Table for Showbread

Standing at the entrance, facing the curtain of the Most Holy, the showbread table was shown to beon your right.  Actually, this subject cannot be about the showbread table.  Because the link is found under furnishings, consistency demanded that 'table' be used in the link.  The subject has to be the showbread itself.

Showbread

The showbread was required at all times.  It symbolizes life and purity.  The showbread was unleavened; this symbolizes Christ's perfection, his sinlessness.

On several occasions, Christ himself indicated what his body represented.  The last supper with his disciples, Passover, Nisan 14, 33CE, Christ showed that this unleavened bread symbolized his perfect body given for our sakes, for our sins.

Matthew 26:26, And as they were eating, Jesus took bread, and blessed, and brake it; and he gave to the disciples, and said, Take, eat; this is my body. (ASV)

The Passover bread was by edict to be unleavened bread, as the showbread was.  The two have the same interpretation.

Golden Altar of Incense

The altar permitted the burning of the incense right there in the Holy.  This incense was so special that its nature, its composition, was for temple use only.  Any other use would be punished with death.  (Ex 30:34-38)

Because the altar of incense is located in the Holy and because once a year, the high priest had to burn this when entering the Most Holy so as not to die, incense primarily represents the prayers of Christ and the Saints since these are the ones that must enter the Most Holy of the heavens from the Holy on Earth.  (This will be brought out in more detail with scriptures on the Tabernacle proper page.)  Prayers are likened to the sweet smelling perfume of incense and let God enjoy the sanctity of his Saints and their zealous efforts at approaching him with fear and trembling in all holiness and love.

Psalm 141:2, Let my prayer be set forth as incense before thee; The lifting up of my hands as the evening sacrifice. (ASV)

(YLT)
Deuteronomy 33:10, 10They teach Thy judgments to Jacob, And Thy law to Israel; They put perfume in Thy nose, And whole burnt-offering on Thine altar.

Rev 5:8, And when he took the scroll, the four living creatures and the twenty-four elders fell before the Lamb, having each one harps and golden vials full of perfumes, which are the prayers of the saints

Rev 8:3, and another messenger did come, and he stood at the altar, having a golden censer, and there was given to him much perfume, that he may give it to the prayers of all the saints upon the golden altar that is before the throne, 4and go up did the smoke of the perfumes to the prayers of the saints out of the hand of the messenger, before God

The Seven Armed Lampstand

Its three arms to the left, three arms to the right and center stalk meant that it had seven lamps to light up with.  It's depicted standing on a person's left when facing the curtain of the Most Holy.  For fuel it used beaten olive oil. (Lev 24:2)

An examination of Zechariah, Revelation and other Biblical sources reveal a complex interpretation in which the olive oil also takes on significance.  Therefore, the scriptures below come before a concluding comment.

(Darby)
Zechariah chapter four, relevant verses:
1And the angel that talked with me came again, and waked me, as a man that is wakened out of his sleep. 2And he said unto me, What seest thou? And I said, I see, and behold, a lamp-stand all of gold, with a bowl upon the top of it, and its seven lamps thereon, seven lamps and seven pipes to the lamps, which are upon the top thereof; 3and two olive-trees beside it, one on the right of the bowl, and the other on the left of it.

5And the angel that talked with me answered and said unto me, Knowest thou not what these are? And I said, No, my lord. 6And he answered and spoke unto me, saying, This is the word of Jehovah unto Zerubbabel, saying, Not by might, nor by power, but by my Spirit, saith Jehovah of hosts.

10For who hath despised the day of small things? Yea, they shall rejoice even those seven--and shall see the plummet in the hand of Zerubbabel: these are the eyes of Jehovah, which run to and fro in the whole earth.

12And I answered the second time and said unto him, What are the two olive-branches which are beside the two golden tubes that empty the gold out of themselves?

14And he said, These are the two sons of oil, that stand before the Lord of the whole earth.

Revelation 1:20, The mystery of the seven stars which thou hast seen on my right hand, and the seven golden lamps. --The seven stars are angels of the seven assemblies; and the seven lamps are seven assemblies.

Revelation
3:1 . . . These things saith he that has the seven Spirits of God, and the seven stars:  . . .

4:5, And out of the throne go forth lightnings, and voices, and thunders; and seven lamps of fire, burning before the throne, which are the seven Spirits of God

5:6, And I saw in the midst of the throne and of the four living creatures, and in the midst of the elders, a Lamb standing, as slain, having seven horns and seven eyes, which are the seven Spirits of God which are sent into all the earth:

11:3-4, And I will give power to my two witnesses, and they shall prophesy a thousand two hundred and sixty days, clothed in sackcloth. 4These are the two olive trees and the two lamps which stand before the Lord of the earth;

The complex interpretation then is this:

The lampstands first indicate God's Holy Spirit, specifically as it has been given to Christ.  These seven spirits enable Christ to see all things as God does and to whom all things in all creation are naked and revealed.  This full complement of God's spirit is what has been given to Christ.

The lampstands also mean the seven congregations, the full number of congregations of Christ.  These are the light of the world; (Mattt 5:14) they are light bearers because they have the work of bearing witness about Christ. (Rev 6:9)

The olive trees and the olive oil that the lamp burns for its light are also referring to these Saints of Christ.  The prior paragraph kind of bears this out; the logic is self evident.