God's Testament with His people. And when people came to the Tabernacle or they came to the Temple, the idea was that they were approaching before God Himself. You have to understand the Old Testament dynamic. The Old Testament situation was that Jews could only technically worship in one particular locale, one particular place. It wasn't like us nowadays. You, if you're saved, you have the Holy Spirit inside of you and you can worship God anywhere. You are the temple of the Holy Ghost. We can gather out, we can go to the park and have church. Calvary Baptist Church was made up of the people. It's not the actual building. There's nothing particularly holy about this structure. That's not that way in the Old Testament. In the Old Testament, no sacrifices could be done after the Mosaic and Levitical law was set up. No sacrifices could be done outside of that tabernacle or temple. And so it's a very important thing, and when they came in front of the temple year in Exodus, come over to, take a left turn and go back to 23. Notice the phrase that's used when he gives the commands for the men to come three times a year. Notice what he says in verse 17. Exodus 23, 17. Three times in the year all thy males shall appear before the Lord God. So they're coming in front of that brazen altar and they're giving their sacrifices. What the person would have to do, the offender, he would come with that animal and the offender would have to cut that throat. Then the priest would take the blood and do the stuff. And when he says they're coming to bring their sacrifices, the statement is made they're coming in front of God. God's presence was inside of that holy of holies. And like we've talked about before on that ark, the blood had to be put on that ark once a year, Leviticus chapter 16, on the Day of Atonement. And if anybody tried to get inside of that ark without blood, God dropped them like a hot potato. You read about it on several occasions there. One of them is when Uzziah tries to hold the ark when David's carrying it back with the cart, that he's not supposed to do it that way, because the Levites are supposed to carry it, and Uzzah reaches up to kind of steady the ark, and God drops him. In other places, when they bring it back, the Beth Shemesh there, and they make kind of a sideshow out of it. Come look at the ark, you know, and everybody goes to look in it, and God kills, I don't know, was it 56,000 or something like that? And he doesn't blink an eye. You don't get into the presence of God without the blood. That's the great lesson there. But the idea is that people appeared before God with this testimony. Now, come over to Numbers real quick. We won't go through all these things. Actually, maybe the end of Exodus. Go to the very last part of Exodus. What happened in the wilderness journeys before they actually came into the land of Canaan? It was really supposed to take them just a few days to get into Canaan's land, but it turned into a 40-year journey because of their rebellion. and they wander around in this wilderness so they have this camp and so they have the tabernacle with all the tent and all the stuff they have to take down and all the pieces of the furniture and it's got to be covered up and got to be carried on the stabs and all that kind of stuff. Well, they kind of uncoil like a snake because all the tribes are centered around the ark. And so they have to uncoil and they have to head out. But where do they go and how do they know where to go? Well, Exodus chapter 40, notice what he says here. Come down to verse number 32. When they went into the tent of the congregation and when they came near into the altar, they washed as the Lord commanded Moses. And he reared up the court round about the tabernacle and the altar and set up the hanging of the court gate. So Moses finished the work. Then a cloud covered the tent of the congregation and the glory of the Lord filled the tabernacle. Moses was not able to enter into the tent of the congregation because the cloud abode their own. And the glory of the Lord filled the tabernacle. And when the cloud was taken up from over the tabernacle, the children of Israel went onward in all their journeys. But if the cloud were not taken up, then they journeyed not till the day that it was taken up. For the cloud of the Lord was upon the tabernacle by day, and the fire was on it by night in the sight of all the house of Israel throughout all their journeys. So they followed that cloud and they followed the Lord moving that thing and if the cloud began to move then they knew it's time to pick everything up and go. And that takes place for 40 years, like 38 years, nearly 40 years until all those rebellious men died out, everybody that was 20 years old or 21 and older. If you're 20 and younger, he said they didn't have the knowledge of good and evil, and he allowed them to stay. But anybody over that, they all died. Their carcasses died in the wilderness, and then they were able to come into the land of Canaan. Now, let's go to the book of Joshua. Let's talk about what happens when they come into Canaan's land. We know Jerusalem is the capital of Israel. When they first came into the land of Canaan, Jerusalem was not the place that they set up as the capital. It was not the place where they set things up to worship. Now I think you understand as we go through these things, Israel is what we call, I guess you could call it politics and religion mixing. Because you can't have the nation of Israel without religion. God is actually their God. God is the monarch, if you will. It's a theocracy instead of a monarchy. And so God is leading the people. And when they finally do say, we want a king, and Samuel gets mad, and the Lord tells Samuel, don't get mad at them. They're not rejecting you. They're rejecting me. He had them some judges to kind of take care of things. But they wanted to be like all the nations. So he said, OK, you want a king? I'll let you have Saul. That was the people's choice. And then God's king, of course, was David. But before that, God was their king. And everything about the Old Testament is under that idea of politics and religion completely meshed together. That, my friends, is not New Testament Christianity. And don't get confused. If you don't rightly divide the word of truth, you can easily go down that road. The next thing you know, everything's about legislation. Everything's about trying to get the right laws passed. And you know, Christians should influence society. And if we could just get out and we could change things, you know, we could legislate people to be spiritual. There's laws on the books, used to be, where people could not curse in public. You know what, it doesn't matter. If you shut up all the curse words off of all the network televisions, if people still die without Christ, they're going to hell. You can't legislate spirituality. I forget what the date was. I gotta look it up again, because I keep referring back to it. I think it was the state of Massachusetts. That was the last holdout for taxes that were taken to pay for the church. It was in the 1800s. People's taxes still went to the state church. This country would have been either a Protestant, imperialistic type country or it would have been a Catholic country. The Catholics tried to get their hold on it. And the Lord had something else in mind. And the idea of freedom from a state church was absolutely huge. Not really heard of. The idea that somebody didn't have to pay taxes and go to support a parish and go to support a church That was an anomaly. And so you have a couple hundred years and absolute freedom of people to worship just like the Baptists. You know, Baptists were persecuted in this country early on because they didn't have a license. People that believe what you believe, beat, whipped in this country. Well, pre-country days, pre-1776. Patrick Henry represented some of them. Patrick Henry was for liberty no matter what the religion was. There were plenty of Baptists over in England like John Bunyan who wrote Pilgrim's Progress. He was put in jail because he wouldn't get a license, a state license. And so you see that in the Old Testament and you want to make sure you understand the difference. God does absolutely put politics and religion with the nation of Israel. That is absolutely true. Number one, Israel is not completely in their land and they never are completely in their land until they have the king, the son of David, on the throne. And you want to understand that about the restoration of Israel. Yeah, there's a partial return in unbelief, and that's happening now. There's more Jews in Israel now than in the United States. Not many more, but there's a lot more than there were 10 years ago. You still had more Jews in the United States than in Israel. But just because we have a return to Jews in Israel now in unbelief, that's not a sign that there's the complete restoration of Israel. That complete restoration cannot come until the Messiah comes. You find that from Old Testament prophecies. And when that happens, politics and religion again are completely mixed. And when Jesus Christ rules with a rod of iron, if you don't believe like He believes, you get beat. Matthew chapter five, you call somebody a fool, you get in trouble. You call somebody Rekha, you can be held in a council and be cast into hell for it. He rules with a rod of iron. And at the end of that 1,000 year period, a lot of people don't like that. And they fight against him and of course then he destroys it. And so you wanna make sure you get that. Now the Old Testament, what we're gonna see, we're gonna see the capital, Jerusalem, which will be the capital, is where the temple is. And everything centers around worship of God. And when the worship of God is made secondary, or when perversion comes through there, and a king leads people to worship a false god, or even like Manasseh, eventually he brought in idols into the temple, into the actual temple. I'm going to tell you right now, Washington is not where I worship. And you can go up there and you can see the obelisk just like you can see in the Vatican. You go look at the Washington Monument, look at some of those things. That stuff is pagan. I know there's scripture verses all over that stuff. I get that. Everybody quoted scripture back then. Doesn't mean they were saved. But I'll tell you this, the cesspool in Washington, D.C. is no more holy than a lot of places in this country. So this is not some type of thing to where we're gonna worship God and we're gonna, you know, You know, we are a quote-unquote Christian nation and all this kind of stuff. People, they live in a little dream world. So you want to be real careful and make sure you rightly divide when you're going through to see this stuff in the Old Testament. However, when the Lord does return and set up the kingdom again and the nation of Israel, He will rule with a rod of iron. Of course, everyone will have a central place of worship, which will be Jerusalem. Even the Gentile nations in the millennium will come down to Jerusalem during the Feast of Tabernacles and the other Jewish feasts to pay respect and homage to the king. You read about that in the book of Zechariah. All right, now let's come to Joshua. So they're coming into the land, and notice they set up the temple, or the tabernacle, they set it up in a place called Shiloh. Joshua chapter 18. Joshua 18.1, And the whole congregation of the children of Israel assembled together at Shiloh, and set up the tabernacle of the congregation there, and the land was subdued before them. The word Shiloh means rest or tranquility. And of course, this is the early times when they come into the land of Canaan under Joshua. and they're getting things set up and getting things established. I'll go over to chapter 19 of the same book, Joshua chapter 19. We're just going to trace this thing through. Come down to the last verse, chapter 19, verse 51. Joshua 19, 51. These are the inheritances which Eliezer the priest, and Joshua the son of Nun, and the heads of the fathers of the tribes of the children of Israel divided for an inheritance by lot in Shiloh before the Lord." See that phrase? What is before the Lord? At the door of the tabernacle, the congregation. So they made an end of dividing the country. There's not a place on this earth you can go that is quote unquote before the Lord. These supposed Protestant churches and Catholic churches and holy sepulchers and all these kind of places, they're not holy. Amen, Brother Chris, I appreciate that. But in the Old Testament, there was a place you could go and God's presence is inside of that thing. That's uncanny. We don't know what that's like. Of course, we have the Lord inside of us, which is a whole other subject. All right, look in chapter, same book, let's go to 22. So they're in Shiloh, you have a map, Bible map, you can trace some of these places. It's still, it's really there over in Ephraim, in the tribe of Ephraim, that's where Joshua was from. Look in Joshua chapter number 22, come down if you will. Let's see, verse number 19. Oh, this is when the tribe of Reuben and Gad, you know, they were on the other side of Jordan. They figured they'd, you know, just stay on that side and set up their inheritance. And, you know, they thought that it was going to be okay because the land was subdued before them. And Joshua said, okay, or Moses said, or rather back in Numbers 23, okay, but be sure your sin will find you out. You know, if you don't keep the ordinances like Moses said and keep the feasts and all that kind of stuff, the problem was they were on the other side of the river. That thing floods out, it's hard to get back. What are you going to do when the three feasts come and you're supposed to have your sons over there worshiping at the tabernacle three times a year? Are you really going to do it? Of course they did. They got slack, like a lot of people get slack. And what you'll find out, the first people to go into captivity were the tribes that were on that side, Reuben, Gad, and the half tribe of Manasseh. They went into captivity to the Assyrians back in about 721 B.C. Before the south, the southern tribe of Judah and Benjamin went into captivity in Babylon under Nebuchadnezzar, final captivity around 606 B.C. So they were on the other side, and when they got set up over there, it occurred to them, you know what? We're a long ways off. We need to build some kind of memorial so we can teach our kids about the true God. You know, the altar's way over there, so let's make our own altar. Well, you know what happens, I guess you do, if you've read this passage, they make this thing and of course everybody says, what's going on, we need to check this deal out. And they go and they confront them about it. Look in verse number 19, as they confront them about making this altar, although the Reuben and Gad, the altar they were making was just, the name of it was Ed, like Mr. Ed the horse. The word ad means a witness. They said, this is just going to be a witness. This altar is not for sacrifice. We just want our kids to know we serve the true God that's across the river, and that's what we want to do. This is kind of their response, verse 19. Notwithstanding, if the land of your possession be unclean, then pass ye over unto the land of the possession of the Lord, wherein the Lord's tabernacle dwelleth, and take possession among us. You see, that's what was important, was where God's tabernacle was. That was the main deal. You're not gonna have Judaism like it's supposed to be until you get that temple. They can do all this talk, talking about, you know, they get chickens and kill them or do whatever, some of these crazy Orthodox Jews, and they don't have to have bloody sacrifices. They have to have bloody sacrifices and they have to have a temple. That's all through the Bible. They have to have that land and they have to have the temple. All right, same chapter, come down a little bit further, verse number 29. This is their response to the Israelites. God forbid that we should rebel against the Lord and turn this day from following the Lord to build an altar for burnt offerings, for meat offerings, or for sacrifices beside the altar of the Lord our God that is before his tabernacle. You see the importance on that thing? Well, no, we're not doing that. We know there's only one place you can sacrifice, and that's before the Lord and His tabernacle. So that tabernacle's very important. It's got the brazen altar where they do the sacrifices. It has the Ark of the Covenant, and it's at Shiloh. All right, come over to Judges. Keep turning to the right. Let's get Judges 18. Now Judges 18 has all kinds of stories about what took place during this period of the judges and they of course kind of got, it was like the wild, wild west. They're getting settled in the land and people would set up their own rules and it tells us in two different places. One of them is in 17.6, in those days there was no king in Israel but every man did that which was right in his own eyes. You see it again in chapter 21. They kind of came up with their own laws and doing their own stuff. Well, in chapter 18, these Danites, they wind up getting a young guy from the tribe of Levi. They said, look, you're a Levite, and you're already a priest to this fellow here. Why don't you come be our priest? And they take him up and make him a priest. And here's the interesting thing in Judges chapter 18. This young Levite was taken by a fellow named Micah, who was actually younger. The Levite was younger than the guy who hired him. But he called the guy his father, and he made him a priest, and he gave him black robes. Doesn't that match something that you see today? I tell you, it does. It's called the Balite religion, and it's taking place every Sunday morning in Roman Catholic churches. It goes all the way back to Nimrod in Genesis chapter number 10, and you see it here in Judges chapter 18. It's interesting, I love this verse right in 20, look in verse 24, what Micah says when the tribe of Dan come, And they take the priests, and they take the images and idols away. Verse 24, he said, you have taken away my gods which I made, and the priests, and you're gone away, and what have I more? He goes, I don't have anything else. You stole my gods. Literally, the government could come, or whoever, the boogeyman could come, and they could take your Bible, they could take the hymn book, they could close our church down. They can't take our Savior away from us. We have no idols of gold that we worship. We don't worship the literal pages of this. The Word of God transcends the page. That's one reason we memorize it. We have enough of it memorized. We could write sermons from what we got memorized. You know, so this is a shallow religion, and that's what a lot of people have, unfortunately. Well, look at the end of the passage here when the children of Dan get things set up. Verse number 30, the children of Dan set up the graven image, and Jonathan the son of Gershom, the son of Manasseh, he and his sons were priests to the tribe of Dan until the day of the captivity of the land. And they set them up Micah's graven image, which he made all the time that the house of God was in Shiloh, the tabernacle. So you're progressing through the period of the Judges and Shiloh still is the place where the tabernacle's at. The house of God is there. It's called the house of God. You're in Judges, look in chapter 19. Now Judges is not in chronological order, by the way. You probably found that out if you read it much. Here in Judges 19, we have another reference here. Let's see. Yeah, this is when the man's going to get his concubine. Verse 18, he says, We are passing from Bethlehem, Judah, toward the side of Mount Ephraim, from thence am I. And I went to Bethlehem, Judah, but I am now going to the house of the Lord, and there is no man that receiveth me to house. He's headed to Mount Ephraim where Shiloh's at. All right, so the tabernacle's in Shiloh. Now, there's some things that take place in the period of Joshua and the judges where the thing seems to move around. Let's go over to Joshua chapter 24. This is the end of the period of Joshua and the beginning of the judges. But notice Joshua 24, verse number one. It's like the tabernacle moves from Shiloh to Shechem. Look in verse one. And Joshua gathered all the tribes of Israel to Shechem and called for the elders of Israel and for the heads and judges, so on and so forth. And they presented themselves. Look at the last part. They presented themselves before God. See that? Look and come down to verse 26. Joshua wrote these words in the book of the law of God and took a great stone and second set it up there under an oak that was by the sanctuary of the Lord They're there in Shechem is where they are All right now notice I come to judges 11 and So Shiloh is the place, but we have some passages that tell us that this thing has moved around. So even though it's there, it's not an established fact that this is indeed going to be the capital of Israel. That's the whole point I'm trying to make, showing you these things. Look in Judges 11. Come down to verse 11. Now here's Jephthah. Jephthah's one of the judges, and notice the statement that's made here. Verse 11, then Jephthah went with the elders of Gilead, and the people made him head and captain over them. And Jephthah uttered all his words before the Lord in Mizpah. Mizpah. Now you can get a little map and look. These little places, they're not far apart from each other. Eight, 10, 12 miles, 20 miles. Go over to chapter 20. And here we read in Judges chapter 20 of it being at Mizpah as well. Judges chapter 20 verse one. Then all the children of Israel went out, Judges 20 verse one, and the congregation was gathered together as one man from Dan even to Beersheba with the land of Gilead unto the Lord in Mizpah. See that thing, unto the Lord? Look in verse 18. And the children of Israel arose and went up to the house of God and asked counsel of God. Verse 26, Judges 20-26, "...then all the children of Israel and all the people went up and came unto the house of God and wept and sat there before the Lord and fasted that day until evening and offered burnt offerings and peace offerings before the Lord. The children of Israel inquired of the Lord, for the ark of the covenant of God was there in those days." So the things in Mishpah, look in chapter 21, Here it is again. Judges 21 and one. Now the men of Israel had sworn in Mishpah saying, there shall not any of us give his daughter unto Benjamin to wife. And the people came to the house of God and abode there still, abode there till even before God lifted up their voices and wept sore. So it's there in Mishpah. You're in Judges, come over to, you're still in Judges 21. Look in, come down to verse 19. Then they said, behold, there is a feast of the Lord in Shiloh yearly in a place which is on the north side of Bethel, on the east side of the highway that goeth from Bethel to Shechem on the south of Labona. And of course, Bethel means house of God. So it's like the thing goes back to Shiloh. So I'm showing you all this to show that Shiloh is the main place. When Joshua comes, he sets it up there, but it goes a couple other places in the meantime. And it winds up back at Shiloh when you come over to Ruth and Judge Samuel. Ruth is the period of the judges. Come over to 1 Samuel, 1 Samuel chapter 1. Let's see if I can find, what verse do you have? 24, does it have Shiloh in it? Yeah, there it is. I was looking at verse 7, and it does say in verse 7 that they went to the house of the Lord. Look in verse number 24. And when she had weaned him, she took him up with her with three bullocks and one heaf of flour and a bottle of wine and brought him into the house of the Lord in Shiloh. So that's where that tabernacle is. And I told you I was going to show you that verse. 1 Samuel 1, verse number 9, look in verse number 9. So Hannah rose up after they had eaten in Shiloh and after they had drunk. Now Eli the priest, there's Shiloh again. Eli the priest sat upon a seat by a post of the temple of the Lord. It's called a temple. Also in 3.3. In 3.3, notice it's called the temple. near the lamp of god went out in the temple of the lord and we know that's not the physical temple at the structure solomon built this way before solomon this is the tabernacle and it seems to still be the tabernacle of moses now if you're in samuel you're in three now you know what happens go to check before the uh... philistines are going back and forth with the israelites and the the israelite so what we got to try to win the battle so they go and they pull the ark out Look in Philippians chapter number 4, come down to verse number 4, So the people sent to Shiloh, that they might bring from thence the ark of the covenant of the Lord of hosts, which dwelleth between the cherubims. The two sons of Eli, Hophni, and Phinehas were there with the ark of the covenant of God. When the ark of the covenant of the Lord came into the camp, all Israel shouted with a great shout, so that the earth rang again. When the Philistines heard the noise of the shout, they said, What meaneth the noise of this great shout in the camp of the Hebrews? They understood that the ark of the Lord was coming to the camp. The Philistines were afraid, for they said, God is coming to the camp. And they said, Woe unto us, for there hath not been such a thing hithertofore. Woe unto us, who shall deliver us out of the hand of these mighty gods?" These are the gods, and the reason that thing's capitalized, because they're really talking about the true God, but they're saying gods, because they're pagans. These are the gods that smote the Egyptians with all the plagues in the wilderness. Be strong and quit yourselves like men, O you Philistines, that you be not servants unto the Hebrews as they have been to you. Quit yourselves like men and fight." And when the Philistines fought and Israel was smitten and they fled every man into his tent and there was a very great slaughter for there fell of Israel 30,000 footmen and the ark of God was taken. The two sons of Eli, Hophni and Phinehas were slain. So they come back and tell Eli, the big, fat priest, and I don't say that, I mean, that's what he was, he was heavy, verse number 18, and well, they tell him about his two sons getting killed, that's bad news, but when he hears about the ark of God, Humpty Dumpty sat on the wall, Humpty Dumpty had a great fall. The big man tips over and falls, and he falls over and breaks his neck. Y'all didn't know this stuff was in the Bible, did you? You're like, man, that's a cool story. He falls over and breaks his neck, and then which one of them's wife, Phineas' wife is having a baby, verse number 20, and she says, hey, you're going to have this son, but she dies. Verse number 21, the midwife names the child Ichabod. Why does she name it that? The glory is departed from Israel because the ark of God was taken. Verse 22, the glory of God is departed from Israel, for the ark of God is taken. The glory is gone. Remember that verse we read when we first started out? When Moses set everything up, that cloud came over. That represented the glory of God. That's why I showed you those references sometime, maybe in Sunday school, those seven times when God answers a sacrifice, fire comes down from heaven. There's a visible sign for those Jews to see that God's glories get there, and that cloud is gone. So the glory's gone. The ark disappears and is stolen by the Philistines. And come over to the book of Psalms, look in Psalm 78. When this takes place, God is done with Shiloh. A couple of references here, and we'll have to wrap it up for the night, but Psalm 78, Come down to Psalm 78 is one of these Psalms that kind of gives the history of Israel. So you come down toward the end. They provoke him to anger, 58. Come down to the 60s. Verse number 67. Psalm 78, 67. Moreover, he refused the tabernacle of Joseph. Now the reason he calls it the Tabernacle of Joseph is because, see the next thing, chose not the child of Ephraim. Joshua was from the child of Ephraim. And Joshua got over there and he set up in his inheritance, Shiloh was there, that was the city, and that's where he puts the ark. God says, I'm not gonna choose Ephraim. You know the prophecy, Genesis 49, way back, the prophecy was the scepter's gonna come from Judah. So something's gotta happen to get everything down to Judah. And of course we know Jerusalem is in Judah. Notice verse number 67, moreover he refused the tabernacle of Joseph and chose not the tribe of Ephraim, but chose the tribe of Judah, the Mount Zion, which he loved, and built his sanctuary like high places, palaces rather, like the earth which he hath established forever. He chose David also his servant, so on and so forth. And that's where he's gonna set up the tabernacle and eventually the temple, and it's gonna be on that high plain, the very same place where Abraham offered up Isaac. And it was a great tight picture of God the Father giving His Son. Now come over to the book of Jeremiah. You'll see another reference to Shiloh. Jeremiah chapter 7. There's a couple of references in Jeremiah to this end. Jeremiah chapter 7. Come down. He's basically preaching against their apostasy in the present sense. And he's going to refer back to Shiloh. Look in verse Jeremiah 7, 8. Behold, you trust in lying words that cannot profit. Will you steal, murder, and commit adultery, and swear falsely, and burn incense unto Baal, and walk after other gods whom you know not, and come and stand before me in this house, which is called by my name, and say, We are delivered to do all these abominations? That's what they were doing. They were serving these false idols, and they were coming on the Sabbath, and they were coming on the feast days, and they were acting like everything's okay, and it was no problem. Verse 11, is this house which is called by my name become a den of robbers in your eyes? That's quoted by Christ. Behold, even I have seen it, saith the Lord. But go ye now into my place which was in Shiloh, where I set my name at the first, and see what I did to it for the wickedness of my people Israel. And now, because you have done all these works, saith the Lord, and I have spoken to you, Rising up early and speaking, but ye heard not, and I called you, but ye answered not. Therefore will I do unto this house, which is called by my name, wherein ye trust, and unto the place which I gave to you and to your fathers, as I have done to Shiloh. And I will cast you out of my sight, as I have cast out all your brethren, even the whole seed of Ephraim. Therefore pray not," here's Jeremiah's commission, therefore pray not thou for this people. God tells Jeremiah don't even pray for them. That's how mad I am with him. Jeremiah is called the weeping prophet because he weeps over his people. He says, let rivers and waters, how does the thing go? Rivers and waters run down my face for the slain, for the daughter of my people. 9-1, oh that my head were waters and mine eyes a fountain of tears that I might weep day and night for the slain of the daughter of my people. That's why he's called the weeping prophet. The Lord said, don't even pray for these people. Go see what I did to Shiloh. That's exactly what I'm gonna do to Jerusalem. And he does it. Nebuchadnezzar comes through there in three different sieges. And finally, the last siege, he comes in and he takes them out by going to the temple and destroying it and leveling it to the ground. Okay, so that kind of brings us up to take place, what happens at Shiloh. So that's Moses' tabernacle. And next time we'll get into what's called David's tabernacle. All right, we'll go ahead and stop for there. Let's have a word of prayer.