Notes from A Woman’s Heart – Week 10

Summary notes from Week 10 of A Woman Heart ~ God’s Dwelling Place
We complete our series this week by looking back at the Old Testament tabernacle and marveling that God would choose to dwell with his creation on earth!
God shared a vision of His heavenly dwelling when He created the Garden of Eden and [...]

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Notes from A Woman’s Heart – Week 9

Summary notes from Week 9 of A Woman Heart ~ God’s Dwelling Place
Imagine Israel’s joy and excitement as they watched the finishing touches placed on the tabernacle! Had everything been prepared and constructed perfectly in accordance with God’s instructions? Would God approve?
Moses demonstrated exact obedience in preparing the sanctuary for God’s presence. Exodus 40 tells [...]

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Notes from A Woman’s Heart – Week 8

Summary notes from Week 8 of A Woman’s Heart ~ God’s Dwelling Place
Our journey into the tabernacle has now led us through the Holy Place (the home of the Golden Lampstand, the table for the Bread of Presence, and the Altar of Incense) into the innermost chamber, the Most Holy Place. Here we find the [...]

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Notes from A Woman’s Heart – Week 7

Summary notes from Week 7 of A Woman’s Heart ~ God’s Dwelling Place
This week we departed briefly from examining the different objects in the tabernacle to take a closer look at the holy priesthood. We saw how the New Testament book of Hebrews devotes a great deal of text to revealing Jesus Christ as the [...]

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Notes from a Woman’s Heart – Week 6

Summary notes from Week 6 of A Woman’s Heart ~ God’s Dwelling Place
This past week we moved further into the Holy Place and studied the second altar within the tabernacle: the golden altar of incense. Positioned in front of the heavy veil, the altar of incense was the site where the priests made atonement for [...]

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Notes from A Woman’s Heart – Week 5

Summary notes from Week 5 of A Woman’s Heart ~ God’s Dwelling Place
If last week was my favorite week of Bible study yet, this week might have been the most challenging. We have now entered the Holy Place, the area beyond the first curtain of the tabernacle that contains both the Golden Lampstand and the [...]

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Notes from A Woman’s Heart – Week 4

Summary notes from Week 4 of A Woman’s Heart ~ God’s Dwelling Place
This is my favorite week yet of this Bible study! I am amazed and humbled at the realization that not only is every aspect of the Altar of Sacrifice in the tabernacle significant, but every element represented Jesus Christ. To realize that this [...]

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Notes from A Woman’s Heart – Week 3

Summary notes from Week 3 of A Woman’s Heart ~ God’s Dwelling Place
After giving Israel both their freedom from Egypt and their sustenance in the wilderness, God invites the Israelites to participate in the construction of the tabernacle by the giving of a freewill offering. While the amount they could offer was unrestricted and should come “from [...]

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Notes from A Woman’s Heart – Week 2

Summary notes from Week 2 of A Woman’s Heart ~ God’s Dwelling Place
The Israelites find themselves in the wilderness, a solitary and vast desert landscape, filled with their own bitterness that they had been removed from the relative richness and luxury of Egypt. How quickly they had forgotten their lives as slaves, and how they “groaned because [...]

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Notes from A Woman’s Heart – Week 1

Summary notes from Week 1 of A Woman’s Heart ~ God’s Dwelling Place 
After the fall, God’s word tells us that “the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and every intention of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.” (Genesis 6:5-6). Apart from fellowship with God, the human heart is “deceitful above all [...]

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