Stood up to what the Bible actually says, and so it stayed that way, unchallenged, until a guy called Andy Hoy came along,and being a structural engineer by trade, and a Christian, he decided to have a closer lookĪt the popularized design of a rectangular structure because in order for it to work that way guy wires had to be added for stability so it wouldn't be blown over in the first strong desert wind Let us look at the design.įor the longest time Biblical scholars and theologians have leaned to their own understanding and gave a depiction of what the Tabernacle looked like, and that interpretation was not ever tested to see if it actually And so it is with the Tabernacle in the wilderness. Other symbolic, as a means to demonstrate a spiritual or Heavenly reality. Such a stickler about this? What difference does it make? Well, as with many things in the Old Testament, things served a double purpose one was literal, and the Nothing was to be added to the design or taken from it, it had to be followed to the letter.
In the book of Exodus (chapter 26) God gave very very specific instructions, down to the smallest detail on how and with what they were to build
