The Word who is Life (cf. I Jn 1:4), who
tabernacles among us in the flesh (cf. Jn 1:14), this same Jesus is The Lamb who was sacrificed on Calvary.
Then, this plan became flesh in the person of Jesus Christ and
tabernacled among us.»
It is not generally realised that the second part of St John's key statement on the Incarnation, «The Word was made flesh and dwelt (or lived) among us» should be translated literally as «
tabernacled among us».
Therefore this profound and prophetic text can give us a vision of the plan of God — «The Word was made flesh and
tabernacled among us».
And so John 1:14 reads, «And the Word became flesh and
tabernacled among us.»
In the old tent, the glory of God hid behind curtains, but the Word's tent of flesh was transparent to glory: The Word became flesh and
tabernacled among us, and we beheld His glory.
When God wrapped himself in flesh, strapped on sandals, and set up
his tabernacle among us, he made a beeline for the poor, the sick, the marginalized, the despised, the sinners, the misfits, and the minorities.
Not exact matches
The child who trusts the wisdom of these pages has a head start on David, who had to be convinced by Nathan that it is not we who must build God a
tabernacle, but God who chooses to dwell in and
among us.
«have them make a sanctuary for me, and I will dwell
among them» (Exodus 25:8) One of the most important lessons we can learn from the
tabernacle is that it is said to have...
And this in turn reminds us of what God did during the Exodus when he «camped»
among his people in the cloud over the
tabernacle.
The Greek word means literally that the Word «
tabernacled»
among us, that he pitched his tent on our site.
The soul... dwells in a mortal
tabernacle; so Christians sojourn
among perishable things, while they look for the imperishability which is in the heavens.
Some of the rabbis said clearly «the world was not made except for the Messiah,» and «from the beginning of the world God desired to dwell
among His creatures and this desire was fulfilled when the
tabernacle was erected in the wilderness.»
This saying from a first century collection of Syrian Rabbis echoes the exact word used in the prologue of St. John «The Word was made flesh and
tabernacled (literally: «pitched his tent»)
among us» (John 1:14).
The
tabernacle of God was with men and he would dwell
among them God had come to his own people, with all that his coming might imply of might, of triumph, of abundance, of inspiration.
In his own Person Jesus fulfils what was shown symbolically by the Old Testament
tabernacle and temple: he is truly the place where God dwells
among his people.
This unique expression is used in the Old Testament of the Tent of Meeting or
Tabernacle in the desert, where Moses and Aaron went to speak with God, the place where God lived
among them and beside them.
He dwells
among us in the
tabernacles of our churches throughout the world and in every succeeding generation until the end of time.