What happened after the work on the tabernacle was completed, after everything was in place "just as the Lord had commanded Moses." Let's find out! Read Exodus 40:34-38.
Continue to mark the word "tabernacle". Also mark "tent of meeting" and "cloud" in some distinctive way. For example, with the word "cloud", you might just draw a cloud around the word. Keep it simple!
- What happened after the work was finished and all the furniture was in the tabernacle? (see verse 34)
- What did the cloud represent?
- What do you learn from all the references to the cloud?
- Does this relate to what God said to Moses in Exodus 25:8? How do they compare?
Through all the years of this portable tabernacle - almost 500 years - God dwelt among His people. Then God's presence moved to the temple built by King Solomon. In 586 BC, during the final Babylonian siege of Jerusalem, the cloud of God's presence left Solomon's temple, never to return (see Ezekiel 10-11), and Solomon's temple was destroyed. Years later, during the Roman occupation, a temple was built again by Herod. But the cloud of God's presence was not seen again. Or was it? We'll look at that tomorrow.
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