The tabernacle set up and dedicated. Then the cloud [the Shekinah, God’s visible, dwelling presence] covered the Tent of Meeting, and the glory and brilliance of the LORD filled the tabernacle. Exo 40:34
INTRODUCTION TO THE OLD TESTAMENT
The Nation Israel Delivered and Organized
III. ISRAEL AT SINAI, Exodus 19:1-40:38
Construction and Erection of the Tabernacle, Exodus 35:1-40:38
Making the Tabernacle is described in Exodus 36:9 to Exodus 39:43
74. How did God show His approval of the completed work?
THE TABERNACLE ERECTED
Now it happened on the first day of the first month (Abib) in the second year [after the exodus from Egypt], that the tabernacle was erected.
Moses erected the tabernacle, laid its sockets, set up its boards, put in its bars and erected its support poles.
He spread the tent over the tabernacle and put the covering of the tent over it, just as the LORD had commanded him.
He took the Testimony [the stones inscribed with the Ten Commandments] and put it into the ark [of the covenant], and placed the poles [through the rings] on the ark, and put the mercy seat on top of the ark.
Moses brought the ark into the tabernacle, and set up a veil (partition) for the screen (curtain), and screened off the ark of the Testimony, just as the LORD had commanded him.
Then he put the table in the Tent of Meeting on the north side of the tabernacle, outside the veil.
He set the bread [of the Presence] in order on it before the LORD, just as the LORD had commanded him. [Joh_6:32-35]
Then he put the lampstand in the Tent of Meeting, opposite the table, on the south side of the tabernacle.
Moses mounted and lighted the lamps [on the lampstand] before the LORD, just as the LORD commanded him.
He put the golden altar [of incense] in the Tent of Meeting in front of the veil;
he burned fragrant incense [as a symbol of prayer] on it, just as the LORD commanded him. [Psa_141:2; Rev_8:3]
Then he set up the screen (curtain) at the doorway of the tabernacle.
He set the altar of burnt offering before the doorway of the tabernacle of the Tent of Meeting, and offered on it the burnt offering and the grain offering, just as the LORD commanded him.
He placed the basin between the Tent of Meeting and the altar [of burnt offering], and put water in it for washing.
Then from it Moses and Aaron and his sons washed their hands and their feet.
When they entered the Tent of Meeting, and when they approached the altar, they washed, just as the LORD commanded Moses.
And he erected the courtyard all around the tabernacle and the altar, and hung the screen (curtain) at the gateway of the courtyard. So Moses finished the work.
THE GLORY OF THE LORD
Then the cloud [the Shekinah, God’s visible, dwelling presence] covered the Tent of Meeting, and the glory and brilliance of the LORD filled the tabernacle. [Rev_15:8]
Moses was not able to enter the Tent of Meeting because the cloud remained on it, and the glory and brilliance of the LORD filled the tabernacle.
In all their journeys, whenever the cloud was taken up from over the tabernacle, the Israelites would set out;
but if the cloud was not taken up, then they did not journey on until the day when it was taken up.
For throughout all their journeys, the cloud of the LORD was on the tabernacle by day, and there was fire in it by night, in the sight of all the house of Israel.
Comments by
F.B.Meyer
On
Exodus 40:17-38
THE TABERNACLE SET UP AND DEDICATED
At the time of the offering of the evening sacrifice all was finished. Moses had placed the table on the right and the candlestick on the left of the holy place; had set the incense-altar near the veil; had washed in the laver, and had anointed it and all its vessels. The Ark had been hidden behind the veil, and Aaron invested in his robes. Then the congregation, deeply moved, retired to their tents and night settled on the mountains. Moses also retired from the scene, full of thankfulness. See Psa_90:16-17.
They had hardly left the structure when the cloud that had guided their march settled down upon it, and the glory of the Lord-“the Shechinah”-shone within the Tabernacle itself. Moses immediately hastened back, and found the Presence of God so manifestly in possession that he dared not enter. Behold! the tabernacle of God was with men. So in after years the Divine Word dwelled in the mortal body of Jesus. See Joh_1:14, 2Co_5:1, Rev_21:3. This is the worthy close of this great book of the Exodus.
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