The Tabernacle

The Tabernacle

God dwells among His people. We can see the thread of relationship from the Old Testament to the New, Genesis right through Revelation. God desires relationship with us. "God is faithful, by whom you were called into the fellowship of His Son, Jesus Christ our Lord."1

In the Old Testament, God dwelt among His people in the Tabernacle. "You shall put the mercy seat on top of the ark, and in the ark you shall put the Testimony that I will give you. And there I will meet with you, and I will speak with you from above the mercy seat, from between the two cherubim which are on the ark of the Testimony, about everything which I will give you in commandment to the children of Israel."2

In the New Testament, God dwelt among His people in the Person of Jesus Christ. "And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we beheld His glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father, full of grace and truth."3 "Behold, the virgin shall be with child, and bear a Son, and they shall call His name Immanuel," which is translated, "God with us."4

In the current age, God dwells among His people by dwelling IN His people. We are the tabernacle. "Or do you not know that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from God, and you are not your own? "5 "I have been crucified with Christ; it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me; and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself for me."6 "...that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith... "7 "To them God willed to make known what are the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles: which is Christ in you, the hope of glory."8

In the age to come, in heaven, God will dwell among His people. "And I heard a loud voice from heaven saying, 'Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men, and He will dwell with them, and they shall be His people. God Himself will be with them and be their God.'"9Some day heaven. Are you looking forward to that day?-- Diane Hunt is Director of Addiction Recovery Ministries at America's KESWICK

1 1 Corinthians 1:9 2 Exodus 25:21-223 John 1:144 Matthew 1:235 1 Corinthians 6:19 6 Galatians 2:207 Ephesians 3:178 Colossians 1:279 Revelation 21:3