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The Israelites are carrying out the instructions that God gave to Moses on Mount Sinai. What's great is that they are doing this willingly, showing that they truly want to spend time with God.
Hello and welcome to the Christians on College Campuses Podcast. My name is Will from the University of Oklahoma, and today we are talking about Exodus chapter 37. So recently, Moses has relayed the instructions given to him by God to the Israelites. And so the people God has given the extra care and gifts to carry those instructions out are moving along. Next, Bezile made the Ark of Acacia wood, a sacred chest forty-five inches long, twenty-seven inches wide, and twenty-seven inches high. He overlaid it inside and outside with pure gold, and he ran a moulding of gold all around it. He cast four gold rings and attached them to its four feet, two rings on each side. Then he made poles from acacia wood and overlaid them with gold. He inserted the poles into the rings at the sides of the ark to carry it. Then he made the ark's cover, the place of atonement, from pure gold. It was forty five inches long and twenty-seven inches wide. He made two cherubims from hammered gold and placed them at the two ends of the atonement cover. He then molded the cherubim on each end of the atonement cover, making it all of one piece of gold. The cherubim faced each other and looked down on the atonement cover with their wings spread above it. They protected it. Then Bezalel made the table of acacia wood thirty six inches long, eighteen inches wide, and twenty seven inches high. He overlaid it with pure gold and ran a gold moulding around the edge. He decorated it with a three inch border all around, and he ran a gold moulding along the border. Then he cast four gold rings for the table and attached them at the four corners next to the four legs. The rings were attached near the border to hold the poles that were used to carry the table. He made these poles from acacia wood and overlaid them with gold. Then he made special containers of pure gold for the table, bowls, ladles, jars, and pitchers, to be used in pouring out liquid offerings. Then Bezalel made the lampstand of pure hammered gold. He made the entire lampstand and its decorations of one piece, the base, center stem, lamp cups, buds, and petals. The lampstand had six branches going out from the center stem, three on each side. Each of the six branches had three lamp cups shaped like almond blossoms, complete with buds and petals. The center stem of the lampstand was crafted with four lamp cups shaped like almond blossoms, complete with buds and petals. There was an almond bud beneath each pair of branches where the six branches extended from the center stem, all made of one piece. The almond buds and branches were all made of one piece with the center stem, and they were hammered from pure gold. He also made seven lamps for the lampstand, lamp snuffers, and trays all of pure gold. The entire lampstand, along with its accessories, was made from seventy-five pounds of pure gold. Then Bezalel made the incense altar of acacia wood. It was 18 inches square and 36 inches high, with horns at the corners carved from the same piece of wood as the altar itself. He overlaid the top sides and horns of the altar with pure gold, and he ran a gold moulding around the entire altar. He made two gold rings and attached them on opposite sides of the altar, below the gold moulding, to hold the carrying poles. He made the poles of acacia wood and overlaid them with gold. Then he made the sacred anointing oil and the fragrant incense, using the techniques of a skilled incense maker. Now it's important to remember that the Israelites needed to make these things in order to spend time with God, but that was the Old Testament. In the New Testament, we have a much easier way to spend time with God because of Jesus. Because we as followers of Christ were failing so much and sinning so much, God needed to find a better way for us to be made holy in his sight so that we could spend all eternity with him. And so God sent his one and only Son Jesus to come to earth and die on the cross for our sins. Because Jesus did not sin. Jesus lived a perfect life, sinless, and that sin did not create a gap between him and God like it does us. And He died on the cross to pay the price for our sins. He defeated sin, hell, death, and the grave once and for all, and rose back to life so that we can spend eternity with God. And that just shows his love for us. He loved the Israelites by giving them the instructions to make a make a tabernacle so that they don't die in the presence of God. But then he made the ultimate sacrifice so that we could spend time with him as well. And so Jesus, come to you right now and I thank you that you want us to spend time with you so bad that you made a way where there was no way. I pray that no matter what we do, we remember Jesus' sacrifice for us so that your creation does not have to spend eternity apart from you. And if we choose to spend time with you, you will care for us and love us and always take care of us. So that one day when we die, you can look us in our eyes and say, Well done, my good and faithful servant. And in Jesus' name I pray. Amen.
