Exodus 25:1–9
The Bible4Jesus.com Podcast
About this episode
But God’s purpose in revealing our sin is never simply to condemn; it is to prepare the way for grace. And so, immediately following the establishment of the covenant, God does something astonishing. He does not set up a remote observation post. This is the central theme of the entire Bible: God with us. The instructions for the Tabernacle are not a tedious architectural appendix to the book of Exodus. They are a detailed, typological portrait of the person and work of Jesus Christ. To the modern, pragmatic mind, this can seem like a long list of bizarre and irrelevant details. But to the heart instructed by the Spirit, every detail is pregnant with meaning, every material shouts of Christ, and every measurement points to the perfection of His work. This is the fundamental problem that the Tabernacle, and ultimately Christ, is designed to solve.