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Leviticus 4-5
The Sin Offering. This sacrifice is for sins committed in ignorance. Unintentionally. God is the one making the distinction between willful sin and unintentional sin. We’ll unpack that more in a minute. There are 5 variations of this offering for 5 categories of people: priest, congregation, ruler, commoner, and poor commoner. Here we go… 🔪…
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Leviticus 2-3
Hmm. Make Leviticus interesting… (Cracks neck. Cracks knuckles.) Challenge accepted. 🤨 Maybe it would help if we take most of what we think we know about Old Testament offerings and box them up for temporary storage. It’s easy to get a Sunday School coloring page idea of robed people bringing sheep. And then think that’s…
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Exodus 40 – Leviticus 1
Let’s take a final tour together of the Tabernacle of Moses, shall we? On the first anniversary of the Passover, Moses takes that big pile of finished pieces and sets up the tabernacle. It’s kinda like setting up a campsite crossed with putting together the world’s most expensive LEGO set. Before we go through the…
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Exodus 39
Could we just stop for a sec and appreciate the crazy-level skill of Bezalel? He MADE gold thread by hammering pieces of gold to thread thinness, then cut it into thread-sized strands. I couldn’t fathom how you’d embroider with gold without breaking it. Then I found a video about it by my favorite YouTube channel…
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Exodus 37-38
The Ark of the Covenant. That mysterious face-melting golden box. There are a few interesting theories about its whereabouts. We may get into those in the future. For the present we should know that: The Furniture in the Holy Place This room is lined floor to ceiling in solid gold. The furniture is solid gold.…
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Exodus 36
$100,000,000.00 💵💵💵💵💵💵💵 That’s my (probably low) ballpark estimate of what it would cost to build the tabernacle of Moses today. It was entirely crowdfunded by a group of people who were only about 4 months out of 400 years of slavery. Ummm. That’s a miracle. This is why the Lord told Moses: “And I will…
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Exodus 34-35
🌋🌋🌋🌋🌋🌋🌋 Moses Mountain Climbing Meter: 7️⃣ Hang in there, Moses. This is the last one til Nebo. Chapter 34 seems to be the bookend for chapter 24. In both, God calls Moses up alone for 40 days. In both he ends up with a set of stone tablets. But this time Moses has asked to…
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Exodus 33
🌋🌋🌋🌋🌋🌋 This… is a long one. But oh so good. We start by following Moses down the mountain (for the 6th time). And he has bad news: God is leaving. They’ve been assigned to “an angel” (not “THE Angel of the Lord Who IS in fact Yahweh’s avatar). “Go up to a land flowing with…
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Exodus 31-32
I enjoy watching a skilled worker doing a job. I once watched a professional painter paint a line straight down a wall in a wide angle corner without painters tape- and it was perfect. It was baffling and wondrous to behold. I’ve watched incredibly skilled musicians play and I’m just frozen with awe. Once, in…
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Exodus 30
This chapter covers the altar of incense, the census tax (try to remember that one! It’s important later- much later), the anointing oil, and the incense. I’m gonna talk about the incense. Scent allergies are growing problem for many people. Not sure how well those folks would’ve handled the tabernacle. It was a very scenty…
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Exodus 29
Ordination. We usually think of that word connected with a young preacher “graduating” and given a kind of preacher diploma. And indeed, in most ministry circles, ordination does come with a certificate of some kind. Aaron and his sons will not get a certificate. They will be quarantined in the tabernacle space for a week,…
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Exodus 28
The priestly wardrobe- for glory and for beauty. And meaning. There is a lot of meaning here too. Oh, and underwear. We’re gonna talk about underwear. This is where Aaron and his 4 sons are singled out to serve as priests. They are given a special wardrobe; Aaron in particular. Let’s look at each piece.…
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