Where did the cloud that filled the tabernacle first appear?
It first appeared when the Israelites came out of Goshen and camped at the Red Sea. There the cloud protected them from the Egyptians, becoming darkness to Egypt but light and protection to Israel, and at night a pillar of fire. That same cloud later covered the tent of congregation and filled the tabernacle.
Les teaches that after Moses finished setting up the tabernacle complex and the court, a cloud covered the tent of the congregation, and the glory of the Lord filled the tabernacle. Moses could not enter. Les explains this cloud was the very presence of God, called the Shekinah glory, and it was the same cloud that first appeared when Israel came out of Goshen and encamped by the Red Sea. It shielded Israel from the Egyptian onslaught, was black darkness to the Egyptians, protection to the Jews, and at night became the pillar of fire. That same cloud now rested over the Holy of Holies, where the Ark of the Covenant was, filling that back room of the tabernacle.
And the angel of God, which went before the camp of Israel, removed and went behind them; and the pillar of the cloud went from before their face, and stood behind them:
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Was the cloud over the tabernacle the same as the cloud at the Red Sea?
The cloud that came and rested over the tabernacle was the same cloud that first appeared when Israel came out of Goshen and encamped by the Red Sea.
Where did the cloud rest in the tabernacle, and what was in that room?
This same cloud now comes and rests over the Holy of Holies, in which is the Ark of the Covenant, and it literally fills that little back room of the tabernacle.