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God’s Dwelling Places: David’s Tabernacle – OpentheWord.org

God’s Dwelling Places: David’s Tabernacle – OpentheWord.org

Published by Sam Flores

King David bringing the Ark of the Covenant into Jerusalem Credit: Pieter van Lint, 1650, Wikipedia, Public Domain By Dr. Steve Phifer God’s Dwelling Places—David’s Tabernacle The Lord has chosen to manifest His presence in the earth. One level of this manifestation is in nature and another is the revelation of His nearness in our hearts. The most powerful, specific and intimate is the Manifest Presence of the Lord, His presence within the praises of His people (Psalm 22:3). The Book of Psalms describes this level of worship. Every human emotion appropriate for worship is found in the Book of Psalms: joy and sorrow, pleasure and pain, confusion and faith, stillness and action, solitude and community. When led by the Holy Spirit, God’s people can express these things in a necessary catharsis of soul and spirit and a requisite interaction of God’s family with God Himself. This type of congregational worship is revealed to us with the model of David’s Tabernacle. Moses’ Tabernacle shows us the broad pattern of worship and our individual privileges and …

God’s Dwelling Places: Moses’ Tabernacle – OpentheWord.org

God’s Dwelling Places: Moses’ Tabernacle – OpentheWord.org

Published by Sam Flores

Model of Moses Tabernacle in Timma Park, IsraelCredit: Ruk7, Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0 By Dr. Steve Phifer Altars The Patriarchs built altars to honor the places where they met with God. These rocks and high places were meeting places not dwelling places. Abraham’s Mount Moriah was to become David’s Mount Zion, God’s dwelling place, but it was still only a mountain. Jacob may have called his stone pillow, Beth-el—house of God, but it was still just a rock. Moses would be the one to build God a house, a moveable one, but still a dwelling place for the Most High. A Tabernacle in the Wilderness It is strange that the God who is everywhere present would desire a dwelling place in the earth. In the Scriptures I see three dimensions of God’s presence: God’s omnipresence—His presence in all of creation (Acts 17:28), God’s Inner Presence—His presence in the hearts of His people (2 Cor 6:16), and God’s Manifest Presence—His presence within the praises of His people. (Psalm 22:3) The house that Moses built was for …