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So everything is according to God’s ways and is utterly dependent upon Him. However, this does not mean that we are mere bystanders, far from it. In all God’s plans men and women are intimately involved. Even in the Son of God coming to dwell among us, Mary was involved in a most intimate way. So the tabernacle was to be built using the gifts that the people brought. These gifts were to be given voluntarily, a principle mirrored in 2 Cor 9:7. “Everyone whose heart prompts them to give”. The Hebrew literally says “whose heart makes him vow”. Our hearts urging and leading us to give.
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These gifts were of many and various kinds, but all of them were gifts of good value. Given the plan, the people were to “make a sanctuary for me”. “And I will dwell among them”. This is the purpose of God, to dwell among His people. In Rev 21:3 it says “Behold, the dwelling of God is with man”. In Matt 1:23 it says “they shall call Him Immanuel”, which means “God with us”.
Everything was to be made precisely according to God’s plans.
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