I am using the daily Bible reading schedule from “The Bible.net” for my daily Bible reading.

Today, I am reading and commenting on Exodus 25-27.

The passage describes the plans for making the Ark of the Covenant, the Tabernacle, and furnishings for the Tabernacle.  Repeatedly the passage tells us that God told Moses to make sure that these various elements  be made according to the pattern which God showed Moses on the mountain.  They were to be copies of the ones which existed in Heaven.  Another point of significance is that atonement cover of the Ark of the Covenant.  It was from above this that God would appear to speak with Moses, and later the high priest.   We have few, if any, records of God speaking with a high priest, but that was the intention of the design.  I am not quite sure why later high priests did not hear from God, but I think we could learn from thinking about what happened.