02.11. Chapter Eleven

Chapter Eleven The Tables of Shewbread In the Tabernacle in the wilderness there was one table of shittim wood overlaid with gold, representing God’s prevision for His ransomed people in this dispensation. The twelve loaves upon that table tell of full provision for the whole family of God throughout all their wilderness days. The table sets forth the Lord Jesus as the centre and ground of communion with God, in the power of the Spirit, for the redeemed while here on earth. In the Temple of Solomon there were ten tables of gold, five on the one side and five on the other (1 Kings 7:48; 2 Chronicles 4:8). The table is a type of the Lord Jesus Christ as the centre and ground of communion in the power of the Holy Ghost. The BREAD thereon is God’s provision in Christ for all His ransomed ones when safely brought home to glory. He is the true bread which endureth unto everlasting life (John 6:32-58). The Tables Of Silver

Silver for the tables of silver” (1 Chronicles 28:16). The silver tables were probably in use in the side-chambers of the Temple and elsewhere. silver is not only a type of redemption, but of communion on the ground of redemption, for it was the chief circulating medium.

—Our Daily Homily