1   And I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth were passed away; and there was no more sea.      2   And I John saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband.      3   And I heard a great voice out of heaven saying, Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men, and he will dwell with them, and they shall be his people, and God himself shall be with them, and be their God. ~ REVELATION 21:1-3

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“Behold, the Tabernacle of God is with men…” This is a City prepared as a Bride adorned for her husband, yet it is call the Tabernacle of God. How does this differ from the Tabernacle that Moses made according to the fashion of what he saw in heaven? Both are types. Both are declaring a mystery. The Tabernacle Moses built was a type of a body that God was building but needed the Presence of God that was hidden to be unveiled. Then we see this heavenly Tabernacle as a Bride, but has the Lamb as the Temple of it. Looking with spiritual eyes one can see that both represent the same thing. The Bride, the Body of Christ, is the Tabernacle where He dwells and performs all His desire from this place of His rest (Ps 132:13-14).