seekeroftruth
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Exodus 26:31 “Make a curtain of blue, purple and scarlet yarn and finely twisted linen, with cherubim woven into it by a skilled worker. 32 Hang it with gold hooks on four posts of acacia wood overlaid with gold and standing on four silver bases. 33 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. 34 Put the atonement cover on the ark of the covenant law in the Most Holy Place. 35 Place the table outside the curtain on the north side of the tabernacle and put the lampstand opposite it on the south side.
36 “For the entrance to the tent make a curtain of blue, purple and scarlet yarn and finely twisted linen—the work of an embroiderer. 37 Make gold hooks for this curtain and five posts of acacia wood overlaid with gold. And cast five bronze bases for them.
36 “For the entrance to the tent make a curtain of blue, purple and scarlet yarn and finely twisted linen—the work of an embroiderer. 37 Make gold hooks for this curtain and five posts of acacia wood overlaid with gold. And cast five bronze bases for them.
I got this from bible-commentaries.com.
The key of this last portion of the chapter is in vs. 30, "Set up the tabernacle according to the plan shown you on the mountain." Moses saw the original and he had to make a copy of it. The heavenly reality is spiritual, the earthly copy is material. God wanted Moses to express in matter what cannot be observed by our five senses, so that it would become visible and touchable. What Moses had to do is the essence of art, or rather the essence of life itself. Life on earth, in its true form, is intended to be an expression of the reality of heaven. When God made man in His image and likeness He meant that he should live a life that would be an image of His life. In all we are and do, God wants us to show what He is and does. In our relationships, as fathers, mothers, children, lovers, in our thinking and feeling and doing, we exemplify the character of God. Sin has made a caricature of it all. But sin is only a temporary interruption of God's plan and purpose. The time will come when all life on earth and in Heaven will be what it was meant to be. To live a holy life, which is the only way life should be lived, we trace the plan that God shows us on the mountain.
