Exodus 26:15–25
The Bible4Jesus.com Podcast
About this episode
The modern spirit, which is nothing more than the ancient spirit of rebellion in skinny jeans, wants to build its own world, its own morality, its own identity, using its own feelings as the architectural plans. The result is not a beautiful, bespoke civilization, but rather the spiritual equivalent of a shantytown, cobbled together with driftwood, hubris, and duct tape. It is a world of leaky roofs and collapsing walls, because it is a world built on the sandy foundation of human autonomy. Into this chaotic and slipshod construction project, the book of Exodus speaks with the glorious and terrifying precision of a divine architect. After the thunder of Sinai, after the giving of the moral law which frames all of reality, God now gives the intricate details for His own dwelling place. Many modern readers, even well-meaning Christians, tend to let their eyes glaze over in these chapters.