When we look at the Tabernacle and Temple, we find that each had a container of water. There was the “laver of cleansing” in the Tabernacle, and the “bronze ocean” in the Temple; but because of sin, none of this cleansing water ever flowed out to transform the world. Thus, as we shall see, during most of the Old Covenant the gospel did not really go out to the nations. Instead, the nations were brought to the central sanctuary — or to its gate, since they could not go in.
