EXODUS CHAPTER 26 - 26:19 & 26:31

EXODUS  CHAPTER  26

26:31  The inner veil, type of Christ's human body MATTHEW  26:26;  27:50;  HEBREWS  10:20 ). This veil, barring entrance into the the holiness, was the most expressive symbol of the truth that "by the deeds of the law shall no flesh be justified" ( ROMANS  3:30;  HEBREWS  9:8 ). Rent by an unseen hand when Christ died ( MATTHEW  27:51 ), thus giving instant access to God to all who come by faith in Him, it was the end of all legality; the way to God was open. It is deeply significant that the priests must have patched together again the veil that God had rent, for the temple services went on yet for nearly forty years. That patched veil is Galatianism__the attempt to put saint or sinner back under law. ( GALATIANS  1:6__9 ). Anything but "the grace of Christ" is "another gospel," and under anathema.

 26:19  Silver symbolizes redemption ( EXODUS  25:1;  38:27 ). All the tabernacle rests upon silver except the hangings of the gate, the way of access ( EXODUS  25:17 ).

 26:15  The typical meaning of the boards is clear as to Christ. Acacia wood, desert growth, is a fitting symbol of Christ in His humanity as "a root out of dry ground" ( ISAIAH  53:2 ). The covering, gold, typifies Deity in manifestation, speaks of His divine glory. As applied to the individual believer the meaning of the boards is less clear. The connection may be found in John  7:21,  22,  23;  EPHESIANS  1:4,  6;  1  John  4:13. Only as seen "in Him" could the boards be taken as representing the believer. So viewed the type is beautiful. In the world, and yet separated from it by the silver of redemption ( GALATIANS  1:4;  EXODUS  30:11;  16;  38:25__27 ), as the boards of the tabernacle were separated from the earth by the sockets of silver, and united by the "middle bar" ( Verse  28 ), representing both the one life ( GALATIANS  2:20 ) and one Spirit ( EPHESIANS  4:3 ), "all the building, fitly framed together, groweth unto an holy temple in the Lord" ( EPHESIANS  2:21 ).

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