“Moses inspected the work and saw that they had done it just as the LORD had commanded. So Moses blessed them.”
~ Exodus 39:43
Hi James and Ellen,
Does your dad and/or ma tell you what to wear each day? Do you ever argue with your dad and/or ma about what they want you to wear? Do you wish that you could always be who decides what you wear each day? What if you had your Father God telling you what to wear each day, how would you like that? Would you argue with your Father God about what He wants you to wear around your house or to school or to church? Your grandpaa thinks that your dad and/or ma are most of the time letting you pick out what you wear around your house. Because your dad and/or ma care how you are dressed when you are at school, your grandpaa thinks that your dad and/or ma are choosing the clothes that you are okay with wearing to school. When you go to church, what kind of clothes to you wear? Do you wear the same clothes that you probably will pick out oftentimes to wear around your house or do you wear nicer clothes to church than what your dad and/or ma choose for you to wear to school? Do you think that your Father God cares how well that you are dressed when you are together with other kids in church? Do you think that your Father God cares how your dad and/or ma are dressed up as they worship Him together with other guys and gals in church services?
Your Father God over 3400 years ago had a special sanctuary built for Himself where He expected His specially chosen guys and gals to go to to worship Him. Your Father God expects to smell today the sweet perfume of His specially elected guys, gals and kids giving their lives to Him as living sacrifices. Your Father God expects His specially elected guys, gals and kids to be thanking Him throughout each day for everything that He has done, is doing and will do for them. Exodus 39 recounts the completion of not just the special sanctuary – which was called a tabernacle, but also the making of a sacred piece of apparel that He wanted His designated lead priest – Aaron, to always to wear when he went into the tabernacle to make sacrifices to Him. Your Father God’s specially chosen guys built the tabernacle and they put together the sacred piece of apparel using the specs that He gave to Moses when He met with Moses on the top of Mount Sinai. Your Father God designed the place – the tabernacle, where He would be worshipped by His specially chosen guys and gals to be totally unique from anything else that had been and would ever be built on planet Earth. Your Father God designed the sacred piece of apparel which Aaron was to wear into the tabernacle to worship Him with sacrifices to be totally unique from anything else that had been and would ever be made on planet Earth. The sacred piece of apparel that was made for Aaron to always to wear when he went into the tabernacle to worship your Father God with sacrifices was an ephod of gold. The ephod of gold that your Father God designed for His specially chosen guys to make for Aaron for him to always to wear when he went into the tabernacle to worship Him with special sacrifices was bib like. The ephod of gold was made using strands of thin, hammered sheets of gold and blue, purple and scarlet yarn and finely twisted linen. The front shoulder pieces of the ephod of gold had twelve onyx stones – which are semi-precious black stones, mounted to it in individual gold filigree settings. Each of the onyx stones had on it the name of a tribal clan from the twelve tribal clans that made up your Father God’s specially chosen guys, gals and kids – the Israelite people group’s guys, gals and kids. A breastpiece was made to cover the ephod of gold. The breastpiece was a span square. A span is the length from the tip of your dad’s little finger to the tip of your dad’s thumb when your dad has his hand open as wide as he can open his hand. The breastpiece had four rows of twelve different kinds of precious stones mounted to it in gold filigree settings. Each one of the twelve different precious stones – a ruby, a topaz, a beryl, a turquoise, a sapphire, an agate, an emerald, a jacinth, an amethyst, a chrysolite, an onyx and a jasper, had on it the seal that corresponded with one of the different twelve tribal clans that made up your Father God’s specially chosen guys, gals and kids.
Along with the ephod of gold and the breastpiece, your Father God wanted Aaron to always wear a specially made robe that was called the robe of the ephod. The robe of the ephod had pomegranates all around its hem that were made from blue, purple and scarlet yarn and finally twisted linen. Small gold bells were attached between the pomegranates that were around the hem of the robe of the ephod. The robe of the ephod was to be worn by Aaron only when he went into the tabernacle to worship your Father God. Your Father God also asked that weavers make tunics, turbans, headbands and undergarments out of fine twisted linen which Aaron and his two sons were to wear when they went into the tabernacle to worship your Father God. After everything was built or made per the specs or instructions that your Father God gave to Moses when Moses climbed to the top of Mount Sinai to meet with Him, verse 43 says, “Moses inspected the work and saw that they had done it just as the LORD had commanded. So Moses blessed them.” Your grandpaa believes that your Father God is blessing churches today. Your grandmaa and grandpaa go to a nearby church that now has three times the number of guys, gals and kids in this church’s weekend services than what this church had in these services a year ago. Even though your grandmaa and grandpaa enjoy the expository preaching that they hear each week, your grandpaa is concerned how informally that guys, gals and kids are dressing today to worship their Father God in a church. Your grandpaa has trouble visualizing how the finished sacred garments looked like but . . . what do you think that your Father God expects you to be wearing in a church?
Exodus 39 (458)