My tabernacle also shall be with them: yea, I will be their God, and they shall be my people.
God's tabernacle and sanctuary being with His people means He Himself dwells among them and sets His sanctuary in the midst of them forevermore. That dwelling is the same promise expressed in the sanctuary set among them forever, the tabernacle placed with them as His abiding presence.
The verse establishes mutual belonging: He will be their God and they shall be His people. This is a covenant relationship in which belonging runs both ways, He owning them as His and giving Himself to them as theirs.
This belonging is an everlasting covenant of peace in which He places His people and multiplies them. He establishes them, increases them, and binds that growth and stability to peace that does not end. He sanctifies Israel, and His sanctuary in the midst of them makes it known to the nations and to the heathen that the Lord does it.
The verse carries the mind forward to the triumph of Israel and Judah. Its accomplishment comes through human instrumentalities charged with divine power, with all glory ascribed to God's great power. That accomplishment is made possible by unity and cooperation of the human with the divine, humanity blended with divinity grasping divine efficiency until the work is complete.
The promise belongs to commandment-keeping people in the future time of perplexity, trouble, deception and coming conflict. Then the only safety is being of one heart bound up with Christ and with one another, so united that they can claim God's presence and protection. Claiming it involves taking hold of Christ's strength and making peace with Him, and passing through Jacob's experience when challenged. At the appointed time they will receive glad tidings of deliverance that fill the heart with gladness and the lips with joyful praise.
Applied to Christians, the promise means believers are the temple of the living God where God dwells. Belonging to Him in that dwelling calls them to holiness and separation from idols, uncleanness, unbelief and idolatry.
God's tabernacle and sanctuary being with His people means He Himself dwells among them and sets His sanctuary in the midst of them forevermore. That dwelling is the same promise expressed in the sanctuary set among them forever, the tabernacle placed with them as His abiding presence.
The verse establishes mutual belonging: He will be their God and they shall be His people. This is a covenant relationship in which belonging runs both ways, He owning them as His and giving Himself to them as theirs.
This belonging is an everlasting covenant of peace in which He places His people and multiplies them. He establishes them, increases them, and binds that growth and stability to peace that does not end. He sanctifies Israel, and His sanctuary in the midst of them makes it known to the nations and to the heathen that the Lord does it.
The verse carries the mind forward to the triumph of Israel and Judah. Its accomplishment comes through human instrumentalities charged with divine power, with all glory ascribed to God's great power. That accomplishment is made possible by unity and cooperation of the human with the divine, humanity blended with divinity grasping divine efficiency until the work is complete.
The promise belongs to commandment-keeping people in the future time of perplexity, trouble, deception and coming conflict. Then the only safety is being of one heart bound up with Christ and with one another, so united that they can claim God's presence and protection. Claiming it involves taking hold of Christ's strength and making peace with Him, and passing through Jacob's experience when challenged. At the appointed time they will receive glad tidings of deliverance that fill the heart with gladness and the lips with joyful praise.
Applied to Christians, the promise means believers are the temple of the living God where God dwells. Belonging to Him in that dwelling calls them to holiness and separation from idols, uncleanness, unbelief and idolatry.