Gods Sabbath

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craftsmanship for the task. He did not hand over to them the role of plan makers, but continued to organize things exactly as He had done up to that point. Rather than give a committee the task of planning the tabernacle, He called Moses into the moun tain and there showed him the plans for the building. Then he was instructed, “See that you make them according to the pat tern shown you on the mountain.” Exodus 25:40. In the planning of that marvelous building, there was not one thread of human devising. This plan, which was received from God alone, resulted in the work being wonderfully successful. The sanctuary portrayed in simple but adequate terms the details of salvation’s plan for the ancient Israelites and for God’s people ev er since. Any failure to see the message so clearly pictured in the sanctuary was not the fault of the typical service provided, but a result of the fearful spiritual blindness the people permitted to come upon themselves. By the time Jesus came to the earth, Isra el had lost the understanding of the gospel, and consequently of entering into God’s rest. They could no longer see the spiritual meaning behind the sanctuary and its services, for spiritual things must be “spiritually discerned” ( 1 Corinthians 2:2). If God had called upon a committee of men to plan the build ing of the sanctuary they could never have done it, for they had

Instead of giving a committee the task of planning the tabernacle, He called Moses onto the mountain and there showed him the plans for the building