The Dwelling Place of God with Man (2)
The Tabernacle - The Goats' Hair Curtains • Sermon • Submitted • Presented
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Text: Exodus 26:7-13
Intro: There were eleven of these curtains. They were placed under the ram skins that were died red. They extended over the top of the Tabernacle, down the sides and back to the ground. Five of them were coupled together into one curtain which was placed over the Most Holy Place. Five were coupled together into one curtain which was placed over the Holy Place. They were coupled by clasps of brass fitted into loops on each edge. The curtains over the Most Holy Place were long enough to fall down and cover the back. Exodus 36:14-18
The Eleventh curtain is included into the six curtains by themselves. I separated this curtain in the description to show that it was different than the rest because it was the doubled up portion. Even though it was coupled with the five it had a specific place which was to hang over the five pillars at the entrance at the east end.
And he made curtains of goats’ hair for the tent over the tabernacle: eleven curtains he made them.
The Goat Hair was set apart for the ____________________.
And he brought the people’s offering, and took the goat, which was the sin offering for the people, and slew it, and offered it for sin, as the first.
And one goat for a sin offering, to make an atonement for you.
The rams skins died red pictured for us mercy applied through the shed blood of Christ as our substitute.
The goat skin curtains are a clear picture of our Lord Jesus Christ as our Sin-offering.
Yet it pleased the Lord to bruise him; he hath put him to grief:
When thou shalt make his soul an offering for sin,
He shall see his seed, he shall prolong his days,
And the pleasure of the Lord shall prosper in his hand.
And walk in love, as Christ also hath loved us, and hath given himself for us an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweetsmelling savour.
By the which will we are sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.
For by one offering he hath perfected for ever them that are sanctified.
For he hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him.
All the evil, the wrong, the shame, and the misery brought into this world by Satan and the free will of man. All the tragedy wrought in man and by man. All that made man an offense to God. The eternal God, the fullness of the Godhead, was charged against him as if He had actually thought every thought, and committed every deed of sin.
It was this indescribable task, which He foresaw in the garden.
He sweat drops of blood, not because of the physical death which He would suffer, for He knew He would rise again. (Not to take away from His suffering.) No, but that in that physical death, hanging on the cross, He, Holy God, became sin for you and me.
For innumerable evils have compassed me about:
Mine iniquities have taken hold upon me, so that I am not able to look up;
They are more than the hairs of mine head: therefore my heart faileth me.
Sacrifice and offering thou didst not desire;
Mine ears hast thou opened:
Burnt offering and sin offering hast thou not required.
Then said I, Lo, I come:
In the volume of the book it is written of me,
I delight to do thy will, O my God:
Yea, thy law is within my heart.
I have preached righteousness in the great congregation:
Lo, I have not refrained my lips,
O Lord, thou knowest.
Wherefore when he cometh into the world, he saith, Sacrifice and offering thou wouldest not, but a body hast thou prepared me: In burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin thou hast had no pleasure. Then said I, Lo, I come (in the volume of the book it is written of me,) to do thy will, O God. Above when he said, Sacrifice and offering and burnt offerings and offering for sin thou wouldest not, neither hadst pleasure therein; which are offered by the law; Then said he, Lo, I come to do thy will, O God. He taketh away the first, that he may establish the second.
In the goat hair curtains, we see the body of Christ, His humanity, that which was perfect, being made sin for you and for me.
For though he was crucified through weakness, yet he liveth by the power of God. For we also are weak in him, but we shall live with him by the power of God toward you.
And that he might reconcile both unto God in one body by the cross, having slain the enmity thereby:
In the body of his flesh through death, to present you holy and unblameable and unreproveable in his sight:
Who now rejoice in my sufferings for you, and fill up that which is behind of the afflictions of Christ in my flesh for his body’s sake, which is the church:
Read: Colossians 2:8-17
In rams skins died red we have,
After the same manner also he took the cup, when he had supped, saying, This cup is the new testament in my blood: this do ye, as oft as ye drink it, in remembrance of me.
And, in the goat skins we have,
And when he had given thanks, he brake it, and said, Take, eat: this is my body, which is broken for you: this do in remembrance of me.