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The House of Prayer | The Mystery of the Tabernacle
June 8, 2026 · 19 min
Rabbi Schneider uncovers how the altar of incense points to prayer, showing how worship and seeking God draw us closer to His presence.
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Rabbi Schneider is equipping the body of Christ, building the church, and evangelizing the world. From the Old and New Testament, learn the biblical roots of Christianity and Jesus' Jewish heritage.
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God's Continual Love: The Table of Showbread 0:00 The tabernacle shows us how to walk with God. 1 of the pieces inside the holy place in the tabernacle was the altar of incense. Incense represents prayer.0:20 Once again, we're inside the holy place. The only light inside the holy place was the light that was being given from the 7 tiered holy menorah that was burning continually.0:33 It's a supernatural projection of the Holy Spirit. Now as the Holy Spirit was projecting in that holy place, what did the priest0:45 see? The priest saw 2 other sacred pieces of furniture. The 1st thing he saw was the table of showbread, and the 2nd thing he saw was the altar of0:56 incense. Again, the Lord said to Moses, I want you to build me this sanctuary that I might dwell with you exactly according to the pattern that I'm showing you. So brothers and sisters, we need to take very seriously1:08 the fact that these 2 objects that we're gonna study right now, we need to take very seriously that they were in the sacred meeting place between Yeah and his people, Yahweh and his people, and what they1:20 mean. Oh, it's interesting. I just had a stumble and I said, Yeah. Yeah. Yeah is actually an abbreviated form of Yahweh in the Hebrew Bible. So some we know that God's sacred name is Yahweh, but at times, He's also1:32 referred to as Yeah. It's a shortened form of Yahweh. So again, as the Holy Spirit was projecting light into the holy place, what did the priest see in addition to the menorah? Well, the 1st thing1:44 they saw was the table of showbread, which is also called the bread of presence, or in Hebrew literally, the1:55 bread of face. Now what is the table of showbread and why is it called the bread of presence or the bread of face? Well, the table of showbread contained2:07 12 loaves of bread, and each loaf symbolized 1 of the tribes of Israel. So there was a loaf for each 1 of the 12 tribes. And the bread was2:19 continually before the face of the creator, of Yahweh. It symbolized that the father was continually looking upon Israel, his2:31 chosen people, day and night. The love of the Lord was beaming down upon the 12 tribes of Israel, and the light of the Noorun never went out. Continually, the love of God was being2:43 poured forth on Israel. He saw them. He sees them. He loves them. He's with them. And that is the message for you and I. God's love2:54 is continually being administered to our life. The light of the sacred 1 never stops beaming, it never stops burning, it never stops shining. And3:06 it's always directed, my holy brother and sister, towards you and me. The love of God, the love of HaShem, the love of our3:18 Creator surrounds our life continuously. Now I know it's easy to make a statement like that. I know you've heard it before.3:30 But let's face it. There's times in life where we're hurting so bad, we're wondering, Lord, I know you love me, but if you love me so much, why did this happen? I mean, why? You know, take3:41 somebody, they're out there hammering, and they're hammering a nail, and they missed a nail, the hammer goes down on their finger, and, oh, Lord, I you love me so much. Why did you let this happen?3:53 Things happen that are tough. I was really struggling. Not completely related to this, but it it comes to mind. I was I was on a plane not long ago, and I was really praying to the Lord.4:05 I was saying, Lord, let me become so aware of your spirit inside me, of the fact that I live in your spirit. That because I'm in you, I live in victory over everything and all my4:17 circumstances in you, that I've been raised with you and I'm seated with you in the heavenly places according to your word. So I've been meditating on those truths, affirming them, repeating them back to God.4:29 And I'm sitting in the plane and all of a sudden, this baby a few rows behind me stops starts screaming and crying. And it wasn't like a gentle thing. It was like this baby was crying,4:41 like, uncontrollably as loud as this baby could cry and it wouldn't stop. And it was like, oh God. It was, you know, it was like so such a terrible thing. I mean, it was so loud and just so4:52 disruptive and so caustic hearing it. And I started saying, Lord, you know I'm believing that I'm in you, but why is this affecting me so much? Lord, I'm talking about how because I'm in you, I can live in victory5:04 over all my emotions. And over every circumstance, I just got done talking with you about that, yet I hear I got a baby 2 2 rows behind me screaming at the top of his lungs and is really getting on my5:16 nerves. So I'm just struggling. And the reason I bring that up, and I was able to overcome and praise God, the reason I brought it up is because sometimes we can assert biblical truth, like God loves me. In the5:28 case I just mentioned, it was like, God, because you're in me, I live in victory. But then since when the rubber meets the road, in this point that we're on now affirming that Hashem loves us, that even as5:40 he looked on the 12 loaves in the tabernacle, symbolizing that his face was always upon his people in love, we can we can assert that. But then soon as we run into5:51 situations in life when it seems like things go wrong, we find ourselves in pain. Maybe we're sick. Maybe something, God forbid, happens to somebody in our family.6:04 Maybe our car breaks down driving home on a winter night. And we thought, Lord, you love me, but why is this happening? Surely, God, if you can prevent a sparrow from falling to the ground, you could have prevented6:16 this. Isn't that true? That's where the challenge comes in. I want to encourage us. The next time something goes wrong in your life, the next6:28 time you find yourself in a situation that you can't explain, that's hurting you, you're in pain. The next time that happens, and it seems like God's not with6:39 you because if you think, well, if he loves me and he's with me, why is this happening? The next time that happens, let's take it as a challenge to say, Lord, I don't know why this happens, or why I'm in this6:51 situation, why I'm in this pain, why I'm suffering. But Father God, I'm gonna believe and declare that you love me and that your love and face is shining on me right now,7:04 even as it continually shown on the bread of presence inside the tabernacle. Let's take that as a personal challenge and test of our faith. And as we make that declaration, like Job7:16 did in the book of Job, all those terrible things were happening to him. But Job declared, though he slay me, yet will I trust him. Let's take that as a challenge. I know it's easier said than7:28 done. I'm even in fear and trembling saying it to you because I'm wondering, oh, no. How is the father gonna test me now in this? But we have to make a decision in the love of God that, father God, even when a thing7:38 seems like things have gone wrong, I'm gonna believe you and trust in your love. So, father, I ask you to strengthen us, each and every 1 of us right now to pass that test in Yeshua's name every7:50 single time to declare your love and your faithfulness and to believe in it in Yeshua's name through the darkness. Amen? Amen. We gotta do that, friends. We gotta do it. We gotta do it. And when weTrusting God's Love Through Trials 8:02 do that, we're gonna get strong. And when I've said as I said to you so many times, when you get strong, you'll be happy. You know, the Bible tells us in the book of James that we should rejoice8:15 when we encounter various trials and tests. Because when we encounter these trials and tests and remain faithful to the Lord through the trials and tests, by affirming His8:26 love, by not losing faith, by clinging to Him, James tells us that we become mature and complete. We become strong and we break through. And so Hashem8:38 loves us. I'm reading a little book right now, Hashem. That's the Hebrew way to speak of God. It means it literally means the name, the Shem name. So Jewish people, as you know, they won't utter8:50 God's name composed of the 4 Hebrew letters, yud hai vav hey because they feel it's so sacred, it shouldn't be spoken. So they'll just refer to God as the name. They won't say his name. They'll just say the name. So that9:01 is in Hebrew spoken of as Hashem, the name. So I'm reading this little book right now, this little paperback book, it's probably 50 pages, and it just it's almost like an and it looks almost like a kid made the9:13 cover of it. It just says, Hashem loves me. And it's a really simple book, but it's so precious. It's so childlike, and it's so, like, if we know that, we we've got9:25 everything we need. Right? Hashem loves me. That's what the bread of bread of presence, the bread of face is all about. Moving on now. What is the next piece of furniture that9:37 the worshiper or the priest, I should say, saw inside the holy place as the golden menorah as as the flames of the golden menorah lit the room? The next9:49 thing the priest saw, my beloved friend, was the altar of incense. The incense arose from the altar of incense inside the holyLiving in Continual Prayer 10:01 place, the meeting place between God and his people, the the blueprint for how to walk with him, the blueprint for how to stay connected to him, the blueprint for having his presence around our life. And what this tells10:11 us is to walk in the fullness that we're looking for, we need to live in a continual state of prayer because the incense was continually burning.10:24 A lot of people when they think of prayer, they think of it as a separate thing. Like, okay, I'm gonna go pray now. Or, okay, I'm gonna go there to pray. And that's fine. That's a good thing. But10:36 prayer needs to move beyond a certain time of day or going to a certain place. The prayer of the believer needs to be a continual dialogue with God. That's why the Brit Chadashah in the10:48 New Testament tells us to pray continually. So how do you live in a state of prayer? Again, the tabernacle shows us how11:00 to walk with God. 1 of the pieces inside the holy place in the tabernacle was the altar of incense. Incense represents prayer. We read this in in the book of Psalms. We read this in11:12 other places in scripture. Incense in the Bible is symbolic of prayer. The incense is a fragrant aroma ascending unto the Lord. And you and I, when we talk to God, when we11:23 share our life with God, that is a pleasing fragrance to him because this is what he desires. He desires that we would give him our life. And how can we give him our11:35 heart? How can we give Him our emotions? How can we really open ourselves up to Him to merge with Him unless we're talking with Him continually?11:47 Now when I say continually, that might sound like a real big burden to somebody. Well, how do I do that? But let me just begin here. What is prayer? At the most basic level,12:00 beloved 1, prayer is simply, listen, a reaching out to Hashem, a reaching out to God. So prayer doesn't have to always be even out12:11 loud. If you're reaching out to God in your thoughts, in your heart, or if you're speaking to Him out loud, whenever you're reaching out to Him, that is prayer.12:25 You see, Yeshua, when He was praying to the Father, He didn't always pray out loud. How do we know this? Because before He raised Lazarus from the dead, He12:36 lifted His eyes to the Father and He said, Father, I'm saying this out loud for the people that are around me. He said, I know, Jesus said, that you always hear me. In12:48 other words, Yeshua was revealing that he didn't need to be speaking something out loud to know that the father heard him and that he was in communication with the Lord. He had that internal awareness from his heart when12:59 he was in communication with the Lord. So prayer doesn't always have to be out loud. Okay? Whenever you're reaching out, you're in a state of prayer. Now I want you to consider this as we're getting ready to wind up13:10 today. That altar of incense inside the tabernacle, the smoke that was arising from it, it came it went straight up. In other words, if you took13:22 the altar of incense outside of the holy place, the smoke wouldn't go straight up. It would go wherever the wind was blowing. If the wind was blowing north, the smoke would go north. If the wind13:34 was blowing south, it would go south, etcetera. It'd be it'd be moved by the wind. But inside the mishkan, there was no wind because it was completely13:46 enclosed from the world outside of it. It went the smoke went straight up. What does this tell us? That when we're praying, our prayers should go straight up. They should13:58 be authentic. They should be genuine. They should be clear. Well, you say, Rabbi, well, what would it look like if my prayer wasn't straight up? Well, here's an example.14:10 Sometimes people pray when they're in a group of people and their focus really isn't on the Lord. Their focus is on the people that are around them that are hearing them pray. Sometimes people, when they're praying in a14:22 group, they're more focused on impressing the people around them than they are really praying to the Lord. So the 1st thing is, if your prayer is gonna go straight up, it needs to be focused on the Lord, 1st of all. Then14:33 it needs to be genuine with you and your own heart. Are you saying what's really in your heart, or are you just praying, quote, Christianity? What I mean14:45 by that is the the the culture of religion that we've picked up sometimes. Some of it's helpful, some of it's not. We don't have to speak to the Lord in thees and thous, you know. Oh,14:56 gracious, holy, heavenly father. I mean, maybe that's not the most authentic way in your heart to pray. I mean, I'm not saying it's wrong, but, you know, he doesn't have to always be referred to as vow, holy master, youAuthentic Prayer That Rises Straight Up 15:08 know. Speak with him authentically from your heart. That's prayer that goes straight up. And then lastly, beloved, prayer that goes straight up is prayer15:20 that's prayed according to His will. The scripture tells us sometimes, we ask and we don't receive because we ask amiss with wrong motives. We're15:31 asking God for things sometimes that aren't really His will for our life. But the scripture tells us, my beloved friends, children of God, that if we ask Him15:43 for anything according to His will, we can have the confidence that He hears us and that our prayers are granted.15:59 So we should pray in a way realizing that we don't have to be in a formal setting. It doesn't have to be at a place or a certain time. It's a continual dialogue with God. It's talking to God about everything. It's16:10 sharing our life with him. It's involving him in all our decisions. We continually are talking and dialoguing with God all day long, then it's praying to the Father in an authentic way, desiring the16:22 right things. Jesus said, seek 1st the kingdom of God and his righteousness. Let's make our prayer about God's purposes, about his glory, about his will, about the things that he desires for our life. Thy kingdom16:34 come, Jesus said. Pray in this way, thy kingdom come, thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven. So when Jesus taught us to pray, He taught us to make it 1st about the Father, about His glory, about His16:46 purposes being perfected in in our lives. And then lastly, beloved, we should include in our prayer a spirit and a sense of thankfulness for all that God has already done16:58 and who he is. So that's why the scripture says, let all your requests be made known unto God with thanksgiving. So let's take that step of faith when we're17:10 praying to God by ending our prayers, by being thankless. Father, thank you that you're faithful. Thank you that you hear me. I break off the spirit of doubt, Satan. I break you17:22 off my life. Father, I thank you for loving me and drawing me in to your precious holy light. Thank youStrengthened by Jewish Roots of Faith 17:34 for tuning in today. I hope you're enjoying this teaching. It is unique to be able to share with people the Jewish roots of their Christian faith. So many Christians are thrilled when they17:45 learn this information of how the Old Testament, how the Jewish roots of their faith support their faith in Christ. It really solidifies us to understand why17:57 Jesus is the only way to the father, how he fulfills the Old Testament, how his blood is the fulfillment of all those sacrifices that were once offered in the tabernacle that18:09 we read about in the book of Exodus. And when God's people learn about this and receive it, what it does is strengthen them in their faith and in their understanding18:22 of God's narrative through the scriptures. I hope that you'll support this ministry. I can't continue to do what I'm doing without your help. 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