...from Egyptian bondage, God wanted a special place for them to worship Him as they wandered through the wilderness. A holy sanctified sanctuary would be built with voluntary talent and offerings of gold, silver, brass, blue, purple, scarlet, fine linen, goat's hair, ram's skins dyed red, badger's skins, shittim wood, oil, and beautiful stones. God asked them to give with willing hearts.
A co-worker once asked me if my church made me give ten percent of my money. I told her my church doesn't make me pay anything. I pay because I love God. Its a part of obedience and worship.
Every year the high priest went into the Holies of Holies and placed burnt offerings on the mercy seat to cover their sins. God met him there. It was a picture of Christ dying on Calvary's cross for sinners, but His sacrifice was one time for all.
God wants to meet with us in the sanctuary. He wants to bless us and work in our lives every time we meet. He didn't abolish temple worship. He fulfilled it on the cross. We can worship Him anywhere, but He asked us not to forsake the assembling of ourselves together.
Psalm 77:13 Thy way, O God, is in the sanctuary: who is so great a God as our God?
