Although we have been redeemed, delivered, cleansed, and
purified, all this is negative; we do not yet have anything
positive. Hence, we are not yet
qualified to be God’s dwelling place. In order to be God’s habitation,
something heavenly must be wrought into our being. Therefore, we need to eat the heavenly manna and drink the living water
so that something heavenly and living might be constituted into us. Now we
are daily and even hourly eating of the manna and drinking of the water. (CWWL,
1977, vol. 1, p. 202)
The book of Exodus reveals
that God desires to rescue His people from everything other than Himself, that
He wants to deliver them from everything that is not God. After the exodus from Egypt, God’s people saw a heavenly
vision by which they came to know God Himself and, in addition, to know the
kind of living that is in accordance with God. Then they could be built up as God’s
dwelling place on earth. This is the basic concept of the book of Exodus.
It is on the mountain that God’s people can also see
the revelation of the desire of God’s heart. Here we see that God wants us to
live according to what He is because the
desire of His heart is to have a dwelling place on earth. The tabernacle was erected as the temporary
fulfillment of this desire. Before the tabernacle was built, a detailed
revelation regarding every aspect of it was given to Moses in chapters 25 to
31. The remaining chapters cover the experience of the children of Israel at
the mountain and tell of the building of the tabernacle. (Life-study of Exodus,
pp. 483, 516, 582-583, 193, 137)
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