God does not want to be a distant God but wants to dwell among his people. That is why God tells Moses in Exodus 25:8: “Let them make me a sanctuary, that I may dwell in their midst”.
John writes in chapter 1:14: “The Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we have seen his glory, glory as of the only Son from the Father, full of grace and truth”. He wants to experience for himself what it means to live as a human being. That is why he understands us.
Jesus described himself as the temple that will be destroyed and rebuilt in three days (John 2:19).
Jesus says in John 14:23: “If anyone loves me, he will keep my word, and my Father will love him, and we will come to him and make our home with him”. God’s is present through the Holy Spirit.
Paul reminds the Corinthians: “Do you not know that you are God’s temple and that God’s Spirit dwells in you?” (1 Corinthians 3:16).
As children of God, we are always online with God. Through Jesus we can talk to our heavenly Father at any time.
God is interested in how we are doing. We should ask him for our daily bread. Tell him what we need to live. He wants to hear from us what we are observing and where we have questions. A third level is to share our feelings with God. Tell him what makes us happy and what makes us sad. He rejoices when we are also interested in what is on His heart.
God wants to share with us live.
Messiah images in the Torah
- God seeks us – Adam where are you?
- The possibility of a choice – Two trees in the Garden of Eden
- Neediness instead divinity – A new view
- God’s master plan – Salvation through a human being
- A divine clothing – God acts
- A world upside down – Kai and Abel
- Living in the presence of God – Enoch
- God is calling – Noah
- A king-priest like Melchizedek
- God visits Abraham
- Life through a sacrifice – Isaac
- The ladder to heaven – Jacob
- New identity from Jacob to Israel
- Messiah Ben Joseph – Joseph the son of Jacob
- Shiloh, whom all nations will serve – Blessing on Judah
- Moses, the prototype of the Saviour
- References to Jesus in Moses
- The Passover Lamb
- The pillar of cloud and fire
- God wants to be with us – The tabernacle / The temple
- The snake on a pole – An image of a new beginning
- The rock in the desert – Faith is not a method
- A prophet greater than Moses
- A star from Jacob – Bileam