Daniel Hyde

In the same way, we believe and we love the fact that we are made, created, as well as redeemed to glorify God and to enjoy him forever.

Exodus pictures that for us in a big way from the Old Testament.

As well, notice if you have your Bibles open, just look there at the end of Exodus, chapters 19 through 40.

the last half plus one chapter of the book of Exodus, most of that material deals with the actual tabernacle.

So you have in chapters 19 through 24, the Lord entering his covenants, giving his law to his people.

But then in chapter 25, that's what we'll pick up here in just a few moments, chapter 25 through 40, the biggest subsection of this book is

deals with the worship of the Lord at the tabernacle.

So God gives instructions to Moses how to build it, and then we go on to read about the construction of the tabernacle to worship the Lord.

So a big section of the book of Exodus, the heart of the book, is dealing with worship at the tabernacle.

And just to put that in context, all this material dealing with what seems to us a lot of repetitious things,

sayings, a lot of repetitious chapters.

There's a reason for it.

One great theologian of the 17th century, Herman Witsius, contrasted the creation narrative, Genesis 1, with the tabernacle narrative.

He said this, God created the whole world in six days, but he used 40, Moses on Mount Sinai for 40 days, he used 40 days to instruct Moses about the tabernacle.

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But six were used for the tabernacle.

So it should sort of startle us a little bit.

The creation has just a scant amount in the whole overall teaching of Scripture as compared to the tabernacle.

Something's going on here.

Something's very important for us.