“Look, I have inscribed you on the palms of my hands; your walls are continually before me.” Isa 44:16 God has always confirmed His presence among His people with a physical sign. Manna was an obvious one. God’s sufficiency to meet a daily requirement for sustenance is what sustained His people. Their physical need was met by supernatural provision. The tabernacle was another. It provided the space whereby spiritual atonement for sin might take place. Physical, ritualistic sacrifices were made there. An unblemished animal was sacrificed as evidence that supernatural pardon of sin was not only possible but had actually occurred. Signs always point to something beyond their own manifestation. The meaning of these occurrences, as spectacular and strange as they often were, transcends their own utility. In fact, God’s presence being marked by a sign happens so often throughout the Scriptures that a pattern is established. From Moses to Pentecost exa