The Meanings of the Measures

The world sees everything God does as disconnected, random, and haphazard. In fact, everything God does is part of a single plan, stemming from a single idea that we are “without excuse” for not understanding.

The measurements in the Bible are like that. In our defense, we do not live on farms, or work with whole grains, or plow fields using oxen. So some of these things would have been a lot easier to understand for your typical Israelite under David than they are for us today – but it didn’t seem to help, for even those people were constantly missing point. “It is because we have no bread!” they said, as Jesus shook His head and sighed. To understand the truth you must approach it believing it can be understood, that it makes sense, and that it was meant to be understood. That’s what I’ve done with these measurements in the Bible, and what do you know – they make sense.