In a way, there was only one revelation, which was at Sinai. By virtue of having received the 10 commandments there, which embody and represent all of the precepts, the whole Torah was already revealed. There is no need or even a possibility of something new or outside the general guidelines of the first commandments which could ever be revealed. Moses went up to study for 40 days and 40 nights, representing the notion that he learned everything there is to know. Our portion makes this point by stating that the subsequent revelations came through the cherubs on the ark containing the 10 commandments.
All new revelations are simply an expansion of the original one.
The ark, table, golden altar, menorah, the tabernacle. The directions are given in order of importance, and also in the order in which one would encounter them going from the holy of hollies and outward toward the outer parts of the tabernacle. Logically, we are always tempted to begin at our goal. Hiram or Hirom of chapter 7 is a brilliant artist and architect, whose mother is of the tribe of Naftali, and whose father is a gentile bronze worker of Tyre. Whether or not these men are one and the same, gentile efforts were clearly involved in building the first Temple.