I love to imagine what this part must have been like as I read Exodus 35. Where before we were standing at the entrance to our own tents watching as Moses entered the tent outside the camp and God’s Presence was there like a cloud…and seeing that when Moses emerges from that tent his face…

Yesterday I read in the AP about a movement in this country that is calling for a renewal but that is based in hate. Hate for the other side, hate for foreigners coming to this land, hate for anyone not “of us” and people were being baptized into this hate “in the name of god”.…

Can you imagine what it was like in the camp after the awful events of the last Chapter? So quiet. You emerge from your tent when you hear the people stirring from theirs. Moses is moving to the tent he has set up outside the camp where he can meet with the Lord. He goes…

We come in Exodus 32 to a truly cringe-worthy chapter. When the people saw that Moses was so long in coming down from the mountain, they gathered around Aaron and said, “Come, make us gods who will go before us. As for this fellow Moses who brought us up out of Egypt, we don’t know…

Then the Lord said to Moses, “See, I have chosen Bezalel son of Uri, the son of Hur, of the tribe of Judah, and I have filled him with the Spirit of God, with wisdom, with understanding, with knowledge and with all kinds of skills – to make artistic designs for work in gold, silver…

I’m always amazed, though I shouldn’t be, at what I find new in Scripture. Exodus 30 describes the altar of acacia wood for burning incense, and not just any incense, but fragrant spices – gum resin, onycha and galbanum – and pure frankincense, all in equal amounts, and make a fragrant blend of incense, the…

The heading before Exodus 29 is Consecration of the Priests. I looked that up. To make or declare sacred especially: to devote irrevocably to the worship of God by a solemn ceremony. Aaron and his sons are before the Lord and the assembly. “This is what you are to do to consecrate them, so they…

Exodus 28 records the beautiful garments Aaron will wear when he serves as priest to the Lord in His Holy Presence. I try to imagine what Aaron would look like in garments of gold, blue, purple and scarlet yarn of finely twisted linen; of precious stones of beautiful colors, twelve in all with the name…

As I was reading Exodus 27 with the specifications for the altar, the courtyard for the tabernacle, the clear oil of pressed olives for the light so that the lamps may be kept burning…before the Lord from evening till morning…a lasting ordinance among the Israelites for the generations to come…I kept trying to reconcile what…

As I read now and have read Exodus 26 before with such exact detailing of how God’s tabernacle in the desert was to be built, I can’t help but marvel at how much better I could appreciate it were I a fine craftsman. I’m such a visual person so reading specifications like this I get…