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The tabernacle of God is with men (hē skēnē tou theou meta tōn anthrōpōn). It is one of the angels of the Presence (Rev 16:17; Rev 19:5) speaking.
And he shall dwell with them (kai skēnōsei met' autōn). Future active of skēnoō, already in Rev 7:15 from Eze 37:27; Zec 2:10; Zec 8:8 and used of the Incarnate Christ on earth by John (Joh 1:14), now a blessed reality of the Father. The metaphor stands for the Shekinah Glory of God in the old tabernacle (Rev 7:15; Rev 13:6; Rev 15:5), the true tabernacle of which it was a picture (Heb 8:2; Heb 9:11). God is now Immanuel in fact, as was true of Christ (Mat 1:23).