Spiritual Object Lessons in the Wilderness
Have you ever been wilderness camping? Do you remember setting up a tent, struggling with the pegs, and attaching a fly to keep off the rain? Then you went scavenging for firewood and looking for a source of water. Do you remember how relieved you were to inflate your air mattress, throw out your sleeping bag, and finally crawl inside, exhausted? Imagine camping every day of your life for forty years… in the desert.
That’s the way the Israelites lived immediately after God led them out of their life of slavery in Egypt. No wonder they complained! Yet, God himself chose to dwell among them as they camped and journeyed through the wilderness, expressing His holy presence as a pillar of cloud in the daytime and as a pillar of fire at night.
On Mt. Sinai, Moses was instructed to fashion a portable tent to serve as a place for sacrifice and a unique meeting spot between sinful humans and a Holy God. Designed to emulate God’s heavenly throne room, the Tabernacle contained important object lessons for the ancient Israelites, and also for modern worshippers like you and me.
Presented in three segments, the following 3-D computer-generated videos allow us to take a privileged walk through the Tabernacle of Moses. Hard-to-visualize passages of Scripture spring to life as we proceed through the courtyard, into the tent, toward the holiest place, and even beyond the veil. I guarantee that the Table of Shewbread, the Altar of Incense, and the Ark of the Covenant will no longer be fuzzy mental images. And you’re going to feel as if you’re walking on holy ground, just as the priests once did.
View Part 1 (9:56 mins)
Have you ever been wilderness camping? Do you remember setting up a tent, struggling with the pegs, and attaching a fly to keep off the rain? Then you went scavenging for firewood and looking for a source of water. Do you remember how relieved you were to inflate your air mattress, throw out your sleeping bag, and finally crawl inside, exhausted? Imagine camping every day of your life for forty years… in the desert.
That’s the way the Israelites lived immediately after God led them out of their life of slavery in Egypt. No wonder they complained! Yet, God himself chose to dwell among them as they camped and journeyed through the wilderness, expressing His holy presence as a pillar of cloud in the daytime and as a pillar of fire at night.
On Mt. Sinai, Moses was instructed to fashion a portable tent to serve as a place for sacrifice and a unique meeting spot between sinful humans and a Holy God. Designed to emulate God’s heavenly throne room, the Tabernacle contained important object lessons for the ancient Israelites, and also for modern worshippers like you and me.
Presented in three segments, the following 3-D computer-generated videos allow us to take a privileged walk through the Tabernacle of Moses. Hard-to-visualize passages of Scripture spring to life as we proceed through the courtyard, into the tent, toward the holiest place, and even beyond the veil. I guarantee that the Table of Shewbread, the Altar of Incense, and the Ark of the Covenant will no longer be fuzzy mental images. And you’re going to feel as if you’re walking on holy ground, just as the priests once did.
View Part 1 (9:56 mins)
Related
1. The Tabernacle Model Kit for Families and Schools (Top illustration)
2. The Inflatable Church. This is modern mobility to the max!
3. Remember to join the Carnival of Homeschooling for Christian fellowship and educational enrichment.
Illustration from A Woman's Heart: God's Dwelling Place by Beth Moore (pdf)
Related: Take a minute to visit my vintage apron i-store, Susannah's {Kitchen}. And do remember to check out the ever-popular Carnival of Homeschooling.
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Your thoughts and reflections?
4 Comments:
Thanks I will go through these...I love the study of the tabernacle...and I have been hearing Moses a lot lately...so must need to spend time reading about this time period again...must be some lessons there God wants for me...or needs to repeat to me!
I LOVE the tabernacle and all it represents and how brilliant God is and how he fashioned it all. When I have high speed again I'll watch these videos (can't wait) A Woman's Heart was the2nd ever in depth study I did of any kind some 10 or so years ago know. It fueled my desire for studying the Word.
This takes me way back to my youth in what we call over here, the Open Brethren or Plymouth Brethren where the Biblical teaching was fantastic and guys would spend years making models such as these for teaching tools...I wish I could remember much much more.
I have just started 2 Chron and reading about the bells and pomegranates.......so planted a tree.
a dormant baby tree.......
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