This is the Baymau podcast with Marty Solomon. I'm his co-host, Brent Billings. Today we are joined by Josh Bosse to begin a series on the tabernacle of Exodus and the parallels it has to the creation story, turning those principles into tangible practices.

The Bosse anthology, we've made it to another one, Brent. I think I should maybe clarify what I just said in the intro. We are not turning the spiritual principles of the creation story into tangible practices. The tabernacle is what did that. And you could read what I said that way, but you could also read it unfavorably with a bad eye. That's true. Making us... Nobody would do that to us, Brent. Nobody would read us with a bad eye. I hope people don't think that we...

We think that we're more important than we are at this point. I hope we've made it clear. Well, that's the thing, Brent. Well, what we'll be learning is that there's not actually much of a difference between those things. The mish-con of the tabernacle is there to do it so we can do it too. That's the plan. That's the kind of redemption that we are about on the Baymau podcast. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Guys, I'm interested in building cool little diuramas, God's always about something more.

I like this. Well, I rescind everything I said then. Well, listen, you get to edit this. That's entirely important. No, no. We're leaving this conversation in. It's beautiful. It's beautiful.

So, yeah, this series we're going to dive deeper into an idea that I'm pretty sure the podcast has talked about before, which is that the creation of the tabernacle parallels very exactly the creation story found in Genesis 1. We talked about that before, right?

Absolutely. It was key. And I'm glad we're we're starting there. I like that. We one of the things we appreciate about Josh as he comes in and he says, we talked about this. And, and almost let's make it so much better. And I just love it. It makes me so giggly. So, yeah, that is what we said. And now we're going to take it somewhere even more beautiful.

Yes. So, normally just to kind of give the audience a peek behind the curtain, I have, I may have even mentioned this in our.

Is that a pun for the episode? What's that a pun? No, that'll be fun for next episode.

So, I may have mentioned this in our tohuvavuhu episode, but I've taught this material before. It's different now than I've been looking at it with new eyes, you know, probably more than five years later.

But nevertheless, I went through this material before in a study and it was really, really deep and impactful, which is one of the reasons why this was my go to for my anthology.

But that teaching took me, I took a small group of it through an entire summer. We spent 14 weeks dissecting all this stuff. So, there's a lot of stuff I'm going to be skimming over.

And to do that, I'm going to try and keep myself to a pretty not rigid, but like a rhythm, a pretty tight rhythm. And so we're first going to dip into the day of creation. And I'm going to, this is where I'm going to have to like summarize a lot.

So, if you have any questions about how I get to the conclusions I get to, you know, you can, you know, where to find me, you can email me, you can find me on Slack.

And it doesn't hesitate to stop you if it's me. If I have questions, it's going to be like, all right, hold on.

That's fine. Well, we'll get into the rabbit trails, but just there's a lot of stuff we could be talking about in Genesis one that I'm going to be summarizing as much as possible. I'm not going to be waxing as eloquent because the real, like as cool as those spiritual principles are. And I think there's like, there's so much storytelling going on, even beyond what we've already uncovered in Genesis one.

Just more and more and more layers. What I'm looking for is to look at how in Exodus when literally when Moses goes up the mountain, the very first thing God talks about is this we're going to read the first thing God has to say to Moses when they're alone on the mount top speaking face to face.

And looking at like, first of all, like a kind of uncovering why that why this is the most important thing to God and what that tells us about how to incarnate these things, which I think is Jesus followers should pretty much always be our agenda.

You know, how do we incarnate? How can we make this real? So without further ado, I'm in. I'm ready.

Okay, yeah, all right, Brent letter, let's let's let's hear with the the Bershid Bural in the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. Now the earth was formless and empty darkness was over the service of the deep and the spirit of God was hovering over the waters.

And God said let there be light and there was light. God saw that the light was good and he separated the light from the darkness God called the light day and the darkness he called night.

And there's evening and there was morning the first day. Yep, that's it. That's the very beginning of the whole thing we call the Torah. And what we're going to be doing like the way I'm going to kind of dissect this so it's neat and it doesn't get into too many rabbit trails is we're just going to boil this down to the most like rudimentary literary chunks. So like what are the what are the elements of this story? What is God interacting with and how is God interacting with it?

So, you know, I think this one is pretty obvious. What are the two story elements here outside of God? I'm going to assume light and darkness. Don't know if I'd throw water in there too, but like light and darkness seem to be the dominant ideas here.

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