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March 2, 2021
God Proposes Marriage (Walk Thru the Bible Week 5)
God miraculously saves His people from bondage in Egypt and immediately proposes covenantal relationship to them. They accept, and He instructs them how to build a tabernacle so He can dwell with them. Our God desires fellowship with His people.
This episode complements the daily readings from our Walk Thru the Bible reading plan for March 1-7, covering Exodus 25-40; Lev. 8-10; Numb 3,7,8.
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Welcome to Walk Through the Bible, Susan Michael's 12 month journey through the most exciting
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It will transform your life one page at a time.
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Be sure to subscribe for future episodes that will ignite your faith and bring your Bible
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Now, let's join our host, Susan Michael.
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Hey there and welcome back.
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This is week 5 of the Walk Through the Bible series.
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You know, I hope you're enjoying your reading so far.
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We've been so excited at the number of people that have signed up to walk through the Bible
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with us this year.
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And some of you may still be waiting to get your daily Bible.
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I just want you to know that make sure you're using your reading guide because there we
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tell you exactly what scriptures we're reading each week.
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And so you can still be reading along with us while you wait for your Bible.
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So let's get started.
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This week we're going to be talking about how God proposes marriage to his people.
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And you know, in the daily Bible, it's we're under the heading now of the establishment
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of a nation.
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So we're reading in the daily Bible pages 121 through 157.
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And that's the dates of January 29 through February the 4th.
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That's what we're covering this week.
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So last week we went through the amazing miraculous deliverance from Egypt and the parting of
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the waters at the Red Sea.
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And we left the Israelites in the desert saying, OK, so what do we do now?
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And so, you know, God provided water for them, meat.
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He began to reveal himself to them, said, I'm the God that heals you.
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And and then interesting little tidbit, I'll tell you, is that the manna that that they
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found on the ground each morning, which was their bread, manna in Hebrew means what is
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it?
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So it's like, what's that?
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Every morning they were eating.
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What's that?
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For 40 years they ate what's that?
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I think that's kind of funny.
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And obviously you can try to come up with a natural explanation of this stuff, but they
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fall far short.
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It was certainly miraculous, so much so that they actually kept a piece of the manna and
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put it in a jar and it was kept in the Ark of the Covenant for many years because it
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was just a testimony to this amazing miracle of God in the wilderness.
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So it was definitely miraculous.
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Another interesting story in those first few chapters where they're in the wilderness
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is that they had to fight these people called the Amalekites.
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Now if you can imagine this, this people, the Israelites, have been slaves in Egypt for
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at least 100 years, maybe more.
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So they're downtrodden.
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They've been malnourished, they've been mistreated, they are a broken people.
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And here now they have to fight a war.
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They don't know how to fight wars.
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So it's interesting the story, which is of course that as long as Moses was raising his
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hands before God, they were winning.
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And so the real message here is that they needed to rely on God and that God could bring about
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the victory on their behalf because they really didn't know what they were doing, I'm sure.
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And then we have the return of Moses' wife and his two children are brought to him by
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his father-in-law.
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And his father-in-law gives Moses some really wise advice.
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And I can't tell you how many times in my life I've had to remind myself of these instructions
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given to Moses very, very wise, how to delegate and how to set up other people to handle other
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areas.
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And that way Moses did not have to handle every single problem brought to him by every
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single person.
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And so he removed a lot of the burden off of his shoulders through delegation and organization
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and providing the leadership to those other people.
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So now we're in the Sinai and it says that they camped at the foot of the mountain.
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And in Exodus 19 it says that, now you've seen what I did, now if you obey me fully
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and keep my covenant, then out of all nations you will be my treasured possession.
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Although the whole earth is mine, you will be for me a kingdom of priests and a holy
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nation.
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This is the proposal that God makes to the Israelite people.
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If you will obey me and walk with me, you will be my treasured possession above all
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other peoples of the earth.
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And their response was, we will do everything the Lord has said.
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That is what I refer to as the marriage.
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Life was proposing marriage.
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It was proposing a covenantal relationship that said, this is what you will do and this
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is what I will do.
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And the people of Israel said yes.
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So God gives Moses the Ten Commandments and with no less drama we have lightning and thunder
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and we have fire and we have trumpet sounds and it says the trumpet got louder and louder.
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And the people were so afraid of God because of this amazing show of force and shook the
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elements.
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And so Moses is before God and then at another time Moses takes with him the seventy elders
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and Aaron and Nadab and Abihu or Avihu and it says they all saw God.
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So God was there on the mountain.
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Now it is interesting why was God on the mountain?
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Well the ancient peoples believed that that is where they met with God.
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It was on the mountains.
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Maybe it was a place in between heaven and earth.
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Like the pyramids we talked about earlier.
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And so the mountain tops became the high places became places of worship in the whole pagan
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world.
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But here the God of Israel comes down on the mountain to meet with his people and he would
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only allow certain ones to meet with him and he called them up the mountain to meet with
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him.
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And then he gives instructions on how to build a tabernacle.
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And he describes how to build an ark of the covenant and it had a cover.
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And the daily Bible that a lot of you are reading through uses the NIV or the New International
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Version translation.
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And that translation calls the cover over the ark of the covenant to be the atonement
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cover.
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In Hebrew I think it's k'parit.
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And so it's a cover and it has to do with atonement but I love the translation in the
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King James Version and the New King James Version of calling it the mercy seat.
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And it's out of the mercy seat where God would meet with his people and they're on top of
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the ark of the covenant.
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The instructions on building the tabernacle what are the lessons that we take away from
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it?
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First of all you can do a whole study about all the elements in the tabernacle and find
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deep spiritual significance and meaning and we don't have time to go into that today.
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But you know it's a wonderful study.
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And I will say that in Israel when you go with me down in the south of Israel in the
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desert there is a replica of the tabernacle.
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It was actually built by a colleague of mine.
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The ICEJ actually assisted with the early funding of building that tabernacle and it's
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now down in the south of Israel.
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And it's really pretty amazing to go in there and see.
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It's really made to specifications and made the way they were instructed to make the tabernacle.
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But each element has a spiritual significance.
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But the whole issue of the tabernacle is that God was showing his people that number one
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he wanted to tabernacle with his people.
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He wanted to dwell with his people.
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He didn't want to be up on the mountain top while they're down in the valley.
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He wanted to be down there with them.
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So he's instructing them how to build a place that he can inhabit.
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And in the building it had to be built just right because of two things that the Israelites
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were learning.
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One was the purity that was needed because of the holiness of God.
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He's a holy and righteous God and he cannot mix with sin so they needed to be pure.
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And the whole approaching of God in the tabernacle had to be from a place of purity.
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Secondly, that God is such a wonderful God that he requires our worship.
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And so we need to enter his presence in worship and reverence of him and in awe of him.
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And so this design of the tabernacle was to include both the purity aspect and the worship
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and awe aspect of our approach of God.
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Of course the tabernacle was a shadow of the temple that was later built that was a permanent
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dwelling.
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The tabernacle was a temporary dwelling.
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It was a tent type dwelling so that it could be packed up and moved when the Israelites
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moved.
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But the presence of God would go with them.
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Later the temple was built on the same type of design and specifications because of the
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deep spiritual richness of the way God instructed them to build his dwelling place.
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The temple became his dwelling place on Mount Moriah there in Jerusalem.
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And of course we can, as Christians, we can find all kinds of significance in the elements
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of these for us spiritually as the church being the house of God, the tabernacle of
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God, that we are a temple.
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So and God wants to dwell with us.
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And so we can learn from this tabernacle in the desert the need for our lives to be pure
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because he's a holy God.
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And our need to approach him in worship because he is such an awesome God.
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And it's interesting in the story that we're reading this week, once they did build the
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tabernacle and everything was finished, then it said that it was filled with the presence
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of God.
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And then God spoke to Moses from the mercy seat.
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Wow, isn't that beautiful?
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That's what it's all about.
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And we can enjoy spiritually building our lives as a temple of the Holy Spirit and having
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those moments where we sense his presence and his fullness in our lives and hearing
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him speak to us because of the blood of Jesus and because of the place of mercy that we
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stand in.
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So pretty rich stuff, takes a lot more going, digging into it.
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We'll keep moving because in our story, God tells them how to build the tabernacle.
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And then he tells Moses, you better get down there because I can hear your people.
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And this is really, I chuckle when I read this part of the story because Moses, he's
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gone for 40 days, he's gone for so long that the Israelites give up on him.
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I mean, they think he's died because they're afraid of God anyway.
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And they saw the lightning and the thunder and the fire and the herd, all the sound and
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they were afraid.
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So they have assumed at this point that Moses died.
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They turned to his brother Aaron and they say, listen, we need another God.
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That God obviously is not coming through.
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We need another God.
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We need to build one from Egypt.
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And they were re-entering into the pagan worship that they saw there in Egypt.
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And so God sends Moses down.
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And I laugh about this when I read it because the Lord said to Moses, now go down there
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because your people, if you remember before this, God said, if you'll obey me, you'll
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be my people.
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But here he tells Moses, your people, the ones you brought up out of Egypt, they become
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corrupt.
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And you better get down there.
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And Moses intercedes and he says, why should your anger burn against your people?
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And then he tells him, remember the servants, Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.
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And Moses goes down.
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He sees the golden calf.
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He hears all the partying and gets so mad that he throws down the two tablets with the
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Ten Commandments on them and they break.
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Now what's interesting here is the idea of two tablets.
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And it's believed that the two tablets were not different.
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It wasn't like five commandments on one and five on the other.
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It's believed that they were a duplicate because that was the way a covenant was done at the
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time.
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And so one covenant was for one copy was for one covenant party.
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And the other copy was for the other party.
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So in our story about the Israelites, of course, later God redows the two tablets and the Ten
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Commandments are back in play.
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But one copy goes in the Ark of the Covenant.
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So that's God's copy.
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And the other copy is for the people.
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And so this is like the agreement.
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And he has his copy.
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They have theirs.
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And if a covenant is broken, then the tablets with the agreement on it should be broken.
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And so Moses throws them down in anger, but he's also showing you've broken the covenant.
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The covenant is broken.
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And of course they repent and he goes back to the Lord and the Lord gives him the new
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tablets with the Ten Commandments on it.
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So the Lord allows Moses to see his glory.
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And then the Lord reveals his identity to Moses in a very famous passage that is often
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quoted because in this passage, God himself describes himself.
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And so I want to read that to you.
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It's in Exodus 34.
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And it's in verse.
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I think this is verse six and seven.
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And so it's the Lord here.
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It says, he passes in front of Moses proclaiming the Lord, the Lord, the compassionate and
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gracious God, slow to anger, abounding in love and faithfulness, maintaining love to
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thousands and forgiving wickedness, rebellion and sin.
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That he does not leave the guilty unpunished.
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He punishes the children and their children for the sin of the parents to the third and
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fourth generation.
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We talked about this scripture back in our 3D Bible series.
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Here God describes himself and his compassion and his love and that he forgives for a thousand,
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you know, he forgives rebellion and sin, but he doesn't leave the guilty unpunished.
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And this curious verse about the sin of the parents on the children and all.
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In the 21st century Christian, we live in such an individualistic society and we're
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like, what?
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What does that mean?
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as a family.
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And so it's saying here that the guilt would be on the whole family for sin.
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their family in a very guilty and dangerous direction.
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So now we've had the covenant renewed and we've had the tabernacle constructed.
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And the Spirit of God, the presence of God comes down into the tabernacle and the voice
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of God is heard from the mercy seat.
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So we've had a very, very tumultuous time here of God has proposed marriage to his people
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and they said, yes, we'll do it.
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And then when he comes down with the covenant, he finds they've already broken the covenant.
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But his forgiveness was there for those that sought it.
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And so he re-initiated the covenant because God wanted to marry his people.
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He wanted a covenant relationship with his people.
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He wanted them to build the tabernacle so that he could come down and dwell in their
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midst and be their God.
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He is wanting relationship.
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And today he's still the same God and he's wanting relationship with you and me.
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prepared a place.
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He wants us to prepare a place for him in our hearts because he has prepared a place
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for us at the mercy seat through the blood of Jesus that we are forgiven, that we can
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come and we can fellowship with him because of mercy and because of the price that has
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been paid on our behalf.
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The law portions of our scriptures are going to be covered later.
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The Daily Bible has organized our readings so that we're going to continue with the story
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of the Israelites next week in their desert wanderings.
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And the editor of the Daily Bible has taken the law portions from Exodus and from the
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next book Leviticus and the next book Deuteronomy and has put it all together in a very organized
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and much easier to understand format.
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So if you're following along in your regular Bible, you'll notice we're skipping over some
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of the laws in the book of Exodus.
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We'll pick them up later.
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So next week, I'll see you back here.
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We will continue our story, our love story of God with his people in the wilderness and
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the way he prepares them to enter fully into the inheritance he has for them, the land
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of Canaan.
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But they still have some work to do before they'll be ready for that.
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So I will see you back here next week.
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And until then, God bless.
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Hey there and welcome back.
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This is week 5 of the Walk Through the Bible series.
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You know, I hope you're enjoying your reading so far.
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We've been so excited at the number of people that have signed up to walk through the Bible
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with us this year.
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And some of you may still be waiting to get your daily Bible.
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I just want you to know that make sure you're using your reading guide because there we
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tell you exactly what scriptures we're reading each week.
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And so you can still be reading along with us while you wait for your Bible.
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So let's get started.
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This week we're going to be talking about how God proposes marriage to his people.
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And you know, in the daily Bible, it's we're under the heading now of the establishment
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of a nation.
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So we're reading in the daily Bible pages 121 through 157.
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And that's the dates of January 29 through February the 4th.
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That's what we're covering this week.
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So last week we went through the amazing miraculous deliverance from Egypt and the parting of
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the waters at the Red Sea.
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And we left the Israelites in the desert saying, OK, so what do we do now?
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And so, you know, God provided water for them, meat.
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He began to reveal himself to them, said, I'm the God that heals you.
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And and then interesting little tidbit, I'll tell you, is that the manna that that they
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found on the ground each morning, which was their bread, manna in Hebrew means what is
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it?
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So it's like, what's that?
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Every morning they were eating.
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What's that?
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For 40 years they ate what's that?
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I think that's kind of funny.
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fall far short.
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It was certainly miraculous, so much so that they actually kept a piece of the manna and
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put it in a jar and it was kept in the Ark of the Covenant for many years because it
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was just a testimony to this amazing miracle of God in the wilderness.
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So it was definitely miraculous.
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Another interesting story in those first few chapters where they're in the wilderness
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is that they had to fight these people called the Amalekites.
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at least 100 years, maybe more.
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They've been malnourished, they've been mistreated, they are a broken people.
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They don't know how to fight wars.
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hands before God, they were winning.
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the victory on their behalf because they really didn't know what they were doing, I'm sure.
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his father-in-law.
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And I can't tell you how many times in my life I've had to remind myself of these instructions
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given to Moses very, very wise, how to delegate and how to set up other people to handle other
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areas.
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single person.
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and providing the leadership to those other people.
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So now we're in the Sinai and it says that they camped at the foot of the mountain.
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And in Exodus 19 it says that, now you've seen what I did, now if you obey me fully
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and keep my covenant, then out of all nations you will be my treasured possession.
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Although the whole earth is mine, you will be for me a kingdom of priests and a holy
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nation.
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This is the proposal that God makes to the Israelite people.
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If you will obey me and walk with me, you will be my treasured possession above all
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other peoples of the earth.
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That is what I refer to as the marriage.
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Life was proposing marriage.
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It was proposing a covenantal relationship that said, this is what you will do and this
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is what I will do.
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And the people of Israel said yes.
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So God gives Moses the Ten Commandments and with no less drama we have lightning and thunder
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and we have fire and we have trumpet sounds and it says the trumpet got louder and louder.
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elements.
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and Aaron and Nadab and Abihu or Avihu and it says they all saw God.
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So God was there on the mountain.
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Now it is interesting why was God on the mountain?
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It was on the mountains.
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Like the pyramids we talked about earlier.
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And so the mountain tops became the high places became places of worship in the whole pagan
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world.
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But here the God of Israel comes down on the mountain to meet with his people and he would
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only allow certain ones to meet with him and he called them up the mountain to meet with
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him.
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And then he gives instructions on how to build a tabernacle.
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And he describes how to build an ark of the covenant and it had a cover.
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And the daily Bible that a lot of you are reading through uses the NIV or the New International
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Version translation.
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And that translation calls the cover over the ark of the covenant to be the atonement
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cover.
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And so it's a cover and it has to do with atonement but I love the translation in the
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King James Version and the New King James Version of calling it the mercy seat.
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the ark of the covenant.
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The instructions on building the tabernacle what are the lessons that we take away from
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it?
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First of all you can do a whole study about all the elements in the tabernacle and find
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deep spiritual significance and meaning and we don't have time to go into that today.
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But you know it's a wonderful study.
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And I will say that in Israel when you go with me down in the south of Israel in the
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desert there is a replica of the tabernacle.
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It was actually built by a colleague of mine.
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The ICEJ actually assisted with the early funding of building that tabernacle and it's
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now down in the south of Israel.
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And it's really pretty amazing to go in there and see.
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It's really made to specifications and made the way they were instructed to make the tabernacle.
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But each element has a spiritual significance.
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But the whole issue of the tabernacle is that God was showing his people that number one
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he wanted to tabernacle with his people.
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He wanted to dwell with his people.
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He didn't want to be up on the mountain top while they're down in the valley.
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He wanted to be down there with them.
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So he's instructing them how to build a place that he can inhabit.
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And in the building it had to be built just right because of two things that the Israelites
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were learning.
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One was the purity that was needed because of the holiness of God.
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He's a holy and righteous God and he cannot mix with sin so they needed to be pure.
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And the whole approaching of God in the tabernacle had to be from a place of purity.
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Secondly, that God is such a wonderful God that he requires our worship.
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And so we need to enter his presence in worship and reverence of him and in awe of him.
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And so this design of the tabernacle was to include both the purity aspect and the worship
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and awe aspect of our approach of God.
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Of course the tabernacle was a shadow of the temple that was later built that was a permanent
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dwelling.
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The tabernacle was a temporary dwelling.
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It was a tent type dwelling so that it could be packed up and moved when the Israelites
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moved.
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But the presence of God would go with them.
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Later the temple was built on the same type of design and specifications because of the
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deep spiritual richness of the way God instructed them to build his dwelling place.
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The temple became his dwelling place on Mount Moriah there in Jerusalem.
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And of course we can, as Christians, we can find all kinds of significance in the elements
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of these for us spiritually as the church being the house of God, the tabernacle of
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God, that we are a temple.
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So and God wants to dwell with us.
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And so we can learn from this tabernacle in the desert the need for our lives to be pure
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because he's a holy God.
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And our need to approach him in worship because he is such an awesome God.
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And it's interesting in the story that we're reading this week, once they did build the
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tabernacle and everything was finished, then it said that it was filled with the presence
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of God.
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And then God spoke to Moses from the mercy seat.
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Wow, isn't that beautiful?
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That's what it's all about.
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And we can enjoy spiritually building our lives as a temple of the Holy Spirit and having
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those moments where we sense his presence and his fullness in our lives and hearing
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him speak to us because of the blood of Jesus and because of the place of mercy that we
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stand in.
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So pretty rich stuff, takes a lot more going, digging into it.
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We'll keep moving because in our story, God tells them how to build the tabernacle.
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And then he tells Moses, you better get down there because I can hear your people.
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And this is really, I chuckle when I read this part of the story because Moses, he's
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gone for 40 days, he's gone for so long that the Israelites give up on him.
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I mean, they think he's died because they're afraid of God anyway.
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And they saw the lightning and the thunder and the fire and the herd, all the sound and
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they were afraid.
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So they have assumed at this point that Moses died.
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They turned to his brother Aaron and they say, listen, we need another God.
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That God obviously is not coming through.
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We need another God.
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We need to build one from Egypt.
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And they were re-entering into the pagan worship that they saw there in Egypt.
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And so God sends Moses down.
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And I laugh about this when I read it because the Lord said to Moses, now go down there
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because your people, if you remember before this, God said, if you'll obey me, you'll
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be my people.
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But here he tells Moses, your people, the ones you brought up out of Egypt, they become
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corrupt.
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And you better get down there.
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And Moses intercedes and he says, why should your anger burn against your people?
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And then he tells him, remember the servants, Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.
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And Moses goes down.
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He sees the golden calf.
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He hears all the partying and gets so mad that he throws down the two tablets with the
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Ten Commandments on them and they break.
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Now what's interesting here is the idea of two tablets.
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And it's believed that the two tablets were not different.
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It wasn't like five commandments on one and five on the other.
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It's believed that they were a duplicate because that was the way a covenant was done at the
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time.
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And so one covenant was for one copy was for one covenant party.
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And the other copy was for the other party.
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So in our story about the Israelites, of course, later God redows the two tablets and the Ten
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Commandments are back in play.
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But one copy goes in the Ark of the Covenant.
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So that's God's copy.
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And the other copy is for the people.
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And so this is like the agreement.
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And he has his copy.
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They have theirs.
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And if a covenant is broken, then the tablets with the agreement on it should be broken.
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And so Moses throws them down in anger, but he's also showing you've broken the covenant.
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The covenant is broken.
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And of course they repent and he goes back to the Lord and the Lord gives him the new
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tablets with the Ten Commandments on it.
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So the Lord allows Moses to see his glory.
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And then the Lord reveals his identity to Moses in a very famous passage that is often
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quoted because in this passage, God himself describes himself.
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And so I want to read that to you.
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It's in Exodus 34.
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And it's in verse.
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I think this is verse six and seven.
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And so it's the Lord here.
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It says, he passes in front of Moses proclaiming the Lord, the Lord, the compassionate and
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gracious God, slow to anger, abounding in love and faithfulness, maintaining love to
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thousands and forgiving wickedness, rebellion and sin.
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That he does not leave the guilty unpunished.
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He punishes the children and their children for the sin of the parents to the third and
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fourth generation.
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We talked about this scripture back in our 3D Bible series.
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Here God describes himself and his compassion and his love and that he forgives for a thousand,
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you know, he forgives rebellion and sin, but he doesn't leave the guilty unpunished.
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And this curious verse about the sin of the parents on the children and all.
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In the 21st century Christian, we live in such an individualistic society and we're
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like, what?
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What does that mean?
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That sounds terrible.
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All it's saying is that the guilt of the family, remember this was a very group society.
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And it wasn't about the individuals, it was about the families that they come to the Lord
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as a family.
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And so it's saying here that the guilt would be on the whole family for sin.
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And when we say third or fourth generations, it's meaning here the ones that are still
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alive.
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So the larger extended family, those alive at the time, all come under the sin together.
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And but earlier it says that he forgives sin and he is a merciful God.
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So it doesn't mean that if they came to him for forgiveness, he wouldn't forgive.
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But do you understand, it's talking about an unrepentant parent here that are leading
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their family in a very guilty and dangerous direction.
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So now we've had the covenant renewed and we've had the tabernacle constructed.
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And the Spirit of God, the presence of God comes down into the tabernacle and the voice
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of God is heard from the mercy seat.
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So we've had a very, very tumultuous time here of God has proposed marriage to his people
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and they said, yes, we'll do it.
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And then when he comes down with the covenant, he finds they've already broken the covenant.
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But his forgiveness was there for those that sought it.
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And so he re-initiated the covenant because God wanted to marry his people.
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He wanted a covenant relationship with his people.
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He wanted them to build the tabernacle so that he could come down and dwell in their
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midst and be their God.
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He is wanting relationship.
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And today he's still the same God and he's wanting relationship with you and me.
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And that is the lesson that we can take here from this tabernacle story and that he has
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prepared a place.
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He wants us to prepare a place for him in our hearts because he has prepared a place
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for us at the mercy seat through the blood of Jesus that we are forgiven, that we can
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come and we can fellowship with him because of mercy and because of the price that has
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been paid on our behalf.
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The law portions of our scriptures are going to be covered later.
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The Daily Bible has organized our readings so that we're going to continue with the story
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of the Israelites next week in their desert wanderings.
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And the editor of the Daily Bible has taken the law portions from Exodus and from the
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next book Leviticus and the next book Deuteronomy and has put it all together in a very organized
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and much easier to understand format.
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So if you're following along in your regular Bible, you'll notice we're skipping over some
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of the laws in the book of Exodus.
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We'll pick them up later.
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So next week, I'll see you back here.
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We will continue our story, our love story of God with his people in the wilderness and
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the way he prepares them to enter fully into the inheritance he has for them, the land
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of Canaan.
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But they still have some work to do before they'll be ready for that.
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So I will see you back here next week.
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And until then, God bless.
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