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Hey Bible Readers, I'm Tara Lee Cobble and I'm your host for the Bible Recap. If you're a fan of home renovation shows or you're really into architecture or construction, today's reading should have been right up your alley. It included all kinds of furniture and construction details.
Here we have a bunch of former slaves living in the middle of the desert, and God wants them to build a portable tabernacle where he can dwell with them in the midst of the wilderness. He calls on them to use all kinds of precious metals and fabrics for this tabernacle. Where would they get this stuff? They got it from plundering the Egyptians.
Those things that God blessed them with are used for his glory. It wasn't just about them having nice things. Those blessings didn't terminate on them. They served a much bigger purpose. When reading through all this information, I'm sure some of you are like, this is boring. Why does it have to be so detailed?
But then some of you are probably like, I wish God were this detailed with me about what I'm supposed to do. Or maybe some of you even have both of those thoughts. Hang in there through these details. Be encouraged that our God is a God of detail. You want him to be that way. Let's touch on a few of the noteworthy things we saw today.
First, the metals used in the construction get more precious the closer you get to the Holy of Holies, where God will dwell. There's gold inside, then silver outside, then bronze the furthest out. Second, I want to highlight a few things about the Ark of the Covenant, or the Ark of the Testimony, in case you like visual details like I do.
It was almost four feet long, a little more than two feet wide, and a little more than two feet high. Humans were not supposed to touch this at all after it was constructed. When they had to relocate the tabernacle as they moved around the wilderness, they were supposed to carry it with the gold-covered wooden poles.
This is reminiscent of how they weren't allowed to touch the mountain because of the presence of the power of God. Third, in 2518, we see that the lid of the Ark of the Covenant, which is called the Mercy Seat, has cherubim—that's the plural of cherub—on it. If you've seen a picture of a cherub, you've probably seen a naked baby with wings.
As always, forget what you know from Renaissance art and precious moments figurines. We talked about cherubim not long ago. They're one of the various types of angelic beings God created— This type is not a messenger angel like the ones that show up as humans.
From the various descriptions of them that we see throughout Scripture, we see that they have four wings covered in eyes, they likely have the form and body of a man, but they have four faces. They most often appear as guardians of holy places, like the Garden of Eden, for instance, and their images also appear in the tabernacle and on the Ark of the Covenant.
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