Only priests see the inner beauty; only God sees in the rams’ skin His Son’s consecrated heart. We’ve noticed that only priests saw the tabernacle’s inner beauty; and believers as priests today can “worship the Lord in the beauty of holiness!” (Ps 96:9). Similarly, only God saw the covering of rams’ skin dyed red. The […]
Everywhere we turn, we see new details that ravish our senses. What a display of God’s glory! There are both spiritual and practical reasons for the four different coverings of the ark. The distinctions include the words that describe them, the materials used, and their order of placement. The innermost covering was the mishkan, God’s […]
Mordecai-like, the King has taken us into His palace and dressed us with robes of royalty. I’ve left discussing purple to last, even though it always appears in the middle, as in “curtains of fine woven linen and blue, purple, and scarlet thread” (Ex 26:1). Of course, the colors are that way on a color […]
Is it possible that the scandalous stain of our sins could be removed by perfect human blood? Of the thread colors used to decorate the linen, the meaning of scarlet should be easiest to solve because a scarlet thread runs through Scripture. And yet, as we examine it, we see what appear to be two […]
Unlike red and yellow, blue remains blue throughout all its shades. How like heaven that is! Some today are not as quick to accept the old explanations for the color scheme God used in the curtains. Why should blue point to heaven? Why not water, or something else? That’s a fair question, so let’s examine […]
Every covering God ever provided both concealed and revealed, a great clue to the Big Picture. We’re about to discuss the construction of the tabernacle proper, and the court around it, so we should think about the materials used. “You shall make the tabernacle with ten curtains of fine woven linen and blue, purple, and […]
God has a very peculiar way of giving Moses a tour of His new home, and with good reason. On first reading of the descriptions God gave for this carefully planned dwelling, it would seem there were some things missing, and other things misplaced. As we’ve noted, there were no windows. But remember, this is […]
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All the colorful beauty that we see around us is actually in the light! Just so, Jesus is the light. There is so much more to see in the golden lampstand! The main shaft held its own lamp, but six branches grew out of it, each adding a lamp. God’s people are branches, linked with […]