Week 2: Instructions for the Tabernacle

Instructions for the Tabernacle: Exodus 24-27

Objective: 

• Moses in the midst of the cloud

Resources:

• Fr Tadros Y Malaty Commentary
• Catena Bible Commentary
• Fr Dawoud Lamie Bible study (Arabic)

Reading:

• Exodus 24:1-18
• Exodus 25:1-22
• Exodus 26: NO READING

Key verse(s):

• "Then the Lord said to Moses, “Come up to Me on the mountain and be there; and I will give you tablets of stone, and the law and commandments which I have written, that you may teach them." Exodus 24:12

Comments:

• God called Moses to go up on the mountain. Nadab and Abihu are Aaron's sons. They did not please the Lord by offering profane fire before the Lord (Leviticus 10)
• Moses will meet God alone by himself. But the people that went up with him represented the congregation so they don't feel the lack of communion with God:
  • Moses receiver of the Law.
  • Aaron represents the priesthood.
  • Nadab and Abihu represent the priests and the Levites.
  • The seventy of the elders of Israel: Leaders of the congregation.
• Joshua

   

  going up with Moses shows the life of discipleship.
• The Cloud represented the presence of God.

• Chapter 25 includes the offerings for the Sanctuary and the details of the Ark of the Covenant.

  • The Ark of the Covenant represented the meeting with God (Verse 22.)

• Chapter 26 takes about the Tabernacle details.

Review/recap questions:
**Servant may add more questions

1. Who were Nadab and Abih and why were they allowed to go up Mt. Sinai with Moses and Aaron?
2. What is the Book of the Covenant? 
3. The Lord told Moses to come up the mountain and He will give him the “Tablets of Stone.” What are the Tablets of Stone referring to?
4. Moses went up to the top of Mount Sinai as instructed by God and what occurred? 

Homework:
**Servant may add more questions

1. How many elders could worship God at a distance upon the mountain?
   A) seven B) fifty C) seventy D) two
2. What did the twelve stone pillars Moses set up at the foot of Mount Sinai represent?
   A) the elders B) tribes of Israel C) high priests D) first born