The hangings of the court, his pillars, and their sockets, and the hanging for the door of the court,
The hangings of the court with their pillars and sockets and the hanging for the door of the court belong to the account of the tabernacle's construction and form part of its detailed pattern, which also embraces the materials freely given including the screen for the court entrance and its bases. The tabernacle, court included, was to be built according to the design God gave. The command to build it came just after Israel left Egypt, when they were only a step from freedom back to slavery, possessing scanty means and dwelling themselves in small tents, yet they put God's house first. The minuteness of that pattern shows the exactness and skill required in work done for God's service.
The materials for the court were to be supplied by Israel's willing participation through free-will offerings of materials and labor, with all invited to take part in providing what was needed for the sanctuary. Those special offerings called for to build the tabernacle in the wilderness were extra, beyond the systematic and regular donations including the tithe and the many other required returns to God. They came freely and abundantly without urging, compulsion, or entertainment to induce giving, with each soul anxious to have an interest in the work. People took ornaments and jewelry from their persons and cast them into the treasury to beautify and enrich God's house, gladly giving gold, silver, brass and ornamental work at a total cost of more than a million dollars.
So much was brought that it could not all be used, until Moses had to proclaim that they had enough and that cheerful, willing offerings and labor must cease. God made that call for offerings for the people's own good as well as to sustain His service. The same free, willing, anxious spirit to give means and hearty cooperation is present now to aid the advancement of God's work whenever people are assured there is a work to be done and God is calling them.
The hangings of the court with their pillars and sockets and the hanging for the door of the court belong to the account of the tabernacle's construction and form part of its detailed pattern, which also embraces the materials freely given including the screen for the court entrance and its bases. The tabernacle, court included, was to be built according to the design God gave. The command to build it came just after Israel left Egypt, when they were only a step from freedom back to slavery, possessing scanty means and dwelling themselves in small tents, yet they put God's house first. The minuteness of that pattern shows the exactness and skill required in work done for God's service.
The materials for the court were to be supplied by Israel's willing participation through free-will offerings of materials and labor, with all invited to take part in providing what was needed for the sanctuary. Those special offerings called for to build the tabernacle in the wilderness were extra, beyond the systematic and regular donations including the tithe and the many other required returns to God. They came freely and abundantly without urging, compulsion, or entertainment to induce giving, with each soul anxious to have an interest in the work. People took ornaments and jewelry from their persons and cast them into the treasury to beautify and enrich God's house, gladly giving gold, silver, brass and ornamental work at a total cost of more than a million dollars.
So much was brought that it could not all be used, until Moses had to proclaim that they had enough and that cheerful, willing offerings and labor must cease. God made that call for offerings for the people's own good as well as to sustain His service. The same free, willing, anxious spirit to give means and hearty cooperation is present now to aid the advancement of God's work whenever people are assured there is a work to be done and God is calling them.