In | Workbook: Moses’ Tabernacle and Solomon’s Temple, Part 2

Most importantly, these parallels reinforce continuity in God’s indwelling presence from one place to the next. All of the ritual that happens in these two complexes matters because of the presence of God. These parallels also remind the people, and us, that the ritual life of Solomon’s magnificent “modern” complex is the same “old time religion” that God asked of Moses in the book of Exodus. The blueprint has changed, but the underlying purpose and value of the “house” has not. Temple ritual has become a statelier event, but it’s still about a divine encounter and about God’s people serving “before the LORD.”