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Speaker 1: Life Audio. The Bible Study Podcast, Episode 991. Today, the

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Speaker 1: Bible Study Podcast continues the study of the book of

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Speaker 1: Exodus with Exodus 35. Welcome to the Bible Study Podcast.

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Speaker 1: I'm your host, Chris Christensen. We're going to do some

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Speaker 1: more Sabbath regulations, materials for the tabernacle, and talk about

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Speaker 1: some of the people who did all this work, but

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Speaker 1: first a word from this sponsor. Exodus 35, Sabbath Regulations.

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Speaker 1: Moses assembled the whole Israelite community and said to them,

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Speaker 1: these are the things the Lord has commanded you to do.

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Speaker 1: For six days work is to be done, but the

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Speaker 1: seventh day shall be your holy day, a day of

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Speaker 1: Sabbath rest to the Lord. Whoever does any work on

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Speaker 1: it is to be put to death. Do not light

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Speaker 1: a fire in any of your dwellings on the Sabbath day.

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Speaker 1: It's interesting, this just one short little paragraph. Now, the

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Speaker 1: Jewish leaders, the teachers, will expand on Sabbath law. And

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Speaker 1: by the time we get to Jesus' time in the

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Speaker 1: New Testament, it'll get a little crazy what the rules

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Speaker 1: are for Sabbath. And Jesus will rein it in a bit,

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Speaker 1: saying that the Sabbath is made for man, not man

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Speaker 1: for the Sabbath. That God put this regulation in place

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Speaker 1: because we need rest. That that is the purpose of Sabbath.

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Speaker 1: Materials for the tabernacle. Moses said to the whole Israelite community,

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Speaker 1: this is what the Lord has commanded. From what you have,

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Speaker 1: take an offering for the Lord. Everyone who is willing

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Speaker 1: is to bring to the Lord an offering of gold, silver,

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Speaker 1: and bronze, blue, purple, and scarlet yarn, and fine linen,

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Speaker 1: goat hair, ram skins dyed red, and another type of

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Speaker 1: durable leather, acacia wood, olive oil for the light, spices

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Speaker 1: for the anointing, oil and for fragrant incense and onyx

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Speaker 1: stones and other gems to be mounted on the ephod

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Speaker 1: and breast place. It's interesting that they would have these

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Speaker 1: things with them. My impression is as they left Egypt,

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Speaker 1: they really left with a haul that they're having some,

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Speaker 1: you know, of these blue and purple and scarlet yarn.

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Speaker 1: So these are important and expensive colors and, The dyes

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Speaker 1: from the purple, for instance, that the Phoenicians will take

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Speaker 1: their names from is from a sea snail. And it's

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Speaker 1: hard to get. And it remains expensive into the next millennium,

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Speaker 1: into the time of the early church. For instance, we

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Speaker 1: hear references of so-and-so being a dyer of purple. And

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Speaker 1: acacia wood and olive oil and spices. So they brought

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Speaker 1: this stuff out of them. Remember, all their neighbors gave

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Speaker 1: them a bunch of stuff when they left Egypt to

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Speaker 1: get rid of them, to be done with them. And

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Speaker 1: it says, all you who are skilled among you are

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Speaker 1: to come and make everything the Lord has commanded. The

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Speaker 1: tabernacle with its tent and its covering, clasps, frames, crossbars, posts,

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Speaker 1: and bases. The ark with its poles and atonement cover

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Speaker 1: and the curtain that shields it. The table with its

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Speaker 1: poles and all its articles and the bread of the presence.

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Speaker 1: The lampstand that is for light with its accessories, lamps

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Speaker 1: and oil for the light. the altar of incense with

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Speaker 1: its poles, the anointing oil and the fragrant incense, the

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Speaker 1: curtain for the doorway at the entrance to the tabernacle,

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Speaker 1: the altar of burnt offering with its bronze grating, its

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Speaker 1: poles and all its utensils, the bronze basin with its stand,

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Speaker 1: the curtains of the courtyard with its posts and bases,

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Speaker 1: and the curtains for the entrance to the courtyard, the

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Speaker 1: tent pegs for the tabernacle and the courtyard and their ropes,

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Speaker 1: the woven garments worn for ministering in the sanctuary, both

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Speaker 1: the sacred garments for Aaron, the priests, and the garments

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Speaker 1: for his sons when they serve as priests. And so

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Speaker 1: we have all sorts of things that are needed here,

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Speaker 1: skills that are needed, right? You're going to need to

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Speaker 1: have some carpenters put together the wood things. You're going

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Speaker 1: to have people who can fashion things out of metal

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Speaker 1: for the altar and some of those things. And for

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Speaker 1: the lampstands, you're going to need people who can sew

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Speaker 1: both big sewing projects like curtains as well as fine

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Speaker 1: sewing projects like the ephod that the priests are going

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Speaker 1: to wear. All sorts of people are needed as well

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Speaker 1: as material. Then it says, Then the whole community withdrew

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Speaker 1: from Moses' presence, and everyone who was willing and whose

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Speaker 1: heart moved them came and brought an offering to the

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Speaker 1: Lord for the work on the tent of meeting, for

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Speaker 1: all its service, and for the sacred garments. All who

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Speaker 1: were willing, men and women alike, came and brought gold

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Speaker 1: jewelry of all kinds, brooches, earrings, rings, and adornments. They

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Speaker 1: all presented their gold as a wave offering to the Lord.

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Speaker 1: Everyone who had blue, purple, or scarlet yarn, or fine linen,

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Speaker 1: or goat hair, ram skins dyed red, or the other

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Speaker 1: durable leather brought them. Those presenting an offering of silver

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Speaker 1: or bronze brought it as an offering to the Lord,

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Speaker 1: and everyone who had acacia wood for any part of

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Speaker 1: the work brought it. Every skilled woman spun with her

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Speaker 1: hands and brought what she had spun, blue, purple, or

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Speaker 1: scarlet yarn, or fine linen. And all the women who

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Speaker 1: were willing and had the skills spun the goat hair.

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Speaker 1: The leaders brought onyx stones and other gems to be

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Speaker 1: mounted on the ephod and breastplate. They also brought spices

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Speaker 1: and olive oil for the light and for the anointing

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Speaker 1: oil and for the fragrant incense. All Israelite men and

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Speaker 1: women who were willing and brought to the Lord freewill

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Speaker 1: offerings for all the work the Lord through Moses had

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Speaker 1: commanded them to do. It's interesting how many times in that,

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Speaker 1: when it talks about all the things that they're gathering,

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Speaker 1: it talks about those who are willing. It wasn't the

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Speaker 1: whole community, it was those who were willing. And really,

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Speaker 1: we know that in the church today, that the work

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Speaker 1: that gets done is done by those who are willing.

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Speaker 1: And it is not necessarily the work of the whole

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Speaker 1: church community as maybe it should be, but it is

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Speaker 1: certainly done by those who are willing, those who are

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Speaker 1: doing the things behind the scenes or leading the worship

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Speaker 1: or whatever the different tasks are, locking up the church

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Speaker 1: afterwards or all of the things that have to happen,

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Speaker 1: including mowing the grass and making sure that the light

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Speaker 1: bulbs get replaced and all of those things are done

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Speaker 1: by those who are willing. And I pray that we

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Speaker 1: would be willing this week And speaking of people who

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Speaker 1: are willing, Bezalel and Oholiab. Then Moses said to the Israelites, See,

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Speaker 1: the Lord has chosen Bezalel, son of Uri, the son

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Speaker 1: of Hur, of the tribe of Judah, and he has

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Speaker 1: filled him with the Spirit of God, with wisdom, with understanding,

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Speaker 1: with knowledge, and with all kinds of skills, to make

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Speaker 1: artistic designs for work in gold, silver, and bronze, to

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Speaker 1: cut and set stones, to work in wood, and to

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Speaker 1: engage in all kinds of artistic crafts. And he has

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Speaker 1: given both him and Oholiab, son of Ahisamek, of the

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Speaker 1: tribe of Dan, the ability to teach others. He has

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Speaker 1: filled them with skill to do all kinds of work

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Speaker 1: as engravers, designers, embroiderers in blue, purple, and scarlet yarn,

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Speaker 1: and fine linen and weavers, all of them skilled workers

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Speaker 1: and designers. It's interesting, even today, we sometimes think of

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Speaker 1: the skills of that are sort of more religious skills

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Speaker 1: like teaching or preaching. And we forget that God has

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Speaker 1: used artisans, people who can, in our days, paint and

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Speaker 1: design and use Photoshop and all of those things, as

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Speaker 1: well as he used these two artisans to accomplish what

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Speaker 1: he wants to do. He can use all sorts of skills.

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Speaker 1: He can use carpenters. He can use people who are weaving.

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Speaker 1: He can use quilt makers. In our day and age,

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Speaker 1: all sorts of skills, when placed in the hands of God,

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Speaker 1: can produce meaningful work. Pray that this week we will

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Speaker 1: be among the willing and we will find meaningful work

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Speaker 1: to do. With that, we're going to end this episode

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Speaker 1: of the Bible Study Podcast. If you have any questions,

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Speaker 1: send an email to chris2x at gmail.com. Or better yet,

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Speaker 1: thanks so much for listening. I want to take just

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