On the seventh day we experience in time what the tabernacle and temple represented

as spaces, which is eternal life with God in a complete creation.

The Sabbath is to time what the tabernacle and temple are to space, a cathedral and time.

If you've ever been on top of a mountain or maybe looking out at the ocean and you

stopped and you took it all in, you might have had a feeling come over you, of grandeur,

awe, peace and a feeling of rest.

Today in this episode we're going to talk about the ancient Jewish version of sacred space,

the tabernacle. It was built as a place for Israel to worship their God and it's intricately

connected with the theme of seventh day rest.

In Exodus chapter 40 there's a whole paragraph when Moses sets up the tabernacle. It says

seven times Moses did XYZ just as Yahweh commanded Moses. When the tabernacle is built,

the tabernacle blueprints are divided up into seven speeches of Yahweh. God spoke seven

times to bring order to the cosmic temple in Genesis 1 when Moses builds this little symbolic

mini cosmos. He does it by following seven divine speech commands.

I'm John Collins, this is the Bible Project Podcast and today we'll continue the conversation

with my friend and scholar Tim Mackey about the theme of seventh day rest, the cathedral

in time. Thanks for joining us, here we go.

We're continuing our conversation about the seventh day, the day of completeness, the

stop day, the stop and rest, stop and rest, settle in and settle in to enjoy the good world

that God has provided for his people.

Built into the fabric of the way God created the universe is that six days he created

on the seventh day, he stopped, he settled in and he planted humans, he replaced humans.

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