God is not simply able to bring them into the promised land; that is only the first stage of what he intends. The land is itself a signpost to the far greater reality, the entire creation which will in the end be flooded with God’s knowledge and glory.4 The journey that follows, with the people being led by the presence of God himself, is pointing on to God’s intention to fill the whole creation, not just one small tent, with his glorious presence.
