Bible Reading Made Different

  Moses gathered all the congregation of the Israelites together and told them the words which the Lord commanded them to do. Work was allowed for six days, but the seventh day was to be a holy day for them, a Sabbath of rest to the Lord. Whoever did any work on the Sabbath was to be put to death.  Wow! How many of us would now be dead?  They weren't even allowed to kindle a fire in their dwellings on the Sabbath day. Moses also told the Israelites that the Lord commanded that an offering be taken for Him from whoever was of a willing heart to bring gold, silver, and bronze . Other offering materials were to be blue, purple and scarlet thread , fine linen , goats' hair , ram skins dyed red , badger skins , acacia wood , oil for the light, spices for the anointing oil and for the sweet incense , onyx stones , and stones to be set in the ephod and in the breastplate . All the gifted artisans were to come together and make the following: The tabernacle - its tent, cov...

  The Lord told Moses to cut two tablets of stone and that He would write on them just as He did on the tablets he broke. He told Moses to be ready to go up Mount Sinai the next morning and present himself to Him at the top of the mountain. No one was to go up the mountain with him, nor was anyone to be seen throughout the mountain. The flocks nor the herds were to graze before the mountain neither. So, Moses did as he was told and took the two new tablets up the mountain. The Lord descended in the cloud and stood with Moses there and proclaimed His name. The Lord passed before Moses proclaiming, "The Lord, the Lord God, merciful and gracious, longsuffering, and abounding in goodness and truth, keeping mercy for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, by no means clearing the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children and the children's children to the third and the fourth generation." Moses made haste and bowed his head toward the ear...

  God tells Moses to leave Sinai with the people he brought out of the land of Egypt. He instructed Moses to lead them to the land He swore to give to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob by saying "To your descendants I will give it." God said that He would send His Angel before him and drive out the Canaanite, the Amorite, the Hittite, the Perizzite, the Hivite and the Jebusite. He told Moses to go up to a land flowing with milk and honey. God said that He would not go up in their midst, lest He consumed them on the way because they are a stiff-necked people. When the people heard the bad news, they mourned and no one put on his ornaments, because God told Moses to tell the Israelites, "You are a stiff-necked people. I could come up into your midst in one moment and consume you. Now, therefore, take off your ornaments, that I may know what to do to you." So the Israelites were obedient and stripped themselves of their ornaments by Mount Horeb.  (Some Google sources indicate t...

  When the people saw that Moses was gone for a long time up the mountain, they gathered together and said to Aaron , "Come, make us gods that shall go before us, for as for this Moses, the man who brought us up out of the land of Egypt , we do not know what has become of him."  Moses was up on the mountain from Exodus 24:15 getting all of God's instructions through Exodus 31 , so far. The people were getting antsy. The way they referred to Moses as "this Moses" seems to reflect a negative connotation.  Aaron told the people to break off the golden earrings in the ears of their wives, sons, and daughters and bring them to him. So, the people did as Aaron said and he fashioned the gold with an engraving tool and made a molded calf . They said, "This is your god, O Israel, that brought you out of the land of Egypt !"  These people attributed all that the One True God did to bring them out of Egypt to a god Aaron just made by hand from their golden ea...

  The Lord told Moses that He called by name Bezalel the son of Uri, the son of Hur, of the tribe of Judah. The Lord said that He filled Bezalel with the Spirit of God, in wisdom, in understanding, in knowledge, and in all manner of workmanship to design artistic works, to work in gold, silver and bronze. He also skilled him in cutting jewels for setting, in carving wood and to work in all manner of workmanship. Along with Bezalel, God appointed Aholiab the son of Ahisamach, of the tribe of Dan. God also put wisdom in the hearts of all the gifted artisans so that they could make all that He commanded Moses.  When God calls you to an assignment He equips you and those He has destined to help you. What has God called you by name to do? Bezalel, Aholiab and all the gifted artisans would make the following items according to all that the Lord commanded Moses: The tabernacle of meeting The ark of the Testimony The mercy seat All the furniture of the tabernacle - the table and its u...

  Altar of Incense Description Made of acacia wood A cubit in length and width (square shaped) Two cubits in height Four horns all made of one piece The top, all sides and horns overlaid with pure gold Gold molding all around Two gold rings under the molding on two sides to be holders for the poles that would bear it The poles were to be made of acacia wood and overlaid with gold God told Moses to put the altar of incense before the ark of the Testimony and the mercy seat. He told Moses that He would meet with him there. Aaron was to burn sweet incense every morning when tending the lamps. When Aaron lights the lamps at twilight, he was to burn incense on it. This was to be a perpetual incense before the Lord throughout the generations. No strange incense was to be burned on it. Nor should a burnt offering, a grain offering be burned on it and a drink offering should not be poured on it. Once a year, upon the horns, Aaron was to make atonement with the blood of the sin offerin...

  When we left off last week, Moses was instructed to give the fat and parts of the ram of consecration along with one unleavened bread, cake and wafer to Aaron and his sons to be a wave offering before the Lord (Verses 22 and 23). This week,  Moses was to get the wave offering back from them and burn them on the altar as a burnt offering, as a sweet aroma before the Lord. This is an offering made by fire to the Lord. Then Moses was to take the breast of the ram of Aaron's consecration and wave it as a wave offering before God. This would be Moses' portion. From the ram of the consecration Moses was to consecrate the breast of the wave offering that was waved and the thigh of the heave offering that was raised. These will be portions for Aaron and for his sons from the Israelites' peace offerings, that is, their heave offering to the Lord by a statute forever. Aaron's holy garments would be passed down to his sons after him to be anointed and consecrated in them. The so...

  God told Moses to hallow  (honor as holy)  Aaron and his sons for ministering to Him as priests by getting one young bull and two rams without blemish, unleavened bread, unleavened cakes mixed with oil and unleavened wafers anointed with oil (made of wheat flour). He was to put the unleavened goods in one basket and take them along with the bull and two rams to the door of the tabernacle of meeting. Aaron and his sons were to be at the door of the tabernacle of meeting also, and Moses was to wash them with water. Moses was to take the garments (the tunic, the robe of the ephod, the ephod, and the breastplate) and put them on Aaron and gird him with the intricately woven ephod band. He was to put the turban on Aaron's head and put the holy crown on the turban. Then Moses was to anoint Aaron by pouring the anointing oil on his head. Afterwards, he was to put tunics on Aaron's sons and gird them all with sashes and put hats on them. The priesthood would be theirs for a per...

  God told Moses to take his brother, Aaron and Aaron's sons ( Nadab , Abihu , Eleazar and Ithamar ) from among the children of Israel so that they can minister to Him as priests. Moses was instructed to have holy garments made for Aaron for glory and for beauty. Moses was to speak to all of the gifted artisans whom God had filled with wisdom to make Aaron's garments, to consecrate him so that he could minister to God as priest.  Are you wisely using your gifts for God? The garments to be made were a breastplate , an ephod , a robe , a skillfully woven tunic , a turbin and a sash . God repeats that these holy garments were for Aaron and his sons so that they could minister to Him as priests. The Ephod Made of gold , blue , purple and scarlet thread and fine linen artistically worked. Joined together by two shoulder straps at its two edges. Has an intricately woven band made with the same color threads, fine woven linen and the same workmanship of the ephod. Has two...

  The Altar of Burnt Offering Description Square and made of acacia wood , five cubits in length and width and three cubits in height Four horns on its four corners (all made of one piece) overlaid in bronze . The pans for ashes, the shovels, basins, forks, firepans should all be utensils made of bronze. A grate made of a network of bronze with four bronze rings at its four corners. The grate should be put under the rim of the altar so that the network would be midway up the altar. The poles for the altar should be made of acacia wood and overlaid with bronze. The poles were to be put in the rings on the two sides of the altar to bear it. God told Moses to make the altar hollow with boards just as it was shown to him on the mountain. The Court of the Tabernacle Description The south side and the north side should have hangings made of fine woven linen , one hundred cubits long. There should be twenty pillars with twenty bronze sockets for both sides. The hooks of the pillars and ...

  Description - Tabernacle Curtains Ten curtains made of fine woven linen and blue, purple and scarlet thread with artistic designs of cherubim woven in them.  All the curtains were to be of the same length (twenty-eight cubits) and the same width (four cubits). The curtains were to be coupled to one another in two groups of five. Loops of blue yarn were to be made on the edge of the curtain on the selvedge  (an edge made of woven fabric to prevent unraveling)  of one set and likewise on the outer edge of the other curtain of the second set. Fifty loops were to be made on the edge of the curtain of each set so that the loops clasped to one another. The fifty clasps were to be made of gold and coupled the curtains together to make one tabernacle. Eleven curtains made of goats' hair were to be made to be a tent over the tabernacle. The eleven curtains were to be of the same measurements - length (thirty cubits) and the width (four cubits). Five curtains were to be coup...