Tabernacle - dwell among the Israelites.
Ex 25:8 Make me a Sanctuary, and
I will dwell among them. Because of
disobedience the children of Israel were made slaves in Egypt for over four
hundred years. He was known to them as
Almighty God. During the time of
captivity they didn't have a place of
worship. God worked to keep them through
all the years of slavery. Now, they were
the size of a nation, a million and a half.
The young men able to fight were the size of an army that could fight
for their nation.
God
has saved his people alive through all the famine, pestilence, and destruction
He had brought on the Egyptians. He
showed that He was stronger than all their other gods. God had demanded to let his people go. The Pharoah agreed, but changed his
mind. God prepared a way through the sea
for His people, but rolled the waters back to cover the Egyptian Army.
All the
nations had heard how God had preserved His people and were afraid to fight the
Jews. Israel feared the giants, but God
had put fear into all their hearts. This
fear kept nations from attacking them as they passed through or around
them. They had been slaves, they didn't
know how to fight so God had fought their battles for them.
He
protected them as they walked through the dessert by a cloud by day that
covered them that acted like a barrier from the sun. They were quite comfortable during the day. He gave them a wall of fire by night to keep
them safe from their enemies, animals
that prowl at night, and to keep them warm.
To keep
them healthy, He gave them manna from Heaven with every vitamin they would ever
need. Their feet did not swell and their
shoes and clothes grew as they did.
Neither, wore out for God continually provided for them. When, they needed water Moses struck a rock
and water gushed forth. God knew before
He made the heavens and the earth that Moses and the children of Israel would
be passing that way, so He made underground deep springs that would burst open
if pressure was put on them. Moses need
strike the rock once. The rock was a
picture of Jesus our rock. He was to be
struck once. He would die one time for
the sins of the world. He has promised to supply all of our needs as we travel through this world of sin.
