Tabernacle

Read Proverbs 18:13-24

Read Exodus 27

Today we get more details about the tabernacle, its design and its furnishings. All these details about loops and hooks and poles might not seem as interesting to read as a narrative story would be. But the poles and loops and many design features are necessary because this place of worship is movable. Because it needed to be transported here and there, God designed it in such a way that it could be folded up, and all the parts (and furnishings) carried. The ark (the location of the presence of God, as we've said before) would lead the way. When they traveled. It would rest in a tent when the people were to remain in one place.

What a gracious gift of God that he designed the tabernacle to travel. It reminds me of two New Testament passages. The first is from John chapter 1, "The Word because flesh and tabernacled among us" (v. 14). We usually see it translated dwelt, but that word is literally tabernacled. That is, Jesus tented among us. He was (and is) the very location of the dwelling of God. And he travels. He stays among his people. He leads them. He goes with them, even before them.

This ties into the second verse I am reminded of from Matthew 28:20, "I am with you always, to the end of the age." No matter where we go, he goes with us.

Do you know what was the first meal eaten on the moon? Before the first famous moonwalk in 1969, Buzz Aldrin, a trained elder in his church, partook of the Lord's Supper. So, Jesus goes with you wherever you go - even to the moon!

Pray:

Today pray from your heart. Thank God for his presence. Ask for his continued forgiveness and strength everyday. Also, be sure to pray for all those suffering and mourning in Haiti. May the Good News of Jesus bring much help and peace there.

Study with me tomorrow,

Pastor Jon

Soli Deo Gloria!