Passover and Passion

Palm Sunday began the Passion week leading up to the celebration of the death, burial and resurrection of Jesus Christ. Monday began the Passover, the celebration of the Jewish exodus from Egypt nearly 4000 years ago. After the Jews passed through the Red Sea, they continued on their journey by way of Mount Sinai where God gave them the Ten Commandments, and made a covenant with the nation.

Part of the covenant included building a tabernacle, a meeting place. In this building, God would come to meet with Moses. The tabernacle was beautiful, and practical. Eventually, the Israelites spent 40 years wandering the desert, so the tabernacle had to be portable.

In the book of Exodus, chapter 26, God tells Moses how the tabernacle should appear. He commands that ten curtains 28 cubits by 4 cubits (about 42 feet by 6 feet) should be made. They were to be made of fine linen with blue, purple and scarlet thread. In the curtains were to be images of cherubim.

This week, I want to focus on the tabernacle and these beautiful curtains. How were they made? How long would it have taken them?

Come back and see what I learn.

The photo is pussywillows from our bush. Unfortunately with the cold weather we've had lately, ours actually haven't bloomed yet. The photo was taken about two years ago.