Those who desire to minimise the difference between the work of the
Holy Spirit in Apostles and Prophets, and His work in other men,
often refer to the fact that the Bible itself says that Bezaleel, the
architect of the tabernacle, was to be +"filled with the Spirit of
God, in wisdom, and in understanding, and in knowledge, and in all
manner of workmanship," "to devise the work of the tabernacle"+
(Ex. 31:1-11), as a proof that the inspiration of the Prophet does not
differ in kind from the inspiration of the artist or the architect.
This argument at first glance seems plausible, but when we bear in mind
the facts about the tabernacle, especially the fact that the tabernacle
was to be built after the pattern shown to Moses in the mount (Ex.
25:8, 9, 40) and that therefore it was itself a revelation from God, a
prophecy, a setting forth of the truth of God, the argument loses all
its force. The tabernacle was the Word of God done into wood, gold,
silver, brass, cloth, skin, etc., just as truly the Word of God and the
revealing of God's truth as if the truth were printed on a page. So,
of course, Bezaleel needed to be inspired, he was a prophet, a prophet
who uttered his prophecies in the details of the tabernacle. There is
much reasoning about inspiration to-day that appear at first sight very
learned, but that will not bear much scrutiny or candid comparison with
the teachings of the Word of God. There is nothing in the Bible more
inspired than the tabernacle, and if the destructive critics would
study the tabernacle more carefully and thoroughly they would be led
to give up their ingenious but untenable theories, not only about the
construction of the tabernacle, but about many other things as well. I
have never heard or known of a single destructive critic who had ever
given a thorough study to the real meaning of the tabernacle in all
its parts, or who had any considerable understanding of the types of
Scripture. I have challenged the critics in the University centres of
England, Ireland and Scotland to name one single destructive critic
who had ever made any thorough study of the types, and no one has ever
attempted to even suggest one.
II. TRUTH HIDDEN FROM MEN FOR AGES, AND WHICH THEY HAD NOT DISCOVERED
AND COULD NOT DISCOVER, BY THE UNAIDED PROCESSES OF HUMAN REASONING,
HAS BEEN REVEALED TO APOSTLES AND PROPHETS IN THE SPIRIT
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