The Voice of the Trumpet
PREFACE THE THRESHOLD OF THE COURTROOM You do not begin inside the sanctuary. You begin at a gate. Before you stands the Tabernacle in the wilderness, the place where God chose to dwell among His people. You can see the white linen surrounding the court, the entrance standing open before you, the altar of sacrifice waiting within, the laver beyond it, and farther ahead the Tabernacle itself. Everything has been placed according to the pattern that God Himself gave to Moses, and although you may have read these instructions many times, there is something different about actually standing there. You are no longer looking at a diagram on a page. You are standing before the dwelling place of God. And the first thing you realize is that you cannot simply walk wherever you wish. There is a way in. Jesus said, “I am the way, the truth, and the life.” (John 14:6) I began to understand those words differently as I stood within the Tabernacle. The Way begins at the gate of the...