They were wanderers,
and they felt that God was guiding them.
They settled in a promised land,
nowhere to move forward, they settled,
preserved their land,
time and space became static.
God was tied to it.
God was not expected to move beyond their land and time.
Even later generations thought
that God was standing in the space and time of their fathers.
There came unaltered temple and traditions.
They called it security, fidelity, and holiness.
---------------------
The Son of Man has nowhere to lay his head...
he prefers to lay his head among those who are on a pilgrimage with him.
In the past he lived in tents, movable with the cloud,
not in temples, stuck to a place.
if only the people of God were to be willing to move with the Messiah,
and not try to tie him down!
It is not God or religion that has gone away,
it is the sense of justice that has disappeared.
