1 00:00:02,680 --> 00:00:09,440 Speaker 1: Life Audio The Bible Study Podcast, Episode nine eighty seven. Today, 2 00:00:09,480 --> 00:00:12,200 Speaker 1: The Bible Study Podcast continues the study of the Book 3 00:00:12,240 --> 00:00:24,120 Speaker 1: of Exodus with chapter thirty. Welcome to the Bible Study Podcast. 4 00:00:24,360 --> 00:00:26,960 Speaker 1: I'm your host, Chris Christensen. We're going to continue on 5 00:00:27,080 --> 00:00:29,840 Speaker 1: with some of those DIY how to get things set 6 00:00:29,920 --> 00:00:32,800 Speaker 1: up kind of verses that we had a little bit 7 00:00:32,840 --> 00:00:35,319 Speaker 1: ago in Exodus, and we're going to do two more 8 00:00:35,400 --> 00:00:39,480 Speaker 1: chapters before things start to go very wrong. But first 9 00:00:39,520 --> 00:00:43,360 Speaker 1: a word from this sponsor. Chapter thirty starts this way 10 00:00:43,400 --> 00:00:46,400 Speaker 1: the altar of incense. Make an altar of acacia wood 11 00:00:46,440 --> 00:00:49,519 Speaker 1: for burning incense. It is to be square, a cubit 12 00:00:49,600 --> 00:00:52,959 Speaker 1: long and a cubit wide, and two cubits high. It's 13 00:00:53,040 --> 00:00:56,440 Speaker 1: horns of the one piece with it. Overlay the top 14 00:00:56,560 --> 00:00:59,560 Speaker 1: of all the sides and the horns with pure gold. 15 00:01:00,160 --> 00:01:03,760 Speaker 1: Make a gold molding around it. Make two gold rings 16 00:01:03,760 --> 00:01:06,640 Speaker 1: for the altar below the molding, two on each of 17 00:01:06,680 --> 00:01:09,200 Speaker 1: the opposite sides to hold the poles to use to 18 00:01:09,240 --> 00:01:12,400 Speaker 1: carry it. Make the poles of acacia wood and overlay 19 00:01:12,480 --> 00:01:15,480 Speaker 1: them with gold. Put the gold in front of the 20 00:01:15,520 --> 00:01:19,280 Speaker 1: curtain that shields the arc of the covenant law before 21 00:01:19,360 --> 00:01:22,600 Speaker 1: the atonement cover that is over the tablets of the 22 00:01:22,640 --> 00:01:26,240 Speaker 1: Covenant Law where I will meet you. Erin must burn 23 00:01:26,760 --> 00:01:29,760 Speaker 1: fragrant incense on the altar every morning when he tends 24 00:01:29,800 --> 00:01:32,720 Speaker 1: the lamps. He must burn incense again when he lights 25 00:01:32,720 --> 00:01:36,759 Speaker 1: the lamps at twilight. So incense will burn regularly before 26 00:01:36,800 --> 00:01:40,440 Speaker 1: the Lord for the generations to come. Do not offer 27 00:01:40,480 --> 00:01:44,320 Speaker 1: on this altar any other incense or any burnt offering 28 00:01:44,400 --> 00:01:47,280 Speaker 1: or grain offering, and do not pour a drink offering 29 00:01:47,319 --> 00:01:50,120 Speaker 1: on it. Once a year aaron shall make atonement on 30 00:01:50,160 --> 00:01:53,280 Speaker 1: its horns. This annual atonement must be made with the 31 00:01:53,280 --> 00:01:57,600 Speaker 1: blood of the atoning sin offering for the generations to come. 32 00:01:58,120 --> 00:02:01,120 Speaker 1: It is most holy to the Lord. Okay, so we've 33 00:02:01,160 --> 00:02:03,840 Speaker 1: got this special altar which is just going to be 34 00:02:03,960 --> 00:02:07,920 Speaker 1: used for burning incense. It's a smaller thing. It is 35 00:02:07,960 --> 00:02:11,720 Speaker 1: a cubit long and a cubit wide and two cubits high, 36 00:02:11,800 --> 00:02:15,520 Speaker 1: so it's roughly eighteen inches by eighteen inches by three 37 00:02:15,560 --> 00:02:19,640 Speaker 1: feet tall. And they're going to burn incests on here 38 00:02:19,840 --> 00:02:22,560 Speaker 1: in the morning and in the evening again as a 39 00:02:22,600 --> 00:02:26,120 Speaker 1: regular part of the worship. That is going to go 40 00:02:26,160 --> 00:02:30,720 Speaker 1: on until worship stops, basically until this form of worship 41 00:02:30,760 --> 00:02:35,520 Speaker 1: stops with the destruction of the Second Temple. Atonement money. Then, 42 00:02:35,560 --> 00:02:38,160 Speaker 1: the lords said to Moses, when you take a sensus 43 00:02:38,160 --> 00:02:41,240 Speaker 1: of the Israelites to count them, each one must pay 44 00:02:41,440 --> 00:02:44,040 Speaker 1: the Lord a ransom for his life at the time 45 00:02:44,120 --> 00:02:46,799 Speaker 1: he has counted. Then no plague will come on them. 46 00:02:47,000 --> 00:02:50,360 Speaker 1: When you number them. Each one who crosses over to 47 00:02:50,440 --> 00:02:54,560 Speaker 1: those already counted is to give a half shekel. According 48 00:02:54,560 --> 00:02:59,000 Speaker 1: to the sanctuary shekel, which weighs twenty garras. This half 49 00:02:59,000 --> 00:03:01,760 Speaker 1: shekel is an offering to the Lord. All who cross over. 50 00:03:02,400 --> 00:03:05,880 Speaker 1: Those twenty years old or more are to give an 51 00:03:05,919 --> 00:03:08,359 Speaker 1: offering to the Lord. The rich or not to give 52 00:03:08,480 --> 00:03:10,359 Speaker 1: more than a half a shekel, and the poor are 53 00:03:10,360 --> 00:03:13,160 Speaker 1: not to give less. When you make the offering to 54 00:03:13,200 --> 00:03:16,799 Speaker 1: the Lord to atone for your lives, receive the atonement 55 00:03:16,840 --> 00:03:19,200 Speaker 1: money from the Israelites and use it for the service 56 00:03:19,520 --> 00:03:22,280 Speaker 1: of the Tento meeting. It will be memorial for the 57 00:03:22,320 --> 00:03:26,760 Speaker 1: Israelites before the Lord, make atonement for your lives. So 58 00:03:27,120 --> 00:03:31,359 Speaker 1: every time you count people, you're supposed to pay this 59 00:03:33,000 --> 00:03:36,600 Speaker 1: census tax, as it were. This basically of if you're 60 00:03:36,600 --> 00:03:39,480 Speaker 1: going to count how many people you have. And David 61 00:03:39,520 --> 00:03:41,800 Speaker 1: does this and gets in trouble because he doesn't pay 62 00:03:41,840 --> 00:03:46,280 Speaker 1: this and has to choose some options, including a plague, 63 00:03:46,960 --> 00:03:50,080 Speaker 1: so it's he gets in big trouble. But basically the 64 00:03:50,160 --> 00:03:53,400 Speaker 1: idea is that if you're going to celebrate how many 65 00:03:53,440 --> 00:03:56,200 Speaker 1: people you have, you have to remember to celebrate who 66 00:03:56,520 --> 00:03:59,320 Speaker 1: gave you all these people, which is God. That God 67 00:03:59,400 --> 00:04:04,440 Speaker 1: has protect you and God has raised you up. And therefore, 68 00:04:04,960 --> 00:04:07,360 Speaker 1: any time you do a census, you have to have 69 00:04:07,400 --> 00:04:10,440 Speaker 1: this atonement money. You have to remember that you have 70 00:04:10,520 --> 00:04:13,520 Speaker 1: sinned and you have to pay the atonement for that sin. 71 00:04:14,360 --> 00:04:16,760 Speaker 1: Basin for washing, Then the Lord said to Moses, make 72 00:04:16,800 --> 00:04:20,920 Speaker 1: a bronze basin with its bronze stand for washing, place 73 00:04:21,000 --> 00:04:23,120 Speaker 1: between the tent of meeting and the altar, and put 74 00:04:23,160 --> 00:04:25,440 Speaker 1: water in it. Erin and his sons are to wash 75 00:04:25,480 --> 00:04:28,800 Speaker 1: their hands and feet with water from it. Whenever they 76 00:04:28,960 --> 00:04:31,080 Speaker 1: enter the tent of meaning, they shall wash with water 77 00:04:31,160 --> 00:04:34,120 Speaker 1: so they will not die. Also, when they approach the 78 00:04:34,160 --> 00:04:37,279 Speaker 1: altar to minister by presenting a food offering to the Lord, 79 00:04:37,600 --> 00:04:40,000 Speaker 1: they shall wash their hands and feet so that they 80 00:04:40,040 --> 00:04:42,560 Speaker 1: will not die. This is to be a lasting ordinance 81 00:04:42,560 --> 00:04:46,039 Speaker 1: for Arin and his descendants for the generations to come. 82 00:04:46,600 --> 00:04:50,000 Speaker 1: So the idea is You have to be prepared before 83 00:04:50,000 --> 00:04:52,400 Speaker 1: you enter in the place of God, and part of 84 00:04:52,440 --> 00:04:56,160 Speaker 1: that preparation is washing that you wouldn't come in unclean. 85 00:04:57,760 --> 00:05:00,119 Speaker 1: And so this is very important. This is even more 86 00:05:00,120 --> 00:05:03,800 Speaker 1: important than telling a surgeon to wash their hands to 87 00:05:03,839 --> 00:05:06,119 Speaker 1: save their patient. This is to save your own life. 88 00:05:06,520 --> 00:05:08,520 Speaker 1: Can imagine how much better we would all get a 89 00:05:08,600 --> 00:05:11,039 Speaker 1: hygiene if we looked at it as if it were 90 00:05:11,080 --> 00:05:15,080 Speaker 1: saving our life. This is something that the priests are 91 00:05:15,080 --> 00:05:18,520 Speaker 1: going to take very seriously. Anointing oil. Then the Lord 92 00:05:18,600 --> 00:05:22,640 Speaker 1: said to Moses, take the following fine spices. Five hundred 93 00:05:22,640 --> 00:05:25,400 Speaker 1: shekels of liquid mirror, half as much, that is, two 94 00:05:25,480 --> 00:05:29,560 Speaker 1: hundred and fifty shekels of fragrant cinnamon, two hundred and 95 00:05:29,600 --> 00:05:34,400 Speaker 1: fifty shekels of fragrant calamus, five hundred sheckles of cassia, 96 00:05:34,480 --> 00:05:37,640 Speaker 1: all according to the sanctuary shekel and a hin of 97 00:05:37,680 --> 00:05:41,360 Speaker 1: olive oil. Make these into a sacred anointing oil a 98 00:05:41,440 --> 00:05:44,839 Speaker 1: fragrant blend the work of a perfumer. It will be 99 00:05:44,839 --> 00:05:47,680 Speaker 1: the sacred anointing oil. Then use it to anoint the 100 00:05:47,720 --> 00:05:50,960 Speaker 1: tent of meeting, the arc of the covenant law, the 101 00:05:51,000 --> 00:05:54,719 Speaker 1: table and all its articles. The lampstand in its accessories, 102 00:05:55,120 --> 00:05:58,680 Speaker 1: the altar of incense, the altar of burnt offerings and 103 00:05:58,720 --> 00:06:02,200 Speaker 1: its utensils, and the bay with its stand. You shall 104 00:06:02,279 --> 00:06:05,719 Speaker 1: consecrate them so that they will be most holy, and 105 00:06:05,839 --> 00:06:09,680 Speaker 1: whatever touches them will be holy. Annoint Aaron and his sons, 106 00:06:09,720 --> 00:06:12,720 Speaker 1: and consecrate them so they may serve me. As priests 107 00:06:13,040 --> 00:06:15,479 Speaker 1: say to the Israelites, this is to be my sacred 108 00:06:15,520 --> 00:06:19,000 Speaker 1: anointing oil for generations to come. Do not pour it 109 00:06:19,080 --> 00:06:22,360 Speaker 1: on anyone else's body, and do not make any other 110 00:06:22,440 --> 00:06:25,479 Speaker 1: oil using the same formula. It is sacred, and you 111 00:06:25,520 --> 00:06:28,760 Speaker 1: are to consider it sacred. Whoever makes perfume like it 112 00:06:28,800 --> 00:06:31,160 Speaker 1: and puts it on anyone other than a priest must 113 00:06:31,200 --> 00:06:34,920 Speaker 1: be cut off from their people. It's interesting there are 114 00:06:35,000 --> 00:06:39,240 Speaker 1: people these days who are patenting sense. You know, obviously, 115 00:06:39,279 --> 00:06:43,520 Speaker 1: every perfume manufacturers are trying to preserve their particular secret 116 00:06:43,560 --> 00:06:48,560 Speaker 1: formula of fragrance, so that when you smell that fragrance, 117 00:06:48,560 --> 00:06:52,560 Speaker 1: you think of that manufacturer. In this case, when you 118 00:06:52,640 --> 00:06:55,680 Speaker 1: smell this particular fragrance, and this is going to be 119 00:06:55,760 --> 00:07:00,440 Speaker 1: quite fragrant miror and sediment and calamus and cast it's 120 00:07:00,440 --> 00:07:04,520 Speaker 1: going to be quite potent flavor when you smell that 121 00:07:04,640 --> 00:07:07,120 Speaker 1: you should think of God, and you should think of anointing. 122 00:07:07,680 --> 00:07:11,120 Speaker 1: And we're only going to use this fragrance for this 123 00:07:11,440 --> 00:07:16,200 Speaker 1: purpose incense. Then the Lord said to Moses, take fragrance spices, 124 00:07:16,240 --> 00:07:23,200 Speaker 1: gum resin onika and galbanum, and pure frankncense, all in 125 00:07:23,320 --> 00:07:26,400 Speaker 1: equal amounts, and make a fragrant blend of incense, the 126 00:07:26,440 --> 00:07:29,000 Speaker 1: work of a perfumer. It is be salted and pure 127 00:07:29,040 --> 00:07:31,880 Speaker 1: and sacred. Grind some of it to powder, and place 128 00:07:31,880 --> 00:07:33,640 Speaker 1: it in front of the ark of the Covenant law 129 00:07:34,000 --> 00:07:36,080 Speaker 1: in the tent of meeting where I will meet with you. 130 00:07:36,760 --> 00:07:39,240 Speaker 1: It shall be most holy to you. Do not make 131 00:07:39,240 --> 00:07:42,800 Speaker 1: any incense with this formula for yourselves, consider it holy 132 00:07:42,880 --> 00:07:46,600 Speaker 1: to the Lord. Whoever makes incense like it to enjoy 133 00:07:46,640 --> 00:07:49,520 Speaker 1: its fragrance must be cut off from their people. So 134 00:07:49,600 --> 00:07:52,400 Speaker 1: again we're going to have yet another different set of 135 00:07:52,440 --> 00:07:55,360 Speaker 1: fragrances that are going to be used for incense and 136 00:07:55,680 --> 00:07:58,840 Speaker 1: only incense in this tent of meeting and then later 137 00:07:58,960 --> 00:08:01,800 Speaker 1: on in the temple. And then let's continue on to 138 00:08:02,040 --> 00:08:03,960 Speaker 1: chapter thirty one, because I do want to get to 139 00:08:04,040 --> 00:08:08,960 Speaker 1: chapter thirty two next week where things go sideways. Bezalel 140 00:08:09,200 --> 00:08:12,880 Speaker 1: and Oholiab. Then the Lord said to Moses, see, I 141 00:08:12,880 --> 00:08:16,800 Speaker 1: have chosen Bezaliel, son of Uri, the son of her 142 00:08:16,880 --> 00:08:18,720 Speaker 1: of the tribe of Judah, and I have filled him 143 00:08:18,720 --> 00:08:22,280 Speaker 1: with the spirit of God, with wisdom, with understanding, with knowledge, 144 00:08:22,280 --> 00:08:25,760 Speaker 1: and with all kinds of skills to make artistic designs 145 00:08:25,800 --> 00:08:29,200 Speaker 1: for the work in gold, silver and bronze, to cut 146 00:08:29,240 --> 00:08:32,000 Speaker 1: and set stones, to work in wood, and engage in 147 00:08:32,080 --> 00:08:36,000 Speaker 1: all kinds of crafts. Moreover, I have appointed o Holiab, 148 00:08:36,520 --> 00:08:40,880 Speaker 1: son of Ahisamach of the tribe of Dan, to help him. Also, 149 00:08:40,920 --> 00:08:43,440 Speaker 1: I have given ability to all the skilled workers to 150 00:08:43,480 --> 00:08:46,600 Speaker 1: make everything I have commanded you the tent of Meeting, 151 00:08:46,640 --> 00:08:49,640 Speaker 1: the arc with the covenant law and with the atonement 152 00:08:49,679 --> 00:08:53,360 Speaker 1: cover on it, and all the other furnishings of the tent, 153 00:08:53,640 --> 00:08:56,880 Speaker 1: the table in its articles, the pure gold lampstand and 154 00:08:56,920 --> 00:09:00,079 Speaker 1: all its successories, the altar of incense, the altar and 155 00:09:00,200 --> 00:09:03,679 Speaker 1: offerings and all its utensils, the basin with its stand, 156 00:09:04,000 --> 00:09:07,520 Speaker 1: and all the woven garments, both the sacred garments for 157 00:09:07,640 --> 00:09:10,240 Speaker 1: Aaron the priest and the garments for his sons when 158 00:09:10,280 --> 00:09:13,200 Speaker 1: they serve as priests. And the anointing oil and fragrant 159 00:09:13,200 --> 00:09:15,600 Speaker 1: incense for the Holy Place. They are to make them, 160 00:09:15,760 --> 00:09:19,520 Speaker 1: just as I commanded you. So this is something we'd 161 00:09:19,520 --> 00:09:21,920 Speaker 1: see as a theme in the Bible, as God is 162 00:09:21,960 --> 00:09:24,640 Speaker 1: never going to tell us to build all this stuff 163 00:09:24,920 --> 00:09:28,120 Speaker 1: and not provide both the materials and in this case, 164 00:09:28,559 --> 00:09:31,960 Speaker 1: the skills necessary to do so. So all of the 165 00:09:32,000 --> 00:09:35,440 Speaker 1: things that God is telling Moses to create, he is 166 00:09:35,679 --> 00:09:39,280 Speaker 1: made sure that Moses and the people of Israel have 167 00:09:39,520 --> 00:09:43,400 Speaker 1: the ability to do that. The Sabbath, then, the Lord 168 00:09:43,440 --> 00:09:45,720 Speaker 1: said to Moses, say to the Israelites, you must observe 169 00:09:45,760 --> 00:09:48,480 Speaker 1: my Sabbaths. This will be a sign between me and 170 00:09:48,520 --> 00:09:50,920 Speaker 1: your generations to come, so you may know that I 171 00:09:50,960 --> 00:09:54,120 Speaker 1: am the Lord who makes you holy. Observe the Sabbath 172 00:09:54,160 --> 00:09:56,720 Speaker 1: because it is holy to you. Anyone who desecrates it 173 00:09:57,000 --> 00:09:59,520 Speaker 1: will be put to death. Those who do any work 174 00:09:59,559 --> 00:10:01,680 Speaker 1: on the Sabbath must be cut off from their people 175 00:10:02,000 --> 00:10:03,840 Speaker 1: For six days work is to be done, but the 176 00:10:03,880 --> 00:10:06,840 Speaker 1: seventh day is a day of Sabbath rest holy to 177 00:10:06,880 --> 00:10:09,560 Speaker 1: the Lord. Whoever does work on the Sabbath day is 178 00:10:09,559 --> 00:10:12,000 Speaker 1: to be put to death. The Israelites are to observe 179 00:10:12,040 --> 00:10:15,079 Speaker 1: the Sabbath, celebrating it for generations to come. As a 180 00:10:15,200 --> 00:10:18,280 Speaker 1: lasting Covenant. It will be a sign between me and 181 00:10:18,320 --> 00:10:21,520 Speaker 1: the Israelites forever. For in six days the Lord made 182 00:10:21,520 --> 00:10:23,839 Speaker 1: the heavens and the earth, and on the seventh day 183 00:10:23,840 --> 00:10:27,240 Speaker 1: he rested and was refreshed. When the Lord finished speaking 184 00:10:27,240 --> 00:10:29,480 Speaker 1: to Moses on Mount Sinai, he gave him the two 185 00:10:29,640 --> 00:10:33,439 Speaker 1: tablets of the Covenant Law, the tablets of Stone, inscribed 186 00:10:33,760 --> 00:10:38,320 Speaker 1: by the Finger of God. Okay, not sure why God 187 00:10:38,400 --> 00:10:41,720 Speaker 1: needs to repeat the Sabbath here, because we've already had 188 00:10:41,800 --> 00:10:44,840 Speaker 1: Sabbath laws, but he does repeat what was already mentioned 189 00:10:44,840 --> 00:10:48,439 Speaker 1: in the Ten Commandments. And then the most important line 190 00:10:48,520 --> 00:10:52,040 Speaker 1: in this whole thing here is that last line of Finally, 191 00:10:52,240 --> 00:10:54,160 Speaker 1: the Lord is done talking to Moses. He's been up 192 00:10:54,160 --> 00:10:57,880 Speaker 1: here forty days and forty nights, and he's gotten all 193 00:10:57,880 --> 00:11:00,320 Speaker 1: these instructions. He now knows how to make the see 194 00:11:00,320 --> 00:11:03,400 Speaker 1: garments out, to anoint the priests, how to make the tabernacle. 195 00:11:03,440 --> 00:11:06,439 Speaker 1: He's been taking notes like crazy. And God has also 196 00:11:06,520 --> 00:11:10,760 Speaker 1: given him these two stone tablets with the Ten Commandments 197 00:11:10,880 --> 00:11:13,240 Speaker 1: or with the Tablets of the Covenant Law. We usually 198 00:11:13,320 --> 00:11:17,080 Speaker 1: assume that that's the Ten Commandments on there. And he 199 00:11:17,240 --> 00:11:21,559 Speaker 1: sends him down the mountain, and that's where trouble starts, 200 00:11:21,600 --> 00:11:23,640 Speaker 1: but we're going to say that for next week. With that, 201 00:11:23,679 --> 00:11:26,520 Speaker 1: we're going to end this episode of the Bible Study Podcast. 202 00:11:26,559 --> 00:11:29,160 Speaker 1: If you have any questions, send an email to Chris 203 00:11:29,200 --> 00:11:32,800 Speaker 1: two x at gmail dot com, or, better yet, leave 204 00:11:32,840 --> 00:11:36,200 Speaker 1: a comment on this episode at the Bible Study podcast 205 00:11:36,280 --> 00:11:39,760 Speaker 1: dot com. 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