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Today is a Brand New Day!
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Greetings!
In the book of Exodus, after the Tabernacle was built, God had a place to dwell among His people. His people, had a place to worship their God. In every book of the Old Testament, we read verses mentioning the temple of God. Every story is related to the commandments God gave His people, about the covenant of God with His people. A beautiful story develops about the relationship and God's plan of reconciliation with men.
This story, God story, His-Story, His covenant and His promises are fulfilled and completed with Jesus Christ. And the Tabernacle is no more the way to God, yet the covenant is renewed and the communionwith God is now available to all who believe in Jesus Christ Lord. Are you jumping of joy? I thought so, me too!
God, the Father, allows us to get close and personal. No more cows to be sacrificed, no more incense to burn to please God. The blameless blood of the Lamb who was slain for us served as atonement for our sins and our prayers now replace the incense offering. Exodus tells the story of God delivering His people from slavery and oppression from the Egyptian Pharaoh. "Then I will dwell among the Israelites and be their God. They will know that I am the Lord their God, who brought them out of Egypt so that I might dwell among them." (Exodus 29:45-46)
"And so God dwelled among His people in the tabernacle in the wilderness. He appeared as a pillar of cloud over the tabernacle by day and a pillar of fire by night in the sight of all Israel. The people would not set out on their journey unless the cloud lifted. It was an unmistakably powerful visual statement indicating God's presence among them. God knew that the Israelites needed visual evidence of His presence. When Moses went up to Mount Sinai for 40 days and the people did not see or hear from him, they grew impatient and gathered their gold to form a golden calf that they worshipped in place of God. After ten generations of living in Egypt, it was not surprising that the Israelites mimicked the Egyptians in fashioning a visual idol of their own. This act of disobedience demonstrated their need to follow and worship a God who was visually tangible. God's provision of a tabernacle - itself a splendor to behold - not only allowed the people to sense His presence, but also to see their leader go in to meet with God in a concrete place and not disappear up a mountain". Source: http://the-tabernacle-place.com/articles/what_is_the_tabernacle May God bless you and keep you dwelling in His perfect peace!
Julieta Reyes Flores
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