The Hebrew word for tabernacle is mishkan, “dwelling place,” where God could be at home. Exodus 25:10-22 begins with the ark, the focal point of the furniture in the tabernacle to be built for the Lord. Let’s read its description: “two and a half cubits shall be its length, a cubit and a half its […]
Typology can be abused or ignored. Be careful and prayerful, but don’t ignore the types! We concluded our last episode by commenting on the minute details of the tabernacle and its furnishings and asked, “Why was God so particular?” We have already seen how the New Testament uses the stories and characters in the Old […]
If the children of Israel wouldn’t come near to God, well then, He would—draw near to them! What took so long on this occasion that Moses must be 40 days on the mountain of God? Believe it or not, among other things, the Lord was going to give him a scale model of heaven! The […]
Imagine seeing these two slabs of stone, supernaturally engraved with the finger of God! Again Moses is called up to meet God in Mount Sinai, this time with “his assistant Joshua” (Ex 24:13). Interestingly, the Lord says, “Come up to Me on the mountain and be there” (v 12). We know what He meant, don’t […]
Talk about name-dropping! Imagine being able to say, “I had a meal yesterday—with God.” The story in Exodus 24, as Alice said, gets curiouser and curiouser. Again Moses goes up the mountain, but this time with Aaron, Nadab and Abihu, and seventy of Israel’s elders. Amazingly, “they saw the God of Israel” (v 10). We […]
Blood oaths have been practiced throughout history, but this was a whole nation—and God! At the start of Exodus 24, Moses is instructed to meet alone with the Lord, and afterwards he “wrote all the words of the Lord.” The next morning, he rose to the day of ratification, when the Lord God of heaven […]
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It’s amazing how practical God is! He thinks about everything and wants us to live in His light. From Exodus 20:22–23:33, we have the fine print of the contract. The Lord provides many details on how the nation should behave. It was their Bill of Rights. He outlines a variety of things: the kind of […]