John Luke

But when you were mentioning that, his face shining like that, I just think about what Paul said in 2 Corinthians 3 when he says, now we all with unveiled faces.

and we're beholding who God is.

And so that's why I think you're right.

This Exodus is such an important piece because even Paul's going to appeal back to this moment when he gets to his letter to the Corinthian church.

And his point is it's only in Christ is that veil removed where you can actually see and experience the presence of God, which connects perfectly with this temple motif.

Which I've always said, I think a big portion of the book of Exodus, if you read it,

it kind of ends really with the construction of the tabernacle.

And so it's kind of right there, Exodus 25, kind of in the meat of it all, where I know we don't really get into that in the course, but that construction of the tabernacle, which when you read those details, they seem so, I used to read them as like, I skipped through the genealogies, and I skipped through the construction of the temple and the tabernacle, because I'm like, who cares about how many cubits this is?

It doesn't matter, insignificant.

No, this is a picture of Eden.

This is like, I mean, this is very significant.

Yeah.

Like we don't know.

I've thought about it in terms of that curtain that separates the holy of holies, God's presence from the people, which is kind of the Mount Sinai moment, right?

It's also the Garden of Eden when they were cast out, and then the cherubim guard.

The entrance, well, that's sewn into this temple now.

And so you think about, man, what does this matter?

Well, when you get to the New Testament, you realize in Christ that now we do have access to the Father, to Christ by the Spirit.

And so you think, man, this is like what God's doing here.

And I think that speaks to where people are at because it's the loneliness.