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The concept of doing things for the glory of God is an increasingly popular talking point among pastors and church leaders. In order to clarify this theme and prevent it from being reduced to a sentimental cliché, Christopher Morgan and Robert Peterson have brought together several essays exploring the theology and function of the glory of God in both Old and New Testament Scripture.

How did God make his glorious presence known in the tabernacle? By the cloud. God announces this in Exodus 29:43 where he proclaims: “There I will meet with the people of Israel, and it shall be sanctified by my glory.” Indeed, the book of Exodus dramatically ends after the lengthy description of the instructions for building the tabernacle (chaps. 25–31) followed by the detailed description of the actual building (chaps. 35–40)10 with the cloud settling on the tabernacle: Then the cloud covered
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