Latest / A Chapter a Day Bible Reading / June 7 - Exodus 27
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- 0:13High Life friends. It is shown.
- 0:15Here it is Wednesday. It is the 7th of June and I'm so
- 0:20glad that you can join me. As we read another chapter of
- 0:25God's word together. I am on day three of my hike
- 0:30Like I'm almost halfway, and I'm sure it has been beautiful and
- 0:36of wild and freezing and wonderful and I hope your week
- 0:41is going well too as we reach the middle of it, whatever is
- 0:44going on for you. I'm so glad that here you are so
- 0:48that we can read this. And as we read through these
- 0:51chapters, don't get too bogged down by the details.
- 0:53Don't think. Oh, there's always gold clasps
- 0:55for fabric to hang and I'm trying to get my head around.
- 0:59What the frames? Look.
- 1:00What's on the West Side, just let it wash over you let all the
- 1:04details wash over you as you reflect on what it what it even
- 1:09is or how it could even work that and Almighty infinite.
- 1:14God would give plans to people to build a home fair for him to
- 1:20live with them. The God Who created the Earth
- 1:24could easily create a, you know, magnificent Cavern of gold and
- 1:29Crystal. Crystals shining like the sun
- 1:31for him to take up residence but that's not how he rolls.
- 1:35He wants his people to create a space so that he is their God.
- 1:41And they are his people. It's beautiful.
- 1:44It's beautiful. So let us you and I read
- 1:47together, Exodus chapter 27, Using acacia wood, construct, a
- 2:04square altar, seven and a half feet wide, seven and a half feet
- 2:07long, and four and a half feet high.
- 2:10Make horns for each of its Four Corners.
- 2:13So that the horns and alter Are All One Piece overlay.
- 2:18The altar with bronze May cash buckets, shovels, basins, meet
- 2:23forks and fire pans. All of bronze, make a bronze
- 2:27grating for us and attach four bronze Rings.
- 2:30Oh It's four corners installing the grafting halfway down the
- 2:34side of the altar under the ledge for carrying the altar.
- 2:38Make poles of acacia wood and overlay them with bronze insert
- 2:42the poles through the rings on the two sides of the altar.
- 2:46The altar must be Hollow made from planks build it just as you
- 2:50were shown on the mountain then make the courtyard for the
- 2:54Tabernacle enclosed with curtains made of finely woven
- 2:58Linen on the south side. Curtains 150 feet long, they
- 3:03will be held up by 20 posts. Set securely in 20 bronze basis.
- 3:09Hang the curtains were silver Hooks and Rings, make the
- 3:13curtains the same on the North side. 150 feet of curtains held
- 3:17up by 20 posts, set securely and bronze basis.
- 3:22Hang the curtains with silver Hooks and Rings, the curtains on
- 3:25the west end of the courtyard will be 75 feet long supported
- 3:30by 10. In post set into 10 bases.
- 3:33The East End of the courtyard, the front will also be 75 feet
- 3:37long. The courtyard entrance will be
- 3:40on the East End flanked. By two curtains, the curtains
- 3:44on. The right side will be 22 and a
- 3:46half feet long supported by three posts set into three
- 3:51bases. The curtain on the left side
- 3:53will also be 22 and a half feet long supported by three posts
- 3:57set into three bases. For the entrance to the
- 4:01Courtyard, make a curtain that is 30 feet long.
- 4:05Make it from finely woven linen and decorated with beautiful
- 4:09embroidery and blue purple and Scarlet thread supported with
- 4:14four posts. Each securely set in its own
- 4:17base, all the posts around, the courtyard must have silver rings
- 4:21and hooks and bronze basis. So the entire Courtyard will be
- 4:25150 feet long and 75 feet wide width.
- 4:30Curtain walls, seven and a half feet, high made from finely
- 4:34woven linen. The basis for the posts, will be
- 4:37made of bronze. All the Articles used in the
- 4:41rituals of the Tabernacle, including all the tent, pegs
- 4:44used to support the Tabernacle, and the courtyard curtains must
- 4:47be made of bronze. Command the people of Israel to
- 4:52bring you pure oil of pressed olives for the light, keep the
- 4:56lamps burning continually, the lampstand will stand in the
- 5:00Tabernacle in front of the inner curtain that Shields the Ark of
- 5:04the Covenant. Aaron and his sons must keep the
- 5:07lamps burning in the Lord's presence all night.
- 5:11This is a permanent law for the people of Israel and it must be
- 5:15observed from generation to generation.
- 5:28Lord, thank you for this lamp stand with that eternal flame
- 5:33that burns day and night. To show that you were present
- 5:39but we don't have a lamp stand sitting out the front of a
- 5:43curtain Courtyard. That's right.
- 5:45Clothes in the middle of the village in which we live in the
- 5:48middle of the desert. But we do have your presence
- 5:5224/7 with us. Lord may we see the light of
- 5:57your presence every day, each hour every moment, so that we
- 6:02are never in any doubt that you reside here not just close to
- 6:06us, but within us and around us in front of us and behind us in
- 6:12the time we're about to live into and the time we've just
- 6:15lived through. And in this very moment here,
- 6:18you are. Thank you for your intimate,
- 6:22loving presence in our lives. We are so grateful for for it.
- 6:27And we love you and it's in Jesus name that we pray.
- 6:30Amen.