Analytical Study of John’s Gospel and the Tabernacle

God’s eternal desire is to dwell with us.

1. God is dwelling with Adam and Eve in the Garden. – Genesis 3:8.

2. God is dwelling with Noah. – Genesis 6.

3. God is dwelling with Abraham. – Genesis 11.

4. God is dwelling in the midst of Israel. – Tabernacle – Exodus 25:8.

5. God is dwelling in the Temple. – 1 Kings 8:11.

6. God is dwelling in rebuilt Temple of Zerubbabel. – Ezra 6:15.

7. *God’s Shekinah glory was absent in Herod’s Temple. R. F. Price

8. God is dwelling and revealed in Christ. – John 1:12; Hebrews 1:1.

9. God is dwelling in Christ, reconciling the world. – 2 Cor. 5:19.

10. God is dwelling in us. – 1 Cor. 3:16; 2 Cor. 6:16; Col. 1:27.

11. God is dwelling with our new body. – 2 Co r. 5:1.

12. God is dwelling with us in eternity. – Rev.1:3.

Exodus 24:16 And the glory of the Lord abode [ שכַן – shakan] upon the Mount Sinai and the cloud covered it six days: and the seventh day he called unto Moses out of the midst of the cloud.

Exodus 25:8 And let them make me a sanctuary that I may dwell [שכַן – shakan] among them.

Exodus 25:9 Tabernacle – מִשְׁכָ – mi+shkan – the “m” = to place. R. F. Price

Exodus 19:45 And I will dwell [shakan] among the children of Israel and will be their God.

Exodus 19:46 And they shall know that I am the LORD their God, that brought them forth out of the land of Egypt, that I may dwell [shakan] among them: I am the LORD their God.

Exodus 40:53 And Moses was not able to enter into the tent of the congregation because the cloud abode thereon, and the glory of the LORD filled the Tabernacle. [mi+shakan].

John 1:14 . . . and dwelt among us – σκηνοω – skienoo. R.F. Price

Revelation 21:3 The Tabernacle –[σκηνή – skhnh] of God . . . he will dwell [σκηνοω]. “behold the Tabernacle of God is with men;” an allusion to the Tabernacle ing. with the Israelites, and the “Shechinah,” or divine Majesty. being in the midst of them, and as an accomplishment of the promise in Ezek. 37:27, in the fullest sense of it; and designs something distinct from the spiritual presence of Christ in his church, as his Tabernacle and temple, and in the hearts of his people; and from the heavenly glory, or ultimate state of happiness, in which they will be “with him”, and that not as in a Tabernacle, but as in a city, which has foundations: the phrase seems to denote the personal presence of Christ with his saints in human nature, like, though different from, that in the time of his humiliation; then he dwelt or Tabernacle with men on earth, but it was in the form of a servant; but now he will appear in a glorious body, and indeed in all his personal glory, and reign among them as their King: . . . and he will dwell with them; in person and not by his Spirit, or by faith, as before, nor as a wayfaring man only for a night; but he will dwell with them for the space of a thousand years, and after that forever: Christ and his church will now be come together as husband and wife: and they shall be his people; that is, they shall appear to be his covenant people, that will be out of all doubt; this is made manifest in some measure in the effectual calling; but it does not yet appear neither to the saints themselves, nor to others, what they are, and shall be, but now it will be evident and unquestionable. And God himself shall be with them; the “Immanuel,” God with us; . . . he himself will descend from heaven, when his church, the new Jerusalem does; the Lord their God will come in person with all the saints, and will be King over all the earth. And be their God, as Thomas styles him, my Lord, and my God.” John Gill