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"By faith he sojourned in the land of promise, as in a strange country, dwelling in
tabernacles with Isaac, and Jacob, the heirs with him of the same promise" (Heb. 11: 9).
Not only so, it represents the willingness of God, in His grace to have no settled place
upon this earth until sin is removed, and His pilgrim people are at home in peace. Since
Gen. 3: the sabbath rest of creation has been broken by the activities of redemption.
The date upon which the Tabernacle was set up is also a typical nature (Exod. 40: 17).