Modern technology provides us with gizmos that are amazing, filling our world with an incredibly advanced and varied array of possible experiences. If we’re willing to step outside our comfort zone, we can spend our days doing incredible things with no end to our choices.
We have bendable glass that can’t be scratched, flying robots that deliver goods to our door, and telephones that work on the highest mountaintops. We can even cross the great oceans in hours and travel in massive tunnels under the floor of the sea, resting in unsurpassed luxury.
Yet, all we have today doesn’t compare with the magnificence of the metal sea located in the great Tabernacle.
What made the sea especially significant was its level of technology in comparison to how the people around it lived. They were tent dwellers, yet they formed a sea of metal in deference to the glory of their almighty God.
Modern bendable glass? Ah, it’s everywhere. Flying robots? You’ve seen one, and you’ve seen them all. About those telephones, they’re in the hands of school children across the globe. They’ve become old hat to most of us.
And travel across the oceans? Even birds can do that, so what’s the big deal? Airline companies tell us there are a million people in the skies at any one moment of any day. So, when we fly, we’re not special. We only one in a million up there, crowded into our tin flying machines.
There was only one molten sea of metal. It was the brass laver, used only by the priests to cleanse themselves before the Lord.
We read of it in 1 Kings 7:23:
“Then he made the sea of cast metal. It was round, ten cubits from brim to brim, and five cubits high, and a line of thirty cubits measured its circumference.”
What is our sea of metal today? What gives us absolution before the Lord of all the heavens? It is Christ’s redemptive blood shed upon the cross, freely given unto us to wash all our sins clean. It’s the only path to heaven. There is no other way.
Christ is our metal sea, our molten laver, our place to purify ourselves of the world. When we come to him, he gives us the opportunity to continue on to the Father with our hands clean, and our hearts purified.
There’s only one Christ able to purify us of our sins, and that in itself makes him special above all other gods.
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