Shadowland: Redemption: Week 25

Exodus 26: The Coverings, Boards, and Veil

• 26:2 The curtains are woven as 10 4 cubit wide strips 28 cubits in length. White linen for purity,
• 26:3 They are sewn together to form 2 5 panel sections,
• 26:5 The two sections are joined at the center of the tabernacle with 50 loops and golden clasps. They reach Sinai 50 days after leaving Egypt and Pentecost is 50 days after Passover - when the Holy Spirit was given. The 50th year is a Jubilee, and Noah's ark was 50 cubits wide and high.
• 26:7 Goat's hair wool was and still is standard Bedouin tent fabric. Goats were used for the sin offering.
• 26:14 "ram skins" - rams were used for the substitutionary atonement, as when the ram was found for Isaac. "badger skins" - also translated sealskin. "He had no form nor comeliness, and when we shall see Him there's no beauty that we should desire him." Isaiah 53:2
• 26:16 The frames width of 1½ cubits was not a whole number until joined together - as we are joined together into one body. "Tenons" is literally "hands".
• 26:25 Every firstborn Israelite male was to be redeemed with 5 shekels of silver. The foundation of the tabernacle was redemption - literally made with the atonement money that redeemed Israel. Exodus 38:25ff Exodus 30:11ff "...you will be redeemed without silver." Isaiah 52:3 "But you were not redeemed with perishable things like silver or gold." 1 Peter 1:18
• 26:33 Hanging the veil under the clasps of the linen ceiling makes the holy of holies 10x10x10 cubits - the proportions of the new Jerusalem. Revelation 21:16