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Alastair Roberts - How To Read The Bible Ep. 93

Good Faith Effort

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The Importance of the Tabernacle

In the Hebrew God says to the Israelites, build me a building that I may dwell among you. And that's how Exodus frames it. Fascinating. So there are different phrases that are used for the first cycle and the first part of the cycle, which is everything according to the pattern. The tabernacle is like the Sabbath in some sense. It's the house of rest that God creates and commissions human beings to participate in that creation. This is not just a functional building. If we think we get at the heart of the mysteries of the universe with something like Cern in Switzerland, the tabernacles is the key to so much of the reality of the universe as God

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