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Today, I want to take you to a little passage in Joshua 5:13-15. These three short verses really have been meaningful in my life and in my heart. And the reason why I want to share these verses with you today, whenever you're listening to this, is three-fold.
Read moreAs I shared with you in our previous study, these last five or six chapters of the Book of Exodus, they feel fairly repetitious because we already, at a previous section in Exodus, have learned about all these different instruments and dwelling places that God has prescribed for the people of Israel. Part of the reason that this is said twice, it's not just to help us see what obedience looks like but to help us understand that God is identifying with this structure.
Read moreChapter 35, and all the way to the end of the book in Chapter 40, is fairly repetitive in that the exact descriptions that God gave to Moses of the tabernacle on the mountain are now said by Moses, exactly as he received them, to the people so that they might get busy about the mission of building this tabernacle. But the repetition need not scare us as believers today. The repetition is helpful because it helps us understand that we must heed the word of God precisely, not loosely, but we must precisely heed the word of God.
Read moreAs a reminder, we're here in the book of Exodus, in the middle of a three-chapter section where the people of Israel first rebelled in building the golden calf while Moses was still on Mount Sinai. Then secondly, and we'll see it in this chapter, Moses will mediate for the people. He's actually already begun mediating for the people a little bit in chapter 32, which we saw in our last study together. And then finally, God is going to restore the people of Israel. So that's the flow that we're in, in this little three chapter section. Rebellion of Israel, the mediation of Moses for Israel, and then the restoration of God to Israel.
Read moreThe section that we're entering into here in chapter 32 actually extends all the way through to chapter 34. We're not going to cover all three chapters in one sitting, though that would be an appropriate exercise because they are a unit. And this unit is meant to communicate a message about the rebellion of the people, the mediation of Moses in interceding for the people, and God's restorative process in the people's lives, bringing them right back into the covenant.
Read moreWe looked at what the priests were in Exodus 28 and 29, and this week we will look at what they do in Exodus 30 and 31 to learn lessons about what God expects, desires, wishes, longs for, wills for our lives to be today. In other words, a question that we should ask is if they were called to be a kingdom of priests and if we are called as a holy priesthood, a nation of priests today as the church, what did those priests do that might help inform what we ought to be doing today?
Read moreHere in the second half of the book of Exodus, we're listening in on God giving directions to Moses on the construction of the tabernacle, which they have yet to build. God is going to describe the consecration of all the priests in general, but of the high priest in particular.
Read moreAs we turn to Exodus 28, we're going to see the calling and the clothing of the priest. Here, we're going to see first what they're wearing, then how they're meant to serve God, and what their services are to be like as indicated by their clothing.
Read moreExodus 26 is a continuation of God's instructions to Moses and the people of Israel from and on Mount Sinai about the future tabernacle that they would construct, which years later under King Solomon's reign would develop into the temple itself.
Read moreGod just longs to be at the center of our lives. This is one of the major lessons that we will continue to learn through the back half of the book of Exodus, seeing the directions concerning the tabernacle. He longs to fellowship with his people. He wants to be at the center of our lives. He wants to be in a relationship with us.
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