Exodus 26:26–30
The Bible4Jesus.com Podcast
About this episode
We live in an age that prides itself on being practical. We want the bottom line, the executive summary, the five easy steps. When we come to a passage like this one in Exodus, our eyes can glaze over. We read about bars, boards, rings, and gold overlays, and it can feel like we've stumbled into the assembly instructions for some celestial IKEA furniture. It is a failure to understand how God speaks and how He builds. These chapters in Exodus are not a tedious architectural appendix to the more exciting bits about plagues and parting seas. God has just rescued a massive company of slaves from the most powerful empire on earth. Not to give them a constitution, not to establish an economic policy, but to give them a blueprint. This is the central purpose of redemption: God dwelling with man.