What does it mean that someone lives in a tent in the Bible?
Living in a tent in the Bible symbolizes a temporary, non-permanent existence that can be picked up and moved. Paul refers to the body as a tent or tabernacle, emphasizing that it is not substantial or permanent, not here forever, and temporary.
Les teaches that when you live in a tent, you're not living in something substantial and permanent; you're living in something you can pick up and move. He connects this to Paul's reference to our body as a tent, as a tabernacle—it is not here forever, it is temporary. Then in chapter 25, God calls Moses up the mountain amid fire and thunder and instructs Israel to bring willing offerings: gold, silver, brass, purple, blue, scarlet, fine linen, goat's hair, ram skins dyed red, and badger skins (which were really seals). These materials were for the tabernacle tent, and the Israelites had them because they spoiled Egypt, as God sovereignly caused the Egyptians to give of their wealth.