QT 4/15/2026 Exo 25:23–30, The word of God is the bible and the only source of truth for who God is

Exodus 25:23–30 (ESV) —

23 “You shall make a table of acacia wood. Two cubits shall be its length, a cubit its breadth, and a cubit and a half its height. 24 You shall overlay it with pure gold and make a molding of gold around it. 25 And you shall make a rim around it a handbreadth wide, and a molding of gold around the rim. 26 And you shall make for it four rings of gold, and fasten the rings to the four corners at its four legs. 27 Close to the frame the rings shall lie, as holders for the poles to carry the table. 28 You shall make the poles of acacia wood, and overlay them with gold, and the table shall be carried with these. 29 And you shall make its plates and dishes for incense, and its flagons and bowls with which to pour drink offerings; you shall make them of pure gold. 30 And you shall set the bread of the Presence on the table before me regularly.

 

NOTE: In the outer room of the tabernacle (as well as the table) are three pieces of furniture. A table for bread, an incense altar, and a candelabra. The priests could come to this room daily, but the room where the ark stood, only once a year by the high priest. This room was next to the ark and on the way to the ark, but separate from the ark. The three items remind us that God's word is our bread, prayers are the incense to God, and the light of God (his will) is what we seek in life.

 

In the prayer, Jesus taught, the prayer itself is the incense. We pray for daily bread (spiritual and physical) and we pray for his will to be done (on earth as it is in heaven).

 

The foundation is the bread, the word of God. Without his word we cannot survive spiritually. Without his word, there is no definition of God, and yet that is what most of the world does. They define God in terms that they accept, ignoring the word or parts of the word that bother them. They don't like that God calls homosexuality sin, or that God says marriage is only between a man and woman, or that God only defines two genders, male and female, or that God says that sex is reserved for the marriage bed.

 

Soon, all the evil in world will be judged by God. As Jesus says, there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth. You can already see some of it in society when people do not get their own way. There is so much violence and hatred of good.

 

How long O, Lord? How long before you come to judge us?

 

PONDER:

1. Where do I get my truth for who God is? It is not found in selected passages of the word but it is found in the whole word of God.

 

PRAYER: Father, we have passed so far away from you. We are so ugly. We are so deceitful. I pray for you to open our eyes to real truth, your truth. I pray we would stop fooling ourselves. I pray for Jesus to come soon.