When the tabernacle is completed and set up, the cloud of the Lord covers it, and the glory of the Lord fills the tabernacle. Moses himself couldn't enter because the cloud was so present.
I grew up attending dead churches - liturgically correct, theologically sound, deeply boring. I thought for years that God's presence was something psychological, an interior feeling. But this passage insists on something else: God's presence is real, external, so thick that even Moses can't physically enter.
I visited a Pentecostal church once and felt something I hadn't experienced in decades - the sense that God was actually present in that space. I'd been too snobbish to admit I missed that. The glory filling the tabernacle isn't metaphorical. It's the real presence of God making Himself known.
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