Tabernacle Lesson 2

Tabernacle Lesson 2

The First Covering

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"Our fathers had the tabernacle of witness in the wilderness, as he had appointed speaking unto Moses that he should make it according to the fashion that he had seen." Acts 7:44
The Tabernacle is a witness of Jesus. Every thing in the Tabernacle complex centers around the Tabernacle "Tent", which is symbolic of Jesus. This lesson is about the first of three coverings that is to be placed over the "Tent" and it's symbolic meaning.

1. The first covering to be placed over the tent, the Tabernacle, is made with curtains. (Exodus 26:7 And thou shalt make curtains of goats' hair to be a covering upon the tabernacle: eleven curtains shalt thou make.)

2. Each curtain is cubits long and cubits wide.

(Exodus 26:8 The length of one curtain shall be thirty cubits, and the breadth of one curtain four cubits: and the eleven curtains shall be all of one measure.)

3. Each cubit equals 18 inches. Multiply the number of cubits in the length of a curtain by 18 and divide by 12 and the curtain is feet long.

4. Multiply the number of cubits in the width of a curtain by 18 and divide by 12 and the curtain is feet wide.

5. In (Exodus 26:7-11 And thou shalt make curtains of goats' hair to be a covering upon the tabernacle: eleven curtains shalt thou make.

8 The length of one curtain shall be thirty cubits, and the breadth of one curtain four cubits: and the eleven curtains shall be all of one measure.

9 And thou shalt couple five curtains by themselves, and six curtains by themselves, and shalt double the sixth curtain in the forefront of the tabernacle.

10 And thou shalt make fifty loops on the edge of the one curtain that is outmost in the coupling, and fifty loops in the edge of the curtain which coupleth the second.

11 And thou shalt make fifty taches of brass, and put the taches into the loops, and couple the tent together, that it may be one.) the eleven curtains are coupled to make one covering.

6. With each curtain 45 feet long and 6 feet wide, the tent, with 11 curtains coupled together would be 45 feet wide and (6 X 11) feet long.

7. The first covering is to hang over the Tabernacle on it's two sides one , which is 18 inches. (Exodus 26:13 And a cubit on the one side, and a cubit on the other side of that which remaineth in the length of the curtains of the tent, it shall hang over the sides of the tabernacle on this side and on that side, to cover it.)

8. The first covering is made of hair.

(Exodus 26:7 And thou shalt make curtains of goats' hair to be a covering upon the tabernacle: eleven curtains shalt thou make.)

9. John D. Davis' A Dictionary of the Bible states that "The ordinary goat of Syria is black in color". This first covering is in color.

10. Black is symbolic of .

(John 3:19 And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil.)

11. Goat's hair is symbolic of the Scapegoat which would bear the of the people.

(Leviticus 16:20-22 And when he hath made an end of reconciling the holy place, and the tabernacle of the congregation, and the altar, he shall bring the live goat:

21 And Aaron shall lay both his hands upon the head of the live goat, and confess over him all the iniquities of the children of Israel, and all their transgressions in all their sins, putting them upon the head of the goat, and shall send him away by the hand of a fit man into the wilderness:

22 And the goat shall bear upon him all their iniquities unto a land not inhabited: and he shall let go the goat in the wilderness.)

12. The black covering placed over the Tabernacle is symbolic of bearing our .

(Hebrews 9:28 So Christ was once offered to bear the sins of many; and unto them that look for him shall he appear the second time without sin unto salvation.

1 Peter 2:24 Who his own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree, that we, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness: by whose stripes ye were healed.)

13. "And ye know that he was manifested to take away our ; and in him is sin."

(1 John 3:5 And ye know that he was manifested to take away our sins; and in him is no sin.)

14. A person standing under the Tabernacle would see the four colors of Blue, Red, White, and Purple which is symbolic of , and would see the first covering black in color hanging over the two sides about 18 inches, symbolic of our placed on Jesus.

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