In reading the elaborate details of the Tabernacle ritual system in Exodus and Leviticus... in concluding that this system was put in place as an "allowance", not as an "ordinance"... my mind again turns to Moses.
As Egyptian royalty he was certainly exposed to, if not deeply involved in, Egyptian religion... The Egyptians had developed an extremely sophisticated religious system and practice... They were the world power of their time. If God was taking Israel out of Egypt in order to form his own nation... eventually a kingdom, certainly this nation had to have it's own religious system and practice comparable to that of Egypt...
I am not talking about spirituality or spiritual "practice" here but temple/priesthood system... For more on this see:
An Overview of the Ancient Egyptian Cult
http://www.touregypt.net/featurestories/cults.htm
The Priesthood and the Temples of Egypt
http://www.philae.nu/philae/priesthood.html#Priesthood
Moses the Egyptian
http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog/ASSMOS.html?show=reviews
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