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The Tabernacle bloo1, shed for the remission of sin, paid all the debt of a guilry world. God's holy law is forever vindicated. He is "just, and the justiiier of him which believeth in Jesus" (Rom. 3 :_26). A~d the pardoned sinner, redeemed by the perfect Sm~Offenng, is no longer afraid to meet a holy God. Of this blessed truth the curtain of goats' hair, which hung over the door of the tabernacle and above the fine linen curtain, speaks in no uncertain terms. When the priest placed his hands upon the head of the scapegoat, and sent him away into the wilderness he was portraying, in shadow and in type, what our Lord did for us when He bore away "the sin of the world." (See Lev. 16:21, 22; John 1:29.) Hear what His Word tells us of His full and complete forgiveness, freely offered to the penitent sinner who accepts Him as his perfect Sin- Offering: . "I have blotted out, as a thick cloud, thy transgres- sions, and, as a cloud, thy sins: return unto me; for I have redeemed thee" (Isaiah 44:22, 23). "Thou hast cast all my sins behind thy back" (Isaiah 38:17). "Thou wilt cast all their sins into the depths of the sea" (Micah 7:19). "As for as the east is from the west, so far hath he removed our transgressions from us" (Psalm 103:12). "I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more" (Jer. 31:34; Heb. 10:17). As we bear in mind the fact that our Lord Jesus was the Lamb of God, "without blemish and without spot," we realize that He was worthy to become our Substitute on Calvary. Of His holy, sinless life the pure white cur- tains of goats' hair plainly spoke. His Father in heaven bore witness to His sinlessness when He said, "This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased." The Son could
107 The Tabernacle say, without fear of contradiction, "I do always th~se things that please him" (John 8: 29). John the Baptist, Jesus' own works, His teachings, the apostles, the whole Word of God-all these prove finally and forever that Jesus of Nazareth was the holy Son of God. This is why the Holy Spirit could say of Him, through the Apostle Paul, as He became our Sin-Offering, "He hath made him to be sin for us, wJ:,o knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him" (II Cor. 5 :21). 4. The Beautiful Curtain of Pine Twined Lh1en. _In an earlier lesson we observed that the hangings which formed the gate, the door, and the veil of .the tabcrna_cle were of the same material as that of the mncr cov~rmg above this "tent of the congregation"-fine twined lmen, embroidered with cherubim of blue, purple, and scarlet. All of these hangings and curtains speak_ to us of t~e glories of our Lord and Saviour, Jesus Chnst. And agam we are reminded of the fact that the priests in the Holy Place and the high priest in the Holy of Holies could see nothing but these beautiful foreshadowings of ou~ bles_sed Lord-these and the gold, which also pictured His deity. Not only so; but no one other than the priests. coul? behold these things of glory and beauty. Even so, m t~1s Christian era, only the believer-priests, the born-agam children of God, can see in the lowly Jesus of Nazareth all the divine perfections of His eternal deity and matchless glory. The unbelieving world sees Him only as a .:nan; His loved ones see Him as the God-Man, the one alto- gether lovely." We turn to Exod. 26:1-6; 36:8-13 for the Holy Spirit's description of the beautiful covering which the priests
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