Hey Bible readers, I'm Tara Lee Cobble and I'm your host for the Bible Recap.

If you're a fan of home renovation shows or you're really into architecture or

construction, today's reading should have been right up your alley. It included

all kinds of furniture and construction details.

Here we have a bunch of former slaves living in the middle of the desert,

and God wants them to build a portable tabernacle where he can dwell with them in the midst of the wilderness.

He calls on them to use all kinds of precious metals and fabrics for this tabernacle.

Where would they get this stuff?

They got it, from plundering the Egyptians.

Those things that God bless them with are used for

his glory. It wasn't just about them having nice things. Those blessings didn't

terminate on them. They served a much bigger purpose. When reading through all this information, I'm sure some of you

are like, this is boring. Why does it have to be so detailed? But then some of you are probably

like, I wish God were this detailed with me about what I'm supposed to do.

Or maybe some of you even have both of those thoughts.

Hang in there through these details.

Be encouraged that our God is a God of detail.

You want Him to be that way. Let's touch on a few of the noteworthy things we saw today.

First, the metals used in the construction get more precious the closer you get to the Holy of Holies, where God will dwell.

There's gold inside, then silver outside, then bronze the furthest out.

Second, I want to highlight a few things about the Ark of the Covenant or the

Ark of the Testimony in case you like visual details like I do. It was almost

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