Exo 40:33 Moses set up the enclosure around the Tent and the altar and hung the curtain at the entrance of the enclosure. So he finished all the work.
Exo 40:34 Then the cloud covered the Tent and the dazzling light of the LORD's presence filled it.
Exo 40:35 Because of this, Moses could not go into the Tent.
Exo 40:36 The Israelites moved their camp to another place only when the cloud lifted from the Tent.
Exo 40:37 As long as the cloud stayed there, they did not move their camp.
Exo 40:38 During all their wanderings they could see the cloud of the LORD's presence over the Tent during the day and a fire burning above it during the night.
Chapters 35-40 is all about specifications. I can’t make anything out of these chapters. I am tempted to skip these chapters and the next book which is Leviticus which talks about more specifications and more specifications. What are these specifications all about?
Maybe I can’t understand these chapters because there’s no story in there. There are no characters to characterize, no conflict to learn something from, nothing. It’s like reading an engineering manual.
Three things I noticed about these chapters though:
1. Details--It seems that God love details.
2. Order—Everything must be done in such a way that God prescribes it.
3. Beauty—The articles, the dress, the tabernacke in everything that God told the Israelites to make, there’s beauty in them. The tabernacle must have been a beautiful structure.
It’s the little things. Why does God pay attention to little details? The Israelites ever obedient (and ever disobedient) to God executed the design that God had given them paying attention to every detail. What benefits the Israelites from these?
Maybe, God in telling the Israelites to build a tabernacle and all its implements and all the priestly garments paying attention to every detail was telling the Israelites that in following God up to the very littlest details, God was in fact helping the Israelites build a personal tabernacle of faith for themselves.
God seemed to be telling the Israelites this: “Hey, Israelites, my children, get busy and build the tabernacle and at the same time build your Godly character and identity.”
Weekly Bible Devotional
Jacob Wrestling with the ANGEL of GOD
And he took them, and sent them over the brook, and sent over that he had.
And Jacob was left alone; and there wrestled a man with him until the breaking of the day.
And when he saw that he prevailed not against him, he touched the hollow of his thigh; and the hollow of Jacob's thigh was out of joint, as he wrestled with him.
And he said, Let me go, for the day breaketh. And he said, I will not let thee go, except thou bless me.
And he said unto him, What [is] thy name? And he said, Jacob.
And he said, Thy name shall be called no more Jacob, but Israel: for as a prince hast thou power with God and with men, and hast prevailed.
And Jacob asked [him], and said, Tell [me], I pray thee, thy name. And he said, Wherefore [is] it [that] thou dost ask after my name? And he blessed him there.
And Jacob called the name of the place Peniel: for I have seen God face to face, and my life is preserved.
And as he passed over Penuel the sun rose upon him, and he halted upon his thigh.
Genesis32:23-31
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