God’s Glory Indicates His Presence.
Glory is a characteristic of God seen in both the Old and New Testament descriptions of God and his presence. In Exodus 33:22, the glory of the Lord indicated his presence as to Moses, “and while my glory passes by I will put you in a cleft of the rock, and I will cover you with my hand until I have passed by.” The visible presence of God’s glory was seen in a cloud during the Exodus, and in Solomon’s Temple after the Ark of the Covenant was put in it. The glory of the LORD dwelt on Mount Sinai, and the cloud covered it six days. And on the seventh day, he called to Moses out of the midst of the cloud (Exodus 16:10). The glory of the Lord appeared to all the people during the time of the Tabernacle. Then the cloud covered the tent of meeting, and the glory of the Lord filled the tabernacle (Exodus 40:34). The Book of John connects God’s presence in giving the Law and the indwelling of the presence of God in the Tabernacle to Jesus dwelling with humanity by calling Jesus “the Word.”
