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The Exodus
Chapters 30-32
 
Vv.
1-10
            Chapter 25 was the beginning of instructions for the construction of the various furnishings for the tabernacle.
Chapter 27 gave the plans for the making of the priests garments.
We looked last time at chapter 29 which was mostly about the ordination of priests.
Then we come to chapter thirty and we have instructions for another item to be placed in the tabernacle.
Had you or I been writing this we would probably have included this item with the previous ones in chapters 25 through 27.
The first ten verses of chapter thirty are God’s instructions for building the altar of incense.
This was a small altar with the top surface being just one cubit or eighteen inches square.
It was only one and a half foot tall.
It was constructed of the same materials as the other furnishings of the tabernacle; that is it was made of achacia wood overlaid with gold.
This altar had four small horns located at the top four corners, and two poles placed through four rings on the altar were used to carry it.
The altar of incense was to be placed outside the veil that was the entrance to the Holy of Holies.
Remember that inside the veil was the ark of the covenant on which was the mercy seat where God was represented to meet with His people.
However, the High Priest was the only one allowed within the veil and then only once a year to make atonement for the sins of the people.
The altar of incense was to be used only for the purpose of burning incense before the Lord.
It was a fragrant incense that is somehow associated with the prayers of God’s people.
The priest was to offer up incense every morning when he came to trim the lamps and every evening while outside the people stood praying.
Also, the High Priest would make atonement on its horns once each year when he offered up the annual sacrifice of atonement.
He would take a little of the blood of the sacrifice and place it on the horns of the altar of incense.
Remember that the tabernacle and its furnishings were patterned after something in heaven which evidently is the throne room of God.
We get a glimpse of it in Revelation.
Chapter eight verses three and four is a particularly good reference where the altar of incense is concerned.
It reads, “And another angel came and stood at the altar, holding a golden censer; and much incense was given to him, that he might add it to the prayers of all the saints upon the golden altar which was before the throne.
And the smoke of the incense, with the prayers of the saints, went up before God out of the angel’s hand.”
Did you catch the association of the incense with the prayers of the saints?
Vv.
11-16
            In verses eleven through sixteen God commands Moses to collect a ransom from the Israelites when he takes a census of their numbers.
It doesn’t say here exactly why or when Moses was to take this census; but when he did then he was also to collect a ransom.
Every individual from twenty years of age and up who was numbered was required to give a half-shekel contribution to the Lord.
This contribution was used for the upkeep of the sanctuary.
If anyone failed to make this contribution, the Israelites were subject to a plague of some sort.
Verse sixteen says that this contribution would in some way also make atonement for those who paid the ransom.
Vv.
17-21
            Next God instructs Moses to make a laver of bronze with a base or a stand also made of bronze.
This laver or basin would hold water in which the priests would wash their hands and feet before entering the tabernacle and before approaching the altar of sacrifice.
The laver was centrally located between the altar of sacrifice and the tabernacle.
The sentence of death was upon a priest if he did not wash himself in this laver when he was suppose to do so.
Verses 22-33
            God commands Moses to mix up some holy anointing oil.
The ingredients are listed in verses 22 through 24.
No one was to use this same recipe for any other purpose or they would be cut off from their people.
The anointing oil was to be used to anoint just about everything that was consecrated to the Lord.
The tabernacle and everything in it, the altar of burnt offering, Aaron and his sons.
However, it was not to be used on a layman.
Such use again resulted in the offender being cut off from his people.
Vv.
34-38
            Finally, God tells Moses to mix up a particular mixture of incense.
It was to be placed before the ark of the covenant in the Holy of Holies.
It was exclusively for the Lord and was not to be mixed for any other purpose.
Again anyone who mixed any incense of those exact proportions would be cut off from his people.
*CHAPTER 31*
Vv. 1-11
            God gave Moses the names of a couple of men whom He had gifted to be the artisans in the construction of the tabernacle and its furnishings plus the priestly garments.
The first individual was Bezalel who was the son of Uri, and the grandson of Hur which made him of the tribe of Judah.
God said to Moses in verse three, “And I have filled him with the Spirit of God in wisdom, in understanding, in knowledge, and in all kinds of craftsmanship.”
The second man God choose and gifted was Oholiah who was the son of Ahisamach making him of the tribe of Dan.
Apparently these two men would lead all others in the design and construction process because God goes on to say in verse six, “and in the hearts of all who are skillful I have put skill, that they may make all that I have commanded you.”
Vv.
12-18
            In verses twelve and following, God tells Moses that the keeping of the sabbaths would be a sign of God’s covenant with His people throughout their generations.
You will recall that there is more than one sabbath that was required of Israel.
There was the weekly Sabbath that occurred every seventh day.
The Day of Atonement fell on the tenth day of the seventh month and it was a sabbath to Israel.
When Israel inhabited the promised land, they were to allow the land itself to observe a sabbath every seventh year.
There may be others that I haven’t listed.
The point is that God’s people were to observe the sabbaths as a sign of God’s covenant with them.
Verse fourteen states the punishment that would result if anyone failed to keep the Lord’s Sabbath.
It says, “Everyone who profanes it shall surely be put to death...”  Capital punishment speaks to the severity of the offense.
Listen to God in verse seventeen, “It is a sign between Me and the sons of Israel forever; for in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, but on the seventh day He ceased from labor, and was refreshed.”
The last verse of chapter thirty-one is a defining moment in time.
It reads, “And when He had finished speaking with him upon Mount Sinai, He gave Moses the two tablets of the testimony, tablets of stone, written by the finger of God.”
 
*CHAPTER 32*
Vv. 1-6
            Chapter thirty-two is such a sad commentary on the condition of the human heart in its natural bent toward sin and rebellion against God.
Moses had been on the mountain for only a few weeks when the Israelites began to think they might never see him again.
God had revealed Himself to them in a extraordinary way the day that Moses had ascended the mountain.
They had stood in awe and fear of the mighty power of the great God of Abraham.
In such a short time, they are ready to forget the God who delivered them from Egypt and in His place fashion their own god.
The people coerced (I hope they coerced) Aaron into fashioning them a god to go before them.
They are ready to give up on Moses.
They may have thought that Moses and God had gone off to rescue some other people.
You can’t really sense from the text that Aaron was under much compulsion.
When they asked him to fashion them a god, Aaron told them to bring him their rings of gold.
Verse four makes it sound as though Aaron, himself, took the gold from their hands and using sculptor’s tools he fashioned a golden calf.
Such idols were popular in both Canaanite and Egyptian culture.
They would have been familiar with such an image.
When Aaron had finished the golden calf, the people said, “This is your god, O Israel, who brought you up from the land of Egypt.”
How foolish we humans are capable of becoming.
Perhaps even worse yet Aaron builds an altar before this idol of a golden calf.
Then Aaron says something to the people that confuses me a bit.
He says in verse five, “Tomorrow shall be a feast to the Lord.”
It would appear that Aaron and the Israelites are very confused themselves about God.
It looks as though they are leaning toward becoming poly-theistic like the Egyptians among whom they lived and served for so many years.
Poly-theism is a belief that there is more than one god.
Keep in mind that Moses had spoken the word of the Lord God in their hearing including the Ten Commandments, and the people had sworn to do all that the Lord commanded.
Remember what the first couple of commandments said?
First God said, “I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery.”
Who brought them out of Egypt?
Certainly not a golden calf.
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