Exodus 37-40

Exodus 37 seems to pretty much talk about the description of what the talented craftsman, Bezalel made. A lot of the things he made were overlaid with gold after having used acacia wood.

Exodus 38 seems to pretty much talk the same thing, just that he overlaid the acacia wood with bronze. After finishing that off, it branched off to the different types of metals that were also used which also included silver. It also included another gifted craftsman, Aholiab. With him being a part of the tribe of Dan, it's pretty crazy in that I think God doesn't discriminate against His people from having a predisposed view. The tribe of Dan has some bad reputation, which was foretold by Jacob earlier in the Bible. They would go on to rebel against the tribes of Israel and start some sort of civil war that ended rather quickly.

 I'm going to just keep on suffering while I keep on making mistakes. It's like this feeling of how I want to panic and just create an outburst from being frustrated. I can't really describe it, but it's a feeling that I get sometimes. Life is boring sometimes anyway so might as well continue to remind myself of the continual mistakes I'm making and get myself off of it as much as I could.

Exodus 39 pretty much continues to talk about the description of the holy garments that were made as commanded by God. What I thought was pretty cool in this chapter is in verse 25-28 how God commanded them to add pomegranates of blue, purple, and scarlet on the hem of the robe, along with bells of pure gold. Verse 32 states that the children of Israel finished all the work for the tabernacle of the tent of meeting. And the children of Israel did according to all that the Lord had commanded Moses. Verse 41 mentions how the garments that were made were to worn by Aaron and his sons, so that they would minister as priests. To finish off this chapter, the last verse says that the children of Israel completed everything and all that God had commanded Moses. It sort of reminds me of like a general ordering his subordinates to execute an order, but in this case it was mainly Moses being led by God and overseeing everything like a director. Maybe, it would be more better to see it like a producer hiring a famous director and then the director oversees the entire project of a movie with very talented workers.
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Exodus 40 begins with the Lord speaking to Moses and commanding that on New Years Day, they have to set up the tabernacle of the tent of meeting. Inside the tent, they are to add the ark of the Testimony and do something with a veil. I don't even know what the ark of the Testimony is yet, but okay!

Verse 10 says that after anointing an altar with burnt offering and consecrating it, it becomes the most holy place. I think this is the place where God might come to visit often later on. Verse 12-13 talks about how Aaron and his sons need to take a bath with someone watching them before putting on the holy garments. Anyhow God knows what's going on, but it doesn't seem to bother the unbelievers from doing their interesting and deceitful acts.

Verse 15 talks about how God has chosen Aaron and his sons to be the chosen line of descendants to take on the priesthood. I went to a retreat once and this guy kept on talking about how we are called to be priests of God. He would use physical examples of the priest's holy garments and relate it to us. Boy, it was boring and I didn't get any details out of it. I just know that's what he claimed and that's it. I don't know anything else to go with it. With relating to this verse, it feels like right now that God was very specific about who were called into this line of work. Not everyone is suited to be a pastor either, and everyone has their meant-to-be roles.

Verse 33-34 is amazing in that it talks about Moses finishing the work of setting up the tabernacle of meeting. Then a cloud covered it and that signified glory of the Lord's physical presence. Verse 35 goes on to say that Moses couldn't enter it either because in the Bible it says that if you see God's physical being, then you die! There was pretty much a physical light that represented how God was ready to move, when it lifted above the tabernacle. It was cloud during the day, but a fire during the night. Boy, I can see how some readers could relate to this whole part with the fire and cloud thing being a myth or something.

Some people have obviously mentioned that they won't believe in God unless they see Him. Are we truly ready to receive Him though if it was actually truth? If that's the case, then why not go seeking for answers regarding the existence of God or not.

Loosely speaking, one of the most dangerous things is to assume something is happening while getting that emotional filling of how it all fits. Also, I notice that people view something and then get really flustered about it and want to be left alone sometimes. It's probably better to not hang on to something until there's actual evidence for it; if it's being fought against with credible evidence, then that's probably a formidable foe if you are siding with something.