Exodus 26:36–37
The Bible4Jesus.com Podcast
About this episode
We live in an age that prides itself on being practical, on getting straight to the point. Our culture has little patience for symbolism, for types and shadows. He is an artist, a poet, and an architect. And in the book of Exodus, after delivering His people with a mighty hand, He does not give them a simple mission statement. The Tabernacle is not merely a tent for God to dwell in. It is a sermon in wood, fabric, and metal. Every detail, from the overall structure down to the last thread and peg, is saturated with theological meaning. It is to say that we are not interested in the fine details of our own redemption. Our secular world wants a god it can design itself, a worship it can invent on the fly. It wants a relationship with the divine on its own terms, through whatever door it chooses to build.