2Ch 4:1, Moreover he made A BRONZE ALTAR: twenty cubits was its length, twenty cubits its width, and ten cubits its height.
Just as in the tabernacle, the altar was the first thing we see as we enter the temple! Before we can enter the Temple GOD dealt with our sins through HIS SON on the cross of calvary!
Heb 13:10, 13, WE HAVE AN ALTAR FROM WHICH THOSE WHO SERVE THE TABERNACLE … Therefore Jesus also, that He might sanctify the people with His own blood, suffered outside the gate.
2Ch 4:2,4 Then he made the Sea of cast bronze…IT STOOD ON TWELVE OXEN: three looking toward the north, three looking toward the west, three looking toward the south, and three looking toward the east; the Sea was set upon them, and all their back parts pointed inward.
The Sea of cast bronze was a place for PRIEST to wash before entering the temple of GOD and it was set on twelve oxen! OUR TWELVE OXEN ARE THE TWELVE APOSTLES, WHO WENT OUT OF JERUSALEM SPREADING THE GOOD NEWS THAT CLEANSES THE PEOPLE! JESUS
1Peter 2:9, But you are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, His own special people…
Heb 8:5, who serve the copy and shadow of the heavenly things, as Moses was divinely instructed when he was about to make the tabernacle. For He said, “SEE THAT YOU MAKE ALL THINGS ACCORDING TO THE PATTERN SHOWN YOU ON THE MOUNTAIN.
There is a reason that GOD told Moses to make everything according to the pattern! BECAUSE ALL OF IT POINTS DIRECTLY TO HIS SON JESUS! HE IS THE WAY!