The tabernacle had three compartments, an outer court (place of sacrifice); an inner room called the holy place (place of worship); and then the innermost room or compartment, the holy of holies (place of spiritual communion with God and victory in Christ).  God wants to live in a house of three rooms.  When He made Adam He created him as a three-room dwelling place for Himself.  Adam had a body and a soul and a spirit.  This was the image of God in which he was created.  As a tabernacle for God, he was God's dwelling place here on the earth.  But Adam sinned, and the Lord departed, because He will not dwell with sin.  But when the Last Adam came, Jesus, He became the temple of God.  This temple (Jesus) also had three rooms; a body, a soul, and a spirit.  He was a perfect man, and therefore was the fit tabernacle for the dwelling place of God.  But He went to heaven, and since God wants to live in a house on this earth, He now dwells in the believers individually, and the Church as the Body of Christ collectively, and He wants us to open the entire house to Him:  our body, our soul, and our spirit.

The tabernacle was a clear type and figure and shadow.  First, a figure of Jesus in His work of redemption; and then a picture of the believer in Jesus, in the experience of salvation.  The outer court is typical of the body of the believer.  It is the place of sacrifice.  The body is always the place in which sacrifice is rendered.  Jesus bore our sins in His own body on the tree.  The body, represented by the outer court (the only visible part of the tabernacle), is the place of sacrifice.  And we're told in Romans 12:1 to "off your bodies as living sacrifices, holy and pleasing to God."

As the outer visible court represents our bodies, the holy place is a picture of the soul of man.  It is the place of worship.  There we see the priests at the table of the Lord, in the light of the golden candlestick, worshiping, interceding and praying at the incense altar.  The soul is the seat of worship, the seat of our emotions, and our fellowship.

But the place of supreme spiritual adoration is behind the veil, at the ark of the covenant, in the holy of holies, in the presence of God.  It is the place of spiritual fellowship with God alone.  Into this holiest of all, no two persons were ever allowed to enter at the same time.  Into it the high priest went alone---all alone with God.  In the holy place all of the priests assembled and worshipped together around the table of shewbread, by the light of the golden candlestick; but in the innermost sanctuary, behind the veil, personal, individual fellowship alone was permitted.  This is the ultimate spiritual experience.  The time which the high priest spent alone with God on the day of atonement, when he presented the blood, was far more important than all the days of service in the court and the worship in the holy place.