The Lord is awe-inspiring, fearsome, fascinating, intriguing, majestic, and full of splendor: breathtaking! Here is what I saw of him today and what came to my heart and mind in Exodus 36:1,
"So Bezalel, Oholiab and every skilled person to whom the Lord has given skill and ability to know how to carry out all the work of constructing the sanctuary are to do the work just as the Lord has commanded."
The Lord gave certain people skills and abilities in various crafts to build the tabernacle. The Lord somehow enabled differing ones to work, to perform, to create, a masterfully done tabernacle - something that was up to divine standards. It was not constructed by people who simply did what they could do in the best way they could do it - the Lord made them master craftsmen.
It causes me to wonder about the various types of professions that have developed within the history of mankind. Did mankind acquire expertise in various fields on his own? Or, did the Lord have a hand in enabling the birth and development of these various trades and professions within mankind, somewhat akin to what we read in Exodus 36:1? What if he did this to sit back and observe and enjoy what his creation would create?
Very early on in the history of mankind we see people moving into various fields of work. Abel kept flocks, and Cain worked the soil, Genesis 4:2. Lamech had three sons that pursued differing careers. In Genesis 4:19-22 we read, "Lamech married two women, one named Adah and the other Zillah. Adah gave birth to Jabal; he was the father of those who live in tents and raise livestock. His brother's name was Jubal; he was the father of all who play stringed instruments and pipes. Zillah also had a son, Tubal-Cain, who forged all kinds of tools out of bronze and iron." A bronze age and an iron age within the first generations of man! Who knew??
"So Bezalel, Oholiab and every skilled person to whom the Lord has given skill and ability to know how to carry out all the work of constructing the sanctuary are to do the work just as the Lord has commanded."
The Lord gave certain people skills and abilities in various crafts to build the tabernacle. The Lord somehow enabled differing ones to work, to perform, to create, a masterfully done tabernacle - something that was up to divine standards. It was not constructed by people who simply did what they could do in the best way they could do it - the Lord made them master craftsmen.
It causes me to wonder about the various types of professions that have developed within the history of mankind. Did mankind acquire expertise in various fields on his own? Or, did the Lord have a hand in enabling the birth and development of these various trades and professions within mankind, somewhat akin to what we read in Exodus 36:1? What if he did this to sit back and observe and enjoy what his creation would create?
Very early on in the history of mankind we see people moving into various fields of work. Abel kept flocks, and Cain worked the soil, Genesis 4:2. Lamech had three sons that pursued differing careers. In Genesis 4:19-22 we read, "Lamech married two women, one named Adah and the other Zillah. Adah gave birth to Jabal; he was the father of those who live in tents and raise livestock. His brother's name was Jubal; he was the father of all who play stringed instruments and pipes. Zillah also had a son, Tubal-Cain, who forged all kinds of tools out of bronze and iron." A bronze age and an iron age within the first generations of man! Who knew??
I certainly don't buy into the concept of cavemen. No one has ever met one and the suggestion that there was a prehistoric version of man with little skills and abilities is the fiction of imagination. It simply serves to support the notion of evolution (which I reject as well, as I have a high regard for real science born of real observation). Cave art and primitive tools discovered speak to me of odd-balls, castoffs and hermits from the mainstream of society.
The whole notion of a half-man, half-ape, all on his own, picking up a stick and whacking something with it as the beginning of technology seems ridiculous to me. I wonder if what we see in the Lord's enablement of skills and abilities for certain ones to build his tabernacle suggests that it was the Lord himself who implanted mankind with what he would need to create the engines of industrialization and technology, the Renaissance with its great works of art, the transistor that has brought us all the high-tech we enjoy today?
Just a thought... what do you think?
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