My 280th post...I'm so happy!
The next few days are going to be a crazy conglomeration of weird instructions and laws, so look hard for the nuggets of gold within...ask yourself why all this was important to God.
25:2 - Every man whose heart moved him was to give. It wasn't forced giving...God didn't want the tabernacle to be tainted by dirty hearts and dirty money...He wanted people to give from their hearts as they understood what He had done for them. This is what giving should look like for believers today. It's not about getting your family to the magical 10% mark...it's about giving from your heart...it's about sacrificial giving...it's about giving back what is God's anyway. Maybe your magical number is 20% or 50% or 90% - give from the heart.
25:21ff - The mercy seat is where God swelled within the tabernacle. The high priest would enter into the holiest of holies to covers with God over the mercy seat. Jesus offered himself as the ultimate sacrifice, so that the mercy seat was moved into our hearts. We have the freedom to connect with God in person. Praise God! God's mercy gave us access to the mercy seat.
Numbers - There are lots of very specific numbers that God uses when describing the construction of the tabernacle, so I figured I would throw out some biblical numerology and let you figure out what it all means fro yourself...
#6 - This is the human number, it represents humanity (Man was created on the 6th day, etc.)
#7 - Spiritual perfection (So what does it mean that there were 7 lampstands with 6 arms on them? Did it represent that the temple was where men were made clean? What do you think?).
#10 - Ordinal perfection, which represents law and order.
#24 - Representative of the priesthood.
#40 - This is the number for testing and trial.
26:33 - There is no longer any separation between God and man because Jesus tore down the veil. We can enter into the holy of holies! We are a part of the body of Christ...the priesthood of all believers. YAY!
Question: So why do you think that God gave the Israelites these very specific instructions on making the tabernacle?
3 comments:
Answer: Maybe to test the Isrealite's willingness to follow His law to the tee?
I like the tithing thing, like sacrifice... if it isn't given with the right heart, then God doesn't want it at all. He views it at dirty money... or most of the time in my case, dirty service. I seem to think that I can serve God with the wrong motives, like to just check it off a list or something, which is so stupid... because God can see my motives behind everything!! It all goes back to why solitude is so scary...
Nice comments Bekah!
SO true!Often I feel guilt-tripped into Godly service and it just feels wrong when I come into something with that motive. God knows the heart, he wants honesty in everyway.
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