Exodus 40

Ending the second book of the Bible, the Tabernacle is completed and the Lord occupies it. Spoiler alert: when Jesus dies in the New Testament, the veil in the tabernacle is torn, symbolizing that God no longer needs to Tabernacle to be with us.

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Hello everyone and welcome to the Christians on College Campuses podcast. My name is Mason Windenberg, a recent graduate from the University of Oklahoma, and today I'm going to be reading Exodus chapter 40. Now, Exodus 40 is the last chapter of the book, and it really s culminates the last few chapters that we have covered, and it sets up the next few books called the laws in Leviticus and Deuteronomy coming up. So let's go ahead and get into it. I'm going to read from the English Standard Version or the ESV, starting in verse one. The Lord spoke to Moses, saying, On the first day of the month you shall erect the tabernacle of the tent of meeting, and you shall put in it the Ark of Testimony, and you shall screen the ark with the veil, and you shall bring in the table and arrange it, and you shall bring in the lampstand and set up its lamps, and you shall put the golden altar for incense before the Ark of Testimony, and set up the screen for the door of the tabernacle. You shall set the altar of burnt offering before the door of the tabernacle of the tent of meeting, and place the basin between the tent of meeting and the altar, and put water in it. And you shall set up the court all around and hang up the screen for the gate of the court. Then you shall take the anointing oil and anoint the tabernacle and all that is in it, and consecrate it and all its furniture, so that it may become holy. You shall also anoint the altar of burnt offering and all its utensils, and consecrate the altar, so that the altar may become most holy. You shall also anoint the basin and its stand, and consecrate it. Then you shall bring Aaron and his sons into the entrance of the tent of meeting, and wash and shall wash them with water, and put on Aaron the holy garments, and you shall anoint him and consecrate him, that he may serve me as priest. You shall bring his sons also and put clothes on them and anoint them as you have anointed their father, that they may serve me as priests. And their anointing shall admit them into a perpetual priesthood throughout their generations. This Moses did, according to all that the Lord commanded him, so he did. In the first month of the second year, on the first day of the month, the tabernacle was erected. Moses erected the tabernacle. He laid its bases, and set up its frames, and put in its poles, and raised up its pillars, and he spread the tent over the tabernacle, and put the covering of the tent over it, as the Lord had commanded Moses. He took the testimony and put it in the ark, and put the poles on the ark, and set the mercy seat above the ark. And he brought the ark into the tabernacle and set up the veil of the screen, and screened the ark of testimony, as the Lord had commanded Moses. He put the table in the tent of meeting and on the north side of the tabernacle outside the veil, and arranged the bread on it before the Lord, as the Lord had commanded Moses. He put the lampstand in the tent of meeting, opposite the table on the south side of the tabernacle, and set up the lamps before the Lord, as the Lord had commanded Moses. He put the golden altar in the tent of meeting before the veil, and burned fragrant incense on it, as the Lord had commanded Moses. He put in place the screen for the door of the tabernacle, and he set the altar of burnt offering at the entrance of the tabernacle of the tent of meeting, and offered on it the burnt offering and the green offering, as the Lord had commanded Moses. He set the basin between the tent of meeting and the altar, and put water in it for washing, with which Moses and Aaron and his sons washed their hands and their feet. When they went into the tent of meeting, and when they approached the altar, they washed as the Lord had commanded Moses, as he erected the court around the tabernacle and the altar and set up the screen of the gate of the court. So Moses finished the work. Then the cloud covering the tent of meeting, and the glory of the Lord filled the tabernacle, and Moses was not able to enter the tent of meeting because the cloud settled on it, and the glory of the Lord filled the tabernacle. Throughout all their journeys, wherever the cloud was taken up from over the tabernacle, the people of Israel would set out. But if the cloud was not taken up, and they did not then they did not set out till the day that it was taken up. For the cloud of the Lord was on the tabernacle by day, and fire was in it by night in the sight of all the house of Israel throughout all their journeys. Now that was kind of a long chapter, and it was tedious in the beginning with all the instructions, and it might sound a bit repetitive, but a few interesting things that I personally picked up in this chapter, and it's whenever the word Lord is written down. If you read it in your Bibles, I know it's in the ESV and the New International version of the NIV, it's Lord in all capitals, and it's kind of sm but it's called small capitals, where it looks like it's lowercase, but it's still capital letters, L-O-R-D. In the original Hebrew of the Old Testament, that word is the what's known as the tetragrammaton, and it is the Lord the word God used to describe himself over and over again, and it's Y H W H. And if you add in typical Hebrew or Hebrew vowels, it turns into Jehovah. So that's where the word Jehovah comes from when we talk about God. And in the last little section, verses 34 through 38, it talks about the Lord being in fire. Now we see we have seen this before, where the Israelites were wandering through the desert for 40 years. God led them through a pillar of fire at night so the Israelites could see where they were going. And again, here the Lord covered the tabernacle was with fire at night, so the Lord could show the Israelites where he was residing. And a few chapters ago, the Lord described the inner room of the tabernacle, and that turns into the inner room of the temple later on when we see Solomon build the temple, and then we also catch a glimpse of the veil that we see that guards the inner inner room from just the inner room and both the tabernacle and the temple. We see a brief mention of this veil in the story of the crucifixion. And it states that when Jesus died, the veil of the temple was torn. And this symbol, this tearing of the veil, symbolizes that God no longer resides in the temple. It symbolizes that God has left the temple and now resides in all of us through the Holy Spirit. With that, that ends Exodus chapter 40. We are done with two books of the Bible. Dear Heavenly Father, I thank you for today, and I thank you for the opportunity to do this podcast. And I just pray for everyone listening that they take something away from this episode. And I pray that you wake everyone else up tomorrow to listen to another episode where we start looking at his chapter one. In Jesus' name I pray. Amen.