Fifty Years of the Biblical Tabernacle Experience
On Easter Sunday 1948, Baptist pastor Hart Baldwin of St. Petersburg, Florida greeted a group of visitors beneath the columns of "Moses' Tabernacle in the Wilderness." The product of a careful five-year building project, the tabernacle was a full-scale replica of the one described in Exodus 25–31. Wearing a 20-pound robe, Baldwin invited the crowd to consider the significance of the tabernacle in the wilderness, both to ancient Israel and to people of faith today. Baldwin himself had led the construction process, and guided...