Come and study the Holy Scriptures with us as Father Stephen DeYoung teaches verse by verse on the podcast, The Whole Council of God.

Father Stephen holds a Ph.D. in biblical studies. And it's an Orthodox priest serving at Archangel Gabriel Orthodox Church in Lafayette, Louisiana.

So we will go ahead and get started.

We'll get started in just a moment.

We're going to be picking up in Exodus chapter 32.

Bear warning, things are about to take a downturn, as you'll know when you read the heading,

to chapter 32.

Where we've been to briefly sort of catch us up is we just spent several Bible studies

going through material related to the tabernacle that was revealed to Moses while he's on

top of Mount Sinai.

So he's on top of Mount Sinai in the presence of God, conversing with God, but also in the

presence of God in the sense of being within the heavenly sanctuary where the worship of God

takes place.

And from that, he gets these instructions to build the tabernacle, the sanctuary on earth,

as an image of the heavenly sanctuary that he entered into when he entered into God's presence.

And so we had all the description of all the various, the kutremont, the tent itself,

the altar of incense, the altar of burnt offering,

all those things. We had the high priest and priest vestments described, the ordination of the high priest and the priest, all the things relating to the tabernacle, and all those rules. And when we

finished off, last time at the very end of it was God's promise to Moses

that he would send his spirit, the Holy Spirit, the Spirit of God,

to fill certain craftsmen and worksmen to inspire them to be able to do the craftsmanship.

The artisanship needed to create this tabernacle.

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