Exodus 30:1–10
The Bible4Jesus.com Podcast
About this episode
We live in an age that has domesticated prayer. For many modern Christians, prayer is a casual, convenient, and entirely informal affair. It is a running conversation with the Man Upstairs, a celestial suggestion box, or a spiritual emergency broadcast system. We have made it comfortable, but in the process, we have stripped it of its majesty, its gravity, and its holiness. The book of Exodus, and particularly these detailed instructions for the tabernacle, serves as a potent corrective to our sentimental sloppiness. He is providing a gospel schematic, a detailed blueprint of how sinful man can possibly approach a holy God and live. And right at the heart of this divine architecture, standing as the last station before the immediate, terrifying presence of God, we find the Altar of Incense. To approach God, a priest had to pass the altar of sacrifice, be washed at the bronze laver, and only then could he come to this golden altar to offer up incense.