So he went and hired himself to one of the inhabitants of that country, who sent him on to his farm to tend swine;

But the Jewish Festival of the Tent-Pitching was approaching.

Yes, you lifted up Moloch's tent and the Star of the God Rephan--the images which you made in order to worship them; and I will remove you beyond Babylon.'

"Our forefathers had the Tent of the Testimony in the Desert, built as He who spoke to Moses had instructed him to make it in imitation of the model which he had seen.

That Tent was bequeathed to the next generation of our forefathers. Under Joshua they brought it with them when they were taking possession of the land of the Gentile nations, whom God drove out before them. So it continued till David's time.

"'"Afterwards I will return, and will rebuild David's fallen tent. Its ruins I will rebuild, and I will set it up again;

and because he was of the same trade--that of tent-maker--he lodged with them and worked with them.

For we know that if this poor tent, our earthly house, is taken down, we have in Heaven a building which God has provided, a house not built by human hands, but eternal.

Yes, we who are in this tent certainly do sigh under our burdens, for we do not wish to lay aside that with which we are now clothed, but to put on more, so that our mortality may be absorbed in Life.

and above all make your own life a pattern of right conduct, having in your teaching no taint of insincerity, but a serious tone,

For a sacred tent was constructed--the outer one, in which were the lamp and the table and the presented loaves; and this is called the Holy place.

And behind the second veil was a sacred tent called the Holy of holies.

These arrangements having long been completed, the priests, when conducting the divine services, continually enter the outer tent.

And the lesson which the Holy Spirit teaches is this--that the way into the true Holy place is not yet open so long as the outer tent still remains in existence.

But Christ appeared as a High Priest of the blessings that are soon to come by means of the greater and more perfect Tent of worship, a tent which has not been built with hands--that is to say does not belong to this material creation--

And in the same way he also sprinkled blood upon the Tent of worship and upon all the vessels used in the ministry.

We Christians have an altar from which the ministers of the Jewish Tent have no right to eat.

For this reason they stand before the very throne of God, and render Him service, day after day and night after night, in His sanctuary, and He who is sitting upon the throne will shelter them in His tent.

After this, when the doors of the sanctuary of the tent of witness in Heaven were opened, I looked;