June 27, 2022

For we, though many, are one bread and one body; for we all partake of that one bread. 1 Corinthians 10:17

Opposite the pure gold candlestick of seven continually burning lamps on the south side of the first apartment of the sanctuary was the table of showbread, often translated as the “bread of the presence.” Situated on the north side of the Holy Place, the table was made of acacia wood, covered in gold. It was two cubits long, a cubit in width, and a cubit and a half high and finished with a crown molding of gold around the top edge. Its complete description is contained in Exodus 25:23-30. Twelve loaves of unleavened bread, two stacks of six apiece, were made freshly each Sabbath and during the following week the bread lay on the table. At the end of that week it was removed and eaten by the priests. Thus, each Sabbath fresh loaves were placed.

“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.” John 6:51

Jesus, the living bread, employed sanctuary language. The essential nature of His Word is behind our very existence. And it is for our sanctification. We must eat of this bread every day for nourishment and sustenance, and not as a mere form of godliness. If we are willing to receive its life-giving power, we will continually be in a growth pattern; a pattern of transformation. Each Sabbath we are given a gift of a special time with God for a deeper in-take of His lessons from heaven.

The soul that never gains a deeper experience on the Sabbath than on any other day, fails to keep the Sabbath as God would have him. THE CROSS AND ITS SHADOW by Stephen Haskell (p.55)

Moreover I also gave them My Sabbaths, to be a sign between them and Me, that they might know that I am the LORD who sanctifies them. Ezekiel 20:12

“It is the Spirit who gives life; the flesh profits nothing. The words that I speak to you are spirit and they are life.” John 6:63