Exodus 36:20–34
The Bible4Jesus.com Podcast
About this episode
When we come to passages like this one in Exodus, our modern sensibilities can tempt us to skim. We see cubits and tenons, boards and bars, silver and gold, and we think it is little more than an ancient architectural blueprint, a tedious inventory list for a long-gone tent. But to do this is to commit a grave error. It is to walk past a room full of treasure with the door wide open, thinking it is just a broom closet. We must disabuse ourselves of the notion that God ever wastes a word. Every detail in Holy Scripture is freighted with theological meaning. God is not just telling us how to build a portable sanctuary; He is showing us the very structure of our salvation. He is giving us a schematic of the person and work of Jesus Christ, and a blueprint for the nature of the Church He is building.