13 - The Tabernacle | Exodus

The tabernacle was the place where man and God met. It was meant to be a symbol that salvation cannot come from outside – it must come from within. That is why any external legislation was useless. It only revealed that human beings, in the state in which they are born, cannot keep the laws. They cannot act lovingly. They are completely incapable of doing so.

What is walking according to the flesh? Human beings see things from the wrong identity. Thus, they see truth where there is a lie. Every fear or worry is proof that we are thinking from error and that it is about us, which is not possible. Only when we recognize the lie and let it go and replace it with the truth can genuine, selfless, and loving thinking and acting arise. God helps us to recognize and give up our innate error. This requires cooperation between us and God.

In His mercy, God delays the effects of sin and judgment, and so we live, even though we are born (spiritually) dead, without connection to the source of life. The person who remains in his error cannot stand before God in judgment. The seven feasts of the sanctuary help us to understand this depth in a practical way. At the end of this study, there are two kingdoms: God's kingdom (knowledge of the truth) and Satan's kingdom (the error “I am God”). God offers us salvation – the way out of false identity – and this leads through the tabernacle. More on this in part 13 of the series “Exodus.”