Exodus 36:20 Then he made the upright frames for the tabernacle of acacia wood. 21 Ten cubits was the length of a frame, and a cubit and a half the breadth of each frame. 22 Each frame had two tenons for fitting together. He did this for all the frames of the tabernacle. 23 The frames for the tabernacle he made thus: twenty frames for the south side. 24 And he made forty bases of silver under the twenty frames, two bases under one frame for its two tenons, and two bases under the next frame for its two tenons. 25 For the second side of the tabernacle, on the north side, he made twenty frames 26 and their forty bases of silver, two bases under one frame and two bases under the next frame. 27 For the rear of the tabernacle westward he made six frames. 28 He made two frames for corners of the tabernacle in the rear. 29 And they were separate beneath but joined at the top, at the first ring. He made two of them this way for the two corners. 30 There were eight frames with their bases of silver: sixteen bases, under every frame two bases.
God loves using buildings to picture our relationship with Him. It never has been the building itself as much as the things necessary for a secure fellowship with Him. In typical detail, the assembly of the temple begins by focusing on how well the foundation and frame were made. Seeing houses going up all the time near us, I wonder how some will ever stand. So it is with our lives. How important is this solid foundation to us? Will it stand the repeated stresses the tabernacle did: being moved around, facing the elements of life, being in the hands of many people tearing us down and trying to put us together again?
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