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Speaker 1: Life Audio The Bible Study Podcast, Episode nine hundred and

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Speaker 1: eighty three. Today, The Bible Study Podcast continues the study

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Speaker 1: of the Book of Exodus with chapter twenty four. Welcome

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Speaker 1: to the Bible Study Podcast. I'm your host Chris Kristensen.

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Speaker 1: Chapter twenty four the Covenant confirmed. But first a word

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Speaker 1: from this sponsor. Chapter twenty four starts like this. Then

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Speaker 1: the Lord said to Moses, come up to the Lord.

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Speaker 1: You and Aaron, Nadad, and Abihu and seventy of the

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Speaker 1: elders of Israel. You are to worship at a distance.

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Speaker 1: But Moses alone is to approach the Lord, and the

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Speaker 1: others must not come near, and the people may not

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Speaker 1: come up with him. Then Moses went and told the

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Speaker 1: people all the Lord's words and laws. They responded with

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Speaker 1: one voice, everything the Lord has said, we will do,

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Speaker 1: and wrote down everything the Lord had said. He got

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Speaker 1: up early the next morning and built an altar at

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Speaker 1: the foot of the mountain and set up twelve stone

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Speaker 1: pillars representing the twelve tribes of Israel. Then he sent

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Speaker 1: young Israelite men, and they offered burnt offerings and sacrificed

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Speaker 1: young bulls as fellowship offerings to the Lord. Moses took

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Speaker 1: half the blood and put it in bulls, and the

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Speaker 1: other half he splashed against the altar. Then he took

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Speaker 1: the Book of the Covenant and started to read it

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Speaker 1: to the people. They responded, we will do everything the

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Speaker 1: Lord has said. We will obey. Moses then took the blood,

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Speaker 1: sprinkled it on the people, and said, this is the

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Speaker 1: blood of the Covenant that the Lord has made with you.

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Speaker 1: In accordance with all these words, Moses and Aaron, Nadab

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Speaker 1: and Abihu and the seventy elders of Israel went up

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Speaker 1: and saw the God of Israel. Under his feet was

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Speaker 1: something like a pavement made of lapislazuli, as bright blue

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Speaker 1: as the sky. But God did not raise his hand

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Speaker 1: against these leaders of the Israelite. They saw God, and

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Speaker 1: they ate and drank. The Lord said to Moses, come

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Speaker 1: up with me on the mountain and stay here, and

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Speaker 1: I will give you the tablets of stone with the

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Speaker 1: law and commandments I have written for their instruction. Then

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Speaker 1: Moses set out with Joshua his aid, and Moses went

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Speaker 1: up on the mountain of God. He said to the elders,

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Speaker 1: Aaron and her are with you, and anyone involved in

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Speaker 1: a dispute can go to them. When Moses went up

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Speaker 1: on the mountain, the cloud covered it, and the glory

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Speaker 1: of the Lord settled on Mount Sinai. For six days,

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Speaker 1: the cloud covered the mountain, and on the seventh day,

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Speaker 1: the Lord called Moses from within the cloud. To the Israelites,

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Speaker 1: the glory of the Lord looked like consuming fire on

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Speaker 1: top of the mountain. Then Moses entered the cloud as

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Speaker 1: he went up on the mountain, and he stayed on

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Speaker 1: the mountain forty days and forty nights. So we've got

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Speaker 1: all of this that's been going on at Mount Sinai.

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Speaker 1: We've got the Ten Commandments, we've got some of the laws,

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Speaker 1: apparently the Book of the Law. Whether that's the whole

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Speaker 1: book of Leviticus, not sure, but they read that. They

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Speaker 1: all say this is great, we'll do all these things.

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Speaker 1: And then we're saying, okay, Moses and the elders, we're

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Speaker 1: going to go up. Oh my gosh, they get to

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Speaker 1: see God. This is amazing, and there's this blue like

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Speaker 1: Lapis Lazoli, this precious gem. And then okay, Moses, now

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Speaker 1: you get to come up separately, and you're going to

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Speaker 1: forty days and forty nights, and forty days and forty

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Speaker 1: nights is an interesting time period. I think this may

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Speaker 1: during Noah as well. But we're going to see the

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Speaker 1: get some instructions. It's going to get some instructions about

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Speaker 1: building some things like the tabernacle, like the ark, and

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Speaker 1: some of those instructions. The Lord said to Moses, tell

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Speaker 1: the Israelites to bring me an offering. You are to

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Speaker 1: receive the offering for me from everyone whose hearts prompt

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Speaker 1: them to give. These are the offerings you would received

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Speaker 1: from them. Gold, silver and bronze, blue, purple and scarlet,

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Speaker 1: another type of durable leather, acacia wood, olive oil for

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Speaker 1: fragrant incense and onyx stones and other gems to be

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Speaker 1: mounted on the ephad and breastplate. Then have them make

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Speaker 1: Make this tabernacle and all its furnishing is exactly like

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Speaker 1: the pattern I will show you. So the tabernacle is

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Speaker 1: going to be the temporary, movable temple of God, that

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Speaker 1: the people of God. We're going to get some instructions

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Speaker 1: it's this is the st that people have taken with

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Speaker 1: gave them a bunch of stuff to just take this

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Speaker 1: those things that are going to be used for the

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Speaker 1: tabernacle for the other things they are going to be creating.

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Speaker 1: Here the arc, have them make an arc of acacia

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Speaker 1: a half wide, and a cubit and a half high.

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Speaker 1: Overlay it with pure gold both inside and out, and

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Speaker 1: make a gold molding around it. Cast four gold rings

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Speaker 1: two rings on one side and two rings on the other.

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Speaker 1: Then make poles of acacia wood and overlay them with gold.

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Speaker 1: Insert the poles into the rings on the sides of

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Speaker 1: the ark to carry it. The poles are to remain

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Speaker 1: in the rings of this arc. They are not to

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Speaker 1: be removed. Then put in the ark the tablets of

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Speaker 1: the Covenant Law which I will give you. Make an

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Speaker 1: cherubim out of hammered gold at the ends of the cover.

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Speaker 1: Make one cherub at one end and the second cherub

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Speaker 1: on the other. Make the cherubim of one piece with

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Speaker 1: have their wings spread upward, overshadowing the cover with them.

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Speaker 1: The cherabim aar to face each other looking toward the cover.

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Speaker 1: Place the cover on top of the ark, and put

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Speaker 1: in the ark the tablets of the Covenant Law that

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Speaker 1: I will give you. There above the cover. Between the

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Speaker 1: two cherubim that are over the ark of the Covenant Law.

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Speaker 1: I will meet with you and give you all my

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Speaker 1: commands for the Israelites. So this is sort of the

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Speaker 1: portable presence of God. This arc here. We're going to

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Speaker 1: some other things in there later to remember this journey.

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Speaker 1: But that's what's going to go in here now. And

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Speaker 1: And what it's standardized on at the time, I do

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Speaker 1: not know. But if you've seen the movie The Raiders

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Speaker 1: of the Lost Dark, you've seen a model of what

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Speaker 1: somebody thought that the arc of the Covenant would look like.

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Speaker 1: With these two angels, the two cherubim at the top

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Speaker 1: out of hammered gold the table. Make a table of

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Speaker 1: hold the poles used to carry the table. Make the

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Speaker 1: poles of acasha wood, overlay them with gold, and carry

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Speaker 1: the table with them, and make its plates and dishes

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Speaker 1: of pure gold, as well as its pitchers and bowls

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Speaker 1: the presence on this table to be before me at

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Speaker 1: all times. So this is similar to what you'd find

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Speaker 1: and altar in a church. This is the table. It's

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Speaker 1: going to have the offering bread on it. Although the

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Speaker 1: think of if you go to a church these days,

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Speaker 1: but it's one of the types of offering that you

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Speaker 1: would give. Is this grain offering made into bread that's

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Speaker 1: going to sit on the table. And then the lampstand.

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Speaker 1: Make a lampstand of pure gold, hammer out its base

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Speaker 1: blossoms of one piece with them. Six branches are to

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Speaker 1: extend from the side of the lampstand, three on one

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Speaker 1: all six branches extending from the lampstand, and all the

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Speaker 1: lampstand there are to be four cups shaped like almond

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Speaker 1: flowers with buds and blossoms. One bud shall be under

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Speaker 1: the first pair of branches extending from the lampstand, a

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Speaker 1: and branches shall be of one piece. With the lampstand

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Speaker 1: hammered out of pure gold. Then make it seven lamps

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Speaker 1: in front of it. It's wick. Trimmers and trays are

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Speaker 1: to be of pure gold. A talent of pure gold

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Speaker 1: is to be used for the lampstand and all these accessories.

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Speaker 1: See that you make them according to the pattern shown

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Speaker 1: you on the mountain. So apparently Moses is getting some

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Speaker 1: other instructions besides just this verbal instructions. At least that's

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Speaker 1: you what I wanted to look like. And God is

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Speaker 1: sketching out some lampstands that are going to look like

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Speaker 1: seen pictures of the lamp stand that have been recreated.

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Speaker 1: I think of a manora, but this is obviously much

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Speaker 1: more fancy than that. It's got seven lamps and these

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Speaker 1: would be oil lamps, but it's very elaborate and everything's

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Speaker 1: made out of gold. So moses up on the mountain.

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Speaker 1: We're going to leave them up there getting instructions for

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Speaker 1: making stuff like this, and we're going to continue that

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Speaker 1: next week. But with that, we're going to end this

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