Exodus - Part 20
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Welcome...
Introduce Self...
Pray...
Where are we picking up the story?
Recap
This is actually about the 6th time Moses heads up the mountain.
Then Moses went up on the mountain, and the cloud covered the mountain. The glory of the Lord dwelt on Mount Sinai, and the cloud covered it six days. And on the seventh day he called to Moses out of the midst of the cloud. Now the appearance of the glory of the Lord was like a devouring fire on the top of the mountain in the sight of the people of Israel. Moses entered the cloud and went up on the mountain. And Moses was on the mountain forty days and forty nights.
Significance of 40
Trials, testing, judgement
Noah = rained 40 days/nights
Moses = spend 40 years in Midian
Moses = On mount Siani 40 days/nights (testing for Moses and Israel)
Israel = Wondered 40 years
Goliath = Taunted Saul’s army 40 days
Ezekiel and Jonah
Jesus = tempted 40 days/nights
The Bible is not primarily about secret codes...
It’s primarily about the context in which it was written
Also, the context of the entire Bible story narrative.
Not specifically for our church here in 2022.
Now the appearance of the GLORY of the LORD.
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Glory = expression (demonstration) of worth
The Lord said to Moses, “Speak to the people of Israel, that they take for me a contribution. From every man whose heart moves him you shall receive the contribution for me. And this is the contribution that you shall receive from them: gold, silver, and bronze, blue and purple and scarlet yarns and fine twined linen, goats’ hair, tanned rams’ skins, goatskins, acacia wood, oil for the lamps, spices for the anointing oil and for the fragrant incense, onyx stones, and stones for setting, for the ephod and for the breastpiece. And let them make me a sanctuary, that I may dwell in their midst. Exactly as I show you concerning the pattern of the tabernacle, and of all its furniture, so you shall make it.
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Tabernacle means “tent” or “dwelling place”
Thus it was necessary for the copies of the heavenly things to be purified with these rites, but the heavenly things themselves with better sacrifices than these. For Christ has entered, not into holy places made with hands, which are copies of the true things, but into heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God on our behalf.
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Chapter 25
The Ark of the Covenant
The Table for Bread
The Golden Lampstand
Cubit = about 1.5 feet
The Ark of the Covenant
The Ark of the Covenant
“They shall make an ark of acacia wood. Two cubits and a half shall be its length, a cubit and a half its breadth, and a cubit and a half its height. You shall overlay it with pure gold, inside and outside shall you overlay it, and you shall make on it a molding of gold around it. You shall cast four rings of gold for it and put them on its four feet, two rings on the one side of it, and two rings on the other side of it.
You shall make poles of acacia wood and overlay them with gold. And you shall put the poles into the rings on the sides of the ark to carry the ark by them. The poles shall remain in the rings of the ark; they shall not be taken from it. And you shall put into the ark the testimony that I shall give you.
“You shall make a mercy seat of pure gold. Two cubits and a half shall be its length, and a cubit and a half its breadth. And you shall make two cherubim of gold; of hammered work shall you make them, on the two ends of the mercy seat. Make one cherub on the one end, and one cherub on the other end. Of one piece with the mercy seat shall you make the cherubim on its two ends. The cherubim shall spread out their wings above, overshadowing the mercy seat with their wings, their faces one to another; toward the mercy seat shall the faces of the cherubim be.
And you shall put the mercy seat on the top of the ark, and in the ark you shall put the testimony that I shall give you. There I will meet with you, and from above the mercy seat, from between the two cherubim that are on the ark of the testimony, I will speak with you about all that I will give you in commandment for the people of Israel.
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The Ark was the most holy object in the tabernacle.
It is viewed as a footstool of the heavenly throne.
Cherubs are associated with thrones.
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The Bible Knowledge Commentary (25:17–22)
Of crucial importance is that above the atonement cover between the two cherubim God would meet with His people. There on the Day of Atonement (Lev. 16:1–20) the high priest sprinkled blood on the lid. The blood then covered (kāp̱ar, “to cover, make atonement for”; cf. Ex. 30:10) Israel’s sin. The atonement cover symbolized for Israel what was later accomplished by Christ, who as the Lamb of God (John 1:29) made atonement for sin (Rom. 3:25; Heb. 9:11–14) by His shed blood (Eph. 1:7; 1 Peter 1:18–19).
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“The real significance of the Ark of the Covenant was what took place involving the lid of the box, known as the "Mercy Seat." The term ‘mercy seat’ comes from a Hebrew word meaning “to cover, placate, appease, cleanse, cancel or make atonement for.” It was here that the high priest, only once a year (Leviticus 16), entered the Holy of Holies where the Ark was kept and atoned for his sins and the sins of the Israelites. The priest sprinkled blood of a sacrificed animal onto the Mercy Seat to appease the wrath and anger of God for past sins committed. This was the only place in the world where this atonement could take place.”
The Table for Bread
The Table for Bread
“You shall make a table of acacia wood. Two cubits shall be its length, a cubit its breadth, and a cubit and a half its height. You shall overlay it with pure gold and make a molding of gold around it. And you shall make a rim around it a handbreadth wide, and a molding of gold around the rim. And you shall make for it four rings of gold, and fasten the rings to the four corners at its four legs.
Close to the frame the rings shall lie, as holders for the poles to carry the table. You shall make the poles of acacia wood, and overlay them with gold, and the table shall be carried with these. And you shall make its plates and dishes for incense, and its flagons and bowls with which to pour drink offerings; you shall make them of pure gold. And you shall set the bread of the Presence on the table before me regularly.
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This table represented fellowship with God.
The Golden Lampstand
The Golden Lampstand
“You shall make a lampstand of pure gold. The lampstand shall be made of hammered work: its base, its stem, its cups, its calyxes, and its flowers shall be of one piece with it. And there shall be six branches going out of its sides, three branches of the lampstand out of one side of it and three branches of the lampstand out of the other side of it; three cups made like almond blossoms, each with calyx and flower, on one branch, and three cups made like almond blossoms, each with calyx and flower, on the other branch—so for the six branches going out of the lampstand.
And on the lampstand itself there shall be four cups made like almond blossoms, with their calyxes and flowers, and a calyx of one piece with it under each pair of the six branches going out from the lampstand. Their calyxes and their branches shall be of one piece with it, the whole of it a single piece of hammered work of pure gold. You shall make seven lamps for it. And the lamps shall be set up so as to give light on the space in front of it. Its tongs and their trays shall be of pure gold. It shall be made, with all these utensils, out of a talent of pure gold. And see that you make them after the pattern for them, which is being shown you on the mountain.
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Would have been about 75 pounds of gold.
This really doesn’t mean anything, but a pound of gold today costs about $22,300.
75 pounds would be about $1.7 million
The Bible Knowledge Commentary 25:31–40
As the lampstand provided light for the priestly functions before God, so Christ today is the Light of the world (John 8:12), who reveals the way to God (John 14:6, 9).
3 items described first because of greater importance.
All gold.
All showing God’s holiness and glory
All showing a glimpse, a picture, of what heaven will be like.
What a sacred experience in the presence of God will be like.
The Tabernacle
The Tabernacle
“Moreover, you shall make the tabernacle with ten curtains of fine twined linen and blue and purple and scarlet yarns; you shall make them with cherubim skillfully worked into them. The length of each curtain shall be twenty-eight cubits, and the breadth of each curtain four cubits; all the curtains shall be the same size. Five curtains shall be coupled to one another, and the other five curtains shall be coupled to one another.
And you shall make loops of blue on the edge of the outermost curtain in the first set. Likewise you shall make loops on the edge of the outermost curtain in the second set. Fifty loops you shall make on the one curtain, and fifty loops you shall make on the edge of the curtain that is in the second set; the loops shall be opposite one another. And you shall make fifty clasps of gold, and couple the curtains one to the other with the clasps, so that the tabernacle may be a single whole.
The details for the Tabernacle go on for about 30 more verses...
The Tabernacle protected Israel from going into the holy presence of God and being destroyed.
The Tabernacle is a temporary solution for God to dwell among his people.
Temporary and also a picture of something greater.
The Reformation Study Bible: English Standard Version (2015 Edition) (Chapter 26)
God reveals the pattern for the tabernacle proper. The tabernacle, God’s holy dwelling in the midst of His sinful people, serves a double function. On the one hand, it protects the people from the dangers of unauthorized intrusion into God’s holy presence—the curtains of the Most Holy Place, of the Holy Place, and even of the courtyard stand between the people and the threat of God’s consuming holy presence. On the other hand, the tabernacle provides a way of approach to the Lord. Worshipers enter the outer court to pray and offer sacrifices; the priests carry the people’s petitions into the holy place; and once a year on the Day of Atonement, the high priest enters the Most Holy Place, the very throne-room of the Almighty, with a blood atonement to meet the Lord at the mercy seat.
The Bronze Alter
The Bronze Alter
“You shall make the altar of acacia wood, five cubits long and five cubits broad. The altar shall be square, and its height shall be three cubits. And you shall make horns for it on its four corners; its horns shall be of one piece with it, and you shall overlay it with bronze. You shall make pots for it to receive its ashes, and shovels and basins and forks and fire pans. You shall make all its utensils of bronze. You shall also make for it a grating, a network of bronze, and on the net you shall make four bronze rings at its four corners.
And you shall set it under the ledge of the altar so that the net extends halfway down the altar. And you shall make poles for the altar, poles of acacia wood, and overlay them with bronze. And the poles shall be put through the rings, so that the poles are on the two sides of the altar when it is carried. You shall make it hollow, with boards. As it has been shown you on the mountain, so shall it be made.
Bronze was “less holy”
Concentric circles coming into the presence of God
The tabernacle represents God’s dwelling among his people.
And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we have seen his glory, glory as of the only Son from the Father, full of grace and truth.
The word here is “tabernacled” among us.
Jesus dwelt with the people
Now God dwells with his people through the Holy Spirit
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“And once a year, the high priest would enter the Holy of Holies as part of the ceremony of the Day of Atonement (Leviticus 16). At no other time was anyone to enter the Holy of Holies, as the presence of God dwelt with the Ark of the Covenant. When Jesus was crucified, the veil between the Holy Place and the Holy of Holies in the temple ripped from top to bottom (Matthew 27:51). Just as He fulfilled for all time the sacrificial requirements, He ushered us into the presence of God.”
And Jesus cried out again with a loud voice and yielded up his spirit.
And behold, the curtain of the temple was torn in two, from top to bottom. And the earth shook, and the rocks were split.
Jesus death grant’s us, his people, direct access to the holiest place.
Now God dwells in us.
Attitude towards sin...
My little children, I am writing these things to you so that you may not sin. But if anyone does sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous.