Moses’s ascent-first 40 days on mount (Exodus 24:12-32:14, Dt 9:9) and descent (Ex 32:15-30)
Jesus raises Lazarus (John 11:1-44)
Exodus 29:42-46, The Message (MSG)
“This is to be your regular, daily Whole-Burnt-Offering before God, generation after generation, sacrificed at the entrance of the Tent of Meeting. That’s where I’ll meet you; that’s where I’ll speak with you; that’s where I’ll meet the Israelites, at the place made holy by my Glory. I’ll make the Tent of Meeting and the Altar holy. I’ll make Aaron and his sons holy in order to serve me as priests. I’ll move in and live with the Israelites. I’ll be their God. They’ll realize that I am their God who brought them out of the land of Egypt so that I could live with them. I am God, your God.”
Theme: I am the resurrection.
Dominant posture: Unwrap the grave clothes and build a dwelling place for God.
The exhaustive detail in the instructions of the construction of the tabernacle is noteworthy. Generally speaking, we in the West tend to be more verbal (left-brained) than visual-spatial (right-brained) in our personal and corporate worship. I think it no coincidence that Jesus was a carpenter.
We see through a glass darkly. The resurrected Jesus could eat and walk through walls. It’s my very limited understanding of string theory and superstring theory that multiple dimensions are necessary for the equations to be mathematically coherent. So, if eleven or twenty-three or however many spacetime dimensions are present, our understanding may be far more limited than we realize. When praying for healing, I suspect one way we fall short is our failure to recognize the “grave clothes” in unseen dimensions. I’m wondering if there aren’t clues to a clearer understanding within Holy Scripture.
Dear Lord, order our worship and our prayers and our study of Your Holy Word, we pray. Amen.
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