“And this is the offering which ye shall take of them; gold, and silver, and brass.” (Exodus 25:3)

What is the spiritual meaning of gold, silver and brass and shittim wood? And for what reason has God demanded those materials? Gold speaks of the divine nature. We all need divine wisdom, divine strength, and divine knowledge. And God has provided these in His son as we can read in 1 Corinthians 1:30. When we do things according to the divine plan of the Lord Jesus Christ, we are gathering gold for His Sanctuary.

Silver speaks of redemption. Our Lord was sold for the price of the slave. But He sacrificed His own life to save us from our sin. Wherever you see silver in the Tabernacle it speaks of redemption, of the price our Lord paid and saved us. When we are born again, we become the “Purchased possession” of the Lord Jesus Christ. Our spirits and our bodies now belong to Him. We are “bought with a price” as we can read in 1 Corinthians 6:20). Now I can no longer say that my hands, my feet, my lips, my eyes are my own. They belong to the Lord Jesus Christ because He has purchased me, and bought me by His own Blood (1 Peter 1:18-19).

Our bodies are the temples of His Spirit (1 Corinthians 6:19).That is why we must glorify God with them, through our dress, our habits, our manners, our speech (1 Thessalonians 4:4-5; 1 Titus 2:9-10). That is the pure silver. My body and my spirit have became the purchased possession of my Lord, and now I cannot dress as I used to do. Now I cannot waste my money upon worldly things, and upon worldly glory. Now, I must glorify my Lord through my dress, manners and ways. It is the privilege of every believer thus to bring silver to God’s House.

The brass speaks of judgment. Those who looked on the serpent of brass, acknowledged thereby that they themselves were under judgment and that it was the devil (the serpent) who was responsible for their disobedience and death. By His Cross our Lord Jesus Christ has defeated our enemy. He has crushed him, and through faith we have the victory in Him.

Gold speaks of the divine nature; the silver of that price of redemption that our Lord has paid for us; while brass speaks of the judgment, which our Lord had to bear on our behalf. All of us are commanded to gather that material, and bring it to Him.

Much LoVe, JoY, Peace and Blessings, through Jesus Christ, our almighty, wonderful, dear caring Lord, Saviour and Redeemer, in who we faithfully abide, trust, believe and abundantly do receive throughout His marvelous righteous Word and truth fulfilling Holy Spirit.