So
Moses came and told the people all the words of the Lord and all the judgments.
And all the people answered with one voice and said, “All the words which the
Lord has said we will do.” And Moses wrote all the words of the Lord. And he
rose early in the morning, and built an altar at the foot of the mountain, and
twelve pillars according to the twelve tribes of Israel. Then he sent young men
of the children of Israel, who offered burnt offerings and sacrificed peace
offerings of oxen to the Lord. And Moses took half the blood and put it in
basins, and half the blood he sprinkled on the altar. Then he took the Book of
the Covenant and read in the hearing of the people. And they said, “All that
the Lord has said we will do, and be obedient.” And Moses took the blood,
sprinkled it on the people, and said, “This is the blood of the covenant which
the Lord has made with you according to all these words.”
Now
the glory of the Lord rested on Mount Sinai, and the cloud covered it six days.
And on the seventh day He called to Moses out of the midst of the cloud. The
sight of the glory of the Lord was like a consuming fire on the top of the
mountain in the eyes of the children of Israel. So Moses went into the midst of
the cloud and went up into the mountain. And Moses was on the mountain forty
days and forty nights.
Exodus
25
And let them make Me a sanctuary, that I may dwell among them. According to all that I show you, that is, the pattern of the tabernacle and the pattern of all its furnishings, just so you shall make it.
And let them make Me a sanctuary, that I may dwell among them. According to all that I show you, that is, the pattern of the tabernacle and the pattern of all its furnishings, just so you shall make it.
Exodus
32
Now
when the people saw that Moses delayed coming down from the mountain, the
people gathered together to Aaron, and said to him, “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.”
And
the Lord said to Moses, “Go, get down! For your people whom you brought out of
the land of Egypt have corrupted themselves. They have turned aside quickly out
of the way which I commanded them. They have made themselves a moulded calf,
and worshiped it and sacrificed to it, and said, This is your god, O Israel,
that brought you out of the land of Egypt!’ ” And the Lord said to Moses,
“I have seen this people, and indeed it is a stiff-necked people! Now
therefore, let Me alone, that My wrath may burn hot against them and I may
consume them. And I will make of you a great nation.”
Then
Moses pleaded with the Lord his God, and said: “Lord, why does Your wrath burn
hot against Your people whom You have brought out of the land of Egypt with
great power and with a mighty hand? Why should the Egyptians speak, and say,
‘He brought them out to harm them, to kill them in the mountains, and to
consume them from the face of the earth’? Turn from Your fierce wrath, and
relent from this harm to Your people. Remember Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, Your
servants, to whom You swore by Your own self, and said to them, I will multiply
your descendants as the stars of heaven; and all this land that
I
have spoken of I give to your descendants, and they shall inherit it
forever.’ ” So the Lord relented from the harm which He said He would do
to His people.
The Father had just decided to
tabernacle, dwell, with His people to bring another level of experience of His
grace and mercy. He relents and continues even though He is angry at their
disobedience because covenant compels Him.
We have our Lord whose
sacrifice took the wrath of sin from us and His blood covenant satisfies the
Father.
His Spirit tabernacles, dwells
with us to be a helper, reminder, and guide as we also journey in life.
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