I really felt as I read this today that it NOT ONLY applies to the building of the Tabernacle of God, but also to Believers in Christ (Yeshua/Jesus) with creative gifts. This is a CALL for the people of God to use their creativity to build God's House, The Church Universal.
Verses 21, 29 and 31 also seem to relate to that. "The Lord has filled Bezalel with the SPIRIT of GOD giving him great wisdom, ability and expertise in all kinds of crafts". I believe this is applicable to all creative Believers In Messiah. As we spend time soaking in His Presence, ASKING HIM TO FILL US with HIS SPIRIT, He will reveal how to create artistic masterpieces. These include literature, painting, drawing, sculpture, architecture, visual/audio media, computer games, inventions, screenplays/movies, acting, musical composition, etc.
Verse 21 says, "All whose hearts were stirred and whose spirits were moved came and brought their sacred offerings to the Lord."
OUR offerings can be the talents, gifts and production from those gifts for God's glory and use. By our obedience many may respond to the invitation to The Kingdom of God and the perfecting of The Bride (the Church at Large, around the world).
God poured out His Spirit to such an extent that Bezalel became "a master at every craft". This is the equivalent of AMAZING CREATIVE GENIUS!
We know from his writings* that Leonardo spent time in nature, marvelling at God's creations. This may have brought his open, reflective nature into great communion with God. Leonardo's understanding of "the vortex" ** of water could even influence plasma physics. Certainly nothing less than the Spirit of God could have inspired his many and varied works of art. The Spirit of the Living God must have filled him in order to invent, create, sketch, paint and build. Something had to occur which historical documents do not reflect.
Scientific geniuses like Newton and Einstein did feel the heartbeat of God as they allowed Him to visit their musings. Notice that historically, inventions often come simultaneously to more than one human mind when that revelation is revealed to mankind. Marconi wasn't the only one who discovered radio. Bell wasn't the only one who invented the telephone. In various eras, God pours out ingenious ideas according to mankind's need. ***
DaVinci, like many other classical artists, must have been well-versed in Biblical literature to have envisioned the masterpieces he did.
Surely Michelangelo captured the essence of young King David****in his famous sculpture. Of certainty, Adoration of the Lamb, by Jan van Eyck, had to have been stirred by a true knowledge of God. (Look at the lower center panel on the footnote link below.)*****
So many of Rembrandt's ******paintings were devoted to Biblical stories. Both Michelangelo******* and Handel must have been imbued with a heavenly fever to have captured the vision of the Sistine Chapel and have written The Messiah from their minds' eyes.*********
So let's go before God in worship and then stillness. Then pick up our pens, dip our brushes, touch fingers to synthesizers and computer keyboards, and REFLECT THE MIND OF THE CREATOR!
FOOTNOTES:
1) a.* Codex Leicester b.* Codex Atlanticus 185v
c. http://whitcomb.sbc.edu/water/artleonardo.html
2) http://www.universalleonardo.org/essays.php?id=576
http://www.britannica.com/eb/topic-632932/vortex
http://www.spaceandmotion.com/Physics-Vortex
3) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simultaneous
http://german.about.com/library/weekly/aa030501a.htm
4) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michelangelo
5) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghent.Altarpiece
6) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sistine_Chapel
7) http://en.wikipedia.org/Rembrandt
8) http://www.messiahcd.com/
www.classicalarchives.com/handle.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Messiah_(Handel)
http://en.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyIC=65811236
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