APPROVED !

All of the objects for the "Tent of Meeting" have been brought before Moses.  It is his assignment to inspect the objects and the work that that has been done.  Exodus 39 closes with Moses' approval of the work. "So Moses blessed them."  The blessing, barak in the Hebrew, is the word kneel or to praise.  No record of any feuding, fussing, or fighting among the Israelites during the six month project, and that would certainly be grounds for blessing form Moses and the Lord!

The Tabernacle is set up with all the articles in place  as directed by God to Moses. Each article and the priests have been anointed with oil, symbolic of the Holy Spirit, and consecrated, set apart unto the Lord for His use and purpose.  The Tabernacle and all its articles are a foreshadowing of Calvary and Jesus' completed work when He ascends to God's right hand as the atonement/sacrifice for your sins and mine.  When the articles are all in place, the work is finished.  The Lord God makes His approval and presence known by the cloud which covered the "Tent of Meeting" and the glory of the Lord filled the Tabernacle.  God is so very present that Moses could not even enter the Tabernacle.   Exodus 40 is a celebration with applause for the work of the cantankerous, yet industrious Israelites and God's marvelous approval on them and the work completed.  

God made His presence known to the Israelites by the pillar of cloud by day and the pillar of fire by night.  God's name is revealed as He is present, Jehovah Shammah, the God who is there.  I love it that in the New Testament, Jesus is presented to us as Immanuel, God with us.  Because He is Sovereign, Omniscient, Omnipresent, and Omnipotent, there is no place or no one that can restrain God from seeing, hearing, being present, or knowing!   He makes His presence known to us today by speaking through His Word as the Indwelling Holy Spirit: Counselor, Spirit of Truth, permanently indwelling in us, Teacher, reminds of Truth, convicts of sin, righteousness, and judgment, Intercessor, brings glory to Jesus, reveals Truth, empowers, energizes, illumines truth, gives His gifts, fruit, equips, discerns our attitudes and behaviors, sanctifies, searches the depths of God to reveal to us, comforts, and Helper.  These are a few of His assignments as He indwells you and me.  

Our response for Calvary, the blood shed which covers all our sin, and eternal life here and there...Psalm 40:8, "I desire to do Your will, O my God; Your law is within my heart."  What a mind-boggle, as Christ followers, blood bought and blood covered, indwelled by the Holy Spirit, we are approved by God!  NO CONDEMNATION!  Forever learning.  In process.  Finished Exodus.  #IHAVETHREESONS. 

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