"God gave us an object lesson of what He intended each of us to be
when He gave instructions to Moses to build a sanctuary. The sanctuary
was to be a lesson book to help us understand the wonder of the
incarnation of Christ.
Exodus 25
8 And let them make me a sanctuary; that I may dwell among them.
The sanctuary was only to be temporary.
It would become old and
decay, and yet within that dwelling was the presence of God Himself.
--Here is the picture of One who is eternal, sinless, pre-existent and
self-existent,
--dwelling in that which was temporary, sinful and of human
origin.
God did not make the sanctuary Himself. It was made by man according
to God’s instructions.
--The building was constructed from the materials
of earth, the dust on which the curse of sin rested." EllenBurns