From 579e12cfebce9a70ab2adf5842e2673673a707d2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Joe Carstairs <65492573+Sycamost@users.noreply.github.com> Date: Thu, 11 Apr 2024 20:22:49 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] Blog post: Ex 29 --- public/css/base.css | 3 ++ public/css/blog.css | 4 ++ public/css/hcard.css | 20 ++++---- .../2024/04/11/who_consecrates_the_temple.md | 51 +++++++++++++++++++ src/layouts/BlogPost.astro | 15 +++--- 5 files changed, 77 insertions(+), 16 deletions(-) create mode 100644 src/content/blog/2024/04/11/who_consecrates_the_temple.md diff --git a/public/css/base.css b/public/css/base.css index 5e37f43..a22ca34 100644 --- a/public/css/base.css +++ b/public/css/base.css @@ -696,3 +696,6 @@ sub { display: none; } +.small-caps { + font-variant: small-caps; +} diff --git a/public/css/blog.css b/public/css/blog.css index 35aaa35..88f201a 100644 --- a/public/css/blog.css +++ b/public/css/blog.css @@ -2,3 +2,7 @@ font-style: italic; font-size: 80%; } + +article > aside { + width: 100%; +} diff --git a/public/css/hcard.css b/public/css/hcard.css index 7fa93d9..99431d9 100644 --- a/public/css/hcard.css +++ b/public/css/hcard.css @@ -1,21 +1,21 @@ .u-photo { - margin-inline: auto; - margin-block-end: 3rem; + margin-inline: auto; + margin-block-end: 3rem; } @media (min-width: 48rem) { - .h-card { - display: flex; - gap: 1rem; - align-items: center; - } + .h-card:not(.h-card--minimal) { + display: flex; + gap: 1rem; + align-items: center; + } .u-photo { - margin: 0; - } + margin: 0; + } } .u-photo { - width: 256px; + width: 256px; } 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 Lord their God, who brought them out of +> Egypt so that I might dwell among them. I am the +> Lord 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 ?

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