Episode 805: The Word became flesh and tabernacled among us

A large part of Exodus (Chapters 25 to 31 and 35 to 40) deals with the construction of the tabernacle of God. In our study of Genesis, we saw the origin of the two streams of false and true religion in Cain and Abel. That finally ends in Revelation as Babylon and Jerusalem. The tabernacle is the seed from which the temple of God came later. It is a picture of the untimate Jerusalem, the Church, the dwelling place of God.

The literal translation of John 1:14 reads this way: “The Word became flesh and tabernacled among us.”

So this Old Testament tabernacle was first of all, a picture of Jesus himself, and then of His body the Church in whom God dwells, and also each of us who are children of God in whom the Holy Ghost dwells.

God was very particular that every part of the tabernacle should be made exactly according to the pattern that He gave Moses (Exodus 25:9). God gave Moses specific instructions about the sizes of the different parts of the tabernacle and the materials to be used for each. Many Christians and Church leaders do not realize the need to do everything in the Church and in their lives also, exactly as the Lord has commanded in His Word. They allow their human understanding often to decide how far to obey God and where to modify His commands to fit their own ideals and traditions.