15 ...............................The Meaning of the Tabernacle - conclusion

The entire Tabernacle was based on the realization that the people were sinners, and needed an atonement for their sins. When God looked down on the Ten Commandments, the physical stones were intact, but their teachings had been broken over and over again by the people. This fact must be hidden from the view of God. On the annual great Day of Atonement, the high priest went alone into the Holy of Holies, carrying in a basin the blood of a sacrificial bull, which the priest splattered onto the Lid of the Ark. Now, God sees the blood, but not the broken law inside the Ark. The symbolism of the Tabernacle as well as the Temple John 2:19 - 22 was fulfilled at Calvary when Jesus the Messiah cried, "It is finished".

 Israel reigns as a Great World Power

During the reign of Solomon, David's second son with Bathsheba, the Kingdom of Israel was established and reigned briefly as a Great World Power. When Solomon's son, Rehoboam, became King he refused the advice and wisdom of the older statesmen and listened to his young companions. The Kingdom was divided into the Northern 10 tribes called Israel and the remaining tribes called Judah whose Capital was at Jerusalem. Israel eventually was defeated and carried off into Assyria. The Babylonian Empire later captured Judah and destroyed Solomon's Temple, then the Medo-Persian Empire became the Great World Empire followed by Greece and finally Rome which ruled Jerusalem at the time of the First Coming of Jesus the Messiah. The Jews knew that the Lord had promised David that he would have a descendant who would sit on the Throne as King of Israel forever,..Luke 1:32 That is why many called Jesus "the Son of David". This will happen at the Second coming of Jesus the Messiah who will not only rule Israel but will rule the whole world from His capital at Jerusalem as the King of Kings.