Make the Tabernacle from ten curtains of freshly woven linen. Decorate the curtains with blue, purple, and scarlet thread…Exo. 26:1.

All throughout the chapters that God instructs Moses on how to build the Tabernacle we see over and over again the use of these 3 colors. In reading them over and over again I could only realize that there had to be great meaning in them for God to make them the color pallet of His Tabernacle. Here is a brief version of what the HS showed me:

Blue- the first color to be listed. Represents humanity and normality. God made man to be supernatural but because of the fall he could only be natural at best. Nothing special about blue in means of process and value.

Purple- the color of royalty. In this case, divinity! God wants to be in fellowship with man and to dwell with him day by day as He set up in the Garden of Eden. This union is impossible without the next color.

Scarlet- has 2 prophetic meanings according to the Scripture. Isa. 1:18 compares our sin to the stain of scarlet. So God and man were separated from each other by the stain of sin that was scarlet. The second meaning (glory to God!) pulls it all together. It speaks of the Blood of Jesus that was shed on Calvary and that precious Blood had the power to reunite God and man. We are no longer separated from God by sin but united with Him through the shed blood of Jesus Christ, our Passover Lamb (don’t get me peachin’).

As you can see, the colors of the Tabernacle speak a powerful truth of that which was to come. The plight of mankind and the solution of God’s grace poured out on the Cross were all encoded in the colors specified by Almighty God for the sacred tent of worship that the Israelites would carry with them for hundreds of years.

1 Tim. 2:5- For there is only one God and one Mediator who can reconcile God and humanity–the man Christ Jesus.