2 Timothy 3: 16-17 All Scripture is breathed out by God and
profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in
righteousness, 17 that the man of God[b] may be complete, equipped for every
good work.
If this is true, and I definitely believe it is, what can we
do with passages that just don’t seem to apply to us in any way, shape or form,
such as the last 5 chapters of Exodus? Ex 36 begins with skilled artisans being
called and gathered and the people of Israel bringing a free will offering of
supplies until there was more than enough to build the Tabernacle Tent of
Meeting. The rest of the book, through chapter 40 describes the making of the
tent, everything that went in it, and setting it up. So what? Sure, it shows
the history, and it is interesting from that stand point, but how can it be
used for teaching and training and equipping?
Because of all the detail, smarter folks than I have been
able to show designs of what the tent looked like. But even without those
pictures, you can read these chapters and imagine how beautiful and costly and
how perfectly according to God’s design the tent and everything in it were.
Remember what I said about the beginning of chapter 36? All the supplies to do
this were brought by the people as a free will offering. If God did so much
with what the Israelites gave, keeping in mind that He gave them all of that
when He caused them to plunder Egypt, to make His occasional dwelling wonderful
and lovely, how much more will He take what He gave us, our lives, when we
freely offer them back to Him, and make them specifically according to His best
design, lovely, beautiful, and a wonder, since He has made His very home, His
abode, within us? And let us not forget the costly aspect of the Tabernacle.
The precious metals, precious stones and fine linen may have been costly enough
to support you and your family for several lifetimes, but it was nothing
compered to the cost of the new temple of the Holy Spirit, the broken body of
our Lord and savior Jesus Christ.
We can see the cost and care that went into the Tabernacle
and know that God is doing more for and in us to make His home in us and have
relationship with us. So even in these descriptions and histories that seem to
have little to nothing to do with us we can see God’s great love for us and be
encouraged to continue to draw near to Him and live for Him.
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