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Today’s Bible Translation

Bible translation used in today’s episode: Ch. 25-28 HCSB

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This is the Law Monday, and we’ll read Exodus 25-28. I’m calling this episode “Intricate Design.”

Comments on Exodus 25-28

The first time I read these chapters, I was struck by the detail of God’s instructions. Nothing was left out. Everything that was to go into the tabernacle was intricately laid out, from the materials to use, to the measurements, to the design, to the placement of the items. 

But of course, that God thought of every detail is not at all surprising, right? He is a God of details. Think of creation itself. Think of our solar system. If it were not for the details of how our solar system is laid out, life as we know it on Earth could not exist. If we were just a little closer to the sun, or just a little further, the temperature would not support life. If the Earth was not the size it is, gravity would be too great or not great enough. The examples I could give go on and on. Think of the incredible detail of our bodies. The way the cells work, the way our nervous system works, our brains, our muscles. Think of the details in a snowflake, and how, supposedly, no two snowflakes are alike. Details. There are nearly an infinite amount of details in our universe. And all of them work together. 

Beloved, there is no way in the world that anyone could convince me that creation happened by chance. There are too many details for that. And I am not speaking as just a religious fanatic. I have a degree in biology. I know some science. I’m not the sharpest knife in the drawer, but I’m not completely ignorant about these things. 

Let me switch gears for just a moment. I got to wondering about the materials that God told Moses to collect as offerings. What I found was interesting to me, so hopefully you’ll find this interesting, too.

Gold: This represents deity. Gold cannot be made by man. It can only be made by God. The gold refers to the fact that Jesus is divine.

Silver: Represents redemption. In Scripture, silver was always the money used for redemption. Joseph was sold for silver, as was Jesus. Silver speaks of the redemption that comes only through Jesus. 

Bronze: Represents judgement. It has an extremely high melting point, so it was used in the altar where burnt offerings were made. Bronze speaks of the judgement that Jesus took upon Himself to atone for the sin of mankind. 

The blue yarn represents Heaven, because it is the color of the sky. 

The purple yarn is symbolic of Royalty. Jesus is the King of kings and Lord of lords. To make purple, you mix blue and red. The blue, as I said, speaks of Heaven, and red represents Sacrifice, blood and death. Thus, the purple speaks of the deity of Jesus and the sacrifice He made as man. He is, after all, God and Man.

And as I said, the scarlet, or red yarn, is symbolic of the Sacrifice. 

Fine linen is symbolic of the Purity and righteousness of Jesus, the spotless, pure, sinless sacrifice.

Goat’s hair represents the sin offering. Goats were very common and were used for many things, including food, and dairy, their skins were used for clothing and carrying water, and their hair was used to make yarn for clothing. Goats were sacrificial animals, too. The yarn made from their hair was coarse and drab, which speaks of the humanity of Jesus.

Rams skins, dyed red symbolize the substitutionary sacrifice. God provided a ram as the substitute for Isaac when God tested Abraham’s faith. And the ram’s skin was died red to show the sacrifice of the substitute.

In the translation we read today, the next item required by God is manatee skins. The KJV says badger skins. Another translation says “another type of durable leather.” In other words, we don’t know exactly what the original Hebrew means. But we can surmise the meaning. It was to be an outer covering of a skin that was very durable and probably looked very nondescript, which speaks of Jesus’ humanity.  We are told in Isaiah 53:2 that “He had no beauty or majesty to attract us to him, nothing in his appearance that we should desire him.”

I’m going to speed things up here and just tell you the symbolism, and not go into detail.

Not that the details aren’t interesting, to me anyway, but in the interest of time.

So next on the list is Acacia wood. This speaks of the incorruptible humanity of Jesus.

The Oil represents the anointing of the Holy Spirit.

The Spices for the oil and incense represent a sweet smelling fragrance to God.

So many details, with so much meaning. And you can be sure, we just scratched the surface.

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Steve Webb 0:00
I’m not completely ignorant about these things.

Steve Webb 0:10
It’s the Lifespring one year Bible coming to you from Riverside, California and podcasting since 2004, I’m your OG Godcaster, Steve Webb. This is the daily podcast where we’re reading through the entire Bible in a year and this is the law Monday, we’ll read Exodus 25 through 28. I’m calling this episode intricate design. Before we read, let’s pray. Our Heavenly Father, we thank you so much for Your Word. We thank you for revealing yourself through it. And we ask Lord that you would teach us today. I pray this in Jesus name. Amen. Okay, let’s begin.

Steve Webb 0:49
Exodus chapter 25. The Lord spoke to Moses, tell the Israelites to take an offering from me. You’re to take my offering from everyone who’s willing to give this is the offering you are to receive from them. Gold, silver and bronze, blue, purple and scarlet yarn, fine linen and goat hair, Ram skins dyed red and Manatee skins, acacia wood, oil for the light spices for the anointing oil and for the fragrant incense and onyx along with other gemstones for mounting on the ephod and breastpiece there to make a sanctuary for me so that I may dwell among them. You must make it according to all that I show you the pattern of the tabernacle, as well as the pattern of all its furnishings. there to make an ark of acacia wood 45 inches long, 27 inches wide and 27 inches high. overlay it with pure gold, overlay it both inside and out. Also make a gold molding all around it. Cast four rings for it and place them on it’s four feet, two rings on one side and two rings on the other side. Make poles of acacia wood and overlay them with gold. Insert the poles into the rings on the sides of the arc in order to carry the arc with them. The poles are to remain in the rings of the arc they must not be removed from it. Put the Tablets of the testimony that I will give you into the arc. Make a mercy seat of pure gold 45 inches long and 27 inches wide. Make two cherubim of gold make them of hammered work at the two ends of the mercy seat. Make one chair of at one end and one chair but the other end. At its two ends make the cherubim of one piece with the mercy seat. The cherubim are to have wings spread out above covering the mercy seat with their wings and are to face one another. The faces of the Chair of him should be toward the mercy seat. Set the mercy seat on top of the ark and put the testimony that I will give you into the ark. I will meet with you there above the Mercy Seat between the two cherubim that are over the Ark of the testimony. I will speak with you from there about all that I command you regarding the Israelites. You are to construct a table of acacia wood 36 inches long, 18 inches wide and 27 inches high overlaid with pure gold and make a gold molding all around it. Make a three inch frame all around it and make a gold molding for it all around its frame. Make four gold rings for it and attach the rings to the four corners at its four legs. The rings should be next to the frame as holders for the poles to carry the table. Make the poles of acacia wood and overlay them with gold and the table can be carried by them. You are also to make its plates and cups as well as its pictures and bowls for pouring drink offerings. Make them out of pure gold. Put the bread of the presence on the table before me at all times. You were to make a lampstand out of pure hammered gold. It is to be made of one piece. It’s based in its shaft its ornamental cups and its calyxes and petals, six branches or to extend from its sides, three branches of the lampstand from one side and three branches of the lampstand from the other side. There are to be three cups shaped like almond blossoms, each with the calyx and petals on the first branch in three cups shaped like almond blossoms each with the calyx and petals on the next branch. It is to be this way for the six branches that extend from the lampstand there are to be four cups shaped like almond blossoms on the lampstand shaft along with its calyxes and petals for the six branches that extend from the lampstand a calyx must be under the first pair of branches from it. A Kalex under the second pair of branches from it and a Calix under the third pair of branches from it. There calyxes and branches are to be of one piece. All of it is to be a single hammered piece have pure gold, make seven lamps on it. Its lamps are to be set up so they illuminate the area in front of it. It’s snuffers in fire pans must be of pure gold, the lampstand with all these utensils is to be made from 75 pounds of pure gold. Be careful to make them according to the pattern you have been shown on the mountain.

Steve Webb 5:21
Exodus chapter 26. You were to construct the Tabernacle itself with 10 curtains, you must make them a finely spun linen in blue, purple and scarlet yarn with the design of cherub and worked into them. The length of each curtain should be 42 feet, and the width of each curtain six feet. All the curtains are to have the same measurements. Five of the curtains should be joined together and the other five curtains joined together. Make loops of blue yarn on the edge of the last curtain in the first set, and do the same on the edge of the outermost curtain in the second set. Make 50 loops on the one curtain and make 50 loops on the edge of the curtain in the second set, so that the loops line up together. Also make 50 Gold clasps and join the curtains together with the clasps so that the tabernacle may be a single unit. You are to make the curtains of goat hair for a tent over the tabernacle. Make 11 of these curtains. The length of each curtain should be 45 feet, and the width of each curtain six feet. All 11 curtains are to have the same measurements. Join five have the curtains by themselves and the other six curtains by themselves. Then fold the six curtain double at the front of the tent. Make 50 loops on the edge of the one curtain the outermost of the first set and make 50 loops on the edge of the corresponding curtain of the second set. Make 50 bronze clasps put the clasps through the loops and join the tent together so that it is a single unit. As for the flap that is left over from the tent curtains, the leftover half curtain is to hang down over the back of the tabernacle, the half yard on one side and the half yard on the other of what is left over along the length of the tent curtains should be hanging down over the sides of the tabernacle on either side to cover it. Make a covering for the tent from rams skins dyed red, and a covering of manatee skins. On top of that. You are to make upright planks of acacia wood for the Tabernacle. The length of each plank is to be 15 feet and the width of each plank 27 inches. Each plank must be connected together with two tenants. Do the same for all the planks of the tabernacle. Make the planks for the tabernacle as follows 20 planks for the South side and make 40 Silver bases under the 20 planks, two bases under the first plank for its two tenants and two bases under the next plank for its two tenants. 20 planks for the second side of the tabernacle the north side along with their 40 Silver bases, two bases under the first plank and two bases under each plank and make six planks for the west side of the tabernacle. Make two additional planks for the two back corners of the tabernacle. They are to be paired at the bottom and joined together at the top in a single ring. So it should be for both of them. They will serve as the two corners. There are to be eight planks with their silver bases 16 bases, two bases under the first plank and two bases under each plank. You are to make five cross bars of acacia wood for the planks on one side of the tabernacle, five cross bars for the planks on the other side of the tabernacle, and five cross bars for the planks on the backside of the tabernacle on the west. The central crossbar is to run through the middle of the planks from one end to the other. Then overlay the planks with gold and make their rings of gold as the holders for the cross bars. Also overlay the cross bars with gold. You were to set up the tabernacle according to the plan for it that you have been shown on the mountain. You are to make a veil of blue purple and scarlet yarn and finally spun linen with a design of cherubim worked into it. Hang it on for gold plated posts of acacia wood that have gold hooks and that stand on four silver bases. Hang the veil under the clasps and bring the ark of the testimony there behind the veil so the veil will make a separation for you between the holy place and the most holy place. Put the mercy seat on the Ark of the testimony in the Most Holy Place. Place the table outside the veil and the lampstand on the south side of the tabernacle opposite the table. Put the table on the north side. For the entrance to the tent you are to make a screen embroidered with blue purple and scarlet yarn. And finally spine linen. Make five posts of acacia wood for the screen and overlay them with gold. Their hooks are to be gold you You were to cast five bronze bases for them.

Steve Webb 10:03
Exodus 27 You are to construct the altar of acacia wood. The altar must be square, seven and a half feet long and seven and a half feet wide. It must be four and a half feet high. Make horns for it on its four corners. The horns are to be of one piece overlaid with bronze. Make its pots for removing ashes and it shovels basins meat forks and fire pans. Make all its utensils of bronze. Construct a grade four out of bronze mesh and make four bronze rings on its mesh at its four corners. Set it below under the altars ledge so that the mesh comes halfway up the altar. Then make poles for the altar poles of acacia wood and overlay them with bronze. The poles are to be inserted into the rings so that the poles are on two sides of the altar when it is carried. Construct the altar with boards so that it is hollow. They are to make it just as it was shown to you on the mountain. You are to make the courtyard for the tabernacle. Make the hangings on the south of the courtyard out of finely spun linen 150 feet long on that side. There are two B 20 posts and 20 bronze bases. The hooks and bands of the posts must be silver. Then make the hangings on the north side 150 feet long. There are to be 20 posts and 20 bronze bases. The hooks and bands of the posts must be silver. Make the hangings of the courtyard on the West side 75 feet long, including their 10 posts in 10 bases. Make the hangings of the courtyard on the east side toward the sunrise 75 feet make the hangings on one side of the gate 22 and a half feet including their three posts in their three bases and make the hangings on the other side 22 and a half feet, including their three posts and their three bases. The gate of the courtyard is to have a 30 foot screen embroidered with blue, purple and scarlet yarn and finely spun linen. It is to have four posts including their four bases. All the posts around the courtyard are to be banded with silver and have silver hooks and bronze bases. The length of the courtyard is to be 150 feet, the width 75 feet at each end, and the height seven and a half feet. All of it made a finely spun linen. The basis of the posts must be bronze. All the tools of the tabernacle for every use and all its tent pegs as well as all the 10 pegs of the courtyard are to be made of bronze. You are to command the Israelites to bring you pure oil from crushed olives for the light in order to keep the lamp burning continually. In the tent of meeting outside the veil that is in front of the testimony. Aaron and his sons are to attend the lamp from evening until morning before the Lord. This has to be a permanent statute for the Israelites throughout their generations.

Steve Webb 13:02
Exodus chapter 28. Have your brother Aaron with his sons come to you from the Israelites to serve me as priest, Aaron he has sons named Anna by you, Lea Tsar and Ithamar make holy garments for your brother Aaron for glory and beauty. You are to instruct all the skilled craftsmen whom I have filled with a spirit of wisdom to make Aaron’s garments for consecrating him to serve me as priest. These are the garments that they must make a breastpiece an ephod, a robe, a specially woven tunic, a turban and a sash there to make holy garments for your brother Aaron and his sons so that they may serve me as priests. They should use gold blue, purple and scarlet yarn and fine linen. there to make the thought of finely spun linen embroidered with gold and with blue purple and scarlet yarn. It must have two shoulder pieces attached to its two edges so that it can be joined together. The artistically woven waistband that is on the ephod must be of one piece according to the same workmanship of gold of blue, purple and scarlet yarn, and a finely spun linen. Take two onyx stones and engrave on them the names of Israel sons, six of their names on the first stone and the remaining six names on the second stone in the order of their birth. engraved the two stones with the names of Israel sons as a gem cutter in graves the seal, mount them surrounded with gold filigree settings. Fasten both stones on the shoulder pieces of the ephod is Memorial stones for the Israelites. Aaron will carry their names on his two shoulders before the Lord is a reminder. Fashion gold filigree settings in two chains of pure gold. You will make them of braided cord work and attach the cord chains to the settings your to make an embroidered breastpiece for making decisions. Make it with the same workmanship as the FOD make it a gold of blue, purple and scarlet yarn and a finely spun linen. It must be square and folded double nine inches long in nine inches wide. Place a setting of gemstones on it four rows of stones. The first row should be a row of carnelian, Topaz and emerald. The second row, a turquoise, a sapphire and a diamond, the third row, the Jasson, an agate and an amethyst, and the fourth row, a barrel and onyx and a jasper. They should be adorned with gold filigree in their settings. The 12 stones are to correspond to the names of Israel sons. Each stone must be engraved like a seal with one of the names of the 12 tribes. You are to make braided chains of pure gold cord work for the breastpiece fashion to gold rings for the breastpiece and attach them to its two corners. Then attach the two gold cords to the two gold rings at the corners of the breastpiece. Attach the other ends of the two cords to the two filigree settings and in this way, attach them to the ephod shoulder pieces in the front. Make two other gold rings and put them at the two other corners of the breastpiece on the edge that is next to the inner border of the ephod. Make two more gold rings and attach them to the bottom of the ephod two shoulder pieces on its front close to its seam and above the ephod is woven waistband, the Craftsman or to tie the breastpiece from its rings to the rings of the ephod with a quart of blue yarn, so that the breastpiece is above the FOTS waistband and does not come loose from the ephod. Whenever he enters the sanctuary, Aaron is to carry the names of Israel sons over his heart on the breastpiece for decisions as a continual reminder before the Lord placed the Urim and Thummim in the breastpiece for decisions so that they will also be over Erin’s heart whenever he comes before the Lord Aaron will continually carry the means of decisions for the Israelites over his heart before the Lord. You’re to make the robe of the ephod entirely of blue yarn. There should be an opening at its top in the center of it. Around the opening there should be a woven color with an opening like that of body armor so that it does not tear. Make pomegranates of blue, purple and scarlet yarn on its lower hem and all around it. Put gold bells between them all the way around so that gold bells and pomegranates alternate around the lower hem of the robe. The robe must be worn by Aaron whenever he ministers and it sound will be heard when he enters the sanctuary before the Lord and when he exits so that he does not die. You were to make a pure gold medallion and engrave it like the engraving of a seal holy to the Lord. Fasten it to a quart of blue yarn so it can be placed on the turbine. The medallion is to be on the front of the turbine. It will be on Aaron’s forehead so that Aaron may bear the guilt connected with the holy offerings that the Israelites consecrate as all their holy gifts. It is always to be on his forehead so that they may find acceptance with the Lord. You are to weave the tunic from fine linen. Make a turban of fine linen and make an embroidered sash, make tunics sashes and headbands for Aaron’s sons to give them glory and beauty. Put these on your brother Aaron and his sons then anoint ordain and consecrate them so that they may serve me as priests. Make them linen undergarments to cover their naked bodies, they must extend from the waist to the thighs. These must be worn by Aaron and his sons whenever they enter the Tent of Meeting or approach the altar to minister in the sanctuary area so that they do not incur guilt and die. This has to be a permanent statute for Aaron and for his future descendants.

Steve Webb 18:55
You know, the first time I read these chapters, I was really struck by the detail of God’s instructions, nothing was left out. Everything that was to go into the tabernacle was intricately laid out from the materials to use, to the measurements to the design to the placement of the items. But of course that God thought of every detail is not at all surprising is it? He is the God of details. Think of creation itself. Think of our solar system. If it were not for the details of how our solar system is laid out, then life as we know it on Earth couldn’t exist. If it were just a little bit closer to the sun or just a little bit further, the temperature wouldn’t support life. If the Earth was not the size it is gravity would be either too great or not great enough. Of course the examples I could give go on and on. But think of the incredible detail of our bodies to the way the cells work. The way our nervous system works our brains our muscles. Think of the details of a snowflake and how supposedly no two snowflakes are alike. Detail else, there are nearly an infinite amount of details in our universe and all of them work together. Beloved, there’s no way in the world that anyone could convince me that creation happened just by chance. There’s too many details for that. And I’m not speaking just as a religious fanatic. I do know some science. I’m not the sharpest knife in the drawer, but I’m not completely ignorant about these things. Let me switch gears for just a moment. I got to wondering about the materials that God told Moses to collect his offerings. What I found was interesting to me. So hopefully, you’ll find this interesting as well. The gold, this represents deity. Gold can’t be made by man that can only be made by God. The gold refers to the fact that Jesus is divine silver, this represents redemption. In Scripture, Silver was always the money used for redemption. Joseph was sold for silver as was Jesus. Silver speaks of the redemption that comes only through Jesus and bronze. Bronze represents judgment. It has an extremely high melting point. So it was used in the altar where burnt offerings were made. Bronze speaks of the judgment that Jesus took upon himself to atone for the sin of mankind. And the blue yarn represents heaven because if the color of the sky the purple yarn is symbolic of royalty, Jesus is the King of kings and Lord of lords. To make purple you mix blue and red. The blue as I said, speaks of heaven and red represents sacrifice, blood and death. Thus, the purple speaks of the deity of Jesus, and the sacrifice he made as a man. He is after all, God and man. And as I said, the scarlet or red yarn is symbolic of the sacrifice. fine linen is symbolic of the purity and the righteousness of Jesus, the spotless, pure, sinless sacrifice. Goats hair represents the sin offering. goats were very common in were used for many things, including food and dairy. Their skins were used for clothing and carrying water, and their hair was used to make yarn for clothing. goats were sacrificial animals to the yarn made from their hair was coarse and drab, which speaks of the humanity of Jesus. Ram skins dyed red symbolizes the substitutionary sacrifice. God provided a ram as the substitute for Isaac when God tested Abraham’s faith, and the RAM skin was dyed red to show the sacrifice of the substitute. In the translation we use today the next item required by God is manatee skins. The King James says badger skins. Another translation says, quote, another type of durable leather unquote. In other words, we don’t know exactly what the original Hebrew means, but we can surmise the meaning. It was to be an outer covering of a skin that was very durable and probably looked very nondescript, which speaks of Jesus humanity. We’re told in Isaiah 53 Two that he had no beauty, your majesty to attract us to him, nothing in his appearance that we should desire him. And I’m going to speed things up here and just tell you the symbolism and not going to detail not that the details aren’t interesting to me anyway, but in the interest of time. So the next on the list is acacia wood. This speaks of the incorruptible humanity of Jesus. The oil represents the anointing of the Holy Spirit. The spices for the oil and incense represent a sweet smelling fragrance to God. So many details with so much meaning, and you can be sure we just scratched the surface. Our God is infinite in so many ways, isn’t he Beloved? What do you think? Call the Lifespring family Hotline at plus 1-951-732-8511 Or comment via boostagram or go to comment.lifespringmedia.com? I do read every comment and you’ll most likely hear your comment on the show. Tomorrow is history Tuesday, we’ll read Second Samuel 15 through 19.

Steve Webb 24:28
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Steve Webb 25:15
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