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Introduction
New experiences:
Children’s Camp.
Falls Creek.
This Fall, some will be in school for the first time, or some will be going to new schools.
You never quite know what to expect!
Moses was in a situation where he didn’t know what to expect.
He had led Israel out of Egypt and to Mt. Sinai where they had received the Law, including the instructions to assemble the tabernacle.
Now, they had spent months putting it together.
Now what?
What did Moses expect to happen when the Tabernacle was erected?
The Advent Cloud
v. 34
The cloud is the common imagery for the presence of God.
Mt.
Sinai to Revelation 1:7.
The descending of the cloud was the first thing that happened as soon as this building was assembled.
God is eager to dwell with His people.
Yet, notice how He comes.
There is the cloud, and inside the cloud is the glory of the LORD.
God comes in the clouds.
He doesn’t come in the clear.
Oswald Chambers in My Utmost For His Highest says:
“What a revelation it is to know that sorrow and bereavement and suffering are the clouds that come along with God! God cannot come near without clouds, He does not come in clear shining.”
-- Oswald Chambers
What clouds are you facing in your life?
Maybe some of those listed by Chambers.
Maybe some level of confusion or anger or hurt.
Maybe the cloud of despair is creeping in as you see the stories around the world of those who are hurting and grieving.
Know that God inhabits the clouds.
His light overcomes the darkness as He brings hope.
The Barrier Cloud
v. 35
Yet, Moses could not enter into the tabernacle!
Indicates there was an attempt made to go in, and he couldn’t.
The heaviness of the glory of God was so dense that it was impossible to enter.
Why would God not allow Moses to just come in?
This serves as a reminder that
God is holy and holiness is the standard.
It is at God’s invitation only that we are allowed entrance into His presence.
We can go back to Exodus 24:16
It was at God’s invitation that Moses then could enter.
Who then can enter?
The one who is invited.
Significant because this is where God lays out the steps for making sin offerings.
Atonement offerings reconcile a sinful person to God.
Sin causes a division between us and God, because holiness is the standard.
This division is not something you or I can overcome.
We need an outside healer.
For the Jews, this was the atonement sacrifice.
The shedding of blood of an innocent animal removed the barrier.
The Guiding Cloud
vv.
36-37
We jump forward to after the Law was completely given and their journey to the Promised Land begins.
They followed the leadership of the cloud of presence.
Three words:
Rest, Wait, and Watch.
How contrary are these three words to what the world wants us to do?
Satan called a worldwide convention.
In his opening address to his evil angels, he said,
"We can't keep the Christians from going to church.
We can't keep them from reading their Bibles and knowing the truth.
We can't even keep them from forming an intimate, abiding relationship experience in Christ.
If they gain that connection with Jesus, our power over them is broken.
So let them go to church, let them have their conservative lifestyles, but steal their time, so they can't gain that experience in Jesus Christ.
This is what I want you to do, angels.
Distract them from gaining hold of their Savior and maintaining that vital connection throughout their day!"
"How shall we do this?" shouted his angels.
"Keep them busy in the nonessentials of life and invent innumerable schemes to occupy their minds, "he answered.
"Tempt them to spend, spend, spend, and borrow, borrow, borrow.
Persuade them to work for long hours, to work 6 - 7 days a week, 10 - 12 hours a day, so they can afford their lifestyles.
Keep them from spending time with their children.
As their family fragments, soon, their home will offer no escape from the pressures of work."
"Over stimulate their minds so that they cannot hear that still small voice.
Entice them to play the radio or cassette player whenever they drive.
To keep the TV, VCR CDs and their PCs going constantly in their homes.
And see to it that every store and restaurant in the world plays non-biblical music constantly.
This will jam their minds and break that union with Christ."
"Fill the coffee table with magazines and newspapers.
Pound their minds with the news 24 hours a day.
Invade their driving moments with billboards.
Flood their mailboxes with junk mail, sweepstakes, mail order catalogues, and every kind of newsletter and promotional offering free products, services, and false hopes."
"Even in their recreation, let them be excessive.
Have them return from their recreation exhausted, disquieted, and unprepared for the coming week.
Don't let them go out in nature to reflect on God's wonders.
Send them to amusement parks, sporting events, concerts and movies instead."
And when they meet for spiritual fellowship, involve them in gossip and small talk so that they leave with troubled consciences and unsettled emotion."
"Let them be involved in soul-winning.
But crowd their lives with so many good causes they have no time to seek power from Christ.
Soon they will be working in their own strength, sacrificing their health and family for the good of the cause."
It was quite a convention in the end.
And the evil angels went eagerly to their assignments causing Christians everywhere to get busy, busy, busy and rush here and there.
Have you become so busy that you miss out on what God is doing around you and through you?
The ways that God wants to grow you to make the world a better place?
The Sabbath was a one day experience - resting in God.
Trusting in Him to provide, such as the manna.
Sabbath is to be a lifestyle.
Not just a single day on the calendar.
We find that rest in our relationship with God.
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