Home visits

For 51 years I have been reading scripture pretty much daily,

but I think I have not done enough musing.

I always thought God went to church with Moses,

but it seems likely He actually would visit Moses at Moses’ house.

Now Moses used to take the tent and pitch it outside the camp,

far off from the camp, and he called it the tent of meeting.

And everyone who sought the LORD would go out to the tent of meeting,

which was outside the camp. 

Ex 33.7

“Tent”  or KJV’s  “tabernacle” makes us think this was happening

at the place they built according to the heavenly pattern.

But no.

The construction on that blue-purple-red tent began in 36.2,

and Moises,

unlike our friend Matthew,

liked to jot things down in chronological order.

Thus, “a tent”, most likely Moses’ tent,

stood a distance from downtown of the desert camp,

and its surrounding suburbs,

and when Moses would go there

God would get cloudy,

and block the doorway.

When Moses entered the tent,

the pillar of cloud would descend

and stand at the entrance of the tent,

and the LORD would speak with Moses. 

Ex 33:9 

Sweet.