Exodus 26 – The dwelling tent shall be made of
linen sheets of violet, purple and scarlet yarn, with cherubim embroidered
on the sheets. Each sheet shall be 28
cubits [42’] high by 4 cubits [6’] wide.
Five sheets are to be sewed together and then another five sewed
together. Along the edge of the end
sheet there should be loops of violet yarn (50 on each end sheet) and 50 clasps
of gold to join the sheets. On top of
this there is also to be another covering of woven goat hair—eleven of them (30
X 4) and sewed (5 to each side) The last one is to double-cover the front.
The loops and
clasps (of bronze on the outside) are to fasten the covering. Inside there are to be walls of acacia wood
(each piece of it 10 cubits X 1.5)—each one is to have “arms” to link it to the
next piece. They are to be set up 20
boards to the south with two silver pedestals under each board; 20 on the north
side; 6 for the rear—to the west and double boards (2 each) for the rear
corners. Amazing detail!
The veil, made
of violet, purple
and scarlet yarn and fine linen with cherubim embroidered on it, is to be hung
on four columns which shall have hooks of gold and shall rest on four silver
pedestals. They shall sit behind this
veil. The propitiatory shall rest on the ark behind the veil in the holy of
holies. The table (set on the north side
of the tent), lamp-stand (opposite it on the south side of the tent), shall be
outside the veil.
The Didache
Eschatology
16 – “Be watchful over your
life; never let your lamps go out or your loins be ungirt, but keep yourselves
always in readiness, for you can never be sure of the hour when our Lord may be
coming” (197).
Come together to help everyone make spiritual improvement in their
lives. All the “past years of your faith will be no
good to you at the end, unless you have made yourselves perfect. In the last
days of the world false prophets and deceivers will abound, sheep will be
perverted and turn into wolves, and love will change to hate, for with the
growth of lawlessness men will begin to hate their fellows and persecute them
and betray them. Then the Deceiver of
the World will show himself, pretending to be a Son of God and doing signs
and wonders, and the earth will be delivered into his hands, and he will work
such wickedness as there has never been since the beginning. After that, all
humankind will come up for their fiery trial; multitudes of them will stumble
and perish, but such as remain steadfast in the faith will be saved by the
Curse [“meaning is obscure . . .may allude to Christ, who was ‘made a curse for
us’ (Galatians 3:13).
“And then the signs of the truth will appear:
first the sign of the opening heavens, next the sign of the trumpet’s voice,
and thirdly the rising of the dead – no of all the dead, but, as it says, the Lord will come, and with him all his
holy ones. And then the whole world will see the Lord as He comes riding on
the clouds of heaven. . .” (198). The text breaks off here.
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