Moses could not enter the tent of meeting because the cloud had settled on it, and the glory of the Lord filled the tabernacle. The man who built and installed the tabernacle cannot enter it because the presence of God is too overwhelming. Moses, who spoke with God face to face, who saw God's back in the cleft of the rock, who spent eighty days on the mountain — even Moses cannot enter when the cloud settles and the glory fills. Revelation 21:3 says God's dwelling place is now among the people — the presence that fills the tabernacle so completely that Moses cannot enter is the presence that will dwell with humanity permanently in the new creation.

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