Saturday, February 15

JUST A THOUGHT: tabernacle...

It appears as though God did not want to appoint a king over Israel, until Israel begged God for a king. Something about needing to see it in the flesh, or perhaps to have someone else speak and hear God for them so they no longer have to worry about a relationship with Him. Who knows...


But today I realized something as I was reading my devotional.

It also appears, although the Bible never strictly says so like it does with appointing a king, that God did not have the tent/tabernacle constructed nor the ark, until after the Israelites made the gold calf. Perhaps God preferred not to be confined to a building, even then, and preferred to talk to His people and have an individual relationship with them, but it was because of their insistence (they did insist, after all, that God speak to Moses, instead of any of them) that God decided to make something tangible, visible for them to enter or worship...

Kinda sad, too, when you think about it: confining God to a ritual, rules, and a tent/building, not to mention having little to no personal relationship with Him...As though a person could leave God whenever they exited the tent; prayer-time must have been so droll, too!

(I believe "prayer" as synonymous to "conversation", where I expect interaction or give and take when I talk to God; therefore, a one-sided conversation done by rote would indeed be terribly droll!)

Anyway, it's just a thought...feel free to correct me if I'm wrong!

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