EXODUS 36
14 He also made curtains of goats’ hair for a tent over the tabernacle. He made eleven curtains. 15 The length of each curtain was thirty cubits, and the breadth of each curtain four cubits. The eleven curtains were the same size. 16 He coupled five curtains by themselves, and six curtains by themselves. 17 And he made fifty loops on the edge of the outermost curtain of the one set, and fifty loops on the edge of the other connecting curtain. 18 And he made fifty clasps of bronze to couple the tent together that it might be a single whole. 19 And he made for the tent a covering of tanned rams’ skins and goatskins.
20 Then he made the upright frames for the tabernacle of acacia wood. 21 Ten cubits was the length of a frame, and a cubit and a half the breadth of each frame. 22 Each frame had two tenons for fitting together. He did this for all the frames of the tabernacle. 23 The frames for the tabernacle he made thus: twenty frames for the south side. 24 And he made forty bases of silver under the twenty frames, two bases under one frame for its two tenons, and two bases under the next frame for its two tenons. – Exodus 36:14-24
EXODUS 36 CURTAINS FOR THE TABERNACLE
In Genesis 27:11,15;37:31-34;1 Sam.19:12-17, they talk about the goat skin symbolizes sin. During Atonement Day, the high priest cast the sins of the nations upon a goat and drove it away as Lev.16:10,20-22 indicated. This account foreshadows our Lord Jesus Christ who cast our sins away as 2 Cor. 5:21 says: Like the goat, he will carry away our sin. “The next day, he saw Jesus coming to him and said, ‘Behold, the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world.” (John 1:29; Acts 3:19;1 John 2:2).
According to inspiredscriptures.com, the fact that there are 50 bronze clasps signifies the freedom from judgment that comes from Christ’s completed work on the cross. In Romans 8:1, we are no longer condemned because of our sins since they were already taken away by Jesus’ death on the cross. In Hebrews 8:12, God even promised that he will forget your sins.
The rams’ skins dyed red symbolized the substitution of guilt that is made for every believer. According to Matthew Henry, the shelter and special protection that the church is under are signified by the curtains of hair-cloth, which were spread over the tabernacle and the coverings of ram skins and badger skins over them. God has provided for his people a shadow from the heat and a covert from storm and rain which Isa.4:6 mentions.
REFLECTION
- Share a time when God covered you in his protection.
