"Through wisdom is an house builded; and by understanding it is established: and by knowledge shall the chambers be filled with all precious and pleasant riches.... Prepare thy work without, and make it fit for thyself in the field; and afterward build thine house" (Proverbs 24:3,4,27). "Take these things hence; make not my Father's house an house of merchandise" (John 2:16).
Wisdom saw the Master's plan
And thus the work proceeded.
But understanding saw the land,
And the preparation needed.
Many obstacles were there,
That had to be removed.
A lack of love, a lack of prayer,
And rebellion was reproved.
Take these things from here,
The Master said to us.
Obedience then moved with fear
And prepared the field thus.
And now the rooms are filled
With precious, pleasant things.
This is the only way to build,
Fit for the King of kings.
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As a Christian, I respect your faith but one can't take the Bible as history. I've walked and cycled Egypt, Israel, Jordan and Saudi Arabia, up Mount Sinai, followed the entire biblical Exodus route on a mountain bike, sleeping in the desert etc and after almost thirty years of study of Biblical and New Testament history feel pretty sure how the Bible stories evolved, their sources and the different influences on Judaism. The Bible is the story of a people's collective experience of God but it cannot be considered a definitive history in the same way that Genesis is easily demonstrable as an evolution of an earlier Sumerian legend as is Noah etc etc.
My own modest view, is that the Moses story arose from a collision between the Amarna heresy of Akhnaten and the Habiru / Shasu tribes that migrated from transjordan to the upper nile valley.. I could go but...!
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