Tabernacle:
Exod 24:15-18 Then Moses went up into the mountain, and a cloud covered the mountain.
16 Now the glory of the LORD rested on Mount Sinai, and the cloud covered it six
days. And on the seventh day He called to Moses out of the midst of the cloud.
17 The sight of the glory of the LORD was like a consuming fire on the top of the
mountain in the eyes of the children of Israel.
18 So Moses went into the midst of the cloud and went up into the mountain. And
Moses was on the mountain forty days and forty nights.
Being in His glory. What are we to take from this except the historical value? It is so full of significance that we cannot just write it off without a closer look. He uses the 7 day week. Six for the number of man and the seven for the completeness or perfection found in God. Only in God’s complete work do we find the Glory of God. He calls to us in His complete work and there we enter. The six speaks of our effort. His seventh day speaks of His complete work.
There, Moses stayed 40 days and nights. We find this forty many times in the bible. In short it refers to the set time of God. It speaks of the enough of God. The complete season. 40 days of rain at the flood, 40 days of temptation in the wilderness. The list can go on and on.
Now Moses wants to see the weight, the splendor and dignity of the Lord.
Exod 33:18-23 And he said, "Please, show me Your glory."
19 Then He said, "I will make all My goodness pass before you, and I will proclaim the
name of the LORD before you. I will be gracious to whom I will be gracious, and I will
have compassion on whom I will have compassion."
20 But He said, "You cannot see My face; for no man shall see Me, and live."
Did God misunderstand Moses? He wants to see Gods glory and God says you cannot see my Face. See your glory is your face. The splendor of a building is announced by its façade, its face. We are on the outside what we are in the inside. Our joy and love is to be seen on our face. When we are sad our face is first to tell the world.
Gods weight and splendor is so intense that we will flee if it should be in front of us or even inside of us. BUT there is a way. It is in the rock, in the cleft that is in the rock. There is a safe place in the Rock. And that place is cleaved open for us (At the Cross). So now we can be in the Rock. Safe in the Rock. His name is Yeshua or Jesus like we call Him.
21 And the LORD said, "Here is a place by Me, and you shall stand on the rock.
22 "So it shall be, while My glory passes by, that I will put you in the cleft of the rock,
and will cover you with My hand while I pass by.
So as Moses finished his task at hand he was taken by God and buried in the Cleft.
Deut 34:6 And He buried him in a valley in the land of Moab, opposite Beth Peor; but no one knows his grave to this day. (House of a Cleft)
We cannot just be influenced by the Rock. We cannot merely live the way He lived on earth. We have to find ourselves buried in that cleft in That Rock. No more “me” but “He”. Of this, our baptism is a witness. Into the water means willingly into the cleft. Rising out of the water means rising with the Rock. But now in His image (face, Glory)
More later
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