This is from my forthcoming book, Salvation in Fresh Perspective: Covenant, Cross, and Kingdom (Wipf and Stock, Fall 2015).
We will see that the glory of God that descended on the Tabernacle in Exodus 40 is a type of Pentecost. Just as the Passover isn’t solely for the purpose of deliverance from Egypt, so the cross is not solely for the purpose of atoning for sin-guilt. Both of these (the Passover and the cross) are a means for God’s coming glory. God delivered Israel from Egypt so that they would become his holy nation, his nation of priests through whom the effects of the garden would be reversed. In the Garden humanity took upon itself moral autonomy thereby corrupting the vocational dimension of the image of God. Jesus recapitulates this failure through his perfect obedience and servanthood. Through expressed faith in the Lordship of Jesus, believers submit once again to the reign of God by means of the Holy Spirit that recreates the heart of humanity for servanthood, humility, trust, and complete obedience according to the Spirit of Jesus the king. In this feature of the cross, the role of servanthood and perfect obedience comes to light. With the character of humanity conforming to the perfect obedience of the Messiah, the image of God once again is restored in humanity and his righteous, good, just, and loving reign is reestablished on the earth.