God's Presence in the Tabernacle

In chapter 40 of Exodus, God lays out the deal with Moses. He's going to make a portable dwelling place for me and I'm going to live in this set apart, super sacred, holy part in the middle of this tent temple. And again, you got the ugliness going on with the idolatry, but ultimately the tabernacle does get built. But we also leave Exodus with a lot of questions about how this relationship between a perfect God and really flawed people is going to work. How's this going to play out over generations? What's going to happen when people didn't see all of these miracles in Exodus? Well, those questions are going to get answered