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Exodus 25:1-11, 17-22
1 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
2 Speak unto the children of Israel, that they bring me an offering:
of every man that giveth it willingly with his heart ye shall
take my offering.
3 And
this is the offering which ye shall take of them; gold, and silver,
and brass,
4 And blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine linen, and goats'
hair,
5 And rams' skins dyed red, and badgers' skins, and shittim wood,
6 Oil for the light, spices for anointing oil, and for sweet
incense,
7 Onyx stones, and stones to be set in the ephod, and in the
breastplate.
8 And let them make me a sanctuary; that I may dwell among them.
9 According to all that I show thee, after the pattern of the
tabernacle, and the pattern of all the instruments thereof, even
so shall ye make it.
10 And they shall make an ark of shittim wood: two cubits and
a half shall be the length thereof, and a cubit and a half the
breadth thereof, and a cubit and a half the height thereof.
11 And thou shalt overlay it with pure gold, within and without
shalt thou overlay it, and shalt make upon it a crown of gold
round about.
17 And thou shalt make a mercy seat of pure gold: two cubits
and a half shall be the length thereof, and a cubit and a half
the breadth thereof.
18 And thou shalt make two cherubims of gold, of beaten work
shalt thou make them, in the two ends of the mercy seat.
19 And make one cherub on the one end, and the other cherub on
the other end: even of the mercy seat shall ye make the cherubims
on the two ends thereof.
20 And the cherubims shall stretch forth their wings on high,
covering the mercy seat with their wings, and their faces shall
look one to another; toward the mercy seat shall the faces of
the cherubims be.
21 And thou shalt put the mercy seat above upon the ark; and
in the ark thou shalt put the testimony that I shall give thee.
22 And there I will meet with thee, and I will commune with thee
from above the mercy seat, from between the two cherubims which
are upon the ark of the testimony, of all things which I will
give thee in commandment unto the children of Israel.
1st Lesson Questions -
The people were on the move. Why would God tell Moses to make the ark? Are such visible things necessary? What is the visible focus of God's presence in my life? What is my offering to God in life? (V. 3) RESOLVE.
Second Lesson
Hebrews 9:15-28
15
And for this cause he is the mediator of the new testament, that
by means of death, for the redemption of the transgressions that
were under the first testament, they which are called might receive
the promise of eternal inheritance.
16 For where a testament is, there must also of necessity be
the death of the testator.
17 For a testament is of force after men are dead: otherwise
it is of no strength at all while the testator liveth.
18 Whereupon neither the first testament was dedicated without
blood.
19 For when Moses had spoken every precept to all the people
according to the law, he took the blood of calves and of goats,
with water, and scarlet wool, and hyssop, and sprinkled both
the book, and all the people,
20 Saying, This is the blood of the testament which God hath
enjoined unto you.
21 Moreover he sprinkled with blood both the tabernacle, and
all the vessels of the ministry.
22 And almost all things are by the law purged with blood; and
without shedding of blood is no remission.
23 It was therefore necessary that the patterns of things in
the heavens should be purified with these; but the heavenly things
themselves with better sacrifices than these.
24 For Christ is not entered into the holy places made with hands,
which are the figures of the true; but into heaven itself, now
to appear in the presence of God for us:
25 Nor yet that he should offer himself often, as the high priest
entereth into the holy place every year with blood of others;
26 For then must he often have suffered since the foundation
of the world: but now once in the end of the world hath he appeared
to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself.
27 And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this
the judgment:
28 So Christ was once offered to bear the sins of many; and unto
them that look for him shall he appear the second time without
sin unto salvation.
2nd Lesson Questions -
What does it mean to have Jesus as Mediator? (V. 15) Is my life reflective of His mediation? How so? RESOLVE.