Exodus 37:17–24
The Bible4Jesus.com Podcast
About this episode
We live in an age that treats worship like a potluck dinner. Everyone brings what they like, what feels good to them, and we spread it all out on the table and call it honoring God. We have our praise bands and our fog machines, our seeker-sensitive talks and our therapeutic sentimentalism. The instructions for the Tabernacle, and the faithful execution of those instructions by men like Bezalel, are a form of liturgical warfare. Every detail, from the dimensions of the curtains to the composition of the incense, is a direct polemic against the chaotic, man-made religions of the surrounding pagans. Their gods were capricious, their worship was debased, and their temples were projections of their own sinful hearts. He does not ask for our opinions on how He ought to be worshipped. He gives us the grammar, and we are to learn to speak it.