What is the Glory that Filled the Tabernacle?
The glory of God that filled the Tabernacle is not a manifestation of God’s immanent light. While the glory made it impossible for Moses to enter the Tabernacle, God’s immanent light would have allowed Moses to enter and experience God to the maximum that his soul would be capable of receiving. The filling of the Tabernacle with God’s glory is cognate to the filling described in Jeremiah 23:24 where God says: “I fill all heavens and earth.” Here the verse does not mean that God is filling “in it,” but rather, that His essence is full of it and fills it all. This a different type of filling all together—the filling of reality with God’s essence. It is not the filling of the immanent light but actually a revelation of the true infinity of God’s transcendent and surrounding light. In the Tabernacle as well, God’s glory is the transcendent light of God’s true infinity, revealing itself to be all-inclusive and omnipresent. This is the ultimate purpose of the Tabernacle–the revelation of
