January 30th, 25:Understanding the Tabernacle: A Glimpse of Heaven and Earth Intersection

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One Year Bible Podcast: Join Hunter and Heather Barnes on 'The Daily Radio Bible' for a daily 20-minute spiritual journey. Engage with scripture readings, heartfelt devotionals, and collective prayers that draw you into the heart of God's love. Embark on this year-long voyage through the Bible, and let each day's passage uplift and inspire you.

TODAY'S EPISODE:

Welcome to the Daily Radio Bible podcast! Today is January 30th, 2025, and I’m your host, Hunter. In today’s episode, we continue our journey through the Scriptures as we draw closer to the transformative life and love of Jesus. Our readings will take us through Exodus chapters 25 to 27, where we delve into the specific and detailed instructions for constructing the Tabernacle, an important place where God meets man and affirms His covenant with the people of Israel. We’ll conclude our readings in the New Testament with Acts chapter 6, learning about the early church and the appointment of seven men to assist the apostles, including Stephen, who becomes a noteworthy figure full of faith and the Holy Spirit.

We'll explore the deep significance behind these elaborate instructions for the Tabernacle and how they symbolize something even greater—Christ Himself, who came to dwell with us and atone for our sins. In addition, we’ll reflect on the early church’s struggles and triumphs as they seek to serve and spread the message of God, focusing on Stephen’s powerful witness.

Join me as we seek not just to get through the pages of this sacred text but to allow God to get through to our hearts. Let's embrace the rhythms of grace as we read together and pray together, experiencing God’s presence and abiding love. So take a deep breath, open your hearts, and let's begin this enriching journey.

TODAY'S DEVOTION:

What's it all about? The seemingly endless list of tabernacle instructions are so specific, so exact. You can leave a person wondering what it's all about. The tabernacle was a place where God would meet man in a unique way. It was an intersection between heaven and earth, between God and man. The covenant between God and his people was affirmed there. The stone tablets of the covenant were stored there in the ark.

The lid of the ark was the place of atonement. All these things were taking place in the tabernacle, and we are told that the tabernacle was a pattern of things that were in heaven. The tabernacle helped tell the story of God, of his love and salvation that he brings to the whole world. This was an important place. These are important symbols. But it was only a shadow of something far greater, of things yet to come. It was a shadow of Christ. Christ came to be the intersection between heaven and earth.

He came to tabernacle and dwell with us. He was the place of atonement, the person of atonement that takes away the sins of the world. In John 2:19, Jesus says, destroy this temple, and in 3 days, I will raise it up. He's referring to himself there, his own body, because he's the fulfillment of the shadow we see in Exodus. We're not only reconciled to God through his body, he's also given us his life right here, right now. We see this in Stephen. He was full of the spirit and wisdom, so full that his countenance is being lit up. He's dwelling.

He's abiding in the tabernacle, if you will, in Christ. He's abiding in Christ at that very moment, and we too can experience this abiding life in Christ. We can abide in the greater tabernacle in him. We can live from this place of forgiveness in his presence, and we too can find the power for life and healing here and now. And the prayer of my own heart today is that I will I will see this through the shadows of these pages, and that I will see it even through the shadows of day to day life. That I'll have ears to hear, eyes that are wide open, to abide in the mercy and the grace of this given day. To abide in him. That's a prayer that I have for my soul.

That's a prayer that I have for my family, for my wife, and my daughters, and my son. And that's a prayer that I have for you. May it be so.

TODAY'S PRAYERS:

Lord God Almighty and everlasting father you have brought us in safety to this new day preserve us with your Mighty power that we might not fall into sin or be overcome by adversity. And in all we do, direct us to the fulfilling of your purpose through Jesus Christ Our Lord amen.

Oh God you have made of one blood all the peoples of the earth and sent your blessed son to preach peace to those who are far and those who are near. Grant that people everywhere may seek after you, and find you. Bring the nations into your fold, pour out your Spirit on all flesh, and hasten the coming of your kingdom through Jesus Christ our Lord, Amen.

And now Lord, make me an instrument of your peace. Where there is hatred let me sow love. Where there is injury, pardon. Where there is doubt, faith. Where there is despair, hope. Where there is darkness, light. And where there is sadness, Joy. Oh Lord grant that I might not seek to be consoled as to console. To be understood as to understand, to be loved as to love. For it is in the giving that we receive, in the pardoning that we are pardoned, it is in the dying that we are born unto eternal life. Amen

And now as our Lord has taught us we are bold to pray...

Our Father who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name, thy kingdom come thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven, give us this day our daily bread, and forgive us our tresspasses as we forgive those who trespass against us, and lead us not unto temptation, but deliver us from evil, for thine is the Kingdom and the power and the glory forever. Amen.

Loving God, we give you thanks for restoring us in your image. And nourishing us with spiritual food, now send us forth as forgiven people, healed and renewed, that we may proclaim your love to the world, and continue in the risen life of Christ. Amen.

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