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The year of Jubilee is come;Return, ye ransomed sinners, home.Ye who were sold for naught,Whose heritage was lost,Shall have it back for naught,A gift at Jesus' cost.The year of Jubilee is come;Return, ye ransomed sinners, home.The Seventh Trumpet hear,The news of heavenly grace;And, saved from death, appearBefore the Saviour's face.The year of Jubilee is come;Return, ye ransomed sinners, home.====================page 3----------THE TYPICAL TABERNACLE AND ITSTEACHINGS.ITS FURNITURE--ITS APARTMENTS--ITS PEOPLE.The Tabernacle which God commanded Israel to construct in theWilderness, in connection with which all their religious servicesand ceremonies were instituted, was, Paul assures us, a shadow ofgood things to come. (Heb. 8:5; 10:1; Col. 2:17.) In fact the wholenation of Israel, with their laws and their religious services andceremonies, was typical. This being true, our understanding of theplan and work of salvation now in progress, as well as their futuredevelopment, cannot fail to be greatly enlightened by a carefulstudy of that Jewish shadow, which was repeated year by yearcontinually for the edification of the saints during the ChristianAge. 1 Pet. 1:12.It is not simply to gain a historical knowledge of the Jewish forms,ceremonies and worship, that we come to the investigation of thissubject, but that we may be edified by understanding the substancefrom an examination of the shadow, as God designed in arrangingit.We will fail to attach sufficient weight and importance to theshadow, unless we realize how carefully God guided and directedall of its details: First, He took Moses up into the mount and gavehim an illustration of just how things were to be made; Secondly,He charged him to be very careful--"See, saith He, that thou makeall things after the pattern showed to thee in the mount." (Heb. 8:5;Exod. 25:40.) So too, with all the minutia of the service; every jot