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The Tabernacle ':e see the nail-scarred hands and feet and the wounded side. And we thank Him for paying so costly a price as a ransom for our souls! That this redemption money was only a type · · d f p , , 1s ev1- ent rom eter s reference to it many centuries later- f thr~ugh him the Holy Spirit interpreted its signific;nc:r saymg, ' "Y . e were not redeemed with corruptible things, as srlv~r and gold ... but with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot" (I Peter 1:18, 19). Thus th~ atonement money in Israel was a picture of our redemption through Christ Jesus, our Lord. God made it ver~ clear to Moses that this silver was to be used in the service of the tabernacle, even as we read again in Exod. 38:25-28. As we ~hall see from a later study, the boards of the t_abernacle itself rested in sockets of silver made from this redemption money. Exod. 38:28 tells us that Moses took from ·t a "th d h 1 ousan seven undred seventy and fi_ve sh~kels" and "made hooks for the pillars, and overlaid their chapiters, and :filleted them." . It mu st ha:e been an impressive sight-to behold the pillars of brass Ill sockets of brass the wh't 1· h . f d b , 1 e men angmgs ast e~e Y hooks of silver, and the ornamental silver chap1ters above--all glistening in th 1. h I B h h . . . e sun 1g t. ut ow muc more rmpress1ve is the sight of the God of glory, the spotless Lamb of Calv b · . . . ary, earmg our sms m H1s own body on the tree-Christ, our Righteousness our Sin- Bearer, our Redeemer! ' The Gate 1 : The Beautiful Hanging. There was no color in the hangmg that formed the court; but the gate was made of
75 The Tabernacle «blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen, wrought with needlework." The :fine white linen was woven with the beautiful colors, all of which speaks to us of the Lord Jesus, who is Himself the Way to God. The hanging over the gate was of the same material as that which made the door of the tabernacle, the veil that separated the Holy Place from the Holy of Holies, and the covering that went over the tabernacle and was seen from the inside. There were four of these coverings, which formed the roof of the tent; but the one which the priests could see as they looked up was the fine linen curtain with the blue, purple, and scarlet, woven with the fine twined linen. All of these--the hangings that made the gate, the door, the veil, and the curtain above the tabernacle--fore- shadowed the Person and work of Christ. Moreover, the gate, the door, and the veil had this in common, that they opened the way into the presence of God. The gate gave entrance to the brazen altar and the laver, where sin was dealt with at the foot of the cross, as it were. The door led the priests into the place of communion and fellowship with God through prayer and a ministry which pointed on to Christ, the Light of the World and the Bread of Life. The veil opened the way into the Holy of Holies, which was a type of heaven itself, God's eternal dwelling-place. In all of these hangings and in the curtain above, the fine twined linen speaks to us of Christ's perfect humanity; the blue, of His deity; the scarlet of His sacrifice; the pur- ple, of His Kingly authority. Blue is the color that re- minds us of heaven; it is the color of the sky; and our Lord came down from heaven to dwell among men, in order that He might become our Saviour. Because He was «God manifest in the flesh," "Immanuel, which being
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