Sunday Sermonette: Not so tasteful design

In Exodus 25, God starts to get, well, extremely anal. He lays out precise instructions for building himself a home in extremely garish taste -- kind of Trumpian, actually. I must warn you that this goes on for a long time -- several more chapters. It ' s unbelievably tedious and there isn ' t really much to say about it except that this guy is a self-indulgent megalomaniac. As the Skeptic ' s Annotated Bible puts it, " God wastes most of the last 16 chapters of Exodus on instructions for making tables, curtains, candlesticks, snuffers, girdles, bonnets, perfumes, etc. This stuff is so important that it much of it is repeated. As a result, the last 40% of Exodus is one of the most boring sections in the Bible. " True. But we are committed to reading the whole damn thing so off we go.25 TheLord said to Moses,2 “Tell the Israelites to bring me an offering. You are to receive the offering for me from everyone whose heart prompts them to give.3 These are the offerings you are to receive from them: gold, silver and bronze;4 blue, purple and scarlet yarn and fine linen; goat hair;5 ram skins dyed red and another type of durable leather[a]; acacia wood;6 olive oil for the light; spices for the anointing oil and for the fragrant incense;7 and onyx stones and other gems to be mounted on the ephod and breastpiece.8 “Then have them make a sanctuary for me, and I will dwell among them.9 Make this tabernacle and all its furnishings exac...
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