Exodus God’s Tent

Exodus Ex. 20 = God’s Moral Law Ex = God’s Case Law Ex = God’s Ceremonial Law = Planning the Tabernacle -(32-34 = Gold Calf) = Building the Tabernacle

Exodus Ex. 20 = God’s Moral Law Ex = God’s Case Law Ex = God’s Ceremonial Law = Planning the Tabernacle -(32-34 = Gold Calf) = Building the Tabernacle

Exodus 25 1 Yahweh said to Moses, 2 “Tell the Israelites to bring me an offering. You are to receive the offering for me from each man whose heart prompts him to give.

Exodus 25 3 These are the offerings you are to receive from them: gold, silver and bronze; 4 blue, purple and scarlet yarn and fine linen; goat hair; 5 ram skins dyed red and hides of sea cows; acacia wood;

Exodus 25 6 olive oil for the light; spices for the anointing oil and for the fragrant incense; 7 and onyx stones and other gems to be mounted on the ephod and breastpiece.

Exodus 25 8 Then have them make a sanctuary for me, and I will dwell among them. 9 Make this tabernacle and all its furnishings exactly like the pattern I will show you.

Exodus 25 8 Then have them make a sanctuary for me, and I will dwell among them. 9 Make this tabernacle and all its furnishings exactly like the pattern I will show you.

Exodus 25 8 Then have them make a sanctuary for me, and I will dwell among them. 9 Make this tabernacle and all its furnishings exactly like the pattern I will show you. Sanctuary = “holy place” Kaiser: The word “tabernacle” (miškān) appears for the first time here… It is from the word “to dwell” (šā ḵ an) and is the place where God dwells among his people (Kaiser, EBC)

Exodus 25 8 Then have them make a sanctuary for me, and I will dwell among them. 9 Make this tabernacle and all its furnishings exactly like the pattern I will show you.

Exodus 27; 30:17-21; Outer Court: 75 x 150 x 7.5 ft Bronze Altar: 7.5 x 7.5 x 4.5 ft Bronze Washbasin

High Priest and Other Priests Exodus 28-29; 39

The Tabernacle: 45 x 45 x 15 ft Exodus 25-26; Four layered walls: linen, goat hair, ram skins, and sea cow

Inside the Holy Place: -Lamp stand -Table of showbread -Incense altar -Veil

The Ark of the Covenant (Ex 25:10-22) 10 “Have the people make an Ark of acacia wood—a sacred chest 45 inches long, 27 inches wide, and 27 inches high.

The Ark of the Covenant (Ex 25:10-22) 11 Overlay it inside and outside with pure gold, and run a molding of gold all around it.

The Ark of the Covenant (Ex 25:10-22) 12 Cast four gold rings and attach them to its four feet, two rings on each side. 13 Make poles from acacia wood, and overlay them with gold.

The Ark of the Covenant (Ex 25:10-22) 14 Insert the poles into the rings at the sides of the Ark to carry it. 15 These carrying poles must stay inside the rings; never remove them.

The Ark of the Covenant (Ex 25:10-22) 16 When the Ark is finished, place inside it the stone tablets inscribed with the terms of the covenant, which I will give to you.

The Ark of the Covenant (Ex 25:10-22) 17 Then make the Ark’s cover—the place of atonement—from pure gold. It must be 45 inches long and 27 inches wide.

The Ark of the Covenant (Ex 25:10-22) 18 Then make two cherubim from hammered gold, and place them on the two ends of the atonement cover.

The Ark of the Covenant (Ex 25:10-22) 19 Mold the cherubim on each end of the atonement cover, making it all of one piece of gold.

The Ark of the Covenant (Ex 25:10-22) 20 The cherubim will face each other and look down on the atonement cover. With their wings spread above it, they will cover it.

The Ark of the Covenant (Ex 25:10-22) 21 Place inside the Ark the stone tablets inscribed with the terms of the covenant, which I will give to you. Then put the atonement cover on top of the Ark.

Two tablets A reminder of God’s moral law (and how they broke it)

Gold jar of manna (Ex. 16:32) A reminder of God’s provision (and how they complained about it)

Aaron’s staff that budded (Num 17:10) A reminder of God’s leadership (and how they rebelled against it)

The Ark of the Covenant (Ex 25:10-22) 22 I will meet with you there and talk to you from above the atonement cover between the gold cherubim that hover over the Ark of the Covenant.

Exodus 25 8 Then have them make a sanctuary for me, and I will dwell among them. 9 Make this tabernacle and all its furnishings exactly like the pattern I will show you. This phrase appears three times (25:9, 40; 26:30) The people did “just as the Lord commanded” (40:16, 21, 23, 25, 27, 29, 32) God is calling the shots here Teaching a message about two important concepts: Separation and Atonement

The Message of the Tabernacle Restricted access to each room Need for a priest to represent the people Separation

The Message of the Tabernacle Restricted access to each room Need for a priest to represent the people Separation Ex 28 9 “Take two onyx stones, and engrave on them the names of the tribes of Israel… 12 Fasten the two stones on the shoulder- pieces of the ephod as a reminder that Aaron represents the people of Israel.

The Message of the Tabernacle Restricted access to each room Need for a priest to represent the people Separation Ex There are to be twelve stones, one for each of the names of the sons of Israel, each engraved like a seal with the name of one of the twelve tribes.

The Message of the Tabernacle Restricted access to each room Need for a priest to represent the people God wants a relationship… Separation

The Message of the Tabernacle Restricted access to each room Need for a priest to represent the people God wants a relationship… Separation Ex 29:45-46 Then I will live among the people of Israel and be their God, and they will know that I am Yahweh their God.

The Message of the Tabernacle Restricted access to each room Need for a priest to represent the people God wants a relationship… but we are too sinful Separation Ex 29:45-46 I am the one who brought them out of the land of Egypt so that I could live among them. I am Yahweh their God.

The Message of the Tabernacle Restricted access to each room Need for a priest to represent the people God wants a relationship… but we are too sinful Separation Isa 59:2 But your iniquities have separated you from your God; your sins have hidden his face from you, so that he will not hear.

The Message of the Tabernacle Restricted access to each room Need for a priest to represent the people God wants a relationship… but we are too sinful Separation Romans 6:23 For the wages of sin is death…

The Message of the Tabernacle The Walls Atonement

The Message of the Tabernacle The Walls Atonement Exodus “When you take a census of the Israelites to count them, each one must pay Yahweh a ransom for his life at the time he is counted. Then no plague will come on them when you number them.

The Message of the Tabernacle The Walls Atonement Exodus Receive the atonement money from the Israelites and use it for the service of the Tent of Meeting. It will be a memorial for the Israelites before Yahweh, making atonement for your lives.”

The Message of the Tabernacle The Walls Atonement Exodus 38:25-27 The whole community of Israel gave 7,545 pounds of silver… This silver came from the tax collected from each man registered in the census…

The Message of the Tabernacle The Walls The Priests Atonement Exodus 38:25-27 The hundred bases for the frames of the sanctuary walls and for the posts supporting the inner curtain required 7,500 pounds of silver

The Message of the Tabernacle The Walls The Priests Atonement Ex 29:19-21 Now take the other ram, and have Aaron and his sons lay their hands on its head. Then slaughter it, and apply some of its blood to the right earlobes of Aaron and his sons.

The Message of the Tabernacle The Walls The Priests Atonement Ex 29:19-21 Also put it on the thumbs of their right hands and the big toes of their right feet. Splatter the rest of the blood against all sides of the altar.

The Message of the Tabernacle The Walls The Priests Atonement Ex 29:19-21 Then take some of the blood from the altar and some of the anointing oil, and sprinkle it on Aaron and his sons and on their garments. In this way, they and their garments will be set apart as holy.

The Message of the Tabernacle The Walls The Priests Atonement Ex 30:20 Whenever the priests enter the Tent of Meeting, they shall wash with water so that they will not die. Also, when they approach the altar to minister by presenting an offering made to Yahweh by fire

The Message of the Tabernacle The Walls The Priests The Altars Atonement

The Message of the Tabernacle The Walls The Priests The Altars Atonement The Bronze Altar Ex. 34:20 b – “No one may appear before me without an offering.”

The Message of the Tabernacle The Walls The Priests The Altars Atonement The Incense Altar Ex. 30:10 – Once a year Aaron shall make atonement on its horns. This annual atonement must be made with the blood of the atoning sin offering for the generations to come.

The Message of the Tabernacle The Walls The Priests The Altars The Ark of the Covenant Atonement

The Ark

Ex 25:20 The cherubim will face each other and look down on the atonement cover.

The Ark Ex 25:20 The cherubim will face each other and look down on the atonement cover.

The Ark Heb 9:7 – But only the high priest ever entered the Most Holy Place

The Ark Heb 9:7 – and only once a year. And he always offered blood for his own sins

The Ark Heb 9:7 – and for the sins the people had committed in ignorance.

The Ark

Hebrews 9: So Christ has now become the High Priest over all the good things that have come.

The Ark Hebrews 9:11-14 He has entered that greater, more perfect Tabernacle in heaven, which was not made by human hands and is not part of this created world.

The Ark Hebrews 9: For by the power of the eternal Spirit, Christ offered himself to God as a perfect sacrifice for our sins.

The Ark

Romans 6:23 For the wages of sin is death… but the free gift of God is eternal life through Christ Jesus our Lord.

Exodus So at last Moses finished the work. 34 Then the cloud covered the Tabernacle, and the glory of Yahweh filled the Tabernacle. 35 Moses could no longer enter the Tabernacle because the cloud had settled down over it, and the glory of Yahweh filled the Tabernacle.

Questions? Comments? Experiences? Exodus 25-40