Day 38—  We are in the second month! We’ve been reading for over a 1/12 of a year! Praise God! I hope that it’s become a GOOD habit that will continue.

   Day 38 – Exodus 25 – 27  (Blueprints for the Tabernacle & it’s contents)

Moses has ascended Mt. Sinai, the “Mountain of God,” and will be gone 40 days and 40 nights. It will be glorious for him, a time of waiting for Joshua, and a time of testing for Israel.

We begin to see in detail the plans to build a “dwelling place” for Israel’s God among His people in Chapter 25. The materials – gold, silver, bronze, blue, purple, scarlet yarns, fine twisted linen, goats’ hair, tanned ram’s skins, goatskins, acacia wood, oil, spices, onyx and other precious stones – are to be GIVEN BY THE PEOPLE…. willingly.

Huh?  And where would two million slaves get all those things?  Remember in 12:35-36, “The people of Israel had also done as Moses told them, for they had asked the Egyptians for silver and gold jewelry and for clothing. And the LORD had given the people favor in the sight of the Egyptians so that they let them have what they asked. Thus they PLUNDERED THE EGYPTIANS.”  Now… these things would be freely given to build a sanctuary for God.

This chapter also outlines building some the Tabernacle furniture; the Ark of the Covenant with the mercy seat, the Table for Bread, the Golden Lampstand, and the Bronze Alter in the outer court. Beautiful in detail and meaning. (The Alter of Insense and the Bronze Basin are described in chapter 30.)

Chapters 26 – 27 cover the literal construction of the Tabernacle or Tent of Meeting with its outer court or “fence” – wood, material and skin coverings, clasps, posts, pegs, all either plain or beautifully embroidered.

For a picturesque you-tube video that shows how the Tabernacle and it’s furniture might have been constructed, check out this video –   The Tabernacle of Moses

     (Tomorrow we will see the details God shows Moses for the Levitical Priesthood)