Closer To Heaven
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Join the Hit the Mark panel as they discuss this quarter’s last Sabbath School lesson – The Tabernacle. It’s the fastest hour of the week!
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Daily Lesson for Thursday 25th of September 2025
The incarnation of Jesus is a mystery as well as an exclusive science that the redeemed will study throughout eternity. The apostle John states that Christ, by taking upon Himself our body, revealed that He dwells with us in a tangible way. Jesus here in the flesh resembles the God of the Old Testament, who dwelt with the Israelites in the tabernacle at Sinai and in the wilderness as they journeyed to the Promised Land.
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During His incarnation, Jesus tabernacled with humanity. What an unfathomable concession! The eternal God comes down to us, as one of us, in order to assure us that He truly is “Immanuel, God with us.”
In Matthew 18:20, Jesus said that if two or three are gathered in His name, He will be there among them. Christ is with His people through the presence of the Holy Spirit. Christ invites His followers to be in close relationship with Him: “ ‘Behold, I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, I will come in to him and eat with him, and he with me’ ” (Revelation 3:20, ESV).
The New Jerusalem will come down from heaven to the earth, and John declares: “ ‘Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men, and He will dwell with them, and they shall be His people. God Himself will be with them and be their God’ ” (Revelation 21:3, NKJV). There is no temple in the New Jerusalem (Revelation 21:22) because the whole city is the temple, God’s sanctuary. The city’s length, breadth, and height are equal (Revelation 21:16) as it was with the Most Holy Place in the sanctuary, which was in the shape of a cube, with all sides equal. For eternity, in a world without sin, death, or suffering, we will dwell in the immediate presence of our God.
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Looking at what we have been promised in Jesus, how can we learn to endure to the end? |
(1)Source: https://ssnet.org/blog/25c-13-jesus-tabernacled-with-humanity/
Join It Is Written Sabbath School host Eric Flickinger and this quarter’s author, Dr. Jiří Moskala, as they provide additional insights into this week’s Sabbath School lesson.”
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View an in-depth discussion of The Tabernacle in the Hope Sabbath School class led by Pastor Derek Morris.
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With thanks to Hope Channel – Television that will change your life.
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Daily Lesson for Wednesday 24th of September 2025
The final chapter of Exodus (Exodus 40:1-38) describes the dedication of the tabernacle and the gift of the Decalogue. The tabernacle’s dedication was the culminating event of Israel at Sinai.
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God’s glory is His holiness, His character, and His loving presence, which is goodness itself (Exodus 3:5; Exodus 33:18-19). His presence filled the tabernacle and was visible as the cloud, the Shekinah glory. The book of Exodus ends with the emphasis on God’s guiding presence, in the cloud of the Lord by day, and in the cloud of fire by night. In a very real and powerful way, the Hebrew people were to experience not just the reality of God but also His close and abiding presence as He led them.
Moses set up the tabernacle on the first day of the first month in the second year (Exodus 40:2,17). He also consecrated everything—including Aaron and his sons to the priesthood (Exodus 40:9,13-15)—with anointing oil. He went through the Most Holy Place, the Holy Place, and the courtyard, dedicating it all to the Lord. Through this process, he inaugurated the services for the whole sanctuary (also see Numbers 7:1). Only during the inauguration of the tabernacle was Moses able to enter the Most Holy Place; thereafter, the high priest alone could minister there each year on the Day of Atonement (Leviticus 16:2,17).
On three occasions, the biblical text states that the work was finished: (1) at the end of Creation week, God underlines the completion of His creative works (Genesis 2:1-3); (2) on the completion of the tabernacle, the biblical text declares: “So Moses finished the work” (Exodus 40:33); and (3) it also is expressed when Solomon finished the work on the temple (1 Kings 7:51).
This connection between the Creation and Israel’s sanctuary points to the cosmic dimension, the time when the Lord will dwell with the redeemed on the new earth in the New Jerusalem, which is “the Tabernacle of God” (Revelation 21:2-3; compare with Revelation 22:1-4).
God’s filling the tabernacle with His presence (Exodus 40:34) was the grand climax to events that began with the birth of Moses and continued with the defeat of the Egyptian gods during the 10 plagues, with the escape from Egypt, with the defeat of the Egyptian army, and, finally, with God’s revelation on Mount Sinai.
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What are ways that, even now, you can experience the presence of God? Why is it important that you do so? |
(1)Source: https://ssnet.org/blog/25c-13-gods-presence-in-the-tabernacle/
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