God’s Plan to Moses Revealed

Text: Exodus 25
16 February 2016

GOD’S PLANS TO MOSES REVEALED

1. Moses will speak to the children of Israel   Exodus 25:1

2. Content of his message

a) Bringing an offering   Exodus 25:1
b) To be given from a willing heart

3. Description of offering   Exodus 25:3-7

a) Gold
b) Silver
c) Bronze
d) Thread
e) Linen
f) Skins (rams/badgers)
g) Acacia wood
h) Oil for light
i) Spices (for anointing oil and sweet incense)
j) Semi-precious stones

4. Reason for these items

a) To make the Lord a sanctuary   Exodus 25:8
b) That He may dwell among them

5. Sanctuary model

a) According to all that the Lord would show   Exodus 25:9
b) The pattern of the tabernacle
c) The pattern of all its furnishings

MAJOR ITEMS HIGHLIGHTED

1. The Ark of the Testimony   Exodus 25:10-22

a) The mercy seat to be put on top of the Tabernacle
b) The tablets of stone to be put in the Ark
c) The Lord will meet and speak from the mercy seat

2. The Table for the Showbread   Exodus 25:23-30

a) To be set before the Lord
b) To symbolise Divine provision

3. The golden Lampstand   Exodus 25:31-39

a) To symbolise Light
b) To symbolise the light that must come from God