Daniel Hyde

How does it fit into the story, the overall picture of what God was doing and what he was going to do with his people?

The tabernacle, as it falls in the book of Exodus, takes place in three geographical places, the book of Exodus does.

The first part of Exodus deals with

the Lord's people where they were left off in Genesis.

They were in Egypt.

They were there from chapters 1 to 13 in exile, awaiting to be liberated and given the promises made to Abraham.

After leaving Egypt in the dark of night in the great Passover story, they proceeded throughout the wilderness, and they eventually, as they wandered there for a couple of chapters, 14 through 18, they finally come to Mount Sinai.

What's important and what's interesting is that as you look at the story and how it plays out in these geographic locations of Egypt and wilderness and Mount Sinai, that the book of Exodus, which just means a departure, going out, a leaving, most of the book doesn't take place when they're leaving.

Most of the book doesn't take place or doesn't describe that dramatic moment.

There's a great climactic section, but most of the book deals in a static place.

It deals with Israel at Mount Sinai.

So chapters 19 to 40, over half the book is dealing with Israel at Mount Sinai.

And there's a wonderful practical as well as theological reason for the fact that God redeems his people, and then most of the time of this book is spent dealing with them at Mount Sinai.

Various laws, the Ten Commandments, and then most of all,

the tabernacle and worship.

The great practical and theological reason for that and the truth that we want to learn is that redemption exists for the purpose of invocation.

That is that salvation exists for the purpose of adoration.

We were saved.

Israel was saved that they might serve.

And so they were saved from Pharaoh and his bondage to serve the Lord.