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Hey Bible Readers, I'm Tara Lee Cobble and I'm your host for the Bible Recap. You may have noticed that we're starting to get into some mentions of offerings and sacrifices, and it may be confusing. Don't worry about figuring everything out. Thank God we don't have to do these anymore because Jesus was the final sacrifice. However, what's important for us to do is think about what all this means.
So if you come away from your reading going, I didn't get anything out of this today, try asking yourself some different questions. ask yourself, what does this reveal about God? So maybe you think, okay, God's ordering lots of very specific sacrifices. What does that tell me about God? It might tell you a few things. First, that he's talking to humans at all, which is kind of huge.
He wants a relationship. Second, it might reveal that our sins need to be atoned for, and God has a plan to accomplish that. So today when we start out, Moses and Joshua are still up on Mount Sinai, the mountain of God, where Moses is hearing from God for 40 days. They've been up there since chapter 24.
God starts out talking about the incense altar, and we saw that even God's incense is holy and set apart. It can't be used for anything else. It's a special blend. Later, we'll see this about the anointing oil as well. This reminds me of a friend I had who refused to tell anyone what kind of perfume she wore so that no one else could buy it.
Except God is God, she's a human, and her perfume is in mass production, so that's entirely different. God also requires a one-time census tax from the people, half a shekel, which in today's money is about $3 to $6, according to my research. One of the hard things about a census is that people sometimes get puffed up and arrogant about their numbers. Cities love to boast that they're the largest.
Every religion wants to be the fastest growing. McDonald's advertises their sales number on their signs. So God attaches a reminder to this tax. This census isn't about you or making your numbers larger. This is an offering to the Lord to remind themselves that they owe Yahweh their lives. And by the way, we see that all their lives are worth the same amount, whether rich or poor.
He's pointing their eyes off themselves and onto his goodness in sparing their lives and pardoning their sins and providing them a place to meet with him. My God shot almost came from this section on the bronze basin, but I decided on something else. I'll share it with you, though.
It occurred to me as I was reading this section that the priests have to go to great lengths to make sure they're clean. They have to wash their hands and feet in this basin to make sure they're presentable so they won't die. Cleanliness is about purity, and purity is a big deal when it comes to drawing near to a set-apart God.
The phrase cleanliness is next to godliness is not in the Bible, but if it were, it would probably be in Exodus 30. Okay, so here's what I loved about the Bronze Basin and all their necessary hygiene rituals. It took me forward 1,500 years to a time when Jesus knelt down and washed the feet of his disciples, even his betrayer.
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