And this is the offering which ye shall take of them; gold, and silver, and brass,
The offering to be taken from Israel for the tabernacle was gold and silver and brass, also called bronze, for building and furnishing God's house and sanctuary. It belongs to the specifications and directions given on the mount by Christ to Moses for building the tabernacle, including the pattern of the ark. Moses was commanded to come up into the mount to obtain these specifications of service and obligation after the law had been given from Sinai and after he had stood with the people to hear the words of the Lord. He received them while in the cloud talking with God for forty days and forty nights, a limited time for communicating judgments and laws in a book including the Ten Commandments, while all Israel waited for his return and should have been in humble converse with God teaching their children the solemn covenant made with them on obedience to the words spoken from the mount.
The offering was to be taken only from every man who gave willingly with his heart, whose heart stirred him and whose spirit made him willing, without compulsion. After leaving Egypt the Israelites willingly contributed these materials, gladly giving their ornaments and jewelry to furnish God's house. The freewill gifts and work became so abundant that there was more than could be used, so Moses had to tell the people to stop bringing more. Its purpose was to make God a sanctuary so He could dwell among His people, and when the willing brought the offering the work went forward according to God's word and a sanctuary was built that could be taken from place to place so that in all the travels of Israel the knowledge of God would be made known.
God required the best the Israelites could give for His service, which means what is used in places of worship should be treated as sacred and kept pure, clean, and orderly rather than regarded as good enough merely because it is cheap or common. The skill and wisdom and genius brought into that building work were given by God to be used for His glory, and supreme honor is to be given to God. Paul repeated the verse with the surrounding chapters to his fellow workers while making tents with his hands, working quickly and skillfully at tent-making with Aquila, to educate them in diligence and thoroughness in intelligent manual labor joined with preaching the gospel, and in unity and the value of truth.
The verse means God Himself orders the building of His work in the place He appoints and makes its establishment certain. The same requirement to give willingly now rests on God's people in America to carry forward the work at Takoma Park, to erect memorials for God including a school and a sanitarium and a building for public work, with thorough work that will stand inspection, without weariness or slack slipshod work, with means used in the most careful economical way, with unselfish interest from all the churches, and with restraint of extravagance in dress and other things. Applied to the present, the work in Washington will be established because God has said it is to be, with willing workers blessed, prayers answered as the work advances, His name glorified, His truth finding standing room, His praise shown forth, and the God of Israel present in the work.
The offering to be taken from Israel for the tabernacle was gold and silver and brass, also called bronze, for building and furnishing God's house and sanctuary. It belongs to the specifications and directions given on the mount by Christ to Moses for building the tabernacle, including the pattern of the ark. Moses was commanded to come up into the mount to obtain these specifications of service and obligation after the law had been given from Sinai and after he had stood with the people to hear the words of the Lord. He received them while in the cloud talking with God for forty days and forty nights, a limited time for communicating judgments and laws in a book including the Ten Commandments, while all Israel waited for his return and should have been in humble converse with God teaching their children the solemn covenant made with them on obedience to the words spoken from the mount.
The offering was to be taken only from every man who gave willingly with his heart, whose heart stirred him and whose spirit made him willing, without compulsion. After leaving Egypt the Israelites willingly contributed these materials, gladly giving their ornaments and jewelry to furnish God's house. The freewill gifts and work became so abundant that there was more than could be used, so Moses had to tell the people to stop bringing more. Its purpose was to make God a sanctuary so He could dwell among His people, and when the willing brought the offering the work went forward according to God's word and a sanctuary was built that could be taken from place to place so that in all the travels of Israel the knowledge of God would be made known.
God required the best the Israelites could give for His service, which means what is used in places of worship should be treated as sacred and kept pure, clean, and orderly rather than regarded as good enough merely because it is cheap or common. The skill and wisdom and genius brought into that building work were given by God to be used for His glory, and supreme honor is to be given to God. Paul repeated the verse with the surrounding chapters to his fellow workers while making tents with his hands, working quickly and skillfully at tent-making with Aquila, to educate them in diligence and thoroughness in intelligent manual labor joined with preaching the gospel, and in unity and the value of truth.
The verse means God Himself orders the building of His work in the place He appoints and makes its establishment certain. The same requirement to give willingly now rests on God's people in America to carry forward the work at Takoma Park, to erect memorials for God including a school and a sanitarium and a building for public work, with thorough work that will stand inspection, without weariness or slack slipshod work, with means used in the most careful economical way, with unselfish interest from all the churches, and with restraint of extravagance in dress and other things. Applied to the present, the work in Washington will be established because God has said it is to be, with willing workers blessed, prayers answered as the work advances, His name glorified, His truth finding standing room, His praise shown forth, and the God of Israel present in the work.