Exodus 31:1–11
The Bible4Jesus.com Podcast
About this episode
We live in an age that is functionally gnostic. Gnosticism was an ancient heresy that taught that the spiritual world was good and the material world was evil, or at best, a clumsy mistake. While few in our pews would sign their name to that creed, the assumptions of it have seeped into the church like marsh gas. We have created a false dichotomy between the sacred and the secular. It is a profound misunderstanding of the God who took on flesh, who had calloused hands from a carpenter's shop, and who will one day return to a renewed, physical heaven and a renewed, physical earth. And as our text in Exodus today demonstrates with glorious force, He anoints it, fills it, and beautifies it by His own Spirit for His own glory. Here, in the wilderness, as God is giving the blueprint for His dwelling place among His people, He does not just provide the architectural plans.