Hello, my friends. Welcome to Follow Him Favorites. My name is Hank Smith. I'm here with my

co-host, John, by the way. We have a podcast called Follow Him. This is not the podcast. This

is just a little clip of the podcast we do follow Him Favorites, where we just take a

single question from this week's lesson and try to answer it in these few minutes. John,

the lesson this week is from the end of Exodus and the book of Leviticus, where we're

talking all about the tabernacle, the sacred tabernacle that the children of Israel built. And so the

question that I receive sometimes, and I'm sure you do as well, is why do we have temples at all?

Right? This is kind of the first temple that we see in the Bible. It's going to turn into Solomon's

temple, which is going to become Herod's temple, the temple that we're Jesus during the time of his

life. And eventually our Latter-day Saint tradition, we're going to build temples, the

Curtlyn temple, the Navout temple, St. George Salt Lake, and now hundreds of temples across the

earth. So let's kind of start back here at the sacred tabernacle and say, what is the point of

all this as you see it? There's a phrase that we used on the podcast and you've heard before about

sacred space. It's kind of symbolizing a place where God can be. His influence is everywhere. So

here's a place where we can set apart a space and we can set ourselves apart by how we dress and

how we act and by keeping our voices low and everything and go into this area of sacred space.

The thing that's so interesting about this, as you know Hank, is it was kind of like a portable

temple. They set it up and then they moved as they were moving through the wilderness. But there

is always this place where you could kind of prepare to be around God or near to God. As a child,

Hank, we're saying, I love to see the temple. I'm going there. So that's all we could do is just

see it. And now, once you turn 11 now, you can go. You can participate in baptisms for the dead

and things like that. And I think once you've gone, you sense, it's a pretty easy place to sense.

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