Welcome to part two of this week's podcast.

So let's go ahead and just kind of journey through this.

I think Hank you would ask earlier about what do the average Israelites do?

How do members of other tribes interact with this sacred space?

That kind of speaks to how these different spaces were used.

So I'm going to draw heavily upon a 3D digital reconstruction of the tabernacle that was

recently done by a friend of mine named Daniel Smith.

He's been very gracious to let us use these images to help visually facilitate our conversation

here.

He has a YouTube channel called The Messages of Christ where he has several videos posted

on ancient Israelite institutions, including a recent video series on the ancient tabernacle.

The ways in which he walks you through it, I think you'll find very interesting.

They might be a slightly different approach and represent a different perspective than

what we'll try to do here.

I think these videos will do a lot with looking back on this system and how can we, as

later Christians, find resonance from a Christian perspective.

What we're going to try to do here is just try to understand how these spaces functioned

in the context of ancient Israel first.

So let's go ahead and walk through the spaces then.

So let's start with that outer courtyard.

How does the outer courtyard work?

Well, if you are an Israelite who needs to go to the temple to provide any kind of sacrificial

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