In this chapter, Bezaleel makes the bronze altar for burnt offerings and the poles and curtains for the courtyard of the tabernacle. And we get some math, the calculations for how much gold, silver and bronze was used. It’s mind boggling.
Exodus 38
He made the altar of burnt offering of acacia wood: the length of it was five cubits, and the width five cubits; it was square and three cubits was the height.
Continue readingIn Exodus 25, Moses is given the instructions for making the ark of testimony as well as the table and lampstand that will be in the Holy Place. In this chapter those things are put together and the details of materials and measurements are repeated.
Exodus 37
Bezaleel made the ark of acacia wood: two and a half cubits was the length of it, and a cubit and a half the width of it, and a cubit and a half the height of it:
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Slaw Dog barely beat out Chi Dog on Friday to win the first ever Wienie 500. All six Oscar Mayer Wienermobiles competed. Here is a link to an AP News article filled with more puns than you would expect an AP article to to ever use.
This is Happy Monday #589.
Continue readingIf you go back to Exodus 26 you will find the instructions God gave Moses to build the tabernacle. There are measurements and materials for curtains, boards, sockets, coverings and so forth. In this chapter Bezaleel and Aholiab are following those instructions. The reading looks very similar but in this case they are doing all the things God described before.
Exodus 36
“Then Bezaleel and Aholiab, and every wise hearted man in whom the Lord put wisdom and understanding to know how to work all manner of work for the service of the sanctuary, shall do according to all that the LORD has commanded.”
Continue readingMoses will now repeat the instructions he has received from God on top of Sinai to the congregation of Israel It’s time to collect the offerings and make the stuff.
Exodus 35
Moses gathered all the congregation of the children of Israel together, and said to them “These are the words which the LORD has commanded, that you should do them.
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Is every person at church a born again believer that is doing the best they can to please God? Probably not; almost certainly not. But I think that’s where you are most likely to find the people that are. Everyone in the hospital isn’t sick, every person in prison may not be guilty, and every person at church isn’t going to heaven. But in each of these cases I think you will find the highest concentration of those that are.
Continue readingMoses goes up Mount Sinai for the 10 Commandment reboot. Spending time with God has an unexpected consequence: his face shines. He wears a veil when speaking to the children of Israel and removes the veil to meet with God again.
Exodus 34
The LORD said to Moses “Cut two tables of stone like the first: and I will write on these tables the words that were in the first tables, which you broke.
Continue readingAfter several days in a row at Sinai – days for us, about six weeks for the people of Israel – it is time to move on toward Canaan. Here is a link to Read the Bible: Exodus 24 if you want to review either the text or the discussion about seeing God. I just listened to it again because I’ve been asleep since then. Skip to about 5:30 for the discussion of what we can and cannot see.
Exodus 33
The LORD said to Moses “Depart, and go up from here, you and the people which you have brought up out of the land of Egypt, to the land which I swore to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, saying ‘Unto your offspring I will give it:’
Continue readingEven while Moses was on Mount Sinai receiving the Law, 40 days was all it took for the people to demand that Aaron make gods for them to worship. The worship the golden calf, sacrificed to it, then may have gotten drunk and naked. There was definitely dancing. In this chapter Moses demonstrates why he is a type of Christ, as he stands between sinful people deserving judgment and a holy but angry God ready to judge them.
Exodus 32
When the people saw that Moses delayed to come down from the mountain, the people gathered themselves together before Aaron, and said to him “Get up, make us gods which shall go before us; as for this Moses, the man that brought us up out of the land of Egypt, we do not know what has become of him.”
Continue readingGod has made provisions for the talent and skills to build the things. He stresses the importance of Israel keeping the Sabbath and presents Moses with the stone tablets.
Exodus 31
The LORD spoke to Moses, saying
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The Master's Table 