OLD TESTAMENT — Quovadisworld

THE ALTAR AND THE COURT

“And you shall make the altar [for burnt offerings] of acacia wood, five cubits long and five cubits wide; the altar shall be square, and its height shall be three cubits.

THE VEIL AND THE SCREEN

“You shall make a veil [to divide the two rooms] of blue, purple, and scarlet fabric and fine twisted linen, skillfully worked with cherubim on it.

THE CURTAINS AND BOARDS OF THE TABERNACLE

The curtains and boards of the tabernacle.

THE TABLE FOR SHOWBREAD AND THE LAMPSTAND

The table of showbread and the lampstand. See that you make them [exactly] after their pattern which was shown to you on the mountain.

THE ARK AND THE MERCY SEAT

You shall put the Mercy Seat on the top of the Ark, and in the Ark you shall put the Testimony which I will give you.

MOSES SHOWN GOD’S PLAN FOR THE TABERNACLE

Have them build a sanctuary for Me, so that I may dwell among them.

THE COVENANT MADE AND SEALED BY BLOOD

So Moses took the blood [which had been placed in the large basins] and sprinkled it on the people, and said, “Behold the blood of the covenant, which the LORD has made with you in accordance with all these words.

CONQUEST OF CANAAN PROMISED

When My Angel goes before you and brings you to [the land of] the Amorite, the Hittite, the Perizzite, the Canaanite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite, I will reject them and completely destroy them.

LAWS OF CONDUCT AND WORSHIP

ou shall not follow a crowd to do [something] evil, nor shall you testify at a trial or in a dispute so as to side with a crowd in order to pervert justice; nor shall you favor or be partial to a poor man in his dispute [simply because he is poor].

LAWS ABOUT SOCIAL JUSTICE

You shall not harm or oppress any widow or fatherless child.
If you harm or oppress them in any way, and they cry at all to Me [for help], I will most certainly hear their cry;
and My wrath shall be kindled and burn; I will kill you with the sword, and your wives shall become widows and your children fatherless.