Tuesday Tabernacle

And thou shalt make a covering for the tent of rams’ skins dyed red, and a covering above of badgers’ skins. Well.. I guess there’s only one verse concerning these coverings. I’ve always wondered about these coverings, especially the badgers’ skins. Apparently, so has everybody else because there’s nothing out [More…]

And thou shalt make curtains of goats’ hair to be a covering upon the tabernacle: eleven curtains shalt thou make. Honestly, I don’t think I’ve ever thought of the existence of a goat hair curtain. I didn’t know that you can make fabric out of goat’s hair. Why not? Wool is made of sheep’s [More…]

And thou shalt make fifty taches of gold, and couple the curtains together with the taches: and it shall be one tabernacle. We’ve covered just a little about the furniture of the tabernacle. The bible proceeds now into the fabrication of the curtains that cover the Holy Place and Most [More…]

And thou shalt make a candlestick of pure gold: of beaten work shall the candlestick be made: his shaft, and his branches, his bowls, his knops, and his flowers, shall be of the same. As I was saying before, I never thought of myself as the temple of God more than just the simple [More…]

Thou shalt also make a table of shittim wood: two cubits shall be the length thereof, and a cubit the breadth thereof, and a cubit and a half the height thereof. Now, the things of the tabernacle (the furniture, vessels, and instruments) are the same items of the temple. And Paul has said adamantly [More…]

And thou shalt make a mercy seat of pure gold: two cubits and a half shall be the length thereof, and a cubit and a half the breadth thereof. The mercy seat. Kapporeth. (The engish rendering of the Hewbrew word) This is a separate item of the tabernacle that rested upon the ark of the [More…]