Exodus 37:25–29
The Bible4Jesus.com Podcast
About this episode
We live in a pragmatic and materialistic age, an age that has very little patience for symbolism. If something does not have an immediate, practical, and preferably profitable function, we tend to dismiss it as frivolous decoration. We want four bare walls and a sermon that gives us three steps to a better week. God is an artist, a poet, and a master craftsman. When He designs His own house, He does not give a minimalist blueprint. He gives a detailed, glorious, and profoundly symbolic set of instructions. Every piece of furniture, every type of material, every measurement has a meaning. The tabernacle is not just a tent for the Israelites to meet God in. To neglect these details, to skim over them as tedious minutiae, is to walk past a portrait gallery of the Savior with our eyes closed.