How to Build a Tabernacle: Part 4a

Today's Reading: Exodus 35

Comments:

Today I have posted a partial study of the second question- I will complete the study and update the post by this evening. See part 1 for an explanation of this chapter study of Exodus 35.

Study:

2. Why build it now?

What is the significance of God's timing here as it fits into biblical history and His dealings with mankind?

Sequence of events: 

1. God makes a covenant with Adam (cf. Gen 2:16-17)
1. Will surely die if you eat of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil
2.  Adam's son Cain kills Abel and God therefore gives Eve a third Son- Seth (from whom the line of Noah comes)
3. God destroys the entire world, except Noah's family, becasue of mankind's wickedness (cf. Gen 6:5, Gen 6:17)
4. God makes a covenant with Noah (cf. Gen 9:11)
1. Will not destroy by flood again
5. God makes a convenant with Abraham (cf. Gen 17:7-8)
1. Will establish many nations and will give the land of Canaan to his offspring as an everlasting possession
2. Establishes covenant with Isaac and not Ishmael (cf. Gen 17:19)
3. Isaac blesses Jacob although Esau was the firstborn (cf. Gen 25:33, Gen 28:3-4)
6. God tells Moses of His covenant with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob (cf. Ex 6:2-4)
7. God makes a covenant with Moses approximately 600 years after Abraham's covenant (cf. Ex 24:7-8)
1. Established the law including the 10 commandments and other rules of conduct
8. God directs Moses to build a tabernacle that will hold the law just before giving him the 10 commandments (cf. Ex 24:12, 25:8-9)
1. Very specific instruction is given regarding the design of the tabernacle begining in Chapter 25
2. God explains that the high priest shall make atonement for Israel's sin once a year in the tabernacle (cf. Ex 30:10)
9. God sends Moses down the mountain to address Israel's sin (cf. Ex 32:1, Ex 32:7-8)
1.  Moses breaks the tablets of the law and makes the people drink the ground up idol in water (cf. Ex 32:20)
2. God directs Moses to have the Levites kill 3,000 idol worshipers by the sword (cf. Ex 32:27-28)
10. God call Moses back to the mountain to renew His covenant and give new tablets  (cf. Ex 34:1-2)
11. Moses delivers the entire law to the people with a shining face reflecting the glory of God
12. God directs Moses to begin gathering the supplies to build the previously described tabernacle (cf. Ex 35:5)

So God first spoke of a tabernacle in Exodus 25 right when Moses met God on Mt. Sanai the first time. It was the first thing God spoke of…

Exodus 25:1–9 (ESV)25 The Lord said to Moses, 2 “Speak to the people of Israel, that they take for me a contribution. From every man whose heart moves him you shall receive the contribution for me. 3 And this is the contribution that you shall receive from them: gold, silver, and bronze, 4 blue and purple and scarlet yarns and fine twined linen, goats’ hair, 5 tanned rams’ skins, goatskins, acacia wood, 6 oil for the lamps, spices for the anointing oil and for the fragrant incense, 7 onyx stones, and stones for setting, for the ephod and for the breastpiece. 8 And let them make me a sanctuary, that I may dwell in their midst. 9 Exactly as I show you concerning the pattern of the tabernacle, and of all its furniture, so you shall make it.

So this was followed by a description of the tabernacle and the contents and the priests clothes and requirements for various sacrifices and such in order for the priest to come to the Lord for atonement of Israel's sin.  

Later today I will complete this study on the question of why build the tabernacle now?

Until then- Soli Deo Gloria!

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