Exodus 25:1 - 27:19
1Kings 5:26 - 6:13
Hebrews 8:1-6; 9:23-24; 10:1
T'ruma (Contribution)
Moses thoughts of Aaron quickly gave way to the path ahead of him. It was all he could do to keep from breaking out in a full run regardless of his age. He wanted with everything within him to be back in the presence of Yah.
Through the years, from the first time he had experience His presence, it had become the driving force of his life. He wanted to run into and through the darkness. The only thing that kept him from it was that he did not want to break through and into the light in a less than reverent manner. He wanted to take that final step in a manner worth of the One whose presence he would be in.
Just as before, one moment he was in darkness and the next he was in the light. With a bit of a sigh, the word, "Home!" rolled off his lips. The word startled him and a bit of a fright ran up his back. It was quickly dispelled with what he thought to be a bit of a low chuckle.
The instructions began for Moses to request an offering of various materials from the people. I am finally going to find out why we possess all of the stuff we were given by the Egyptians before we left. Schlepping all of that stuff from one place to another in the desert was just not making sense. There was not a purpose for us to have it all. It was never about us, it was always about Him. For a moment he wondered how he was able to think such long thoughts, yet never miss a word of what was being spoken to him.
The next words brought his attention back to full and complete focus. "They are to make a sanctuary, so that I may live among them." Time stopped with those words. His mind was going in every direction at once. It seemed he could think from age to age all at once. The beginning and end of time was at once before him. Now it all makes sense to me.
Moses remembered his forty years in the desert. He remembered the nights he would sit looking to the heavens once he had brought the sheep into the safety of a pen he had built. He would stare for hours at the stars. He would remember the brightest one that his forefathers had passed down was the star for Abraham. He would then consider that through the ages there would be people born to enlarge the family of Abraham to be like those uncountable stars. He would wonder which star had been lit for him. His staring into the heavens would normally lead him to a question of, why; why had Elohim created it all? He would think of Adam and Eve and their failure in the garden, the killing of Able, the wickedness that covered the earth prior to the flood and then to his own failure. Over and over again he would remember the day that he took everything into his own hands and killed the Egyptian. "Why would He create us, knowing that we would fail Him? "
"You desire to live in the midst of us?" He found that not only was he able to think as the instructions came, he was able to talk to Elohim. "Yes Moses, this has been, is now, and will always be my desire. I desire to live in the midst of my family." " There was a time before I created man that I too was lonely for companionship. I created you to be my friend."
Moses knew that his nights from then on would never be the same. Not many people knew outside of Joshua, but it was still the habit of Moses to watch as the people settled down and the camp become quite. He would then look to the stars for a moment before he also turned in. His nights would never be the same.
His focus turned back as the instructions continued. He was being given detailed instructions for each individual piece of what would be known as the Tabernacle. How he was being given these details was a wonder to him. As the words of detail were being spoken he would not just hear the words, but would see in exacting detail before him the piece being spoken of. He was given instructions the Ark that would be the place His presence would dwell. He was then given instructions regarding the Altar of Incense, the Table of Shewbread, the Menorah, the Laver for washing and the Altar of Sacrifice.
Moses considered for a moment why he had been given the instructions for the altar first. The thought immediately came to him that His presence was to always be the focus. Everything else in the Tabernacle would lie out the pattern of how the Hebrew's were to enter into, appreciate and respect His presence.
As wonderful as standing in His presence on the top of the mountain was, Moses could not wait to take these instructions down to the people. He thought briefly about how Noah must have felt when he was instructed to build the ark.
Moses would have to wait for the instructions continued. He now had the complete instructions for the Tabernacle. He wants to live with us? He desires our companionship, our friendship. I need some alone time under the stars!
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