Exodus 39:32-43 Thus was all the work of the tabernacle of the tent of the congregation finished… I. THE WORK WAS COMPLETED ACCORDING TO PLAN. II. It was completed IN A SHORT TIME. III. It was completed WITH GREAT JOY. The joy of — 1. Knowing that each had done something, and that something his best. 2. Anticipation. IV. The completed work may remind us of the WORDS OF HIM WHO SAID, "I have finished the work Thou gavest Me to do." V. As the house in the wilderness was finished down to the last pin, so THE CHURCH IN THE WORLD, of which it was a type, shall be perfected down to the last and meanest member. The Jewish Tabernacle: — 1. It was a school of object-lessons, designed to teach the ignorant and sensual Israelites the truths of the invisible and eternal kingdom of God. It was a small model of heavenly realities — a pattern of sight in the heavens (Hebrews 9:23). It was, in the realm of religious truth, something like the planetarium used in a recitation room in teaching astronomy. 2. The principal lessons it taught were — (1) The holiness of God. (2) The sinfulness of man. (3) The distance between God and man. (4) The fact that God will abide with man. (5) The Divine plan for bringing God and man into union.. Parallel Verses KJV: Thus was all the work of the tabernacle of the tent of the congregation finished: and the children of Israel did according to all that the LORD commanded Moses, so did they. |
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