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The Tent of Meeting was a microcosm of the created universe and of the heavenly throne room that was above the created universe...God's glory fills all of creation, but there is yet a heavenly throne room that is above and beyond the physical universe. The Tent of Meeting is a smaller version of this cosmic reality.

In contrast to contemporary evangelical thinking, where Adam's sin has become the default apologetic to every crisis, calamity, and issue of theodicy, the Old Testament very seldom—and then only obliquely—refers to Adam (significantly, the Old Testament book that is most concerned with theodicy, Job, never invokes Gen. 3). (214)

the immanence of God is most vigorously expressed in the claim that God's eternal identity is as "God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob." God refuses to be identi-fied simply as "the supreme being," "the unmoved mover," or "the un-caused first cause." It is not that these designations are wrong; they are simply not how God relates to humans. (212)

We should observe, moreover, that the "name" here is not just YHWH; it is "YHWH, the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob." In short, he forever identifies himself with the covenant, with the patriarchs, and with Israel. (208)