Whenever a census was taken, the half shekel reminded them they were “bought with a price.” A piece of timber is very weak by itself, but gains strength by having a good foundation, and by being tied to other pieces. So it was with the tabernacle, and so it is with God’s people. What was […]
The Christian’s progress in the desert may be slow, but our prospects are out of this world! Why are we taking so much time examining the tabernacle? Well, God describes the creation of the whole universe in about 50 verses; for the tabernacle, He takes 50 chapters! You see, this world is simply a temporary […]
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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 […]