Saturday, May 15, 2021

The curtain will separate the Holy Place from the Most Holy Place

Exodus 26:15-37

Make upright frames of acacia wood for the tabernacle. Each frame is to be ten cubits long and a cubit and a half wide, with two projections set parallel to each other. Make all the frames of the tabernacle in this way. Make twenty frames for the south side of the tabernacle and make forty silver bases to go under them—two bases for each frame, one under each projection. 

Also make crossbars of acacia wood: five for the frames on one side of the tabernacle, five for those on the other side, and five for the frames on the west, at the far end of the tabernacle.

Make a curtain of blue, purple and scarlet yarn and finely twisted linen, with cherubim woven into it by a skilled worker.  Hang it with gold hooks on four posts of acacia wood overlaid with gold and standing on four silver bases. Hang the curtain from the clasps and place the ark of the covenant law behind the curtain. The curtain will separate the Holy Place from the Most Holy Place. Put the atonement cover on the ark of the covenant law 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.

For the entrance to the tent make a curtain of blue, purple and scarlet yarn and finely twisted linen—the work of an embroiderer. Make gold hooks for this curtain and five posts of acacia wood overlaid with gold. And cast five bronze bases for them.

The people of the ancient Near East were skilled in spinning, weaving, and using natural dyes (scarlet from the cochineal insect; purple, for the wealthy, from the murex shellfish). Fine embroidery was also produced. Precious and semiprecious stones were rounded, polished, and engraved. Gold and silver were beaten and worked into elaborate design. All these skills God called into play for the construction of his Tent.

Why?

The Lord told Moses every detail design of the tabernacle. For it is the place for the Lord. Everything has to do follow the way of the Lord. So if we like to honor the name of the Lord have to do follow the way of the Lord.

The curtain separates the Holy Place from the Most Holy Place, this is to distinguish between people who serve the Lord. Where I am in the tabernacle? Everyone who accepts Jesus as our master in our life, we are the sons of the Lord, we may stand in the Holy Place to serve and pray to the Lord. 

How?

Pray to the Lord directly is the highest position and role before the Lord. May my life and my behavior can honor the name of the Lord!



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