Tabernacle Lesson 4 The First Covering "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
(Exodus 26:7 And thou shalt make curtains of goats' hair to
be a covering upon the tabernacle: eleven curtains shalt thou make.) 1. The first covering is made
of hair.
to question 1.
2. 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.
to question 2.
3. The first
covering to be placed over the tent, the Tabernacle, is made with curtains.
to question 3.
(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.) 4. Each curtain is cubits
long and cubits wide.
to question 4.
5. 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.
to question 5.
6. Multiply the number of
cubits in the width of a curtain by 18 and divide by 12 and the curtain is feet
wide.
to question 6.
Exodus 26:9 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. 7. The eleven curtains are coupled together in two groups of and
to make one covering.
to question 7.
Exodus 26:10 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. 8. There are to be loops on each group of curtains.
to question 8.
Exodus 26:11 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. 9. There are to be taches of to couple the curtains together.
to question 9.
10. 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.
to question 10.
11. The first covering is to
hang over the Tabernacle on it's two sides one ,
which is 18 inches.
to question 11.
(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.) 12. Black is symbolic of .
to question 12.
(Leviticus 16:10 But the goat, on which the lot fell to be the scapegoat, shall be presented alive before the LORD, to make an atonement with him, [and] to let him go for a scapegoat into the wilderness.
Leviticus
16:20-22 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.)
to question 13.
(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.)
to question 14.
(1 John 3:5 And ye know that he was manifested to take away our sins;
and in him is no sin.) 15. "And ye know that he
was manifested to take away our ;
and in him is sin."
to question 15.
16. 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.
to question 16.
Copyright (c) 2018 by Jerry L. Wells
about the Tabernacle
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. 
