Exodus 40:9 NKJV
“And you shall take the anointing oil, and anoint the tabernacle and all that is in it; and you shall hallow it and all its utensils, and it shall be holy.
The tabernacle was the place set aside for worship to the Lord. The lamps burned continually.
Spiritual Parallel: Our lights should be continually burning. At no time should we take a break from letting our lights shine. Some Christians have felt it was okay to turn the lights off when they got home and turn them on again when they were in public. Our lights should not go off anytime, but especially at home. Our home life has the potential of having the biggest testimony to the unsaved. Paul admonished the church to only allow overseers (leaders in the ministry of helps) to serve if their homes were in order.
1 Timothy 3:2-5 NKJV
A bishop then must be blameless, the husband of one wife, temperate, sober-minded, of good behavior, hospitable, able to teach; not given to wine, not violent, not greedy for money, but gentle, not quarrelsome, not covetous; one who rules his own house well, having his children in submission with all reverence (for if a man does not know how to rule his own house, how will he take care of the church of God?);
He told Titus to encourage older women to teach the younger ones to be godly wives and mothers.
Titus 2: 3-5 NKJV
the older women likewise, that they be reverent in behavior, not slanderers, not given to much wine, teachers of good things— that they admonish the young women to love their husbands, to love their children, to be discreet, chaste, homemakers, good, obedient to their own husbands, that the word of God may not be blasphemed.