Exodus 26

They are also those for whom Christ died, redeeming not only individual souls, but redeeming to the thousandth generation of those who love me and keep my commandments.

Exodus 26, ISV

Amen.

[gentle music] We're off to Exodus 26 on Through the Bible with Dr. J. Vernon McGee.

Now, friends, last time we were in the 26th chapter of the book of Exodus, and I mentioned that over the tabernacle there were actually four coverings, and we were looking at those four coverings that went over the top.

And I'll just review this briefly.

The temple is central.

Exodus 26, the next page over.

And so follow me, if you will.

A focus on the temple is to be expected on Sukkot.

It is a dwelling place.

And the temple was the place where God met man.

in those times and in exodus 26 verse 30 it says you were to raise up the tabernacle according to the plan where you were shown on the mountain make a fine one woven linen curtain of blue purple and scarlet with cherubim it is to be the work of skillful craftsmen wow you see anything uh you see anything here on the stage it might relate to that verse uh the parochets or curtain that was separating the holy place from the holy of holies and to represent that curtain In our Sukkot, the Moroccan rabbi shared the blue, purple, and scarlet colored fabric adorned these Sephardic Sukkots.

That's why if you go to a Sephardic Sukkot, especially a Sephardic Sukkah, you'll frequently see blue, purple, scarlet.

Here is a picture of the beginning of that great veil, which was first done in the tabernacle, but later, of course, in the great temple.

Exodus 26, verses 31 through 33.

And you shall make a veil of blue and purple and scarlet yarns and fine twined linen.

It shall be made with cherubim skillfully worked into it.

The geological quaking and splitting of rocks and earth are bookends to the, this last age of the old world and the beginning of the new.

And then to seal it for sure, Jesus is the rock that was split for us.

Exodus 17:6.

"Behold, I will stand before there on the rock at Horeb, and you shall strike the rock, and water shall come out of it, and the people will drink." And Moses did so in the sight of the elders of Israel.

And this is where we begin today.

In Exodus 26, verse 31 and 33, So the veil separated the holy place from the holy of holies, and it carried two messages at the same time.

First, God is near, which means His presence is just beyond the veil.

But second, sin still separated humanity from the presence of a holy God.

My son, forget not my law, but let thine heart keep my commandments.

Exodus 26, as in chapter 20, verse 6.

Deuteronomy 30, 16.

Psalm 119, 61.

Guess what book we're in today? Exodus.

And I know we're in everyone's second favorite passage in the Bible.

Of course, everybody's favorite is in Numbers.

This one here in Exodus 26 is about the tabernacle and all the measurements and the clasps and the supports and braces and... chords and all of that stuff.

And I know you really are dying to get into it.

I know that you'd like me to read it word for word.

Everything.

Everything.