Worship Buildings, 1of3

~ The Tabernacle ~

Key Passages  ~  Shortly after God gave Moses the law on Mt. Sinai He told him to build a tabernacle for national worship.  He gave Moses specific instructions for the tabernacle (see Exodus 25-30) and he also described the actual building in detail (Exodus 35-40). 

Key Elements  ~  1) The tabernacle was a small portable center of worship build of wood overlaid with gold and covered with four curtains.  2) The tabernacle was portable—capable of being dismantled and carried from location to location during the wilderness wanderings. 

Key Purpose  ~  The tabernacle served as Israel’s center of worship until the reign of King Solomon some 400 years after its construction.  King David expressed a desire to build a more permanent place of worship but it he was told that his son Solomon was the one God had chosen to construct the more permanent building of worship (1 Kings 8:17-21). 

Key Results  ~   A lavish temple was built on a high place in Jerusalem (Mt. Moriah), the place where Abraham went to offer his only son Isaac (Genesis 22).  It was David who purchased the site to build an altar, but it was Solomon who constructed the temple on that location. 

~ Robert Lloyd Russell, ABUNDANT LIFE NOW

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