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Chapter study
…a place for you. The destination is a household. Revelation 21:3 The tabernacle of God is with men, and he will dwell with them. Fellowship is the end of the whole Bible, not a bonus at the end of a psalm. Jesus turns…
Devotional
Holiness moves from throne room to tabernacle to a nation's daily life.
Devotional
…ending in a promise of restoration, that God will raise up the fallen tabernacle of David (9:11). Acts 15:16-17 cites this promise at the Jerusalem council as being fulfilled in the inclusion of the Gentiles through…
Devotional
…WEB This is said about Bezalel, a craftsman appointed to build the tabernacle. The Spirit of God fills him not for prophecy or leadership but for skilled work with his hands, in metal, wood, and design. Scripture treats…
Devotional
…The Greek word for dwelling here, skene, is the same root used for the tabernacle, the tent where God's presence dwelt among Israel in the wilderness (Exodus 25:8-9), and for John 1:14, where the Word became flesh and…
Devotional
…has in these last days spoken to us by his Son. Samuel's night in the tabernacle looks forward to a fuller, final speaking in Jesus Christ.
Devotional
…presence before you move on. John 1:14 says the Word became flesh and 'tabernacled' among us, the same root word used of the tent where God's presence dwelt. In Christ, holy ground is no longer a mountain but a person.
Devotional
…dwelt means to pitch a tent. Any Jewish reader would hear the tabernacle of Exodus 40, where the glory of God settled in a tent in the middle of the camp. John is saying the tabernacle has become a person. Verses 17 and…
Devotional
…The cloud recalls the cloud of glory that covered Sinai and later the tabernacle, Exodus 24:15-18 and 40:34-35, the visible sign of God's presence. Its appearance here signals that the same God who spoke at Sinai is…
52 Week Journey
…live. We will look at seven scenes: the throne room, the mountain, the tabernacle, a warning about carelessness, a call to a holy life, the holiness that separates a people, and the holiness that will fill the earth at…
Biblical concept
…Exodus God feeds Israel with manna for forty years, one day at a time. Tabernacle Bread of the presence sits before the LORD continually. Gospels Jesus multiplies loaves, then explains that he is the true bread. Upper…
Biblical concept
…describe large lamps set up in the temple court during the feast of tabernacles, lighting the courts at night. Mishnah, Sukkah 5:2-4 Describes the lamps in the court of the women during the feast, and the dancing by…
Biblical concept
…eternal life. John does not leave the image floating. At the feast of tabernacles, when Jesus cries out that rivers of living water will flow from within whoever believes, John stops to explain: this he spoke of the…
Biblical concept
…35:14). Law The holy anointing oil is prescribed, and priests and the tabernacle furnishings are anointed (Exodus 30:22-33, Leviticus 8). Kingdom Saul, David and Solomon are anointed, and the LORD's anointed becomes a…
Biblical concept
…priest of God Most High, appears with bread and wine before there is a tabernacle, a tribe of Levi or a law, which is exactly why Hebrews 7 reaches back to him. Exodus 28:29 Aaron carries the names of the tribes over…
Biblical concept
…is filled with the Spirit for skilled craftsmanship in building the tabernacle, judges and kings are anointed by the Spirit for their calling, and prophets speak as the Spirit moves them. The pattern is selective and…
Biblical concept
…a distance. He settles among his people the way he once settled in the tabernacle. John 1:14 This verse is the first place Scripture states the incarnation directly, though the promise behind it goes back to Isaiah's…
Place in Scripture
…God chose for his name to dwell, built by Solomon on the pattern of the tabernacle. Its architecture taught distance and access at once: courts, a holy place, and behind a veil the holy of holies entered once a year.…
Place in Scripture
…and Numbers Israel is led out, fed, taught and tested there, and the tabernacle is built and carried through it. Kingdom David hides in it from Saul, and Elijah collapses under a broom tree and is fed by an angel (1…
Bible question
…Peter writes knowing his death is near, 'shortly I must put off this my tabernacle,' 2 Peter 1:14, which gives the letter urgency. This is not casual advice but a final, deliberate word about what matters most. The…
Bible question
…human need. Loneliness is not the final state Revelation 21:3 The tabernacle of God is with men, and he will dwell with them. The Bible ends with the end of isolation, God dwelling among a countless people who know each…
Bible question
…Exodus 31:1-5 They cut stone, worked metal and carved wood for the tabernacle. God says he filled Bezalel with his Spirit in wisdom, understanding, knowledge and all kinds of workmanship. The first person Scripture…
Bible question
…toward, from Eden's garden where God walked with Adam, through the tabernacle and temple where he dwelt behind a veil, to this, where the veil is gone and God dwells openly among his people. Revelation 21:4 He will wipe…
Bible question
…a tent, which is why readers familiar with Exodus 40:34 hear the tabernacle behind it. Colossians 1:15-17 who is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation. For by him all things were created, in the…
Bible question
…verse 34, not who. Overshadow is the same imagery as the cloud over the tabernacle, Exodus 40:35. The passage is careful, reverent, and completely free of the language of marriage or physical fathering. Matthew 3:17…
The Sunday Study
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