Exodus 40
This chapter describes the setting up of the Tabernacle for the first time.
Moses set up everything in order, in the order God told him to. He had made everything just like God had showed him in the Pattern (the Original in Heaven), now he set it all up. And now the Cloud covered the Tent of Meeting and the Glory of the Lord filled the Tabernacle. This sanctified (set apart) the Tabernacle, and the Ark with its Mercy Seat, where God sat in the Cloud between the cherubim.
This made the Ark too dangerous to be close to, so was shielded by the veil, the Tent over the Tabernacle and the covering over it, as well as the Levites camping around it, between the Tabernacle and the other Tribes.
Our God is a Consuming Fire--much too dangerous to approach lightly.
That's why there are so many rules and regulations about the Priesthood and the Levitical Order, so these men will be safe when they take care of all the Tabernacle business.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus!
