However, the Most High does not live in houses made by human hands. As the prophet says: ‘Heaven is My throne and the earth is My footstool. What kind of house will you build for Me, says the Lord, or where will My place of repose be? (Acts 7:48,49)
Tabernacles are temporary resting places for Jesus, His desire is to be with the children of men. An old Belgian missionary once told us that when he was a missionary in China, families would travel three days by foot to attend mass, which they could do only rarely on major feast days. When the communists took over China they declared the Catholic Benedictine monks enemies of the state, they forbid them from saying mass, and they decreed that they must either leave or die. These families showed up and were told by the monks that there was no more mass, no more confession, no more sacraments, that they must turn around and go home. The good priest wept when he told this story, as did the beautiful Chinese Catholic farmers who went home weeping.
Psalm 42:
Judge me, O God, and distinguish my cause from the nation that is not holy: deliver me from the unjust and deceitful man. [2] For thou art God my strength: why hast thou cast me off? and why do I go sorrowful whilst the enemy afflicteth me? [3] Send forth thy light and thy truth: they have conducted me, and brought me unto thy holy hill, and into thy tabernacles. [4] And I will go in to the altar of God: to God who giveth joy to my youth. [5] To thee, O God my God, I will give praise upon the harp: why art thou sad, O my soul? and why dost thou disquiet me?
[6] Hope in God, for I will still give praise to him: the salvation of my countenance, and my God.
Psalm 25:
[6] I will wash my hands among the innocent; and will compass thy altar, O Lord: [7] That I may hear the voice of thy praise: and tell of all thy wondrous works. [8] I have loved, O Lord, the beauty of thy house; and the place where thy glory dwelleth. [9] Take not away my soul, O God, with the wicked: nor my life with bloody men: [10] In whose hands are iniquities: their right hand is filled with gifts.
[11] But as for me, I have walked in my innocence: redeem me, and have mercy on me. [12] My foot hath stood in the direct way: in the churches I will bless thee, O Lord.