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Week 2: Instructions for the Tabernacle

Instructions for the Tabernacle: Exodus 24-27

Objective: 

  • Moses in the midst of the cloud

Resources:

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 wascalled preparingMoses 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 inthat chapterwent 19up towith receivehim represented the law. God asked Moses to tell the people to be prepared by the all washingscongregation so they candon't receivefeel God'sthe word.lack of communion with God:
    • Moses receiver of the Law.
    • OnlyAaron Mosesrepresents the priesthood.
    • Nadab and AaronAbihu went uprepresent the mountain.
    • Moses received the precious ten commandments in chapter 20. The thunderings, the lightning flashes,priests and the smokeLevites.
      • were
    • The allseventy toof provethe God'selders of Israel: Leaders of the congregation.
  • Joshua

     

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

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    • The asArk theyof allthe witnessCovenant God'srepresented the meeting with Moses.
    • At the time, nations used to build idols to represent their gods so they can use them for worship. The Israelites were influenced by the Egyptians. God wanted(Verse to prevent them from doing this by asking them to build an altar for sacrifice. Ironically, they built the golden calf later!
    • In chapters 21-23, God is giving the people rules and laws to keep everything in order. These people were so primitive in their mindset and culture, that God wanted to improve their mindset and culture.
    • Exodus 22: 16-24 talks about how a man should respect his wife. At this time, men used to treat women like objects and with no respect. God gave them rules to follow and modernize them.
    • In chapter 23, God told them to keep the sabbath every week, and also every six years.
    • God also told them to keep three feasts to rejoice in God's work with them which are:
      • The Feast of Unleavened Bread: linked with Passover
      • The Feast of Harvest: 50 days after Passover
      • The Feast of Ingathering: Also called the Feast of Tabernacles and they used to dwell for seven days in tents (tabernacles) to remember the days in the wilderness when God covered them (Think of covers and tents. The two words have the same meaning in Hebrew)22.)

    • Chapter 26 takes about the Tabernacle details.

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

    1. HowWho dowere weNadab nowand asAbih Christiansand sanctifywhy ourselveswere they allowed to meetgo theup Lord?Mt. Sinai with Moses and Aaron?
    2. WhichWhat is the firstBook commandmentof withthe aCovenant? promise is what does it promise?
    3. "The Lord yourtold 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 isand jealous".what Explainoccurred? 
    5. How do these laws expand the Ten Commandments?
    6. What did the first fruits represent?

    Homework:
    **Servant may add more questions

    1. IfHow themany CHILDRENelders OFcould ISRAEL obeyed God, what would they become?
      A) A special treasure B) Holy Nation C) Kingdom of Priests D) all of the these
    2. Who didworship God askat Mosesa todistance take with him upupon the mountain? 
      A) The priestsseven B) The peoplefifty C) Aaronseventy D) Joshua two
    3. What wasdid the verytwelve stone pillars Moses set up at the foot of Mount Sinai represent?
      A) the elders B) tribes of Israel C) high priests D) first commandmentborn given to Moses?
      A) Honor thy father B) No other gods before Me C) Don’t steal D) Don’t murder
    4. Who are we to “honor?”
      A) graven images B) little children C) father and mother D) sun and moon
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