SCRIPTURE: EXODUS 26
THE TABERNCALE (vs, 1-37)
Specification on the curtain to be made with tabernacle were specified. They were to setup the tabernacle according to the plan shown in the mountain. Ten curtains are to be of the same size separated into two groups with 5 curtains in each group. 50 loops to be made on the end curtain of each set. A curtain of goat hair with the same size has to be made for the tent on the tabernacle. The tent has be be covered with ram skins dyed red and that a covering hides of sea cows. Upright frames of the tabernacle should be made of acacia wood. There will be 20 frames from the south and north side of the tabernacle. Cross bars with 5 frames on 5 sides were to be made of acacia wood.
A curtain made of blue purple and scarlet yarn and finely twisted linen with cherubim worked by a skilled worker should be hanged with gold hooks on 4 posts of acacia wood overlaid with gold standing on 4 silver basins. Place the ark of the Testimony behind the curtain. The curtain will separate the Holy Place from the Most Holy Place. The atonement cover on the ark of the Testimony be put in the Most Holy Place. Place the table outside the curtain on the north side of the tabernacle and put the lampstand opposite it on the south side. A curtain of blue purple and scarlet yarn and finely twisted linen by an embroiderer be made for the entrance to the tent. Make gold hooks to this curtain overlaid with gold and 5 bronze basin for them.
THOUGHTS:
The curtain separated the 2 sacred places in the Tabernacle – the Holy Place and the Most Holy place. The priest entered the Holy place each day to converse with God and to feed the altar of incense, the lampstand and the table with the Bread of Presence. The Most Holy Place was where God himself dwell. His presence rested on the atonement cover which covered the Ark of the Covenant. Only the high priest could enter the Most High place one a year on Day of Atonement to make atonement for the sins of the nation. When Jesus Christ died on the cross, the curtain in the temple was torn from top to bottom. It symbolizes our free access to God without having to approach God through priests and sacrifices.