Wed, 15 March, 2006: Today’s Bible readings.
1 “Moreover, you shall make the tabernacle with ten curtains of fine twined linen and blue and purple and scarlet yarns; you shall make them with cherubim skillfully worked into them. 2 The length of each curtain shall be twenty-eight cubits, and the breadth of each curtain four cubits; all the curtains shall be the same size. 3 Five curtains shall be coupled to one another, and the other five curtains shall be coupled to one another. 4 And you shall make loops of blue on the edge of the outermost curtain in the first set. Likewise you shall make loops on the edge of the outermost curtain in the second set. 5 Fifty loops you shall make on the one curtain, and fifty loops you shall make on the edge of the curtain that is in the second set; the loops shall be opposite one another. 6 And you shall make fifty clasps of gold, and couple the curtains one to the other with the clasps, so that the tabernacle may be a single whole.
In this chapter of Exodus, God presents His plans for the Tabernacle.
What do we learn from this?
God presents copious details for His dwelling place. The number and size of the curtains. How they are to be made. The number of clasps to hold them together. On and on it goes.
Obviously, God cares about how we worship Him. We can not approach Him in any we choose, but only as He has instructed us. In His word, He has told us what we need to do to come before Him. We should not add to it or take away from it, for we must come to Him on His terms.
This means that we must be careful in our worship. We must study the scriptures, looking for God’s commands. It isn’t good enough to guess what God likes, or to do what we believe will please Him. Instead, we need to carefully consider everything we do, looking for a Biblical warrant for it. If we can’t find a scriptural reason for what we do in worship, we must not do it.
Where is Christ in this passage?
The Tabernacle and the sacrificial worship system of the Old Testament all pointed to Jesus Christ. They all served the purpose of pointing to the sacrifice that was to come: Jesus Christ.
