Have you ever tried to read through the book of Exodus?

If you have, you've probably found it fairly riveting.

Israel's in slavery, so God has a showdown with Pharaoh to liberate them.

Then God leads Israel through the wilderness, with death on all sides, and then they come

to Mount Sinai, and God appears in fire, and God gives them the Ten Commandments.

This is all really exciting stuff.

Then turn the page, and now we're reading the architectural blueprints for a tent

that God wants Israel to build, and it's really easy to be underwhelmed as we read the

instructions for the tabernacle.

But this is an ancient symbol for a magnificent truth.

That God wants heaven and earth to be one.

In the first page of the Bible, we see God creates everything in seven days, and it's

good, and humans and God live together, and there's blessing.

And this tabernacle, it's meant to shape your heart and imagination, to see Genesis

One Life exploding back into this reality.

The themes of Genesis One are even in the furniture.

Seven items that are designed, and all of them are going to be about creation and Eden.

For example, the menorah with its seven lights, helping us imagine the lights of creation

on day four.

The lights that sit in front of the blue curtain inside the tent make sure they are tended

to every morning so that they perpetually shine like the stars.

And the priests who go in and out of the tabernacle, they're like new humans entering into

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