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| author | Joe Carstairs <65492573+Sycamost@users.noreply.github.com> | 2024-04-11 20:22:49 +0100 |
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| committer | Joe Carstairs <65492573+Sycamost@users.noreply.github.com> | 2024-04-11 20:22:49 +0100 |
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Blog post: Ex 29
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diff --git a/src/content/blog/2024/04/11/who_consecrates_the_temple.md b/src/content/blog/2024/04/11/who_consecrates_the_temple.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..1364f5e --- /dev/null +++ b/src/content/blog/2024/04/11/who_consecrates_the_temple.md @@ -0,0 +1,51 @@ +--- +title: Who consecrates the tabernacle? (Ex 29) +description: A quick, cursory and possibly completely rubbish observation I've made on Exodus 29. +pubDate: + year: 2024 + month: 04 + day: 11 +--- + +I've been reading Exodus recently, and the ending of Chapter 29 stuck out to me. + +For pages and pages (since Chapter 25!) God has been giving Moses exact and +exorbitant instructions for how to build the tabernacle, what offerings to give +upon it, who the priests are going to be, what the priests are going to be +wearing. It's the fanciest IKEA manual you've ever read. No expense spared. +Everything is drowning in gold, silver, incense, myrrh, silk, fragrant oil, you +name it. + +What's this about? The answer seems obvious: it's to sanctify the temple! To +make it beautiful enough and pure enough that even God could live there. + +But right at the end of Chapter 29, in vv 43-44, there's this wonderful twist: + +> ... and the place will be consecrated by **my glory**. So **I** will +> consecrate the tent of meeting and the altar and will consecrate Aaron and his +> sons to serve me as priests. (NIV, emphasis mine) + +All this work, and at the end of the day, it's **God** who sanctifies his own +temple? So why all the fuss? Well, it looks like the final two verses of the +chapter give us the answer: + +> Then I will dwell among the Israelites and be their God. They will know that I +> am the <span class="small-caps">Lord</span> their God, who brought them out of +> Egypt so that I might dwell among them. I am the +> <span class="small-caps">Lord</span> their God. + +So on a cursory reading, it looks like God is telling them something +extraordinary about the kind of God he is. He is not like the other gods, who +demand this kind of worship to appease their pride. Nor is there, unlike the +other gods, anything the Israelites could do to make a place habitable for him. +That's because there's nothing the Israelites could do to cleanse themselves of +their sin: only the 'glory' of God could do that. And indeed, God has no need of +worship to puff up his pride, since his glory existed before the world was made, +and human beings can do nothing to either add to it or subtract from it. + +Instead of a vain god who seeks tribute, this is a Father God who seeks to +'dwell' (literally to 'camp') among his people. The God who has put into motion +a rescue plan to pull the Israelites out of Egypt specifically for this purpose. +As it was in the beginning, when God dwelt in the Garden with Adam and Eve. This +is his mission. This is what he's like. And he wants his people to know this, so +that they can dwell together. diff --git a/src/layouts/BlogPost.astro b/src/layouts/BlogPost.astro index 25f76e6..b709356 100644 --- a/src/layouts/BlogPost.astro +++ b/src/layouts/BlogPost.astro @@ -24,15 +24,18 @@ const updatedDateStr = updatedDate ? <body> <article class="h-entry"> <aside> - <p>This is a blog post by <a class="p-author h-card" href="/">Joe Carstairs</a></p> + <span> + This is a blog post by + <a class="p-author h-card h-card--minimal" href="/">Joe Carstairs</a>. + </span> { updatedDate ? ( - <p>Updated: <FormattedDate date={updatedDateStr} className="dt-updated"/></p> - <p>Originally published: <FormattedDate date={pubDateStr} className="dt-published"/></p> - ) : <p>Published: <FormattedDate date={pubDateStr} className="dt-published"/></p> + <span>Updated: <FormattedDate date={updatedDateStr} className="dt-updated"/>.</span> + <span>Originally published: <FormattedDate date={pubDateStr} className="dt-published"/>.</span> + ) : <span>Published: <FormattedDate date={pubDateStr} className="dt-published"/>.</span> } - <p>Go back to his <a href="/blog">blog</a> if you like.</p> - <p><a class="u-url uid" href={canonicalUrl}>Permalink</a></p> + <span>Go back to his <a href="/blog">blog</a> if you like.</span> + <span><a class="u-url uid" href={canonicalUrl}>Permalink</a></span> </aside> <h1 class="h-name">{title}</h1> |