Outlines of Lectures on the Tabernacle of Witness: the Tabernacle Reared up and Filled With the Glory

And it came to pass in the first month in the second year, on the first day of the month, that the tabernacle was reared up. Ver. 17.) The first day of the second year of Israel’s experience, as a redeemed people, was an important period in their history.
On this day the tabernacle was set up. On this day the commandment was given for the numbering of the children of Israel from twenty years old and upward; all that were able to go forth to war in Israel. (Numbers 1:1,2.) And on the day that Moses had fully set up the tabernacle, and anointed it, and sanctified it, and all the vessels thereof, the princes of Israel, that were over them that were numbered, presented their offering to Jehovah of six covered wagons, twelve oxen, with twelve silver chargers, and spoons of gold full of incense, with the burnt offerings, sin offerings, and peace offerings, though twelve days were occupied with the presentation. (Numbers 7)
During the first year the lessons of the wilderness were learned: —What the wilderness was: what the flesh was; both under grace, and under law: and what God was, in the various manifestations of his character.
With the second year Israel’s experience in connection with the tabernacle commences; and to this period the books of Leviticus and Numbers apply.
The first year is typical of the Christian’s individual experience; the’ second, of his experience in connection with the Church of God, and in association with others professing Christianity.