And there shall be a tabernacle
Christ, who tabernacled in our nature, and is the minister of the
true tabernacle, which God pitched, and not man; who will be
spiritually present in the word and ordinances, where the
shepherds pitch their tents; and who will be that to his people
as shepherds' tents are to them, to which the allusion is:
for a shadow in the day time from the heat:
from the heat of a fiery law, which works wrath; from the flaming
sword of justice, which calls for vengeance; from the wrath of
God, which is poured forth like fire; from Satan's temptations,
compared to fiery darts; and from the violence of persecution;
for there will be no more after the last struggle of the beast,
and the slaying of the witnesses: and for a place of
refuge;
until the indignation be over and past: as Christ is a refuge for
sensible sinners to flee unto for safety, from avenging justice,
and the wrath of God; so he is a place of security, and has his
chambers of safety for saints, from all dangers, and from every
enemy, ( Isaiah 26:20
Isaiah
26:21 ) : and for a covert from storm and from
rain;
from the blast of the terrible ones, the antichristian powers,
which will be as a storm against a wall, ( Isaiah 25:4 ) this will
be the hour of temptation, which will come upon and try them that
dwell upon the earth, from which Christ will preserve his
faithful ones, ( Revelation
3:10 ) ( Isaiah 32:2 ) .