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Exodus 40:34
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32 Whenever they went into the tabernacle of meeting, and when they came near the altar, they washed, aas the Lord had commanded Moses.  
33 aAnd he raised up the court all around the tabernacle and the altar, and hung up the screen of the court gate. So Moses bfinished the work.  

The Cloud and the Glory

34 aThen the bcloud covered the tabernacle of meeting, and the cglory of the Lord filled the tabernacle.  
35 And Moses awas not able to enter the tabernacle of meeting, because the cloud rested above it, and the glory of the Lord filled the tabernacle.  
36 aWhenever the cloud was taken up from above the tabernacle, the children of Israel would1 go onward in all their journeys.  
37 But aif the cloud was not taken up, then they did not journey till the day that it was taken up.  
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No entry exists in Forerunner Commentary for Exodus 40:34.

Exodus 40:34-35

The glory of God is, first of all, a reference to the infusion of light that appeared above and in the tabernacle when God took up residence there from time to time.

That is to what Paul is referring in Romans 5. That gives a starting point for those who understand what he is talking about here—the glory of God. What we have to do is update this, that is, bring it up into the time of Christianity. God was dwelling in the tabernacle, a type of the church. That light was a symbol of the Divine Nature emanating from there because God was present. The implication in Paul's writing in Romans 5 is that the Christian's hope is that he shall be (in an eternally growing degree) a possessor of the same glory.

Excerpted from The Covenants, Grace and Law (Part 13)

Exodus 40:34-36

Then we find that the Fire was over it at night. So we have the erection of the Tabernacle, and God symbolically taking up residence within it. It was as though it was His house.

Excerpted from Examples of Divine Justice



Other Forerunner Commentary entries containing Exodus 40:34:

Luke 1:31-38


 
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