Thou shalt not raise a false report, perjury,
to put your hand with the wicked, to
be an unrighteous witness.
In other words, conspiracy in perjury.
Thou shalt not follow a multitude to do
evil, not to get into a riotous situation.
Neither shalt thou speak in a cause to
decline after many, to wrest judgment.
Neither shalt thou countenance a poor man in
his cause.
Now, the poor man, look also at verse
9, or rather at verse 15.
Thou shalt keep the feast of the unleavened
bread.
Beg your pardon, verse 6, Leviticus 19, verse
6.
Thou shalt not wrest the judgment of the
poor in his cause.
First of all, you shall not countenance the
poor in his cause.
Then you're not to wrest the judgment of
thy poor in the cause.
In other words, the judgment has to be
fair.
And you're not to countenance him just because
he's poor, nor are you to wrest judgment
from him because he is poor.
In other words, his condition, financially, should have
nothing to do with the judgment.
The judgment has to be a fair judgment.
Not giving him an advantage because he is
poor, neither are you to give him a
disadvantage because he is poor.
You're not to take that into consideration.
Judgment has to be fair across the board.
If a man meet your enemy's ox, or
his ass going astray, you shall surely bring
it back to him again.
Now, that's hard to do.
If you see the ass of him that
hateth thee lying under his burden, and you
wouldn't forbear to help him, thou shalt surely
help him.
If you see your neighbor's donkey and it's
just sort of collapsed under the burden, and
you just walk by, that's not right.
God wants you to be kind towards the
animals.
You're to help it, even though the neighbor
hates you, and you've got a big feud
going with him.
That animal hasn't got a feud going with
you.
And you should be merciful towards the animal.
God wants us to be merciful towards animals.
Keep thee far from a false matter.
And the innocent and the righteous, lay thou
not, for I will not justify the wicked.
And thou shalt take no gift.
Now, these are to the judges.
They're not to take any gift.
For the gift blinds the wise and perverts
the words of the righteous.
So, judges weren't to receive gift lest they
would be influenced by that gift and would
not give true judgment.
Also, thou shalt not oppress a stranger.
For you know the heart of a stranger,
seeing you were strangers to the land of
Egypt.
Now, six years you shall sow the land
and gather the fruits.
But the seventh year, we get the six
in one pattern again.
And we've already talked about the six years
of sowing.
The seventh year, let the ground rest.
Let it lie still that the poor of
thy people may eat and leave what they
leave to the beast of the field.
And in like manner thou shalt deal with
the vineyard and with the olive yard.
In other words, the seventh year, it just
is for the poor people.
Let it just rest.
Whatever grows up naturally, whatever seeds were left
in the ground, let it grow.
Let the poor go out and gather it.
Six days thou shalt do thy work.
On the seventh day thou shalt rest.
That thine ox and thine ass may rest
and that the son of thy handmaid and
the stranger may be refreshed.
And in all things that I have said
unto you, be circumspect.
Be careful.
Keep it carefully.
And make no mention of the name of
other gods.
Neither let it be heard out of thy
mouth.
Three times thou shalt keep a feast unto
me in the year.
So we have a Thanksgiving feast.
They had three feasts.
The first one is the Feast of Unleavened
Bread.
The second one is the Feast of Passover,
which takes place 50 days after the Feast
of Unleavened Bread when you are bringing in
the first of your winter grains.
And so it's the first fruits of the
winter grain that is brought in there in
June.
The wheat, the winter wheat that they have
sown.
The third feast was equivalent to our Thanksgiving
feast and it takes place in the harvest
time of the year when you have gathered
of thy labors out of the field.
The third feast and it's equivalent to our
Thanksgiving.
So three times in the year all of
your mails shall appear before the Lord God.
Thou shalt not offer the blood of my
sacrifice with unleavened bread.
Neither shall the fat of my sacrifice remain
till morning.
The first of the first fruits of thy
land thou shalt bring into the house of
Jehovah thy God.
Thou shalt not see the kid in his
mother's mouth.
Now from this little scripture the Jews have
created the whole interpretation of not eating dairy
products with meat products and any meal.
Because the law says thou shalt not see
the kid in its mother's mouth.
So they refuse to eat any meat and
dairy products together because of this little scripture.
Now what is the scripture actually prohibiting?
If you kill a little goat to eat
it you're not to boil it in its
own mother's milk.
That's what the law is prohibiting.
But they say that if you eat the
shish kebab and you're also eating cheese at
the same meal you don't know but what
that cheese was made from the mother's milk
and that in your stomach the churning and
boiling the meat of the kid is being
seeded in its mother's milk in your stomach.
And so they really are very very religious
about this today.
You go to Jerusalem and even those that
don't believe in God follow the kosher habits
of eating.
They won't drink milk at a meal where
they have meat nor will and it's so
sad because they have this delicious rolls and
they serve you margarine because you're having meat
to eat.
They will not mix any dairy products with
meat products at a meal lest they be
guilty of seeding a kid in its mother's
milk.
That's what Jesus was talking about when he
said to the Pharisees hey you strain at
a gnat and you swallow a camel.
Now why would they strain at a gnat?
Because you're not to eat anything that hasn't
been thoroughly bled.
So if you're jogging along and a gnat
gets in your mouth and gets stuck in
your throat you'd see these guys putting their
finger down trying to heave and do everything
coughing and carrying on horribly trying to get
that gnat out because man if you eat
that gnat you know that hasn't been bled
thoroughly you violated the law and there's no
way they're going to swallow that gnat and
you'd see them really coughing and heaving and
doing this big thing and Jesus says hey
you know you're straining at a gnat but
just swallow a camel.
You know they in other areas just gloss
things, change things, misinterpreted things to where they
could get by with horrible things and yet
on the little issues oh did they get
so picky on the little insignificant issues but
the major issues of justice and mercy and
that you know they just interpreted right around
those and so Christ's after them on these
things.
Now the Lord is promising when they go
into the land that He's going to send
an angel before them to keep them in
the way and to bring them into the
place which God has prepared.
I believe that this angel of course is
Jesus Christ.
The Lord said, Beware of him, obey his
voice, provoke him not for he will not
pardon your transgressions for my name is in
him.
But if thou shalt indeed obey his voice
and do all that I speak then I
will be an enemy unto your enemies an
adversary to your adversaries for my angel shall
go before thee and bring thee into the
Amorites and the Hittites and the Perizzites and
the Canaanites and the Hivites and the Jebusites
and I will cut them off.
You remember when Joshua was going out looking
over the city of Jericho he saw the
captain of the Lord's host and he said,
Are you for us or against us?
And the angel answered, As the captain of
the Lord's host have I come.
So the Lord's host.
The angel of the Lord going before them
to lead them in.
And many Bible scholars accept this as one
of the appearances of Christ.
The Theophany.
An appearance of God in the Old Testament.
Actually in the person of Christ.
Thou shalt not bow down to their gods.
That is the Hivites and the Jebusites and
the Canaanites and the Perizzites and so forth.
Thou shalt not bow down to their gods
nor serve them nor do any of their
works but thou shalt utterly overthrow them and
quite break down their images.
And ye shall serve the Lord your God
and he shall bless thy bread and thy
water and I will take sickness away from
the midst of thee.
There shall nothing cast their young nor be
barren in the land.
The number of thy days I will fulfill.
I will send my fear before thee and
will destroy all the people to whom thou
shalt come.
I will make all thine enemies turn their
backs to thee.
I will send hornets before thee.
I shall drive out the Hivite, the Canaanite,
the Hittite from before thee.
I will not drive them out from before
thee in one year lest the land become
desolate and the beasts of the field multiply
against thee.
By little and little I will drive them
out from before thee until thou be increased
and inherit the land."
So, these are the blessings.
These are the things I'm going to do
for you predicated upon your serving Me.
These are the benefits, the fringe benefits of
serving Me.
I will do all of these things.
I'll go before you.
I'll drive out the enemy and so forth.
Now, in this we find the principles of
God's victory and the way He brings forth
victory in our lives.
For these Jebusites and Hivites and so forth
are a type of the giants in our
flesh.
Coming into the promised land is coming into
the life of the Spirit and the victory
of the Spirit.
The overcoming life.
Coming out of the wilderness, out of the
yo-yo Christian experience where you're up and
down and up and down into a beautiful,
victorious, overcoming life in Christ Jesus.
A life of victory.
A life after the Spirit, not after the
flesh.
And these enemies that were in the land
represent those aspects of our flesh where it
so often has defeated us and conquered us.
But God is promising victory over anger, over
anxiety, over fears, over temper, over
any area of the flesh where you are
in bondage to your own flesh.
God is promising you the victory.
But it comes one area at a time,
little by little.
I won't drive them all out in one
year.
God doesn't just give you instant perfection.
But we're growing in grace and in knowledge
of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.
And so the processes of God's victory are
reiterated for us here.
Until we inherit the land.
I will set thy bounds from the Red
Sea into the Sea of the Philistines, which
would be the Mediterranean, and from the desert
unto the river.
For I will deliver the inhabitants of the
land into your hand, and thou shalt drive
them out before thee.
Thou shalt make no covenant with them nor
with their gods.
Now in a little while, as we move
on, we're going to find that they violated
this commandment and they made a covenant with
the Gibeonites.
And we'll deal with the problems that came
from the disobedience of this command.
They shall not dwell in thy land, lest
they make thee sin against me.
For if thou serve their gods, it will
be a snare to you.
And it was.
And he said unto Moses, Come up unto
the Lord, thou and Aaron and Nadab and
Abihu, and seventy of the elders of Israel,
and worship ye afar off.
And Moses alone shall come nearer to the
Lord, but thou shalt not come near, neither
shall the people go up with him.
And Moses came up and told the people
all the words of the Lord and the
judgments.
And all of the people answered with one
voice and said, All the words which the
Lord hath said we will do.
Words are sure cheap.
Here Moses lays upon them all these judgments.
They said, Oh, everything the Lord said we
will do.
Oh God, everything I have belongs to you.
Words are sure cheap, aren't they?
It's too bad.
Because it isn't what I say that really
counts.
It's what I do.
And so Moses wrote all the words of
the Lord.
He rose up early in the morning.
He built an altar under the hill with
twelve pillars, according to the twelve tribes of
Israel.
And he sent the young men of the
children of Israel, which offered burnt offerings and
sacrificed people's offerings of oxen unto the Lord.
Moses took half the blood, put it in
basins, and half the blood he sprinkled on
the altar.
And he took the book of the covenant
and read it in the audience of the
people.
And they said, All that the Lord has
said we will do and be obedient.
And Moses took the blood and sprinkled it
on the people and said, Behold, the blood
of the covenant which the Lord hath made
with you concerning all these words.
And so this experience of sprinkling the people
with the blood from these sacrifices and so
forth, the blood covenant is referred to in
the book of Hebrews.
And as we were going through the book
of Hebrews, we dealt with all of the
things under the law, sanctified with the blood
for without the shedding of blood was nothing
sanctified.
And how the new covenant that we have
in Christ, of course, was also sanctified through
the blood of Christ, the better covenant.
This was the old covenant that was disannulled.
This is the old covenant that didn't work.
Why?
Because the old covenant was predicated upon the
people doing these things.
It was predicated upon the people's faithfulness.
The people weren't faithful.
So God has established in Christ a new
covenant that is predicated now upon the faithfulness
of God to do what He said He
would do.
Now, because the new covenant is predicated upon
God's faithfulness, the new covenant will stand.
It cannot fail because God will not fail.
So I thank God for the new covenant
relationship that I have with God through Jesus
Christ, a covenant that cannot fail.
I'm sure God's going to do all that
He has said He is going to do
through Christ.
And now it's not predicated upon my doing,
but my believing in God and in that
work of Jesus Christ.
And I don't have to send 25 bucks.
Then went up Moses and Aaron and Nadab
and Abihu and the 70 of the elders
of Israel, and they saw the God of
Israel.
And there was under His feet, as it
were, a paved work of sapphire stone, and
as it were, as the body of heaven
in clearness.
So they saw God, they saw the glassy
sea before the throne of God.
John describes it, the sea of glass, crystal,
before the throne of God.
Now you say, wait a minute.
What do you mean they saw God?
Because in the gospel of John, John declares
no man have seen God at any time.
But the only begotten Son who is in
the bosom of the Father, He hath manifested
Him.
What does it mean then they saw God?
I don't know.
But I have to compare Scripture with Scripture.
And the fact that we read, no man
hath seen God at any time, but the
only begotten Son, which is in the bosom
of the Father, He hath declared Him.
And the Scripture also declares that you cannot
see God and live.
I must assume that when it declares, and
they saw the God of Israel, and this
crystal sea, that they saw Him perhaps in
a vision form as Isaiah and as Ezekiel
and as others saw God in a vision
form, but did not actually see God Himself,
which is impossible for man to do.
No man has seen God at any time.
Moses took the blood and they went out
and they saw God.
And upon the nobles of the children of
Israel, he laid not his hand and they
saw God and did eat and drink.
That is they fellowshiped with God.
And the Lord said unto Moses, Come up
to me in the mount and be there
and I will give thee tables of stone
and the law and commandments which I have
written that you may teach them.
And so Moses rose up and his minister
or his servant Joshua and Moses went up
into the mount of God.
And he said unto the elders, Carry ye
here for us or wait here for us
until we come again to you.
And behold, Aaron and Hur are with you
and if any man have any matters to
do, let him come unto them.
And Moses went up into the mount and
the cloud covered the mount and the glory
of the Lord abode upon Mount Sinai.
And the cloud covered it for six days.
And the seventh day he called unto Moses
out of the midst of the cloud.
And the sight of the glory of the
Lord was like a devouring fire on the
top of the mount in the eyes of
the children of Israel.
And Moses went into the midst of the
cloud and he got him up into the
mount.
And Moses was on the mount for forty
days and for forty nights.
And while he was there, God gave to
him the details for the building of the
tabernacle where God would come to meet the
people of Israel.
The meeting place for God to meet the
people.
And God gave him exact and specific dimensions
and all for the tabernacle and for the
things that were to be in the tabernacle.
Now it is interesting as God gives to
him the design, he starts not with the
tabernacle itself but with the furnishings within the
tabernacle.
And so in chapter 25 we begin with
the materials the things that were to be
made to be used in the tabernacle.
And the Lord spake unto Moses saying, Speak
to the children of Israel that they bring
me an offering.
Every man that giveth it willingly with his
heart shall take my offering.
And this is the offering which you shall
take of them, gold and silver and brass,
blue and purple and scarlet and fine linen,
goat's hair, ramskins dyed red, badger skins and
acacia wood, oil for the light, spices for
anointing oil and a sweet incense, onyx stones,
stones to be set in the ephod and
the breastplate, and let them make me a
sanctuary that I may dwell among them according
to all that I show thee after the
pattern of the tabernacle and the pattern of
the instruments thereof, even so shall you make
it.
So the people were to bring an offering
but what was the requirement?
They were to bring it willingly.
What does the New Testament say about our
giving?
That it should be every man as he
is purposed in his own heart, so let
him give for the Lord loves a hilarious
giver.
The giving is never to be by constraint,
never to be by pressure, never to be
by deceitful letters.
Man, that upset me.
Why?
Because God never wants to hear you gripe
over what you've given to Him.
That's the last thing God wants is to
hear you gripe over what you've given.
Now, if someone's pressuring you to give, and
you're giving not from your heart but because
someone's really laying the pressure on you, you're
apt then later on to regret what you've
pledged or what you've given.
And when you get the little notice, your
pledge is due, you know, we haven't heard
from you in a month or so, and
you know, your pledge is due, and the
church is depending upon your pledge, and you
think, oh, I've got to write a check,
you know, and you're angry with it.
Man, that upsets God.
He says, keep it, I don't want it.
He doesn't want you to grudge what you
give to Him, that's horrible.
To give unto God grudgingly or to give
unto God out of constraint.
He'd rather you keep it.
If you can't give hilariously, then don't give,
because if you're going to gripe about it,
He's just going to erase the mount anyhow,
and you'll never get rewarded for it.
God isn't going to take into account the
grudging money or the griping money that you've
given to Him.
So, if you can't do it hilariously, forget
it.
Better not to give at all.
You'll be much better off not to give
at all than to give and then later
gripe about it.
Some guy the other day wrote me a
letter and said that he was here and
was upset because of the fact that he
went out to have a smoke and the
ushers wouldn't let him back in at the
end of the sermon where he wanted to
come down and sit with his girl again
down in the front row.
So, he was really upset because they wouldn't
let him back in and all, and he
said, I put two dollars in the offering
and then they wouldn't let me out.
So, I sent him a couple of bucks
and I said, you know, sorry about that.
You know, not about the fact that they
wouldn't let him in.
I was sorry that he had such a
bad attitude.
And I told him I was just sorry
for the attitude that he had and the
fact that he was so upset and, you
know, didn't want the two bucks.
God surely doesn't need it.
And, you know, if he's upset because he
gave it, man, better to give it back.
If you've given money here and you're upset
about what you've given, maybe I've said something
that's upset you and you're, oh, why did
I give it?
That's all right, come to me and you
get your money back.
We don't want any griping money for God's
kingdom.
God doesn't want it and we don't, you
know, it's a horrible thing to give to
God and then gripe about what you've given.
You know, I hate people who say, well,
I'll be glad to come over and help
you and then they gripe the whole time.
Or they offer to give you something and
then you go to take them up on
it and they start griping about it.
Man, if you don't mean it, don't offer
it.
I can't stand to have someone give me
something and then later gripe about the fact
that they gave it.
Whenever I find out, I return it just
as quickly as I can.
I don't want it.
And God doesn't want it.
God loves a hilarious giver.
Oh, how God rejoices when he gives.
Oh, thank you, Lord, for the opportunity.
Wee, you know.
Take this, Lord.
It's all yours.
And giving hilariously, oh, God rejoices in that.
God blesses that.
And you can't give that way, then don't
do it.
Now, first of all, he tells them about
the ark that is to be in the
Holy of Holies, the center place of the
tabernacle, the place where they're going to meet
God.
Now notice God says, Now, to make it
after the pattern that I give to you,
according to all that I show you, be
careful you make it after the pattern.
Why?
Because the tabernacle is a little model.
It's a model of heaven.
If you want to know what heaven looks
like and get an idea of heaven, you
can look at the tabernacle because it is
a model of the heavenly things.
So God had them build a little model
on earth of what heaven, the throne of
God, looks like so that the people will
have an idea of what God's throne is
like and the place of meeting God.
And so this is a little model.
That's why, be careful you make it exactly
like you were told.
That's why they were to carve the cherubim
because there are cherubim there about the throne
of God in heaven.
There is the mercy seat before the throne
of God.
Now, the first thing they were to make
was this Ark of the Covenant.
And it was to be made of acacia
wood and overlaid with gold.
And it was to be 45 inches long,
27 inches wide, and 27 inches tall.
Sort of a box.
Now the lid on the box was called
the mercy seat.
They were to make, first of all though,
this little box called the Ark of the
Covenant.
And within the box they were to place
the two tables of stone upon which God
etched the Ten Commandments.
They were to place a jar of manna
by which God sustained them in the wilderness.
And they were to place Aaron's rod, the
sign of the priesthood being through Aaron, the
rod that budded.
Those were the three articles that were to
go inside of this little box.
The lid on the box was called the
mercy seat.
It also was to be made of acacia
wood and overlaid with gold.
And then carved on either end of the
mercy seat were to be these cherubim carved
of solid gold and facing each other with
outstretched wings and so forth.
And there the cherubims on the lid of
the box which is the Ark of the
Covenant.
And thus you have a picture of the
mercy seat in heaven and the cherubim who
are about the throne of God worshiping the
Lord.
You can read Ezekiel chapter 1, Ezekiel chapter
10, and John, or the book of Revelation
actually written by John, chapter 4 to see
the heavenly scene of which this earthly tabernacle
is just a model of the heavenly scene.
And so these were the only furnishings to
be in the Holy of Holies, a 15
foot cubicle that was within this tent that
they were to make.
Verse 23, the second furniture that they were
to make, the second bit of furniture was
a table for the showbread.
Now this table was to be 36 inches
long and 18 inches wide and 27 inches
tall with a little crown gold ornamentation around
the top of the table.
It again was to be made of acacia
wood and overlaid with gold.
This table was to be a part of
the furniture in the outer room.
Now as you came into the tent, you
had first of all a room that was
15 by 30, which was called the Holy
Place.
And it was separated with a curtain from
this 15 foot cubicle which was the Holy
of Holies.
No one was allowed in the Holy of
Holies except the high priest and that just
one day a year.
Now this little table that they were to
make, actually the little box they were to
make, they were to put gold rings on
each corner and then they were to take
these sticks and overlay them with gold and
run them through the rings so that whenever
they would move and have to carry this
ark that the fellows would not touch it
but they would pick up the sticks and
carry the sticks and it would be carried
between four men who were carrying these gold
overlaid sticks that ran through these four gold
rings that were on the corner of the
Ark of the Covenant.
Now the same with this table of showbread.
They were also to put the gold rings
on it so that the fellows and the
sticks that were overlaid with gold stayed through
these rings so that whenever they carried it
they'd just pick up the sticks and wouldn't
actually touch the table.
Now this table was to have twelve loaves
of bread upon it always and once a
week they would change the loaves of bread
and these twelve loaves of bread represented actually
the twelve tribes of Israel.
And there, when the priests would enter this
little outer room called the Holy Place fifteen
by thirty on his right hand side there
would be this little gold overlaid table thirty
-six inches long eighteen inches wide twenty-seven
inches high with the twelve loaves of bread
upon it.
And so he gives the whole thing that
we've explained here.
Then, on his left hand side as he
would enter in there was this golden candlestick
made of pure gold and it was of
beaten work and it had the center shaft
but coming off of it six branches.
Now, this is somewhat similar to this except
this thing is brass and it is no
doubt not as big as the one that
was made of pure gold but the idea
however, instead of candles in the cups these
cups, and they were carved more fancy than
this the cups themselves were to be carved
like an almond and overlaid kind of a
thing like in the shape of an almond
and these cups were filled with oil and
a wick in them and this candlestick was
to be kept burning continually so one of
the jobs of the priest was daily to
fill these cups with oil to make sure
that the candlestick remained burning constantly and it
was the light in this tent it formed
the light within the tent but it really
was a symbol of God's desire for the
nation Israel to be the light of the
world.
So as the priest would enter into the
tent on his right hand side this table
with twelve loaves of bread golden table on
his left hand side this candlestick with the
seven golden cups filled with oil and so
forth representing the fact that God intended Israel
to be the light of the world.
Now you may ask as long as it's
a symbol of the tabernacle and Israel to
be the light of the world why do
we have it in our church?
Why don't we have crosses or something here
instead of the candle holder?
Well, the reason why we have a candle
holder here in the church is that the
candle holder in the New Testament became a
symbol for the presence of Christ within his
church.
In Revelation chapter 1 John turned to see
the voice that spake with him and being
turned he saw Christ walking in the midst
of the seven golden candlesticks holding the seven
stars in his right hand.
And the Lord spoken to John and said
in interpreting for him the vision he said
the seven candlesticks are the seven churches.
Christ walking in the midst of the churches.
And so it is a beautiful symbol of
the presence of Christ in the midst of
his church.
The living Christ.
And though we are grateful and thankful and
glory in the cross of Jesus Christ and
thank God for it, we do not serve
a dead Lord.
We serve a risen Savior who is alive
and walking in the midst of His church.
And we don't like to think of Him
as dead hanging on a cross.
We like to think of Him as alive
and present with us walking here in our
midst in the church ready to minister and
to meet whatever needs you might have when
you came to church tonight.
The risen Lord is here to minister to
you and to help you through this week.
And so because it symbolizes the presence of
the risen Christ within His church, this is
why we have this particular symbol in our
church because it means so much to us.
I've been asked many times why a menorah
in a church and that is the reason
why.
So again, in verse 40, the Lord said,
and look that thou make them after the
pattern which was showed thee.
So again, the emphasis, make them just like
you saw it because it has to be
an exact thing if it's going to be
a model of the heavenly.
In Hebrews, we are told that the earthly
tabernacle was indeed a pattern of heavenly things.
So we know a little bit what the
throne of God is going to look like
as we look at the earthly tabernacle and
the things that were in it.
We may move a little faster through the
remaining part of Exodus as we will attempt
to more or less just give you an
overview now rather than thoroughly going into these
things.
Try to give you a word picture and
an overview of these things.
It gets a little tedious and a little
redundant because it first of all says make
it like this and then He turns around
in the next few chapters and they made
it like this and they repeat the same
thing only saying they made it like that
and it gets a little redundant.
So rather than getting bogged down, we'll probably
move a little more rapidly and just give
you a word picture overview so that you
can perhaps sort of picture it in your
own mind as you think of the tabernacle
and you can get a picture of this
tent with the two rooms.
The first one 30 by 15.
The golden table with show bread on the
right hand side.
The candlestick on the left hand side and
then the altar in the front of the
curtain.
Behind the curtain, the 15 foot cubicle with
this gold overlaid box with a lid which
is called the mercy seat with a two
carved cherubim on the top where only the
high priest would go on the one day
in the year the Yom Kippur to make
atonement for the nation for their sins once
a year.
So we'll move along a little more rapidly
as we finish off the book of Exodus
and pausing only at those places that we
feel are significant to us as Christians.
So we stand.
Now may the Lord be with you and
may the Lord watch over you and keep
you in His love and in His grace.
May the Lord cause you to abound in
every good work for Jesus Christ and may
the Lord grant to you new dimensions of
relationship with Him that you might become more
keenly aware of His presence with you and
His power to help you.
May God bless you.
May you have just a fruitful, blessed week
walking with Jesus Christ.