The Tabernacle has now been prepared and assembled. It seems as well that Moses’ make shift “Tent of Meeting” has been replaced by the new shrine. The Tabernacle has been consecrated and so that specific work was finished for Moses. God’s manifest presence God’s presence with his people has been represented by a pillar of… Continue reading The Glory of God
Tag: Now and Not yet
The now and not yet of Easter Saturday
It’s perhaps time for my traditional protest about those who try to make a thing out of “Easter Saturday.” There really isn’t such a thing! The Gospel accounts all move directly from the events of Good Friday to Sunday morning. Saturday was a Sabbath Day of course, so there was nothing that the Jewish followers… Continue reading The now and not yet of Easter Saturday
When the desert blooms
We are now coming to the end of the first part of the book. Isaiah 35 is like the big song at the end of the first half. There will be a kind of interlude, an interruption to tell some of the story of what is going on in Isaiah’s day through the next few… Continue reading When the desert blooms
