About: The Tabernacle

Day 32
OT Reading: Exodus 27-28
NT Reading: Matthew 21:23-46

The past couple days we've been reading through the instructions God gave about the Tabernacle. What you may be wondering is why in the world God had to go to such great lengths, giving every last detail. I mean, wouldn't it be easier to just give general directions and let them use some of their own artistic expression?

Well there actually is some reasoning behind this. What we learn is that the Tabernacle wasn't just a cool new name for the latest church plant. Nor was it just the latest in building technology. Hebrews 8:5 actually gives us some insight. What we learn is that the Tabernacle actually served as a pattern (i.e. a "shadow") of the way that heaven is designed. Which is pretty cool if you think about it. Even thousands of years before you and I ever read this, God used an opportunity to teach His people an even greater lesson.