Scores of the regulations and ordinances of the law of Moses pertained to the tabernacle, as is shown in various entries in this book. According to several Book of Mormon passages (Jacob 4:5; Jarom 1:11; Mosiah 3:15; 16:14–15; Alma 25:15; 34:14; 3 Ne. 9:17), the chief objective of the law was to focus the Israelites’ attention on Jesus Christ and His Atonement.
Speaking of the law of Moses, Elder Jeffrey R. Holland wrote, “This historic covenant, given by the hand of God himself and second only to the fulness of the gospel as an avenue to righteousness, should be seen rather as the unparalleled collection of types, shadows, symbols, and prefigurations of Christ that it is. For that reason it was once (and still is, in its essence and purity) a guide to spirituality, a gateway to Christ.”190