Our fathers had the tabernacle of the Testimony with them in the wilderness. It was constructed exactly as God had directed Moses, according to the pattern he had seen.
God gave them a clear rule for worship, but they would not be bridled by it. They invented strange worship beside what He prescribed, and they grasped only the carnal shadow instead of the spiritual substance. Their sin was wantonness and rashness, not ignorance.
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When Israel joined itself to idols, God said, Let them alone. He withdrew His restraining grace, and they became so scandalously mad upon their idols as no people ever were. This is the saddest punishment of all, when God gives men up to their own hearts' lust.
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Commenting on Acts 7:42-50
The tabernacle was called the tabernacle of testimony because the law, God's will written out, was placed in the ark within it, and because it testified that the Shekinah dwelt in Israel. It was with them in the wilderness as both a sign of His presence and a record of His commandments.
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