Messiah in the Mishkan: From Shadow to Substance and Beyond

by Chris Woodall

Publisher:

Wipf and Stock

, 2023

Overview

A widely recognized principle of hermeneutics is to garner as much information as possible regarding what the text(s) under consideration meant to its/their original audience or readership. For a Western Christian three and a half millennia hence, this is perhaps more difficult than might be imagined. But the reward is worth the effort; the prize is worth the price. Typology is the study of types and antitypes, and features heavily in this work. As each item of furniture in the tabernacle in the wilderness is subject to analysis, their fulfillment in Christ and the practical application for believers of such fulfillment is thereby exposed.
The journey for the reader begins where it ended for the majority under Moses’ leadership: at the brazen altar. After bathing at the brazen laver, we are then allowed to join the priests as they undertake their duties in the Holy Place, attending the table of shewbread, the golden lampstand, and the altar of incense. We then accompany the high priest into the Most Holy Place and find out why we are now permitted to stand before the ark of the covenant. It is a journey of discovery and it will do you good (Num 10:29)!

Praise for Messiah in the Mishkan

As man fell in the Garden of Eden, God promised to send the Messiah Savior. And many valuable truths of that salvation through Christ are typified in the tabernacle. Chris Woodall, who has established himself as an excellent expounder of God’s truth, has drawn out interesting and important lessons from the tabernacle in his latest book, Messiah in the Mishkan.

——David Wilson, retired pastor

Chris Woodall leads us, as a skillful tour guide, through the furnishings and fixtures of the tabernacle. He combines scholarly interest with whimsical anecdotes and insights always earthing it in his Reformed background and seeking to apply each aspect for us today. This monograph will help academics or first-time visitors to the Mishkan gain a fresh appreciation for the substance of our Messiah in the shadow of God’s portable cathedral.

——Simon Hawthorne, legal compliance manager

Product Details

• Title: Messiah in the Mishkan: From Shadow to Substance and Beyond
• Author: Chris Woodall
• Publisher: Wipf and Stock
• Print Publication Date: 2023
• Logos Release Date: 2023
• Pages: 246
• Language: English
• Resources: 1
• Format: Digital › Ebook
• ISBNs: 9798385205028, 9798385205004, 9798385205011
• Resource ID: LLS:9798385205028
• Resource Type: Monograph
• Metadata Last Updated: 2026-02-22T03:19:34Z

About Chris Woodall

Chris Woodall, is former Associate Professor of Christian Dogmatics at North-West University, South Africa. This is his fifth book for Wipf & Stock. The first four, Covenant: the Basis of God’s Self–Disclosure (2011), Kingdom: the Expression of God’s Rule (2012), Atonement: God’s Means of Effecting Man’s Reconciliation (2015), and Minor Prophets in a Major Key (2018) are also available from this publisher.