Tag: perspective
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Why Keep Records? [1-minute read]
21These are the records of the tabernacle, the tabernacle of the testimony, as they were recorded at the commandment of Moses, the responsibility of the Levites under the direction of Ithamar the son of Aaron the priest.–Exodus 38 For many Christian families, this has been the week you have been gathering Operation Christmas Child shoeboxes…
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More Than Enough [1-minute read]
3And they received from Moses all the contribution that the people of Israel had brought for doing the work on the sanctuary. They still kept bringing him freewill offerings every morning, 4so that all the craftsmen who were doing every sort of task on the sanctuary came, each from the task that he was doing, 5and said…
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All Hands on Deck [1-minute read]
20Then all the congregation of the people of Israel departed from the presence of Moses. 21And they came, everyone whose heart stirred him, and everyone whose spirit moved him, and brought the LORD’s contribution to be used for the tent of meeting, and for all its service, and for the holy garments. 22So they came, both men and…
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Generational Sin [1-minute read]
6The LORD passed before him and proclaimed, “The LORD, the LORD, a God merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and abounding in steadfast love and faithfulness, 7keeping steadfast love for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, but who will by no means clear the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children and the children’s children, to the…
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Thought from the Golden Calf
30The next day Moses said to the people, “You have sinned a great sin. And now I will go up to the LORD; perhaps I can make atonement for your sin.” 31So Moses returned to the LORD and said, “Alas, this people has sinned a great sin. They have made for themselves gods of gold. 32But now, if you will…
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God-Given [1-minute read]
6…And I have given to all able men ability, that they may make all that I have commanded you.–Exodus 31 The Hebrew reads, “and in the hearts of all who are wise-hearted I have put wisdom”. These men were master craftsmen who were not only given their tremendous abilities by God, but were also expected…
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Money to Remember [1-minute read]
16You shall take the atonement money from the people of Israel and shall give it for the service of the tent of meeting, that it may bring the people of Israel to remembrance before the LORD, so as to make atonement for your lives.”–Exodus 30 The purpose of this tax was revealed in the end of…
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Aaron and Jesus
10“Then you shall bring the bull before the tent of meeting. Aaron and his sons shall lay their hands on the head of the bull. 11Then you shall kill the bull before the LORD at the entrance of the tent of meeting, 12and shall take part of the blood of the bull and put it on the horns of…
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Holy to the LORD
36“You shall make a plate of pure gold and engrave on it, like the engraving of a signet, ‘Holy to the LORD.’ –Exodus 28 Here is another verse of the Bible that helps us to understand what ‘holy’ means. I underlined a portion for us. You shall be holy to me, for I the LORD am holy and have…
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God Leaves the Light On [1-minute read]
20“You shall command the people of Israel that they bring to you pure beaten olive oil for the light, that a lamp may regularly be set up to burn. 21In the tent of meeting, outside the veil that is before the testimony, Aaron and his sons shall tend it from evening to morning before the LORD. It…
Joel M Bradshaw 