Upheld by His Hands

And talking about His protection, the Lord reminded me to look at the tabernacle that He instructed Moses to build while in the Sinai Wilderness. If you will turn to Exodus 26: 15 - 30 you will find the specific instruction given to Moses on how the tabernacle was to be held up. There were to be a total of 48 boards made of acacia wood and underneath each board were two silver sockets which will hold it up in the desert sand, otherwise the wood will sink into the soft sand. And each board was to be overlaid with gold. Also all the boards on each side of the tabernacle were to be joined together with five boards of acacia wood, which were also overlaid with gold.

All the time whenever I read this passage of the Bible, I treated the details on the construction of the tabernacle as just some descriptive instructions and I used to marvel that God was such a great architect. Recently, my pastor taught us to look at the whole tabernacle from a different perspective - from the angle that God spent 40 days up on Mt Sinai just talking about His Son Jesus Christ in types and representations.......

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29 "My Father, who has
given them to Me, is
greater than all; and no
one is able to sntach
them out of My Father's
hand."
John 10:29 NKJV

7 "If you abide in Me,
and My Words abide in
you, you will ask what
you desire, and it shall be
done for you."
John 15:7 NKJV

The "Pinnacle Of The Temple"

Matt 4:5 "Then the devil took Him up into the holy city, set Him on the pinnacle of the temple," (NKJ)

The "pinnacle" of the temple was the highest place among the "royal colonnade" gallery built by Herod within the area of the temple. The cloisters (porches in the NT) were among the finest architectural features of the entire Temple. Solomon's Porch (only remaining portion of the original temple built by Solomon) was also located here. They were a spectacular sight to behold, overlooking the Kedron valley. The historian Josephus gives an interesting description:

"This cloister deserves to be mentioned better than any other under the sun; for, while the valley was very deep, and its bottom could not be seen if you looked from above into the depth, this farther vastly high elevation of the cloister stood upon that height, insomuch that if any one looked down from the top of the battlements, or down both those altitudes, he would be giddy, while his sight could not reach to such an immense depth." -Antiquities, Book 15, Chap.11:5

Some believe the distance to have been seven hundred feet. It was from here that the Priest on the highest pinnacle had watched, waiting for dawn, to give the signal for beginning the services of the day where he summoned his waiting brethren beneath to offer the morning sacrifice.

It is interesting to note that in rabbinic literature, the Midrash (Pesiqta Rabbati, 162a) plainly states the Jewish belief that Messiah would manifest himself standing on the roof of the temple. Not on any roof but "the" roof, as it states in the NT using the definite article "the pinnacle."

No doubt that Satan enticed Jesus with the temptation to fulfill Malachi 3:1 before the designated time.

Another interesting note is that the rabbis believed that the person identified by God in Psalm 91 is none other than the Messiah. This is exactly where Satan misquoted the Scripture about the angels: "He shall give His angels charge concerning you (and) in their hands they shall bear you up..."